The morning call., 1891-07-05
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| penter VINO invented dummy key-h0leS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Wisconsin woman was recently turned
| out Of church because she snored in the
| pew.
AT Norwood, H. l., house was built fur.
nshed and occupied inside of twenty-foul
| hours.
At the recent funeral of an English peer
the family vault was illuminated by electric
| lights.
A Clarksburg (W. Va telegrapher has
been rendered incurably deaf by lightning
| stroke.
a Cleveland Ohio woman, aged %, has
been an inmate OF tue workhouse that num-
| Der of times.
Only one person is said to have been
struck by lightning in Poughkeepsie, n. Y,
| IN forty years.
Three hundred thousand tons of veget-
| abes worth S25,000.0C0. were brought into
| Paris last year.
The expenses of the city and county gov
| ernmeut Of New York for 1892 are esti-
mated at Sl3, 509,OS4 SO.
1t is said that nearly third of the female
| population of this country Is engaged in re-
| nuneratlve employment.
a young lady was asked why her beau
| was like piano? She replied, because he
| Is grand, square and upright.
| The last man killed in the war" is said
| to have been Lieutenant Hiram Clark of
the One Hundred and Eighty-ffth New
| York.
The recent hot spell cut the yield of Con-
| necttcut strawberries short and killed hun
| dreds CT young plants. Several growers
| lost heavily.
Governor Pattison of Pennsylvania has
vetoed the compulsory education bill passed
by the Legislature few days before its
adjournment.
The same salary is paid 10 the women and
the men Health Inspectors in Chicago
There are five women and each one receives
$1,000 per annum.
The, Vienna Housewives Society was
started about seven years ago and since
then has taught the noble art of good house
keeping to 1894 girls.
A fox stole fifty chickens and seventeen
ducks from coop near Wye Mills, Dell
and then choked itself to death in attem pit
Ing 10 get through a fence.
Emperor William has given orders that
no persons shall ride free on German rail-
roads unless they are actually engaged in
The service OF the government.
The richest c0lored man in Pennsylvania
is John Ga OF PttSburg, who began with
humble Dlacksmiti-shop twenty years ago,
and has made a fortune of 100000
BY mixing of names a Southchester
(Pa) girl was appointed a teacher over her
competitor, who had the best certificate, and
the appointment was allowed to stand.
At recent golden wedding at Concord,
n. H., the bridegroom wore the same shoes
that he was married in, fifty years ago.
The footgear showed but little traces of
wear.
Black ants have taken possession of a no.
tel at Ludington, Mich. One guest watched
solid procession of them foot wide crawl
up the side of his room for six consecutive
hours.
Clearfeld (Pa) man dropped a S. gold
piece In the contrlbutlon-boX at the NJ. L.
Church at Ti0nesta, but on Monday. when
he discovered 1t, lie returned and got 81 90
in change.
Clever draughtswomen are in demand by
dry-goods houses TO make pen and ink
sketches OF gowns, fur garments and the
Ike. women are especially adapted to this
profession.
How little there is in popular heroism is
shown by the fact that Ida Lewis, who.
when she was - years old, was the Grace
Darling of Narragansett Bay, is now a wait
ress in Maine restaurant.
The Bank of England is $50. 600 600 richer
in actual gold holdings than it was a wear
ago and Is far better protected in its per
centage of reserves to outstanding liabiIi
ties than 1t was at that time.
A Fort Smith (Ark.) clergyman was re-
Gently reused from his slumhers at o'clock
in the morning TO marry an elopipg coupIe
from Paris, Tex. The pair returned on this
next tram, twenty minutes later.
a Bristol (Pa.) boy, while fishing near
Badger Point, IN the Delaware, found stick
ing in the mud sword. rusted with age.
when some oil the rust had been removed it
showed the date 1745 plainly on the blade
If a gentleman takes a gold band from his
finger and places it on the third finger of a
lady's hand while repeating marriage GER
emony before three or more witnesses, the
ceremony in New ork State makes her his
wife.
In the towns and cities of Chile all the
shopping OF any consequence is done in the
evening. In Santiago the stores are omen
till midnight, and during the hot after
Moons. when everybody takes siesta, they
are locked up.
A law recently passed by the Legislature
OF South Carolina provides that no person
or firm doing business will be permitted to
sell pistol or even a pistol cartridge in
that State without first taking out a license
and paying $500 for it.
A French millionaire has been sending the
queen regent OF Spain so many and such
costly gifts that he has been warned that
her Majesty cannot accept them. 1t is sup
posed that the Frenchman dreamed of can
tivating the little Kings mother.
A Williamsport( Pa.) man used two pill
lows. between which be placed eggs, as an
incubator, with good results. The pillows
were placed IN the garnet, where they could
get the heat OF the sun, aud eleven out of
twelve eggs produced a ducklng.
The latest terror of the farmer of the MT
meg State is green colored bug, shaped
like hog, with flexible hind legs. 1t has
been seen before in the State, but never in
such numbers as at present, and it is feared
that it may destroy large part of the hay
crop.
Conclusions based on a study of sixtv-
three consangulneous marriages, saws n
Paris medical journal, are that the marriage
of blood relatives tends to the dimipution Of
the birth rate, but that it has no preiudiciaI
influence upon the children born of such
unions.
In the pantry of George Boucher of
Muskegon, Mich, an open box of rough-on-
rats was on a shelf just above the lard can.
Some OF the poison dropped into the lard
and the lard was put into cookies. The
whole family ate cookies, and doctor saved
their lives.
Vsito.s to Hummelstown (Pa.) noticed
while walking through the west end the
other day an aibno robin, that is, a robin
with white head, number of white wing
feathers and variegated orange and whit e
feathered breast. He makes the same
noises and associates with the robin tribe.
An Antwerp On. " Munchausen writes
to his local journal that 1.-THE ground has
become so parched and scorchea that a
farmer, while walking in his field, stepped
into a crack and broke his leg Another
farmers cattle were made sick by the cider
he, was obliged to give them for lack of
| water"