The morning call., 1891-08-29
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Africa has nearly 700 languages, and this
fact presents great difficulties to missionary
effort.
A Nockamixon Pa.) farmer has a hog
W hlch chases children and women eyery
ime 1t sees them.
A series OF henous crimes and depreda-
tions at Canton, Ohio has been traced to a
twelye-year-old boy.
Pardon papers have been received at the
Louisiana Penitentiary for convict who
had been dead ten days.
A Brooklyn man recently fell from a
hight of eighty-iive feet without other in
jury than sprained ankle.
a thirteen-year-Old tramp arrested at
NorristOwn (Pa.) has been all over the coun-
try since he was years old.
An ingenious Pole advertises his readiness
to supply to order houses, churches, bells,
cannon and ships, all made of paper.
A collection was taken up in Dahlonega,
Ga, to raise 81 80 to enable man to marry.
he not having that sum to pay for license.
A new. mineral has been discovered in
Texas which is said to be seven times
stronger than any other when made into
wire.
:" Hair cut and trimmed without waiting"
is the reading of sign in the window of a
ladies' hairdressing establishment in New
York.
The funds subscribed in Detroit toward
the expenses OF the G. A. II. Convention
are 10 be returned, as they were not re-
Quired.
What has become of the seaside mos
quitoes' Thu far not single correspon-
dent has referred to these pests of the ocean
resorts.
The new Brazilian bill of rights has one
section which says that the death penalty Is
abolished except in cases under martial law
In time of war
Two brothers, separated for twelve years,
recently met in Jail at Wichits. Kans. Both
were under indictment and had given
assumed names.
1t is estimated that each year in New York
City 5000 women find themselves stran led,
not only homeless, penniless and without
work, but unable to work.
The pilgrimages to Canterbury, which
Chaucer has lmmortalized in verse and
which have been discontinued for so many
centuries, are being revived.
The model prison of the world belongs to
Venice, and IS situated on the Island OF
,Gudesca, which is separated from the city
by broad arm of the lagoon.
Twenty-six opossums were killed at Ma
rletta Pa, on the railroad, by the failure of
female op0ssum, which invaded the center
of the town. to dodge freight train.
A middle-aged woman at MinoolIa, Pa,
the mother of seven children and the wife
"a a PAOhliiCn1 NltlLcu, udo SAlpDtu Will the
village telegraph operator, who is half her
age.
a Chicago man has invented an auto
matte motor starter by which all the motors 8
Of the Worlds Fair may DE started by the
President ii Washington by simply pressing
a button.
1t is said that milk is made especially
nutritious if it is put in jar and placed III
moderately hot oven for eight or ten hours
1t Is then called "baked milk" and has be-
come thick and creamy.
The proprietor of a Plainfield On. j. ho-
tel surrounded by fence % feet high has
been sued for maintaining nuisance. The
neighbOrs claim that the inmates create
nightly veritable pandemoniun.
An eghty-year-old woman at Cleveland
ONO, IS the complainant against one of her
sons, charged with insanity. She is the
mother OF twenty-one children, of whom
the demented man is the youngest
A note for $4,000 given by the city Of
Galveston has gone to protest. The Incl
dent creates comment. but it is not regarded
as seriously injuring the city in any way. as
the shortage is due to accidental causes.
A Charleston Is. c. man was recently
found asleep in the street completely de-
nuded, with his clothing under his head as
pillow. He was ordered to dress and given
the soft side OF plank in the police station
as a bed.
In Frederick, Nd, a very pretty young
girl, apparently about II years of age. was
arrested In male attire. She wore a rough
suit Of blue overalls, a n eat looking pair of
shoes and an old cap. which was drawn
down over her face.
curious fact in the early history of pins
is that when they were first sold in open
shop there was such great demand for
them that code was passed permitting
their sale only on two days in the year-the
1st and % of January.
The Roard of HaaIth ~ Galash h1.o
has issued orders prohibiting the sale OF
milk for time on account of the disease
raging among the cattle of the vicinity, and
to which considerable of the sickness now
prevalent is attributed.
The true test OF genuine American paper
currency is to hold the bill up to the light so
that you can discern two lines running
parallel across its entire length. These are
red and blue silk thread inside the paper:
no counterfeit has them.
A statistician has computed that man
might add $500 year to his income by saw
ing the clippings of his hair every time 1t is
cut and having it manufactured into soft
pillows, mattresses, etc. No hair Is so soft
as that of human beings.
The people of Thessaly were the first to
break horses for service in war, and their
proficiency as equestrians probably first gave
rise to the ancient myth that their country
was originally inhabited by centaurs, fabu-
!ous creatures supposed to be half horse and
half man.
Two marriage certificates among the rec
0rds of the Exeter Friends Meeting in
Berks County. Pa, dated 1770 and ITS. were
Tor members of the Boone and Lee families
and the name of Abraham LINCOLN an.
pended, presumably an ancestor of the late
President. i''''
A Portsmouth (OhiO) woman, hearing n
great cOmmotion in her chicken-coop. dis
covered an immense owl. which she at
tempted to drive away, when it savagely
turned on her, and 1t was with the greatest
uilnculty That she succeeded in killing IL.
Inc bird measured over five feet from tin
TO tip. Wy
The Georgia Legislature has refused to
pass bill prohibiting the manufacture and
sale OF cigarettes in the State. II renorts
simply that the Judge shall give in his
cnarge to the Grand Jury the law which al
ready exists, prohibiting the sale of cigar
cites to minors.
A,slxteen-year-ol girl pedestrian Mt Balti.
more has been forced to withdraw from a
walking match by the authorities on ac.
count OF heryouth. This she did much to the
regret OF the audience, with whom she had
become Gnite popular. Her record is Sc miles
in ten hours on a 40-lap- mile track at Jean.
ette. Pa, against six men.
A bill leyying tax upon bachelors ia
actually before the Georgia Legislature re-.
According to its terms bachelor of 30 wears
must pay the State S25 annually, and for
every five years over that age S25 more.
In Ihat is, II he is 90 years old his tax is $50.
rms does not please those men who don't
want wives, but the maiden ladies of Georgia
are clasping their hands in Joy.
Bondsmen in Danger.
The Chinese ordered remanded in fftv