The morning call., 1891-03-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A forlorn-looking p0cket-book lay in the
gutter at Lancaster, Pa, for four hours be-
cause nobody suspected that it contained
sos.
The University of Pennsylvania is about
to establish national school of American
history as one of the departments of the in
Stituti0n.
A young woman in Genesee County,
Mich. who had obtained $1,000 in breach
of promise suit, has rewarded her chief wit
ness by marrying him.
The Poncha Springs in Colorado are all
on the side of a mountain. and hot and cold
water flows from the ground in places not
more than three inches apart.
"A flteen-year-0ld boy has just died In
brooklyn OF too rapid growth. At the
time. of his death he was 6 feet inches
tall, but did not weigh 100 pounds.
A picture by Peter Meets. an old Dutch
master, has been stolen from the Detroit
Art Museum. 1t represented the interior
of Gothic church and was valued at S15,-
600.
"A Scotch terrier is regular dead-head on
the West Shore Railroad, and will only ride
on first-class train. He spends his whole
time travelling, and is well liked by railroad
men.
There is nothing which will squelch an
ojl-fed fire in the incipiency more quickly
and effectually than sand, and there are no
after-claps IN the way of water damage
either.
Some thirsty people of Steubenville, Ohio,
got into a saloon-keeper's cellar, bored a
hole through the ceiling into a barrel Of
whisky, took what they wantei and allowed
the rest to go to waste.
Near Barzytown Lodges, in Connecticut.
is large boulder of over five tons weight.
When pushed it moves as if on pivot, and
some people think it is ceremonial stone
placed there by prehistoric race.
The body of the cat which on September
%, 1880, jumped from the top of Washington
monument at the capital, and lived for some
time afterward, is preserved. properly Ia
Deled, IN the Smithsonian Institute.
A relic of Marshal Ney, Napole0n's famous
general, in the shape of brass-boupd rose
wood jewel or toilet box, is in the possession
of a Lancaster druggist. Its history is said
to have been automatically established.
A young woman OF Dakota has a farm of
80 acres on which she does most Of the work,
employing only one servant-a woman.
Last year she bought a lot of new stock and
machinery and cleared over $1,000 besides.
A resident of Tampa, Fla, has a natural
curiosity in the form of a pair OF deer's
horns.with clearly defined hounds head
on the tip of one of them. formed in a man
ner that makes 1t impossible that it should
be work Of art.
A parrot in Atlanta, Ca, deyoured in
men, six dogs and a whole forest of trees.
In other words, lie ate painting represent
ing those objects, and is now looking around
for something else to satisfy his artistic ap-
petite.
Our total tonnage is now 4. 424, 497 tons,
against 5,539. Sl3 as its maximum in 1861.
Broadly speaking our total tonnage has re-
manned practically at its present figures
since the close of the war. About 1850, 600
tons is now steam, however, which is nearly
twice as much as it was then.
Curious persons may like to test the ac-
curacy of some observations by an Austrian
physician. He asserts that persons stung
by bees are exempt for several months from
the effect OF further singing, protection be-
ing afforded in the same manner that vacci-
nation protects from smallpox.
Horrible reports of depredations by
wolves have been received from Szandu.
Hungary. On one estate alone twenty
beasts. The Government authorlties-are
organizing party of hunters which will
undertake the determination of the wolves.
The Inhabitants of the interior of the FIJI
Islands will not partake of food while
cloud is in sight, especially If the cloud lies
in the west, fearing that the great air
whale" whose believing Ghunder) is often
heard in that country, will pounce upon
and utterly aHnibilate them for such irreVer-
ence.
recently married young farmer living at
Greenbush, near ShebOygaD, has hit upon
novel and effective scheme for getting his
wife out of bed in the morning. He fills the
stove with damp shavings, lights them and
then shuts the damn er in the pipe. By the
time he reaches the barn she is etfectually
smoked out.
When thing is said or done "sub rosa"
concealment is implied, not always in
creditable sense But the term had its ori-
gin with an honorable ancient custom. The
Romans festooned their banquet-rooms with
roses, and any guest who be rayed indisereet
words spoken under the rose" committed
social suicide.
A huge SOUP or cuttlefish stranded itself
on the beach at Island Cove, NewfOund-
land, a few days ago. Its extreme length
was 81 feet, the tentacles alone measuring
81 feet. The body was much larger than
that Of an ordinary horse, and the pelt
was inches in thickness. 1t was cut up
before being removed.
Despite their Subjugati0n to British rule
the princes of India are still able to indulge
in royal whimS aud extravagances. One of
them recently had made at Paris bed
worth So, 600. Its canopy is supported by
four automatic female figures that wave fans
to cool the air. The mattress is a huge
musical box, which, when one lies upon it,
plays operate airs.
1t is said that between the island of Mad
agascar and the coast of India there are 49,
COO islands, only 600 of which are inhabited.
In any of these islands man can live and
support his family in princely luxury, with
out working more than % days in the year.
In fact. on some of these Islands, he needn't
work at all, as nature provides the food and
no clothes are required.
Beds are still strange pieces of furniture
in Russia, and many well-to-dO houses are
still unprovided with them. Peasants sleep
on the tops of their ovens; middle class
people and servants roll themselves up in
ShCepskinS ana lie down near stoves; soldiers
rest upon wooden cots without bedding, and
it is only within the last few years that
students in State schools bave been allowed
beds.