The morning call., 1891-06-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ibOunAdlil pNdho III 4NuhN
settled from sixteen TO twenty-three 1eet
| within few years.
! A Genesee County (Mich.) girl obtained
! $500 In a breach Of promise suit, and then
| married her principal witness.
| Yvette Guibert the reigning concert-hail
! favorite of Paris, earns $500 an evening. A
| lew years ago she was poor and obscure.
A Shawnee County (Kan.) girl was so
| anxious TO marry that she eloped with St.'
| Louis man and took her grandmother Win
| her.
A lively crusade against Sunday trade is
| raging in Lynn, Mass, and confectionery,
| tobacco, and even apOthecary stores must
| close.
A projected Pittsburg journal will be
owned by colOred men, and all the employees,
from managing editor 10 office-boy, are 10
| be OF that race.
Judge John B. Holenbeck, the Oldest
| FreemaSOn in the United States, is dead at
| Burlington. VT, aged 80 He Joined the
order May g. 1913.
For simple hoarseness take a fresh egg,
beat 1T and thicken with pulyerized sugar.
| Eat freely of it, and the hoarSeness Will soon
be greatly relieved
While removing large black bass from
| the hook, a Niles (Mlch.) man was bitten by
| 1t and he is now in a precarious condition
| from blood poisoning.
A London tradesman recently received
an order for sXty-fOur pairs of shoes for the
| daughter of the Grand Duke Paul of Rus
| STA, a child less than year old
Bull-fghting has been abolished in the
| City of Mexico, and the arena where the
| tights took place has been cut up into build
| ing lots and sold TO Spectators
At Arson, Me-, few evenings ago, a
| black bear walked up to house, looked in
| at the Slttlng-rOOm window and then pro-
| ceeded to inspect the pigpen and Sheepf0ld.
The epllS nf tho hnman I'm n fd0
in number, covering surface from two and
half to three and half times greater than
the whole body surface Of ten full-GrOWn
men.
Reuben Bicchey, 70 years old, and his
wife, rs, residing in Moore Township, Pa,
have celebrated the lifty-eignth anniversary
Of their wedding they having been married
in 1888.
A a recent hospital bazaar sin Boston one
Of the most successful stalls was that at
which dolls dressed as hospital nurses, with
every detail of the costume carefully copied
were sold.
The Venezuelan methods of collecting
duties are peculiar If a cook-stove has
brass knob on its door the whole thing is
weighed as so much brass, aud duty charged
accordingly.
Lizzie Meader, an Independence (Mo)
girl, is slowly recovering from cataleptlc
fit which lasted ffty-sx days 1t is thought
biitlb ny ClFNbtiSdl LlCatulCub civ udJ w
fully restored.
New York hotel, about to be built, will
have 600 living rooms and 265 bathrooms.
1T will be big enough to take the head of the
list Of mammoth American hotels, and will
cost round S3,0O0,000.
Hon. j. J. Jennings of Michigan, the ORR
ginatOr of the idea OF a State Home for in
dgent MaS0ns, has been taken to the nSti-
tuition, having become poor and paralytic
since Its commencement.
An Atchi>on (Kans.) man has sent s.
bill to England in an envelope every week
for the past twenty years and has never lost
dollar. This fact came out in recent
trial in the Probate Court.
Michigan'S meanest man is Charles
Sweeney of Grand Rapids, who. while en-
bracing his betrothed, stole her watch. He
has been retired for two years, and the girl
isn't grieying over it, either.
Queen Victoria's favOrite dogs, about
forty In number. are being photographed at
the royal kennels near Windsor Castle.
The animals consist of PomeraniaRs, cOlles,
fox terriers and dachShundS.
John Gladstone, the father of the ex-
Premier of Great Britain, trained his chill
dren TO give reason for every opinion they
offered. 1t was in this way that William E.
Gladstone was early trained to debate.
Eleven hundred purses were left in public
vehicles in London during 1889. Out of the
number $50 contained from one 10 five
pounds. fUrty-seven fr N five to ten pounds,
and twelve from ten to Ia. .y-fve pounds.
Charles Warner Of Lebanon, Conn, now
in his 10Th year, has recently experienced
much pain in his jaw. lie consulted a dem
list, and has found that new set Of teeth
are cutting. This will make his third set.
There is curiosity near Cordele, Ga, in
the shape of pine tree. 1t begins from the
ground as TWO separate and well developed
trees and continues so for distance of four
teen feet, when they join and 20 upward
as one.
At the baptism of her son in 1Go6, Marie
de Medicis wore robe covered with g, eco
precious stones ana 5000 diamonds. The
goldsmith bad orders TO mount the stones,
and design their application to gold and sill
yer tissue.
The amount of coloring matter stored in
coal is such that one pound of the mineral
Yields magenta sufficient to color 500 yards
of flannel, aurine Tor 100 yards, NerniliOn
for 2560 yards, and alZarine Tor $50 yards of
turkey-red cloth.
Toledo, Ohio, comes TO the front with one
of the largest casks in use in this country.
1t is of oak, weighs 10000 pounds and holds
$4,000 gallons of wine. Ii is 20 feet high,
and rests on massive cradle of oak, which
raises it about feet from the floor.
Tho "Old master" business is less active
an d contains fewer surprises than usual. 1t
has been nearly three months since pict-
ure-dealer bought painting in a jun K-Shop
for 10 francs, and, after securing it with
sand, discovered it to be worth S25, 600.
Feeble and sickly children require great
degree of warmth, and possibly warm baths
will be proper for them until they are or
10 years old. Ii an effort is made to accus-
tom them to cool bathing great caution must
be used and the effect carefully watched.
1t is noted in London that the girls are
growing taller and the men shorter. The
explanation is that the men smoke too much
and begin the practice too young. 1t stops
their growth and Injuries their health. while
the girls grow tall, healthful and beautiful.
In the case of big merchant in Chicago
il has been discovered while he gives S25, 900
per year to charity he is keeping q hundred
employees IN his store on starvation wages.
Some of lis married clerks had to pawn
most OF their furniture to get through the
winter.
A trfe obscure was a letter addressed
Mr. Terbakerman, Bangor" but postal
clerk figured it out right away. He for
warded 1t to the revenue officer in that
division. and it proved to be from man
who wanted to pay special tax for the sale
of tobacco.
A man at Arundel, England, was charged
with having injured some turnip-iops. The
foreman of the prosecutor testified that
some turnip-tOps found in the pocket OF the
prisoner fitted the turnips in his masters
field and on this evidence the accused was
sentenced to pay fine of 81 90.
In Louisiana and Florida there are gen.
tlewOmeD content 10 take the position OF
governess at Sc month. One poor, little
creature, who speaks good French and is
able to sing and play, gives five children five
hours instruction daily in English branches
and music for So month.
A little camphor placed in every window
sill will keep out flies except in the kitchen,
where the temptation is stronger, and the
remedy of necessity little more stringent.
But little camphor sprnkled on the cook
stove now and again will drive out the
pests and keep them out, while it will also
neutraliZe the unpleasant smell OF cooking.
gigantic building scheme is on foot at
st. Paul in the shape of an arcade extend
ing three squares, to be erected by syndi-