The morning call., 1891-09-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


A Marshall County (Mo.) man has a mule
| that is "a hands high.
1t has been discovered that almanacs date
back to the year 100 A. ID.
1t is estimated that every seal consumes
! abnut ten pounds OF fish daily.
| Each of the four cables upon which thu
| Brooklyn Bridge rests has capacity of u,
| 600 tons.
An inventor has applied for a patent on a
| child-Spanker. 1t is automatic, and is said
| TO do lis work well.
/ a mischievous Camden On. j. boy is in
| Jail for painting whiskerS on the figure OF
an angel on gravestone.
Sixty-oue years ago Peter Cooper's frs
| locomotive was tried, on the Baltimore anG
| Ohio Railroad, and it went.
A LYNN (Mass.) wife and mother ha:
! elOped with her brother-in-law-a younger
| and hands0mer man than her husband.
| In the city of st. Petersburg it begins to
| freeze at the end Of October, and general
thaw takes place before the beginning OF
April.
Four fine calves at birth are the progeny
of a full-blo0ded Jersey cow at Greene
vile, Miss. The case is said to be unpar-
alleled.
The New Jersey man who secured a patent
on his idea of placing rubber on the tips of
pencils is said to have realized $4,000
from it.
When the national constitution was
adopted Charles Carroll of CarrolltOn was
the richest man in America. He was w0rGh
100000.
A Rowley (Mass.) man recently dug IL Z
bushels of potatoes in 10h hours. and issues
challenge to digging match with 500 as
the stakes.
An armed desperate in Florida stepped
into negro church during service and COM
PEELED the deacons to take up collection
for his benefit.
late John b. Gough. has been purchased by
a Worcester capitalist who will fit it up as
summer residence.
A Georgia groom of Is who welded a bride
of 40 paid the officiating clergyman a fee of
four silver dimes. He could not rake to-
gether larger sum.
Chinese tea gowns can be made so light,
airy and comfortable that they are boon
to ladies who cannot wear heavy garments
or do not find them becoming.
North Dakota is one of the great wheat
States of the Union and has harvested the
surprising crop of 100000 bushels. Few
States will exceed that yield.
The railroad car window. often immov-
able while the car stands in the station, will
most times yield to slight pressure when
the car Is in motion.
In 1880 the number of spindles in South
ern cotton-millS was &c., 54; in 1890 there
were 3 100. S23. There is story Of immense
progress in this statement.
The engineer of the Reading Railroad who
accomplished the feat of running a mile in
80 40 seconds broke the record. He was
lucky not to break anything else.
There are exactly 1000 clearinghouse in
London, accommodating COL persons, and
40 blocks of model dwellings, with 50, 7SO
tenements and 1S9, los inhabitants.
Illuminated walkng-sticks are among the
latest applications of electricity. A small
ineandescent lamp is concealed in the head
of the cane and tan be ignited by spring
The City Council Of Cleveland. Ohio, has
been investigating the price asked for gas
In that city, and has passed vote cutting
down the rate from 81 to 50 cents per 1000
feet.
At Bonham. Texas, recently, severa
glandered horses were slau2 htered by a
mob. The owner of the animals had re-
fused to kill them and was placed under
bonds.
Nine. TERESA, known as the Corsican
fairy. was thirty-four inches high aud
weighed only thirty-six pounds. She lived
to good old age. though the exact period is
unknown.
A small boy left paper box containing
snake In Dubuque restaurant. When thu
reptile got loose 1t put the waiter girls tt
flight and caused the colored cook to turI
Il few shades whittier.
at Penn Haven, Pa, recently, while
some laborers were eating their dinner OH
handcar, the earth caved in and precipitatet
the whole party down a siXty-foOt embank
ment to the river. All were more or less
| injured.
Handsome rugs may be made of the rem
nants OF the best body Brussels star-car
| peting, cut in lengths TO suit, the ends
hemmed, and homemade fringe of yarn
made oil colors to match those of the carpet
| sewed on.
Mrs. Martha Johnston, a Syracuse On. Y.
| centenarian, Is dead. She retained all he
| physical faculties up 10 the last. He
father was Revolutionary soldier. and wa;
! aged 90 at the time OF the surrender o
| CORVALLIS
Martinique which has been devastated by
hurricane, is by all odds the most beauti-
| full island in the West Indies The chieI
| towns are ot. Pierre and Fort de France.
1t was in the latter that the Empress jose
| Prime was born.
| An old lady who died recently at Paris
| left legacy of $50, 600 in care of the Insti-
tute de France, to be presented to the person
who shall within the next ten years sue
cessfuliy communicate with the stars and
| get an answer"
The two hundred and fiftieth anniversary
| OF the settlement in America OF the Pills
! bury family was celebrated recently at the
| old homestead in Newburyport, Mass
| There was large attendance from all parts
| OF the country.
! AT popular summer resort in Maine two
| women eXcurSiOniStS were sc overcome by
| THE drugstore soda water that it beca me
| necessary to arrest them as diSturberS of the
| peace. Soda water in prohibition State
is always made that way.
| A new lake has been discovered in Cam
| Groom. Africa. by G. Boldau. Swede. The
| discOverer, thinking to honor the German
| Governor, named the water Soden Lake L
| lies 700 meters above the level of the sea
| and is about two miles wide.
| Snakes are SO abundant aud troublesome
| in the country about Talcott Mountain,
! Conn.,, that the farmers in the vicinity have
| dubbed together to hire man to kill the
reptiles. lie is paid 3 cents head, and
manages TO make from So to So a day.
A. K. King, a New York Central conductor
| recently took up stop-oyer pass dated
! March 20, 1857 The passenger was Jona-
| than O5man, 90 years old, and he mad been
| saving that ticket thrty-fOur years. George
| Wait, we'll remembered as popular CON-
ductor on the road. issued the pass.
| A Chicago Clergyman has observed that
| the rate of speed of carriages at funerals is
| becoming faster, and where fifteen years
ago walk and only a walk was regarded
| as the proper pace. now trotting is very
| common, and rate of six or seven mile:
| an hour has succeeded one of three miles.
| Justifable indeed was the recent strike of
| seventy-five girl operators in an Elizabeth
| IN. j. shirt factory, who were ground down
| to the miserable pittance OF Is cents dozeT