The morning call., 1891-10-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Arrangements are being made to lay
cable from Nassau to Jupiter Inlet, on the
coast OF Florida.
The little folks will be rejoiced to learn
that pineapple juice is remedy for sore
throat pronounced infallible in Louisiana.
Mothers will undoubtedly hear good deal
now of attacks Of that disease. An agree
able medicine Is one of the things for which
we have onged
. Irving to interview the Prince of Wales is
as difficult a job as trying TO pick Yale
lock with tOothpick. He is not to be got
at by the willing scribe, and the American
syndicate which offers $500 for an inter
view with him needn't be in hurry to buy
a draft for the amount
The young woman who wishes to make
beautiful the dressing-caSe OF the young
man upon whom she has set her affections
no longer makes it glorious with silver
brushes, but instead decOrates it with those
of ebony, on which his cipher or monogram
is wrought out in silver
1t was long thought that the water from
melted snow was the purest of all water.
This idea has been proven incorrect, as the
reverse Is the case. Snow Is really a purl-
fer of the atmosphere, attracting from it. as
1t falls, various impurities, and these are
found in the snow water.
A huge stork entered a Potsdam On "
ballroom the other evening and drove
young woman into Mysteries by poking his
great bill over her shoulder. There is moth
ing strange about that Strong men have
been thrown into paroXysmS by having bills
pushed under their eyes.
While investigating the probable amount
of damage done the wheat crop by insects
Professor Fletcher of Canada President of
the Association of Economic Entomologsts
estimates that 10 per cent of the total pro-
duction is lost. In dollars it amounts to
over S3S O00, 900 on all kinds of crops.
The heaviest charged words in our Ian
guage are those briefeSt ones Yes" and
No" One stands for the surrender of the
Will. the other for denial; one stands for
qualification, the other for character A
stout "No" means a stout character; the
ready Eyes" weak one, gid it as we may.
Six residents of Galesburg, Mich, have
au aggregate Of $50 years. The youngest is
81 and the Oldest 81, the average age OF the
six being SS years and months. Two of
the six receive pensions for services rem
dered by their husbands in the War of 1872.
All have plenty of this worlds goods to
make them happy.
P. G. Stire, the Methodist preacher who
was suspended by the Methodist Episcopal
Conference at Fort Dodge, Iowa, recently,
for raising fast horses, has purchased high
grade safety bicycle and will transfer his
affection to it. Mr.. StIre says he will sell
his horses and apply for admission to the
conference next year.
South Jackson, Mich. is afflicted with
plague OF HORNETS. he pepptrV, yellow
jacketed Insects descend like clouds of
gnats on the houses, entering at unguarded
doors and windows and swarming around
the interior like flies. Great clusters of
them are sometimes found hanging to chan
deier and picture frames.
A remarkable example of the enduring
qualities of the daguerrotype is to be found
in the old graveyard at Waterford. Conn.
In the headst0ne that MARKS tha grave OF a
woman who died more than forty years ago
her portrait is inlaid, covered with a nova
Bile metal shield. The picture is almost as
perfect as when it was taken.
1t doesn't always pay for practical
Joker to be "too funny" at bali in Liv-
erpool man removed a chair just as male
guest was about to sit down. The victim
fell to the ground and injured his spine.
he brought All action in the County Court,
and the joker was ordered to pay the plain
tiffs claim Qorty-siX pounds with costs.
A widow with two girls married a Wild
over with two boys, and had a second fam
lily by her new husband. When terrible
rumpus was heard in the nursery one day
the nervous husband shouted upstairs:
"Whatever is the matter% The little wife
answered Sweetly over the balusterS: Its
only my children and your children having
a row with our children, dearl"
A nest of thieving Sparrows, according to
veraci0us chroDlcler, has recently been
overhauled at North Plains, Conn.,, with S52
Ia bank bllls slowed away In 1t for rainy
day." The same historian AYERS that the
money was purloined from the church funds
on Sundays when the windows were open,
the birds appropratiug the bills without
first getting an order on the society's cash
Ter. The story is unaccompanied BY aft
davits.
Canada gives to its Geological Survey
only 200 year, while the various geo.
logical surveys in our country absorb nearly
81 90, 600 annually. Yet Canada makes a
fine showing with this modest sun. The
annual geological records are in part records
of original discovery and research, and with
their fine maps and photographers are as in
teresting as many books of travel. Canada