The morning call., 1891-09-14

| pagne, costing 5000.
Several delegates to a Lutheran synod at
Greenville, Pa. are charged with indulging
| too freely in the flowing bawl.
Mrs. Frank Stuart Parker SAYS corsets
| have filled more graves than whisky. They
both make their victims very tight.
A farmer near Burlington, Iowa, sent
| load Of sweet ccrn TO market; found no sale
| for it, carted it home anu ftd it TO his hogs.
In Sicily pigs are used as the scaveegers
| of the towns. They eat the ilthiet OF street
| refuse over which little bran has been
| spread.
| A man at Shelton, Conn, has acquired an
| appetite for live bullfr0gs, which lie s~al-
| lows easily, II not too large, and with EVIL
| dent relish.
knoxville, Tenn, has been augmented by
| the arrival of healthy and vigorous tTipeIS
| at each place.
Mrs. Mary Salisbury, who died recently at
Bellingham, Minn., aged 102, had been mar
| rled eighty years. Her usbard who is los,
| Is rapidly sinking.
A man in Concord, Mich, makes his living
| by raising English sparr0ws. When the
| birds feather out he cuts of their heads and
| gets The per cent on them.
A Rome (Ga.) constable while attempting
| TO arrest man was attacked by five women
| and firmly held for All hour. Meanwhile
| the prisoner escaped.
OF quartet of babies which recently
made their appearance AT Leyerett, Mass,
| three died soon alter birth, but the fourth
| gives promise of surviving.
There are twenty-seven royal families in
| Europe, which have about 460 male mem
| beTS. Of these twenty-seYen families NO
less than eighteen are German.
The man-faeed crab of Japan has body
| hardly an inch In length, yet the head Is
| fitted with face which is the perfect coun-
| terpart OF that OF Il Chinese cooie.
Conductor Mace of Belfast, who has been
| connected with the Maine Central Railroad
for twenty-five years, figures that he has
| Travelled 1,O3O, l6O mics in that time.
| Mrs, Lille Goodring Of LapOrte, Ind,
| has wonderful growth of hair. IL MEAS
ures feet IL inches in length. 1t is very
heavy and OF a beautiful auburn color.
The largest s:reet-Tail ever made will BIZ
used on tie Broadway (New York; eabie
| road. 1t is inches deep. has tlye-lnch
| base aud weighs 81 pounds to the yard.
Albert Strong and Hattie Fisk Of Gary,
| n. Y, eloped and went to Michigan. Money
| gave out, they nearly starved, love cooled
and they were sent Tome by charitable
| folks.
| The drowning of young Mapes, the Co
| lumbia College athlete, off Fire Island, n.
| Y. is the fourth incident OF the kind tins
| summer in which skillIul swimmers have
| been lost.
| A refractory boy at Meriden, Kans.. has
| threatened with severer measures if lie does
| not 60 TO work and treat his parents re-
| spectfully.
| Somebody has asked for the definition of
| ttlrt. A flrt, commonly speaking. is a
| woman who does things when she is young
| that she Is ashamed oil aud sorry Tor when
| she is old.
| A marvellous escape from instant death
| was thai OF a Pittsburg child who fell forty
five feet from third-srory window aud
landed in pile of hay, sustaining little or
no injury.
| Eskimo women are boot and shoe makers,
| as well as tallors and mantua-makers.
| Boots are made OF sealskin throughout OF
else the legs of sealskln and the Soles Of
| walrus-skin.
a harmless (O lunatic released by the
keepers of the asylum at Columbus, Ohio,
in order that he might visit his mother,
| killed her during the visit aud tried pretty
| hard to kill an aunt
| The balance OF nature has surely been
somehow disturbed. 1t takes 800 ex penslye
roses to make teaspoOnful of perfume,
| while pennyworth OF cooked onions will
scent whole neighborhO0d.
An Eastern railroad company which was
| mulctrd III $1,000 in suit for damages ap-
| pealed tie case with the result that the jury
| IN the second trial awarded the plaintiff
SS40O. The latter sued for $1,000.
A church in Lower Austria has received
l
| by merchant OF Vienna to atone for his
having broken a window during lesson in
catechsm when boy IL years Old.
A preliminary report, issued by the Regis
| ter-General, OF the census taken in Jamaica,
| returns the total population at 639 49l.
| These figures show an increase OF IS, ,6S7 in
the population of the island since 1881.
The divorce of a Magnolia (Ark.) woman
| has been followed by her second marriage
| before the ink had dried Oh the records.
| Inc divorce was granted and the wedding
ceremony performed by the same Judge.
Diamonds are found along the eastern
slope OF the Alleghanies from Virginia to
Georgia, and also in Northern California
| and In Southern Oregon, but there are not
enough Of them of size to pay for mining.
A Benton Qll.) farmer, who believed in
| taking time by the forelOck, was M arried to
| his second vile upon the completion of the
| funeral sermon of the first. Two OF his
children entered wedlOck at the same time.
| The provincial cities of France are beng
entertained by remarkable artist With
| plates of various colored sand before her,
she takes the sand in her right hand ana
causes 1t TO fall in beautiful designs upon
! table.
Subterranean Florida is boneycombed by
| underground streams. When these are OBJ
| siructed from any cause they work their
way to the surface, making the great
swamps which are characteristic Of that
State.
An Italian duchess, the Duchesa Bolog-
mini. who has recently lost her hus band aud
sou, has sold her jewels for S1OO,O0 and
| given the proceeds to the chldren's depart
ment OF the Milan Hospital in memory of
| her son.
| a Baltimore policeman has a variegated
| collection of cats which would delight the
heart Uf an old maid inclined to felines
| They divide their time impartially between
the Central Station and the stables across
the street.
Railway statistics show that the Ameri-
can takes q railway trips year, the En-
| glishman 10, the Belgian IL, the Frenchmau,
German, Swede, Norwegian and the Span
lard each, while the Turk, Swiss and
Italian take but each.
Welsh newspapers report a remarkable
event at the village of LlanOn, Cardigan
shire. where Rev. William Herbert late
rector OF the parish, entertained 500 OF his
| parlShiOners in cOmmemoratiOn of the res
toraton of his eyesight in his ninety-titth
year.
The electric-lighting plant of the new Ma
sonic Temple in Chicago will probably oe
the largest isolated plant in the world The
generating plant will consist Of six $1,000
| Watt dynamos. and provision will be made
for between 1000 and 5000 incandescent
lamps.
The money of Chile at present is peculiar.
| 1t consists OF small tags OF paSteboard, on
| which man writes the value for which he
| IS Wiling To redeem IL, putting his name on
| the back. 1t then begins t. circulate until
it finally gets back to the source from which
| ii emanatei.
A Virginian who visited Richmond with
the intention of making that city his homa
states that he was kept awake three nights
by The bowling of dogs and that he counted
| IS worthless ours within a few blocks. He
has now changed his mind and will remain
| in his present abode.
| Thirty-One years ago the first strike" of
petroleum was made at Titusville, Pa.
Since that time the petroleum industry has
become one OF the greatest in our county.
| Besides the enormous quantities used here,
! we now export to other countries SO0, ,O00, 600
| gallons year, worth about S60.000.001
A party OF fifteen men are digg ng for Cap
| tain KidPs buried gold in Nova Scotia
| There are seytn pits dug. Some OF them
are as deep as 80 feet, and despite the fail
ure of former Giggers, the party who now