The morning call., 1891-05-29
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


The italian navy is supplied with coal
from Pennsylvania mines.
OF the l75, 900 batners who used the Ser
pentine in London last season, but one was
drowned.
\ Philadelphia man has been blood-poi-
sOned, probably fatally, by the bite OF
mosquito.
The period Of a generation is said by a
scientist 10 have increased from thirty TO
f0rty-jwO years.
Washington Ohio women have declared
war upon the posting of Objectionable
shOw-biils and demand their suppression.
A Hamilton (0hiO) woman, convinced
that marriage is a failure, has returned to
her parents after four weeks OF welded life.
Tramps at Radcliffe, Pa, have been ex-
OneTated from being desp0iterS OF many lar
ders by the capture Of q large opOSsum in
the very act.
trial at Pine Bluff, Ark, of a man for
killing hog belonging to a neighbOr has
cost the prosecutor over $1,000. The hog
was worth 81 80
Warkmen engaged in making repairs on
st. Patnck'S Church at PottSYille, Pa,
found siX-f0Ot vein of coal Immediately
under the building.
Charges are preferred against a Cincinnati
policeman for getting shaved While on duty.
The brokers stu go unmolested and the
bucket-shops thrive.
A Michigan woman is under treatment
for hydrODhObia at the Pasteur Institute,
New York, caused by the bite Of goose,
which in turn had been bitten by a mad
dog.
The theater at Savannah, Ga, is said to
be the Oldest playhouse IN the United
States. 1t was built in 1918 on a solid rock
foundation, with walls that are four feet
thick.
jackson, Miss, expects to welcome $4,000
visitors on June 81, when il Will INV il
Confederate marble monument seventy feet
high and bust Of Jefferson Davis, by his
daughter.
So rand is the production of ship rivets
by machinery that one train of rolls feeds
four machines. which turns out sixteen
tons Of TiyetS in twe1ty-fOur hours, the work
going on night and day.
A dress recently bought by the Queen of
Portugal (the daughter of the Comts de
Paris cost $1,000. Il is of blle silk, mag
nitcently embroidered with pearls. The
mantle is of light blue velvet,
NJ. de BricOut, an old-tlme Partisan So
cioty man, Who has just died, was married
three times His first two wives were sis
tiers, and his third their mother. He had
lived IN seclusiOn OF late years.
One Of the census enumeratOrs who was
unable to obtain any information from the
Inhabitants Of one house wrote the whole
and went on his way rejoicing.
A Kansas woman boasts that she never
appeared on the street twice within the
same week in the same dress. Her hu sband
is wearing a suit this spring which he
bought four years ago and hat of the VIM
tage 1885.
An old and wealthy resident Of Anderson.
Ind, IS lying at tho point of death from
bloOd-pOisoning caused by the unprovoked
bite of an old tabby which had been In the
family for years, and which the owner was
caTeSsing.
Good OSier willow beds are very profitable
in England. The kinds of willow plan ted
are usually the common red and white. The
shoots are cut and sold to the basket makers.
A good bed pays at the rate Of from SIS to
$50 per acre.
Cyrus d. Trott and Charlotte Walters, 10
and 10 years respectively at that time, were
married in New York in 1888. Mrs. Wa
tiers, the girl wife'S mother, has begun suit
10 have the marriage annulled on account of
her daughters youth
A trial is soon TO be made of running boats
on the New York canals by means Of
electricity. It is thought the running time
between Albany and Buffalo can be reduced
from seven days to thirty hours. The troll
ley system Will be used.
a Boston girl playing chess with her hus-
band suddenly perceived that her opponent
was about to take her queen on the board.
Selling the threatened piece she flew with it
out the doors and, seating herself on the
steps, refused to give it up.
At a ministerial conference the presiding
officer announced that Elder II. would, at
the afternoon session. read paper on The
Devil" and added: & Please be prompt in
attendance. for Brother II. has carefully
prepared paper and is full OF his subject"
a doctor says that seYenty-fye out Of every
one hundred persons who fall into a physi-
clans hands would get we'll without any
help, and the majority Of the remaining
twenty-five are past all human aid and the
physician gets the blame for not saving their
lives
DR.. Gallinger, the new Senator from New
Hampshire, boasts that he has set type in
nearly every newspaper Office north of
Mason IL DtAOn's line and between Maine
and the Mississippi His political career
| began in 1874, when he was elected to Con-
gress.
The growth of the nails on the left hand
requires eight or ten days more than those
on the right. The growth is more rapid in
children than in adults and goes on faster
in summer than in winter. 1t requires an
average Of 49, days for the renewal of the
nails IN cold weather, and but 116 in warm
weather.
Next year a gentleman So years Of age
will enter the class of "a Of Princeton
College During the civil war lie was a
sophomore in that Institution, but left it to
fight for his country. As he considers that
the late unpleasantness Is about settled
now, he intends TO return aud flush his COL
lege course.
James Crouch Of Stockton, ILL.,, young
railroad man, was recently awarded $4,000
| damages for injuries received. He secured
the money. paid his lawyer $1,000, and came
| 10 FTeepOrt with the remainder. Here he
fell in with gamblers. and in one hour after
the railroad man bought his first chip he had
but $500 left.
Mrs. Whitman, who was visiting relatives
near Milan, Tenn, had been complaining of
ill-health for some time, deliberately satu-
rated her clothing with kerosene aud APP
| piled match. Before assistance could be
rendered she was burned to death. She is
is the fourth Of five children who have COM