The morning call., 1891-08-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Vermont has 1875 Congregational churches
in 165 towns.
A s33 vory-bound prayer-book is made to
encourage piety.
The northeastern part of Iowa is afflicted
with h0rse-thieyes.
William Stevenson OF Pottsville, Pa, his
wife, daughter and son were all born on the
same date.
Peter OMAHA Of Cleveland, Ohio. snarls
like dog, and is kept bound hand and foot,
from the results of dog-bite.
The knights of Pyihias are go we'll
drilled that they could put an army of $4,000
men into the field at two weeks notice.
Two Frenchmen have invented a new kind
OF harp made entirely of wood. Instead of
strings the inventors use strips of Ameri-
Can fir.
Man is the universal animal. 1t is esti-
mated that there are ], 2j0, 900 600 of him on
the globe. The sheep rank next with 500,-
900, 200.
An epidemic of insanity exists at Kings
ton, Ontario, where fifteen demented per-
sons were recently arrested within twenty
four hours.
Two men fatally stabbed and two others
dangerously wounded is the outcome Of
fight over the possession of a watermelon at
Grafton, Ill.
a horse at Upton, Mich, was found to
be covered with honey bees the other day
and fire had to be built to remove them.
The horse may die.
Over twenty-five boys at Newcastle, Pa,
have recently been Frustrated with a mys-
FERROUS disease resembling ST. Vitus dance,
and some are fatally Ill.
D0niphan, Kans., is said to be the only
town in the world that had river and two
railroads and lost them all at sWoOp. The
shifting of the Missouri River channel did 1t.
The Shan Chinese, a people living be-
tween Burmah and China, show their love
for their parents by killing them and eating
them to save them from the misery of old age.
hotel seven stories high, topped with
533-tOot tower, TO stand on Stony Island
avenue. opposite the Worlds Fair grounds,
is one Of the latest projects of Chicago en-
terprise.
Cape Cod youngsters are admitted to be
smarter than the average, but one of them
OF years recently beat the record by now
Ing two-aere field with two-horse now
ing machine.
At Munich there Is hospital which is
entirely supported by the sale of old steel
pennies. collected from all parts of Ger
many They are made into watch-springs.
knives and razors.
One of the gardeners OF Bayou Sara, in
Louisiana. has produced a potato that
weighs p pounds, and he now proposes to
rest on his laurels until his competitors
catch up with that.
A hotel has been built in Hamburg en-
tireiy OF compressed wood as hard as iron,
and rendered absolutely proof against both
fire and the attacks of insects by subsection
to chemical processes.
young woman in Lewiston, Me-,
drowned kitten and then buried it behind
the barn. That night the old cat went and
dug it up, and taking it in to the kitchen
brought it to life again.
A humpbacked man recently died in
Paris, and when his relatives made an ex-
animation OF his person they found that the
hump on his back was simply bundle of
bonds amounting to $4,000.
The good daily paper in the home we'll
read is worth more than any three months of
schooling to the children. The child who
negects current history will have no taste
or inclination for any other.
A wren built nest on machine in the
shops of the Dawson (Ga.) Manufacturing
Company that made about 5000 reyolutions
minute, and raised four birds. The young
birds LETT the nest when able to fly.
veteran Provincetown (Mass.) fisher
man, who claims 10 know, says that when
mackere are on the move the advance body
Is entirely composed of female fish, while
the rear column is formed of the male.
The hours of the cabinet-making trade in
England have. since 1850, fallen from go and
10 a week to 90. In London the hours in
the tobacco factories we're, in 1850, from 81
to 80 week. They are now from 48 to 81.
Madam, give me cent and I'll teach you
q new smIle," said little girl in rags, aged
10 or less, to demure young woman at the
foot OF the stairs to New York elevated
station. Amused, the young woman gave
the cent The smile was dimpled pout,
and pretty.
In the early elections of Oklahoma the
rival candidates stood in wagons placed
some distance apart, and their adherents
gathered around them and were counted
The elected man took Office at once, and his
edicts were as implicitly obeyed as an act
of Congress.
Young men in Mexico, when paying at
tentions to young ladies, can do so at very
Little expense. They are quite eager to in
wife them to theaters, parties, etc. And no
wonder;. for 1t is. the custom in that
country for the lady's father to pay for the
tickets. furnish the carriage, etc.
The jumping and pols-vaultng feats of
our contemporary athletes seem but the
work of babies and pygmles when COM
pared with the extraordinary doIngs of the
old-time acrobats If history is to be be-
lieyed, Phayllus OF Crotona could stand and
make 56-foot jump on the dead level.
Trucks nre almost unknown in Mexico.
Anything that cannot be loaded on to a
horse is carried by rs many persons as are
necessary. They have a sort of cushion
which, fits round the neck and over the
walk the streets with it on their backs.
In person and attire the scrupuous clean
illness of the Malay woman is proverbial
throughout the Orient. Twice daily She
battles, changes her garments and washes
and rinses her luXuriant black hair, whose
glossy lengths, frequently touching the
ground. render this no light undertaking.
Two little children recently went to
church alone In Westfield Mass. They be-
came tired during the long sermon, and the
older one. supposing that school rules held
good in church, lad his sister in front of the
preacher and said, please. sir, may we 90
homea" He said YES" and they soberiy
walked out.
Miss Antoinette Knaggs, n college-edu-
Gated young woman of Ohio, owns and
manages farm of two hundred acres. She
carries on her work according to the theories
of books rather than by ancient traditions,
and, contrary to the usual impression about
hoax farmers, she is making a success of
her undertaking.
A lady equestrian on Long Island has de-
vised novel bit of hUrsemanship for her
own amusement and the entertainment of
her neighbors. Instead of mounting her
Thoroughbred and cantering about singly like
ordinary folks, she always takes her airing
tandem fashion, riding on one and driving
another horse attached to the first steed by
long bride reins.