The morning call., 1891-09-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


The caterpillar eats three or four times Its
| own weight every day.
The town of Arg0nia, kanS., IS ofhcered
and run entirely by women.
II IS said tEat Chicago capitalists are to
| erect S2,010,001 c0ttOn-mi4.
London omnbus-driyer5 gained 100000 q
! year by winning their strike.
London theateTs issue something like fifty
| thousand free passes every year.
Seyenty-seven years ago Commodore Me
| DOnough defeated the English at Piatts-
burg.
There are more than 100000 acres of land
! in Virginia devoted to tue cultivation Of
! tobacco.
souvenir bibles ornamented with silver
| covers and clasps have made their ap-
! pearance.
The world is full of people who enjoy
seeing tin can tied TO the tail Of some other
mans dog.
a missing child at Independence, Tex,
| has been found crushed TO death under d
cotton bae.
| The census report of Indiana is surpris-
| ing, showing an increase of population of
| less than II per cent.
The coolest known spot on the earth's sur
! face is near WerkhOjalSk. Slberla-5U' BE-
| low zero, Fahrenheit.
| Barnard, Vt, has girl OF Is who weighs
/
! weight is 1000 pounds.
A wedding recently took place at Spring
| field, ONO, tue paIteS To which We're age1
| 70 and IS respectively.
a well-knOwn writer says that a gentle
man IS one who never iHhlcts pain. IniS is
| surely too hard on the dentists.
Horn seems to have become fayorte
! characterization Tor fancy goods. L. is utilized
for anything from pen rack To hat rack.
A Hebrew refugee who recently landed
! IN New YORK, brought over $1,000 IN Amer
| lean gold, winch he carried III his gripSack
\ Kansas man has been compelled to pay
! a me OF 500 Ior kissing the hand OF q hand
| some woman, who objected to the tamil-
! iarIty.
| The tempe of Eom-mon-ji, at Ikegamia,
| begun IL l2o2 aud finished In 1897, is ono OF
the most famous religious structures in
Japan.
There is proposition to erect a m0nu-
ment, marking the spot where Hendrick
! Hudson Landed in New jersey, Septemb Der
| 4, 1909.
! The Shah of Persia has always been con-
sidered terror" He has DecUms u mod
| ern terror now by carry ing kodak with
| Elu on his travels
A railroad man says that schedule time
| eould be greatly cut d0wa II passengers
would Learn TO enter the car by tue rear
| door and leave II Uy the front.
LAtGSSlNG CUulp6AltlUu III lulldudptlio iSo
| reduced the prlce OF beer 10 cents IA
schooner" While two immense "bootlegs"
| filed with the beverage are sold for cents.
The town Of Larne has been illum naIed
| with electric light for the first time. his
| is tie first town IN the north of ireland
which has adopted electricity Tor illumlna-
| ton.
Nonanlum (Mass.) young men have organ
iZsd an autl-SH caring CLUB. They also draw
the line al slang expressions, and ylolatOrs
of either prohibited language are heavily
hued.
Smokeless powder and war balloons will
make the modern battl- held literal CHESS
board, on which every tang is seen except
the small-Dere bullet which removes the
pawn.
A young woman at Washington, Pa, has
been struck dumb BY lightning. she under
stands everything going on ABOUT her, but
the MUSCLES Of Ter throat are completely
Iaraly Zed.
One thousand negroes are awaiting tbs
opening Of Iudian reservations east If Okla
hOna. They have been gathered from all
parts Of the South, and 1t Is expected IL
colOnize them.
a c!eyeTIy cOntriyed vessel for cologne is
fashioned alter Il sprinklng-pot. / he han
die aud spout are OF metal ana tue rest UI
glass; tiny holes IN the spout send cut what
Is almost spray.
In Madrid no special regulation exists
with regard 10 itiuerdnJ gultdr-piayrrs, oat
they ale obliged to obtain a license from the
license may be refused.
a Frenehman who has made a study Of
auti-fat remedies gives his fellows utfeTeTS
the benefit OF his experience, ana says that
the best thing he knows OF is To eat only one
article OF food at meal.
There is only one woman doctor in Swe-
den. but several other women are studying
medicine, though the tine necessary to quail
fly seems appalling Ii takes nine years
from the date OF the first examination.
The other day twin brothers who recently
married twin sisters, aud who drove twin
ponies to a double carriage, and who drink
milk at home from twin cows, dined at the
Bon TUn Restaurant al Webb City, Mo.
James, AZ years old, was pointing oct a
COW to A PLAYMATE. "See the bell around
her neck lie said. do you know what it
is for? That's what she rings when she
wants TO tell the calf that dinner is ready"
A woman has patented a new kind of
stick Tor umbrellas and parasolS. The
woman las yet 10 be invented. however.
vino can carry an umbrella into sTreet-car
without eudangering every eye in the
vehicle.
While a citizen of Brunsw wick. Me-, the
| other day was breaking ice for his table he
noticed curious speck IN the middle OF the
| cake. Cutting down he found tnat II was a
! toad, which suon afIerward came TO life and
| hoped off.
! 1t was a far-sghted bridegroom who in
! duced a Dexter (Me) furniture-dealer 10
| throw III a cradle with an Invoice Of chairs
| and crockery that-he was purchasing for his
! new home. The furniture man was r4th n
taken aback.
Every true American heart beats in sym
! PATTY with the SONS OF Switzerland in In-ir
| rejoicing over 600 years of freed0m for their
faiherland. We have some things YET 10
| learn from the little republic which has en-
| dured so long.
TramDs are stealing milk from Connecti-
| cut farmers One Waterford Dlan who lett
a dozen cans OF twenty-fUur quarts each in
| his yard over night found only eight wnen
| he got ready to put them in his wagon the
| next morning.
For years and years we have been hanging
cur curtains over poles, fixed at the top OF a
window on brackets. A clever scheme now
| is TO put the pole about foot below the top
OF the window and fill in the corners above
! with brass work.
The BOWdoin College explorers in La
| brador report that the Waterfall in that
country is over 800 Ieet high. being divided
into one fall of 30 feet and six rapids, vary
ing from % to 100 feet ana that the spray i!
| visible for twenty miles.
The Empress EIizabeth'5 gorgeous new
palace al Corfu viii have high lighthouse
near 1t. shining with electric lights of l., 00(
candle power. Ii the grounds about the
palace there will be 5000 rosebus hes anC
many fine cactus plants.
Philadelphia surgeon says that by three
strokes Of the lancet he could paralyze thu
nerves acted on TO make man get mad, and
thereafter any one could pull his nose, cuff
his ears and spit on his boots, and he woulc
simply smile soft. bland smile.
Themes painfully forgetfnl man on RECORD
applied for marriage license at Sellers
burg, Ind, recently. He remembered hi,
own name. but that If his intended wifi
had to be suggested by friend before the
Official could fill out the papers.
A roll of bills amounting to $3.50, stolel
from a Springfield lOhio) man, is said +
have been recovered through the agency o
a cIairvoyapt who failed to disclose thu
name of the thief, but pointed out the loca
ton where the money was hidden.
Being advised by her physician that sht
was liable to sudden death. an Allentown
| pa woman, who passed away recently
purchased her shroud aud selected the tex
for her funeral sermon and the hymn to b.
sung at her burial several months ago.
A dog chased rat up telephone pole Il
| broad davligbt At I,afaVptte Ind tn