The morning call., 1891-01-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Minneapolis is to have macaroni-mill.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Minneapolis is to have macaroni-mill.
Gatchina, the Cars home, contains 700
rooms.
A contractors lien of STA, 645 has been filed
against Talmage's new Brooklyn Tabei-
naele
The loss to the Belmont estate by the sale
of the Belmont racing stable is estimated at
least $4,000, owing to the small prices OBJ
tanned.
A young man named Rice defeated his
father tor the Legis ature in Kansas. This
is young America coming to the front with
a vengeance.
A defendant in New York court con-
tessed that he was the most notorious liar
in the world. | can't help it, 1 would
rather tell a lie than not"
A surgeon says he can take any human
face and with four cuts of the kuife and
few stitches so alter lis original expression
that mans mother wont know him.
The Canada preachers stipends have hith-
erto been exempt from taxation if below
$1,000 year. HencefOrth they Will be sub
ject to tax. as the incomes Of other citizens
are.
Tie Wellesley College girls have been
measured, and The average waist measure
of the HOO students was found TO be 24.2
inches. Physicians say that this Is too
small Tor health.
The Trinity Church estate in New York
Is worth $4,000, coo, and is rapidly increas-
Ing IN value. The reason is that it lies on
the west side of the town, which has be-
come Vast trade center.
Ex-Mayor Thomas Navin of Adrian,
Mich, who seven years ago stole $500, 600
from the city and made 1t bankrupt, has
been pardOned, and on his release from
prison will commence the study OF law in
Detroit.
Mrs. George Redpath opened stove-door
at Marengo. H., with an apron, which
caught fire and burned her so badly that she
died i'll few hours. In attempting to put
the fire out her husband burned the ends of
his fingers off.
Remark by the Kansas City Star: "a
Green County farmer who decided all his
property TO his children is hauling rails for
living. a father can support twelve chill
dren, but twelve children sometimes find it
quite difficult to support one father
HindOo widows still continue to attempt
suffice, Notwithstanding it is Droh bited by
law under severe penalties. Oaly a short
time since a rich widow was fOrciby re-
moved from funeral pyre after she had
been badly burned in her desire to join her
master IN the next world.
The commonest kind of ink-bottles are
transformed into harlt Quin perfume
casks After the ink has been withdrawn
from their depths the bottles are cleansed
and painted in stripes running from the
neck of the bottle to the lower edge. The
blue.
The Bombay branch of the Sorosis Climb
has increased to $50 members and is about
to apply for admission into the federation
OF clubs Its members congregate to dis
cusS graVely parliamentary questions. tine
lives of noted women. technical training
and other equally serious and advanced
subjects.
The handsomest house now building in
Washington Is that OF Mrs. Chandler, widow
OF Zach" Chandler. 1t is in the Italian
style OF brick and pnkish yellow. 1t is on
Sixteenth street. Residents of that street
th0roughfare having the White House at
Its head, want its name changed to Execa-
tive avenue.
Jesse Klugh of Maytown, Lancaster
County, Pa, has resurrected an old con-
tract which shows that in 1916 This father
agreed to teach school in East Donegal
township for $50 month and furnished
Iuei besides. AT present the teachers in the
same district get SOL a month and the board
furnishes the fuel.
1t has been determined that under no con-
dltion can the deaf learn TO speak by assO-
citation aud without effort, as normal chit
dren do, but that in every case speech is an
acquisition only possible with great and sus-
tanned effort on the part of the pupil. as
sisted by the skill, patience and perseverance
OF competent teachers.
Austria has not only High School of
Agriculture but fifteen intermediate and
eighty-three primary agricultural schools.
besides nine chairs of agriculture in poIy-
technlc establishments and agricultural ex
pertinent stations. There are also 1872
courses of agricultural lectures, attended by
about 10000 persons year.
There were three fatal cases of yellow
fever recently in Brunswick, n. C.. which is
a short distance from Hammond. The vie
TINS were bliss Kelly Thomas, Willie Stan
ley and Brooks. 1t is supposed they i'm
blbed the Infection from a lot of second
hand clothing. There were two other cases.
but they did not prove fatal.
Only last month boys who were searching
over the old battlefield at Gettysburg for
relics discovered two musket balls with
their points SO thoroughly telescoped that
they could not be separated. There is but
one explanation of the freak. They had
met In midair, and were welded by the fric-
tlon caused by the conclusion.
probably the most unique Christmas pres
ent gwen this year was received by the ed
itor OF the Columbus Dispatch. II was the
leit hlnd loot OF common gray rabbit,
IN the dark OF the moon by cross-eyed ne
gro. The charm, for so it is, must be car
ried in the left hip pocket, and is warranted
to ward off all misfortune.
The Lewiston (Maine) Journal has this
William Tell story: There was Maine
NoSsoA koi plS game u Jay TWO
ago and he got helplsssly hung up over a
precipice. His fellow-huntsman took aim.
cut off the branch of tree that imprisoned
him by shooting it off at two hundred yards
distance and the imprisoned doctor was
rescued.
The Home Reading Union has more than
5000 members scattered about the world,
some of them in Turkey. They take GER
tificates, not of knowledge acquired, but of
books read, and the courses of reading which
the union arranges seem to be very pleasure
able exercises as well as productive of an
acquaintance with the best things in En-
glish literature.
The new cottage built by the actor Joseph |
Jefferson at Buzzar1's Bay, and designed |
by him to be the home of his old age, is a |
building in the early colonial |
style, with wings, cupolas and gables both |
Of wood and stone. Outside the house is a |
Virginia chimney of native stone anc brick, |
The house stands on Cape Cod sand-bank |
and looks toward the Plymouth Woods.
A boy years old who died of diphtheria |
at st. Adele. Quebec, last week displayed |
remarkable courage. Sitting on a chair |
near the stove, he warned his parents that ]
his end was fast approaching and then pro- I
ceeded to dispose of several small articles |
which belonged to him. To one of his little |
brothers he gave his penknife, to another |
his pocket-book and his new boots. and to |
his sister case for pens and pencils. The |
poor little fellow had scarcely disposed of |
all his wnrlIIv S..rfl