The morning call., 1891-05-24
ITEMS OF INTEREST,
Brief and Newsy COMBINATIONS From All
Over the World.

| Brief and Newsy COMBINATIONS From All
! Over the World.
| One way to make time fly is to iudorse
| thirty-day note.
1t is said that $1,000 Chicago families
| changed their abode on May LIST.
Tony Pastor was the clown in a circus
| which showed at Detroit in 1913.
Admission to the Philadelphia Zoo has
| been reduced from % cents to 10 cents.
Nearly 100000 Goldfish are annually
| caught off the banks Of Newfoundland.
| A set of twins weighing less than five
| pounds have been born at St. Joseph. Mich.
The longest name in the Bible is Mar
harshalal hash baZ. 1t occurs in Isaiah
| Wis.
Switzerland is the only country in the
world which grants no patents for inYen-
! tons.
| An Arkansas town has been sued by
man who caught the smallpox within its
| borders.
OF the II. 600 square miles in Africa,
| only 2,500,000 remain in the hands Of the ma
| tive rulers.
A woman smoking a cigar on the street
J created tremendous sensation IN Cincin-
| natl recently.
| A Nebraska man, bitten by a mad dog,
| saved his life.
A Madison Qnd) compositor has worked
| continuously upon paper OF that town for
| forty-tye years.
A Philadelphia woman complains that her
| husband allows her only 10 cents day 10
| keep house with.
Dr. Bridgmau, New York clergyman,
has resigned his pastorate because he can
not believe In he'll.
The income derived by the French people
who rear. fowls is, according TO returns,
about S335, COG, 900.
During one day the human body generates
enough heat to melt forty pounds OF Ice aud
raise it to boiling heat.
A canary bird in Florida, which escaped
from LIS cage, returned voluntarily alter an
absence Of three weeks.
Jack the Dnde-kicker " is a st. Louis
character who assaults fanclIullY dressed
young men on the street.
A murder trial at Denver, Colo, has en-
tered upon its third month. The lawyers
have just begun to sum up.
A girl at PittSburg, Pa, ran away from
home because she loved children anu wanted
to live in children'S hospital.
1t is said that were proper sanitary pre-
cautions employed in Great Britain fully
250,0CO lives could be saved annually.
Two attorneys at ST. Joseph, Mo-, who
are associated in business, nave both been
retained In suits against their fathers
a heated discussion on religious Subjec's
terminated in free-for-all fight among tue
prisoners in the AtchiSon (Kans.) jail.
A woman can always understand why
man should fall in love with her, tut she
finds it difficult TO explain why he should fall
out.
A young woman at West Union, Ohio,
has found an expensive ring in a pan
of c0rnmeal. How it came there is a mys-
terry.
Nearly 5000 pieces are required in the con-
structon of a modern locomotive. 1t takes
an ingenious man TO properly put them TO-
gether.
Mr.. Razor is the suggestive name OF a
Hannibal MOI man who has been arrested
with the darky's favorite weapon concealed
in his bootleg.
All the saloon-keepers of Beloit, Wis,
have closed their places and have either
left town or are preparing to engage in
other business.
An Italian cook at Galesburg, ILL.,, has
fallen heir 10 two fortunes, left him by his
father and aunt respectively. The amount
aggregates $4,000.
Investigation Into the case of Burlington
IN. ~ man charged with horrible crime
proves that it was the work Of his wife, who
wants TO be rid of him.
A Cory (Pa.) policeman, who cannot read,
received an order from his chief 10 retain u
certain prisoner. The latter translated the
note, substituting release" for RETAIN"
and was Immediately given his freedom.