The morning call., 1891-07-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Several Jersey City saloon-keepers have
been swindled by cashing counterfeit Penn
syivania Railroad 2ay-eheeks-
South Bend, Ind, has twenty eight facto-
ries, which employ 5737 people and turn out
S72,00O,00o worth of products year.
An animal Of unknown species is quar-
tered in cave in Columbia Township, Ind,
and great stories are told OF its ferocious-
ness.
A wild hog which had created great
devastation among the growing crops iu a
Pennsylvania valley has been captured
alive.
While Titusville (Ga) man was watch
ing bonfire valuable gold watch slipped
through hole in his pocket and was ere
mated.
Undertaken CoiweIl of Birmingham, Conn,
rich widower, announces that he will
marry the girl who will 90 up with him in a
balloon.
Tenement-hOuSes are so scarce at Sturgis,
Mich, that syndicate of merchants of the
town will soon erect twenty-five handsome
cottages.
a Bryansburg (Ky.) man. who left home
fifteen years agU, has Just returned, and
was received by his parents as one raised
from the dead.
In an attempt to rescue his 12-year-old son
lIoui III front III Il tram near \ lion, ILL.,, a
man named Phillips was dragged under the
wheels and father aud son were crushed to
death.
The S-year-old son of Robert Graham, on
Tygart Creek, Wood County, W. Va, res
cued his 5-year-old sister from drowning BY
jumping into the river and swimming ashore
with her,
a little PASSPORT (Me.) girl who in reply
to the teachers question, Where is the
Golden Gate?" wrote, - In heaven" was
both surprised and grieved to find it marked
as wrong.
There is an island near Men ominee, Mich,
which Is literally alive with worms that
swarm over everything, and another one
that IS SO infested with snakes that no one
Will visit it.
Two immense gum trees, which tower over
100 leet above little church in Guatemala,
are sixty feet IN circumference, and have
pushed the foundations of the church out
OF place by their strong roots.
Electric light has been employed adyant-
ageOusly on board of West India steamer
crossing the ocean III keep alive and flour
ishing certain plants, which We're being
transported for acclimatizatlon.
The Quadruple Delivery Machine Com
pany. just being hoated in England offers
for penny your weight box of sweets
and an insurance policy. The latter, which
Is Tor $50, lasts twenty one days.
A balloon which recently assembled at an
wrecking it and nearly suffocating one of its
inmates by escaping gas. The aeronauts
miraculouSly alghted without injury.
There are no cats within the limits of
| LeadYille, Colo, the thin atmosphere at that
altitude Q0,2 200 feet being fatal to them.
| They are, however, not required, the town
being free from rats and mice from the
| same cause.
A ST. Lonis man was recently arrested and
sentenced II serve three months in jail for
| entering burning building and saving six
| year-0ld child. He was charged with OBJ
| siructing the fremen in the discharge of
| their duties,
The military authorities Of Halifax, n s.,
| are opposed to the city prohibiting shop.
| keepers selling so-called table beer. They
| claim that the soldiers. who drank of beer
| freely, cannot now obtain it, ana as a result
| drink whisky.
There are 10000 oil-wells in the United
| States, representing capital of Sl20, 600, 600,
| with an output of 200 barrels per day
while 1900 barrels are consumed as fuel
| A surplus stock is held in tanks of more than
35,0000o0 barrels.
London city covers TAO acres, and has
| 4,21l,o56 inhabitants, an increase of 400, 0G0
| in the last ten wears. This is the census of
April 3. 1891. The police district of London
comprises 4is,334 acres, or about 700 square
| miles, ana has 1888, $50 inhabitants.
A young Bombay chemist, now in Chicago
with his father. Rev. DIR. Harayau She
shadrl, wants to arrange for bringing over a
| distinctly Indian colony. With its jugelers
and queer products of India 1t would be
most valuable exhibit at the Worlds Fair.
Hot water for cows" is the maxim of the
| French dairy farmers in the department of
| Finisterre. They claim to have proved by
experiments that when cows drink hot
water they yield one-third more milk than
when they arc refreshed with cold water
| only.
One thing above all others which tray.
| eler notices in Bermuda is the striking
| whiteness OF the place. 1t seems as if the
| whole island. streets, houses and all we're
swept with mighty pail of whitewash
Everything IS white, because the houses.
streets. etc, are all made Of white coral
About fifteen years ago Ezra T. Foster. an
| inmate of the Beverly (Mass.) Almshouse.
| refused to eat and nearly starved to death.
| He was induced to eat, but refused to SPEAK
and has kept that vow until the Fourth Of
| Jnly last when he answered a question by
| the matron. Since then he has kept ND an
| almost constant talking.
| Mrs Eliza Ryan, widow 80 years old. of
| Lanark, Ark, who has been totally bin
for thirty years, had tooth pulled from the
upper jaw. The root was nearly an inch In
length. When it was pulled Mrs. Ryan
complained Of intense pain in her eyes, and
| later cried out that she could see plainly her
sight having been restored.
Charles p. Staub, a retail tobacco ,iealer
! Ol lbTTo J1dubt, lUu.s uIu not pay MS ltcPn Sc
| for the period from January TO Nav. IT
would have cost him so cents. Now he has
pleaded guilty to the violation of law and
| his fine and costs amount to S62 80 That
was rather large interest upon a deferred
| payment.
A Bangor Theological Seminary student
who was temporary preacher in the Con-
| gregational Church at Lincoln, Me-, took
his meals at the hotel. He complained to
the authorities of two drunken men who in.
| suited him at the hotel, and the landlord
promptly turned the young preacher out of
| his house.
The gendarmerie of Buda Pesth succeeded
after several brave attempts in taking band
OF Gypsy robbers, numbering fifty men, pris-
oners. Among the .captives are several no
| torlous murderers. The leader of the band
| strange to say. is the author of dictionary
| OF the gypsy language, for which Archduke
Joseph wrote the preface.
Thomas Roche, who dropped dead In n
| Chicago gambling house, when the police
broke up the game, was to have been mar
rled the next day to Mary O'Rourk He had
| the marriage license in his pocket. al so a
revolver, set Of brass knuckles and a kit of
| drilling tools. Roche was wanted at Column
bus. Ohio to answer several charges, one
| OF them being for attempt murder
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