The morning call., 1891-08-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| 1WURTlS Oh SntStHuU Street, fulIauelpnla,
recently had gold combs.
| In all their wars the British have won the
splendid average Of 81 per cent of the bat
| ties.
There are known to be 209 cities in the
| world with populations of over 100, 900 per-
sons each.
| Plants grow faster between and o'clock
IN tne morning than at any other time dur
| ing the day.
Ohio's State S hool Commiss i0ner is ac-
cused of pla2iarizing lecture from Phila-
| delpha clergyman.
While at a camp meeting in Texas town
| young man prOfeSsed religion and literally
| shouted himself to death.
A recent run on a Cape May On. J.) bank
| was caused by the foolish joke of a boy,
who Is now in jail in default of $1,000 bonds.
A street-railway sprinkling-car is SAID to
| be under construction To sprinkle the track
along the electric line between st. Paul and
| Minneapolis.
Several thickuesses of paper pasted to-
gether have from time immemOrial been
found extremely serviceable in China as
| sOles for shoes.
A swordhsh marketed In New Badford,
| Mass, had imbedded in its flesh the head
OF harpOon that is supposed to have been
there twenty years.
The State OF New York supports seven
! schools for deaf mutes in which there are
| about 1900 pupils. These schools have edu-
| Gated many thousands, and mOCt of them
| are doing well.
The greatest bird cage on the continent is
| sad to be the Grand Central Railroad Sta
ton in New York. The noisy English spar
| rows swarm there by thousands and nest in
| the great archlng roof glrders.
DO not be angry II the roOsters awaken
| you at daybreak. Remember that if you
went to bed at sunset you would be willing
| to get up with the chickens, and roosters
| don StOI To consular Such thinus
BY the will of A. G. Hubbard, Christ
| Church, at South Farms, Conn, is given the
| income OF $4,000. An estate of 81, coo, 900
| is divided between the widow. daus hler and
three grandchildren of the deceased.
Dancing IN wooden shoes is the latest
| wrinkle at an Illinois summer resort
| Satlrical St Louis bellies say that there are
| no No. l2's in stock, and that the Chicago
| girls foot covering has to be made to order.
At a Philadelphia boarding house at
tached to the revolving fly chaser on
the dining table was a placari which
read: If any one asks twice for pie
we'll wind up the chaser aud hit him in the
| eye'
An old Australian says that the thrilling
| stories about the boomerang are the purest
hctlon. The weapon is merely the natives
| tomahawk, and 1t Is no more dangerous
| than combined club and hatchet would be
| In any skilled hands.
At Ennis, Tex, some despicable scoun-
| drels, who took offense at n Clergyman
| remarks, waylaid him after service and
| pelted him with Rotten eggs. The brutes
were recognized aud stInd a good chance
Of doing the State service.
The fashion of using a canton flannel
cloth under the linen table-cloth is a very
desirable one. 1t prevents noise when
dishes are set down. saves much wear OH
hne linen cloths, making them last longer,
and gives body to an old or thin CLOTH
1t took a Btidgeton On. j. youth several
| hours TO discover that lie was cOurting his
best giIPs brother instead of his own sweet
| heart. lie had dressed in his sisters clothes,
| and made so free with her powders. that
| the beau was dumfodHded at the awful dis
| cOvery.
Dressmakers read with alarm descrip-
| tions OF some of the costumes worn by
| Bernhardt in the character of Cleopatra,
| Several yards OF costly material are simply
| swathed about the body and limbs, and
pinned in place, to give the drapery an
artistic effect.
An English inventor has constructed a
| novel device to do away with the enormous
| pressure of water against the bows of ocean
steamers. 1t consists of one or more screws
| on each side OF the bow, which throws the
water aside aud creates dry well in front
| OF the vessel
Although whales grow to enormous sizes,
| sometimes eighty feet and even ninety feet
long, the throat is so small that it cannot
SnatiO" a bitC ao Id &c Us tea biscuit.
| This applies to the common whale; the
| spermacet has a mouth large enough to
| swallow man.
! BY the death of an uncle St Louis ser
want girl has fallen heir to a $50, coo estate
near Charleston, Mo. For six months
| those in charge of the property had been
| trying to find her, ami for the same ltnsth
| of lime her frien6s had been vainly seeking
the fortune which they heard had been left
| her.
Gold doubloons of the value of $1,000
! were found few days ago at creek cross
| ing ten miles below Laverna, Tex, by
young man living in the vicinity. The
| money is thought to have been buried by
| fugitives from the Mexican army during
! the retreat following the battle of San
| Jacinto in 1886.
A fashionable young man has received
| sentence OF twelve years and six mouths in
| prison from a New York Judge, having six
times fired his clearinghouse in hopes of
| securing an insurance of $500 on his per-
| sOnal properly therein. Tho sentence, al
though severe, was insisted upon by the
Judge, who argued with great emphasis
| against stay OF sentence, which has, how
ever, been obtained.