The morning call., 1891-07-31
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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smiths aproi.
The average laborer wears out five ounces
OF muscle day,
Maine woman Utilities clothes wringer
Tor Smelling beans.
toronto (OntariO) proposes to have regi-
ment uniformed in Scotch kits.
The London Times has seventy proprie-
tors, many of whom are women.
During recent parade in Cheboygan.
Mlch., ten red-headed girls rode on ten white
horses.
a painter locked UP at Dubuque, sIpwa, is
decorating the Jail walls with landscape
pictures.
At Deposit, n. Y, few days ago a dog
found pocket book containing s4OO in
bank notes.
At Corning, n. Y, while suffering from
dellrlum tremens a man actually ran him.
self to death.
A Maine man was recently completely de-
huled by lightning without experiencing
serious results.
AT Muncie. Ind, recently. man, his wife
anu I'VE children were killed by lightning
simultaneously.
Australian physicians prescribe moder-
ate quantity of strychuins for snake bites,
Win almost Uniform success.
a last stallion who has taken a dislike to
his driver and wont trot for him any more
Is York County (Me.) curiosity.
1hlrty-one rattlesnakes, the largest one
over hVe feet was the recent cleanup of q
ClreieVille (Ohio) farmer in one day.
me old-fashiOned game of seven-up is
gaming footing at swell Bar HarbOr.
Ihey say Senator Hale introduced it.
1t is said that the five leading hotels az
Saratoga, N. y, take in I'M aggregate of
S2,OOO,000 a month during the busy season.
a man who died almost penniless in New
YORK recently was worth millions in 1870.
de lost his money in real estate speculatons.
Buffalo, N. Y, strictly enforces the con-
cealed weapon ordinance, owing to the fire.
Quent stabblng and shooting ARRAYS in that
city.
Mfr. Smook of indianapolis has been th,.
leader OF one church choir for twenty-Une
years, and has never mad quarrel among
his singers in that period.
1t is reported that type setting machines
are soon to be given trial in the Govern
ment printing-oflice at Washington. They
VIII effect great saving.
a Jersey man, on searching for barber
VINO had left him half shaved in the chair,
found him In the wOodshed dead, with his
throat cut from ear to ear.
Missouri people are Indignant at the ligh:
sentence OF ex-State Treasurer holland, who
Was gwen only two years for the peculation
OF 600 of the States funds.
The census of England and Wales, jus.
taken, shows Total population OF 29.o0l ,0lS,
an increase of 3,0S6,572, or 11.65 per cent
since the last census was taken.
A London married couple named Waters.
lor some reason bestowed upon their daugh-
Ter the name OF Mineral, aud now she has to
sign herself " Mineral Waters"
The wealth OF the United States amounts
to S62, 800, 000. 0O0, distri buted among 10. OOO
600 families. There are $4,000 families
which have an average wealth of 1886, 900.
AT Paterson, n. Y, recently, just as the
supposed corpse of a child was being low
cred into the grave, it was found TO be
alive. 1t is now in fair way OF recovery.
A st. Louis man who had been notified of
his brothers death in New Mexico, and
who ordered the remains sent on, found on
their arrival that the corpse was tha at of a
stranger.
McConnelsville Ohio residents are up in
arms because at the funeral ola prominent
citizen the drum corps played 1.-THE Girl
Lelt BenlDd Me, on returning from the
cemetery.
The deadly banana peel is the basis of a
s2O,000 suit by New York man against one
OF the IL" roads. He slipped upon the
peel while ascending the steps of a station.
and was crippled for life.
1t is becoming quite the thing for New
\ ORR women to accompany their husbands
Light rifles and shotguns have been In un-
usual demand this spring.
Rockhill, Pa, has triplet brothers over
81 years OF age who are still in vigorous
health with the exception of one, who is
blind. He was Union soldier in the Re-
DellIon, and enjoys pension.
Even tramp has conscience. as was
proven at Moberly, Mo-, the other day,
when one OF the fraternity returned. after
an absence of nearly year, to work out an
uneXplred term on stone-pile.
The number of English words which have
no rhyme In the language Is very large.
Among them are month, silver, liquid,
spirit. chimney, warmth, gulf, sylph, music,
breadth, width, depth, honor, iron, echo.
A careless messenger recently lost a
package containing $4,000 while going
from Mahanoy to Pottsville. Pa. 1t was
found oy car-cleaner and given to the
owner, whose address was on the package.
a resident of Monroe City, Mo-, has recoy-
cred 500 from man who tied his mules tn
a handsome maple shade tree belonging 10
the vlllager. letting the mules bark and
Xii the Tree, III being one his grandfather
planted.
New York has only about fifteen or
twenty skilled divers and about twice that
number OF so-called divers. Four hours
constitute days work for good divers, and
the pay is about So. a divers outfit costs
about $500.
A Brooklyn man died some time ago. leay-
lug will, in which he begueathed lot OF
good advice to his children. 'Ths will j.
now being contested by the heirs, indicating
that they are sadly in need of their share OF
the bequest.
A line bird dog was recently fatally stung
by bees at Burnside, III. The dog was
chained near the hives, and in irving 10
rescue the animal its owner was surrounded
by the swarm and SO badly stung that he Is
in precarious condition.
The operatives in an Ansonia Conn J
copper-mill have hair and boards of a
bright green color. This seeming freak OF
nature is caused by the dust and fumes
arising from the retorts in the copper-miIls
where the ore is refined
Joseph Lenkenmark of Kansas CITY has
broken the worlds record for high diving.
having diyed from height of So feet 81
inches. The worlds record was made bl
G. a. Blake, at Lambeth Bath, London,
October, 1855. The height was 70 ieet I
inches.
A small boy of Philadelphia kindled A
fire in his fathers plug hat, which had been
stored in the attic for the heated term
After the fire had gained considerable
Roadway appropriate word-a member of
the family put it out, and at the same time
smashed the hat with bed-quilt.
An Atehison (kans,) widow whose hus-
band died five years ago owns a farm in
Doniphan County of 100 acres. At the time
OF her husbands death there was mort
gage of SLIGO on the farm. The farm has
been rented and has paid enough money to
keep the widow and pay off the mortgage.
Neighbors having complained of the filthy
condition of a house at Newark, n D.. the
Board of Health ordered its contents re-
moved. The stuff was carted to the meadow,
where it was dumped. Several children W no
gathered about it reaped quite harvest,
one finding $40 70 wrapped up in a rag,
another S5-gold piece and another ST.
Charlottesville Qnd.) whitecaps have mott
fed the only saloon-keeper in that place to
git" or prepare for humiliation. He says
nothing. but sleeps with two pistols at his
side. He was recently refused a State
license, after a bitterly contested legal fight
with the good people of Newmarket, who
have never had saloon in their town
before
Mrs. Martha Dixon of Anderson, Ind,
upon retiring to her chamber for the night
found the room as If it were swept by a
cyclOue-the toilet articles broken and scat
teled over the floor, curtains torn and disar-
ranged and a general air of lamentable dis
order. -Curled upon bed was monkey
sweetly sleeping The ".mOnk' proved IL