The morning call., 1891-03-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

clock owned by resident of Trappe,
Pa, has licked since 1766.
A man recently arrested at Wiiliamsport,
Pa. for larceny gave his occupation as that
OF dude.
An official letter from the Eastern Lunatic
Asylum of Virginia, to the Governor of that
State, states that one of the inmates has
been there for 54 years, and is 100 years old.
The owner of a saw-mill near Monroe,
Ga, IN attempting to separate two of his
negro workmen who were engaged in des-
perate fight, became so excited that he went
crazy.
The weather in Paris during January
ives so severe that the flower market was
suspended. One florist lost 100000 rose
bushes, and the total loss to roSe-growerS is
estimated at 100000 francs.
The negroes of Terrell County, Georgia,
are steadily increasing in prosperity and
acquiring real estate, for which they have
an especial liking. They own some of the
best farm lands in the county.
A Missouri weekly paper recently INDUCED
In some critical remarks about Shakespeare,
and farmer named John Shakespeare,
thinking the family insuted, came to town
and gave the editor thraShng.
Licenses come high in Boston but she
must have them. A first-class license for
hotels will cost $500, and an ordinary bar
room license $1,000. This means small
glasses, watered whisky and fewer drinks.
Next 10 agriculture mining and the extrac-
tion of the metals from the ores, which may
be regarded as one, constitutes the most in
portant industry In the United States. In
1888 the value Of these products was $751;
0,676.
A baker Of New York City is suffering
from very rare form of disease known as
Osteo-mallacia. Tie whole bony structure
of his body has become as brittle as chalk,
and his bones break under the slightest
touch. The disease is fatal.
There is now being finished at Greenville,
Pa, disk of glass for reffacting telescope
lens, which is claimed as the largest that has
ever been made in the United States. The
disk is 301s inches In diameter by 81 inches
in thickness, and weighs over 800 pounds.
A New York club recently gave dinner
to all the principal freaks in the dime mu-
seums Living skeletons. fat women, turtle
boys contortionists, magnetic women, Chi
nese giants, calf-headed boys, three-armed
and four-legged born dined and danced with
their hosts.
A farmer near Sparta, Tenn, has an
effective way of getting rid of hawks and
owls. He keeps a steel trap in tree near
his house, where the birds light and are
caught. He has caught. in the past two
years that way thirteen hawks aud seven
owls. and has lost scarcely any chickens.
Many names of materials in common use
have queer origins. Nickel was first OBJ
ldlb6u do a hitbul ttOll bCtihditl ONtE Il cell
tury ago, but the ore had been previously
known to the miners as kupfernickeI, or
Old Nick's copper. because, although it
looked like copper ore, they could obtain no
copper from it.
The popular idea that when In marriage
ceremony the groom says, with all my
worldly goods L thee endow," the contract
is of legal effect in itself is erroneous.
These words are frequently omitted and
have no legal effect in any way, as by the
laws of nearly all the States the wife is at
once seized of an inchoat dover right in her
husbands real estate as soon as they are
married.
A visitor in New Orleans says that there
are three features of the life in the Creole
City that are sure to impress the stranger
forcibly. They are the cemeteries, which
are yertable flower gardens; the language
OF the French residents, which is spoken
everywhere and has the pure Partisan ac-
cent, and the fact that the negroes on the
lower river still sing the Old tuneful songs
that were heard in slavery days.
BERTELING has The only reliable methods to
fit defective sight. 427 Kearny street.