The morning call., 1891-11-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

England's new torpedo depot ship Vulcan,
OF which much was expected. is declared to
be failure.
One Of the largest hospitals in the world,
containing accommodations for from 1000 to
| 1900 patients, has been opened at Con nti-
nople, Turkey.
Orange, Mass. has six residents. each
aged over 80. who we're schoomates over
seventy years ago. Their united age is SOB;
average age. SO.
Bernard Downey, an ex-convict of Fort
! Wayne Ind, who claimed to be reformed
man, burglarized saloon Of 500. and on a
plea OF guilty he has been sent back to
| prison.
A scarf-pin invented by Joker is made
OF a genuine Glove encircled by silver
snake, and mounted on a card with the in
scrption: well. what's yours? Well. I'll
take the same"
Grevy. according to LIE Temps, Of Paris.
In general spoke with little bitterness when
critlclslng his oppenents or men whom ne
disliked. He did not bride his tongue,
however, regarding Boulanger.
An agrarian lawsuit in the Caucasus, in
| which the plaintiff is the Prince of Min
grelia, has so many people concerned with
| 1t, the witnesses amounting TO 1000. that the
court is sitting in the open air.
fatality seems to have pursued Presi
dent Harrison's private secretaries. Both
Secretary Halford and Assistant Secretary
| TuucD UdV6 iOSL Cnelr wives Dy Q6atQ uur-
| Ing the present administration.
Sir Morel Mackenzie, the famous London
throat physician, says that out Of 200 per
sons afflicted with loss OF voice there were
only four in which the electrical treatment
did not achieve the desired end.
A whistlng buoy drifted from the North
Atlantic coast to the Bnrmudas, and, unless
picked up, would have reached the bay of
Biscay. All the time the whistle worked
and its melancholy wall continued.
A most simple cement for mendlng glass
and earthenware is made of white of egg
| and water beaten together and brought to
the consistency OF thin paste with
| powdered quicklime. Use Immediately.
| Excessive vibration is said by NJ. Nor
mand. the famous French builder of tor
| pedo-boats, to be one of the most serious
| difficulties to overcome in the building Of
light ships intended to run at high speed.
! A snake in the grass has been discovered
| to the cigarette smoker An insect that
! bores into the cigarette and lays an egg
! causes the trouble. The worm that results
| eats the tobacco and virtually poisons the
! cigarette.
| Two thousand years ago the great COM
| mercial emporiums of the world were
ranged along the isotherm OF Alexandria,
| Egypt but have ever since gravtated toward
| the ATTITUDES enjoying the Industrial Stimu-
| lus of frost
! 1t is customary, as every one knows, to
| serve beef aud mutton quite rare. Lamb
and veal should be thoroughly done, but
! they should not for this reason, be dry.
| The juices should follow the knife when the
| meats are cut on the table.
! Under a new law murderers in Mime
! sofa condemned to death must be hanged
| between midnight and dawn. Such a law
| would give great leisure to Sheriff and con-
| demned III Northern Alaska, where for
months dawn commences before dark.
Colonel Pug Jones and Colonel Dave
| Nicholson r DramiOs nf
| They each weigh about 200 pounds, and at
| tend the same theater eat at the same res
taurant, bet on tile same horses, get left on
the same baseball game and otherwise
daily pool their separate fortunes.
In Berlin the name Schultz is very COM
mon. The city directory has nearly 200
| pages of citizens bearing that name, and in
certain departments of the city government
there are numerous sub-departments each
| having different set of clerks to take CAFE
! OF special divisions of the Schultz family.
| The fine engine Charles Dickens, built
| by the London and Northwestern Railway
! Company in 1882 for special express service
| between Manchester and London, has COM
! pleted her millionth mile, having run the
| daily connection. with occasional eXcep-
| tons through necessary repairs, during
| that period.
| There is to be sent over from Ireland TO
! the Chicago Exposition a brides trousseau.
! Every article of Undertaking is To be
is TO be covered with irish point. A Linz
eriek lace dress and a number of Irish
| poplin gowns are among the brides cos
| tunes.
The English census has revealed an
! economic fact of great importance. 1t
| shows that the urban population has not
| increased at the expense of the rural dis
| tricts, but that the decrease in the popula-
! ton oil the country IS made up in the in
crease OF what may be called the suburban
| population.
In his village up in the hills of Bologna
Salvini dimes ate and finishes his evening
meal at 10. Budding tragedians will read
| with wonder that his dining-hall Is forty
teet square and that the trophies of his
| American tours, in the shape of statues,
| plciutes, medals. plate and jewelry, are
! valued at 100000.
Deadbeating ones way is often attended
with terrible discomfort A stowaway
who reached Boston recently in an English
to eat but paper For water he had to lick
the sweat of the ships iron work. He was
| nearly dead when discovered, but it is
thought he will come around all right
| A horse in the Boston Police Department
! is getting reputation for hospitality, When
one of the officers leaves his horse in the
| same stable, and fastens MIN near by. the
| other picks up hay and forces it through the
| iron grating Of his stall for his guest TO eat.
He began to show his hospitality about a
| ever since.
A little boy of Thomasvllle, Ga, recently
| wrote the following composition in his idle
| moments; Zone time there was a little
boy. his mother told him to go and wash his
| feet, and he cried and wouldn't do so: he
went and sit on the rail fence and the rail
cracked and fell and cracked his head, and
That Is what he got for not obeying his
| mother"
A new method of boiling eggs without
ri hnr hAt l..
| by Frenchman. ''In little iron vessel of
| some kind, reads the recipe, put your egg
or eggs with small piece of quickime BY
| the means of a stout string lower this into
the bottom of pit. Two minutes later pull
1t up and you will discover your eggs to be
| cooked to a turn"
The hired man" on New England farm
| occupies unique position and in many
ways is a privileged character. As usual
thlng he is regarded not as servant but
almost KS member of the household. There
are New England farmers worth hundreds
OF thousands of dollars who never sit down
| to meal that they do not have their field
hands at their elbow.
Scion Chase. the veteran apostle of fiat
| money. IS postmaster at Chases Mills, in
maine some time ago an inspector visit ed
| Solon's office, and, after looking over the
| books, Inquired of the Postmaster where he
kept the Government funds, which the law
| requires must be separate from the others.
IN my pocket, was the immediate reply
OF the famous "fnancier"
| Here's patriotism for you'll A Cincinnati
| merchant offered to supply the Secretary of
State of Ohio with all the ballots no was
oollged 10 furnish the voters at the recent
| election free of charge. The only privilege
| he asked in return for this generosity was TO
insert simple line at the head of the ballot
| telling the voters where to buy their wiuter
clothing yet the offer was declined.
An aged citizen of Exeter. n. H., recall
ing his memories of a cattle show held