The morning call., 1891-08-21
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

WI ulllsDOro (le&aSl boys, aged u ant
10 respectively, are In Jail for horse-steal
ing.
For insisting that he did OF use tobacco
Memphis man was recently fatally shot
by his nephew, who preferred request for
chew.
1t costs dollar minute to use the tele
phone line between London aud Paris
This prevents person from indulging il
back talk.
A baby at Railway, n. j., has been saved
from drowning by his grandmother. wht
jumped into the water head first and brough
him to land.
If you think yourself of any special i'm
portance, take a vacation for month and
see whether anybody will miss you, outside
OF the creditor class.
A Swedish patient in Milwaukee puffs VI
enormously about the body every night, So
that the clothes he wears in the daytime
do not begin to fit him.
Walnut street, PHILADELPHIA. betweer
Eleventh and Eighteenth, is lined with tree,
on the north side, while the south side il
absolutely bare of green.
An appliance has been patented bv three
Buchanan lMichh) young men whereby the
pneumatic tire on bicycle is kept inh tied
by the weight of the rider.
Louisville has issued new order for The
telephone exchange to the effect that in the
future Number, please" must be the re-
Spouse to ring instead of Hello"
A great factor in human happiness is an
object in life which shall be both fairly
DEFINITE ana unattalnable. The latter is a
necessary condition of its permanence.
Mrs Frank Wilson of Newcastle. Ind,
made dying request that no funeral sery.
ices mark her burial. and her wishes were
observed. She professed to be an infdpl.
William AlIibone of Punta Rassa. Fla,
has an alligator which eats up the refuse OF
tie AlllbOne household, and is a better
s"avenger by lar than the average garbage
man.
-Four cases OF diphtheria at Dallas. Texas.
were caused by the youthful victims playiug
with pet pig which had sore throat. and
another case at Oak Cliff has been traced to
cat.
A Wichita (Kans.) woman had twenty
seven servant girls within less than year
and the last one that she EMPLOYED had
worked LOT tnlty-two mlstresSeS during the
year.
An odd invention, manufactured at the
suggestion of a New York woman. is an
enameled orange, which opens and discloses
watch in one half anu q purse in the
other.
Sixteen Reading Pa.) Sunday-schools re-
Gently participated in a picnic at which
1000 persons were present. Many more
would have gone had the weather not been
threatening.
A New " rk police captain carries what
looks to be an ordinary umbrella, but which
is In reality breech-loading gun barrel. 1t
can be fired rapidly and has u magazine for
100 cartridges.
The Gar is one of the few living BAN
queters, II is said. who can drink toast
according to the old style, swallowing
toasted apple, liquor and all, from the
trimming cup.
Contemplated additions to the Eastern
Illinois Insane Asylum at Kankakee will
render that institution the largest of its kind
in the country, having accommodations for
over 1000 patients.
The growth of horse-raising in the last
ten years is illustrated by the fact that in
1850 the money added TO prizes by the rae
Ing associations amounted 10 S1S0,OOO Now
1t reaches Sl,O00,000.
At West Superior, Wis, clerk, who was
smoking, hid his cigar stump on pile of
clothing upon the approach of his en-
ployer, with the result that the whole stock.
valued at $4,000, went up in smoke.
The salaries of the Fort Worth Tex
municipal employees are paid in scrip, which
Is subject to discount of 10 per cent Many
OF the workers are in straitened citcuu-
stances, and there is much ill-feeling.
James kser of Van Buren, Township,
lhu., round stranger walking with his be-
trothed, and without ceremony opened fire
upon him with revolver His insane age
denected his aim ana no one was hurt.
Canada only lacks 237, 900 square miles to
be as large as the whole continent of Eu-
rope; 1t IS nearly thirty times as large as
Great Britain and Ireland. and is 500 600
square miles larger than the United States
Rather than endure the torture of ma
llgnant cancer an inmate of a Reading (Pa.)
hospital drowned himself in fifteen inches of
water. His face was nearly eaten away
and he had been unable TO eat for month
special train of five cars, constructed
entirely OF steel, Is on exhibition at Chicago
1t Is claimed that the cars neither cost nor
weigh more than the old style, while being
practically lndestructlble by fire or in a
wreck.
A discharged employe of Planfield On.
j. club entered the building at night and
cut the cloth of a billard-table into strips.
The same man recently caused great confu-
sion III the club-roomS by sprinkling pepper
Oh the floor.
The cattle baron has passed away in
Texas and his immense pastures are being
cut up into farms. \ 20,000-acre pasture
was cut up into farms few weeks ago. and
1t reallz- d ut auction an average of between
81 and SIS an acre.
The Paris Academy OF Medicine has
awarded the Artiia prize to Professor Kauff-
man OF the Veterinary College at Abort.
Tor lotion Tor the cure of viper bites, con-
sisting of one part of chronic acid dissolved
IN 100 parts OF water.
A man at PetoSkey, Mich, has confessed
that he and thirteen others participated in a
double murder sixteen years ago. He is in
Jail, and warrants are out for his COM
panions;T many OF whom are well known
and bold public Office
Seth Twining of Bristol Township. Pa.
bound 1000 sheaves of oats in half day OF
six hours, and gave it out that it was n record
that could not be beaten. Edward Hall of
northampton Township worked his best
for SIX hours and bound 1140 sheayes.
1t hailed SO hard in Cheyenne County,
kans., one afternoon recently that sixteen
men working at thrashing machine were
cut about the face and hands so badly that
they were unit for work the rest of the
day. Their clothes were literally riddled.
1t is strange but true that in this nine
teenth century of Christ and his gospel of
peace the most highly valued inyentinns
are those which add to nations facilities
for killing men. The great industry OF all
great nations is keeping prepared for war.
A young man OF % at Birmingham. Ala.
is Il defaulter to the amount OF $40 900 and
Is also charged with firing the railway
freight station at that place which resulted
III SO disastrous cOnflagratIon. He is kept
III SOLITARY confinement, and bail is refused.
An interesting relic of the past at old
Pemaquld, Me-, is street thirty feet wide.
paved with medium-SiZed fiat stones raised
in the middle and having good cutters and
eurbs OF large stones, besides u fine side
walk II u feet wide. The street was built
in 1880.
Helena (Mont.) merchant died through
worry over the competition of a neighbor.
On the day of the funeral the latter walked
Into the room, and advancing to the coffin
humbly begged the pardon of the dead man
for the injury done him. Those present
were deeply affected.
An insane inmate "a boy of l6) of Door
house near Champaign, H., has a mania
for walking, and is on the 90 from morning
I'll night, not even stopping while he eats.
he doesn't halt voluntarily for sleep, either,
the attendants having to put him in bed by
force and then to strap him down.
According to French divorce statistics the
most UNHAPPY period of marriage is from
the fifth to the tenth year. Only q pcr cent
of the couples seek divorce between their
tenth and twentieth years of union, Only
one pair in 100 seek to cut the knot fter the
period OF over thirty ana under furty wears,
Professor Felix, In an address on suicide
at The School OF Ethics at Plymouth. Mass.
suggested that an inya lid shori3 L.