The morning call., 1891-06-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The United States and Canada have
19, 373 newspapers.
Robert Christie, the English champion
checker player, is only "A years old.
The King of Greece has made Sc, 00O, 900
in speculation on the London Change.
Willard, Iowa, has four-Iegged chicken,
and Akron, Ohio. possesses horned rab bit.
William Virtue, New York boy has be-
lied his name by forging signatures to money
orders.
a gypsy woman at Nyack, n. Y, recently
made an unsuccessful attempt TO steal a
little girl.
"Old Sport Campana. the aged pedes-
TRAN, has started on tramp from Chicago
20 Omaha.
A Brooklyn Police Commissioner has
fined Knight of the Star for chewing gum
in his presence.
Hay - years old has been found in Wet.
more, Nd, and is said to be well preserved,
bright and sweet.
OF all the Southern States. it is said that
Kentucky alone has made no provision for
her eX-C0nfederates.
Sixty million tons Of iron ore are in sight
around Iron Mountain Mich ; more than
can be mined in twenty years.
Diphtheria and scarlet fever have wrought
sad havoc in a Detroit (Mich.) family, whose
six out of eight children have died within
year.
George MusSulman of Mendon. Mich. has
a $500 wager that he can collect 100000
postage stamps in twelve months. lie has
now 100000 on his string.
A safe used in the Castle Garden Office of
the New FORK immigration authorities was
sold at public auction the other day and
brought 81. 1t was empty.
A e0lored preacher quoted welLknown
| passage IN Shakespeare thus: 'As we
| travel along the road from whence the
travellers bones never return"
At WellstoB, o., Joseph Irwin, a respected
business man, became violently insane after
his marriage. He is in a critical condition
| and the brides life is despaired Of.
OToVille (Ala.) has a bOneless boy. He is
years old, weighs . or 30 pounds. cannot
stand, but can scratch the base of his head
| with his feet, or roll himself into a bail.
An AtchsOn (Kans.) Italian makes good
| living by travelling from place to place along
| the river and finding work for his country
men. They pay him 81 apiece for his
| trouble
Feather beds or pillows should never be
put ID tie sun, for the heat draws out the
oil from the feathers, giving them a rancid
smell Air them on q windy day where the
| sun will not touch them.
AS result of the recent conflagrati0n at
| Allston, Ont, not drY-gOods or grocery
store is left in the town. Over 100 business
houses were destroyed, and the burned dis
| trict covers an area of six blocks.
L. K. Crowley, living near Strang, Nebr.
was bitten three times by raJtlesnake the
other day. He drank half gallon of
whisky and has felt no bad effects either
| from the snake bite or the liquor.
A Brooklyn eandy-st0re keeps open but
J one hour on the Sabbath-that following
| the close of Sunday-school session-wbe1
! the proprietor does thriving business with
the youngsters and shuts up shop
A Paterson On j. woman recently CAP
| tured a burglar in her room and held him
! until police assistance arrived. At that
| iuneture her husband emerged from under
the bed, where he had been hiding.
A sporting estate in the Highlands of
| Scotland, which was valued few years ago
| at goo, was offered for sale ten DAYS ago
| at Edinburgh, and the reserve Price was only
ESQ goo; but there was not single bid
| A sugar, fifteen times sweeter than that
| extracted from cane. and twenty times
| sweeter than beet sugar, is reported by a
| German chemist from eOttOn-seed meal IL
! cannot be sold to compete with the ordinary
| article,
| Ira Morrison, who died recently. was a
native of Milton Hill, VT, where he was
| born in 1907. During his lifetime he had
never been farther from his birthplace than
| Albany. 40 miles distant lie never rode on
| a railroad train but once.
Women are the chief enemies of the new
| tangled letter-boxes. The objection urged
| by them is that it is impossible to post let
| ter In these boxes unless one has both hands
| free for the purpose, and it rarely happens
! that woman out upon the streets has both
| hands unincumbered
| While James Liddy was riding I'm an In
dianapolis street-ear the brake-handle
| slipped from the drivers grasp and struck
a pistol in his breast pocket.
| bullet from the weapon killed Liddy in
! stanty. His widow recovered $4,000 dam
| ages from the car company.
| A New Orleans oyster loaf is half of n
| ten-cent double pointed loaf of white bread
| IL is split down one side and then a part Of
! its soft interior is taken out and all the rest
| is toasted. After that dozen fried oysters
| are put in the loaf, and it is closed and has
| wedge OF toasted bread fitted into its open
| end.
A new form of water shed is designed To
| utilize the flow of streams where a dam
| cannot be constructed, and where the chr
| rent alone is available. The apparatus con-
sists of a series Of wheels shaped like pro
| peiler blades, each wheel operating indie
pendentIy, but all connected with common
shaft.
| A confirmed drunkard, in his dreams
| imagined that he had found a cup Of ex
| ceIeIt teddy and put it by the fire to warm
| IN order to bring the flavor out the better.
| But the moment be attempted TO taste the
| delicious draught he awoke. Fool that I
! was" he cried; why could l net have
| drunk it coldP
| There is a movement on foot to start n
! printing trades institute in Paris under the
! directory of n practical printer. where
American ana English boys can be taught
the trade. Lord LyttOn. the English Elm
| bassador. patronizes the undertaking. and
several members of the American coIonv
| are On the Board Of Managers