The morning call., 1891-09-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A German factory supplies all of the
chemically pure sugar that is used in the
world.
1t is remarkable fact that the most quar-
relsome woman in Atchison, Kansas, Is en-
tirely deaf.
No less than thirty different patents have
been issued in the United States on UNI
brellas in the last ten years, but none OF
them have been accepted by maker or
buyer.
MIR. Bright, an English grocer Of Maiden.
weighed GIG pounds, aud an lrlshma II.
Roger Byrne, who died in 1904, was several
stones heavier than the celebrated Mr..
Bright. MIR. Spooner OF Tamworth, though
of medium height, weighed $50 pounds.
Charlottesville Qnd.) boys are seized with
the balloon parachute business, and cats are
daily sent up, the parachute being arranged
so that 1t Will detach itself from the balloon
five minutes after the latter is afiOat The
cats are not taking kindly to this aeronautic
mania.
Five hundred former officers of the army
have sent in applications from all parts OF
Germany to join the expedition of Oscar
Borchert, whose purpose it is. in connection
with Dr. Peters, to establish ship-bulldlng
yard on the western shore OF the Victoria
Nyanza.
The greatest gambling ever seen by
Fannie Is. Ward, the South Am erican
woman traveller. was on steamer between
COpiapO and Talcahuano, when a pros
pector who bad ''struck it rich" in the
copper mines Of Atacama lost $50, 600 IN
single night.
The only volunteer regiment mounted on
bicycles is the Twenty sixth MiddleseX
cyclists, an English organization at Chelsea.
All volunteer battalOns in Great Britain.
however, are said TO have cycliSt sections.
The whole number OF military wheemen in
the kingdom is stated to be over 5000.
A Brooklyn man who year ago found
quite a large sum of money on the big
bridge has been awarded he same by the
bridge authorities, no claimant having APP
peared. According to the law, IL the owner
of lost articles is not found in year and a
day, the finder is entitled to the property.
Probably the most remarkable railroad in
the world is that running from Gloggntz to
L0uneriug. near Vienna. 1t Is only % miles
in length, but cost $4,000, 600. 1t begins at
at an elevation of 400 feet and has its ter
minus at 1900 feet. 1t has 10 double via
ducts, II tunnels and crosses itself times.
There is Chicago ordinance that no
vehicle can be run on the boulevards unless
there is a woman on board. Hence the new
company organized to run Columbian
coaches on those thoroughfares say they
will have woman conductor on each
vehicle SO as not to run the risk OF violating
the law.
Gladwiu County. Mich. boasts of having
the largest frame DaTu III Lnb WOTlu. IL IS
$50 feet long, 50 feet wide, the structure is
three stories high. and is 70 feet from the
base to the apex OF the roof. In its con-
struction 100000 feet of lumb $4,000 shin
giles, 800 braces and $50 beams and posts
were used.
printer named Mack entered the sales
room of the American Tract Society in
New York the other day and stole new
bible. People familiar with the frater-
nitv will agree that MI. Mack was irrespon-
sible at the time, and as the printers never
drink it was probably temporary insanity,
he mistaking the good book for ''phat
take"
A young woman at Cincinnati thought
she would commit suicide and gave friend
some money to defray her funeral charges.
She changed her mind about the suicide
and then demanded her money back. The
friend declined TO refund and insisted on.
keeping the money for the purpose in
tended, but the court has decided that she
must give it up.
The Presbyterians of Millville. n. j..
have broken open l2S little barrels in which
had been deposited the spare niekes and
dimes of the Sunday-school children during
the past year Five hundred and one dol
lars were counted out, and will be applied
TO their new church fund. Seventy five bar
rels are veto be turned inside out. The new
building will be commenced at once and
will cost S31, 600.
A young wife in Georgia is about to sue for
divorce on the ground of violation OF the
marriage contract. She alleges that when,
before marriage she told ner sweetheart
she was willing to share his poverty and
live on bread and water, he pledged his
sacred honor that If she would furnish the
bread he would hustle around and get the
water. And so they were married: but
hardly was the honeymoon ended before
the collector came around and cut off the
street pipe for nOn-payment Of the water
rent.
A man in Jefferson County, Ohio, who
had sick cow, wanted to get her up. Not
being able to do so with his strength he
fixed blanket under her, attached his
hay carrier and hitched on his old horse.
which had not forgotten the distance he
had to 90 to deliver the hay and didn't
propose to stop short He drew the COW up
to the top of the barn, where the track
carried her over an empty NOW, when the
blanket gave way and dropped her on the
empty logs, breaking every bone IN her
body.