The morning call., 1891-09-04
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
New Workers eat $4,000 pies daily.

Fifty cents per pipe is charged in Nuw
York opium dens.
MiddletowD, Pa, will turn out TO- 900 cans
of corn this season.
A New York man has attended a swim.
ming bath regularly every day for twenty
eight years.
Annapolis, Nd, will be go years old in
October, and movement is on foot to crle-
brate the event.
A Baltimore minister has opened board.
ing-house for working girls, the price vi
board being only 81 per week.
A Cleveland (Ohio) man who lost his son
by an accident in q r0liing-miil thought tha
boys value was S164 and settled with the
com pany for that amount.
Memphis, Tenn, is flooded with counter
felt silver dollars. There are said to be at
least 2O00 of the bogus coins in circulation,
with no clew to the criminals.
A Missouri couple were engaged for five
years, and were divorced three days after
their marriage. 1t was a case of married
at leisure, repented in haste"
AT a recent christening near Ashland. Pa.
free fight occurred, lasting two hours, III
which four men were fatally stabbed AMI
many others dangerously beaten.
Gadness and goodness are largely syn0ny--
nous terms, and there Is. q vast amount OF
gladness to be obtained quite outside the
things that Immediately affect u.s.
There is an establishment in New York
where kid gloves are made to order AMI
furnished to the patron. if necessary, in
two hours after the measure is taken.
A New London Comm hen, which has
lived for nearly two years, has laid only one
egg so far. 1t was a large one, containing
inside another perfect egg of ordinary sizs.
Three colored ministers (brothers) were in
house which was struck by lightning re-
Gently, in the South. One was killed, an
other is dying and the third is badly injured.
Five generations of her descendants re-
Gently celebrated the one hundred and
fourth birthday of Mrs. Arenath Miller at
st. Charles, Ill. She enjoys excellent health.
Some land in Paris has been sold at ths
raie OF $1,000, 600 per acre; some in London
for what would net S5,0O000O per acre. and
some in New York for u sum equal 10
SS,0Q0,000.
The population Of Japan is $4,000, 600, and
these are supported on 33,000,0o0 acres. Ir-
rigation and drainage are universal. and the,
entire country is one vast garden Of wonder
ful productiyeness.
Cuba imposes an internal tax of so cents
a thousand on cigars. and Judge Blod9ett
has just decided, at Chicago, that this tax is
added TO the value, and must be included in
the duty on such imports.
man in Canton, Ohio, got up in the
morning, built the fire and then fell dead
Wives, if you love your husbands, you will
read this and take warning. Don't subject
your dear ones to such peril.
A man at jackson, Miss, who had
served three-years' sentence for felonious
assault, had not been out of prison half
day when he committed similar crime aud
goes back for five and half years.
The estate of Lord Lurgan, situated in
counties of Armagh, Down and Ulster, Ire
land, has been sold under the provisions OF
the land purchase act. The SOC tenants
far
A negreSs at Sherman, Tex, who died re-
Gently at the great age Of Ia, mad been
blind for many years, but hUr sight sud-
denly returned about a year ago, only to
disappear again alter short interval.
The tombstone over the grave of Nathaniel
Hawthorne at Concord, Mass, has been so
dsgraeefully mutIlated by relic-hunters that
it has been found necessary to enclrcle it
with high fence to protect it from the
yandals.
In the model kitchen of the future there
will be motive power for the operation of
beaters, choppers, churners, kneaders and
the various other utensils that tax the
strength of women and make drudgery Of
domestic duties.
At Belyldere, ILL.,, the burning sun has
baked the ground until 1t is as hard as
rock. Tine curn is in the milk, and the dry
weather is shriveling up both the ears ami
stalks. 1t is doubtful if there will be one
quarter of crop.
After being betrOthed for five years an
Amherst On. H. man has Tilted his fiaucee
and married another woman. He Is now
sued by his first love for 5000. She Is ten
years his senior; which fact may possibly
account for his perfidy.
One OF the most singular incidents on rec
ord was the receipt of letter ut the White
House in Washington, directed to President
Polk's widow, on the day of her death.
Forty years have elapsed since her occupa-
tion of the Presidents mansion.
Divers in the clear waters Of the tropical
seas find that fsh of different colorS Wien
frightened do not all dart in the same direc-
ton, but that each kind OF fish takes shelter
in that portion OF the submarine growth
nearest in color to that of the fish. go
6 Ohio claims to have the largest oil well in
this country, if not in the world. 1t is To-
Gated near North Baltimore, in Hancock
County, and II permitted to flow its full Ca
pacity would more than fill two 81, 900 bar
rel tanks every twenty-four hours.
1t Is estimated that out of $4,000. col
lected for liquor licenses in Camden, n. j.,
at least $4,000 came out of the pockets of
the Philadelphia brewers, and that Is per
cent of those who secured a license OBJ
tained the money from their brewers. ::
1t has always been considered that the
English get the most peculiar pronun citation
from the spelling Of their proper names.
But the States are bound to get ahead. In
Florida there is family who spell their
name Enroughty and pronounce it Darby.
The common habit Of parents and teachers
of "bexing' boys and girls ears is at
tended with serious danger. Children may
be deafened for life by their brutality. Ii
they need discipline they can be .punls he'd
iG other aud better ways than by beating
them. -
medical practitioner has collated fig
ures TO prove that of every hundred doctors
graduated seventy-hve are obliged to aban-
don the profession. in order to make q liy-
ing. The death rate, however, is sufficiently:
high as it is, and the seyenty-fye never will
be missed. e.
The model for the statue Of Queen Isa-
bella, on which Miss Harriet HOsmer has
been at work in her studio In Rome. is
almost completed. The Queen is repre-
sented in full royal robes, stepping down
from her throne, with her jewels in: her
outstretched hand. y:
The greatest sheep farmer in. South Rus
sia is a. German named Falz- Fetn. He owns
a ranch of $4,000 dessyatins about 150, 900
acreS) in the Dneiper District; in the Coy:
ernment of Tuurida, and produces more
wool annually than any uther ranehman in :
the Cars dominion.
Probably the largest single cargo. Of tim:
Der ever carried out from any southern port
was the 100000 feet Of lumber recently
taken from Ship Island, Miss. by tile.
steamer Texan. Next TO this was ship.
ment of .444,770 feet of timber and lumber
from Pensacola in 1882.
A Grand Rapids (Mich.) man who caused
the arrest of two boys on a charge OF steal
ing his watch and chain, has admitted that
he sold the articles aud that the lads were
innocent. He is now under bonds for per-
jury. The boys have been in Jail for two
months, unable to give bail. r:
AT Edin, Manitoba, recently. while man
was taking shells out of an old rifle, one of
them exploded. The bullet passed through
the ceiling, the floor above and. tie bed aau
stairs; and through the body OF child
asleep on the bed. and finally passed
through the roof The child WAS killed. =
Fear of assassination is said to be one
reason why the Gar oil Russia wears full
beard and never permits himself TO be
shaved. The barber to the imperial family
of Romanoff is the grandson Of Michael
GuelabUvski. who declined, although offered
a princely sum- TO cut the throat Of the
Gar, Paul.
A peddler Of musical instruments at New
castle, Del, has been warned by wbite-caps
to leave the town under pain of death.
Evidently the citizens belong to that class