The morning call., 1891-10-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

London Dutt0nn0le-makeTS Set % Ceuto d
dag.
Finland's longest day has twen!y-one and
a half hours.
The Indians in Alaska eat strawberries
soaked in seal oil.
They have introduced the bicycle into the
militia at Connecticut.
No bank can hereafter be established in
Canada with less than S250,OO0 capital.
In Vasten, in the Congo state, the first
newspaper recently made its appearance.
CartIessness in stepping upon parlor
match has caused $1,000 fire in New ork
According to the New York Tribune,
clothes are "laundried," not "iaundered. !"
A triangular duel at Pembroke. Ga, has
resulted in the fatal wounding OF all the
Onba.ants.
In Georgia barnyard scratches young
fowl that Is hall guinea chicken and hall
Just PLAIN chicken.
A new and powerful machine for clearing
wrecks on railroads has been invented and
tried by a citizen of Michigan.
Commissions caused by the excessive use
of cigarettes have ended the career Of
promising young man at Workman, Tex.
A bicycle-dealer at Lebanon. Pa, has
received the written offer or a forty-two-
acre farm in Ohio in exchange for wheel.
In Alaska huge brown bears, driven TO
fury and desperation by the little Alaskan
mosquito, finally tear their flesh ana die In
agony.
A Brunswick (de) young woman is said
to have found 600 different Kinds OF flowers
in recent DOtanIZing exploration Oh Mount
klueo.
a wise son maketh glad father. but he
must not be SO abnormallY wise Is t. at
tempt giving the old man points every otter
minute.
Atlantic City IN j. policemen are petit
tinning Tor their pay. They have been put
off for six weeks, with little prospect OF a
near settlement.
Grant was the only President who ever
dared TO perpetrate pun In State paper:
Agricultural is the.ground-work OF our ma
tiOual prosperity"
Mrs. McGriffin of McGregor. Tex, who
gave birth to triplets ten months ago, broke
the record recently with a quartet. All
seven are doing well.
P. d. Armour is the largest individual
commercial operator in the world. His
transactions last year reached the enormous
aggregate uf SIS, 100000
An amateur photographer of Wheeling,
W. Va, while on foreign trip and en-
gagged III taking views OF German scenery,
has been ares ted as SOY.
1t is said that, during the attempt to cut a
canal through the 1sthmus Of Panama,
100000 ounces OF Qunine were used annu-
ally III com DallnB mdlaIlal lever.
Although contiguous. the house of a re-
Gently deceased Pennsylvania is situated
in one county, his barn in another, and the
greater part of his farm in third.
An epidemic of measles is prevailing in
the State home for the Predetermined at
Fort Wayne, Ind. In consequence the i'll
stitution has been closed to visitors.
What sne time the New York baggage
smasher is having these September days,
q .
into the city every twenty-four hours.
The brother of the King of Siam is named
Dam-Rong. With name like that he will
have to lead life but little short of that of
an angel TO prove that he is all right.
Nine persons OF royal blood-one Emperor,
three Kings, one Queen, two heirs apparent,
heir presunptiye (the Countess of Flanders)
slept on French soil on a recent night.
1t is sometimes surprising to note how
early children learn to consider right and
wrong. Undue restraint and oyermuch urg-
ing never help them III this respect, how
ever.
Brown University follows Harvard in
opening a side door to women. They may
take examinations and receive Certificates
of their attainment" no means
degrees.
The biggest days receipts in the history
of the Brooklyn bridge were taken on April
80, 1889, the day of the centennial anniver-
sary celebration. They amounted to
S5,018 so.
1t has been found by actual trial that if
woman's prayer-book, especially il she is
an unmarried woman, be picked up and
opened at random, 1t Will uncloSe at the
marriage ceremony.
What is said TO be the largest umber-mill
in the world is at Fort Blakeley, WASH
Last year the mill turned out 60, 600, 600 feet
of lumber, over 2S,000.000 laths and large
amount of other stock.
Two hundred and eighty-two years ago
Hendrick Hudson discovered the river that
bears his name. The Rhine of America"
is too poor title for it. IL is unique, peer
less, needing NO borrowed glories.
A Dubuque Qowa) man has invented
self-cOrking bottle. When the bottle is in
the side pocket 1t remains cOrked-when
raised to the mouth 1t is uncOrkei by the
cantilever movement of the elbow.
A Bridgeton IN. j. excise clerk has been
voted the muniicent sa airy of So year. He
has rendered his resignation and will engage
in farm labor. in which vocation he is at
least sure of his board and lodging.
A Norwegian living in the sixteenth GEN.
tury made 10000 dishes of turned ivory, in
every respect without a flaw, and so tiny
that all of them could be safely Graded in
pepper-corn cup OF the usual size.
A certain Mistress Jane Shaw once re-
ceiyed from King Edward ~ a present Of
two hartS, six bucks and q tun of wine
These things were sent by the King at the
conclusion of hunt to commemorate his
success.
A widow at Washington, Pa, who is in
comfortable circumstances. has received
gift of 100000 from some one in Idaho
whose name she refuses to give. She also
reclines to state whether the donor is alive
or dead.
The Worlds Columbian Fair is the
nations enterprise, and the nation should
give 1t generous support No petty jealous
les or past chickering's must be permitted to
hinder the development of Americas great
est exposition.
In Africa when an army OF ants moves
for food the still forest becomes alive with
the trampling of the elephant, the fight of
the antelope or of the gazelle, of the leopard,
OF snakes, all he living world, fleeing in
the same direction.