The morning call., 1891-12-20

A Chetopa (Kans.) man broke off a mar
Rage engagement because his girl used the
Mae abominati0n for her front name.
AT Philadelphia building association
statement of business for the 'fstical
year"
A mans faith in his ability to do
woman'S work better than she does it is
usually exactly in inverse ratio to what he
knows about it.
An underground hydraulic power distri-
DuliOa plant Is being talked OF tor Berlin.
Such systems have already been success
fully used III England.
On HelgOland tunnel of 700 feet has
been dug from the shore inland to move the
heavy guns to the central bastiOn of the
island, the highest point.
Crisp apples pared, cut into small bits and
mixed with an equal quantity of celery SINH
larry prepared, make delicious salad when
dressed with mayonnaise.
Reading, England, is known as Biscuit
opolis, because of the location there Of
George Planners big biscuit factory, in which
5000 people are employed.
1t is estimated by Swiss engineer that
100000 horsepower for electric transmission
!. of power can be easily obtained from the
waterfalls Of that country.
Electric launches are to be introduced on
the Spree, SO that the people of Berlin will
soon be amusing themselves with this new
means oil water i0comotl0n.
Expert hunters can tell a flock OF geese,
however high in air, by the fact that they
always move in a wedge-shaped mass, the
Oldest Sander being in the van.
The routing of seven hilarious Yale stu
dents by muscular New Haven milkman is
not surprising. 1t is part of milkman' 5
trade to make people take water.
AT Dresden they are baking an American
eorn-bread that Is finding much favor and
m - f1al- fhnir 4
A pound costs trifie over cents.
Henry II. kitsOn the sculptor of the me-
mortal statue Of Farragut, ordered by the
city OF Boston, is only twenty-eight years
cid. He is an Englishman by birth.
The library of the Leipzig University has
just been completed. 1t is magnificent
building in Italian Renaissance style and
cost S750,000. 1t was opened with appro-
pirate ceremonies.
An ocean pier 1000 feet long is being con-
structed at Puerto Colombia, in South
America. it will be entirely of iron and
steel and from six TO ten vessels can be ac-
commodated at once.
On farm in the suburbs of Providence.
IL. l., there has been located what is
claimed TO be one of the largest and richest
veins OF granite east of the Black Hills if
not in the entire country
Chicago has building almost entirely
erected by students of an industrial school.
viz oSilS tQulI 10 lU6 WOtk OIL
any builder. TIE building is occupied by
the Institute OF Technology.
Mrs. Lilies, resident of Polk County.
Ca, Is 107 years cid. Her oldest living
child is S2 years OF age. aud her youngest
81. She never was sick a day, and has
never taken dose of medicine
So dear has forage become in the Sand
witch Islands that the owners of the horse
railroad in Honolulu have decided to run
the cars by electricity. 1t is expected that
considerable saving will be effected.
The production of briquettes is being car
rled on with great activity in the Rhenish
and Wesiphalian provinces of Germany
The deliveries of July amounted to 43. 500
tons, and those OF August TO ~, 600 tons.
a Frenchman has invented new and
ingenious frlctlonal machine. Mercury is
forced by means of a pump through the
pores OF piece OF cbamois, and electricity
in considerable quantities is generated by
the friction.
An English tramp, arrested and brought
before the Justice If the Petworth Police
Court for the crime of Damaging some cut
clover by sleeping on it," was fined by the
Justice, with the alternative Of going to Jail
for eight days.
A New York young lady has secured a
verdict OF $1,000 damages for the loss of a
toe. These figures reveal great possibilities.
A full set OF toes might represent $1,000
or something more, possibly, in Difference
to the two great toes.
Barkeepers in the leading hotels and sa-
looms report a great increase in gin-drink-
ing. So general have kidney troubles be-
come from the constant use of certain alco
h0llc drinks that physicians generally in
such cases limit the patient to gin.
Captain William Dent. the oldest passen-
ger conductor on tho Pennsylvania Rail-
road, whose record of thirty-six years is be-
lieved to be unequaled in the railway SER
wire of the tInitp1 Statpc dia6 Of Ia
near Holidaysburg, Pa, recently.
A peculiar accident recently befell San
down On. H.) woOd-chopper Feeling a
singing in the wrist, he discovered thereon
fialtened piece of lead, undoubtedly rifle
bullet which had struck his ak and thence
glanced TO his wrist. 1t was 50 hot as to
burn the flesh
A noted character Of the Sac and Fox ma
ton in Nebraska is George E. Gormelo.
who for twenty years has been an inter-
prefer In the employ of the Government.
He speaks fourteen Indian dialects, and
though 20 years old and blind, has not out
lived his usefulness.
Her Majesty's bed room at Buckingha IN
Palace Is one OF singular simplicity, and
were 1t not for few paintings Of her
crowned relatives upon the wall one would
take it for the room of an old maid who
disiikcd the finery and knicknacks so dear
to her younger sisters.
The Steamboat Hotel at Burlington fla.
nous as the Oldest hGstelry in New Jersey,
has been sold at public sale by Commission
ers for $4,000. 1t has been occupied con-
tinuousiy as hotel since 1926, aud during
the Revolutionary War was the headquar-
tiers OF tho British General Clinton.
There are nineteen cities in Maine. Deer
ing being the latest. The number is likely
to be still further increased at no distant
day by the evolution of such towns as Cape
Elizabeth, Brunswick. Showhegan, Dexter.
Pennington. Camden, Caribou aud Houl-
ton. which are showing disposition to
throw off town government. Portland Is
the oldest city in the State, having been in
cOrporated in 1882.
The size OF Australia is not generally APP
preciated. The seven colonies occupy ter
Tltory greater than that of the United
States. excluding Alaska New South
glnai States. Tasmania, the Rhode Island
OF Australia, Is as large as that State, with
Now Jersey, New Hampshire and Massa-
chusetts added; Victoria, the smallest COL
ony OF the continent, is equal In size to
Great Britain.
piece OF money, each retaining one-half as
token of remembrance, has come down
from ancient times. Long before Europe
and Asia were provided with inns or public
houses OF entertainment it was the custom
for travellers to seek lodgings with private
househoiders, and on parting, pebble,
ring, piece OF money or other token was
broken, each taking half and retaining it,
that the host at some future time, ii neces-
sary. might claim return Of hospitality by
presenting the token.
Old watches of particular value include
those with hogs bristles for regulating the
vibrations, egg watches, all watches with
one hand, with or without ornamentations,
watches without balance springs and with
out regulating arrangements, those with
perforated cases. those with finely chased
cases, II the chasing be distinct; enameled
gold watches Of the finest workmanship,
watches of wood or ivory or with iron or
porcelain cases, and nearly all watches
with peculiar movements.