The morning call., 1891-05-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Guatemala is to send a brass band of 200
pieces to the Worlds fair.
The grip has crossed the ocean, and is Gre
ating fearful rayageS In London.
Thirteen members of the United States
Senate are natives of New York.
Kaiser William has limited the sermons of
the court chaplainS To ten minutes.
single deposit of So 600, 900 was recently
made in Philadelphia national bank.
There is duty of 20 per cent on queen
bees, while the drone is admitted free.
Electric ears are now making daily trips
between the United States and Mexico.
James Fuller, a colored letter-carrier of
New Haven, Conn.,, has fallen heir to So, 600.
An Ohio cat tenderly nurses a baby skunk
which was captured by member of the
family.
Property in the vicinity of the English
Houses of Parliament is valued at 81, SOC, 900
an acre.
Maud Evans of Beaver Falls. Pa, who is
only 10 years Of age, has third set OF natu-
raj teeth.
A two-year-old child at Newburg, n. Y,
fell from foulth-story window and escaped
serious INJURY.
Two young ladies in New York are said
to make from $4,000 to $4,000 each year
teaching chess.
Chicago has the biggest lime-kiln. Six
Thousand barrels OF stone and lime are
crushed in day.
A Florida woman has just buried n forty
four-year-old cat, over which she proposes
to erect monument.
No fewer than seven portraits of the Ger
man Emperor are now being painted by
three artists In Berlin.
4 Kentucky woman on Florida tour has
caught 205-puund tarpon-the largest fish
ever caught with rod and reel.
Government telephone girls in Germany
wear neat and attractive uniforms, and
patrons are very polite to them.
Thomas Ford, Brooklyn truck-driver,
while lifting heavy trunk burst blood
vessel and died almost Immediately.
Ordinary coal oil judiciously applied is
said to be certain remedy for badness
where the roots of the hair are not dead.
Soho, w. Va, has unique railroad sta
tion. 1t is built around a giant elm tree,
and the roof is shaped like an umbrella.
The census of France shows an increase
in population OF los, 900 yearly, as compared
with an increase of 435.000 yearly in Ger
many.
Ii. Braithwaite, veteran (Maine) hunter,
has killed seveuty-fiye bears this spring.
He says he found twenty, young and old, in
one den.
The post-mortem examination of the body
at Milford, Ind, failed to reveal the slight
est trace Of scar.
citizen of Greencastle, Nd, has trained
his rat terrier to hatch out spring chick ems,
and the little fellow does it thoroughly. He
is now sitting on goose eggs.
The word preface" used in the begin
ming of books, was originally word of well
come to a meal, and was equivalent to
"Much good may it do you"
oh "a
fifteen in telegraphy, originated by one of
the prisoners. Each convict purchased his
own instrument by working overtime.
1t cost the Queen about S45, 600 for heI
visit to Grasse. The bill was $500 day for
rent of the house and grounds, not includ-
ing the grounds of complaint These are al
ways chargeable among the Injuries.
A Fayetteville On. ca man who is 10 years
old, claims that he never smoked nor chewed
tobacco, never voted anything but the Dem
ocratic ticket, never was drunk, and never
was witness, juror or sutton in court.