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

There is library exclusively for women
in Turin.
Maine and New Hampshire make nearly
all the worlds spoons.
Lady Brooke of England distributes every
year, through her agency, over 5000 gar
ments.
An octogenarian who lives six miles west
OF Moberly, NO.. was baptiSed the other day
by his grandson.
OF eight-inch bore which yields $500 gallons
of water a minute.
A citizen Of MaEistee, Mich, has eli
entage of 1900 children, who get a pound of
candy each from him ON New Years day.
An English company is working a silver
NINE In Bolivia which yields more than $50
ounces to the ton, while specimens of almost
pure silver ore are met with.
Washington County, Ga, produces annu-
ally $4,000 bales of cotton, worth about
S1.500,0O0. This is one of the largest cotton
producing counties in the State.
The Monte Carlo shareholders receive 80
per cent dividend per annum. 1t is not
strange that so many people of elastic con-
science are willing to invest in gambling
business.
The decrease in the ship-building of the
United Kingdom during 1890 amounts to
%, S23 tons in the aggregate. but the produc-
ton OF the Scottish yards has increased by
81 600 tons.
Fraudulent divorce mills are still busily
at work in New York City. The AUTHORITIES
are doing their best to break them up, but
the victims are usually uneducated people
who decline to prosecute.
Uncle Toms Cabin is PLAYING in the
English provinces with a ballet of negro
girls. They dress entirely in black, and
send the audience home feeling as though
they had attended funeral.
The enormous number of 2759 duels are
said to have been fought in Italy during the
last twelve months. Fifty of the COM
batants were killed, While 1901 wounds.
some of them serious. were inflicted
In counting his small change the other day
Michigan man found the most valuable s.
cent piece extant. The jarring on the table
caused the piece of money to split in two
and from the center rolled gold dollar.
Two hundred thousand dollars year is
spent by the London School Board in en-
forcing the attendancesof children. They
are advised to try the French plan of get
ting children to school by good lunches.
"Goss. the red Chinese chow-chow dog,
that was long the travelling companion of
the Prince of Wales, is now IA years old and
intirm, and the honor has fallen upon
"Plumpie," another dog of the same breed.
Just Eow the principal operation OH the
Hudson is scraping snow In order to get at
the ice. There is about fourteen inches of
this snow to remove, and 1t is estimated that
1t Will cost the companies over $1,000 to do
1t.
The general effect of the reduction of CO.
l0nial postage, which came into force In En-
gland on January 1st, is that the charge for
letters, not exceeding half an ounce in
weight, to India and the principal colonies is
uniformly 2Al.
The Russian Government has issued an
order forbidding the employment of Aus
trian workmen either in agriculture or
q a q Of
are conducted TO the Austrian frontier every
day by hundreds.
The story of great purchases of land in
Mexico by the Mormons is repeated. The
statement is that 100000 acres have been
acquired in Northern Mexico. and that it is
of the United States thither.
DR.. Corrupt. who had been charged by the
Belgian Government to examine the SAINT
tary institutions of Germany, states in his
report that the annual army death rate is, in
Germany 3.97. in Belgium 4.07, in Ffaace s
ana IN Austria-Hungary 5.94 per cent
A man was recently sent to prison In New
York City because he could not furnish $500
bonds to keep the peace. AS there was no
one to furnish it for him this was practically
imprisonment for life, so after a couple of
months the man was, called up ana dis
charged.
monster egg is exhibited in the museum
at Buda Pesth, Hungary. 1t is the egg of
the prehistoric bird epiornis and but few
museums possess such a specimen. One
hundred and foEty-eight hens eggs would
find room in it and it would hold nearly nine
quarts. 1t was found in 1850 in Madagascar
The memorable reign of Lady Jane Grey
is said to have given rise to the phrase "A
nine days wonder" Lady Jane was pro
claimed Queen of England July 10, 1853,
four days after the death of Edward VI.
After the lapse OF period of nine days
July 19th-she relinquished her title to the
crown.
A German left his wife in the old country
fourteen years ago, settled in Whitewater,
Wis, and married again. about six weeks
ago his deserted wife dreamed of his oca-
ton, came over and went direct to the town,
the street and the house. and her old man
now sits ln Jail and wonders about the mag
netism Of the female intellect.
The latest statistics show that the suicide
mania is spreading in Germany to such an
extent that even the children take their
lives. During the six years ending with
1888 $50 school children committed suicide.
Many of these suicides occurred in tina
elementary schools and were PROMPTED by
fear Of punishment.
A man who has been annoyed for wears
by the fact that one side of his mustache
grows about twice as fast as the other side
claims to have found an explanation in the
circumstance that he sits all day at his desl,
with one side of his face turned to Windovv
the light from which stimulates the growth
of the hair on that side.
A woman in Bar Harbor Me-. was broueht
before a trial justice charged with heing a
common scold. The Record renorts that
latter an enjoyable entertainment of abuut
three hours the proceedings ended with
the sentencing the culprit to thirty DAYS
in the County Jail. She appealed. however
and the case will probably be heard from
again.
There are thousands of wives and mothers
In New York who make ends meet NV sew
ing on OVeralls that pay 70 cents shirts 80
cents, vests So cents, trousers So. hannel
shirts 81 dozen. They are obliged to find
their own thread for the oyeralls and shirts
and carry the work to and from the shon
Ii they take a street-car Une-tenth of their
earnings is gone.
Miss Lillian Baird, aged years, is becom-
ing famous as the youngest problem com
poser in the world. She has fine Instinct
for chess, which has been cultivated Inv
much practice, and an hereditary talent for
problem composing. Her first problem
composed before she was 8, has been printed
In ABOUT twenty chess columns In Enpl md
Germany and America. '''
In the building trades the six cities IN
Wnich the highest wages are paid are New
York, brooklyn, Chicago. ST. Louis, Calves
ton and San Francisco. St Louis paws the
highest wages for masonry, New York for
carpentry. San Francisco for painting chi
cago for plumbing, Santa Fe for roofin'p and
Galveston Tor common labor. The InwaSt
wages are paid in the Southern CITIES
The Smokers Revenge.
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