The morning call., 1891-06-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

CO!UTcI men.
An eighI-year-old New York boy has been
arrested for burglary.
A ton aud half of bread is eaten every
day in Girard College, Philadelphia.
There are 536 authorized guides in the
Alps. Six of them are over 70 years of age.
A small boy at Burlington, n. j, has be-
come totally deaf from being stung in the
ear by bee.
The oldest college in North America was
founded in l531-the college of Saint Hide
fOnso, in tie City Of Mexico.
Farmers are travelling by the score to Mys-
tic, Conn.,, to get look at grape vine on
which potato vine is growing.
A number of mules and horses were killed
at Cotton Plant, Monroe County, Ark, the
other day by cloud of buffalo gnatS.
Alexander Caseman Of Lima, OHIO. aged
SO, sues for a divorce from his wife, aged
90. They were married three months ago.
An Indiana physician has discovered by
careful study of Bible chronology that the
end of the world is yet III years in the fu-
ture.
Rochester, n. Y. has set July l, 1892. as
the time when all telegraph, telephone and
electric light wires in that city must come
down.
Corea has a cave from which wintry
wind perpetually blows. The force of the
wind is such that a strong man cannot stand
before it.
a Huntingdon pa man has surrendered
his wife to his brother, whom she loved
better than her husband. The latter retains
his child.
Americans sailing for Europe for the first
time are always indignant when their
names are mispelled in the published pas
senger list.
Only about half dozen American silver
dollars OF the coinage OF 1904 are in eXiS-
tence, it is said, and these few specimens
are work $1,000 each.
Fifteen years ago a citizen Of Grand
Rapids, Mich. lost pocket-book contain
ing $40. The other day he found il in the
bottom Of hay stack
New York and New Jersey capitalists
have subscribed Sl00,0 900 toward the erec-
tiGn OF a bridge over the Hudson River con-
Meeting the two States.
Galvanized iron pals for drinking water
should not be used. The zine coating is
readily acted upon by the water, forming a
poisonous oxide of zinc,
The Czarowitz during his Indian tour re-
quired no less than 80 tongas or carts for his
luggage ana about 300 pairs of ponies TO
draw the same impediments.
1t costs u cents per pound to bring tea
from Yokohama to New York, 1900 miles,
and 10 cents pound to send tea by express
one mile uptown in that city.
An English head servant gave notice that
he would leave for being excluded from the
dining-roOm during the family repasI aud
thus losing the dinners stories.
The Catholics of Quebec have the largest
organ in Canada. 1t has just been erected
in the Cathedral of Notre Dame; it cost
$4,000 and contains 5772 pipes.
1t has transpi-ed that the man who un-
dertook TO walk from Paris to Russia on
stills packed up his stills and travelled by
train whenever opportunity offered
Ellen Terry, describing stage fright, saws:
"Y0u feel as if centipede, all of whose
feet have been carefully iced, had begun to
run about in the roots of your hair"
One Of the mlGer claims to future great
ness advanced by Pittsburg, Kans, is that
beneath the surface of that town there
still remains S552, 000,0 600 worth of coal
A young man called on young lady at
Portland. Me-, the other night and he was
so drunk he could not entertain her, so he
went out and crawled under the house.
I'm shutting a piano for the summer"
says an expert, first get 1t tuned, then put
a small lump of camphOr in front where
the number is That will keep it all right"
A chicken bone one inch in length has
been taken from the stomach of Miss Wise
of Paterson, n. D., by medical operation
Miss Wise swallowed the bone some time
ago.
L
selves by fishing for "tarpOn," one of the
members entering q tank and assuming the
role of fish, while another member, who
holds line attached to the "tarpon," at
tempts to land him in. certain length of
time.
Gcrmany'S new dispatch boat, the Meteor.
is, excluding the torpedo boats, the fastest
craft ahoat. Her length is 262 feet, width 81
feet. dranght Is feet, with $50 tons displace-
ment. Her engines develop 5000 horse
power, and at full speed she goes q knots
an hour.
The mules in coal mine near Evansville.
Ind, were holSted out recently. Some of
them had not seen daylight for eight wears.
The smallest thing frightened them, a fIying
bird causing them to jump. while upon
seeing dog they would stand and tremble
with terror.
There is story of an ocean steamship
catching up piece Of cable in the North
River and towing it all the way from New
York to Liverpool and back without dis
covering to what mysterious cause the
strange reduction of speed on the round trip
could be attributed.
A COW at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was by
mistake shut up In barn unknown to the
owner. There she Stad for four weeks
without food or water. till finally discov-
cred. Despite her remarkable fast the ami
NAL was in fair condition, and does not APP
pear to be seriously injured.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company is
about to put on a new train to Chicago, to
be knowd by the name of the 'IlIindOpany
special" This mongrel word Is conglom
Grafton of the first letters of Illinois, Indi-
ana, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York. the
States through which the train will run.
In Germany there is singular law
which makes proof-readers responsible for
what appears in the journals with which
they are connected. One OF them is now