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

An Indiana man has been stunp in forty
two places by yellow jackets and is dead
from the effects.
The State of Wisconsin has lost the origi-
nal draft Of her constitution and is, there
fore, without any written organic law.
The question most agitating Oklahomans
now is how TO divide 5000 claims among
$4,000 people SO that every one will be salts
ned.
A Manor Pa.) woman has lost her eye
sight from overturning kettle of boiling
water, the steam from which entered her
optics.
Burning down ones home is an expensive
method of getting rid OF fieas, yet that is
what several BrookIynites have come near
doing
According to the London Lancet the COM
ing man VIII be bald, and it holds the stiff
hats res pousible for this impending mis-
fortune.
Rev DR.. Jenckes of indianapolis has sew
enty proofs that the world Will end IN ten
years and he gets slxty-nlne OF them from
the Bible
Grabbing his luXuriant whskers with a
graDplng-hook was the novel method by
which Baltimore man was recently saved
from drowning.
The body If missing man at Marquette,
Mich, has been found by an acquaintance,
who says the location Of the corpse was re-
Yealed 10 him III a dream.
a German biologist says that the two sides
OF The face are never alike The eyes and
ears are invariably out Of line, and pretty
nearly everything is all wrong.
A foulhardy Texan is dead, with bullet
in his brain from the rifle of companion,
who attempted to shoot cigar from his
mouth. Both men we're drunk.
This is said to be the greatest butternut
year that has been known for long while,
and Eastern farmers are predicting one OF
the coolest winters that was ever known.
Alter killing his wife, sister-in-law and
mothtr-ln-Iaw, drunken YagabOnd at
Quincy, KY, took his own life. He had
been a terror to the community for years.
Lord Tennyson and William Black are
both warm friends of Mary Anderson Ma
vaTro. Many OF the best literary people of
England have been specially cordial to her.
The Public Library of Boston has been
presented with bust OF Gen. n. Z. Banks
by Mrs Robert Douglas OF Cambridge. 1t
was made in 1860 by the husband OF Mrs.
Douglas.
a continental club has been organized at
Windsor, OuariO, to bring about annexa-
ton 10 the United States, ana strong resolu-
tons 10 this end have been adopted By the
members
Stanley possesses the remarkable virtue
Of obedience to his mother-in-law. lie
might have been ruler of the Congo, but
his motheT-in-laW objected and like good
sUn-in-law he obeyed.
The season for shooting of gray squirrels
in Massachusetts opened Septen Der 1st, but
hunters say that, as young squirrels are not
more than thrte-fuurths grown, the 1St of
October would be better time.
To prevent accidents from the Lanffen-
Frankfort cable, which transmits deadly
current Of 1900 volts, all the poles for 112
miles are adorned with skulls and crUss-
bones surmouuted with warning notice.
TweEty-eisht farms, with all the cattle
and stores, have been destroyed by n fire of
ineendiary origin at kozrglOw, in Russian
Poland In order To delay the engines the
inceDuiaTIeS cut The ropes of the fre bells.
Siberia's immense fields of grain will be
thin The worlds reach In a few years.
America is queen uncHallenged for the pres
ent, buI the Russian empire must be counted
later i'll ali plans as to the granary OF civil
lied man.
A Maine farmer, who believes that a
penny saved IS a penny earned, drove
twenty-five miles to a town where two more
pounds OF sugar were being sold for a dollar
than were sold for tile same amount by his
local grocer.
huge tunnel is building in the Leadvllle
mining district for the purpose of draining
the mines. 1t will be at least five miles long
and when completed will give easy access to
millions of tons of good ore that cannot now
be gotten at.
In view of the serious disappointment to
guests at the dinner tables OF total absti-
hence people on finding that there Is no
wine, total abstinence hostess ID London
now writes her invitations with no wine"
at the bottom.
There are 1,206, 707 soldiers of the Union
still living. vi this number 6S7, 549 are not
pensioners. There are $40, 90S sleeping in
soldiers graves. These are figures which 1t
will be well to lodge in the memory for
future reference.
An Eastern physician, aged s., who went
To Sioux Falls, s. OAK, to procure divorce
accomplished his object, aud lost no time in
making nineleen-year-Old belle of New
port, K. l., who accompanied him on the
journey, his second wife.
1t is reported that The King of Servia has
been beIrothed 10 the Princess Helena of
Montenegro. The latter was born in 1873
King Alexander was born In 1876, and sue
ceeded his father. King Milan, after the lat
ter's abdcation. March 6, 1889
An Iowa couple are The proud parents Of
a baby boy That tipped the beam at Just 1917
pounds an hour after birth. The baby's
mother is a trihe below normal in size and
weighs 1oi pounds. Both mother and child
are reported as healthy and happy.
Mrs. Kesiah Needham of Lewisham, En-
gland, was lately allowed relief by the
municipal authorities of the town. She had
been the mother Of twenty children aud at
Ole lllllc Sctcu VI lCE SOIlS were III Ol6 ItBt-
ment and fought shoulder to shoulder in
battle.
One hundred and twelve years ago oc-
CURED one Of the few great naval fights of
the Revolutionary WaT-that between the
Scraps and the Bon Homme Richard. The
contest gave Paul Jones undying fame and
struck a thrill of amazement and terror into
the British.
Thirteen veteran stage-driyers, ranging in
age from II to 50, met recently at South
Gardner, Mass, and INDUCED in reminis-
cences Of the Olden time. Their active ser
vice began in 1910, when the irCn-hOrse and
newspaper were unknown factors in the
towns on their routes,
Diamond 10" Reynolds, the Western
steamboat millionaire, never owned but
three diamonds. The name, which after
ward chung to him, originated from the
brand he stamped on his hides in the early
days of bis career, when he was engaged in
the business Of shipping hides 10 the East.
The pineapple grows upon the upper part
of stem which rises two OF three feet high
from the center of a cluster of leaves grow
ing close TO the ground. The upper part of
this stem becomes covered with the flowers
of the plant, the flower cluster becomes en-
larged, Its parts uniting and forming the
pineapple.
Mrs. Elizabeth Riddle. who died at Phila-
delphia recently, aged 90, was the daughter
of Judge HopkinsGn, author Of Hail Co.
lumbia"; her grandfather was Francis
Hopkinson, a signer of the Declaration of
Independence; and her gIeat-grandfather
was Thomas HOpkinsoD, member of the
Provincial Council and Judge Of the Vice
Admiralty under George IL
The many New England people who have
burned their fingers in Western land booms
will envy Miss Nellie Hayden OF Denver her
phenomenal luck. Eleven years ago she
was sales girl in a Boston dry-goods store.
She WAS persuaded to invest all her savings,
amounting to $500, in Denver real estate,
and by reinvesting her profits therefrom in
suburban property she has accumulated
fortune Of Sl,300,000.
David S. Barry, the New Haven (Conn.)
letter-carrer who was recently arrested for
stealing from the mails, is possessed Of a
grim humor. He was arraigned before
United States Commissioner Wright, and
was held under $500 for a hearing. He
confessed his guilt. When Postmaster
Sperry addressed him during the examina-
tion as "Mr Barry" he safd Don't call
me Mister, call me a--- fool.
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