The morning call., 1891-09-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

In forty years the run across the Atlantic
| has been reduced one-half.
A Glenfeld Qnd.) man is actually on trial
for confscating an umbrella.
Ice cream was first made and sold in Phil
adelphia ninety-ops years ago.
Scientists say that all our fuel will event.
ually be furnished in the form of gas.
One of Mrs. Astor's dresses has been sold
to prima donna of the New York variety
stage.
In recent transaction at FELTON,. Del,
four cats were traded off for a big water
melon.
A five-weeks bride at Gloucester, Mass,
| has deserted her husband, leaving no eX-
PLANTATION.
The man who owns railroad never gets
as much JOY out of it as the one who travels
on free pass.
A Chicago policeman has been roughly
! handled and ducked in a water trough by
gang of tOughs whom he attempted to arrest.
| 1t has been estimated recently by shoe
man that the people of the United States
| spend 0,000,000 annually for foot cover
! ing.
The postal telegraph service of Great
Britain has shown a surplus for the first
time since the present rates went into opera
| tiOn in 1883.
The first steel car built for postal pur-
poses was run 270.000 miles, and went
through five smash-ups, at cost of S42 to
| the company for repairs.
A coat of tar and feathers has been ad-
| ministered to a widow aG Newago, Mich, by
| her women DeighbOrs, who alleged that she
| spent most OF her time in saloons
Watermelons are seldom swret and we'll
| favored If the summer is wet. Though
| abounding in water the melon thriyeS best
on somewhat dry and sandy soil.
After an apparently successful experience
| of year and a half cooperative house.
| l-n n n hns a hish ah
II was composed OF sixty members
| Many of the Pittsburg glass companies
are placing plants in position to make gas,
the natural gas supply having given out.
| The object is TO avoid returning to solid fuel
Independence. Kans., is twenty-five years
| old. The town site was laid out August 10,
1869. There is just one man liviag in the
| place now who was there on that memorable
day.
An Atlanta man who recently visited
| Patti AYERS that he saw the ballad "Annie
! Rooney" upon her piano. Yet this woman
| dares TO speak about visiting America
| again
| Cherokee Indians to the number of 500
are setting up as real estate dealers by stalk
| ing off claims on the strip and placing them
in the market The whites are extensive
| purchasers
| at Palmyra, Wis, fifty nails, from a COM
mon tack to a ten-penny nail, were found in
| the animals stomach, two of the largest
| perforatiug it.
In tearing down the Merchants Hotel in
| COrtlaudt street, New York, it was lis
covered that the flagstaff on the roof ex-
| tended to the ground through the five stories
| of the structure.
1t has transpired that prominent depart
! ment official at Buenos Ayres has been steal
| ing Government funds for fifty years. The
| amount of his peculati0ns reaches 100000
| francs $500, 000)
| Daniel III. Gilkey of Charlottesville, Ind,
| estimates that the average increased assess
| ment on farms throughout the State is So 80
| per acre. and that The grand total will ag-
| grrgate S137, $50. COO.
| Whenever the beer business is a little
| slack in New York some slick saloon-keeper
| starts scare about the impurity of the
| CrotOn water supply. Such a boom for
beer is now on there.
A colored murderess under sentence of
| death at Raleigh, n c., has passed as a
man for fifteen years without her sex being
! questioned. Her victim was white girl,
! alleged 10 be her rival
According to the figures of the census
! Massachusetts is the richest State in the
! Union, her valuation per capita being 1862;
| Rhode Island comes next; New York is S629
! and PENNSYLVANIA only SI93.
An Illinois man has completed IL tramp
| from North Lawrence, n. Y, to Chicago, a
| distance Of 500 miles. He is seventy-seveu
| years Old. but in spite of his long walk his
step is still elastic and firm.
\ one hundred and three year old resident
| OF Bellingham, MIMI, now nearing his end,
stated recently that he had used tobacco for
| nearly a century, and was of the opinion
| that it had prolonged his life.
The United States leads the world in the
number and extent of its libraries. The
public Libraries of all Europe put together
| cuntain about 21,000,000 volumes; those of
| this country contain 5OOOOO0O
at recent reunion of old settlers of Nor
! gan County, Ind, four centenarians aged
l0l, 102 and 103 respectively, were Present
| and participated in the festivities. Two of
them had attained the latter age.
An EliZabethtown QnG.) man has a sun
fiower of his own raising that measures .
feet in circumference, 20 inches in diameter
| anu weighs 10 pounds. 1t will be sent to In
| dianapolis and placed on exhibition.
Muslin covers and bed sets are being
| brought out embroidered in white, red and
| blue cord-like ngures. These sets include
! curtains. spreads, pillow hams, be lam
! brequins. bureau SedrfS, tides and mats.
| Are lights on a sugar plantation for the
| hauling OF crops by night have been placed
| in position by Louisiana planter He will
cut over 100 acres of cane. and has plant
| of seventy 2000-candle power arc lamps.
Two strong men. Saudow, the German
weieht-lifter, and Sandowe, the English
Hercules, are at odds over the possession Of
the name. The Englishman's real name is
| Irving Montgomery, and he balls from Bir-
| mlDgham.
A North Atchison (Kansas) woman went
| to her neighbor and wanted to borrow her
| husband for week. Tie wife did not get
| angry, but was astouished that any woman
| should want tu borrow such u EIan as Mr..
| Jones was
Bank-robbing in Missouri promises to fall
| into inn0cuous desuetude. A bold, bad
| MissOurian who accomplished a robbery the
| other day was captured and the, citizens of
| the town rose up en- masse and riddled him
| with bullets.
| Stone forests are found in various parts
OF the word. In many cases they are hard
eHed by some pecuiiarity of the atmos sphere,
| and are found standing just as they were
| when clothed with green foliage thousands
of years ago.
The works OF watches are now plated with
palladium, which is a whittier, lighter aud
more fusibe metal than platinum. About
One-seventeenth Of grain OF palladium WILL
by electrical deposition, coat the works of
an ordinary watch
In the Partisan cemeteries it is customary
to place metal boxes on the tombstones.
Each box has slit on the top, and in it
visitors drop their cards. The relatives can
thus see the names of persons who cherish
the memory of the deceased.
An Independence (Kansasl man has been
experimenting with bIeached wheat by SOW
ing in boxes. He finds that only part of
| it will grow, while good, sound wheat sowed
| in the same boxes sends blade mp for every
grain-a pointer we'll worth needing
| In Raleigh. N. c., two colored prisoners
| condemned to receive thirty-nine lashes
| were whipped in the presence of spectators
| who paid % cents each to get in, the gate
money going to the prisoners, who took it
| as the silver lining of their particular cloud.
| AT his new place in the Catskills George
| Gould expects to have herd of about 100
deer and elk. He has already small pre-
serve on the shore of the lake which con-
| tains eight Colorado elk and eight rginia
| and four black-tailed deer. Mr.. Gould mas,
| including the lake, 800 acres.
| Nine. Martin, the old lady who recently
| died at Vincennes, France, beeueathing her
| fortune of 100000 francs to her native town
| of Toul, left 1900 francs for the expenses of
| her funeral at Vincennes, coupled with the
condition that she was to be buried "as far
| as possible from her late husband"