The morning call., 1891-08-04
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

radius.
A Cranbury On. j. man has sold four tons
of cherries this season, netting from to s
cents pound.
A prolific colored woman who lives in
Georgia is the happy mother Of two sets Of
tripietS and six sets of twins.
Connecticut last year took out more
patents in proportion TO Its population than
any other State in the Union.
A clothing man who has hunted up his
facts says that Boston is the home of the
ready-made clothing business.
The three sons Of well-known Philadel-
phia family are named Kent, New Castle and
Sussex. alter the three counties of Della
ware.
In Bangor, Me-, the other morning herd
OF four deer were found quietly feeding on
the lawn in front of the house of promi-
nent citizen.
Brooklyn charitable institutions are the
recipients OF legacies to the amount OF
$1,000 by the VIII of the late Isaac II.
rockingham.
A determined effort is being made to put
plan IS to make murder odiuus by hun
dred haugings.
A letter-carrier In Portland, Me-. the
other day took o pedcmeter along. and By
nightfall found that he had walked over
thirty-tiye miles.
The plate-glass windows along Chestnut
street, Philadelphia, are worth more than
all the real estate within like distance on
some other streets.
One reason why wooden buildings sur
ylve here and there through Philadelphia is
that II they are torn down brick buildings
must by law succeed them.
A Newtown O.. H. farmer has become
mental wreck from the loss Of four children.
by dlphtherla. Within two weeks. His wife
Is also very low with the disease.
Amherst College has the honor of having
been the first Institution in the country to
make physical exercise compulsory part of
the college course. This it did in 1861.
A club of whiStiiug girls has been organ
lied IN Maine, and a concert is soon to be
given in Brewer. For some extraordinary
reason the badge of the club is Growing
hen.
Local wseacres In Southern California
are now predicting violent disturbances OH
the face of the earth. in the near future,
owing TO the extensive evaporation Of Saton
Lake.
Observation stepladders are the latest in
noyation in the Belgian field artillery. They
are intended TO enable the commander of a
concealed battery to direct the fire of the
suuners.
RumOIs of lost boy stirred Sherwood,
Mich, all up until it was discovered, after
search for Some hours, that he had gone into
retirement to recover from the effects of his
first cigarette.
A Brooklyn policeman stands an excellent
ehance OF serving long time in prison for
delaying the United States mail. He pre-
vented mail wagon from proceeding while
a procession was parading.
Ohio, Indiana and Illinois are the favorite
States OF green goods" operators. Thirty
TWO OF these gentry have been arrested in
Indiana witEiu brief period. Of whom
thirty have been convicted.
A New York City parrot has had over
twenty owners and has scared each out of
his mlts by screaming "Fire!" at an early
hour In the morning and never desisting
until the whole house was aroused.
A woman who ought to know says that
when man loses his temper because he
can't ind his cOllar-button OF some other
article, he Is more of baby than a child
who cries because his shoes hurt hun.
There are more women in British India
Q24001,00Q than there are men. women and
Children IN Great Britain, France and Ger
MANY put together, with the population of
several minor European states cast in as
we'll
For the first time in six years the New
Orleans Mint is coming dimes, 100000 per
day being the output. This causes a reduc-
ton in the coinage Of standard dollars, and
necessitates an increased number of opera
tiyeS.
John Hastings of Texarkana, Ark, who
was recently killed in a railroad accident,
had $1,000 insurance on his life. His heirs
have not appeared, and John Dorety, with
whom Hastings boarded, holds the money
in trust for them.
During the past twenty years four Brook
Ign girls have become the brides of titled
foreigners. The latest one is Miss Alene
Loeb, who has married Count II. F. Won
Blucher, a son OF Prince Butcher Won VAIL
staff, and great grandson of the old Field
Marshal Butcher, who turned the tide of
battle al Waterloo.
j. F. Schweizer, who died at Paris.
France, recently, left $4,000 to New
orleans charitable institutions, $4,000 for
masses for himself and relatives, So 600 10 n
priest, $1,000 to two Catholic churches, and
$1,000 10 be used i'll decorating and improv-
ing the Groho de Lourdes Frances. The
VIII was made In Boston just before starting
Tor Europe, Where be expected to recover
his health. Schwetzer was only 81.
The coffee cup is a capital barometer.
Alter the sugar has been put in, If the bub-
bes collect III the middle of the cup the
weather will be fair; if they leave the GEN.
ter and adhere to the sides of the cup form
ing ring Of bubbles with a clear space in
the middle. there will be rain; if they scat
ter themselves indifferently on the surface
the weather will be variable, while cluster
OF bubbles at one side of the cup indicates
rain.
A drunken man On the overland train.
near MADEIRA, the other night, became angry
with comDanion and threw the latter's
Clothing, watch, baggage and money out of
the sleeper window. When the train
reached Fresno the conductor telegraphed
back to MADEIRA for some one to 60 up the
track, at daylight. and recover the valuables,
but the unlucky passenger was in q sorry
plight, meantime, in which to face cold
world.
Drove. of crickets are infesting Harvey
County, Oregon, and the stockmen ELL them
by driving great herds of sheep back and
forth across the front ranks Of the advane-
Ing army Of insects. The sleeps hoofs
crush the insects, and after an acre or so of
them are killed those behind stop and eat
the dead ones, before resuming their travels.
IL is SAID 1t takes a cricket three days to eat
dead comrade, and he will not leave the
task till II is completed.
The Revenge of a Sewing Machine Agent
Residing on Highland avenue is a most
estimable lady, the wife of a prominent
physician. She is known far and near as
one who has never turned hungry person
from her door without satisfying their
wants. Like many another good woman,
however. she has no time to waste on
agents and pedders. The other day, while
at dinner, the door-bell rang and the hus-
band went 10 the door, rcmarking that If it
was an agent he would settle him. 1t was
an agent-one of those smiling, double
BACK action, cOpper-lined, double-rlyeted
sewing-maehine agents.
The way the doctor went for him was
enough to phase a sphinx, but not the
agent. The agent takes it ali in, answering
not excepting apologies for his intrusion
He hled himself to the nearest telephone
ana calling Up every agent in the city told
them that Mrs. DR.. S-wanted a sewing
machine Immediately. In less than an hour
they commenced to arrive and until long
after dark a machine arrived until almost