The morning call., 1891-08-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST,

ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Chicago has 707 additional letter-carriers
A rabbit can jump nine clear feet on level
ground.
The average age that women marry at is
%, men D.
Photographs were first produced in En-
gland III 1902.
The annual drink bill of the world exceeds
E., 000, 100000.
A sewing machine works twelve times as
fast as the hand.
Doctors say that the left leg is usually
longer than the right.
The flower trade of London excee ds in
value 100000 per annum.
The oStrich's egg weighs about four
.pounds-equal to forty hens eggs.
The third class railway fares in Hungary
only average one penny for six miles.
a sunh0wer in Il season will produce
1900 seeds, while poppy bears $1,000
C0vent Garden, London, has been In the
possession OF the Bedford family for 800
years. wv
Five thousand advertisements appear
sometimes In single issue of the London
Times.
Eight Springfield (Ohio) clergymen have
resigned their charges during the past six
months.
Five marriages were recently performed
by New York Justice in exactly tan
minutes.
During the last ten years the Paris Gas
Company has paid into the City Treasury
S40,000,000.
France has prohibited the working of rail-
road tiremen and engineers over twelve
hours day.
General Negrier complains that there Is
100 much old-fashtoned swearing in the
French army.
A Pittsburg man owns thirty-one-yesr
old dog which is still a terror to depredat-
ing small boys.
There are 100 women lecturers in tbi,
country who charge admission. to say moth
Ing OF the thousands OF curtain lecturers.
AS the result of an old feud at Lake
Charles, La, ten men have been shot six
being instantly killed and one fatally
wounded.
Saratoga On. " clergymen have held a
meeting to take measures to suppress gam
bling, which prevails TO an unwonted extent
In that town.
The hallucination of New York woman
Is that eigar-store Indian enters her room
and makes violent love to her. She has
been taken to an asylum.
The number of marriages In Cleveland,
Ohio, keeps pace with the growth of the
city, 3oS7 brides and grooms having been
made one during the past year.
A brother and sister at Meriden, Conn.
naSe iaiieh helIS 10 part interest III q
SS,0OO,OO0 tract OF land at Portland, Me- the
lease to which has expired after running
100 years.
A Boston car-driver who stands only five
feet In his boots was prodigiously mad when
an urchin stopped his ear and showed salt
box ON the platform, telling him to stand
on that and see h hOsSeS."
A strange sight can be seen at Marion
ONO, In the shape OF tens of thousands OF
dead flies which had entered an unOccupied
room and starved to death. The floor is
literally covered with the insects
A woman at StrOudsburg, Pa, who is a
church member, not only enjoys horse-rac-
ing, but owns a trotter with record which
has captured a purse. For this offense she
Is to be tried by the church authorities.
A Kappa Qll) man is the possessor of
pearl OF great intrinsic value, which he
found IN mussel shell in the Mackinaw
Rlyer. The gem, which is of the size of a
large pea, is pronounced perfect by lapida-
ries.
The amount of c0loring matter in pound
OF coal is enormous. 1t will yield enough
magenta to color 800 yards of flannel, YER
million for $3.50 yards, aurins for l20 wards
ana alIzarIne for 255 yards of Turkish red
cloth.
A small eolored boy in the Cherokee ma
ton was very sick and the doctors treated
him for consumption The other day he had
severe Ut of coughing and vomited up
| getting over his attack of consumption
A New York woman who was granted n
divorce has been allowed 10 cents a month
alimony and 81 counsel fees. The evidence
showed that her husband was penniless and
that she was earning 50 per week. while her
father was well off in this worlds goods.
A Reading pa boy, subject to severe
epilepiic fits for the past six years. has
been entirely cured of the affiictian by
fall of thirty-fys feet from a third-st0
window during an attack of the disorder.
Strange to say he was uninjured by the fail.
A shop sign in London reads: "Plots for
novels or short stories. Prices reasonable"
The occupant of the shop is said to have A
rare talent for deylsing plots, bat no great
powers OF narration, so he is supposed to
make his living by selling skeleton plots for
stories in cheap papers.
1t was long thought that the water from
melted snow was the purest of all. This
idea has been proven incorrect, as the re-
verse is the case. Snow is really purifier
of the atmosphere, attracting from it, as il
falls, varlOuSi impurities, and these are
found III the SnOw-water.
AS the effect of a sermon by the chanlaip
Of the Mississippi State penitentiary wear
ago, a convict thief who escaped at that time
has voluntarily surrendered himself to servo
out his sentence, which will expire in three
years. lie declares his intention to lead
an honest life in the future.
The skull and bones of man who wac
murdered at Gardner, Mass, i'll 1927, have
been found buried in cellar. The accused
murderer was tried and acquitted at the
time for want of evidence, but shortly after
wards suicided. The unearthing Of the re-
mains is now proof positive of his guilt.
At Alliance, Ohio, mothers heart has
been reloiced by the return of son who
was supposed to have persisted in the Johns
town flood. lie narrowly escaped becom-
ing victim OF that great disaster, and has
ri r. INN n u lgyl tod fhn III,
without informing his relatives of his where
abouts.
An English surgeon claims to have re-
lieved ninety-eight patients out of 100 in
cases of rheumatism by the application of
wintergreen OIL. He makes lluiment of
equal parts OF wintergreen and olive oil.
and applies IL TO the part, keeping it covered
with oiled silk and flannel. He saws that
the pain is relieved in from four to six hours.
An English (Md) man who was supposed
to have been drowned twenty-eight years
ago has turned up and says that he served
or the Confederate side during the war and
afterward became a Texas cowboy. His
wife had remarked in the meantime and had
nine children. Her second husband is dead
and she is now United to No. 1.
A Dubuque Qowa) man, at the con-
eighty-third birthday, was paid 50 20
by a woman, which sum she said she Ind
owed him for forty-seven years The sim
pie interest on this sum for the period mem
toned would be 81 %, while the compound
interest would amount to enormous figures.
One day, Mrs. W. ). Wallace of Butler
Fla. decided to tear up and renovate an
old pin-eushion that she first made over
thirty-nine years ago. 1t had on it nine
coverings, that had been put there from
time to time. From the inside of the min.
cushion she got ninety whole needles. he
sides several broken ones and number of
pins
An old brindie cow belonging to an Indi-
ana man broke into another's field, and in
COW destroyed the following mentioned
property. to-wit: Two four-year- old cherry
trees, apple trees, 5 pear trees. 1 plum
tree, 100 head of cabbage, 10 rows of beans
rods long, 1 row of beets u rods long.
so to 100 sweet potato plants, 1 he'd 81
onions. 3 grapeYineS and Ia hlanILa..I