The morning call., 1891-05-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| for higher salaries.
A Kansas man recently sent 81 to Kan
sas "bucket-shOp" for four buckets.
A Bayarian nObleman is forced to drop
| his title when he goes into business OF any
| kind.
Because man sometimes allows himself
| to be imposed upon, it is not positive proof
| that he doesn't know it.
A recent lawsuit in Chicago involved the
recovery OF a cent and resulted IN an eX-
| penditare of $500 in fees.
a New York mechanic has rolled copper
| cent into ribbon three-quarter5 OF an lnch
| wide and eighty-tour inches long.
| A Memphis paper complains that the seats
| In the park on Sunday are monopOliZtd Dy
| negroes and poor white trash"
A Maryland woman has recovered $500
damages from a railroad company for carry
ing her half a mile out OF her way.
Mayor Matthews of Boston predicts that
! in fifty years the majority Of the people OF
| New England will be of Irish descent.
Mayor COrns of Ironton, Ohio, is serving
his eleventh consecutive term. Peripatetlc
eAiropOdists receive especial fayOrs at his
! hands.
| A jackson (Mich.1 man, recently married,
| celebrated the event by treating his friends
| to bread tickets lie passed them instead
of cigars.
The funeral ceremonies over the remains
| of the late Prince ChuE. father of the reign
| ing Emperor of China, began on January
18TH, and are still going on.
A BOStOnian is paying $3.50 per month to
| twenty-five assessment endowment con-
| Germs, which are going TO return TO him
| $4,000 in the jerk Of a lambs tail "
Many New Workers Of the smart set"
| who 90 abroad every season provide them
| selves with their own gastrOnomic iuxuries
/ and dainties for consumption on the voyage.
What is style? 1t is merely a peculiarly
| of the way things are worn or made which
distinguishes one persons clothes from an
! others.
! DR.. Koch has been honOrei in Berlin by
| having his portrait displayed over the en-
trance to a new cafe called The jolly
| Bacillus"
AT Jeffersonvillr, Ind, one Coward, both
! by name and nature, shot his mother III the
| face, dishguring her for life. The vile wretch
| WAS jailed
1t is rather surprising to learn that the
| little republic of Uruguay has more news
papers in proportion TO its population than
any other country in tho world.
1t is a serious thing to testify in a Japan
| csc court When witness Is sworn bis ill.,
| ger Is cut. and the blood used to seal bis
! declaration when written out.
Sarah Bernhardt declares that Julia Mar
| lowe is by all odds the most promising OF
the American actresses. She saw her in
| Philadelphia recently and raves about her.
Henrik Ibsen was a little bOor in his boy
| hood. and even his brothers and sisters dis
| liked him. Ia revenge for his meannesS
| and unSociable ways trey used to pelt him
| with stones and snow balls.
The coffee crop in the district OF Coatepec,
| State of Vera Cruz, near Jalapa, is reported
10 be unusually abundant aud of iirSt-casS
! quality. Similar reports are, IN fact, COM
| ing in from all the coffee regions.
A letter has been received by the man
| of Va n
wishes to obtain the exclusive right to per-
| form the tragedy of Hamlet" by means of
| puppets, electricity dsphonography.
The late Rev. MIR. Neil Of Victoria, Tex,
| offcated at the funeral of every abandoned
| character who died in that town during the
| past ten years. He was the pastor of
wealthy and prominent people, yet died
| poor.
a gastronomic feature on the White Star
| steamers Is Welsh rabbit served every night
in the cabin to such passengers as are in
condition TO eat the cheese combination,
made by the stewards to Cardiff perfec-
| ton"
An elderly New Yorker, whose business
| takes him to Europe twice year, always
makes special contract with the steam
| ship com paDy in effect that If he should die
on the voyage his body is not 10 be buried
| at sea.
| A professional, who not long ago officiated
| at Il CONCERT on one of the Liverpool steam
ers for the benefit of charity, ast0niShed
| the company by requesting percentage on
| the receipts. The request was not enter
| tanned.
A Florida woman was married to her
| ninth husband last week and four of her
former husbands were present to sympa-
thize with the new victim. just so long as
woman retains her maiden name her maiden
aim is to change it.
One German school child in every hum
dred is a sufferer. The boys are more
liable to this defect than girls. Ernst Knel,
who has collected statistics from all Ger
man schools, finds that there are $685. slut
tering boys to 2233 suffering girls.
Hammerfest, the most northerly town in
Europe, and situated within the Arctic cir
Gle. is one of the first places in Norway to
be completely lighted by electricity. A
waterfall mile distant from the town fur
niShes the power TO run the dynamos.
In many parts of France and England the
wealthy have ice-hpuSes built on their es-
tates. and fill them with ice from the neigh
boring lakes and streams. 1t was not until
1645 that leo was publicly sold in London,
and then only IN very small quantities.
Mrs. A. Claxton, an English woman, has
invented patent ear-cap, and henceforth
no one need be diSigured by ears that stand
out too far The cap is like a skeleton OF
tapes, which effectually converge over the
ears. 1t Is intended to be worn at night.
Clement johnson of CoTunna, Mich, and
for seventy years they have been jogging
along together. All of their five children
lived to be pretty old and then died, but the
good old parents have not yet thought Of
such thing.
In the West End OF London, at Olympia.
the large hall there, which is famous at
present for its fancy-dress balls, is 440
feet long, $50 feet wide and 100 feet high,
and contains an area Of nearly two and
half acres. Twenty-seven thousand people
we're present at a recent ball.
A crOupy cough can often be loosened and
| prevented by swathing the throat with dry,
warm hannels; thick pack of them TO
sweat the throat and chest often helps SO
| speedily that IL is not necessary to sicken
| the child with ipecac or to wake the house
| kndlng fires and preparing hot packs.
AT the Champs de Mars, in Paris, this
| month, there is to be publicity exposition,
| comprising exhibits of all the newspapers
| in the world. 1t will be. an imposing and
| instructive manifestation of the power
| which, more than any other in this age OF
| reading, shapes the destuies of the world.
Bulwer, in his Artificial Changeling,"
| makes mention OF one John Simons, a native
| of Berkshire. England. born without arms
| or hands, who could write with his mouth,
| thread a needle, tie knot, shuttle, cut and
| deal a pack of cards, etc This wonderful
| parsonage was exhibited in London in 1853