The morning call., 1891-05-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


A Cincinnati municipal officer has refused
to accept $500 advance in his salary.
A York (Pa.) woman, 81 years of age, says
that she never took drop Of medicine in
her life.
An aged farmer at North Salem, n. Y,
became insane from the grip and murdered
his wife.
Buffalo, n. Y, had binding snow-storm
on the 9TH of May, and ice formed half an
inch thick
A negro elected from train in Mississippi
has been awarded $1,000 damages by jury
entirely white.
Chicago had $3.50 deaths in April, more
than double those OF the corresponding
month in 1880.
a coIored woman, 90 years old, was ar
rested In Philadelphia the other day for dis
orderly conduct.
A chewing-gum company with a capital
Of 100000 has been incorporated at
Brooklyn, \. Y.
A fash of lightning in Brown County,
Kans., recently, inStantane0usly converted
ten cows into beef.
Moody and Sankey melodies are super
sedng the old-tmc plantation songs among
the Southern negroes.
At a Baptist socable to be held in Brs-
tol, Pa, the attraction. will be nail-driying
The Frenchman habitually raises his hat
when funeral passes him on tie street-a
rare spectacle in America.
For the consideration of S. Benjamin
Blake OF Lima. Ohio, sold his wife, aged 90
to Abraham MesSe, aged q.
Only four eggs Of the aux gigantic lee
land bird, are in existence in this country.
They are worth $500 apiece.
Cincinnati cigar-factOry proprietors have
been forced to discharge 100 children en-
plOyes under IL years of age.
A Kentucky moonshiner, who has been
engaged in the Illicit traffic since he was II
years old, has been captured.
-Four members of Racine (Wis.) family
have died Of the grip in as many weeks, aud
fifth is thought to be fatally i'll.
A woman in Flint, Mich, advertiseS for
a position as housekeeper and says that an
offer of marriage will be given attention.
Cincinnati policemen, who have hitherto
been permitted to sleep in engne-houses,
will hereafter be debarred that privilege
There is one occasion when women are
expected to take tine chair. and that Is when
mouse Unexpectedly appears in the room.
Kentucky has spent 1877 days and $500, 900
In framing new constitution, and the peo-
pie are liable to defeat 1t al the polls at that.
The will of a Cleveland Ohio woman
leaves a bed and bedding to an erring son.
The other children are amply provided for.
TWENTY-FIVE young men and enc woman,
all of respectable families, have been con-
yicted Of chicken-stealing at Germantown,
LII.
A Connecticut clothing dealer, spurred by
competition, offers hat, a shirt, tie and a
dozen collars and cuffs 10 the purchasers of
suits.
A Connecticut octogenarian has applied
for divorce. alleging that his wife is
habitually Incorporate and possesses an ill
temper.
Wellington (Kans.) couple, who were
married in two weeks after they met, were
separated in just two weeks alter they were
married
A boy, aged s, named Bentley, and his sis
ter, aged Z, edit. print and publish the Dom
aldSonville Ua.) Delta. 1t has a circulation
of fifty copies.
The Greenfield (Mass.) Gazette will ceIe-
brate its centennial in January next. by
issuing an historical, biographical and illus
trated number.
The Philadelphia Record publishes list
Of fifteen endowment orders In that city that
have gone 10 pieces within week. The
end is not yet, either.
A London woman has applied for the ar
rest of man who perSistently stared at
her, and was greatly discounted because
her request was refused.
A colt with two perfectly formed heads
was recently born at Lawrenceburg, Ohio
The mother refused to nurse the munstros-
ity and it died of starvation.
A Cincinnati Probate Judge has refused
naturalization papers to two Germans who
had been in this country nine years and
VINO could not speak English.
An electric railway, twenty-four miles in
length, Is to be built between st. Paul and
saltwater MINI. This will be the longest
road of the kind in the country.
DR.. A. A. Miner, the jealous Boston Pro-
hibitOnist, has just completed his forty
third year OF service as pastor of the Sec
0nd UnlyersallSt Church at the Hub.
1t IS mistake to suppose that polar re-
search has cost enormously in human life.
Despite all the great disasters, 81 out of
every 100 explorers have returned alive.
Conscience troubled Brooklyn man who
cheated his halter out of 30 cents many wears
ago, and the dealer in headgeaT has received
tie amount due, with an explanatory note.
An Indiana woman, rendered insane by
the grip, has conceived the most violent an
tpathy TO her husband and child and has
to be closely watched to prevent her doing
them harm.
A German labor editor was fined recently
for publl> hing the list of wOTkInen killed in
mine disaster alongside of the amount
distributed as dividends among the owners
Of the mines.
The Boston cemeteries are said to contain
no monument valued at over $1,000. Green
wood, New YOrk's city of the dead, has
memorials whose cost run up into the hun
dreds of thousands.
The Cleveland Ohio teachers payroll
Tor April footS UP some S55, 600. but the
school Board has only S13 81 to its credit.
Efforts will be made to obtain a loan to
liquidate the indebtedness.
A Wichita (Kans.) woman kept line of
voters waiting five minutes until she found
her ballot, which she had put in her pocket.
linen she tried to vote recipe for mixed
pickles, and got mad with the warden when
he told her 1t wasn't ballot.
BY way of diversion a distinguished host
ess OF London gave a dinner TO number
of bachelors, with ladies dressed as maid
servants to wait ON them. Another dinner
is expected soon, the women to dine and be
waited on by gentlemen attired as footmen,
One of herd of cattle being driven
through the streets of st. Paris, ILL.,, broke
bose and rushed into a crowded millinery
store, creating great CONSERVATION among
the women customers, but fortunately doing
DO damage beyond breaking three show.
cases.
George Starke, a fireman OH the Cinein-
natl. Wabash and Michigan Railway, is
dead. after suffering horrible agony. He
was clgarette-smoker, and excessive use
OF them Is SAID to have caused his death. A
Snort Time after his death his body turned
llvid green. Physicians claim his death
was due to arsencal nicotine poison.