The morning news., 1891-09-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST

ERAsTUs WIHAN carries a the details of his
business. including the racklng wear and tear.
in his own hands
A HOUSE at Richmond, Ind, appears to be
surcharged with electricity. The brass headed
tacks in the carpet, the stove and the poker are
heavily charged and if one shufIles his feet
across tle carpet and then touches the stove it
is at the risk OF being knocked down. IL is
even possible TO light the gas by pointing the
finger at it. Experts who have been called in
cannot explain the phenomenon.
THERE is on exhibition in Detroit pebble
one side of which is a miniature likeness of a
face bearing the imprints of sorrow. This little
stone. which Ia about one inch long and three
quarters of an inch wide, was found on O. road
way leading to the cross on the summit of Ko-
felspitze. q mountain overharging the village of
Oberammergau and held in reverence by the
simple villagers, who consider It their guardian
spirit.
Miss CoNANT a shut-in cripple of San Diego,
has made G picture out of postage stamps
which shows Coronado beach. Point Iona, the
Coronado hotel, and the sea beyond with the
sun setting, and in the foreground the G. A. r.
encampment. A sentinel in full uniform and
G. A. r. badge are among the embellish-
ments. The work is an ingenious one, and will
be sold at the encampment for Miss Conant's s
benefit.
THERE is on exhibition in show window in
Butte Mont. a very large moose horn grated
into the base of tree. It has been in that posi-
tion for years, as the tree has grown around it
so as to get such grip on it that cutting the
wood away is the only means of separating the
two. 1t is evident that at some remote period
the monarch OF the woods was caught in a tree,
and in trying to entricate himself the horn was
broken off
PAwNEE Rock, on the old Santa Fe trail, is an
immense pile of historic sandstone in Barton
county where the Pawnee Indians used to
gather. and rumor says that in its shadow they
made their last stand in bloody battle against
Caucasian encroachment. But greed of gain
has been the runation of an interesting land
mark, and 1t is being quarred and sold at 81 so
a load.
The INGENIOUS HOSTESS of Bar Harbor seems
never to weary of inventing some new form of
entertaining guests. Now she has come to the
front with q truly novel idea in the guise of the
three-leaf clover party. There is a luncheon; !;
then there is dance ON the green, and last, but
certainly not least, there is a game Of supersti-
ton. Each gentleman chooses his partner, and
having secured threeleat cloverS, they proceed
TO eat them together. The clover will bring
good luck to all the guests. After this perform
ance Is over dancing is resumed. Some hoSteSses
give these entertainments the real gypsy name,
and on quite number OF invitations last week
could be seen trim patrin kaS" party at such
and such villa, to 8.
THERE is a man 10 Centreville township, st.
Clair county, Ill., who boasts of remarkable
boy, says the st. Louis Republic. The mans
name is johnson. The boy is plump. good
natured and intelligent lad of about 12 years,
with glossy black hair as straight as an arrow.
His father boasts that the boy is q regular
barometer, and that he can always tell three
days ahead of an approaching storm by the
peculiar actions of the boy. Just three days
before storm the boys hair will begin to klnk
and in an increditably short space of time will
curl almost in ringlets on the back OF his head,
with short curls in front, which remain in that
condition until after the storm, when it resumes
its natural condition and remains straight until
the approach of another storm.