The morning call., 1891-10-03
ITEMS OLE INTEREST.

The supply of natural gas at Pittsburg is
becoming exhausted
A thunderstorm in hot weather travels at
the average rate of thirty miles an hour.
There are two things. which, being lost,
are impossible to be acknowledgement and
time.
A New York clergyman has married H.
900 couples and received over $4,000 we'd
ding fees.
The entering ChautauQua class which is
to pursue three years course, comprises
1900 students.
The thickness of human hair varies
from the two hundredth and ittieth to the
six hundredth part OF an inch.
Georgia is to pay 100000 q year TO the
widows of soldiers from that State who
were in the Confederate service.
Seven farmers at London Center, Me,
have received for board from 175 city board
ers this summer more than $500.
Thirteen Chicago policemen were recently
dismissed in one day-moStly on charges of
drunkenness and frequenting saloons.
Nebraska business men are soon to start
an exhbiton-car through the Eastern States
to advertise the products of the Stale.
Now that rain can b, produced at will, the
next step in progress is something that will
supply an umbrella for every emergency.
Matchmaking in Switzerland Is new car
ried on in large manufactures, instead of at
b4lC IlOllCo VI bllS hubCL-lIlhhClo ID ACotbU-
fore.
OF the 37O.226 children OF school age in
Louisiana only $1,000 attend the public
schools, and many Of those 90 tor but one
month.
A spoon for measuring medicine, by which
a dose can be administered without splitting,
has been invented by Mrs. Horace Good
win OF Boston.
Pachaug Pond in Griswold is the prize
Dickerel pond of Connecticut. In one week
this season 1900 pounds of pickerel and perch
were taken from it.
A woman at Rotterdam, N. Y, who re-
Gently took her own life, was the eighth
member of her family who has suici led
within few years.
In New York City the quantity of buckle
berries sold is ten times that of any other
berry. Dried huckleberries, in winter time,
always bring fair prices.
Forty refractory cOnyicts in Connecticuts
State Prison are in solitary confinement for
refusing 10 eat baked beans, the deicacy of
Boston's -Four Hundred.
A Colorado railroad company that was
sued for damages for ej9cting a passenger
on account of his color proved that the
plaintiff was not cOlOred man.
This is an age of details, of fnicsms,
some people say, and it would seem SO when
woman grayely announces that To do her
hair over another way rests her
About 40 Indian boys belonging to the
training school at Carlisle, Pa, earned good
wages on farms during the past summer aud
have now resumed their studies.
The rather remarkable fact Is noted that
5000 places in Chicago take out Internal
Revenue license to sell liquor, while but
COCO take out city license for the same pur-
pose.
John Robert Sloan of Van Buren, County,
Iowa. says that there are 200 farmers in his
county worth from $4,000 to 100000 each.
a. Ntaf.- -, -
farming.
The Russian Four Hundred do not ap-
prove OF flirting, and have, therefore, estab-
llshed tile rule that no man must waltz
around the room more than once with his
partner.
For cool, calm and calculating nerve the
OHIO burglar who injured himself IN blow
ing open safe. and then went to hos ptal
in the town, seems to have a good claim on
the prize.
A man on being asked how old he was
said: Il do not remember l count my
money, my sheep, my children, etc, but my
years never, for L am pretty sure they wont
be stolen.
A Lancaster PENN clerk guessed to the
second the time Is hours. "a minutes and 10
secOnds) in which candle would burn out,
and thereby won prize offered by a local
business man.
Cremation is more extensively practiced
III ltoAl tibAI III duJ OtlCL Luz
first crematory was established in Milan in
1876; there are now fifty in operation in
Italian territory.
A book entitled History OF Wonders Per-
formed at Fairs" mentions an EnglIshmaC
who. at the fair of st. German in 1724 lenpe
over the heads of forty people without
touching one Of them.
The wooden mills in Mexico are closing
indefinitely because the Government has re-
voked the concession whereby manufacture
ers were allowed to import their wool and
dyestuffS free of duty.
The Rhode Island clambake is now well
in lis season. Nowhere in the world is the
genuine institution eniDYed as it is in that
Stale Great Is the clambake, and the ear
Of green corn is its prophet
Persons who are at loss for definition
of malaria" will be inclined to accept the
belief that it is the malady from which a
patient suffers when the doctors don't know
what is the matter with him.
In Massachusetts, there are more than
$3.50, 000, 900 deposited in savings banks, and
all of it is in small sums, for the law does
not allow any person to draw interest ON
more than $1,000 in any bank.
The first large quantity of American
sponges ever sent to European markets was
recently shipped from Philadelphia. The
lot comprised 600 pounds each of two kinds
of spunges from the Florida coast.
The fruit of the cherry laurel has been
found by DR.. krauSs of Halle, to increase
at the rate of 80 per cent at night and 10 per
cent by day, while apples Increase 80 per
cent at night and 20 per cent by daytime.
Two hundred and eight years ago John
Sobieski beat the Turks at Wien and saved
Europe for the second time, as Charles Mar
tel and his men saved it at Tours the first
time from becoming the prey of the Moslem.
a Racine (Wis.) couple recently married.
aged 20 and Is respectively, are said to be as
happy as clam at high water. notwith-
standing the great disparity of age. The
| case is pronounced one of genuine affection.
Specially skilled and artistic architects in
| New Y ork City are among the best paid OF
professional men. The beSt-known artists
! iu this line sometimes receive 500 for draw
| ing the details of single handsome door
way.
Salicylic suet is used in the German army
as remedy for foot sores, etc, instead of
the saIicylic powder formerly used. 1t is
composed of two parts of pure salicylic acid
aud ninety-elght parts OF the best mutton
suet
The new City Hall of Philadelphia will be
the talleSt building on the continent, except
ing only the Washington Monument. Ii
will be two inches more than 547 feet III
height, and will cover an area of four and
half acres
In the manufacturing line paper bids fair
to Supplant wood in the making of boxes,
buckets, packing cases and many other ar
tlcles. 1t is much lighter than wood and
can be made freproof, to say nothing of its
cheapness.
In the towns and cities of Chile all the
shopping of any consequence is done in the
evening. In Santiago the stores are open
till midnight and during the hot afternoon,
when everybody lakes a siesta, they are
| locked up.
An Ann Arbor locomotive arrived Ia Cad
| lilac, Mich, recently, with pilot and !bOiler-
| head fairly covered with the remains OF un-
| fortunate grasshoppers it had struck on the
way north. The engineers say they were
| never so thick.
! One of the first acts of the Japanese par
| lament was to rescind the regulation pro-
hiblting the presence of women at debates,
and another was the resembling of the regu-
| latiOn which forbade the attendance OF
| members in Japanese dress.
New Jerseys peaches are rottng on the
| trees. Farmers cannot get 10 cents a bas-
| ket for the best. Delaware's crop ripenel
fortngt ahead of time and glutted the
market Dame Nature must seem per-