The morning call., 1891-04-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

At Winchester, Va, recently, snow fell
for forty-one hours, reaching depth of "a
feet
President Carnot is said to be very fond
of German sausage and sauerkraut, much to
the disgust of the French.
James and Alexander Bathgate, brothers,
of Morrisania, N. Y, died of the grip on
the same day, aged 65 and II respectively.
Several Chicago youngsters have beaten the
nickel-in-t he-siot machines by dropping IN
pieces of lead the exact weight OF the coin.
A little Brooklyn boy was fearfully man.
gled by street-car, and his mothers mind
was SO affected that she attempted suicide.
A Michigan ''Peeping Tom" has been
drummed out of town at short notice. He
will be tarEed and feathered should be re-
turn.
Grand Rapids, Mich, leads the world in
its percentage of divorce to marriages. This
year the ratio is one to five and last year one
to six.
Sheriff Brown of Chickasaw County,
Iowa, % years old, is the youngest Sheriff
in the Northwest, if not in the United
States.
Thomas L. Bedford of DanyilIe, Ind, aged
world.
Joseph Cook, the Boston lecturer, is in
extremely bad odor in the South. The title
of "Rev.," often prefixed to his name. is er-
roneous.
A well-preserved frog. supposed to have
been imprisoned for at least thirty years.
has been found in the trunk of a tree in
Tennessee.
A New York mulatto advertises in the
Herald for white wife. Among other
requisite qualifications. she must be non
mereenary."
In 1851 three days shower of blood fell
all over Southern Europe, and in the same
year loaf, fresh from the oven, bled when
sliced at the table.
An iusulter of wemen in Virginia recently
received thirty-nine lashes on the bare back,
after which he was given three hours in
which to leave town.
1t is said that 2l1, OO0, 600 acres of land In
this country are owned by railroad e0mpa-
MES. This vast area would make SIX States,
each as large as Iowa.
Three Americans will soon start Sunday
newspaper in London, England. L. L.
O'Connor, NJ. P. of Chelsea, is TO be mana
ger at a salary Of $4,000.
No less than 1900 young girls and women,
homeless, friendleSs, helpless aud foodless,
sleep in the open-all-night shelters OF Step
ney Green. London. in ayear.
The Quakers at Willis. Mich. have hired
a colored preacher. He will receive $500
year for his work. and the combination will
undoubtedly draw good houses.
A generous Eastern man has given his
clergyman $4,000 with which to make
tour of Europe without ''the slightest
anxiety or bother about money"
Said Maine Judge, in granting divorce
at Skowhegan: mo woman who is decent
should be obliged to live with drunken
her divorce every time"
Henry c. II. Lewis of Fitchburg. Mass.
possesses a watch which the Marquis de
Lafayette gave to an aid or orderly. Cap
tain Jonathan Moore, during the Reyolu-
ton. 1t is at least lis years old
The Boston Herald prints thief following
unique advertisement: "Fleas! fleas ieas
wanted-25c per doz. for large dog or house
feas for exhibition purposes DICKS, En-
tomologist, 81 Cottage ST., L. Boston,
David James, aged IS. was buried in Min
eral Ridge, Ohio, recently, and after the
funeral relatives uDearthed bag containing
S1305 in gold coin planted in the cellar of his
residence. He was estimated to be worth
$4,000.
Harry A. Garfield, eldest son of the late
President Garfield, was defeated for nominal
ton to the Cleveland Council by John Hintz,
a saioon-keeper in the Third District. Gar
field ran for the Board of Education q year
ago, and was defeated then.
The effect which living at high attitudes
has on the blood of animals has been re-
Gently investigated, and the results show
that the proper ton Of oxygen in the blood
of men and animals acclmatized there was
the same as that of jewellers at lower levels.
Nine. Bernhard is fond of eggs, and evil
IDENTIFY believes in the theory that IAN egg
is as good as a pound of meat" She has
them almost every morning and often at
night after returning from the theater. and
likes them in almost every form in which
they can be cooked.
The head of the London Walters Union
has stated that tue tipping system has de-
veloped to such an extent that IN some res
taurants the walters pay five shillings a day
for the privilege OF waiting. From this fact
it appears that walters wages are based
upon his chances of tip or no tip.
Topeka, the one city in Kansas in which
it had been claimed by the Prohibitionists
that prohibition actually prohibited. has
been thunderstruck by the discovery of a
saloon in the business center directly OppO-
site the Postoffice, and only one block from
the Metropolitan Police headquarters.
John Ruskin says; You might read all
the books in the British Museum, if you
could live long enough, and remain an ut
terly iliterate, unedueated person. But if
You read ten pages in good book, letter by
letter-that is TO say with real accuracy
you are foreyerm0re, In some measure, an
educated person."
For tile first time in the history Of temper
ance reform woman has spoken before the
ltDHtSStt ltEloidtutcs MIS-. -. ~. rItliCu
of Knoxville, one of the most accom- Iished
women and journalists in the South, pleaded
for law for the better protection of
women. She has consecrated herself to the
work of the W. c. L. U.
The Compagne Generate des Voitures of
Paris are about to start a paper entitled
Paris Voiture, which will be procured by
cab. The paper will contain the bills Of the
theaterS, a few illustrations and tips for the
races. The purchaser will also be insured
during his drive.
The sod house on the Kansas frontier and
the dwelling Of Greenland EsQuimau are
very much alike, about the only difference
being an 0yerground bnrrow In the home of
the EsQuimau. All Greenland houses are of
the same size, face the same way, and are
built of the same material-layers Of rough
granite, sod and mortar.
The following is a specimen of English
as she, is wrote,n which appears in the ia
pan Herald: I'VE can only say that the
Mails returning to the subject by the furry
the editor was in after our paragraph, that
his ibeling of the foreign mercantile COM
munity might lead to further Withdrawals
by them of subscriptions and advertise
ments."
The First Church of Boston has probably
the largest collection OF church plate in the
city, accumulating from gifts and requests
for two and a half centuries. Pieces from
it are used alternately. On Easter Sunday
tall silver ehalice, embossed, gift of Gov
ernor Winthrop in 1913, is always put upon
the table. 1t bears the London Hall
Mark" 1910.
Not long ago, in Rochester, n. Y, boy
was killed by the effect of an explosion of
fire-crackors. A reporter volunteered the
information, in a local paper. that his
afflicted and bereayed parents would have
the sympathy OF the community. 1t was
printed his afflicted and bereaved pants, :"
and the journal was charged with a breach
of propriety.
Henry Dillon, who died in Beaver Falls,
Pa, few days ago, was for thirty years
pointed out wherever he went as the man
who stood back to back and measured
heights with Abraham Lincoln. Not long
ago another man died. whose death was an
nounced throughout the Land as that of the
man who prescribed an onion p0ultice for
President Garfield.
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