The morning call., 1891-09-13
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

long and feet that measure good 16inches.
An immense vein of natural gas has been
struck IN Oswego County, n. y, at a depth
Of 1920 feet
A millon-dollar sale of whisky re-
Gently took place at Lexington, ky.-the
largest On record.
The insurance policies in force upon the
lives of the citizens of Pennsylvania amount
to over S44S, 100000.
In Corea sheets of paper pass for money;
one sheet brings one quart of rice, CT twenty
sheets piece of hemp cloth.
A mining corporation in the copper region
OF upper Michigan will sink the deepest
shalt in the world-Over 1000 feet.
A musket ball was recently extracted
from the knee-cap of an Ohio veteran, after
remaining there twenty-nine years.
AT Mount Vernon, Ind, fight over the
possession of an old barrel eliminated in
the fatal stabbng Of one brother by another.
A negro Sandwich man." who prone
nades Philadelphia street for a carpet
cleaning house, carries matches in his hair.
Over 10000 people, including many n0ta-
| bles, attended the recent picnic OF the
| Patrons of Husbandry at Williams Grove.
Pa.
A Chester Pa.) woman, who charged her
| husband with nOn-suppOrt, makes affidavit
| that lie has given her only % cents in three
| years.
Que of the most singular suicides on rec
| ord is that of New Yorker whose brains
| were dashed out by dive from fifth-stOry
| window.
The French still fight an average of 1000
duels year, but as they are mostly blood
less affairs the subject is not painful one
TO dwell on.
Old Sport" Campana has a competitor
In the person of a siXty-fOur-year-Old pedes-
trian who has made the journey from Balti-
mora to Pittsburg.
The freight movement iE the United
States may be simply expressed by saying it
is equal to 2OO. 600, 600 tons hauled one mile
each day of the year.
Any one could add strength and weight to
his body by rubbing well with olive alter
warm bath. Oil baths are particularly ben
efcial to weak children.
In the 100000 letters that reached the
dead-letter office last year there was money
amounting 10 SOS. .642 and checks and notes
OF the value Of Sl.47l,S71.
ltinerant musicians are not allowed to So
lOuTn in ST. Petersburg, and those no are
of foreign nationality are not permitted to
pass the frontier of the empire.
Australian natives employ the grasping
power OF their great toes in climbing trees
and it is their habit to pick up In the same
way spears and other objects from the
ground.
a Newark Ohio physician has removed
an egg-shaped stone weighing ounces from
the jaw OF mule. The stone was very hard
and upon an analysis was shown to be CAL
cum carbonate.
Two little girls at Mays Landing, n. j.,
were SO badly frightened by threats of ar
rest for stealing few flowers that they have
run away from home and their parents are
almost distracted.
Coal equaling that of the finest Lehigh
Valley grade haS been discovered in Brazil,
the veins being from four to twenty-five
feet in thickness. The mines are situated
at and near So ora.
There is valuable floating wreck loose
on the Atlantic. 1t has cargo of mahog my
lumber and was abandoned March 31st.
Since then 1t has drifted IL, 900 miles and was
last seen August Sd.
A bll-pOstng machine, which sticks bills
on walls, even as high as fft, feet, without
the use Of ladder or pastepot, is doing sue
cesslul work i'll Paris. Theatrical people
are delighted with it.
In Michigan alone it is believed that
100000 bushels OF peaches will be gathered
this season. The crops of peaches aud
plums also promise to be bOuntfrl in vari-
Gus parts of the country.
Considerable British Indignation has been
aroused by a fancy dress ball in India in
which oficers dressed as fends with horns
and tails danced quadrille with eight ladies
c0stumed as reluctant angels"
A blooded Philadelphian refused TO siay
at an Atlantic City hotel. where he was
compelled TO sit at the same table with his
shoemaker. The latter, however, is the pro-
prietOr of fine store in the city's center.
Lime water may be made cheaply by TAX
ing fresh piece of lime as large as an egg
pouring two quarts OF soft water on it and
allowing it To stand two or three hours,
shaking it occasionally. Bottle and keep
for use.
A new socket has formed in the shoulder
of an Englesville Pa.) woman who dislo-
Gated that member five years ago, aud the
fracture of which had never been set A
second dislocation, recently, revealed this
curious fact
Louis Giroux of Marshall, Mich., has a
game chicken which he has trained to walk
the slack rope, turn handsprings, perform
periOus feats on the flying trapeZe and per-
senate Nero tddling during the burning of
ancient Rome.
Having no confidence in banks, a wealthy
Greensburg (Pa.) man secreled $1,000 in a
chest, and was robbed of every dollar. Pos
siby this episode may induce him to change
his views as to the disposition of his re-
naming funds.
Saxony's cavalry has new sword, three
Inches shorter and considerably lighter than
the old one. The blade is straight and the
handle is of hard rubber. The new weapon
is more easily handled. but less dangerous
than the one hitherto used.
Thousands upon thousands of martins are
gathering at Jeffersonville, Ind. The birds
roOst on the islands in the Ohio fails and in
the trees near the river. In the evening. as
they return to roost from the north, their
flight fairly darkens the sky
A shrewd Philadelphian has the power of
going into apparent epileptic fits at will,
and his evident sufferings appeal to the
sympathetic natures of the by-standers so
strongly that upon his recovery he is the
recipient OF generous collection.
Mrs. Martha Cooper of Chester, Pa, went
off TO a camp-meeting a few mornings ago,
leaving her small infant at home without
food or water. The police broke into the
house in time to save the child'S life. The
mother has been arrested for cruelty.
Kentucky colonel died from an over
dose of whisky. A Monrs County (Pa)
child swallowed the handle of its rattle and
died. A Jerseyman fell out of his bed while
fighting a mosquito and broke his neck.
Danger turks i'll the simplest walks in life.
A New Jersey jury has rendered ver-
diet that man has right To beat anu
abuse his wife. There will be excitement
in the domciles of just twelve men when
they get home if they have wives, though
married men would scarcely have dared 10
give such verdict,
The President of the Brooklyn Bridge re-
celveS $1,000 year, the Secretary $4,000, the
Treasurer $4,000 the Superintendent $1,000
and his assistants $4,000. The receipts of
the bridge are always in excess OF the eX-
penditures, the profit during the year end
ing December l, 1890, amounting to $4,000.
Near Lamar, Colo, little girl of years
wandered to the platform of an express
train and was blown off while the train was
running at the rate of Thirty miles an hour.
A locomotive was sent back, and the
searehers found the child at midnight Sit
ting unhurt in clump of weeds, and keep
ing very still for fear the Indians would get
her.
Two thousand pairs of woolen socks are
knitted at the prison at Jackson, Mich,
each year. The man who bosses the tailor
ing department says: IL convict sees
another with new pair Of socks he will
not rest until he gets pair or know why he
doesn't They tear the toe or heel and then
they try to make me think IL Is legitimate
wear-out"
A rather unique franchise has been OBJ
tained by company organized in Kansas
City, said to be composed of Some of the
weathiest men there. They propose TO lay
mains throughout the city for the purpose of
supplying houses with air-cold air in the