The morning call., 1891-08-31
ITEMS OF. INTEREST.

An ornithologist says that birds fire.
quently commit suicide.
| Berlin women have formed league to
wage war on the corset.
In one business establishment in London
no fewer than 400 COrnishmen are em-
ployed.
Mrs. Elizabeth Price, eolored. of Whining
ION, Del, slave Tor over fifty years, Is
dead, aged 100
A New jersey farmer estimates that
tnere Is enough money spent on shot in that
State to pay all the taxes.
Jefferson City, the capital of Missouri,
pays its policemen $50 month each, and
tney ma their own food"
For violating the Sunday law by selling
nve cigars, an Orange CTeyas) dealer has
been mulcted in S35 and costs
| a fniladelphla woman, in mortal fear of
| lightning, was recently killed by bolt
while on her knees praying for safety.
a sick stranger recently died at Omaha
while the city and county officials were
wrangling as to which should take care Of
| him,
With ninety three candidates Logging it
for the offices in Holmes County, Miss
lie must be uncomfortable to the people who
| Will do the voting.
| Every man in Topeka, Kansas, who voted
| Tor certain candidate last fall, is asked to
| contribute l cent to the Central Committee
| Tor campaign expenses.
| Dp Hot ptdt YOUR rugs ana uDUOlSLeIel
furniture with sticks, but use bent rattan
| bealer made for the purpose, which will not
| tear or roughen the article.
During the past six months Bishop Bow
| man OF chicago has preached every week
| day and three times on Sunday He has
| covered many thousand miles of territory
a Pine Bluff (Ark.) widow, who recently
| sued railroad company for So, 900 damages
| for causing the death of her husband has
been awarded verdict for the fun amount.
a recent church picnic at Idlewlld. Pa.
| was attended by $4,000 persons. There was
| an unusual number of pickpockets on the
| grounds, and they enjoyed an excellent har-
| vest.
AT Bedford, Pa, recently a seventy-yrar-
| old bridegroom who was to wed a blushing
| miss of 20 years failed to appear for the
ceremony and observation-disclosures suit will
| follow.
| A woman at Pottstown, Pa, has drawn
two pensions for many years-one as the
| widow OF a veteran of the war of 1872 and
| the other as the mother of victim of the
| rebellion.
The crop of wolves in Minnesota is never
! troubled with shortage. The bounty money,
| 1000, last year, indicates that the output
is increasing. WoIf-farming seems to be
| profitable.
| A glut in the New York lemon market
| has been brought on by immense impOrta-
tons. There are now in port three steamers
| with $4,000 boxes on board, with no sale for
| any of them.
| American horses are being shipped to
| Aberdeen, Scotland, for coach and driving
purposes, and one dealer there has opened
stable Tor the exclusive handling of Amer-
| bred horses.
Miss Hattie Singleton Of MartinsyilIe.
| Ind, lost her voice ono year agn, but the
| other day. while bending over an ironing
| board, and almost sweltering with heat, it
| suddenly returned.
a New Albany Qnd.) woman, who has be-
| frny roll Unit,
ment, imagnes that the devil is after her,
and shrieks with fright whenever the door
| OF her room Is opened.
Weary of lodging the officers, a Texas
| man who was indicted for catt!e-s ealing
eight years ago has voluntarily returned
and surrendered himself, saying he is
| anxious to face the music.
Myron c. Cole of Flint, Mich, is only 81
years old, but he, thought he ought to have
a wife and picked out Mrs. Hurst, a matron
of rs summers. The couple are as happy as
any young couple in the State.
| An eccentric woman at Dover, Del, re-
Gently superintended the digging of her own
grave, which is to remain open until her de-
cease. She has also ordered her tombstone,
which will be erected when completed
A New York detective, smelling a foul
odor III baggage-room, concluded he was
on the track of a mysterious murder aud
chased trunk fifty miles on a train, only to
find that lis contents were a lot OF rotten
| eggs.
Governor Elgle of Arkansas could not
read until he had reached mature years. and
as a result of his wife's efforts lie became in
| turn student, preacher of the gospel and
| teacher In every way she ENCOURAGED
| him.
| Cincinnati has an elderly woman who
| never halls a Street-car at q crossing but
grasps the rail before the Car can be slack
ened and swings herself on to the steu
with the ease and grace of an oid-time rail-
| roader.
At recent fair at Wheeling, w. Va,
| butcher won purse OF $1,000 for dressing a
calf in exactly nine minutes. Ten thousand
| people witnessed the contest. competi-
tor performed the feat in IL minutes and 35
| seconds.
Pirates have put in an appearance OH
Long Island Sound They swoDp down
upon the wealthy dwellers along the shores
| and have secured much booty. They have
| raksh sail-boats in which they make good
| their escape.
A strong solution of extract Of lcorice de-
stroys the disagreeable taste of alnes Pep
permnt water disgniSes the nausenus ;aste
| OF EPSON salts. Milk is good abater If
the bitter taste of Peruvian bark and cloves
| that Of SIENNA.
Two bashful young clerks IN Triton, Ca,
| recently espled two pretty girls making
their way toward the store, and to avoid u
meeting actually closed the doors and took
| refuge for the remainder of the afternoon in
the back yard.
Memphis man has just received Con-
| necticut newspaper which was mailed to
him May 2, 1890. He says that the Post
| master was evidently doing his spring Clean
| ing and unearthed his paper where it had
| fallen by the way.
A Fannins (Kansas) farmer who failel to
obtain his price for land appropriated by Il
| railroad company nurses his grievance in
silence, but over his door he keeps painted
| sign which reads: =" This family has been
wronged by the railroad company"
A mammoth punch-bowl, holding thirty
| two gallons hgured in recent reunion AT
! Bath. l.. l. The bowl was brought from
| France oil August 10, 1924, to he used at a
banquet rendered 10 General Lifayette on
the occasion of his second visit TO America
The judicial authorities in Germany are
| preparing report which fayOrs electricity
| as means OF putting murderers 20 death.
| The French scientific Journals also have
| ventured TO prophesy that thiS method will
Supercede the guillotine in the next century.
Pennsylvania man, 81 years of age, is
| on pedestrian trip of 100 miles to visit
friends. His name is J. II. McCleary and
ne was locked in the magazine at Fort
| Henry during the bombardment of Bati-
more in 1872, while engaged in making
cartridges
A new style of police patrol wagon which
Chicago thinks of adopting is completely
| lnclosed, resembling somewhat hospital
ambulance. except that it has window Ia
the side. 1t is eontended that wagon of
this kind reduces the chance Of prisoners
| escaping to a minimum.
The absence of rain for the past eighteen
| months has caused an alarming scarcity of
money in the lower counties of Texas. An
| instance of this condition OF affairs is given
in the fact that sale was made at Roma,
on the Rio Grande, of 27S fat, healthy sheep.
capable of growing four pounds of wool an
| nually, for IS cents apiece.
Flying machines will have 10 ply their
fans rather lively if they are to rival the ex-
| plOits of winged insects Professor Marcy
fastened fly in a way to make the tip of its
wing toueh q revolving cylinder covered
| with smoked paper Each stroke thus made
mark and the result proved that the in
sect moved its wings $50 times per second.