The morning call., 1891-10-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A st. Louis man has paid $50 for the priv
ilege Of shooting his nrlgADOT dog. The
owner sued for 500.
The man who takes your advice never
gives you a chance To forget that it was
your advice, if it turns out to be bad for
him.
a Washington Cd. c. deaf mute is said
to have fallen heir to many millions of
dollars by the death of his father at Duluth,
MINI.
A Bristol Pa.) barber was almost driven
out of the business by the tOughness OF
red-headed New York insurance agents
beard.
A verdant citizen Of Backbone, Pa, has
been f1eeced to the tune Of $500 by the all
cient g0iQ brick swindle. The brick was
worth 81.
The accommodations of the Vatican may
be imagined when the Pope put 200 beds in
it at the disposal Of the French pilgrims,
free Of charge.
A company is formed in France before the
winter Is on to insure damages against frost.
The annual loss during bad weather to agti-
culture is put at about SIS, 100000.
DR.. Paulina Mason Of Toledo, Ohio, prac-
tees medicine still at the age of 70. Her
grandfather was the Chevalier Reauffanatf,
personal friend OF Gar Alexander [.
A brutal youth at Corydon, Ind, has been
fOgged within an inch Of his life by White
Caps for beating his mother. He Is prom
ised another dose If he repeats the otfense.
A great many artificial eggs are being
made in England. They are as good as
the natural eggs for culinary purposes, but
all efforts 10 hatch them have 30 far proved
futile.
Be sure that your tombstone will be paid
for when you die, A New y rk family
neglected this little formality and the manu-
facturer came and took 1t, epItaph and all,
out of the ground.
1t has been noticed in France that those
persons engaged in cleaning out the aDpa-
ratus used in refining petroleum are subject
to skin disease resembling the cancer of
chimney sweepers.
A warning 10 husbands A man in
Massachusetts cOmplained of the way his
breakfast was prepared. Having no other
argument with which to silence her hus-
baud the wife shot him.
A jersey City policeman, called upon to
eject a well-dressed drunken couple from a
street-car, nearly tainted with surprise
when he recognized the woman as his wife.
He will sue for divorce.
James S. Sinclair. the owner Of a small
farm at Lakotl. n. Oak, has received word
that he is heir to the title and estates of the
Earl of Caithness through the death of his
father, the sixteenth Earl
Electricity has taken such n hold OF the
Australians that 1t is proposed to held a
large international electrical exhibition in
Melbourne about the end Of the year, which
will be the summer season in that antipodean
land.
The Cz,rina has made protege of Mile.
Ihonasaln, pretty Russian actress. The
fortunate girl has been engaged for the
French theater in st. Petersburg for $4,000
per anuum for three years and all her
dresses provided.
A ST. Louis barber. impelled by the out
cry against loquacious ''shavers," EN-
ployed deaf aud dumb man as an expert
ment 1t was not satisfactory, showing
that the average man likes to be entertained
while in the hands of his barber.
The largest tuning-for ever manufac-
tured was made at Hanau, Switzerland, for
the Ply slolugtcal Institute at Leipzig. 1t
weighs twenty-seVen kilogrammes, or a
little over seventy-tw0 pounds. and gives
fourteen double oscillations second.
There is a remarkable pig in New York.
1t has only two legs. 1t is not of the hu-
man variety of which there is reason to fear
so large city as New York contains more
than one. 1t is genuine porcine biped,
with snout and bristles, and was captured
near Havana,
A little Chester County pa girl has
some peculiar pets in the shape OF live toads
number OF the creatures i'll habit a stone
wall near her home, and she has them in
such good training that they recognize her
voice when she calls them, and, coming out
In the evenings, permit her to pet and han
die them.
Pm studying chemistry now" said the
school-boy. proudly. ." and l like it. We
made some ammonia in the class to-day
We took some what-do-yOu-call-it poured
some water on it, and the mixed something
else with 1t, S1d it was nice, strong am
monia." Chemistry is valuable study.
and the boys should hold fast to what they
learn.