The morning call., 1891-06-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

There are $50 Arabian families in Chi
cago.
There are 544,722 more women than men
IN Prussia.
A Norristown Pal family is said to own
| fOrtv-Seven cats.
Brooklyn, n. Y, has 1883 dogs, an in
crease of 1lG0 since last year.
Sallie Anderson of Cecil, Ga, has ten
children and 101 grandchildren.
Bradford woman, worth nearly $780,
600, is going on the variety stage.
Parsley eaten with vinegar will remove
the unpleasant effects of eating onions.
In Amsterdam now it is said to be the
fashion to announce broken engagement
OF marriage.
In Sydney, Australia. there is kangaroo
which stands up and fights with boxing
gloves on his paws.
As a reward for going TO Darkest Africa
Stanley has had Il belt named after him. 1t
consists of six folds in front and a band Of
silk in the back.
Ansel CARPENTER, who died recently at
LOckuOrt, n. Y, at the great age of 104,
attributed his long life TO the fact that he
ha1 remained a bachelor
The Queen of Madagascar lately took her
yearly bath, a function that was attended
by he singing of hymns, the firing OF aTtl-
lery aud the beating of drums.
The finest garnets and nearly all the peri
dots (chTysOlites) found in the United States
are collected from ant-hills and scorpion
nests in New Mexico and Arizona.
The number of iiremen employed on the
| several watches kept up throughout London
is 125 by day and 325 by night making a to-
tai of $50 in every twenty-fOur hours.
Martin Farrell, an inmate of the Soldiers
Home at Dayton, Ohio. met accidentally a
few days ago his son, whom he had not seen
since 1861. Each believed the other dead.
BY wetting brOoms in boiling suds once
week they will become very tough and will
not cut carpet. They will also last much
longer and always sweep like a new broom.
Captain Cobb, an oysterman of Cedar
vile. n. j., caught cluster of oysters
which had grown together. In the bunch,
which weighed ten pounds, we're 125 oys-
ters.
In Switzerland step has been taken to-
ward Bellamys plan. The municipal au-
thOritieS Of canton have decided that all
employers must share profits with the Ia
bOrers.
The great fall maneuvers Of the German
army this year VIII be concluded on Sep
TENDER Dist, so that the Emperor may be on
his hunting grounds in Sweden on Septem-
Der 23d.
An English paper has the pOliteness to
state that American lady delegates made
the brightest and most effective speeches at
the great meeting of the British Women's
Temperance Association.
Edward W. Smith, of Lower Alloways,
n. D., owns cat which measures thirty-six
inches from tip to tip, stands nearly four
hands high, and when in fighting trim
CHS seventeen pounds.
Most tropical insects initiate grass, twigs,
sticks and leaves, and the object of this
curious provision ia nature is presumed to
be for protection, for the creature has but
to keep still to save its lie.
If railway were built TO the sun. and
trains were to run without intermission
upon it at the rate Of sixty miles per hour.
1t would require 175 years to make the Jour
ney to the sun, which is 90, OO0, 600 miles dis
tant.
Miss Annie Smith broke through the floor
at ner home in Burlington, n. j., recently,
and became so tightly wedged that she was
| unable to extricate herself. She called a
good while, too. before neighbors came to
her aid.
At Tempelhof, Germany. recently. while
the royal grenadierS were parading before
the Emperor four OF them were struck by
lightning, two fatally. 1t is supposed that
the rifle barrels and bayonetS of the soldiers
attracted the electricity.
Miss Sue f. Bebout of Anderson, w. Va,
has "a tame African lion, which she SAYS was
given to her by Snowman soon after its
birth. IL IS now seven months old and she
wants TO sell it to the Druid Hill Park ZOO
logical collection at Baltimore.
John Campbell, farmer near Ware.
Mass, claims that during recent thunder
storm flash of lightning entered one of
the bedrooms, played about the room a
short time and knocked leg from under
the bed in which his two sons were sleeping.
| No further damage was done.
A Greenfield tMass.) family recently ate a
valuable gold chain and watch belonging 10
the head of the family. The way it hap
pened was that the father, in emptying bag
of corn into the hopper of his mill, let his
watch and chain fall in, too, and they were
ground into meal with the corn.
At Nice there is Russian who made
many millions of Ioubles by railway specu-
lations. He refuses now to go into society.
and receives at his house none but the per-
sons whom he knew in the happy old davs
when he had not a SOU To them he makes
| little presents of 1000 or 1000 roubles. and
! SO on,
AT Lawrenceburg. Ind. novel use was
made of electricity in winding wires around
pretty woman who represented the God
! dess Of Liberty, and thus in lighting up q
number Of incandescent lamps disposed
about her. The current was obtained from
the street mains, and the effect elected the
most enthusiastic applause from the specta'
| tors.