The morning call., 1891-08-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Ihirty thousand strangers recently spent
Sunday at Saratoga, n. Y.
Inc cost OF burying the late Grand Duke
Nicholas of Russia was 100000
A Wooster (Ohio) millionaire has erected
S0OUo fountain aud presented it to the city.
A murderer at Harrisburg, Pa, has been
convicted by the testimony of his STEP
daughter.
silver casket from the Queen is said to
be one OF the most treasured household gods
of Mr. Spurgeun.
Among the exiles in Siberia are fOrty-ive
compositors who were sent there for work
ing on NlhillSJ papers.
Elkhart, Ind, has had an interesting
social event in the wedding OF couple
ageo n aud 10 respectively.
burlington On. J.) man has lost four
vaIuaDie horses within month by the cars.
spot
woman who has more money than
brains, summering at Maine watering
place, pays $40 week for room for a fav-
orite dog.
Hallstones larger than hens eggs are re-
ported TO have fallen during a recent storm
at Worthington, MINI. The growing grain
was ruined.
n banana eating contest at Tarpin
springs, Fla, ended in tie between two Of
lhe contestants, each stopping on the sixty
first banana.
There are said to be over 900 women
preachers IN this country. The prepon-
uerahce Is IN favor of the Universalist de-
nomination.
Twin babies recently born at Albert Lea,
Mlnp., are alive and hearty, but their
mother succumbed to Bright's disense two
DAYS after their birth.
A coin-deaer in New Orleans has been
detected IN the manufacture of bogus coin,
antique and modern, for which there hap
pens to be demand.
a leading hotel at Asbury Park has been
nheu SluO Tor furnishing oleumargarne as
outter 10 It's guests, and yet the guests did
not know the difference.
;. Two wives of Vernon Qnd.) farmer have
dled from injuries received III runaways
which occurred at exactly the same spot
Wlllie crossing bridge.
Az reunion of the family of Reuben
meyer held III Allentown, Pa, recently,
were brother and seven sisters, VIII oSe
"elEhtS aggregate 1917 pounds.
Whatever be the state of colored photo
staphy, process Tor photographing in
colorS has been patented in London, and the
company Is about to begin business.
he faculty of Hedding College at Abing-
con, ILL.,, has been notified that Il prominent
cltlZeh vi Evanston has inserted in his will
a Dequest of $1,000, 900 to the institution.
y Brooklyn baby recently fell from a
WINDOW plump on the shoulders of stout
man VINO was passing, ard escaped with
cut ON the ear. The police have not heard
from the man.
Under the decision of Texas Judge it is
Sald that 1000 saloons will be opened in In
ulan territory i'll less than three months if
the United States Government does not
take action to stop il.
mat Connecticut preacher who was said
TO own Shanghai rooster that could sing
inc doXoiosy has been SO pestered by dime
museum managers that he has had to de-
nounee the story as fowl lie.
An English lady who died not long since
left money to pay for sprinklng Tower Hill,
London, daily with ashes and gravel. so as
10 mitigate Its slippery condition for the
benefit OF horses heavily loaded.
Speaking of the influence of heredity, it
is worth mentioning that according to emf
neni physlologists the offspring of parents
who marry late in lie are more apt to turn
out criminals than other children.
Ihe theft OF valuable bicycle, $40 in
money and several articles of minor value
from a St Louis clubhouse has been
traced to tho son of millionaire He was
well supplied with funds by his father
George Holmes of Cincinnati is the owner
OF peculiar diamond. In the morning it
is beautiful sky blue, at noon it is per
fectly white, and at o'clock in the even
ing it begins to turn black and after sunset
is ike piece OF coal.
A somnambulistic LiyermOre Iowa)
farmer recently arose in the night and
walked eighteen miles before he awoke.
Several nelghbOrs met the man during his
long tramp and exchanged greetings with
him. Nevertheless he was not aroused
Common Councilman Irvine of Phladel-
phla, VINO recently offered a resolution
granting all the workmen under the city de-
fartments a half holiday, has been pre-
Sented with set OF handsomely engrossed
resolutions by large number of workman.
Harry Lane OF Anderson, Ind, aged 81.
walked the Big Four Railroad track, a
distance of eighteen miles, to Muncie in
one hour and tifty-eight minutes. winning a
wager OF S25 by the small margin of two
minutes. On the tramp he counted 76,00O
ties.
Coun Hogendorf, in opening the session
OF the International Congress of Young
Mems Christian Association of All Lands,
at Amsterdam, Holland, performed the lin
gnistic feat of delivering an address in
French, English, German and Dutch in
turn.
AtFindlay, Ohio, recently, man fell into a
caidron OF boiling water and quck-lime
and was literally boiled alive. The flesh
fell from his body in great chunks. He
lived ten hours, during which time he was
conscious, notwithstanding his terrible
injuries.
a peddler in Lewiston, Me-. has hit upon
new way of earning living. He travels
from house to house selling sausages, and is
also provided with portable oil stove wi til
NhIOi nc Will COOh Tue SaQSaEeS Wnel
quested to do so. He has already built up
good business
A Norwegian living in the sixteenth GEN.
| tury was accounted master hand at
| minute contrlvances. In proof of this il is
| recorded that he made TO- 000dishes of turned
ivory, In every respect without flaw, and
| so tEy that all of them could be safely
Graded in pepper-corn cup of usual size.
len species OF North American birds are
| put Gown by the ornithologist as missing"
| VI tnese, two-the great aux and the Labra-
dor duck-are believed to have become ex-
tinct within the memory of living men. Per-
haps representatives OF the otheir eight will
yet be found. Many Of them are very di-
| mlnutive
Many well-dressed London dandies have
/ contracts with West End florists for the
| supply OF "buttonholes." As rule the
Two Dutton- holes daily, one for wear during
the day and the other for the evening. The
cast-of buttonh oles become the perquisites
| OF the valet.
i was born and raised in New En-
glanu village" said the retired merchant as
| ne SAT N Ills piazza and looked at a newly
sniueieu TOOL across the way, "aDd 1t is
astonishing what memories that roof calls
| up. You lave no idea what n relief it is to
| me- even now, to know that those shingles
are all nailed securely down."
In oumatra when woman's husband
oho piautS u post IN 'front.' OF ner par
ticuiar door in the family-houss and hangs
a nag upon it. While the flag waves she
may not marry again. But when the winds,
! blowing softly off the sea, have torn it into
shreds and scattered the bits on the ground,
her term OF mourning is over and she may
accept second lovers proffer.
Henry NJ. Stanley has eighteen dark
skinned lads whom he bought on the banks
Oh the Congo at the moderate price of 3h
pence head. When he founded the sta
tlon at Stanley Falls he found in the hands
OF the Arabs $500 captives whom they had
dragged into slavery. The roor wretches
were suffering for want of food. and some
Oh them were in starving condition.
"A letter was received at the City Hall,
New ork, recently, from Massachusetts,
preacher asking if there was any law in
New York to prevent man marrying his
sons widow, and whether the marriage
could be performed any week day at the