The morning call., 1891-09-15
ITEMS OF INTER EST.

tired with 100000 in tips.
The religious papers IN the United States
have combined circulation OF 4,000,0oD
The gross revenue from tobacco in Great
Britain last year was 9, All, ,SS4 pounds Ster-
ling.
Paris requires every vehicle traversing its
streets at night, if only wheelbarrow, to
carry lighted lamp.
The so-caIled five-day ships consume per
day from sixty to eighty tons OF coal more
than other great steamships.
The managers of the Columbian Exhibi-
tion have concluded to place $500, 600 900 in
suraDce on the buildings and exhibits.
As country rich in judges New Zealand
is far ahead of the United States. About
one man in fifty is Justice of the Peace.
Thirty-fve men and eleven women were
arrested and fined in Gloucester, n. j., re-
Gently for being outof doors after midnight.
1t is estimated that 1,000, 900 human
beings are born every year, but as they are
all babies the fact is not considered Import
ant.
Mrs. Fanny Falkenberg of New York has
celebrated her one hundredth birthday. Sne
enjoys good health, but has been blind for
seven years.
cigarettes is a satisfactory candidate for the
position of hemp-stretcher at the nearest
telegraph pole.
A doctor at Concordia, Kans.. in filling out
a certificate of death, inadvertently wrote
his name In the blank space reserved for
'cauSeS OF DEATH
Women dentists are very successful in
London, notably among children, who
seem to fear the forceps less in their haEds
than in those of a man.
In the reign of Edward l it was declared
that dealers in fish should not be permitted
to make a larger profit than one penny on
each shilling's worth sold.
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Sunday that they have religion, but when
the clothes-line breaks down on Monday they
find out that they haven't.
Dubuque, Iowa, has an expert "snipe
catcher. He is wealthy, but goes about the
streets picking up cigar stubs which he
uses for chewing purposes.
The South American trumpet tree might
furnish band with musical instruments,
inasmuch as its hollow branches are utilized
for horns and also for drums.
The drivers of the street-cars in Atlanta,
Ca, are not allowed to carry whips, ami
as result the horses move at a sEaiPs
pace and ali of the schedules are violated.
White tar is one of the latest discoveries.
1t will not become soft under the suns rays
in any climate, and is expected to be used
largely in ealking the deck seams of fine
yachts.
The cells of the human lungs are 5,O00,-
900 in number, covering serface from two
than the whole body surface of ten full
grown men,
1t is a curious fact that relatives never
know how much man is worth until he is
sick. If death approaches they know about
all his financial affairs before he has had
time to make his will.
A new invention, by which it is said that
the stamps on 10000 letters can be Cancelled
in an hour. is ON trial in the New York Post
Office 1t is operated on the rotary system,
and is run by electricity.
The harhor of Brunswick, Ca, which the
River and Harbor Bill estimates set down
as in need Of $500, 600, has been cleaned by
private contract at a comfortable discount
from these figures. The bill was 5000.
Vermont is the only State in the Union
which was never province of foreign
government or a part OF another State or
Territory of the United States. 1t was also
the first State TO join the original thirteen.
The State Mine Inspector of Pennsylvania
reports 1S6 accidents during the past year.
of which 50 were fatal, making "a widows
and 81 orphans. There were mined g. 1T. .669
tons of coal, large increase over the pre-
vious year.
Kansas has generous share of sectarian
schools. MethOdSts are educated at Bald
win City, EpiscopaliaDs at Topeka, Presby-
terians at Emporia, United Brethren at
Lecompton, Campbellites and Dunkards at
Wichita and Catholics at ST. Mary's.
1t is said that the experiment of the tele-
phonic church service has proved so sue
cessful in Birmingham, England, that it is
proposed to develop the idea by connecting
the hospitals of the locality of Christ
Church, the center of the experiment
The tree on which bulletins of President
Garfeld's condition were posted during his
last illness has been cut down at Washing
ton. 1t stood just outside the east gate of
the White House grounds, and was removed
to make room for pending Improvements.
A fire company of Madison, Ind, has
shepherd dog, coon, cat, pair of rab-
bits and two white mice, all of which oe-
cupy the same apartment and eat from the
same vessel. They fraternize with one
another, ana are as soeiable as if of the
same species.
The British debt is so large that if it were
divided into one pound notes they would
completely cover the State OF Ohio three
times over. IL paid in penny pieces and
would make seven columns OF copper reach
ing TO the moon.
Farmers of Berks County, Pa, are clam
oring for whisky barrels in which to put
their new cider. The apple crop is envr-
nous, and hundreds of cider presses are
building. One press is said to have con-
Ferted 100 wagon-loads of apples into $500
gallons of cider. In consequence of the de-
mand for barrels liquor-deaiers have put up
the price.
In the last two years New London Comm
lobstermen have bagged in their deep-water
traps in Fishers Island Sound not less than
five or six indigo Holsters, which are so rare
that il is not known that more than two of
the kind had ever been taken in the world
before. In the same timc two blue Holsters
were caught by Maine fishermen. Blue
Holsters are as blue as the summer sky and
extremely beautiful.
A British Consul In Japan. who has
watched sailors carefully. says that Jack Is
much better hammered since steamers have
replaced sailing vessels. The steamers pro-
vide better and less monetonous food. en-
tail less hardship, and have dulled the
adventurous, independent and eternally un-
satisfied spirit with which The sailors used
to roam about the world.