The morning call., 1891-08-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The United States has 100000 miles oil
telegraph wires.
In Texas there is list of 957 fugitives
under indictment for murder.
About 10000 gallons of soda-water are
drunk every day in Philadelphia.
"Gemni" is the last name suggested for
the consolidated cities of Minneapolis and
St Paul.
During disastrous confagration at New
port News, Va, two women and two chill
dren died from sheer fright.
A tiny mite of humanity at Chester, Pa,
three weeks old, weighs exactly three
pounds. The mother is Of ordinary size.
a Quincy Qllinois) girl, who was enticed
from her home ten years ago, has been
found by her brother and restored to her
parents.
A Toledo (Ohio) street-car company of
fered its striking conductors 40 per cent of
Its gross receipts as wages. and the offer was
rejected
Kentucky is waking up to the Importance
of public education, and the number of new
schools and school buildings is rapidly in
creasing.
A New York jockey has been offered S1S.-
600 for 1892 Yet he is so well fixed with his
present employers that he heSltates about
accepting.
A Cincinnati man who has been robbed
Of $1,000 by his diSSolute father refuses to
erring parent il Jail.
If riches were the gifts with which God
rewarded his children there would he q
great shifting about in the ownership of
things of this world.
A wsman at Lexington, KY, with whom
marriage had not been 4 success, drowned
herself in two feet of water by weighing
her body with rocks.
The best thing about life at summer re-
sorts is that people appreciate good soft
beds. airy rooms, and wholesome cooking
when they get home.
Samuel Segner of Saybrook, ILL.,, probably
the oldest tailor in the country, Is dean, aged
81. He had been engaged i'll the business
for more than 20 years.
A small girl at Cadiz Ohio, was recently
frightened into spasms by display OF fire.
works and died ten days afterward without
regaining consciousness.
Mrs. Nancy Albion Frost, who lives near
Marietta, Ohio. is 1O7 years old, and has
lived in one house ninety-one years, remov-
ingto it from the block house" at Mari
eta.
Some of the most valuable property at
Pine Bluff, Ark. is being undermined by
the waters of the Arkansas River, which
nave assumed the proportions Of raging
flood
A young Philadelphia girl who had been
falsely accused Of theft and locked up, be-
CdlllS VIII Will SIltl anu MULTIPLICATION, was
attacked with brain fever and died in great
agony.
A couple at Selma, Ala. were recently
married Immediately after the death of the
brides mother. in compliance with her
earnest wish made few hours before she
expired.
1t is said that of 4Os men who bore the
title Of General in the Confederate service
only 1S4 are left. &. I. Beauregard is the
sole survivor of those who held the highest
rank. that of full General.
An indignant Camden On. j. woman,
whose husband threw cup of coffee in her
face, commanded her sons to hold the old
man." which they did, when she gave him
d vigorous horsewhippiEg.
A dog at Bern, Switzerland, crept into
counting-house when the owners back was
turned, and after stealth:ly approprlating
go francs in notes scampered of with them
and laid them at his own masters feet.
Investigations of the working of the Nan
sas liquor law shows that resident of To-
peka had cold one day and fever the
next for year without Il break. and that
his medicine was invariably whisky or heer.
A Newburyport (Mass.) girl is en- route to
Seattle, Wash, to marry man she has never
seen, the courtsnip having been conducted
By correspondence. The marriage is the
result of wife wanted advertisement.
a Merna (Nebr.) man refused to pay for
his mothers coffin on the ground that she
had mistTeated him while living. 4 de-
cision was rendered against him and he
was obliged to pay the amount, with costs
of the suit.
Rev. William Galhraith of Wilkinsonvlle,
Mass, aged So, is the oldest United Presby-
terrain clergyman In the United States, hay
ing graduated from Union College. Sche-
nectady y. Y, in 1885. and being ordained
the following year.
A Boston boy, after week in London,
writes home in the true spirit of the Yankee
sight-seer: " have already done the Tower
Westminster Abbey, the British Museum,
the House OF Commons, and several other
places Of amusement"
Camp thieves at Dover, Del, are making
life miserable for the women tepters. Six
valuable dresses we're stolen in one night,
aud one woman bad hardly discarded her
gown when retiring when 1t was whsked
away by mysterious hands.
Widow Wilson, who has for years been
trying TO earn poor living out of her small
sandy farm at Vineland, n. j., has Just
discovered that the whole place is under
laid with rich deposit of glass sand, and
that the farm will readily bring $4,000.
Sometimes names and circumstances fit
each other with wonderful accuracy A
young man Of WGodhaven, Long Island.
slandered girl who declined his attentions
and then engaged in fight with her, from
which he emerged worsted. His name was
Lowse.
The workings of prohibition are shown
in Augusta, Me, where leading physician
the other day expressed his Indignation in a
card because he could not have presc rip
ton for four ounces of brandy filed at
single drugstore, although it was case of
life or death.
The enlistment OF Indians as soldiers Is
said to progress TO the satisfaction of the
War Department Six companies have been
organized and four more are wanted. But
all the young bucks want the cavalry, and
it takes much persuasion to get them into
infantry commands.
A large quantity of human skulls and
bones have been eXhumed on Christie street.
New York. while excavating for the foun-
cation Of new building. From the posi-
ton of the remains (all found in a space of
Gx2 frep it is surmised that pauper bury
Ing ground may have once existed in that
locality.
Thomas Litzenberg Of indianapolis, a
nephew of the late Vice President Hen
bricks, has been fatally shot in Chicago
while committing burglary. He was for
merly cashier oil an indianapolis bank, and
afterward was appointed to lucrative po-
sltion in the Chicago Postoffice, but lie
proved defaulter for 5000, which, 1t is
understood. was made good by Mr.. Hen
bricks. He was then disinherited, having
drifted downward until it was useless to
hope for reformation.
Very frequently a champagne bath has
been referred to in illustrating some freak
OF protliSacy. Less than haif-dozen years
ago Louisville man took genuine cham
payne bath in Rulers Hotel. His name
was-and is. for he is living-Crow, and he
was sporty man.. A relative died near
Lexington aud left him big lump Of prop
erty. He bought enough champagne 10 fill
bath-tub at Rulers and plunged into it.
On the side he had champagne to drink and
dozen companions to drink it. Two years
later he was on his uppers and hadn't
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