The morning call., 1891-09-05
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
A farmer at Centerville. Md, has grown
rorn IL feet inches hiph

traffic between the States and Canada in
time for the fall trade.
Recent experiments show that with prop
er appliances ordinary gaslight can be used
in making photographs.
The Rush-street bridge in Chicago, one of
the largest drawbridges in the world, is
now turned by electricity.
A citizen of Hart County, Ga, who is over
100 years old, has lived within five miles of
his birthplace all of his life.
A West Lynn (Mass.) man has bean-pot
IN which the fay0rite esculent Of the Hub
has been baked for forty years.
Small cups are now being used with great
success by oculists for the cure of longsight-
edaess and kindred diseases of the eye.
A fine specimen of the pine tree shilling
of 1852 has been found by werkmen who
were excavating at Great Darlington. Mass.
a mother and daughter have eloped from
Port Jefferson, l.. l., with two married men.
who are father and son. This beats the
record.
A horse belonging to man living near
Baltimore while grazing cut its tongue with
a blade of sword grass, from which it bled
to death.
Thomas MCGEE. night watchman at a
Springfield (Mass.) bank, has just completed
his seventeenth year of service without
night eff
The latest fad is to have yourself and
your family photographed ON your cups.
This is better than being photographed in
your cups.
A Boston thief who was left alone in a
jewelry-store just sixty seconds managed
to gather up fifteen watches and get away
with them.
Peter FleSher, an Illinois pioneer, and for
many years an intimate personal friend of
the late President Lincoln, is dead at Lex
ington, aged 80.
The following item should be over fifty
years old, but is iu reality the newsiest
thing OF the day: Lewiston, Me-, is shut
ting I'D its rum-sh0ps.
An Allentown Pa.l woman has been killed
by a train at exactly the same spot where
her husband met his death in similar
manner three years ago.
A bill for the punishment of nepotism has
been introduced in the Georgia Legls lature,
and its friends declare that they will push
its passage Tor all they are worth.
A seventy-two- year-old woman living in
Tiyerton, X. l., at a distance of four miles
from the ocean, never went to a clambake
or set foot on the seashore until recently.
Sixty years ago only one public banking
company existed in London, and at the
Bank of England private accounts were at
that time opened rarely and with the great
est difficulty.
SunstrOke and the excessive smoking of
cigarettes combined have produced unmis-
taxable symptoms of hydroohobia IN tn 9
case Of Brooklyn man who had not been
bitten by a dog.
When Samuel Starr told six friends who
had partaken of his ''raccOon chowder'' at
Birmingham, Conn.,, that it was made of
dead dog, they all became violently i'll.
Starr is in danger.
A Camden On. j. negro couple, to whom
was born child with but one arm, mere
hand taking the place of the other, have set
up dime museum of their own, and are
advertising their freak.
A pathological statistician calculates that
in the year 1000 there will be ], Zoo, ,000, 600
people who speak English. and that the
other European languages VIII be spoken by
only 50o,000,000 people.
A Windsor (Ont) man has just made the
last payment on 500 mortgage given
thirty-two years ago, the Endorsements Of
principal and interest showing that over
$1,000 has been paid on it,
Three members of family at Greenvine.
Tex, became craZed at the loss of their en-
tire possessions by fire and attempted sui
eide by jumping into the flames, but were
rescued by friendly hands.
1t curiously happens that there are two
gentlemen OF the name of Charles ID. Allen
who are somewhat prominent in politics in
Massachusetts, and one is just about as
widely known as the other.
a st. Louis wire walker proposes to make
the trip from Chicago to st Louis with tele-
graph poles as his support. He thinks he
could make ten miles day and give profta-
bic exhibitions every night
Formerly it was impossible for recruiting
agents 10 find farmers sons willing to join
the army. Now the reverse is true. The
present depression in the agricultural in
duStry is doubtless the cause.
The latest fad among women who enter
tain a good deal is the autograph table
spread. up0n which each guest is invited to
write his name with blue pencil. The out
lines are afterward embroidered.
Kingwood, VIVA, has held second Bur-
dett-COutts wedding, the parties to which
were callow youth of sixteen and a wealthy
old maid of sixty. The aged brides relatives
will attempt to have the marriage ann ulled.
A quart can filed with $50 gold-pieces has
been unearthed at Little Rock, Ark. The
treasure amounted to over $1,000, and it was
claimed by an old negress. who stated that
she had saved 1t since the close of the war.
An Amager farmer has been arrested and
fined for assault upon the Danish army.
While entering the town with load of
cabbage the war horse of the artillery took
fright at his outfit and broke up the whole
army.
While man in Mooresville, Ind, was
tearing out an old fireplace in his house the
other day he found $500, all in crisp $40
notes, that had been secreted beneath the
hearth by some former occupant Of the
house.
Professor Charcot, the eminent lecturer
on nervous diseases in Paris. has sue
ceeded in obtaining enlarged photo
graphs OF the brain under various condi-
ti0ns of the disease, a result of great seien-
tific value.
SlabtowD, Kans., the scene of many inter-
esting events, is about to pass out OF exist
ence. The station house is being removed
to the new site, half mile to the north.
One by one the landmarks of early days are
disappearing.
A recent reunion of the Fleming family
at Fairmount, w. Va, was attended by
over $500 persons bearing that name. includ-
ing two Governors, Mayor and State
Senator. About 1900 members of the family
live in the vicinity.
An Eastern syndicate has paid over
S1,000,000 for 100000 acres OF West Virginia
coal and lumber land. The syndicate will
market the timber on it. which alone is
estimated to be worth $1,000, 900, and de-
velop the land for coal and iron.
The faith cure is still killing people here
and there with the usual horrors of mock
cry and neglect. Ii the laws are such that
they cannot get strong grip on these
cranks, prompt amendment by State Legis-
latures is crying necessity of the hour.
A Canton (Ga.) man found in his corn
field young and partly formed ear OF corn
in the shape of closed hand. showing the
fingers and thumb welded together. and
about three inches OF the forearm. All was
pretty clearly defined and easi ly recogniza-
bic.
the swallowing of an old-fashoned three
cent silver piece has caused the death of a
SIevenspoint (Wis.) man. The coin was
badly dsc0lored and how long it had been
in his intestines cannot be told. 1t had
caused Inflammation and thereafter gan
creme.
The incident of the New York woman
who broke her artificial leg on the. street
and insisted on being taken to hospital,
because she did not know where she wonld
be able to get another help to lOcomotion,
would have been iudicrous If her condition
had not been ptiful.
The biggest doctors fee Of the age is the
1000, 900 marks $500, 600 paid by Herr Won
Donner, a Hamburg merchant, for DR..
Michelsen's cure of his wife. The money
wasn't given to the famous Wiesbaden prac-
titioner, however, but at his wish, to found
a hospital at Hamburg.
While Bloomington Qnd.) farmer was
clearing up a meadow he found old coin
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