The morning call., 1891-07-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| Ing his wife's diamonds.
A Cincinnati man has been in the work.
house seven times for abusing his family.
A pair of sparrows have built their nest
in the hood of an electric lamp at Baltimore.
Laramie, Wyo., boasts of cat 1S years
| old that is SAID to be the mother Of 1011 kit
| tens.
! An inhuman wretch has been arrested at
| Cincinnati for pulling the hair out OF q
| horses tail
! A large number of farms in New Jersey
have been abandoned because OF high taxes
| and unproductiveness.
Miss Ida Wright, an Indianapolis invalid.
| surreptitiously obtained morphine, swallow
ing dose which proved fatal.
A Rutland (Vt) woman recently rescued
her own boy and a neighbours sou from
| gypsies at the point Of a revolver
| Charles Huffman of Monticello, H.,
dropped dead from heart disease just as his
| wedding ceremony was concluded.
AT Vieksburg, Miss, a jury of twelve
| White men has given negro elected from a
railroad train verdict of $1,000 damages.
A carnivorous COW in Missouri has made
herself CONSPICUOUS by devOuring every
| young chicken or g6sling she comes across.
The limited mail on the Pennsylvania
line between Columbia, Ohio, and Indian
| apolis is said TO he the fastest railroad train
in America.
Two whales-mother and baby-were re-
Gently washed ashore at Wildwood Beach,
Ia. The latter was captured alive and
| weighed a ton.
| An inmate of the Youngstown Ohio
| poorhouse for over twenty years has been
found and rescued by his son, who had sup
| posed him dead.
A kangaroo at Melbourne, Australia, has
| been trained for the prize ring. Iu recent
contest he downed professional pug" in
| the first round.
| II has haan Ji-ooyaraJ ,bo+ n Ch;oo 40, -, -,
| mas been drawing monthly pension of SIG
! IN the name of a soldier who died August
10, 1868. nearly twenty-eght years ago.
A resident of Minneapolis has fallen heir
| to three big fortunes. The smallest of the
| three IS more than $4,000. and Is from rela-
tives totally unknown to The lucky man.
| a German paper states that DR.. Lehner of
AuSsburgh has solved the problem of man
| ufacturlng artificial silk, ami that it canu6t
be distinguished from the natural article.
Martin Farrell, an inmate of the Soldiers
HONE at Dayton, Oaio, met accidentally. a
lew days ago his son, whom lie had not seen
since 1861. Each believed the other dead.
A number of bicyclsts in Annston, Ala,
contemplate making the trip to Louisville,
KY, on their wheels to attend the convsn-
| ton OF wheelmen which meets in that city
| shortly
| A Xenia Ohio man became enraged
| when he discovered that his broth er was to
| be married at the same time as him self, and
skipped. leaving mis- prospective br ide dis
| consulate.
Mrs. Ann Doherty of Aver, Mass, is
| dead. aged nearly 103. She was born in
| Ireland aud emgrated in 1910. She had
| fourteen children, of whom eight are in this
| country.
Generosity is national trait of the Chill
| cans ana the American tramps who drift
| into Santiago are reputed TO make from SO
to $50 day 10y begging at the doors of the
wealthy.
/ 1t is said that in Munich, which consumes
| more beer than any other German city, the
| family allowance of the amber fluid amounts
| 10 900 quarts year for every mau, woman
! and child.
A convict in Ohio in giving his wife a
| parting kiss slipped into her mouth a note
| telling her where some Of his booty was
| concealed.
There is an old man in Manchester, En-
gland. whose name is Gagadig Gigadab.
| Ills name originally WAS John Smith, and
he mad 1t changed because it was not suflici-
| entity distinctive.
A bear that everybody thought was tame
| got loose IN Lancaster, Pa, and entering a
| JeWelry-Store had good time tearing the
| CLOCKS TO pieces ami throwing gold watches
! into The street.
| CHAMBERS are reported to be prevailing to
| an alarming extent in Chattanooga, Tenn,
| and its vicinity. Several horses have died o;
! IL, and others have been killed to prevent the
| spread of the disease
AT Indian Lake, in the Adrondacks, n
| cottage WAS burgiarized. and three children.
| aged ., II - resi ectlvely, who were sus-
| pected OF the crime, attempted suicide with
| Paris green, but were resuscitated.
a Long Island City man, who presented
| himself TO DE married in grossly intoxi-
| Gated condition, was ordered from the house
| by his prospective bride with the injunc-
| ton to never let her see him again.
An estate Of over $4,000, with many
complications attending il, has Just been
settled in Kingston, n. Y. All tho expenses
attending, including the executors COM
mission, amounted to only $40, 900.
Sheriff MARRIED. Of Arkansas City, Ark,
| Is short $4,000 on this and $4,000 on last
years settlement He has been dealing
| heavily in cotton in futures, and his defalcA-
tion is total loss to his bondsmen.
| At Foxboro, Mass, contest Of eleven
years duration between the progressive
| citizens and the silurians OF the town in 70
| gard 10 the Introduction of water works has
been ended by victory of the former.
AT Admission, Alt, during a thunder
| storm, twin brothers named Campbell
| sought shelter under a tree ana We're in
stantiy killed by lightning, as were also
| two mules with which they were blowing.
For severe hemorrhage of the nose try
| holding the arms up over the head for five
| minutes at a time. A small piece OF ice
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the top OF the nose VIII usually give relief
a rattlesnake thirty inches long was found
| In Photographic gallery in Northampton,
Mass, on the third floor OF Main-st-eet
| Block. 1t probably crawled from Mount
| Tom, two miles away, where they are plenty.
| 4 Newark(Ohio) man has sued the manager
| of a circus for the return OF his admi sion fee
| The show was threatened with demolition
| by high wind when the performance WAS
| half over and the audience was advised to
| leave.
Among the curiosites on exhibition In tile
| British Museum is a Chinese bank note is
| sued during the reign OF the Emperor Hung
| WI, A. ID. 1858. This is supposed To be
the earliest specimen of bank note in exis-
| tence.
Some workmen digging on property be-
| longing to land company in Northeast
| Norfolk, Va, unearthed an old rusty put
containing $1,000 in gold and silver. Tho
money Is in the possession of the land COM
| pany.
A man who was horsewhipped by Kan
| sas woman for slandering her daughter ha S
| brought suit against his assaiant for
| $4,000. 1t would not be possible to get a
jury in the whole State of Kansas who
would give him 10 cents.
A Cleveland (0ho) Judge has recently de-
cided IN case where two rival electric light
| companies commended for the ownership of a
patent for using the earth as a conductor of
electric currents that the earth belongs to
the public.
Charles Muller of Little Falls. N. j.. fell
| asleep in chair and on awakening found
| himself Sghtless lie is q barber and 81