The morning call., 1891-08-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST,

the moon.
The population of the earth doubles itself
| In 260 years.
a small boy at Philadelphia is dead from
| eating watermelon rind.
| In the absence of water, a recent fire at
| Oxford, Me-, was extinguished with milk.
I When the japanese hitch horse in the
| street they accomplish 1t by tying his FORE
| legs together.
| A duel with razors is the way two BARRIERS
| in New York settled who should have the
! girl both loved.
During recent severe wind and rain
| storm at Jamestown, Pa, a COW was blown
| bodily over tive-foot fence.
| Sparrows have become such nuisance in
| some parts of Germany that a reward is
| offered for their destruction.
A ease of women servants wages was
| tried in Wyoming by woman lawyer be-
| fore jury of twelve women.
The original and only grandfather's clock
has turned up at Belfast, Me. 1t was a
wedding present to the owners ancestor in
| 1865.
A Brooklyn swindler has been detected in
| passing 81 bills on which the figure has
| been pasted wherever the numeraI l ap-
| pears.
Soap is not much in favor in India. 1t is
| SAID that last year the amount per capita
| used there by the natives was only ona
| ounce.
| Columbia (Mlo.) is said to be the only city
in the United States whose census figures
are even thousands. The city has 1000
| people
E gine 1898. running between Altoona
and Pittshurg on the Pennsylvania Rail
road, has record of 100000 miles without
| any repairs.
| At Canton, Ohio, woman while drag
ging her little nephew from in front of an
express train, was herself struck and in
| Stantly killed.
A Bristol (Pa.) installment man has such
| confidence III the honesty of tile residents
that lie occasionally lets his goods hang out
In front all night.
Berlin's suicide epidemic shows no signs
| OF abatement-no less than two hundred
and fifty persons died there by their own
| hands during July.
Tue Barr will case, involving property in
| clded IN favor OF the contestants, whereby
the city loses some valuable land.
c0ored woman took ouL marriage
| license at LeavenwUrth, kans., the other
day, the intended husband being unable to
leave his work to arrange that preliminary,
Better late than never, says a Hamilton
| County (ky.) man, who has just received a
voucher Tor S1S back salary earned when he
was Postmaster under Lincoln thirty years
| ago.
The largest regular orchestra in the world
Is TO be found in the Grand Opera House of
| Paris. with 1S0 performers. The New York
Grand Opera House follows closely with one
| of 162.
A medical writer says that at least nine
| men out OF every ten sleep on their right
| side, because by so doing digestion is aided
and the action of the heart Is left undis-
| turbed.
AT Asbury Park morality is enforced in
| everything but the books on the public
| news-StandS. This class Of cheap literature
includes some OF the yleSt and most insinu-
| ating trash.
A modest Hamilton Ohio man, who
claims TO have been engaged as the Fourth
OF July orator and was not permitted to
| speak, brings sui; against the committee for
| S29,00O damages.
| k0utS, Ind, is excited over the discovery
| OF natural gas at depth of 120 feet. A flow
Of twelve feet in height of burning flame
attracts the people from the surrounding
| country for miles.
tramp who actually worked for meal
| mas been found at Weiusburg, OHIO, bat he
met sad fate, for while digging hole the
stones ana DIRT Tell in, crushing him ont of
all semblance to humanity.
II. +. Wells of Inlay City, Mich., who
enlisted in Michigan regiment and was
captured during the war, has not shaved
since he left Andersonvile prison. His
beard Is now feet inches in length.
Brooklyn woman, who has been for
| many years looking under her bed for a
man, has at last found one, or at least the
| next thing TO him, IN the shape of boy who
had secreted himself for the purpose of rob-
| berry.
The Gutenberg Bible has the general
reputation of beng the first printed book
| 1t Is an admirable specimen of the printers
| art, and would be no discredlt to any reput-
| able printing establishment of the present
| time.
AT a great Russian restaurant, when a
| guest has ordered sturgeon, the fish is
| brought to him alive on a dish ard then
lar IN ha h itph han 70 h. Il
saueed and served up with all the honorS of
| cookery.
The London National Training School
for Cookery reports that 5601 pupils entered
Tor training in 1890, seventy seven teachers
| obtained diplomas, ard since the opening of
the school the total number of pupils has
| slightly exceeded 10000.
| 1he regulation moral bathing suit at Ocean
| Grove Is made of dark blue flannel with
long sleeves, and trousers dropping below tie
ankle. The neck is buttoned up close about
the chip, and the only parts OF the body eX-
| posed are the head ana feet.
Huntington. Conn.,, has had ''patriotic
| leStiYai IN honor OF the withdrawal OF tile
| criminal suit against two boys for ringing
| The church bells on July 4Lh. There were
| over 3OOO people present. A band was en-
| gagged, speeches made and Il banquet given
An Ohio farmer who found six eggs in
field look them home as plaything for his
| children. The warmth of his pocket spoiled
! them Tor that purpose, for when he reached
| home he found he had five little black
| snakes in his pocket one OIL the eggs failin
| to hatch.
A hitherto prominent and respected Mag
| nolia (Ark.) man has been detected in sys-
tematic series of burglaries. He was ap-
| pretended IN the back yard of a private resi-
| dence III his StOcking-feet armed with a
murderous-looking weapon, and had with
| him mask.
A little boy in Winterport, Me-, few
days ago found birds nest with four
| young birds in 1t and took it home. Shortly
amer tne mother-bird flew in at the window
and fed the little ones. Since that time she
has called regularly several times a day
bringing food.
The youngest man to sit in The next Con-
gress viii be Texan named Bailey. He is
under 80. When he took the stump in
| Texas last year the farmers used to 90
from town to town in their covered wagons
and camp out SO that they might hear him
speak again and again.
Beaver Falls Pa.) man sues another for
5000 damages, claiming that the defendant
circulated and read letter to the effect IN at
lie tthe complalnanD was as sharp as tack,
cunning as fox, sly as a TAT, that he was
as deceitIul as Ill, and that he had left a
town In Indiana between two days.
Ihe physicians at South Charleston, Ohio
are Daffl-d by the case of Il girl who is liter
ally sneeZIng herself to death. She seems
to be the victim of some strange nervous
affilction. together with hay fever and with
the lingering effects of a severe case of the
grip with which she was afflicted last winter.
Several hundred intoxicated bees that had
eaten freely of fermented molasses gave a
novel exhibition at Martinsville, Ind. Thev
tried to stand on their heads, rolled over
each other and otherwise acted as foolish as
mortals in the same condition. They sobered
during the night and the next day were able
10 fly. 80 says an exchange.
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