The morning call., 1891-03-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ITEMS OF / TER EST.
The Tower Of Babe vas blllt 2247 years
| b. G.
Twenty-soven railroads terminate in Chi
| cago.
The winter just ended in Iceland was the
mildeSt ever known.
The first coming of silver done Mt R0ms
| was 10 the year 269 Is. G.
Sulla conquered Athens in Sc 3. c., and
sent Its valuable Libraries to Rome
The canal between tina Nile and the Red
Sea was commenced By King Neeho in 6lo
! BE-.
The Bell telephone patent soon expires 10
England. In the United States it runs until
1893.
Scientists have demonstrated that it Is
| possible to change every gas into liquid
| form.
Japan's first Parliament contains eleven
Christians, one of whom is the presiding
officer.
a Wichita (Kans.) yoqngster. aged two
and a half years, knows eli the letters ana
figures.
Tyre and Egypt were conquered by the
Macedonian Prince in the year 81 B G.,
and Alexandria was built.
The biggest insect OF il Kind in tlls
world is the hercules Destle OF nvnth
America which grows TO be six inches In
| length.
The most expensive street-ear in the
world is owned by the Scott Eleetric Rail-
way Company of Cleveland The car cost
| $4,000.
a Kansas woman began saving dimes a
year and and half ago, and she broks ii'r
bank open the other day and counted oas
Sl1S 70.
A soldier in the battle Of Wounded Knee
who was shot from arm pit to aym pit
| through both lungs is as well to-day as lie
| ever was.
Two Enterprises homesteaders in COLI
RADIO solo II completely furnished house the
other day, hauling 1t fourteen miles - land
OF their own.
Greenfield, Ohio, is all astir over lhe Wis
itation of a strange aOparitiOn IN : CART
of a woman dressed in black making fts aD-
| pearance about midnight.
Missouri man has gone before the Leg
isl"ture OF that State advocating the intro
Guctlon and passage of q bill compelling the
Keepers Ct railroad restaurants to date their
pies.
ingenious engineers sug2es. that the
artesian wells may be deyrlOped by means
OF electrical appliances into a poWeTfh!
and cheap source Of almost uHiiDlted
power.
Mrs. Erastus D. Williams OF Athens, Me-,
has NOT spoken aloud for nearly three year,
till within TWO weeks before her husband,
death, which occurred recently, her voice
came again.
A Spectator in Oronogo, jasper County,
Md, advertised himself as lack buyer,
meaning zinc ore. Imagine his aStoHisi-
ment when he had four carloads 81 asses
shipped TO him.
A Union veteran OF harloste, n ., VINO
applied for a FEEDER pension in 1851. re-
ceiyed word last weak that it had been
granted. 1t will be Q no use to him, as 5e
died the next day iitsr the news came 70
| him.
1t is authoritative gwen out that En-
| glsh society has exp lsgi TIE word lady"
from its vocabulary. Hencei0rward, IN p0-
lite conversation, oIly the good. PLAIN aad
unmlstakable word WUHaH" Will b. used
In reference to the sly
One Of the two chl upanzees at the Paris
Jardin d'Acelimitat a, inocculated with
kOchS lymph, died fty-elght hours after
tine operation. The lungs OF the creature
were sent TO the Abort School Of Medicine
TO be carefully examined.
The people of st Petersburg seem to get
a good deal of fun ont Of the long, cold
! winters. AT recent aristOcratic ba.is ice
| statues of celebrities have Osen the fdshion-
| able decorations. Famous sculptors did not
disdain to try their skill Ia this line.
An interesting curlo sold at the Bfaytol-
Ives sale was 1awless crystal bali. 57-I09
inches in diameter. In japan such spheres
are objects Of worship, aud those five inches
in diameter are exceedingly rare aud costly.
This one is tlawless AID sold for $500.
Lady TennySoD. who is known to Be an
excellent amateur musician, Is about n
make her first appearance as q COMPOSER
She has at various times during tho PISS
qnarter of eentuiy written melodies TO no
fewer than fifteen of tle Poet Laureate'st
hitherto unpublished poems.
Captain Steigena Of Holland, Mich, hasa
big company of ID itch boys drilled entirely
after the tactics CT the army in which he
served-that of the Netherlands. 1t has Sc
nurad full pOuiDmqnk of arms frO,u Tho
Government and may attend the next en-
campment as a separate affair.
A Teesvile MO- woman was sitting in IA
wagon watching her son cut down a tree.
| The tree fell toward the wagon aud the boy
called 10 his mother 10 get out OF tie way.
| She seemed unable TO move. The Eree
cras he'd down just behind the wagf wtl-
out touching Mrs. Trollinser, but 90 iel!
over dead
the Car of Russia has as members oil his
court II officials II the first grade, ard lIenf
the second grade, 10 masters OF eeremaaies,
8 acting" masters, ia chgmberiains aud
25S pages in waiting. There are % physl-
clans, "a ecclesiasiics, 8 danes OF state, l
mistress of the ccnrs, maids Of the CHAIR
beers and 1913 maids OF honor.
A Southern ga6ins has male out OF a stry-
goods box a clock that keeps thirteen differ
ent times with perfect accuracy. Il shows.
the time in Atlanta. San Francisco Cairo.
Egypt; Shanghai, China; Parts, France
Quebec, Calauass MtiD0urne, Australia,
City of Mexico; DabNn, Ireland; Berlin,
Germany, ana Rome In Italy.
The Minnesota Legislative Committee on
Expenditures unearlhed peculiar fraud.
1t was found that Il had cost the Siaie
$4,000 the last season for wolf bounties, S.
| being allowed for each scalp. Inquiry a.
| veloped the fact that regular wolf farms
| existed in the Northern counties of the STATE
where wolves were raised in large numbers
The locality eleven miles above uawkius-
vile, Ga, was visited by a strange phe-
nomenon recently DetW cen aud O'Clock
something having every appearances OF small
sparks of fire was observed to be falling
| from the clouds. 1t came down and drifted
| about like snowhakes, and when caught IN
| the hand was found TO be phosphorescent
| substance of some kind.
People who are fond OF taking medicine
| may crafty their taste and put money in
| their pockets at the same time. A honeo-
| pathic college pays persons TO take drugs
and keep record OF their effect These
| drug-takers must be sound in health and
| not habitual users of tobacco. tea, coffee OF
| alcoholic stimulants. For CONVEX
stomachs into laboratories the
As they are called, receive s.
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