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

cellars.
The warmest place in Europe is said to be
! Malaga.
The rabbit excels all other animals IN en-
| during cold.
The Notorious tea-store is a Philadel-
! phia institution.
! The population of Alaska, as per corrected
| returns, is $4,000.
Illinois has 100000 in its Treasury and
| is tree from debt.
The only occupant of the jail at NeWfane,
| VI, at present is woman.
There is an average of 1854 ties to mile
| OF railroad in this country.
| Women are exclusively employed in the
| hand-weaving OF Turkey carpets.
A sensational novelist in New York turns
| out four novels year for $4,000.
| About 700 New Workers have succumbed
to the grip In the past two mouths.
| To make one pound of honey the bees
must visit from 80, 600 TO 200 900 flowers.
Washington, d. c., is the only large city
III the country that has no factory girls.
Some animals, supposed to be wild cats,
are killing off the pigs about Franklin, Conn
Three Berlin pokeI-players sat thirty
seven hours at game without Interrupt
! ton.
An Atchison girl who is soon to be mar
ried Will pay the expenses OF the wedding
tour.
The Union Dime Savings Bank, New York,
! recovered at law 500 oVeTpald woman de-
! p0sitor.
Dense smoke from the far-otf Michigan
| fires is said to have spread over part OF
Georgia.
John Browns oldest son, who is a grape
! grower OF Kansas, will not sell his fruit for
wine-making.
A farmer in Chase County, kans.. has a
! cornheld In which the rows are three-hIthS
! Of mile long.
Gastritis, the result of Overindulsence in
/ lce-crean, has caused the death OF Cam
den IN. ~ boy.
London has muscular thief who has
! pleaded guilty to stealing the entire plant OF
printing office.
| Pleasantylle, n. j., is 0Yerrun with
| snakes, which were driven out u the woods
! by the forest fires.
! WelIsville, n. Y, has an anti-treating So
| ciety, composed OF the most prominent buSl-
ness men OF the town.
! 1t is estimated that the loss from forest
| fires IN Michigan ana Wisconsin this spring
| Will amount TO SS,000,000.
There is church building in New York,
every inch Of the front OF which Is concealed
by luxurious growth Of ivy.
The grave dug TO receive the body Of
! William Z. Weldner of Lehgh County, Pa,
! was ii Ieet long and 9 feet wide.
| L mere - great Ueinduu IUG leuldl6 pnNo!-
| clans In Bosnia, the MoSlem women rtIuS-
ing to be treated by male doctors.
Peter Hart, the oldest oil-well shooter in
! Pennsylvania, has been blown to atoms by
the explosion Of a can of nitro glycerne
Mrs. Polly HOXe of North Adams, Mich,
is 93 years old, reads and sews without
| glasses, and has just finished crazy quilt.
An EDglishman will soon visit this coun-
! try To dispose OF his rights to penny-n-
! inp-SlOt library "A
| novel.
A veteran Of the war has just died in New
! York vino carried two bullets with hun to
| his grave, but who refused to apply for
! pension.
the venerable Dan Rice has opened his
circus in Brooklyn, and is dslighting the
| audiences with his quaint old-tlme remlEls-
cenceS ana Jests.
No less than 10000 pictures were rejected
! this year by the Sc ectiUn Committee Of the
British Royal Academy. Most of them
! were hOpeleSsly bad.
Water power has been utilized to operate
! the dynamOs OF the electric street railway III
! Watertown, n. Y, which opens up new pos
! sl6illtes in tais line.
! a Sunday school convention, that met at
| Lakep0rt, n. y, decided that the novels Of
| h. /. Roe are unfit for circulation among
| Sunday-school children.
y mammoth king snake with a double
| StTausstown, Berks County, Pa. for many
| years, has just been seen again.
The women Of all the Protestant churches
| OF 81. Paul, Mimi, have begun concerted
| movement against Sunday amusementS, at
lacking first the Sunday theaters.
| In France successful experiments have
! been made with sulphate of iron and with
| sulphate of copper, lime and water as a
! spray IN preventing potato disease.
German papers express alarm at the
| spread If lrrelisIOn IN the fatherland. Hun
| dIeds OF thousands Of the population re-
! ceiye neither baptism nor confirmation.
! \ law recently passed in Denmark pro-
| viueS that all drunken persons shall be
taken home In carriages at the expense OF
| the landlord who sold MIN the last glass.
Three hundred girls and 100 men have be-
! come enforced oilers by the burning OF a
! butteT-dish factory at Anderson, Ind. Some
| of the girls narrowly escaped with their
| lives.
| A goblet Of hot water taken Just after ris
| ing before breakfast, has cured thousands
| of indigestion, and no simple remedy is more
widely recommended by physicians to dys-
! peptics.
! Church service by telephone NAV now he
| heard IN Birmingham, England. Transmit
! tiers are placed OH the pit and in such si-
| uAtlOns that the communion service may be
! audible.
A farmer near Bloomfield, Conn, awoke
| one morning to find that a hill twelve f.
| high had Sunken during the night sew
inches. Since then the mound has ent
disappeared.
The Press Club of Brussels irt
| give medieval tourney, with
| appurtenances, knights in arm0r
| arms, galleries with ladies',
| horses, and the rest.
William w. Wheildon an
| cord, Mass, who eelebra
wedding twelve years