The morning call., 1891-04-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Milwaukee, Wis, has $4,000 vacant lots.
Denver is a mile higher than the Miss
issippi Valley.
An Eastern journal heads case of milk
poisoning A Family Possessed"
A man at Athens, Ca, owns an antique in
the form of water bucket hewn out of the
solid rock.
The unusual sight Of two blind men fight
ing on the public street was seen in New
Y ork recently.
In Nova Scotia the penalty for assaults
upon women and girls Is forty lashes with
the cat-o'-nine-tails
At Council Bluffs, Iowa. 1900 school
children and two-thirds of the teachers are
in bed with the grip.
a New Haven (Conn.l man has found
$40 pearl in an oyster. He will have it I'm
ished up and mounted.
A phiIologist estimates that the coinage of
new words goes on at the rate of 100 annu-
ally in the English language.
An Atchison woman recently refused the
present of hands me set of books because
they did not match the color Of her front
room furniture.
William c. Jackson, who died in Mankato,
Mimi, the other day, aged 43 years, is
claimed to have been the first white child
born In the State.
There is a class of people in Japan who
hire the poor to beg clothes from the charity
associations, and, dyeng them, sell them at
higher rates for new clothes.
A needle, after devious experience Of So
years in the body of Springfield (Mo.)
woman, has come out through her side. The
needle had lost its temper and was as pliable
as piece of wire.
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dfank 10 lots Of Taer ' u os'0n anu
Ni.Nn - folo " Iooi'
d "a IattiesHahe nas peeR electrocuted at
nrrant ~ 9,o a. ,oIis We" a. on ip6 AZ t5ft
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the current had beenturned on.
MISS Eilhla hoslloin Oh fnulahapohs, VINO
Mas an acGse s9nelet Iloln PneuiLnonla,
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iio1 Ho"as nG pn' say 3no meuiu
h"rr '"O'NA-0o" W wv 'i'0"'0 III nal "'i
4'at'
an iowa court mas decldeu tnat signing
anotneI name name " hnease ticket 10 not
a6a - ne case grey ou aoo OF me puI
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my ouitau vi ulhey Is sdlu 10 nc III oue9
WIN lie supeIssltloh concerning cfosS-eyea
pcople' ne Hau indu III MS suito aIlicteu
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IN ms VIII secretary WINDOW SPOKE OIL MS
VINE III tnese loucniHg Terms 10 whose
ioVe L am lnueDIea LOT the happiness that
haS plesseu my ne, anu 10 whose pruueht
anu WISE cVuIs6i 1--WE iuctl u LIS measure
"a ptVspe',s' 5 n"so on!Oyou
boston Is declared 10 DC the only city IN
the world where stenosraphic account OF
every session OF lts common council Is pre-
served Id Tue lnuhicipal archives. Every
iHotlon, argument, Qepate, remark, ETC., Is
Jot.eu uoMn ny tile Ulllcial s!enograpner.
AN ehtelpIlslns western Insurance agent
mas STRUCK new Iuta III advertising. lie
engages a LOT Oh pretty girls ana mas them
uriven through Town on an open wagon,
Win the legend ABOVE Them Inc men we
marry must insure III TIE - company.
The four most eminent literary women in
England were 0id MAIDS = MISS Austen,
MISS MartImeau, MISS EuSewOrth ana MISS
Milford. ms TACT ought to encourage the
ladies' OF tne present, VINO are taking the
ground that husband is more or less Of
nuisance.
During the month Of December The sun
dld not shine once IN London. During the
entire year OF 1880, out OF possible 4455
hours, when The sun should or might Lave
been visible, IL, as TACT, was visible only
1U92 hours, ana these were mainly III the
afternoon.
a mysterious robbery Of checks and drafts
from the postofhce at Atlanta, Ga, has been
found TO be the WORK OF ten-year-old boy.
The amount OF his populations represented
Sl5,OVo. lie dld not attempt to cash the
drafts, put ma theih between the mattresses
oil his Ded.
Ole Bulls son, Alexander is said to have
strongly inherited d, the famous yloilnist,s
musical talent. lie plays the VIoIin prl-
vately In Europe. a granddaughter OF Ole
Bull, now visiting friends IN New ork, Is
also reported 10 play the same instrument
beautifully.
The photographs of three persons and
cat can be distinctly seen upon window
pane OF house at Mt, Eagle, Va; The pic
lures were undouotedly imprinted oy nash
oil lightning while the originals were watch
ing d storm from Ine WlndoW ana nave
been In existence Tor many Years.
+. S. Stevens of Augusta, Me-, is credited
with having caught specified laker, which
is believed to be the king fish of all Its
species ever captured AT Moosehead. The
nsh was taken near Deer Island and
measured 80 inches IN length, 10 inches from
DacK 10 belly, ana weighed Zl72 pounds.
physician who died IN Philadelphia re-
Gently. aged ". was very eccentric, so much
SO that he regularly paid his board at high
priced hotel, but rarely lived there. Al
though himself doctor he would never al
low physician to be called In when he was
III ana would not take medicine oil his own.
DR.. Charles Cary of Buffalo, n. Y, re-
Gently appeared before the Surrogate and
swOre that his work In cleaning and mount
ing the skeleton OF the late Legrand Marvin
was reasonably worth $1,000. His bill was
paid, put ne IS under ponds TO make resiltu-
tlOn IL the OufT0RaGe declares The charge eX-
orbltant
A Syracuse On. " man who wanted
some genuine, homemade and unadul-
terated Bayarian beer" sent over to Ba-
varia and got two barrels. He was Dragging
of its purity, when a chemist analysed the
beer and found the adulteratlon per cent
greater than In the average American
brewed.
A remarkable feat in the history of the
telephone has been performed in London.
The Paris end of the line which connects
that city with London was switched on the
MarseilleS wire and conversation was
carried on. Words spoken in London were
distinctly heard on the shores of the Med
iterrauean, 800 miles away.