The morning call., 1891-04-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


women work in shops and factories.
The "loof." gold coin worth S65 Is in
circulation in AMMAN, Eastern Asia.
About 1000 tons of SCOT are said to settle
monthly on the ITO square miles of London.
The citizens of Laconia, N. H., enjoyed
good sleighing from December LIST to April
1st
Kentucky's State Treasury is empty. No
available assets can be procured until July
LIST.
The Italian postoffices receive money at
81 per cent Dividends are paid every five
years.
Twenty-Five counties in Tennessee show a
decadence in population during the past ten
years.
Henry Bennett, ex- Deputy Sheriff of Hills
boro, Tex, is charged with the murder Of
negro in 1876.
In Swiss canton the municipal authori-
ties have decided that all employers must
share profits with the laborers.
Observation-Disclosures Observation-Disclosures
ph0n is the name OF a chemical preparation
recently patented by German.
The custom of giving street-car tickets for
change, which has long been in vogue at
Galveston, Tex, lras been abolished.
A Fall River (Mass.) girl has recovered
S160 damages from man who nearly scared
her to death with an imitation snake.
A Colorado woman, accused of poisoning
her adopted son, hanged herself in her cell
and left letter asserting her innocence.
Laura Kramer of Chicago has relinquished
all claims to 100000 legacy in order to
marry the man of her choice. who was for
hidden the house by her relatives.
A woman living in abject squalor at
Th0mpS0nville, Conn.,, has been taken to a
hospital. After her removal, $1,000 in cur
rency was found under the floor of her
howell.
William Lambert of Miles, Mich, is a
spirituaist rs years old, who says he has
saved five people from dying with small
pox by The aid received from his flock of
Spooks.
The town Of Singapore, near Naugatuck.
Mich, has been wiped out by sand blown
from the shores of Lake Michigan. Every
house but one has been completely buried,
and the first story of that one has been filled
up.
The other day Windsor (Vt) farmer on
going out OF his sheep-pen noticed bunch
on one of his lOng-wOol sheep, and upon ex-
aminatiOn found rat which had got his tail
woven into the wool and was unable to get
away.
Manager Curtis of the Olympic Theater,
New York, was attacked by large and fe-
rOcious dog. He held the animal at bay for
a short time with an umbrella, but was ul-
timately obliged to disembcwel him with a
knife.
A colony of 200 or 800 monkeys Is reported
to exist in the everglades of Florida. They
are supposed to owe their origin to the
wreck of a vessel upon the coast having on
board monkeys. which escaped into the
forest.
A new device known as the clamp" in
use by Cincinnati burglars, is said to open
the most complicated safe with ease in a
few seconds. The attachment is fitted TO
the combination knob and is exceedingly
simple.
Instead of putting food into the oven to
keep hot for late corners, try covering it
closely with tin and setting it over basin
of hot water. This plan will keep the food
hot and at the same time prevent it from
drying.
In a scrimmage between two rivals for
the hand OF a girl at Surry, Tex, tie first
bullet killed one Of them aud the second
shot pierced the heart of an Unlocking boy.
The tragedy occurred in church, just after
services.
A grove of the finest quality of sandal
wood, 800 acres in extent. has been dis
covered in Louisiana. The trees are of I'M
menSe value, and company Is TO be
organized to prevent them from becoming
eXtirpated.
Swiss woman, who recently landed in
New York, went to the hospital, and on
Easter day gave birth to an infant with
stentorian pair of lungs, whereupon the
hospital authorities chrissened the youngster
Worcester.
Exhaustive labor in the daytime and over
study at night caused the arrangement and
suicide of Frank Krauss, New York
eighteen-year-old boy. His mania was in
herited, as his mother has been hopeless
lunatic for many years.
The word Estates" was first officially
used May Il, 1856, when Archibal Cary re-
ported to the Virginia convention, then in
session at Williamsburg, the famous resolu-
ton TO declare the United Colonies free
and independent States"
The smallest of all the States, Rhode
Island, has the largest population per
square mile, or 1884 persons. The figures
of the last census show that If the whole
Union was as deusely populated it would
contain 945, 766,S0O inhabitants.
Henry Clews has in his possession
check for $500 which he sent ten years ago
at Buffalo. 1t is Endorsed "Grosvenor"
Cleveland, and beneath is the correct in
dorsement, "Grover Cleveland"
Elijah Kellogg, the man who wrote "Spar-
tacus to the Gladiators and -" Regulus to
the Carthaglnlans," once so familiar to
every ,schoolboy. is living in Harpswell,
Me. He Is clergyman, 81 years old, and
even now breaches occasionally.
A veteran tobacconist advises smokers
who do not use case to carry their cigars
In the upper left-hand pocket, as the more
frequent motion of the right arm brushes
the tobacco and loosens the wrapper If the
cigars be placed in the right-hand pocket.
"a sufferer" complains in the New York
Times OF the Brobdignagian feminine head
gear worn in theaters and concert halls,
which he likens TO canal boat in shane
md dimensions. He surmlses that many
women have hair of so ugly color that
they are ashamed to show it.
Three society young women of Malta
wan n. j., are under arrest for st ealing a
horse and buggy. The rig was left in front
OF house by young man who had in
tended taking out his best girl for moon
light drive, AMI the girls jumped into the
buggy and drove off, thinking it good
Joke.
In Columbia, NO., the girls attending COL
lege have organized an Engagement and
Marriage Club. Every time one of them has
gentleman escort TO whom she is not en-
gagged she pays % cents into the treasury
When she becomes engaged she pays in So.
When member marries the club presents
her with 500.
The nationality Of man who rises in
London public vehicle to give his place to a
woman is at once suspected. The male
European mind reduces the question to this
practical business basis: paid my fare,
secured my seat; II she should find no seat
it is her misfortune, not my fault. Let her
cOupiaiH W tile company.
An eccentric Englishman has been travel
ing constantly for seven years in hopes of
Witnessing a railway accident, without
being gratilied. A few days ago he arrived
at Mosbah, in Baden, an hour after num-
Der of people had been killed and injure d.
He immediately burst into tears declari ng
that ill-luck constantly pursued him.
The war upon self-binders con times In
Daviess County. Ind, and the vandaIs. in
trying to wipe out these labor-saving ma
chimes, have burned twenty three barns
within the past eighteen months, and
eighty-seven horses have been cremated.
besides other live stock. Property valued
in excess of $4,000 has been destroyed
1t is said that there are but six nine
lettered monOsyllable words In the English
language, viz: Scratched, stretched.
scranched, .screeched, squelched and
staunched. As the photography of the
latter word has been changed in the modern
edition Of Webster, the "u" being elimi-
mated, the number Is consequently reduced
to five.
A projected elopement of children, 16 and
IA years old, respectively, at Galveston,