The morning call., 1891-11-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

London has taken up the American craze
Of roller-Skatlng.
The British army contains over 1000 men
over six feet in helgth.
Tuckerton. Pa, is to have a vinegar vat
that Will hold 1000 barrels.
A cyclone is like three girls walking
abreast-it doesn't turn out for anything.
A woman Can change her mind a dozen
times while she is changing her dress once.
The grip has again invaded several Con-
nectlcut towns, having assumed the form Of
AL epidemic.
A Morrice (NIieh.) lady. after catching a
trap full OF flies, walked 10 the front gate
and let them 20.
Being afraid OF fire and birthstone may
make some people behave themselves, but
IL does not make them love each other.
A plucky woman at Clarksburg, w. Va,
few days ago routed burglar by deluging
him with boiling water from a tea-kettle.
fashion authority says you cannot al
ways tell man by his clothes, but you can
invariably judge gentleman by his SHOES &.
"A society of sons of abolitionists" is
proposed to perpetuate the memory of the
original anti-slayery agitation in this coun-
try.
Forty-seven newspapers are published i'll
the republic OF Ecuador; of these fifteen are
printed IN Quito, the capital, and twelve in
Guayaquil, the principal seaport.
The British Parliament allows to each of
the daughters Of the Queen an income Of
$4,000 year. The younger sons of the
Queen receive S125,o0 each per annum.
Sailors are notably superstitious, and
even in these modern times Jack maintains
his belief in omens. despite their incongru-
ity il day of archaeological steamships.
clever English smuggler recently
avoided the payment Of duty on some costly
diamonds by imbedding them into meat
"a Int i.Af aaftt hnI r. 4.
terrier.
A dealer in artificial limbs says than an
arm will last lifetime if properly cared
for, but that alter five or six years leg
gives way to the weight aud strain and has
to be renewed.
a Bohemian woman living near the river
in East Atchison, Kans., is laying in a sup
ply of wood for the winter, which she saws
up on the sand-bar, nearly quarter of a
mile away. and carries home.
An Independence MOI woman has saved
up money five times In the last five years
with which to buy new silk dress, but
every time had had to spend it On repairing
the house or fixing up the fence around the
yard.
Unkind treatment by an aunt with whom
she was living impelled an Ithaca On. Y }
girl to attempted suicide by jumping from a
high bridge. She landed on jagged rocks
and was fearfully injured, but at last ac-
counts was still alive.
A ST. Louis physician recalls the case Of
young man who had been dumb for five
years, but who, while out bunting one
day, began, in the excitement of the chase,
to yell at the top of his lungs. Afterward
he was able TO speak with perfect articula-
ton.
Some criticism has been made of the
Prince of Wales for shooting in kid gloves
and calling him the butterfly sportsman.
hn nuli III It,Ait .,tara lie
cusation and say he is by far the finest shot
in the royal family and that he can hold his
own In any company.
A colored man in Hannibal, Mo-, was car
rying a can of combustible liquid stove
backing down street when some one threw
lighted match into it; 1t took fire and flew
out all over the darby and would have
burned him to death if bystanders had not
wrapped clothing around him.
An officer in the bureau of the Superin-
tendent of Immigration at Washington
says that the present demand for domestic
servants is unprecedented. They are for
the most part German. Swedish or Irish i'm
migrants. and II is now a rare thing 10 find
an American girl in the kitchen.
A husband Of two weeks at Paintield, n.
j., angered because his bride refused to
black his boots, gave her an almost fatal
beating. The brute has now lost both his
liberty and his wife, as she will unQuestion-
dUly Ub eihhtcu tHt ulfDICt sue pays lOl,
and he is serving the State for year.
The first of twelve monolith marble col
unis which are to ornament the front of the
literary halls have arrived in Princeton,
n. j. These columns weigh eleven tons
each and are the largest single blocks ever
quarried in this country. They are the
product of Secretary Proctor's auarres in
Vermont.
Probably the largest newspaper ever pull
lIshed in this country was The Iluminat ted
Quadruple Constellation, New York, July
4, 1859. Ii was 2, 600 edition, and sold at
so cents a copy. The size of this sheet was
70X100 inches. or almost 40 square feet, s
pages, IS columns to the page, or total of
104 columns. each 4S inches in length.
A naturalist tried to enter Duisburg,
Prussia, with collection of butterflies
without the payment of duty, but as the
Custom-house agent there classified them
as poultry" because they had wings,
there was considerable delay before the
agents superior succeeded In convincing
him that he came under the classification Of
"jackasses."
Springfield (Mo.) man raised pear that
weighed fifty-two ounces, trit1e over three
pounds. 1t grew on a tree Is years old that
has been bearing for thirteen years. He
sent it TO the Department of Agriculture at
Washington, and the pomologist had one
exactly similar nodded out OF plaster of
paris to keep on exhibition as the largest
pear ever reported.