The morning call., 1891-09-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


ITEMS OF INTEREST.
A Lebanon (Pa) policeman has been fined
for profanity.
Thieves moved Germyn Pa.) meadow
at night and took the hay.
Never indulge in habits for which it is an
effort to discover an excuse.
A Hughesvile (Pa) man was recently
robbed of 500 while at church.
In Spain an infants face is brushed with
pine tree b0ugh to bring good luck.
Droughts and frosts have nearly de-
stroyed the Rhne-wine harvest this season.
A foolish girl at Helena, Ark, who was
Tilted by her lover, has suicided with NOR
phine.
An immigrant recently arrived at New
York with "a children, ranging in age from
to % years.
Women in Sweden have obtained official
permission from the Government to be re-
ceived as pupils of apothecaries.
The first alligator seen in the Arkansas
River for many years has been killed at
Little Rock. 1t measured five feet.
A self-Opening envelope has appeared
which operates by drawing two projecting
ends of a string so as TO cut its edges.
The Altoona pa School Board has had
the Mayor and City Council arrested be-
cause they refused to abate sewerage nui-
Sance.
Helen Kellar, aged II years. pupil in the
Boston kindergarten, can play the piano
fairly we'll The child was born deaf, dumb
and blind.
The cotton worm is creating great devas-
tation in many counties of Mississippi. One
field of twenty-five acres has been entirely
stripped of its leaves.
A st. Louis father and son, separated for
ten years. have been reunited. The boy
ran away from home when ten years of age,
and had been in Denver.
An automatic machine has been made
which forms, fills, weighs and seals pack
ages in those establishments where large
quantities Of goods are constantly put up.
Oskaloosa, Iowa, has a thrashing ma
chine haunted by sp00ks, which put out the
fire in the engine and distracted tools from
the work. box, which four meE vera watch
Ing.
1t is the intention of European engineers
to store the waters OF the Nile to such an
extent as to enable greater extension of
the cotton and sugar-cane crops in that re-
gion.
Mrs. David Richards of Evansville, Ind,
whose husband Is q poor man, employed as
| a carpenter in a railway shop, has fallen
heir TO $4,000 by the death of a sister in
! New York.
A babe born at Danbury. Conn. weighs
less than two pounds. When born it weighed
| one pound and two ounces. It's length is
that Of an ordinary pencil The child is in
perfect health.
The finest sapphires in the world are
| owned by the Countess Branicka, Polish
woman. The finest diamonds in the world
| are owned by Nine. Andre and her pearls
are also considered beyond all comparison
Rev. Nj. o. Jarvis of Eagletown, Ind, is
| aged 20, and throughout his long life he
| boasts that he never swore an oath, drank
| a drop of liquor or smoked cigar. He has
han IA i,,frg b.,y va rc nf
A Lyons analomist has examined the
| skeletons Of eighty-six monkeyS-chimpan-
| gees, gOrilas and orang-outangs-an has
| found diseases of the bone to be as frequent
| as in man. and Of strlkingly similar char
| acter.
The defamation of a new heavy caliber
| gun at IngoStadt, Bavaria, recently smashed
| all the windows of a railway train that
was passing the artillery range at the time.
| Fortunately none of the passengers were
! injured.
The granting of permission td the starving
Russian peassnty to use the imperial forests
has led to many buTglarieS and depredationS
on the imperial farm, the furnishing people
fzhting and in some cases shedding blood
over the spOils
a few nights ago a wagon drove uD to the
hospital IN Flushing, l.. l., and after deposit
ing a box of clothing on the sidewalk drove
| hurrledly off. The hospital managers have
no idea who the donor was, but they are
very grateful for the timely gift
Mrs. Witherell, an old lady who lives at
Glenns Falls, n. Y, is the thirteenth and
youngest child and the seventh daughter of
her parents. Her husband, recently de-
ceased, was the thirteenth and youngest
child and seventh son of his parents
An examination of the CrotOn-water shed,
through which New York City receives its
drinking water, discOses that nuisances of
dangerous character are maintained from
which the streams are polluted, and the
health of the consumers of the water
thereby endangered
Memphis, Tenn, has the finest orphans
asylum for the care of the orphans of de-
ceased Odd Fellows. 1t is complete in all
of its appointments, finely situated, well
constructed. and has ample farm room to
make 1t almost Self-Sustaining. Accommo-
dations are offered for 100 children.
A great many more young men and women
are sent upon the road TO ruin by money
than by poverty. As a rule the devil wants
no better chance at boy and girl than to
have their pockets full OF money and then
| set them down at some fashionable resort.
Rest is all right; revelry is all wrong.
While a Kentucky military company was
| on its way to camp, one of the members
| jumped playfully into the air for an apple
| and in coming down was lmpaled on the
bayonet of a comrade. The weapon caught
| him behind the right ear and went clear
| through bis head, inflicting fatal injuries.
Indian AGENT ,pahv has gone To the Fond
| du Lac Agency in Minnesota to INVESTIGATE
| the iIlegai cutting of timber Over 10 600
| 600 feet of timber has been cut during the
the reservation has been removed and
wholesale arrests will follow the official in
vestigation
! Tho cave-in In tho hank of the MissIs.inn,
| River below Plaonemine- La has reached
| alarming nronortions, II is over 1000 feet
| long and abonf 40 feet wide. II las taken
| in over 300 feet of the levee and half of the
| public road. and also part of the old en-
! bankment that was used by the Union
! soldiers as a fort during the late war
There ia a present dispositfon toward
what is called s.commnn-Iaw marriaee" If
tho maiden moved IN matrimonv viii take a
| hastv olanca at RIackstone's Commantarias
Che viii discover that nndar the commnn
law. the husband had a right to whip his
wife. provided the stick used in flagellation
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