The morning call., 1891-10-05
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

On the average 500 bears year are an
nually killed in Maine.
Novels constitute nine-tenths OF all the
books read in this country.
To neglect a farm In ancient Italy was an
offense equitable by the censor.
London enjoyed eleven hours Of sunshine
on a recent Sunday-a most rare record.
There are no known owners for $4,000
acres of land in St Clair County, Alabama.
Twenty-nine States were represented at
recent reunion of the famous Bucktal Regi-
ment of Pennsylvania.
In Ripley, Ohio, there Is sunfi0wer In
full bloom growing from creYlce at the top
OF 40-lOOt maple tree.
The Jefferson Davis statue is held at the
jackson Miss railway station for $3.50
tariff duties and freight charges.
About 1000 Battle Creek (Mich.l women
voted at the recent school election, but only
two candidates Of their sex were elected.
When the streets of Oakland, Iowa, be-
come dirty the business men organize into
band of street-sweeperS and clean them.
Before the Worlds Fair at Chicago is
formally opened S1S.00O 600 Will have to be
expended if present plans are carried out.
A recent traveller in Persia was told that
the patterns on carpets in that country were
made intricate 50 that the evil eye might be
DeWildered.
A metropolitan journal announces as q
curious fact that New York State hO.GS a
large Indian population than either Kansas.
Nebraska or Wyoming.
In the city of peking is established society
of venerable agriculturistS. When the En-
perOr visits them in the spring he plowS
small field with his own hand
India ink is made from fine lampblack
compacted and cemented with glue. The
fiuest black is derived from pork fat. The
glue is made from buffalo hide.
There is a vigorous and determined move
ment on foot among the men IN Philadelphia
against the promis uous surrenderiug of
seats in public conVeyances to women.
The exquisite Prussan blue is made by
fusing horses hoofs and other refuse animal
matter with impure potassium carbonate.
This color was discovered accidentally.
Chebeaque Island. in Casro Bay. Maine.
has a population of over 400, nearly all of
whom are named Hamilton. There are 200
people Oh the island who never saw steam
car.
remedy for creaking hinges Is mutton
tallow rubbed on the joint. a great many
locks that refuse to do their work are SIM
ply rusted and will be all right if carefully
oiled.
In Nickerson. KaDs.. the other day
Justice OF the Peace was undecided which
side of q lawsuit was right, so he left it to
the lawyers to decide upon a game of
checkers.
Iron has been rolled to the thinncss of
1880 of an inch This excessive tenuity
will be understood when it is considered
that the thinneSt tissue paper measures 1-l20O
OF an inch.
A Florida negro who was hiding in
swamp near Tallahassee, and was forced up
a tree by the app Oacn of alilgatOrS, was so
badly frightened Dy his experience that his
hair turned white.
Public opinion has changed at Carthage,
Mo, where the sale OF liqu0r has been pro-
hibited for the past four years, but now that
privilege has been granted by a large ma
iority at a local election.
It is the confession OF Burlington Iowa)
widower, who has been thrice marriei, hat
the first wife cureS man of romance, the
second teaches him humility, anu the third
makes him philosopher.
Tie colored women of Boston have de-
cidel to place in nomination for member of
the School Board Miss Alice NJ Her, one of
their number. A hou>e-tO-h0use canvass
will be made in her interest.
An exquisite Chocolate set of cream china
mas the till cups with dark brown han dies
wreatheI with hOueysuckleS; TIE high
tankaTd with brown handle and spout has
trailing sprays OF the same flowers.
1t is said that gldsS of beer taken through
q straw will intUXIcate man. The liquor
taken in small quantities Is spread over the
coating of the stomach and the alcohol is al
once yaporiZel, the fumes rising to the
brain.
Indians on the Red River Reservation in
Wisconsin are harvesting wild rice, which
will be- mammoth crop this year they
harvest it in boats, thrashing it after 1t
dries. Many families live upon the rice al
most entirely.
The lady managers OF the World's Fair
brook no masculine interference whatever,
unless it be in the matter Of paying the bills.
No man is allowed to enter the building
where they hold their sessions, and even the
pages are young women.
Fish stories are a little out of date, but
that one coming from Annapolis, Nd, to
the effect that some inhabitant dwelling on
the Severn had captured 400 pound turtle
with a hook and line is a good one with
which to close the season.
The house which Benedict Arnold occu-
pied When q young man in New Haven,
Conn, is still standing. He was COM
FOUNDER OF drugs, and the Sign which swung
before his little shop is preserved by the
New Haven Historical Society.
The celebrated American Newtown Pip
pin apple is said to have been the spOn-
taneous production OF seed near a swamp
in NewtOwn, Long Island. n. Y, over a
century and half ago 1t lived $50 years
and died from excessive cutting and ex-
hauston.
Peru's national ledger showed slight
balance on the wrong side at the annual
balancing week or two ago The revenue
for the next fiscal year is estimated at
S7103, 887 60, and the estimated expenses
tor the same period leave deficit OF Sl2,-
2SS SO.
OF the entire human race 5GOOOO,OO are
well clothed, that is. they wea garments of
some kind; $50 900, 900 habltually go naked,
and 100000, 600 only cover parts Of the body ;
500.000,00O live in houses, 00,000.0O0 in huts
aud caves and 2j0,000,0O0 virtually have no
shelter
A cgar-dealer in Lynn, Mass, adopted a
novel plan to do business few days ago.
The recent Sunday law has made him timid,
so this time, when man wanted to buy
cigar or a piece OF tobacco, he sold him box
of matches and made present of the cigars
or tobacco
1t is rather interesting to note the primi-
tive manner in which mails are carried even
nowadays in Northern Michigan. where the
functions of the United States post ia under
taken by dogs. The latter, in teams of six
draw sledges carrying the letter-sacks eve,
the wlntry SHOWS.
Another drop-a- penny-in-the-slo contriv-
ance Is reported from Paris The cabs of
the city have been fitted with small machines
and the passenger places a ten centime
piece into the slot. In exchange lie receives
an insurance policy, available for the time
during which the cab has been hired.
The longest Geographic circuit ever estab-
lshed is said to have been that whereon a
direct message was sent from the City Of
Mexico TO the Telegraphic Congress at
Washington, d. c. The message came by
way Of Ell Paso, Kansas City, Chicago
Buffalo and New York to Washington.
Brookfeld, Conn, was badly scared re-
Gently by claps of thunder that are reported to
have sounded like large musical gongs or
far-Of bugle. A great many who heard them
were sure they presaged the end of the
world, and made confessions which they
would give small fortunes to have forgot
ten.
A few days ago children, while playing
round the church at South Paris. Me-, dis
covered can Of powder under the old edi-
fee. From its appearance this can is sup
posed to have been under the church since
1875, when it was the custom of the colon al
patriots to secrete their powder in and near
meeting houses.
A young girl at Morris, ILL.,, driven to de-
spair by the ill-treatment of her stepmother,
donned male attire and fed from home.
Her disguise was discovered by farmer
for whom she was working, and she was
arrested, but discharged upon the recital of
her pteouS story
An American who has spe Mt some years