The morning call., 1891-12-21
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

a Georgia man has put up a ham-string
factory. and is making ham-strings Of snake
hides.
A farmer who in riding on Sedalia
| (Alo.l electrician was thrown through a
| window In going around a curve refuses to
| pay for the glass.
DIR. James Kitchen of Philadelphia, who
Is perhaps the oldest doctor in the country,
VIII celebrate his SEVENTEEN anniversary in
! the profession soon.
The world is % 600 miles in circumference,
yet 1t whirls around in twenty-four hours
without any noise whatever. Let the noisy
mortal think of that.
Two bodies recently disinterred in an old
cemetery in Allegheny, Pa were found to
be petrlhed. One had been buried five and
the other two years.
During the recent terrific storms on the
Atlantic IL IS stated that number of ocean
birds were driven from distant seas and
America TO England.
Diphtheria has only left the moth er and
one boy of the Floyd Rossiter family of
East Des Moines. Iowa. The father and
three children died within a week.
The Iowa State Superintendent of Public
instruction has declared that no child in
the public schools can be compelled to par
ticlpate In religious service contrary to its
belief.
Two hundred and twenty-five loaded four
wheeled coal-cars on the Lehigh Valley
Railroad are said to have constituted tie
heaviesttrain ever hauled over any road in
America.
A few minutes after the death of Michael
Mcdonald, a convict in the Valparaiso
Qnd.) Jail, recently, telegram arrived an
nouncing that he was the only heir to for
tune of SIS 600
In the interior towns of Northern China
slips OF the bark of the mulberry tree, bear
ing the imperial chop" and stamp which
denotes their worth, have long been used as
we use bank notes.
The latest and most gigantic hunting
story comes from Caithness, Scotland,
where, 1t is said, lad of 16 years per-
formed the extraordinary feat of killing two
stays with one shot.
The several bones of child's leg were
fastened together with steel nails by Gin
clnnatl surgeons and the wound was allowed
TO go unattended for a month. The opera
ton was successful.
The turkey is native of n orth Carolina;
at least. that is where he was first seen. i'll
1851. 1t was 100 years later before he was
domestlcated in Europe. How he got his
name does not appear.
Owing to the rapid progress in all
branches Of clerical science, many manu-
facturers are afraid to prepare their cleo
trical exhibit for the Worlds Fair until the
latest possible moment.
a grand review of the Black Sea fleet will
be one of the things which the Gar will
amuse himself with on his visit to the Cri-
mea, ana ne VIII not ask the other great
powers what they think about it.
If the stern old Puritans at Plymouth
could have looked forward some 27O years
and seen the majestic proportions of the
nation they started on its way, what a
THANKSGIVING celebration they would have
had!
The population of the world is about
1,5O0, 100000. One fourth die before the
fifteenth year, and the average duration of
Life IS about 50 years. Thirty three mill
ions thrty-three thousand die each year,
making total OF 81 sol daily.
The fact that great attention is being
given to women and womens work by the
managers OF the Worlds Fair has called
forth female appreciation from all civilized
countries, and may prove considerable ele-
ment in lurtherlng the success Of the enter
prise.
The greatest c6nfagration of history was
the burning of Moscow, in 1872. The loss
amounted TO $500 900 and $4,000 build
| ings were destroyed Next in disastrous
| consequences came the burning of Chicago,
with loss of S123000,000 and the destruc-
| ton of II, $50 buildings
| Detroit had only one vote for the National
| Convention, but woman thele sues an
| other Tor $40 COO damages for alternating the
| affections of her husband. Detroit hus-
bands seem to be as much above par as if
Russian ukase had been issued to create a
| foreign demand for Them
The following doubtful compliment is a
| fragment from love letter: How 1 wish,
my darling Adelaide, my engagements
would permit me to leave town and come
and see you: 1t would be like visiting some
| old ruin, hallOWed by time and fraught with
| a thousand recollections."
Four-titths of the steam engines of the
| world have been constructed within the last
| twenty-five years. The total horsepower
IS estimated at 100000. of which the
| United States has 100000; Great Britain.
| 100000; Germany, 100000; France, 3,000,-
| COO, and Austria, 100000.
After German had been in this country
year or two he saved $1,000 and returned
| to his native land. His relatives refused
| to believe it possible that he could have
| come honestly by such sum in so short
| time and wrote to America to see If he had
not committed some crime.
The majority of the people in the western
| portion OF the French province of Gascony
walk on stills. That is a district known as
he Landes, with sea line bounding the
| French side of the Bay OF Blscay, aud ex-
tending at its greatest breadth about sixty
miles back into the country.
More than any other State of the Union
the State OF Georgia has retained the Indian
| names Of its rivers, and most of them have
musical sound. as, for example, the
Ocmulgee, the Ohopee, the Ogeechee, the
CannOuchee, the Oconee. the Chattahoochee,
Saltiila, the Altamaha and others.
An ak is subject to rigid tests before it is
pronounced perfect The steel must be of
the required temper, the weight of all axes
OF the same size must be uniform, all must
be ground alike and in various other ways
conform to an established standard.
Experts are predicting that the books Of
to-day will fall to pieces before the middle
of the next century. The paper in the
books that have survived two or three GEN.
turtles was made by hand of honest rags,
and without the use of strong chemicals
while the ink was made of nut gals.
There are few flowers whose perfume is
actually deadly. The flowers of tho kali
mulan, or death plant, found in the islands
OF Java and Sumatra, emit a perfume so
powerful as to overcome, ii inhaled for any
length of time, fullgrown man and killing
all forms of insect life approaching it.
To say that Minneapolis is tickled doesn't
express the idea. 1t is reported that ''nota
single plug hat IN town has escaped from
having its crown knocked in. and the plas-
tering In the ceiling OF the hall, where the
victorious committee was received upon its
return, was all loosened by the tumult
In steel-mill at Newburn. England, is a
machine that will shear an ingot of steel
thirty inches in width and twelve inches in
| thickness. A mighty foot holds the ingot
in place, and the knife descends and ships
off piece as boy cuts candy, Hydraulic
power is used, and the cut can be made in
about three seconds.
An unknown stranger went into Ell. j.
Felber's grocery, at Wheeling, w. Va, aud
asked the proprietor for some fine cigars.
Felber said he had nothing but ''stogies'
and tips" when the stranger pulled a re-
volver and fired at him, the ball passing
under mis- left arm on a line with his heart.
Felber fled and the stranger walked off.
Mrs. Ada Meinott of Grand Rapids,
Mich, took her seventeen-yea son to
dime museum, where one of the attractions
is q William Tell act On the following day
she payfully put potato on her head, re-
marking to the boy he couldn't shoot il off.
The boy found a revolver, and the Cor
oner's verdict was that the woman was to
blame.
The Butler Pa) Citizen is responsible
fol- this: A lady sehool-teacher of that
place took a school-boy to task for being
away a whole week, and he excused him
self by saying that she had told all the
scholars not to come to school if they had
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