The morning call., 1891-03-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


earth near Center County, Penn, recently
in twenty minutes.
Miss Mary Linderberg Of QuakertOwn,
Penn, has just completed bed-Gullt that
contains 23,22S pieces.
Norway is Weather in nickel ores than
any other European country, but only two
mines are now working.
Bavaria, by a recent census. numbers
$3.50, $50 inhabitants. the female exceeding
the male population by 1885.
The old slave market" which is pointed
out to every Northern visitor in st. Angus
tine, never saw the sale of single slave.
The earth's 100000 600 of human inhab-
itants speak 1894 different languages and
possess about 1000 different religious beliefs.
The Atlanta Constitution is engaged in
raising $1,000 to present a service of plate to
the cruiser Atlanta during the evo.utions at
Pensacola.
keeping up appearances is defined by
one authority upon modern manners to
mean "a frugal diet in order to give an &C.
casional dinner party"
Intelligence from Brusino Arsizo in tho
Swiss canton of Iicinp, reports that sixty
meters Of the high road near that place have
sunk into Lake Lugauo.
A man living in Talbot County, Ga, has
never ridden on train OF ever been to a
city. Recently gentleman offered to pay
his fare to Columbus but he refused to go.
That Chicago man has paid $4,000 for a
Bible is one Of the surprises OF the season,
as there is a general impression that the
average Chicago man rarely inquiries where
t e family Bible is until he wants TO strOp
his razor
An instance in enormous rise in values in
Butte City is commented on. month or
two ago a certain mining property was re-
corded as transferred for $3.50 Only few
weeks thereafter the same property was
bonded for S., 500, 900.
The heat produced from the light of fire.
fly is only per cent of an equal amount of
candle light. The bugs light is produced
by chemical action, as it is increased by
putting the fly in oxygen and diminished in
an atmosphere of nitrogen.
A Russion press censor permitted the
following item to appear in a Moscow
paper: Z" 1t is our opinion that Russia needs
new railroads and will have them" For
this the censor was suspended for three
months and the editor fined $500.
German engineers are said to be adopting
a new line for bearings, composed of COM
pressed vegetable parchment. When lubri-
Gated with an emulsion of mineral oil and
water the parchment becomes impregnated
with the oil, and will last for a considerable
time.
The present winter has been severe on
country parsons in Maine. One preacher in
Knox County, after working hard all the
evening breaking through the drifts. ar
rived in sight of the church Just in time TO
see the lights blown out The people had
given him up and gone home.
The Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution has the
hardihOod to publish this item: Captain
A. G. Bell OF Americas says he has a turnip
in his garden measuring seven feet across
and with a top so high and strong that the
small boys climb it, A pair of mules will
have to be used to pull it up"
The Mexicans laugh at the propensity of
tria ell fnr Inv inv fta oh
tive pottery as souvenirs OF their visits to
the land of the Montezumas. The north
erners collect scores of red earthern jars
and drinking mugs, which the natives re-
gard as Of no value beyond their practical
use.
The Sugar Beet notes as one Of the guar
anteeS for the success OF the Sugar-bect
plant at Grand Island, Nebr., that special
arrangements have been made with the
three railroad lines passing through that
point 10 deliver beets from the surrounding
country at nominal cost of few cents
per ten per 100 miles.
In Columbia. NO.. the girls attending col
lege have organized an engagement and
marriage club. Every time one of them has
a gentleman escort to whom she is not en-
gagged, she pays % cents into the treasury.
When member becomes engaged she pays
in s.. When a member gets married the
club presents her S1C0.
An old directory of Philadelphia, pub
lished in 1856, has been brought to light.
Among the notable names found in it are
these: Franklin Benjamin. His Excel
lency, 1 Franklin court; Morris Robert,
merchant. 1O1 Market street; Rittenhouse
David. 100 Arch street; Hamilton Alex
ander, $50 Second street"
General Butler will be pleased to hear
that civilizations refining influence is
spreading through the South, and that even
in Tennessee there is a growing opinion that
the deadly revolver should be laid aside
and that heavy club or brickbat is as mu b
! as any man ought to use in emphasizing his
| opinions.