The morning call., 1891-03-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

a French professor announces that he can
photograph the entire spectrum.
There are still fourteen different places on
the globe where cannlbalism is practlced,
but the custom is gradually dying out.
A physician of Otsego, Mich, has been
mulcted in $3.50 for publicly reporting the
cause of a woman's illness as he diagnosed
il.
Over 100000 miners, metal workers and
other organized workmen will strike in Bel
GUM on May list TO gain the eight-hOur
work dav,
A Racine wis woman has been expelled
from church because she went to sleep dur
ing the sermon, snored and made faces at
the pastor.
The English nobility are shocked because
a grandniece of the Duke of Wellington is
obliged to earn her living By selling flowers
in London arcade.
A Yale student, while walking along
Court street, New Haven. recently, was at
tackled by thirty snOp-girlS aud kissed until
lie screamed for help.
A prominent banker at Mexico, Mo,
pledged his friends that if General Palmer
should be elected Senator at Springfield he
would stand on his head. He publicly full
filled his vow.
A Reno County Kans.) man has received
a commission to purchase jack rabbits and
ship them to England for the purpose of
stocking up the game preserves of some of
{" The child is father to the man!' A proof
of this is given in Marshalltown, Iowa,
where the newly -eected Mayor is said to be
Baby Anson's father" What his other
name is does not seem to be material.
At Habelschwerdt, Silesia, linen-weayers
earn 10 and IL cents per day. The food of
SlleSiau weavers consists OF oatmeal, bread
and potatoes. There are thousands of fami-
lies eating meat hardly once in a whole year.
An English officer whose health breaks
down in India must pay his successors pass
age out before he eau return home. 1t is
asserted that every year men die in India
because they cannot afford 10 comply with
this rule.
Princeton has made move which other
institutions If learning should not be slow
to follow. She is spelling Wooster" just
as it is pronounced. leaving the ''h" off of
PittSburg, and knocking the &C" out of
Tucson, Arizona.
Bluegrass grows everywhere in the tenn
perate zone, but Kentucky bluegrass be-
longs to III t State alone, and the bluegrass
of Kentucky is as superior to the bluegrass
of Europe or any other part of America as
If 1t were distinct variety.
A strange coincidence happened recently
in Clayton County. Ga. AS one OF its Oldest
residents expired the old clock stopped,
which for forty years had faithfully kept
time in the house. Two days after his de-
mise the clock myS.erioGsly disappeared.
Many years ago some careless map-maker
accidentally changed Goblin City, Col, to
Golden City on his map. The error was
widely copied into other maps, and to this
day one sees on some of the best maps the
name of Golden City Instead of Goblin City.
There is a law on the statute-book of
Massachusetts requiring that any person
finding property to the value OF So or more
shall have the same recorded in the office
of the town or city clerk. 1t Is an old colo
NAL law, and, almost needless to say, it is
not observed at present.
The Governor of Southern State is in
correspondence with the Governors of all
other hanging States, hoping to make au ar
rangement by which no one shall be hanged
on Friday. If other days shall be selected
the superstition which generally attaches to
Friday will soon pass away.
A Russian statistician and scientist re-
Gently published book from which it ap-
pears tnat from 1897 to 1881 over 642, coo men,
women and children have been sent TO ST.
IBERIA by the different Cars Of Russia.
About 10000 of these exiles have died upon
the roads during their transportation to the
mines and deserts of Siberia.
Not long ago a ship laden with oil was
sunk off the coast of FOlKestOne, England.
This has produced Strange effect upon the
Wild fOwl-duck, teal and other wild game
are easily caught, as they seem to be I'M
able to fly because of their plumage being
saturated with the oil which covers the wa
tiers in the vicinity OF the ship.
An Atchison man took his girl to the show
the other night They wanted to get there
early and went about o'clock. The girl
| had never been in the opera house before.
After looking at the picture on the curtain
for half an hour she said: Say Bill, let's
20. I've seen enough of this show" She
thought the picture was all there was of it.
One ofsthe ablest detectives in OHIO, John
L. Norris, has had a rather startling expert
ence while travelling on railroad train
| Somebody picked his pocket of S17O0. The
wonder is not how detective should have
allowed himself 10 be gone through by
vulgar pickpocket, but how he came to have
so much money about him for any one to
steal.