The morning call., 1891-08-20
BREVITIES,


Farm property in Kansas has doubled in
value since the wheat harvest.
A simple remedy for hicroughs is lump
OF sugar saturated with vinegar.
Nearly 500 sheep were recently cremate
IN prairie fire near San Angelo Tex.
A ferocious Mexican lion is treating great
conservation in the vicinity of Luling,
| Tex.
Two enormous black snakes were recently
| caught milking a Pennsylvania farmer S
| cows.
Alcohol and whiting is recOmmeu ded for
cleaning windows long begrimed with dust
and smoke.
| The man who will abuse dumb animal
Is coward at heart, whatever he may ap-
pear outwardly.
Boston Aldermen will discontinue solicit
Ing Tree tickets to theaters and raise the
license fee to $1,000
An Indiana man has dug up bucks horn
covered with Indian characters and plainly
bearing the figures 1911.
Excessive joy over the receipt of $1,000
pension money by Pittsburg veteran has
caused fatal heart disease.
Several acres OF choice potatoes belonging
to Hamilton (Mass.) farmer have been dug
up and carried off by thieves.
Boston is straining all her energies to
secure the meeting of the Pan-Republic
Convention on October H. 1892.
The Mexico (Mo.) gardener imparts par
ticuarly fine flavor TO his watermelons by
sprlnkling the vines with diluted brandy.
Boston has kindling-wood trust the
officials of which have advanced the price
OF the necessity 40 cents er 100 bundles.
Indiana saoon-keepers protest against
the Issuing of liquor licenses to druggists
and will contest the legality of such action.
mean rogue has swindled poor Boston
widow out Of $40 by representing that he
allow, TO- hn.-
bank.
a man is abroad In Butler. Ca, who goes
about rafting the front window-blinds, and
is making life miserable for nervous house.
wives.
An impecunious New Yorker who stole
So GO will rusticate at Sing Sing for eight
years. Embezzlers of millions usually 90
scot free.
Kingston, n. Y, established police force
only two weeks ago, and now proposes to
do away with the blue coats as an unneces-
sary expense.
Winsted Comm man belongs to twenty
four secret societies, four volunteer fire or
CARNATIONS. nine military companies and
three churches.
Five thousand Cincinnatians recently par
tlciDated in an excursion to Niagara Falls.
l his Is said to be the biggest affair OF the
kind on record.
A Philadelphia girl who was locked out
OF the house attempted an entrance by
climbing the fence, when she fell and re-
ceived fatal injuries.
An impecunious but hands ONE Planfield
IN. ~ hackman has capture a pretty sew
enteen-year-old heiress. 1t was case of
mutual love at first sight.
Thirteen small girls of Petersburg, H.,
none over 10 years of age. have been ar
rested Tor going on midnight lark and
raising pandemOnium generally.
vi $1,000 worth of diamonds which wnIa
recently lost tn the New London Comm
haroor by the bnrning of a steam launch,
$1,000 have been recovered by diver.
The French have planned works at Havre
Tor utilizing the ebo and flow of the tide to
work turbine wheels to generate power for
the dynamos 10 supply Paris with light.
A Bar Harbor (Me.l man is such a devoted
worshiper of Dickens that he reads from
ohe of the great nOvelist's works every night
before retiring, no matter how busy he is.
Miss Lydia Keeth's parents at Sidney,
n. Y, who believed In faith cure. allowed
her 10 die after she had wasted to skele-
ton. but would not allow doctor to attend
her.
The introduction of a few inoculated
ehinch-bugs into Wisconsin wheat fields
has resulted in the complete humiliation of
millions of their species, and the farmers
are jubilant.
During the term of court which closed re-
Gently at Burlington, kans., six jury cases
were tried in which the amount in actual
dispute was only S44 80, while the costs
aggregated nearly $500
"A brooklyn recently sailor who passed
a. Confederate $50 note in payment for a
drink proved that he received the bill in
part payment of his wages, when he was
released and his captain held for trial.
The Butterfe!d family recently held re-
union Mt Tyngboro, Mass, in house which
was built century ago. -Four of those
q re- nd
spectively. They are all in good health.
A child at Paris. Tex, while standing on
the track within a few feet of n moving
train, was rescued from certain death by a
brave one-armed man, who dragged her
from the rails with not second to spare.
A lively 2-year-old boy atSaginaw, Mich,
being unsuccessful in trying to swallow one
of his feet, substituted a three-inch PEN
knife. which feat lie accomplished with ease.
The knife still remains in his stomach with
out deleterious results.
Charles Frank OF Medford, Wis, split his
foot from the toes to the center with an ak.
His brother Fred Is suffering from poisoned
finger. and is threatened with blood poison
ing, and another brother was accidentally
shot in the leg, but not seriously injured.
In st. Joe (Mo.) court a Mrs. Conrad
said letter, purported to have been writ
ten by her, was a prtma facie forgery be-
cause it contained the expression: Come
down and I'll give you geDteel old hug
ging., The jury decided that it had
genuine ring.
1t is said that Kansas farmer was so
elated at the victory won in that State last
year that upon the assembling of the egis-
lators he prepared and had sent in to tn at
body bill changing grounding day from
February "a TO January I'd. His reason for
this was that 1t would bring spring around
sooner, as spring begins suon after ground
hog day.