The morning call., 1891-06-07
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Albany, N Y, will not employ fat fire.
men.
In Paris 200 miles OF streets are bordered
/ with trees.
London has 100000 factory girls getting
| 81 80 week.
Georgia has an ex-Confederate soldier who
enlisted when he was only twelve years old.
| In London one woman in every twenty IS
a pauper, and one in every thirteen is Tilt
crate.
! A Fair Haven Comm woman has been
! detected in the act Of firing her husbands
! store.
! TIE oftener carpets are shaken the longer
| they wear; the dust cuts the nber OF woven
| goods.
Sxty-four earthquakes were felt in Japan
| during March. On March Mst nine shocks
| occurred.
Cattle will hereafter be shipped by weight
on the Pennsylvania Railroad to prevent
crowding.
Historians have ascertained that the one
Quill-driYer with Noah in the ark was
p0rcupine
1t is stated on good authority that only 3
per cent of the cigars smoked in this country
are Havanas.
Two monster turtles, weighing 245 and
80 pounds respectively, were caught near
Baltimore recently.
Eli Aylsworth Of Providence, a banker 80
years of age, is said to be an active and
Keen business man yet.
Wilmington tDel) streets cannot be sprin-
kled between o'clock in the morning and
O'Clock in the evening.
A seventy-year-old New Yorker is in the
Tombs, charged with terribly scalding his
sister with boiling water.
j. Schroth of New Castle, Del, has an
eleyen-month-old duck which laid 104 eggs
In as many consecutive days.
A Texas woman. in her application for
divorce, AYERS that her husband has seven
other better halves, all living.
The hslf-cent, which was coined up to
1857. is worth from 10 cents to $50 each, the
issue of 1896 being the dearest
Dogs must be kept tied up or muZzled.
but the misunderstanding dude is allowed
his liberty. Is this fair TO the dogs?
Any one who has been sealded by steam
should be taken TO warm room and the
scalded parts drenched by cold water.
A Cincinnati divine has come to the de-
Tense of baseball and has preached an elo-
quent sermon upon its moral influence.
A Philadelphia ladder maker has hung
out three-story ladder and labeled it;
"Fire-escape for the use Of the public"
The metal in scent nickel piece is worth
about half a cent, and 15cents will purchase
copper enough to make 81 worth of cents.
The Austrian Government has donated
unemployed Vienna mother-of-pearl work
ers $1,000 to form cooperative company.
A boy was arrested in Philadelphia re-
Gently for stealing his sisters diamond
wedding ring the day before the ceremony.
The Usage Indians are credited by the
Government with SIS. 147, 515, the interest on
which-S407 SITS paid them annually.
There are about 1900 men, women and chill
dren in the tribe.
Cleveland has for years had deaf mute
ON its police force. He has the record of
having been thoroughly efficient officer
and as he cannot hear sound he is obliged
to be more than usually watchful.
In the neighborhood of Damariscotta,
Me-, there are mounds which are estimated
to contain not less than 8,000, 600 cubic feet
Of oyster shells-a lasting monument to the
red mans Partially for erustaceOus food.
A handsome coffee set includes three
pieces, the pot and cream jug in tall, slender
form and a sngar-bOwl with ring handles.
These pieces are in bright finish with
carved borders representing garlands of
flowers.
A Chicago woman who attempted suicide
By jumping from a bridge was saved by her
dress skirt catching on rod In the railing,
holding her suspended head downward.
When rescued she was found to have been
craZed by morphine.
An Atchison woman, who recently inter-
viewed twelve married women on the subject,
mas tnat Tour married 10 escape being old
maids, two married for home, five married
because some other woman wanted their
husbands and one married because she
really thought SO much of her husband that
she could not help herself.
James Jarrett, one of the most prominent
farmers OF Northeastern Georgia, is in a dy-
ing condition. He was poisoned by his
pretty sixteen year-old daughter, Rosa, be-
cause lie whipped her for stealing away to a
ueigbbOring meadow and going to walk with
a sutton. The next day the girl put rat
poison in her fathers s0up-plate.
The managers Of a Brooklyn cemetery
advertise: "Gfaves finely situated sur
rounded by the beauties of nature, COM
handing a fine view Of the bay, and, in
short, meeting every requirement of the
human family. People who have tried
them cannot be persuaded to 20 elsewhere"
A New Orleans woman complains that
her husbands wages are paid in beer tick
cts, the proceeds of which keep him continu-
ally drunk, and that for three weeks he has
not given her dollar for the support of his
family. The employer has been ordered to
pay half of the mans earnings TO his wife in
cash.
At Cereio. W. Va, recently, while a
party Of four was boating, the craft cap
sized, when Miss Mary Shelton. the only
one of the number who could swim, saved
her three companions from drowning as
they were sinking for the last time. All
honor to the brave heroine. who deserves a
silver medal from the Secretary of the
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