The morning call., 1891-09-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

William Butcher. colored, Is dead in New
York at the great age of 1l6 His wife died
at 10.
Russia's oldest inhabitant is aged 124. His
name is Nitchinorenko. and he lives at Bell
gored.
At Gloucester, n. j.. man with one arm
plays his fiddle by placing the bow under
his knees.
yandalia and St. Elmo, H.. have an cpl
demc of scarlet fever. and many children
have died.
The life-guards at Atlantic City are hence
forth TO get a salary large enough to Keep
them alive
A Bath (lIe) man recently shaved himself
in his sleep as neatly as barber could have
done the job. =. g..
A Kansas City policemen's star stopped
bullet that otherwise would certainly have
entered his heart.
A recent suicide at Manchester, n. H.
ignored his wife and three children and left
his fortune of $1,000 to his laundress.
A Johnstown Pa.) man made his boy
present of a rifle, and the first act Of the
youngster was to fatally shoot his younger
brother.
A farmer near Garden City, Kans., at
tackled column of grasshoppers with sew
enty turkeys, and was soon master OF the
situation.
|. A Crawford County Qowa) lawyer is
going to make trip around the globe. He
has constructed a boat of his own, which
will be tried on Wall Lake before he starts
out.
About $500 worth of pearls have been
found IN Cedar River, Iowa, within three
| weeks. The fishers opened 10000 clans,
| the first 1000 OF which failed to- yield single
pearl.
The three highest officials of an Eastern
railroad have been arrested at Indianapolis
for bagging twenty-five prairie chickens in
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each bird.
It seemed as If New York was on fire in
1852 The thermometer ranged from 90 10
81 degrees for five or six days. During the
week 214 persons were killed IN that CITY by
sunstrOke.
There is man In New Bedford, Mass.
who read the Bible through for the first time
in 1903, and since then he has read itnnety-
nine times. He usually can finish it in about
ten months.
The taxpayers OF Kansas City, enraged
at the passage of an ordinance that looked
like steal, swnOped down upon the Mayor
and City Council the other night and made
it warm for them.
Bangor (Me,) men who cannot take a
vacation settle down to business in the fore
noon, and after dinner enjoy themselves by
bagging plover, which are unusually plentl-
ful IN the vicinity
There is an immense garden in China that
al area VI Ou,UOU SQttaI6 1lllbS- Az
is all meadow land, and is filed with lakes,
ponds and canals. Altogether it is as large
as the States Of New York and Pennsyl-
yanla combined
A lovely dress at recent flower ball was
pansy gown. It was made of pale lilac
crepe, bordered deeply around the skirt
with rich purple pansies, the corsage front
covered with them, and q wreath of the
same flower on the head.
The prospect of a home on the part of tho
average New York WOrkingman is hope
less one, unless he gets out into some sub
urb, The census shows that out of 1,600,000
people in thecity, 200, 900 live in tatss ten-
ements and b0ardiHg-houses.
Mrs. Ialaprop chooses her words well
sometimes. The rain was falling in tor
rents as she left church one Sunday lately
without an umbrella How irrigating this
is! she cried in yeXed tome, as she
placed her handkerchief carefully over her
bonnet.
at o recent fashionable suburban wed.
ding two large palms, nearly sixteen feet
tall, were placed on either side of the cham
eel gate, and the bride and groom stood
while the ceremony was performed beneath
the canopy formed by theig INTERVIEWING
branches. 80
4 Burlington IN. j. man placed bouquef
OF flowers on tie grave of the wife of an
other man. " no StrenuouSly objected to the
gift as the donor was not even an ac-
beaten that he lies IN acritical condition,
and his assailant is held under 500 bonds.
A correspondent of newsp paper in Bos-
ton wants the State to go into the insur-
ance business, and TO make insurance
compulsory upon a married man who can
pass the. requisite physical examination.
He might 20 step farther and make the
state insure those who are physically dis
abed.
Little Jennie Turner, the Chicago baby
smoker" whose story has been going thee
rounds OF the press for some time past, is
slowly dying from acute nicotine poisoning
and tobacco heart. His parents are under
arrest The maximum penalty TO which
they are subject is $500 fine aud years i'm
| pris0nment.
A Branchville On. j. boy owes his life TO
an attempt to perform a post-mortem ex-
animation, the doctors supposing him TO be
dead. He had been bitten by rattlesnake,
and revived at the firstin6ision OF the knife
| ResteraIiyes being applied, he Is now get
ting well. The case has attracted wide.
spread attention, and hundreds of people
| have ffoeked to see the person who had such
| a narrow escape from being buried alive.
:
II FEEL that cannot praise Hoods sarsaparilla
half enough" says a grateful mother whose little
son was almost blind from scrotuln and was cured