The morning call., 1891-08-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

LII SlN wears HAS It's ucUt
four times.
There are 1869 acres devoted TO tobacco
in Virginia.
In 1864 cotton was 81 80 a pound in New
York for a time.
An ornithologist says that birds frequent
~ commit suicide.
OF the twelve largest cities in the world
three are in Japan.
A ton of rags is worth about $50 TO a
dealer in those articles.
Iowa has increased one-fifth in popoula-
ton during the past decade.
Rain is always falling in some part or
other of the British Islands.
MolaSses can be brought from Cuba in O
tank vessel for cents gallon.
London theater-going is said TO have de-
creased to remarkable extent
Beefsteak and black coffee are said to
have reduced woman of 49, pounds to 40.
a train Of coal cars on the Philadelphia
and Reading Railroad the other day was
800 feet long.
The accumulated savings of the working
people of Massachusetts would pay one-third
of the national debt.
No workman can secure employment on
the streets of New Bedford. Mass, until he
shall have been naturalized.
On the Missouri Pacific road, go miles
west of ST. Louis, is Waterloo, and in the
Immediate vicinity are Napoleon and Well
ington.
One of the most eminent English pliysi-
clans recently said that every house ought
to be destroyed after it had been built for
sixty years.
During recent thunderstorm in Maine
the skin of boy who was struck by light
ming turned dark purple, and has remained
so ever since.
A French amateur photographer has
mounted camera on kite, and gets re-
maraably clear views from height Of from
100 TO $50 feet.
a deceased Vienna car-driver turns out to
have been Baron Erwin Sch0nstein, formerly
a millionaire and the last member of a dis
tinguished family.
The authorities of Berlin have determined
on system of disinfecting all the telephones
used in that city, as it is believed they spread
contagious diseases
An Iowa farmer who has been bunlloed
out OF $1,000 claims to have been hypnotZed
by the sharptrs. He will hereafter preserve
VIgllant wasefulness.
An Arkansas ex-Sheriff who got away
with $4,000 and squandered every dollar
goes free on the ground of insanity Evil
IDENTIFY there was method in his madness
The bite of a tarantula onceand in a box
Of pears as caused the death Of Sedalia
(ho.) man, whose agony WAS so terrible
that three men were required to hold him.
An Indianapolis woman has a voice
which, wien she talks in an Urinary tone is
as dIstIngulShabie at stance OF a hundred
feet away as 1t Is IN her immediate presence.
ODen the windows at night and close item
before o'clock in the morning and the
house will not be insufferably warm even
though the mercury climbs into the nineties.
The bellies of Bar Harbor WHO have taken
up whlstling for amusement initiate the
songs OF birds so we'll that their notes are
mistaken for the warblngs of the bobolink
The most violent thunderstorms in the
world occur in French Guiana. The thun-
der there in an ordinary storm is almost
deafenlng, while peal follows zeal in quick
succession.
The famous mandatory of porcelain at
Sevres is likely to be closed. The sale of
this stYle of china is said to have fallen off
so greatly as to make the manufacture Of it
uuremuneratIve.
The vigorous growing of rooster, perched
on the wlndow-ledge of a church at Gull
ford, Conn, recently, provoked the mirth
and disturbed the serenity OF both minister
and congregation.
Atlanta (Ga.) church people have severely
scored the Mayor for permitting work on
the electric railroad on Sunday. The labor
Is said to have been actually necessary to
close connections
In the museum of the Dead Letter Office
at Washington, d. c., there is piece of
parchment upon which is penned a copy Of
the Lords prayer, written in ffty-four diff
ferent languages.
a prominent Racine (Wis.) physician is
charged with burglary He was one of the
electors Of the State on the Repu blican
Presidential ticket of 1883, and says he can
prove his innocence.
Fifty-four families-all tenants and en-
ployes Of the owner-live en- a 5000 acre
farm in KNOX County, Ind, and a large
schoohouSe IS provided to meet the wants
Of their olive branches.
While visiting in Michigan town a young
lady OF HOTtOnville, Ind, was astOnished
beyond measure to meet girl who is the
same name, age, size and general appear
ance. Ihey are In 70 wise akin.
1t would take corn-crib feet wide, 10
feet high and miles long to hold the cor n
now growing in Harvey County, Kans. 1t
requires an Imagination almost of the same
size to conceive of such a granary.
A foolish Muncie Ind.) farmer who drew
$1,000 from the bank just before attending
circus wishes he had postponed the oper-
alton, as he was robbed of every dollar
while enjoying the attractions of the show.
1t is related as curious fact that Paris,
with population of nearly $500 go souls,
has less than 100 negroes within its limits
Sta lstlcians say that the whole of France
cannot muster negro population exceeding
500.
A man imagines that he has lots of fun in
telling how difficult it is for woman to find
HNl hu4 ILIAO hci OWu pOChEl, Dub all lUe
varnish comes off the laugh when he begins
to remember how easily she gets into his
pockets.
1t is known that wasps' nests often take
fire. supposed to be caused by the chemical
action OF the wax upon the paper material
of the nest itself. May this not account for
many mysterious fires in barns and out
buildings?
Dane arrested in Meriden, Conn, for
theft IS said to be heir to over a quarter of
million dollars. he was bauished from
Denmark in 1869, the story goes. aud is pre-
vented from claiming the property BY the
fact of his Punishment
Search being made for missing girl in
Cannon County. Tenn, her swollen and
blackened corpse was found in the woods
while curled up behind her was an immense
rattlesnake that had bitten her and caused
her death. The snake was killed.
A compact mass of immense Jersey mos
auitos was recently taken for thunder
cloud at Elizabeth, in that State. The
people were literally driven out of doors by
the predaceous insects, and bonfires were
built in the streets to exterminate them.
The following epitaph appears on the
headstone of grave in Waldo County
(Me.) cemetery:
Ye quacks disturb not my bones where they rest so
calm and well,
do not wish you to visit me on earth again:
neither do care to visit you In he'll.
Vergennes, VT, is the third oldest city in
the United States, having been chartered in
1873. Hartford and New Haven, Conn,
were chartered in 1884. Vergennes is prob
ably the smallest and most quiet city in the
country, having a population of 1773 and
covering 1900 acres.
ID uring a severe storm at Buffalo n. Y,
recently. two dazzling balls of fire. each as
large as a half bushel measure, fell in the
street and for moment blinded fifteen or
twenty persons standing in the vicinity
Several men were hurled 10 the ground and
little girl was slightly burned.
Bridgeport, Conn.,, has man whose leg
works as though hung on pivot. He can
| turn it around until the heel and toe change
| places. His case is said to be mystifying
physicians. He first discovered his peculiar
ability after an accident that he met with
| several days ago, in which lie sprained his