The morning call., 1891-08-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST,


While on his deathbed, recently, an
Arkansas man confessed TO having COM
mitted three murders.
The largest ship-yard in the world is at
Chrlstlania, Norway. Forty ships can load
at Its dock at the same time
rigid enforcement of the Sunday law In
certain Texas towns would seem to indicate
the near approach of the millennium.
Both water and meadow frogs are CAP
tured by the thousand in LapOrte County,
Ind, for shipment to the Chicago market.
Bank-bi lis to the amount of $780, which
the owner had Sewed up i'll the bed ticking,
have been consumed in fire at Uxbridge,
Mass.
The "city article of the London Times
Informs its readers that Chicago is destined
TO become one of the greatest gran-growiny y
States of the Union.
Gypsy moths are threatening the fruit
trees OF Maine. and it is feared they will do
great damage unless something is at once
done to destroy them.
The greater number of successive victories
in war iii one day were those in Mexico of
General Scott, who had five, and General
Taylor, who bad three.
Fatty Quigley," a well-known Phila-
deiphla character, Is dead. He was ex-
tremeiy short in stature, was q years old
and weighed 450 pounds.
Mlshawka, Iud., charges itinerant auc-
tloneers $40 day for license, and doesn',
want Them at that price. This is done to
protect local merchants.
A Maine farmer who believes in a strict
observance OF the sabbath went out and
Killed lamb which persisted in bleating on
recent Sunday afternoon.
A Chicago letter-carrier has been arrested
Tor stealing postal notes. These notes are
too easily negotiable. They are perpetual
temptation TO petty thieves.
A New Haven Comm museum is closed
because the coon broke loose aud killed the
three-legged cat, made a meal of the bit
tern and then died OF Indigestion.
A cycling corps has been added to the
equipment Of the Salvation Army. Fifty
young men have been requested 10 yoluu-
teer for three years to travel on wheels.
A Hannibal (Mo) man won wager of SIS
by eating two pounds of limburger cheese
in five minutes. He had the room entirely
u himself while performing the remarkable
feat.
Crime is more common in single than in
married life; in the former SO in every lOO.-
600 are guilty, while only IL married men of
the same number have gravely broken the
laws.
A slight fall has closed the career of
woman at Lockbart, Tex, who was 81 years
OLD, IN full possession of all her faculties
and gave promise Of attaining the century
mark.
There is fastidons horse in Louisiana
which persiStpntly refuses to drink at a
waterlng-trough after mule. He doesn't
mind other horses, but he draws the line at
mules.
A New York church society has obtained
leave from the Supreme Court to mortgage
its property in order to lquidate ten wears
ba salary OF its pastor. The sum amounts
to $4,000.
The telephone between Paris and LONDON
having been so success full it is prop Is-d to
connect Brussels and London. Fer that
purpose cable will be laid between Ostend
and Dover.
A tree near Manistee. Mich, Sc feet in
circumference, u feet in diameter and l75
high, will be blasted with dynamite, as
there Is no saw that will cut it or no mill
that can cut it in boards.
A woman at Paterson, y. j., from whom
her husband had obtained divorce. has
been ordered by the Court to pay him 50 a
week allmony. This is said to be the only
case OF the kind on record.
A New York Judge refused to accept a
signature to bond which was written in
Hebrew. The matter was afterward COM
promised by the cath of witness tnat the
characters were the Sguer's mark.
Tie largest pine tree in Massachusetts is
said TO be on the road between Shrewsbury
and Holden. 1t is 81 feet high, and midway
L "a
The tree is thought to be $50 years OLD.
A toilet brush is made of two halves
which are hinged and are detachable, one
half being the brush and the other half the
mirror, while in the space between is a
comb, toothbrush and a buttOn-hook.
At Little Rock, Ark, a rattlesnake
crawled into an elderly woman's slipper and
when the wearer thrust her foot into it she
was 50 badly frightened Qhough not bitten)
that conYulslonS followed and she will prob
ably die.
Billy Buckskin, an old war-horse con-
nected with the Tenth New Hampshire
Volunteers, is dead in Wimot Flat, n H.,
at the age OF 81. A granite monument, re-
counting his exploits, is TO be erected over
his grave.
In the hippopotamus the eyes, ears and
noStrlls are all set on the same plane.
which enables the animal to silk its body
entirely below the surface of the water and
yet keep thoroughly informed as to It's sur
roundirgs.
Roguish pupils of a school in Freedom.
WIS, locked skunk in the teachers desk.
Her fright was so great that she has not yet
fully recovered. 1t is said that all the
pupils who had hand in the affair will be
made to suffer.
Three hundred thousand baths were taken
in the public baths of Boston in the month
of July. The Hub is evidently preparing to
motto, Cleanliness is next to godIiness."
which has been recently sprung on the
public.
A gamblers layout in the woods near
Dubois, Pa, has been blown up By two of
the losers. who piled powder under the
table, and lighted it by means of powder
train, under the leaves. Poker chips and
odd bits of money are being searched for in
tie ruins.
Several skeletons found in the cellar of a
questionable resort at Springfield, Ohio,
have suggested dark and mysterious crime )
in years gone by. Several persons remem-
bered friends who had been missed from
their accustomed hauntS and never heard
from again.
A wax-palm grows in Brazil. The Young
leaves are coated with wax, which is de-
tachcd by shaking them, and melted to be
finally run into cakes. 1t is harder than
beeswax and is utilized for candles. The
upper part OIL the young stem Of this tree
yields kind of sago.
A foolish COW near Thompson. Ga. tn at
got her tail caught somehow in tree made
the trouble worse by going around the trunk
until she wound up like a clock She then
became frightened, and, giving lunge,
pulled the tail out by the roots. Afterward
the tail was found as described by the ami
maPs owner.
The recent improvements in miners lamps
and the ventilation of mines in England.
coupled with extra watchfulness on the
part of Superintendents and Others. re-
duced the number of persons killed from
explosions of fire-damp in the first six
months of this year to 49, against 276 in the
same period of 1890.
The first sensation that a diver feels is
one OF sudden silence. He Is shut ont from
the hum of life and hears only the labored
puisatlon OF the pump. He knows this to
be his breath of life. He next thinks of his
ears, for as he sinks deeper the air pre- ssure
Increases, and in its efforts TO reach an euui-
librium the drums of the ears are momen-
tarily strained. The relief is to swallow
frequently.
Druggists who sell postage stamps are not
all the purely benevolent persons that the
general public takes them to be. MANY con-
Germs dealing in small inexpensive articles
take IN thousands of dollars worth Of stamns
every year and sell them at a discomnt IN
druggists and others. perhaps even to mid
dlemen. AS consequence the druggist
makes neat percentage on his retail sale of
the same stamps.