The morning call., 1891-06-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

clock in Battle Creek, Mich, has been
running for 100 years.
newspaper started in Bay City (Mich.),
is chriStened TO Rent.
Queensland, Australia, owes the largest
national debt per capita-S333 46 head.
The Michigan Jack the Kisser" has been
caught at PaWpaw and retired for three
months
They are about to put premium on cell
bacy in ST. Louis by establishing home for
Old bachelors.
Triplets were born in Carter County,
Tenn, the other day, two Of whom had
well-develOped teeth.
Reading (Pa.) man has just received
letter mailed to him by his soldier brother
tWenty-seven years ago.
A barber in I0nia, Mich, has broken the
record BY shaving man in twentyslX sec
OndS being timed with stop watches.
Willie Bradford of Schuyler. Nebr., tried
to eat three dozen bananas on wager, but
was forced to give up after he had gulped
down thirty.
Chicago has "Jack the Ripper" Club,
each member Of which pledges himself to
drink a bottle of wine every time z murder
occurs in that city.
A Georgia editor who has offered pre-
MUM for the best snake story, adds: This
is the only way we can locate the moonlight
distileries in this country"
There is a colored girl girl in Baltimore
who wants to remain black, and has gone
to q hospital to be treated for a peculiar dis
ease by which her skin is turning white.
The wearing away of the cliffs on the
shores of England has of late attracted con-
siderable attention, and the problem is be-
ing attentively studied with the view of
preventing the eroSive action of the waves
as we'll as of the streams that triekle down.
The Y. NJ. G. AS of the country now
sand and eighty-three persons are engaged
as paid officials, and there are 22J,000 men,
bers.
Burglars at Teford, Pa, cleaned out all
the edbles in a house except single pie,
which they lett with the appended note:
You will have to make breakfast out OF
this"
Belle Prov, aged 90 years, who was killed
in runaway accident at Waterville, Me-,
in life had rcd hair, but when her body was
taken up it was found that her hair had
turned to very dark brown.
A little boy from Northeast, Nd, while
visiting his grandmother i'll Chester, fell
asleep on the floor aud rolled under the bed.
Before he reappeared the police were scour-
ing the town for missing boy.
John PelIier, an attendant at the bath
house at Mount Clemens, Mich, has become
the father of baby which weighs less than
a pound. 1t is now two weeks old and can
wear its mothers finger ring on its arm.
Georgia man, on his death-bed, who
appointed his own pall-bearers. stipulated
they should bury him in plain coffin,
and that the box in which it was placed
should be covered with a slantng roof like
a house.
Although an Englishman invented the
postage stamp, it was an American who de-
vised the best plan of printing the c0ntem-
plated stamps. His device was selected by
the British Government in 1889 from 26O0
competing designs.
Black ants are crowding the guests out OF
a Ludngton (Mich) hotel, and the proprie-
tor advertiseS for an extermlnator. One
guest watched a solid procession Of them
foot wide crawl up the side Of his room for
six consecutive hours.
An Atlanta (Ga.) man goes every night to
the railroad sleeper, pays his 81 90 and gets
in the berth and sleeps through to Augusta.
Next night he goes back to Atlanta He
has plenty of money and never has nything
to say to the conductor or anybody else.
Public school teaching in Spain is not an
attractive profession. One teacher, whose
case was brought into notice recently, had
While this was an extreme case, it is true
that the back pay of the teachers now
reaches about S70O,000.
newly patented hatron especially COM
mends itself to women who board or who
employ dreSsmakers in their homes. 1t is
made with an opening in an upper part and
Is hollow inside. Within are placed blocks
OF new sort of fuel when comes In little
cakes, aud when these are lighted tney will
burn for six hours and keep the iron we'll
heated all the time.