The morning call., 1891-09-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

S350,000
Old Persian carpets fetch .bg prices in
England
There are in Sweden AZ, 669 more women
than men.
English women have returned to square
There are 1859 acres devoted to tobacco
In Virginia.
There is a hotel-keeper in Maine whose
name is Giu.
There are said to be about fifty buffaloes
lett in Wyoming.
There are 100000 oil holes in the earth.
They cost S600,000,000
A Philadelphia merchant received check
for cents few days ago.
There is only one sudden death among
women to eight among men.
Over Madison avenue, New York City,
pass monthly about 81, 200 horses.
The old Town House in Sctuate. Mass.
erected in 1854, was burned recently.
There are more ducks in the Chinese En-
pire than in all the world outside of 1T.
Blackburn, Knott and Buckner, three
eminent kentuckianS smoke the corn-cob
pipe.
The plane tree under which Godfrey of
B uill0n encamped by the Bosphorus in
1898 is still standing.
Harvard College is 22j years old and has
graduated 1900 students. A little more
than half of them are living.
The Massachusetts Supreme Court has
decided that woman can bring suit for
separate support as soon as she leaves her
husband.
Hot water taken freely half an hour be-
fore bedtime is helpful in the case of con-
Stipation, and has most soothing effect upon
the stomach
Notre Dame Cathedral, Montreal. has the
largest bell in America. 1t weighs "A, $50
pounds, is eight feet seven inches in dame
ter aud six feet high.
Carthage. Mo-, has haunted depot. The
spoOk Is supposed to be the soul of some
departed commercial traveller come back to
kick on baggage rates.
1t is gratifying to note that Pension Com
missioner Raum reports there will be sur
plus OF $50 600 in pension appropriations
instead of the expected deficiency.
yoracious appetite for tobacco in every
form imperils the life of a resident of Bell
ingham, MINI. He has smoked and munched
the deadly weed Tor nearly 100 years.
A colored cake-walk at Coney Island,
New Iork'S watering place. recently broke
up in due diSmay when it was discovered
that thirteen couples were ON the floor.
The payroll of the servants alone of G. w.
Childs' country place at Bryn Mawr
amounts TO $1,000 a month. This is said to
be the finest country residence in the United
States.
Thomas Morris. colored man OF Stuart.
Va, claims to be no years of age. He is
the father of forty-e eight children and has
been married five times, but all his wives
are dead.
A generous Toronto (Ont) citizen has
erected, at cost OF $4,000. hospital for
sick children, which will also be utilized as
summer resort for youngsters not requir-
ing medical attention.
One of the smartest old-time trotters in
Maine is Jack SDratt, II years old. record
2:23 He has been worked on a farm all
summer, but came out the other day and
went mile in 1884 easily.
That Is a great discovery of DR.. Siech
in Berlin that water can be used as an
anesthetc, but for the general purpose OF
voluntary paralysis beer will hold its own in
the German capital and elsewhere.
Next to the one who will let you talk all
the time about yourself the most pleasing
companion in this world is the one who will
occupy all his time in telling you of good
things that other people have said about you.
A new stringed instrument called the
"gioletta' has been invented by Alfred
Steiner. The instrument has a compass
between that OF viola and viOloncelo,
and Joachim has bought one for quartet
use.
They are still trying to abolish the French
language in Canada, but it is going to take
something more than legislation to ac-
cOmplish that end. The French Canadians
VIII NObtihbS w van WI huSh do tuO1
please.
A Russian naval Lieutenant, who has
lived many years in Japan, says that the
whole japanese arlstocracy are strongly in
clined toward Protestant Christianity, and
that they only wait for the Mikado to make
the move.
Among the new wonders of scientific re-
search is the announcement that the sun
is like a magnet" 1.-The earth q cosmical
dynamo" and that the old smile of true
the needle to the pole is not correct.
What next?
One thousand dollars more than the price
paid for the land is Henry Mitchell's reward
for planting eight acres in sweet potatoes.
His farm is at SwedeSboro, n. j., ard good
seed with good tilling brought $3.50 an acre
for the sweets.
A peculiar disease has appeared among
cattle in Fairfield County, Conn. Each OF a
dozen farmers have lost from one to two
cows or oxen. DIR. James Mallett of Mon
roe, after dissecting dead COW, died of
blood poisoning.
When pins were scarce and dear they
formed very acceptable gifts to the fair sex.
and as now and then money was bestowed
to the value OF pins in lieu thereof, not a few
phrase hunters believe that the term pin
money originated from that practice.
The Empress Of Russia, in her fondness
for dancing, has evening parties that bore
her royal husband, and it Is related that on
one or two occasions he has sent the guests
home betimes by touching an electric button
aud extiDguishing all the lights in the room.
Amelia Arnold appeals to the women Of
London TO try and prevent the barbarous
custom OF docking the tails of horses by re-
fusing to encourage the practice. Besides
the operation being lasting Inconvenience
to the animals, it is one of excruciating pain.
The demand for fruit cans this year will
be unusually great owing to the large fruit
crop. In Michigan alone it is believed that
100000 bushels OF peaches Will be gathered.
The crops of pears and plums promise also
to be bountiful in various parts of the
country.
Silas Swim and J. i. Brown of Iowa are
under arrest on the charge of making bogus
scaps out of wolf hides and collecting the
county bounty. on them. Ii is said that
Brown has swindled his county out of be-
tween $500 and 5000 in that way within two
years.
of the Georgia Southern Railroad is
woman, Mrs. C0ley. 1t is a remarkable in
novatl0n in rallroading. and 1t shows that
woman is gradually proving herself capable
and willing in winning her bread in almost
any employment that calls for service.
No person is eligible to the Office of Gov
ernor of New York who is not at least 80
years Of age and has been for five years
resident of the State, The term is three
years, the salary $4,000 year, and a
Toomy. convenient and splendidly fur
nished executive mansion is provided for
mis- use.
During the pea" season the Great East
ern Railway delivered into London markets
925 tons in one day. Large quantities ar
rived by road and other railways. Prices
started at As, but soon dropped. Thou
sands of bags were sold at 90 and Is per
bag. Such a state Of things was never
known before.
Imitation gold is a new compound which
was recently discovered and which puzzles
the best jewelers. to detect. Its weight is
that OF gold and the acid tests are the same,
except that the acid boils a tritie when APP
piled to 1t, although when it is wiped off no
snnt Ia left IL Ia chaan and IL ga silu