The morning call., 1891-10-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A seventy-year-old Hartford (Conn.) man
is learning to ride the bicycle.
Jersey City has a So, 600 debt. but it
Is being wiped out at the rate Of Sl,000,000
| year.
New Workers. who ape the English are
selling their rOcking-chairs to the dealers in
old furniture.
| A blackbird that was blood red except
head and wings was shot by a sportsman OF
AllOway, n. j.
Fifteen thousand New York children can
| not gam admission to the common schools
| for lack of room.
An Adrian (Mch.) preacher has been
ev:cted from his living rooms because he
and his guests prayed too loud.
Hanged himself" was the report of
Jersey City officer who had been sent TO
arrest wife-beater under bonds.
/ A squirrel and a snake engaged in a bat
tie near Springfield, Ohio. and the squirrel
came off victorious. killing his opponent
Capital punishment for father and life
imprisonment for his two sons is the out
come OF recent murder trial at Columbus,
Ind.
A maid OF honor to Qneen Victoria gets
| $1,000 year, and the service is said to entail
only about three months attendance annu-
| ally.
A recent woman suffrage meeting at
Northampton, Mass, was attended by so
| girl students from Smith College at that
! place.
Paris is TO have district messenger ser
vice. 1t Is the same company which started
a year ago in London. and which proved
| successful.
A man at Shelton. Conn, has acquired an
appetite for live 0ulIfrogs, which he swal-
lows easily, II not too large, and with evil
| dent relish.
The sturgeon is toothleSs and draws in its
food by suction, but the shark has huu-
dreds Of teeth set in rows that sometimes
| number ten.
Hailstones larger than hens eggs are re-
| ported to have fallen during Il recent storm
at Worthngton, MINI. The growing grain
| was ruined.
In General Grants time Sayles j. Bowen
was Mayor of Washington. Now he is a
! messenger in the Treasury Department at
| 500 per month.
The Odd Fellows in the United States can
boast OF membership of nearly seven hun
dred thousand, and an annual revenue of
more than S7,000,000.
The water of the st. Lawrence River is
| lower at present than for many years, and
is the subject of general remark by those
| posted IN the matter.
Peru has been making wonderful prog
| TeSS during the last three years owing 10
the great amount of English capital that has
| gone into that country.
An clipping couple at Shenandoah. Pa,
have been captured and held in $1,000 bonds
| Tor trial. The woman is aged 40 and the
mother of large family.
| A Chattanooga girl who sued millionaire
| of that city for 100000, for alleged breach
| OF promise. has agreed to accept $4,000 as d
balm for her lacerated heart.
4 friend is more apt to believe bad story
| Oh you than an enemy. In hoping it Is true
| an enemy fears it is not; but a friend, hop
Ing 1t is not true, believes it is.
| Hartford and Danbury, Conn, are suffer-
| ing from water famine. No rain ha, fall
| en- Tor months, and the waters from the
| Connecticut River are the only resource.
! When man or woman goes wrong now
| aday5 II Is charged that they were hypont-
| lzed. Hypnotism seems likely to come in
! Tor good deal of the sin and fOllies OF the
| day.
a unique necktie was Worn by recent
Vlsitor TO Macon, "a. 1t was made OF rat
| tleSnake. skin, the rattles serving as q pin.
| The wearer killed the reptile nine years ago
| in Florida.
| The largest cargo of grain ever carried on
| the great lakes was recently on board the
| steamer e. Z. Pope, en- route from Chicago
to Cleveland. 1t consisted Of 126, 900 bush
| els OF corn.
| ESQuimau women are boot and shoe max
ers, as well as talors and mantua- makers
| Boots are made of sealskin throughout, or
else the legs OF sealskln and the soIeS Of
walrns skin.
So numerous are the electric launches on
TIE Thames that floating charging stations
containing dynamo plant ply up and down
the river ready to charge the aceumulators
of SIX launches at once.
In the reign of William III all child
stealers apprehende1 were branded with a
red-hot K, for rogue. on the shoulders; NJ,
| for manslaughter, on the right hand, aud L,
| for thief, on the left one.
Salt River. in Northern Missouri, instead
| Of being used for the farewell Journeys of
defeated politicians, is utilized as a pearl
fishery. Over $1,000 worth of gems were
taken out OF that stream last year.
The fact that Postmasters were appointed
| Tor towns IN Oklahoma before the Territory
was occupied or the towns staked out is au
| illustration of the developmental ability of
this great and star-spaugled country.
In recent trial at Buffalo, N Y, a Jury
| had been out for long time when the fore
man sent request into court for diction-
| airy. The volume was furnished aud the
jury returned verdict in fifteen minutes
ODe way to test the sweet disposition of
| society woman is to give her five and twenty
| tickets for charity entertainment to dis
| pose of, she knowing full well that unless
| she finds customers she must buy them her
| self.
The fire at Lebanon. Ind, in October.
| 1885, which practically wiped out the county
| records. affected the title to twO-thirds OF
| the realty IN Boone County. and even at
| this late date embarrassments occasionally
| arise.
A New York policeman was recently del
| uged with bucketful OF dirty water thrown
| from seeOnd-stDry window. The officer
| had his revenge by causing the thrower's
arrest and etfecting his imprisonment for
| six months
An Indianapolis incendiary, detected in
| the act, has been shot dead by the owner Of
fha I'm A old ,oA D.
tween the parties, and an attempt to lynch
| the shooter was made, but he escaped and
| surrendered himself.
A curious exhibition will shortly be
| opened in Paris at the National Deaf ana
| Dumb Institute. 1t will consist Of old and
| modern examples of works OF sculpture
paintings, engravingS and drawings by
| deaf-aDd-dumb artists.
| William Dant of Davies County, Ind, ae-
| cused OF barn-burning, was traced 70 Ne
| braska and arrested. So intense is the III
! dignation Of the farmers III that county over
| losses sustained that there is some danger
| OF lynching the prisoner.
| A Washington Cd. C.l man has applied for
| divorce, alleging that his wife's devotion
| to what he terms the craze Of faith cure ana
| her desertion of him has ruined their home
and made life unbearablr. The woman and
Ler four sons are travelling about the couD-
| try and preaching the doctrine.
| 4
| theater-goer. gaining admittance through a
! broken window on the stage and leaving
! punctually at the close Of the performance.
| 1t belongs to drugstore near the theater
| Between seasons it is very domestic ami
NAL, rarely going away from the shop.
| An ilL!ated location for a cotton gin site
| exists near Lexington, Tex. Four gins have
been burned on the same spot and three men
| have met violent deaths. There was une
Killed by boiler explosion, one by being
caught in the gin saws and another met his
death in fight. The last Gin was burned
recently, enlailing loss of 5000.
| The blaekened teeth of the Malays and
| Siamese are not produced, as has been sup
| posed he. e;ofOre, by coating them with
mixture of betel aud lime, but by rubbing
the teeth with u paste made from charred
| eucoanut kernels. This is carefully applied
| to the teeth again and again until black
varnish hides the natural white.
| Three years ago z. Hachule of Parma,
! Mich, purchased two carp TO put in pI-
vate pond. He estimates that they will
weigh from ten to twelve pounds now, and
that their progeny will number 80. COO. He