The morning call., 1891-08-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

PaIeutS ana SIX children, are dangerously
Ill from milk sickness.
Among the booty which burglars recently
carried off from Kinsman Ohio bank was
bag con tanning 5000 pennies.
Thirteen engineers and other employees OF
an Indiana railroad have lost their positions
for drinking beer while ON duty.
Europe Is the most thickly settled of all
continents, having A population of $50, 200,-
GOO. or l01 persons to the square mile.
Malignant diphtheria is making fearful
ravageS in tine Yankton Is. Dak) Insane
Asylum, the result of defective sewerage.
The original cost of Central Park, New
fork, was $4,0O0,000, and many millions
more nave been expended in improving it.
farmer of Pittsfeld, Mich, when asked
what flavor he wanted in his soda water, re-
plled, Onion, please" He was in earnest
too.
A swarm of bees found a home in the
walls of Churdan Qowa) millinery shop.
and recently large amount of honey was
taken out.
A Flatbush IL. u eleven-year-old boy has
been sent to the House of Refuge for rob-
ping his father of money with which to
play the races.
Salt as tooth pc WIDER is better than al
most any other dentrifce. Il keeps the
teeth very white, the gums hard and rosy
and the breath fresh.
a DeS M0ines QOwa) woman while out
uri'ing was stopped by tramp who de-
manded her money. She gave him 81 and
The tramp tipped his hat and walked off.
In East Bethel, Me-, there is horse
tWenty-nlne years old, which has for twenty
1our summers helped TO run his owners
moving machine during the haying season.
New York has cigar-factory which pro-
vldes Its women and girl employees with a
hospital, surgeon and trained nurse.
The two latter are in constant attendance.
stephen Richardson of Pittsburg was
crushed to death recently by Il fall OF
slate in mine. His father and brother
were both killed in the same way, but in
England.
a woman living near Grass Lake, Mich,
lately traded her horse to a tinware peddler
Tor sixteen milk cans, two clippers and Il
bucket, and her neighbors declare that shs
got the best of the bargain.
An 16-pound child was recently born at
Ilfiln. Ohio. 1t was dead, and the mothers
life was hanging in the balance Medical
men pronounce the weight of the babe as
being almost unprecedented.
a terrible instance of the injustice of cir
cumstantlal evidence is cited at Beatrice,
Nebr, where man was hanged in 1887 for
the murder of a comrade who is now known
TO be living at La Crosse, Kans.
MISS Louise Renner of Wise, Isabella
County, Mich, went into the woods with
her father last winter, and with an ak and
saw heIped her 1hther earn S125. She has
also bureau made entirely by herself.
A man in Jail at Hemingford, Nebr.. for
Durelarizing store at Alliance, made n saw
out OF an old stove pipe, severed his slackles
and cut his way out through the wall of the
jail A reward of $50 has been offered for
his capture.
Alligators have made their appearance In
the Missouri River. One of considerable
size was observed the other day following
a, steamer while passing Rocheport, Mo.
They have never been seen farther north
than the banana belt.
What is supposed to be the only copy extant
OF the " Confederate States Geography"
printed at Atlanta. Ga, has been pre-
cal library. The book will be sold at auc-
ton for charitable purposes.
A ffteen-ye ar-Old New York bow. who
was infatuated with woman nearly three
times his age, was found living with the
object OF his affections. The ill-mated
couple were just about to be married when
the youth was marched home by his mother
and soundly spanked.
a lighted chandelier at the Congrega-
tlonal Church at Norfolk, Neb., fell to the
floor while the audience was assem- bled in
Inc lecture-room, but man with rare pres
ence OF mind threw the blazing lamps out
of the door just before they exploded and
thus prevented much damage
"Ihey tel" says Maine contemporary,
"of man In the vicinity Of Belfast who.
while out in his boat, saw a large black
mass In the water, and supposing it to be
dead whale, poked 1t with his oar. Then
the creature opened its spacious mouth ana
the man pulled for the Shore
West fremont (Me) 5-year-old girl re-
Gently extiDguished fire which had broken
out IN the house during her mothers alb
senee. During her exertious her dress
caught fire. but she had the presence of
mlnd 10 put TINS out and still keep at work,
ana no DOUBT saved her home from ashes
A Brooklyn Judge deems tool thieves the
meanest class Of ascals in existence. Said
he. in addressing one of these gentry:
I gu carry oil the implements of a mans
LABOR and practically take the bread and
Dutter from a fellow-being's mouth. You
are remanded until Monday for sentence"
Invitations are out for the celebration in
Knoxville, Tenn, of the seventy nd
wedding anniversary of Stephen Osborne
and wife OF Ashe County, n. G. Mr.. Os
borne IS 1O1 years DID, and his wife 90.
They have II children, 60 grandchildren,
more than 200 Observation-Disclosures and !
great-great-grandchild
At Wichita. Kans., two brothers, who had
been separated for twelve years, met in the
county Jail. Both were going under assumed
names, but one dav, while comparing notes
they found that they were from the same
town In Pennsylvania One of them finally
told his own name, and the other at once
recognized him as brother.
A Clarksburg wv. Va.) man has re-.
celSed 1000 for tract of land for which
he paid $50 four years ago. The land
was then considered worthless and was
sold by the State for delinquent taxes,
Since then valuable minerals in large ouan-
titles have been discovered on II and a
Railroad has been built through it.
Jerry Simpson in one of his speeches was
compllmenting Daniel Webster which was
very considerable in the Sockless. and in
glowing terms referred to his dictionary A
friend pulled Jerry's coat tail and informed
him that Noah was the man who made the
dictionary. The deuce you say" rep,ied
the imperturbable Jerry. Noah built the
ark"
John Geiss, Michigan blacksmith. got
ms loot tangled In rope attached to a
Bay. He called to the folks to hold him
when the balloon went up. but they could
not. However. he got his feet untangled
before he had gone more than three or four
rods, and falling in soft sand. he escaped
injury.
Kansas City temperance advocates pur.
pose requiring all consumers of Intoxicating
liquors to purchase license, varying in
cost from $40 to $50, each application to be
countersigned by the applicants wife. 1t is
claimed that an enforcement of the pro-
vision would yield a revenue to the CITY Of a
would greatly promote the cause of tenn
perance.
The Ruthland division of the Central
Vermont Railroad crosses the mountains at
Mount Holly, Summit Station, being 144O
feet above the sea. Near that station, when
the railroad was building. the tusks of a
large elephant were dug up, and they were
preserved in the Vermont State Capitol
and so is the skeleton of whale, 40 feet
IN length, which was discovered in 1S49 in
the town of Charlotte.
A. milkmaid's life in West Virginia seems
to have IT'S eXcitements. While Caroline
Brenneman of Juniata was in the barrl-yard
milking the other day she was knocked
from the stool by q wildcat which sprang
on her shoulder from neighborng tree.
The frightened COW made a jump, and one
foot struck the wildcat u powerful blow in
the side, stunning 1t. Miss Brenneman then
finished the creature by beating it over the
head with her pail. The animal was feet
inches long.