The morning call., 1891-05-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Boston will pension her disabled fremen.
There are 10000 sheep to one lion in the
world.
So-called homeless Goldfish is said to be
sturgeon.
Iowa is the largest corn producing State
in the Union.
A Kansas Judge is charged with being
drunk on the bench.
A railroad passes through every township
in St Joseph County. Mich.
The sale of perfumes is twice as great In
the summer as n the winter.
The little village of Altoona. Mich, is
gradually sinking into the earth.
Hannibal, Mo-, warns its street-cars with
electricity and lights Its churches with coal
oil.
Citizen Train is making another attempt
to circumnavigate the globe in fifty-fiYe
days.
A London billiardist recently made 1867
points in a single run with the spot stroke
barred.
The remains Of large Roman theater
have been discovered between Trieste and
Miramar.
Down in coal mime" S25 feet below
the surface, was the location Of a recent
Kansas picnic.
New Orleans will erect monument to
the memory of HenneSsy, the assassinated
Chief of Police.
A woman at White Pigeon. Mich, in inn
minent danger ofdeath at brutal husbands
hands. shot him dead.
Hampstead Washburne, the newly elected
Mayor of Chicago, is said to be an inyet-
crate cigarette smoker.
Mrs. Henry Updegrave of Tower City
Pa. aged As. is said to be the youngest
great-grandmother in the country.
A dog-fght at Alexandria, Va, eliminated
in scrimmage, in which the owner of the
winning cur received fatal injuries.
1t is fact worthy of note that although a
woman may be elected School Commissioner
in Missouri she cannot vote for one.
Carson County. Tex, is free of criminals,
at least the Grand Jury has adjourned its
session without finding an Indictment
General Butler maintains pretentious res
licences at Washington, Boston and Lowell.
He is said to donate large amounts to char
ity.
WHAT is said to be the largest drinking
fountain on earth has been erected at Mil
waukee, Wis, to the memory of Henry
Bergh.
An Atehson Kans.j widow, who contem-
plates second marriage, pays daily visits
to her husbands grave and begs him to for
give her.
The monthly income of Donna Isidora
CAUSING of Chile is $4,000. She is widow
of So, and is said to be the richest woman in
the world.
Mayor Washburne's first official act was
to order the Chicago gambiing-h0uses closed.
It's hoped that the new broom will continue
to sweep clean.
An intimate friend of James G. Blaine
asserts that he will not live to be President
He says that the great statesman is slowly
dying of Brights disease.
A large amount of counterfeit coin, with
dies and stamps for Its manufacture, has
been unearthed near Hagerstown, Nd. The
coin bore dates ranging from 1875 to 1S1S
In Detroit red placard with the words
guages-trench, German and Englsh-noti-
ies the neighborhood Of the contagion pres
cut
The proprietor of one of the largest sum-
mer hotels in Maine has written to his old
patrons, telling them TO bring their wine
along with them as the chances are that the
prohibition law will be enforced with great
yigor this summer.
Same of the Icelandic lakes are studded
with volcanic isles, miniature quiescent
Strombois, whose craters rise from bases
green with prolific growth of angelica and
grasses. Even in the bosom of the sea, off
the coast, there are hidden volcanoes.
An eminent French physician claims that
raw oysters are the most nourishing food in
of impaired digestion, exert strengthening
influence upon the nervous organs and the
liquor they contain is valuable tonic.
A conductor on Boston street railroad
was rendered 500 bill by passenger who
hoped to save nickel thereby. The note
was accepted with promise TO make change
soon. When the terminus was reached the
would-be free passenger received 500 90 In
silver.
Once in New Haven a little boy, whose
father was friend of Barnum, was too
sick to go TO the show, so the great show
man had the parade pass the house and
then sent two performing elephants around
to do their tricks in the front yard for the
little fellows benefit.
'1've only one gown" laughed young
woman recently, '.but I've dozens of petit
coats" 1t is emphatieally petticoat sea-
son. All Of the fashionable spring gowns
ought to be lifted, and most of them are, so
that the wearer must be dainty shod and
deliberately petticoated.
Preston County, w. Va, has monstros-
ity that Is half snake and half human IL
has the head of snake and the body of a
man, but all its characteristics are those of q
reptile. Que of its peculiarities Is that 1t
will not sleep without light in the room.
1t is % years old and its parents are well-to-
do people.
William Green of Youngstown, Ohio,
mysteriously disappeared twenty-five year
ago, leaving a wife and three chiIdre n.
After waiting eight years, Mrs. Green m ar
ried again believing him dead; but now he
has returned, and the couple are happily re-
united, the second husband having died.
Green's long absence has been satisfactorily