The morning call., 1892-03-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


| land.
| A couple whose ages aggregate 146 years
| were married few days ago at Fort Dodge,
Iowa.
Owing to lack of fuel it is impossible to
move the coffee crop over the railroad lines
| in RraZiI.
A Chicago woman has chameleon for a
/ pet. 1t Is quite tame and very fond of its
| mistress.
There will be chosen this year 444 Presi-
| dental electors, an Increase 0s 43 over the
| number In 1888.
A ''whaleback" steamer 500 feet long, to
| carry passengers, will be built for the
| Worlds Fair.
| a Philadelphia burglar left vest button
/ in the house he had broken into and it led
| to his arrest.
| Cleveland proposes to extend its tunnel
| Tor water supply two and half miles fur
| Their into the lake.
>, A wine cask has recently been built in
Toledo. OHIO, which holds G6.OOO gallons
and weighs 10000 pounds.
A Philadelphian has plan to utilize the
| energies OF storms by COMPRISING air
| through the agency of windmills.
The Spanish peasant works every day
! anu dances half the night, and yet eats
| only his black bread, onion and watermelon.
In proportion to its population New
Hampshire stands first among all the States
| IN the amount Of its savings bank deposits
st. Tammany parish, La, boasts of a
| spring which pours forth clear pure water
during The day, but goes dry when the sun
| sets.
The construction Of the worlds longest
railroad Is progressing rapidly along the
river valleys and across the steppes OF
Siberia.
There is Georgia man who keeps him
self concealed in a dark closet except at
night, and refuses to see or converse with
any one.
Victoria has decided to confer upon the
Princess May the style OF royal highness,
which George may some day elevate to ''her
| Majesty
a company has just been formed in chi
eago TO run buses on the bonleyards. pro-
PEELED by accumulators or Orther electrical
appliances.
Two doctors in Idaho succeeded in cap
turing an enormous boar By means of
piece Of pork saturated with chloroform
and sprinkled with sugar.
The largest schooner in the last published
Government list is the Golden Age, 1853
tons, built at Abbott's Bridge, Ohio. In 1885.
and halling from Sandusky.
A man IN PittSburg found live coon in
the middle of bale of hay few days ago.
It is believed the animal had been impris-
| oned there ar least a month.
| An insulated holder for fire. hose has bee n
invented to obviate any danger that NIGH
arise TO hrenen IN case stream of water
struck heavily charged wire.
An eagle, measuring over nine feet from
tip TO tip OF outstretched wings, was killed
last week near fredericksburg, OHIO, while
IN the act Of carrying off lamb.
The japanese some time ago adopted
burial OF the dead but they have reverted
to their old custom of burning the dead on
account OF It's sanitary recommendations.
The black lieorice stick in the drugstores
comes mostly from Spain. and is male of
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prevents 1t from melting in warm weather.
A girl 4 years old, three feet two inches
high and who measured two feet three
inches around the waist, is what the Marion
IN. C.) people are boasting about Just now
An alloy OF copper, nickel and manganese
known as 'manganin"-is coming into
use in electrical work. It is said to have
remarkable power of resisting electric cur
rents.
The kafirs. who cannot get snuff as fne
and as pungent as they wish, rub The
already prepared mass between stones and
mix 1t with Kind OF pepper and some
| ashes.
The famous Oroya Railroad of Peru has
now been extended to Port Tucker. on The
| Pichis River, thus connecting the head
| waters OF the Amazon with the Pacific
| Ocean at Callao.
There are now two colored women law
yers, twenty-four doctors. six civil engi-
neers, nineteen photographers AID thirty
| TWO artists. There are also liz colored
women pursuing studies abroad.
The throwing of shoe is a relic of an
Angio-Saxon custom. In those early days
| The brides father delivered her shoe to the
| husband, who touched her with it on the
forehead to denote his authority over her.
1t is by the thumb the miller tests the
character and qualities of the grain he
grindS; spreading the sample over the
fingers by peculiar movement of the
thumb, he gauges its value by the thumb.
itself.
In Texas there is stone about twenty
feet in diameter that has wonderful MAJ
uetic power. 1t Is said that il will draw
| hammer or an ak to its surface even when
placed ten TO fifteen feet away on the
ground.
The Hindu bells or narakas, are 136. The
walls OF the principal of these are over 100
miles in thickness, and their shine of fire is
so fierce that they burst the eyes of those
who look at them even from the distance of
400 leagues.
4 new weapon has been submitted to the
French War Ministry by an army officer.
1t is a rife which will project u stream o.
yltrl0l for a distance Of 40 metres. The Off
Ger suggests, however, that it should OIL,
be used III attacking sayages.
A young man of Dubuque, Iowa. who, In
the process of sowing his wild oats, got into
the Wisconsin Peaitentiary for a short term,
was released a short time ago, and now
learns that he has been left S36. 600 by a
convict whom he knew at the prison.
The Manassah Society is peculiar or
ganiZation of Chicago. composed of colorei
men who have married white wives. fhe
society was organized January 8 1892 aud
now has 100 members. 1t is said there are
$50 eolored men living in that city with
white wives.
The CZarina of Russia receives the mas
sage treatment from a German practitioner
who was originally butcher, hut who now
has an immense list OF patients who. whether
they are prince, peer or peasant, are treated
alike, so long as three minutes service and
81 fee are concerned.
1t is said there are twenty weil-buils
towns in Kansas without single innab.-
| tant 10 waken the echoes of their desc rted
streets. Saratoga has $4,000 opera house,
large brick hotel, q $40 COO schoolhonse
and number of fine business houses. vet
there is nobody even to claim a place to
sleep.
There is as much character in the thumbs
OF people as IN their faces. A hong first
joint OF the thumb indicates will power;
| long second joint strong logical or reasoning
| power; a wide, thick thumb indicates strons
individuality, while broad knob at the
| end OF the thumb Is a sure indication of OBJ
| stiaacy.
An illustration of the curious adaptability
| OF the electric motor is TO be seen in the
new use that is made of 1t on board the
United States monitor Miantonomoh. The
| smoke from the guns is great nuisance in
| the turretS of modern fighting ship, but on
| this vessel 1t is to be got rid of by three lit
| tie electric fans, which are SO placed as to
| blow the smoke out OF the turret.
| There is in the Museum of Turin papy-
/ rus roll which displays a whole series of
| comieal scenes. In the first place lion,
/ crocodile and an ape are giving vocal and
| Instrumental concert Next comes an ass,
| dressed, armed and sceptered like
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