The morning call., 1891-10-24
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


at Moberly, Mo-, the other day was water
melon.
Newport r. l., is talking of a monument
to William Ellery, one of the signers of the
Declaration of Independence.
The British museum is gathering stu
pendous collection of newspapers. Addl-
tions for one single year comprise 170, o3o
numbers
Montana cattle shipments for this year are
1872, GOO head, of which $1,000 head have al
ready been marketed. Tney average the
ranchman $35 per head.
Gladwin County, Mich, boasts of having
the larges. frame barn in the world. 1t Is
156 feot long, 80 feet wide, and in ITS con-
slruction 500.0 600 feet Of lumber were used.
A recently deceased resident of EldOn.
Iowa, aged 81, thrice married, was the father
Of thirty-one children, twenty-eight Of whom
survive him. He had been a Freemason for
sixty years.
In the village of Rio Grande. six miles
north of Cape May, N. j., there are two
weeping trees from the limbs of which rain
falls to the ground daily, and the hotter the
day the heavier the fall Of moisture.
1t Is a problem to figure out who most
needs compulsory education and q good
spanking, the boy who runs away and gets
married or the minister who ties such green
twgs together for the So or whatever he
may get.
IDt uEOuBuI Is lHaklUS sdu UdVUC Win IuO
trout streams of Southeastern New Hamp-
shire. Brooks are drying up and FISH are
dying fast. AS the trout are spa wing,
there will be very few Young fish for an
other year.
English capitalists are looking after the
coming city of Tallapoosa, Ga. Their agents
are making investigations that may result in
the expenditure of several millions OF dol
lars Ill manufacturing enterprises and pub
lie Improvements.
A singular case came to light recently of
an old-ttme contract in SacO, Me. A lessee
OF farm of a SaeO man was to give him
half the proceeds. AT the end of the year
tile mans wife came down and brought two
cats as the Saco mans share.
In the Partisan cemeteries it is customary
to place metal boxes ON the tombStones.
Each box has a slit Cd the top, and in it
visitors drop their cards. Inc relatives can
thus see the names of persons who cherish
the memory Of the deceased.
Massachusetts, undoubtedly lives up to her
ries as all the States put together. Sixty
memorial buildings have been erected, and
the sum of So, 500,0 900 has been given out
right by individuals for them.
Laborers receive only So cents day in
Central and South America. An American
cannot live on this sum there. Laborers
should take note of this fact and stay at
labor in the southern countries.
An enthusiastic Pittsburg man travelling
on bicycle through Virginia writes: You
just ought to see those Virginia girls. They
are daisies, and no mistake-plump, rosy
and jolly and as suciable as if they had been
raised on the same square with YOU"
One of the queereSt elopements on record
was that Of married man with a sixteen
year-0ld girl at Salna, Pa. The girls
mother objected to his attentions to her, and
going To the house he held the old lady while
the girl at his command packed her clothes.
Edward Shannon of Pittsfitld, Mass, is
dead, aged IO2. When he celebrated his
one hundredth birthday he surprised his
friends by dancing lively Irish jig. He
was able to read, his hearing was good aud
his health excellent TO the time of his death.
The British debt is so large that if it were
divided into 81 notes they would completely
cover the State of Ohio three times over. Ii
paid in penny-pieces, and each cent piled
one above the other, 1t would mako seven
columns Of that coin reaching to the moon.
The last season at Saratoga, n. Y, has
been the most successful since the memora-
BILE summer of 1888. For some time during
August the propretors of many of the hotels
gave up sending amnibuses to the depot be-
cause of their inability to house more guests.
In sinking plumb lines down shafts the
accuracy of the work is often seriously im-
paired by spiders attaching their webs to the
lines and drawing them toward the wall,
often with sufficient tension to introduce
material errors in the position Of the plumb
DobS.
When a Chinese comp0sitor sets type he
places them in wooden frame 22X15 inches.
This frame has % grooves, each for a liue of
type, and the type rests in clay to the depth
OF quarter of an inch. The type are of
wood, perfectly square. and the compositor
handles them with pincers.
The Boston Judge who has incurred seri-
GUS cenSure by presiding over a recent po-
lltIcal gathering, is the gentleman who once,
as candidate for office, began his speech
with ~ GU are, most of you, familiar with
the sound of my voice." Yes" the reply
came back from the floor, 1920 and costs"
Continental rules for lawn tennis. which
Is becoming popular, are very rigid in regard
to costume. At Wesbaden a man cannot
play without a collar to his shirt Bare
arms are looked upon with disfavor. and a
ball that accidentally flies out OF ground and
hits Il spectator is sure to raise tremendous
indign alton.
A farmer near Columbus, Ca, has two
turkey hens and one gOhbler. The hens
made nests about seventy-fve yards apart
in melon patch and went to setting. The
g0bbler got lonesome and concluded that the
proper thing for him to do was 10 set also.
He got an equal distance between the TWO
turkey hens, squatted over guinea water
melon aud set SIX weeks before he was dis
covered.
Some young farmer boys at Wnbraham,
Mass, tired of the usual humdrum agricul-
tural fair, have organized society and will
give an exhibition after their own thinking
on Friday Of this week. The President of
tie society is 16 and the Secretary II. Sev-
eral men prominent in local agricultural
circles have been invited to attend and it
looks as though the young society would
have good start.
Anna Hohenforst aged 10, of Hoboken,
n. j., recently ate raw ham and died in two
or three days from trichinosis. The other
members of the family ate of the same ham
after it was cooked and were not affected
at all. This is another lesson Of experience
which teaches tile value of cooking thor
oughly all that we eat, whether it be pork,
beef or vegetable. if we would not suffer
from the parasi.ical life 1t is apt to contain.
The characteristic curiosity of woman
at Sedalia, Mo-, induced her to conceal her
self on the roof of building during the
session Of secret order to observe an ini-
tiaton through the skylight She betrayed
herself by an unucky sneeze, but escaped
over tho adjoining roofs. The Knights of
Pythlas, United Workmen and Masons use
the same nall, and the opinion prevails that
the woman is well up in the mysteries of
these SocletieS.