The morning call., 1891-07-24
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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good form.
A recent church fair at Alpena, Mich,
netted $1,000
A Philadelphia dealer sells cigars by the
yard. Pittsburg "stogies," probably.
A Baltimore man, aged So, has never been
out OF employment since he was II years old.
Including the native troops, the English
establishment in India is about 22O, 600 men.
A Brooklyn Ietter-carrer was sent to Jail
for six months for leaving his bag in sa-
loon.
Bridgeport Comm women have threat
ened reporter with.eowhiding if he writes
them up.
A colored man residing near Gainesville,
Ga, recently buried his twenty-second child
He still has five living.
The Governor of Pennsylvania had 1000
applications for positions on the Columbian
Exhibition Committee.
Thirty Of the forty-four States now have
the Aus ralian ballot. The system will GER
tainly have good test.
The electric railway in South ST. Louis
runs an expresS-car to Garry small packages
for suburban residents.
James Wilson of Harmony Road, Pa, dis
located one of the bones of his leg willie
throwing a stone at dog.
An Indianapolis trial has been nulli6edoa
the plea that one of the jurors slept through
out the entire proceedings.
A Plttsburg cOnsunDtiye has been CON-
pletely cured by Koch's lymph and has
sailed for Ireland, his native land.
Silk furnishes the largest continuous fiber
known. One cocoon has been known 10
yield nearly tlree-fourthS OF a mile.
A Washington Ohio man who was "play-
ing drunk" for the amusement of a crowd
suddenly fell dead from heart disease.
A ClOster On. j. man, who stumbled and
fell while in his barn-yard, was attacked b.
vicious turkey which picked his eyes ou'.
Millions upon millions of feet of fiae tim
Der have been cut from the State lands Ia
Wisconsin without the slightest authority.
John Wilson of West Sunbury. Pa, who
died few days ago, was blind from infancy.
but he managed 20 accumulate a fortune Of
$1,000.
A japanese at Toxic has constructed Il
kite 2Tx24 feet, which he intends to fY in
honor OF the visit OF tbs Duke OF Con
naughI.
James Parker, the ffteen-year- old son OF
farmer at Upton, Ind, blew in the muZz,e
of Fife, which exploded, killing him liz
Stantly.
A jamestown Ohio couple were recently
married en- the fair grounds in the presence
Of 10000 people, and received $50 premium
therefor.
A curious instance of animal affection is
instsnced at Mason, Ohio, where hen and
a rabbit have fraternized and refuse To be
separated.
A barrel of 1888 whisky has been un-
earthed at Engli sh. Ind. 1t had been car
rled OF and buried in debris by the Hood ni
that year.
Uncle Sam supplies pillows and mat
tresSeS for the Indians to recline on. They
are furnished To the Indian oifics by
Chicago house.
The explosion of dynamite cartridge to
blow up an old ship near Mobile, Ala, sent
TO the surface a jew fish that weighed more
than 200 pounds.
The British Museum has received Chi
nese bank-note issued from the imperial
mint 500 years before the first use of paper
money IN England.
George w. Bennum of Georgetown, Del,
has sword with a silver hilt which was
made in 1888, and which WAS carried III the
Revolutionary War.
An experienced caterer says that when
the guests at an entertainment are well =
quaInted they eat 20 per cent more THAI
they otherwise would.
An odd invention, manufactured at thu
suggestion OF a New I ork lady, Is an en-
amelsd orange, which opens AMI disclose, =
watch in one half and purse in the uther.
a Cincinnati man whose early mornRs
slumbers are destroyed by the Growing o.
five ROSTERS belonging to a neighbor hd,
sued the latter for maintaining nuisance
A suburban house on the Pennsylvania
Railroad has an odd and novel lawn decOra-
ton. 1t is u brand new wheelbarrow in tbs.
middle oil the grass plat filled with growing
plants.
Singing which throws ont the chest i,
good for the figure; so is walking up and
down the room with light weight on th;
head. This keeps the head up aud the bac.i
straight.
On a large banner erected in front If 4
hall in Springfield, Mass, the other day,
were the somewhat homogeneous word,
Gospel meeting, whatsoever will may come
for men only"
The following is a splendid iniment fnr
chllblainS. One ounce of eamDhor gum
four fluid ounces of olive oil. Dissolve To-
gether by a gentle heat and apply 10 tn.
affected parts.
Twenty-elght members of the New Yorl
Stock Exchange have been fined 81 EACH
for running across the board-rOom floor.
Tho penalty for a repetitio on OF the offens,,
will be So each.
A Memphis man who went fishing came
without bite, but found on his return tina
an obnoxious sutton had captured his four
teen-year-old daughter, who had clipped Yith
the man Of her choice.
a New York dentist who has a rich tenor
voice Sings nursery rhymes and operate
snatches while drawing the teeth of hi
patients. 1t is said that his vocal efforts al.
charged extra in the bill.
1t is a curious coincidence that Massa-
chusetts man named Liberty, arrested for
intoxication, was the first 10 avail himself
of the new law which provides for the d :
charge OF prisoner for the first offeRse.
Lynn, Mass. has bed of peonies, thr
seed Of which was brought from Germany
| $50 years ago. In the early days the Indian ,
| used to come anu trade basket of clam
for one of the flowers to wear in their hair
A lad in the employ of London butch er.
I. H. -
| leather bag containing S150,G00 in bank
notes. The lad placed the property in hi ,
| employers hands to be restored to the
| rightful owner.
A Honesdale Pa.l lady has a full set Of
| carpenters tools, which she uses with re-
markable skill in making useful and orna-
| mental articles for her home, a full set of
/ chairs being among the productions of her
mechanical genius.
| A feeble minded boy about 10 years old.
| who clings to an old clay pipe and seem
very fond of tobacco, is in charge of Sheriff
Brown al Grundy Center, Iowa. He doe
| not know his name or where he is from
| nor does any one else.
| A Detroit man says that he will pay
$4,000 for the privilege of being an Alder
man six months, aud declares he eould
| double his money in that time. This l.
truly nice state of affairs. the man claim
to speak ''by the card"
| y DuIRldr at Florence, D. ", carried OH q
lot of cheap trinkets from a jewelers. stOr.'
and left the diamonds and valuable jewelry
untouched, while from a drugstore ha ali
| stracted nothing but some pdreg0ric and .
bottle OF patent medicine.
| Two men who attempted to blackmail Il
Fort Worth Tex bank cashier were some
| what taken aback when he forced them, al
the mouth Of revolver. to remain quiet uil-
til the arrival of an officer. when the would
be backmaiiers were jailed.
A notire upon the window of north
Georgia Postoffice: when you Kun foI
y ore Male have Pashuns Know Shooiir
around the Postoffise duren buSneis ours BY
oardur of the Postmaster his sine and Sea
Chickens bot on Kommission."
A Ypsilanti (h1ich.) undertaken recently
left some embalming fluid at a no use where
he had made a professional call. The fiui,
was thrown into some food that was FED &c
the pigs. The pen is empty now ana tht
porkers cannot be eaten either.
An indianapolis church has granted 1t
minister, choir and organist a vacation
| fNharp q ra MANY sin aud nloI-ars tbr,u.YI