The morning call., 1891-10-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

AS class the homely girls are most en-
tertaining.
Bamboo is now used in decorating walls
in lieu Of paper.
The largest railway station in the world
is at Birmingham, England. 1t covers
eleven acres.
Maiden Mass school-boys. as well as the
girls, receive instruction in the feminine
art Of sewing.
A museum manager offers $1,000 for tie
capture of the S0-foot set serpent recently
reported off the Belgian banks.
Scientists say that the orange was Origi-
nally berry, and its evolution has been 60
ing on for more than 1000 years.
Twice as many crimes are committed in
Paris by persons between the ages Of Is and
20 as by those between 20 and 40.
A clearinghouse trust is about to be
formed in New York City for the purpose Of
advancing prices some 80 per cent.
A novelty in divorce affairs in Chicago:
A State-street tailor employs his divorced
wife as confidential business manager.
There are two bearing apple trees in In
diana County, Pa, that were planted in
1892. One Of them is ten feet in clrcumfer-
ence.
The railway mail service began on August
%, 1864, when postal cars were run or the
Chicago and Northwestern road from Chlca-
60 to Galena.
1t is said to be an Asatic myth that the
soul OF poet passes into the body OF a
grasshopper at death, from the fact of the
latter singing until it starves.
A grilIed chop. grilled tomatoes and pint
bottle of ale is an Englishman's lunch. This
is taken about o'clock, and costs two and
six and tip for the water Of three pence.
Ii ever there is a revolution in Russia 1t
will be a frightful one, for it will be the
apotheOss of the crime that makes men
bruteS and the ignorance that makes them
beasts.
Advertisement in an English provincial
paper A young gentleman on the point OF
getting married is desrous of meeting a
man of experience who will diSsuade him
from the step.
To bathe and return at once to duty is a
loss of power which the effects eau never
Justify. Thus the evening is to be preferred
to the morning bath and the warm water
rather than the cold.
The European demand for American
made carts and light vehicles has greatly in
creased. 1t has also been found cheaper to
send them across without painting, leaving
that to be done abroad.
a couple of Frenchmen have made harp
of wood with strings twisted from strips OF
American fur. They play on it with leather
seTibed as wonderfully pure.
Western farmers are urging the trial of
modification of the raln-prOducing system to
see if msts cannot be formed at times, which
will reduce the radiation OF heat from the
earth and thus save the crops from frost
Mayor Sargent of New Haven, Conn,
doesn't believe it right for public officials to
travel on free passes. Several roads have
sent him complimentary passes. but he has
returned them all with polite notes of
thanks.
In consequence Of the success of the cleo
trio road between st. Paul and Minneapolis
the steam road between the two cities has
been unable to obtain its share of the traffic,
and has discontinued from fifteen to twenty
trains daily.
Smoke is finding its champions In En-
gland, notwithstanding the efforts made to
prevent its diffusion in the atmosphere. 1t
is claimed that the carbon in the smoke is
powerful de0dOrzHr. and as such Is bless
Ing rather than a nuisance.
Rev. Edward A. Faggo, The eleventh rec
tor of old Christ Church, Philadelphia, has
resigned alter a service of thirty years. lie
church was founded in 1896. and it was there
that Washington and Franklin worshiped
when in Philadelphia.
4 curious artlfice of war was adopted by a
Chinese junk when attacked by man-of-
war. The crew threw c0coauuts overheard
into the sea. and then Jumped in among
them. Nearly all escaped, for it was i'm
possible tO tell which were heads and which
were nuts.
A somewhat absent-minded woman, who
is 10 search of cook, seeing a sign in a
Philadelphia cigar-Store, Henry Clay Do
mestics," bOlted in to ask if they could send
her one with good reference. She turned
scarlet and fed in modification on detecting
her buDder.