The morning call., 1891-05-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Omaha Is flooded with bogus nickels.
Phladelphians consumed 35,000,0 900 cigar
cites last year.
A Sixteen-year-oId Maryland girl has been
convicted Of murder.
A Middletown (Pa.) girl has become blind
from excessive rope-jumping.
Mayor Clark of Lancaster, Pa, has re-
deemed So certificate issued by the city In
1887.
Some society ladies in New York carry
their change in their grandfathers' snuff
boxes.
An Arkansas boy who was bitten on the
rible agony.
mirror brought to this country in 1776
stands In the window of Chester (Pa.) fur
nlture-St9re.
An Ohio woman was SO frightened by a
snake that her glossy black hair turned
white as snow.
The man who attempted to walk on stills
from Paris to Moscow has been stopped by
the Russian police.
A grandniece of the Duke of Wellington
is Obliged to earn her living selling flowers
III London arcade.
An Indiana religious enthusiast, who be-
lieves it sin to talk, has spoken but four
words in thirty years.
Mrs. Langtry is the owner of pin
cushion made of the silver in which
vegetables were once served TO the kings Of
Ireland.
In Kansas, where they have both prohi-
billion and female suffrage, there was an in
toxicated woman at the polls at the last
election.
A Brooklyn furniture firm advertlses:
"Any chamber suite in cur entire establish
ment for cent more than it cost US. To-
day only"
Mention is made of child born at Hart
ford, Conn.,, last month which weighed only
two pounds and three ounces when it was
three days old.
Five little Baltimore girls held child
Ten's fair from Which they realized IS 90
which they donated to the authorities for
benevolent purposes.
Simon Stone, trusted empl0ye Of a Phila-
delphia Silk-thread house. at a 5000 salary,
has been deIe3ted in populations aggregating
$4,000. He has been in the firms employ
sixteen years.
A Berlin electric light company has for
some time been supplying small motors for
running sewing-machines with power from
its central station. The cost is quite low
and large number are lii use.
Horace Maxfield, the executor of the
estate Of "ATtemuS Ward" the humorst,
says that the illinois woman claiming to he
his widow is fraud, inasmuch as Browne
(nls real nance uleQ Dacnelor.
a Cincinnati coiored man called upon a
magistrate with his best girl to be married.
Alter the ceremony he was asked for the
fee, when he said: why, l thought the
city paid that; l have no money"
A little boy of Mr.. and Mrs. Brooks, liv-
Ing near Lexington, Ca, though hardly
years old, can spell from book almost any
word anu pronounce it, and can read as
gliby as many a child twice his age.
The army of the United States consists
of 2l67 commissioned officers and little
over 10000 private soldiers, exclusive of
those performing civilian duties. Thus one
tenth of Its force consists of its officers.
Professor Halsey c. Ives. who will man.
age the art department of the Worlds Fair,
is "a years of age and has for the last seven
teen years been connected with the Wash
ingtOn University School of Fine Arts.
The marriage Of John Rimer and Eliza
beth Foley of Camden. n. j., spurred up
dilatOry lover of Philadelphia of the same
name to proposal By a curious COIN
cidence his brides name was also Elizabeth
Foley.
DIR. Mary Walker says: You talk about
a woman who puts on trousers feeling like
fool. Just you trail around with skirts
wet to your knees Topping about your heels
and then tell me who feels the nearer ready
for cap and bells"
1U6 lOIUWiHR aInuSluS advertisement was
evidently written in good faith: II want
to let my furnished house shootable for lega-
ti0ns or any other man. And if it does not
shoot the legation can shoot himself else
where. Apply to-"
James Muncey is the hero OF Parkers-
burg, w. Va. AT the risk of his life he
grappled with mad dog which was headed
for hundreds OF school children and choked
it TO death. lie received several bites from
the rabid beast, which were promptly eau
teriZed.
The young Crown Prince of Siam, Is
years OLD, has had his hair cut, and prayers,
professions. music, pOmpOus ceremonials
and sacred tapers were necessary for the
event. After the ceremony the locks were
thrown into the river, with prayers and
blessings.
A letter has been received by Philadel-
phia firm that was mailed from Pennsyl-
vania town In 1884. The letter was an ac-
ceptance of the Philadelphia firms bid for
carload of wheat which the surviving
partner would be glad to get to-day at the
price then quoted.
Charles Westrick, Postmaster at Bismarck.
Ohio, has written to Postmaster Gums tein OF
Cincinnati asking for Information as to how
to 'let CO. his office, which is. a fourth class
one. He wants TO go West and the Second
Assistant Postmaster General pays no atten-
ton to his resignation.
Il. S. Potter and wife of Ainsworth,
Nebr., died few days ago of pneumonia,
superinduced by la grippe. They were Sc
years old, were married in 1S41, never had
any children, and five days before their
death took to their bed together. where they
died within about three hours of each other.
A little settlement in Camden County. N.
j.. composed entirely of colored people, is
known as Snow Hill, the Government hav-
ing dignified the place with a postoffce.
Another similar circumstance is noted in
Salem County, where all the colored peo-
pie in the town OF Hancock Bridge are
named White.
Kate Field is not the large dashing, mas
culine woman that many believe she is by
any means. On the contrary, she is exceed
ingly feminine and uuassuming. She Is
rather small in stature, with an admirable
manner and knack of saying things that
are remembered and passed along from
mouth to mouth.
The site for stone to mark the starting
point of the first locomotive ever used In
this country, john Bull. No. l." was located
near the Mile Hollow, near Bordentown,
N. j., by the Pennsylvania Railroad, re.
Gently. Around the base there Will be a