The morning call., 1891-11-21
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

very handsome ana unique appearance
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Amercan-made shot-guns are greatly in
| demand abroad.
The African boabab tree lives to be thou
| sands OF years old.
France possesses 1100 mineral springs, oil
| which over 1000 are utilized.
A swarm of flies cannot travel at any
! greater pace than eleven miles an hour.
The child Queen of Holland recently
| held doll while receiving q foreign minis
| ter.
a tunnel which will cost $3.50, 900 is to be
constructed through Carbonate Hill at Lead
vile.
More gold has been obtained from Span.
| iSh America than from any other part OF
| the world.
1t is estimated that the cereal crop OF
| Canada has been damaged fully SIS, goo ,00C
| by insects.
| After man and woman have been mar
ried five Years both claim to have been
| coaXed into 1t,
Sixteen large ears of corn on single
| stalk rewarded Farmer Hiram M. Anders of
| Worcester, Pa,
Separate estate for husband and wife and
| compulsory civil marriage will soon be the
| law in Norway.
An umbrella left at home will produce
more rain than Dyrenforth and Melbourne
| can coax together.
An electrical device now used on vessels
| gives warning when deviatlons are made
| from the proper course.
Alabama is suffering from a water famine
| There are some domestic emergencies where
| whisky will not answer.
Sand bars along the Mississippi afford a
suggestion OF how much real estate aunu .
| ally goes TO ruin in this way
A Saratoga woman whose hair turned
| white when she reached 80 finds now as she
| approaches 20 that II is turning black again.
A physician at Pittsburg is at work upon
| an enormous model Of the human heart,
which VIII be exhibited at the Columbian
| exhibition.
The scarcity of empty beer bottles is
| what they are complaining Of in Wichita,
| Hans. They are in great demand for catsup
| preserving.
The average French family embraces
| three members and the average Irish family
| five. In England the average number OF
| members OF family is four.
Florida will reproduce Fort Marion in ST.
| Augustine harbor for its headquarters at the
| Worlds Fair, and West Virginia will erect
building OF the old colonial type.
Fifty huge chests were required TO trans
| port from Greece to Berlin the superb col
| lection of the relics of Troy LETT by the late
| DR.. Scnliemann TO the Berlin Museum of
! Art
A six-year-old boy Of Trenton, n. j., has
mustache OF good quality and texture,
and The stature of a small man. Being in
| cOrr2lble, he has been sent to a State in-
| stitution.
The discovery of a spring of inflammable
water in Kentucky mas not created much ex-
| citement III the outside world. That State
has long been famous for the production oil
| fre-water.
Mrs. John A. Logan mentions the fac,
| that her distinguished husband fought IN
| the first battle OF Bull Run arraycd in a
| Dlug-hat and a double breasted Prince AL
| bert coat.
The recent invention at Arbon, Swtzer-
! land, OF new steam machine for making
EN- broiderieS, threatens TO rev0lutionize tine
! most important manufacturing interests OF
| tile Swiss Republic.
The vastness of Names timber wealth is
not generally appreciated. Every year &c.,.
| 0C0000 feet of logs are cut in the State,
about one-third of this amount 1oatin ~
| down the Peno bScUt.
Though of noble birth and extremely af-
| fluent III his younger days, john Van Der
berg, Hollander,' recently died in the
| Galena (Lil.) pOorhouse, aged 81. His dis
| soiuie habits were lis ruin.
The story going the rounds chat Mrs.
| General Grant is aging rapid Y is denied by
al Intimate friend. On the contrary it is
| remarkably we'll preserved.
Astronomers have discovered that the
| nagn lhCent star Rigel, in the constellation
| OF Orion. notwithstanding its splendOr OF
| the hrst magnitude, is one Of the farthest of
the stars in tie celestial vault.
1t is stated by the Jewish messenger tina I
| fully three-fOufths oil the Russians Jews
| who come to this country, arriving this year
| at the rate OF 10000 per month, take 10
! Tailoring Ill some OF its forms
Statistics gathered by the Government in
the latter part of 1890 show that the enlisted
soldiers OF The United States Army vary in
| height from minimum OF feet inches ia
a maximum OF feet V inches.
Some valuable improvements have re.
| Gently been effected in the construction of
kmitting-nIachines, the new apparatus being
| provided with unique quarter saver,
| which prevents the goods from running of
| the needles.
| between Milwaukee and Chicago during the
| Worlds Fair at speed of 100 miles an
hour by his new electric motor. BY his in
| ventiOn two pounds of coal will do the
work of six with present appliances. He
| says the plant will not cost as much MS tho
| cable system.
Roswell ?. Flower, Governor-elect of New
| York, is n stuIdily built man of middle
! height, with rotund face framed in closely
clipped black whiskers. He is rising 81.
and Is a plain-mannered, blunt-spoken man.
| He is enormously wealthy, being rated at
| $10,C00,0G0. He is an incorrigible smoker,
and wears Eyeglasses.
| 1t is said that fully 25,000 deaths occurred
| in one OF the recent epidemics of small-pox
| in Guatemala, but Notwithstanding this
| frlghtiul mortality and the frequency of
smallpox Scourges, the Government has
| taken no pains 10 introduce any scheme of
| vaccination, and the State is without anv
| vaccination laws at all.
| John Snowden of West Lincoln. Nebr
| enjoys the distinction Of having robbed a
| burglar. About midnight he was awakened
| by thief opening trunk in his room and
he jumped up and attempted to grab ths
| fellow by the hair. He got his hat instead
| and the burglar jumped through the win
| dow. The hat is worth S.
When Queen Margaret of Italy goes upon
| her climbing tours through the mountains
| OF Gressoney she adopts the costume of the
mountain peasants, which consists of stont
boots, short red skirt and a black bodice.
| This rustic attire suits to perfection her
striking beauty, and it is no wonder thai
the simple country people worship her.
S. T. Sbafer, a young Richmond Va)
| stenographer, made magnificent bicycla
record few days ago. lie travelled from
| Staunton to his home near Harrisonburg. a
| distance of seventy miles, in six hours and
seven minutes, and was almost as fresh on
| the finish as he was when he first started
his wheel IN motion over the rough country
| roads.
| A Missouri couple notified a Justice Of
that State that they would call on him ON a
certain day to be married. They failed to
appear. however, and went to rival JUS
tice and had the knot tied. This so angered
the FIRST Justice that he threatens to brina
suit against the groom for damages and
breach of contract, and says he will make II
| test case.
| AIT