The morning call., 1891-07-04
ITEMS OF INTEREST

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| age of i6.
A fifteen-mile journey is an average days
| work for a horse.
In Victoria the publicans make about 10
| per cent profit.
| Greater London now contains, it is sup
| posed, 5,S77, 900 souls.
The tongue Of the giraffe is nearly a foot
and a ilaf long,
A Pittsburg firm has been invited to ship
! coal to Denmark.
A full moon reflects one three thousandth
| part of the suns light.
A vicious dog at Northport, l.. l., has
| killed fity-S:X Pekin ducks.
Many persons have become insane from
| the recent Eastern hot SPELL
a hen and a wild pheasant share the
| same nest on farm at Tlonesta, Ia.
A raw egg beaten up in lemonade is nice
| Tor those who cannot take solid food.
The profits of the London water COM
panies last year amounted TO s., 100000
There is a Clergyman in New Mexico who
| goes by the name of Rev. Innocent Wolf.
1t was thirty two years ago that the first
| drinking FUN was opened in London.
Six bushels of cherries have been picked
| from one tree at Lebanon, Pa, this season.
a hundred laying hens produce in egg
| shell about 137 pounds OF chalk or limestone
annually.
Ozark, Ala. is getting rich. She owes no
money and has over $500 of hard cash in
| her town treasury.
The ponies of MaDipur arc celebrated,
and it Is claimed that it was in Manipur that
| hockey or polo was Invented.
For posting his name in a show-window
| as delinquent debtor an Indianapolis man
| has sued his tailor for 5000 damages.
| A sind-hearted Brooklyn policeman has
| adopted little girl whom he found in the
! street. She was an orphan and homeless.
| y New Hampshire man who bet that he
| could ''eat over 100 eggs in one hour" won
| the wager by making hearty meal Of shad
| roe.
A Henrico Virginia. farmer has been SEN
| fenced to one year in the penitentiary for
| spreading poison on his premises to kill
| dogs.
Since the opening of free outdoor gym
nasium for women and girls in Boston the
average daily attendance has been about
| 1900.
One of the sights at Springfield, Mass, is
| handsomely dressed woman who never
walks out unless accompanied by at least
| nine dogs.
Iced bu,termiik is the drink just now OF
| swell New Workers. 1t is taken Straight"
| but is called buttermilk cocktail for bar
room effect.
A Reading Pa.) shoemaker las just made
pair Of shoes for a giant liz the mining
region. They are No. IS. and weigh nearly
SIX pounds.
For the first time in twenty-five years no
one was sentenced to receive lashe at the
recently ended term OF the Kent County
(Del) court.
There is aman up in Grafton County, New
hampshire. who wants divorce because
his wife talks Christian Science morn,
|. noon and night"
a. J. Drexel heads the list OF Philadelphia
rich men with S2j 000.000. The city has 100
mlttluDalras al hnlfiuUS m
over S40O,000,000.
Persons will find that they can write
easily and legibly while travelling on rail
road train II they will use pillow as u
table to rest their paper on.
The most valuable dinner service in the
world belongs to Queen Victoria, and occu-
pies two rooms at buckingham Palace, over
which two men watCn continually.
The Sub-TreaSury in New York recently
PAID the largest number OF penslUn checks
ever received there in one day. total OF
81, 100 600 was paid on Il, 600 checks.
4 Baltimore woman's will contained a
bequest of the interest on $500 to Il friend,
provided the Latter visits the grave of the
decedent once three weeks for three months.
a series OF unearthly noises in the vicin-
ity of a Mount Holly On. j. cemetery gave
rise to ghost stories; but investigation
showed that it was man with a new bass
horn.
Philadelphia, after long ard heated
struggle between the pros ana ants, has de-
clded TO construct an elevated railway syS-
TEN for street travel. The road is to pay the
city per cent on its gross receipts.
An Atlantic City hotel keeper has a
lake" Thermometer on the front of his
house that makes his patrons believe his
porch Is the coolest place the island.
The deception works like charm.
turtle was recently found at Matttuck,
l.. l., and upon It's shell u. L. c., 1907
was engraved. The carving is supposed to
have been done by James T. Corwin. who
lived at Mattltuck about that date.
A steamer which arrived in London from
Auckland recently brought cargo consist
ing of 10000 sheep and 1000 Deeyes, all
dressed and frozen. This is the largest single
cargo of dressed meat that has ever been
brought 10 England.
A man in st. Louis advertises for sale, at
the small sum OF 90 cents, a learned work,
In which one may learn how TO become
coBtortionist, sword-walker, sword-swal-
lower, bird tanner, yentrilOquist, glass
dancer and CircasSIan."
Divers in the clear waters of the tropical
seas find that fish of different colors when
frightened 10 not all dart in the same direc-
ton, but that each different kind takes
shelter In that portion of the submarine
growth nearest in color to that of the fish:
A recent decision Of the New York Court
OF Appeals declares that mans note made
pd1 oiAbS uhyo dIltT Is good
against the makers estate. A good many
men would pay their debts in this way, but
that Kind OF paper Is not generally accept
able.
A Manchester On. H. shoemaker recently
received from North Carolina an order for
a pair OF slippers for minister in Char
lotte, who stands feet 10 inches and weighs
40 pounds The size of the slippers is to
be ", the length u inches and they are to
measure inches across the ball of the foot.
II Is mistake to suppose the weather is
colder che farther north one goes. the
northern pole OF greatest cold is only about
500 miles northeaSt OF YakutSk, Siberia, where
the mean annual temperature is little
lower than the highest latitudes reached by
Mares and Greedy, 1000 miles farther north.
Too much care cannot be exercised in
striking match. A Bridgeton On. j. girl
was engaged in the act, when the match
head flew off, aud going into basket Of
paper flowers, ignited them and some cur
tains that were near by. From these the
flames spread to the girls clothing and she
was severely burned.
The Sultan of Morocco has directed that
young girls shall no longer be publicly sold
In the markets OF Fee and other towns,
aud the market has been badly broken
up. The TACT that the ruling rates for these
unfortunate creatures have dropped one
half is sign that the Sultan really intends
to suppress the traffic as well as he can.
a hn'oi OasC has oetH tIieu at heySeT, w.
Va. ID. j. Moran deprived his daughter
Maggie of her jewelry and fine clothing,
owing to an alleged report that she was
about TO elOpe with n drummer. The
daughter being 81 years of age, sued her
parents for $780, The verdict was given in
favor of the plaintiff for S160. or the return
of the jewelry aud clothing
1t Is said there are only two words in the
English language which contain all the
vowels in their order. They are abstemi-
Gus" and "facetious." The following have
them In Irregular order: Authoritative,
disadyantageous, encouraging, efiicacious,
instantaneous, importunate, mendaeious,
nefaflous, precarions. pertinacious, sacrileg-
ious, simultaneous. tenacious, unintentional.
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