The morning call., 1891-04-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


Over 80. 900 American tourists are doing"
Mexico.
The s-o'clock law is rigidly enforced at
Tecumseh, Kan.
Bellevue Hospital. New York, has turned
out 152 new doctors.
More than $1,000 immigrants landed in
this country last month.
Competent assessors are difficult to secure
in Madison County. Indiana.
Brooklyn, N. Y, has a city nurse. who
cares for all abandoned infants.
1t is said that Mr.. Gladstone reads every
novel published in Great Britain.
A girl in Iowa recently ran away from
home TO avoid practicing on the piano.
A Pennsylvania girl is dead from the eff
fects OF eating three quarts OF peanuts.
The French people are going to erect
monument to Jean Nic0t. who first intro
duced tobacco into France.
train on the New York elevated rail-
way rounded curve so quickly recently
that all the windows were broken.
A New York man has waged $4,000 that
he can eat square meal " every hour for
forty consecutive days.
Benjamin Franklin once remarked that
death by electricity would be the easiest Of
all modes of exit.
A New York boy charges his father with
forcing him to set fire to the tenement-hOu9e
Ill WHICH he llVeu.
An Alderman in GAINESVILLE, Wis. has
been fined S25 for allowing chicken fight
in front OF his place OF business.
A New York magazine-reader has &C
cepted twenty-three out of 1927 poems sub
mitted for publication.
London England woman has arrived
at Sioux Falls. S. OAK, in order to take adj
vantage Of the easy divorce law of that
State.
The Arkansas Legislature has passed
law excluding girls from the State Univer-
sity, to which they have heretofore been
admitted.
In France medical man cannot be COM
PEELED to divulge, even in a court Of law, the
nature of the disease for which he has treated
patient.
With its five faculties and the High School
of Pharmacy the University Of France
counts In Paris more alumni than any other
in the world.
Men and women who leave church as the
collection begins are rarely credited with
sudden illness or the desire to catch any
particular train.
Women and their pet dogs have to be
aienated on shipboard, for on ocean
steamers the line at them is drawn outside
tbs porter's room.
A New York banks vaults have been
fitted up with a combination electric alarm
and fashlight camera that automatically
takes the picture OF The intruder
AT recent church service in New Bed
ford, Mass, The collection amounted to
$4,000. The plates had to be emDtled be-
fore the collectors had gone half their
rounds.
a man in Bloomington, ILL.,, recently gave
$4,000 TO his children, intending to spend
his declining days with them. They ac-
cepted the money, and then had him put in
the pOorhouse.
chicLnp Nua Couptv Gala
legs growing out of its back. 1t gets around
lively in its upside-down fashion, Hopping
over on its breast when it wants to PICK up
grain OF corn or worm.
NJ. Damoiseau has invented a camera to
take panoramic views. 1t is made to turn
on its axis so truly that the picture of The
entire strip OF sensitive paper is said to be
| perfectly clear in its details.
David Lewis, Duluth pressman, has been
notified that he has fallen heir to q fifth ill.,
| terest in $50. 000,0 600 estate in Portsmouth,
| England. The fortune is left to Lewis by
his grandfather on his mothers side.
Ernest HOrnung, the new Australian
writer, whose work is becoming very popu-
lar in England, has not yet reached the age
of q. He began to write stories in despair
| of making success in mercantile life.
| The late Lawrence Barrett served with
| McClellan's force on the peninsula, and was
| stationed at Fortress Monroe and took part
| III LH6 OastlC VI Il Jul dlleT WHICH
| he resigned his commission as Captain.
A Vermont woman who married the MUIR
| derer of her first husband within twenty
| four hours after the crime was committed
| now seeks a divorce. Husband No 2 is
serving life sentence Of imprisonment
Colonel Yerger Of Texas, who is very
| absent-minded, Is said to have remarked to
one 81 his children who entered his library
to bid him goodnight: 'Never mind, now
tomorrow morning Will do just as well.'
The wel-known London fnancier, Mr..
Horniman, recently gave a dinner at the
Hotel Melropole in that city which cost
nsary $4,000. The butterflies presented to
each guest as souvenirs alone cost S12, 500
The authorities at Paris, France, are put
ting cremation to effective USE Since the
establishment of the crematorium at the
Cemetery Pere-la-Chaise more than 1900
unclaimed bodies have been disposed Of
in it.
Miss J. B. Amsden. a veteran school
teacher, is dead at Chicago, aged 81 years.
She had pursued her vocation for over sixty
years in New England and Florida. but re-
tired about six years ago and had since re-
sided in Chicago.
A superior quality Of clay for the manu-
facture of pressed brick, thing aud paving
brick has been found in large quantities
near Keokuk. Iowa. A company will be
organized which will commence the manu-
facture on large scale.
The three cities of Hankow, Wuchang
and Hanging, at the head of large steamer
navigation on the Yangtze River, China, are
said to be as near to each other as New
York, Brooklyn and Jersey City, and con-
tain about the same population.
1t is estimated by Vanity Fair that Queen
Victoria's little excursion to the Mari thine
Alps will cost about $4,000. The matter is
put in the hands of the director of Her
Majesty's continental journeys, who auditS
the bills, which the Queen herself never
sees.
In Dunkirk, n. Y, a constable has just
been elected who will give trouble to the
lawyers. In making the subpenas and re-
cording service of summOnses they will be
compelled to write the name of Peter
BrxuszkiewiZz without making an illegal
error.
A Valley Springs Is. d. man recently
had his upper lip shorn, and his young wife
almost cried herself sick. She had an idea
that it required SIX or seven years to grow
this hirsute adjournment and wept because
she did not want to wait so | ng before she
could enjoy the luxury Of the muStache
kiss.
An illustration of true Hindoo polteness:
A judge, who was very bad shot, had been
out for days sport, and on his return the
man who went out with him WAS asked {:
"Wel, how did the judge shoot to-day ?"
"Oh," he replied, "the judge shot beauti-
fully. but God was very merciful to the
birds"
Brigadier- General Hannibal Day of Nor
ristOwn, n. D., said to be the oldest officer
in the army, is dead, aged 81. He was a
graduate of West Point and served with dis
tinction in the Mexican War, but having
been in the service the prescribed forty
years was retired on the breaking out of the
Rebellion.
at watering place in the Pyrenees the
conversation at table turned upon won-
derful echo to be heard some distance off
on the Franco-Spanish frontier. at is as
tonishing," exclaimed an inhabitant of the
Garonne. AS soon as You have spoken
you hear distinctly the voice leap from rock
to rock, from precipice to precipice, and as