The morning call., 1891-02-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

FIJI is beginning to cultivate tobacco, the
| enterprise being assisted by the concession
of Government land to the planters ON easy
| terms.
The Common Council OF Cincinnati, at
| the suggestion OF the Health Officer has
passed an ordinance making it misdemeau-
| or to give public exhibitions of mesmerism
| and hypnutism.
| Parties at South Haven, Mich, are about
| to build yacht this winter for the express
purpose Of making four years cruise of
| the principal ports and countries of the
world. They expect to set sail in May.
An English bacteriologst who is notable
| as the discoverer OF taxalbumens, and who
| is now studying the Koch methods at the
| Hygiene Institute, Berlin, announces that
| he has discovered remedy for anthrax.
| 1t is stated at Washington that all commu
| nications from the United States Govern
| ment for Canadian officials are sent through
| the Imperial Government and this accounts
| for the fact that Canada has not vet received
her notice of the holding of the Worlds
| Fair.
| The Socialists have introduced in the
Rechstag bill providing that the State
| shall take charge of the manufacture of
drugs and medicines, claiming that it is the
| dnty of the State since passing the work
mems insurance bill to supply remedies at
| cost price.
| Henry Johnson. a slave with a history.
who was set free by his master, Mr.. Foxali,
and who waited upon Clay, Webster, Cal
| houn and other great men, and who is said
to have come in contact with every Presi-
dent, save Washington is living in poverty
at the age of 80 years in Washington.
General Sherman the other evening at the
| Yale alumni dinner in New York, having
been welcomed as usual by "Marching
Through Georgia." remarked feelingly in
| his little speech: II have often thought that
| when / was marching to the sea it would
have been well had marched on into it,
Alice Wilson Pryor, to whom Guiteau,
assassin of President Carried, paid attention
| and proposed marriage, died last week at
| Jasper. Tenn. 1t is stated that she was of
good family and beautiful girl. gay and
| spirited, but that she became recluse. with
| shattered nerves, after the trial and execu
ton Of Guteau.
Germany has -9275 breweries in operation.
| against 1856 in January 1890. The tota! beer
product of the whole country last year was
5.232 073, 600 quarts. against AGO, 293, 900 in
| the preceding year. The consumption per
! capita was 1903 quarts, against 979 quarts
in the preceding year. The largest brewery
in Germany paid last year tax of $50, 900.
Lady Marjorie Gordon, the ten-year-oId
daughter of the Countess of A Aberdeen. edits
the children's page of n paper styled On
ward and Upward. published in London.
Little Lady Marjorie writes a lively letter
to her young constituents, and tells them
Interesting SLoIltS dUOuL Her pet animals.
being probably the Youngest editor in the
world.
Newman (Ga.) Herald: Panther Creek
district can boast OF the biggest eater in
the world in the person of Joe Burks who
measures 6 feet and II inches high in his
stocking feet. Mr.. Burks told us that not
long since he ate 100 eggs at one time and
felt like he had only partaken of small
snack: He also ate three hearty meals after
ward in less than five hours.
prince" Zatcharsky, otherwise known as
Milton. Nskaritschey, who was arrested re-
Gently in Constantinople in company with
Lieutenant Lutzky, is said to be guilty of
causing the disaster at Berki two years ago.
when the Gar narrowly escaped meet
ing his death. The Russian Govern
ment has long been ON the hunt for the
Prince, who has spent the greater part of
his time since the disaster at Sophia.
The Parisians, now that the severe
weather is over, for time at least, are
pluming themselves on the care they have
taken of the poor, as compared with the
much greater misery in Berlin and London
| No cases Of starvation have been reported In