The morning call., 1892-02-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The Salvation Armys "s,lf-denial week
yielded IN England $4,000.
Thirteen tons # postage stamps are said
10 lave been sold IN New York City last
year
In thirty Of the largest cities Of the
country there are we.I-gQu.pped cooking
schools.
Teachers say that as a rule children get
lower averages ia arithmetic than IN any
other branch.
For bringing a ing Of wine in the jury
room in Columbus, y. G, grand juryman
was fined $50 and costs.
Christie c. McG0lddck Of Galesburg.
Mich, WAS buried recently on The very day
his marriage was sst IJT.
One bullet in It's massage from a pistol
bored through the knee OF one man, the
calf Of the leg Ot.anUtheT and cut Of the toe
ola third,
With some GOO homicides in the United
States last year there we're but I23 legal
executions Judge Lynch, though, CON-
tTiyed TO attend 10 l9j mere.
The largest umbrella in the world was re-
Gently made for a West African king II is
tweuty-one feet in diameter, and is allxe1
to a stah Of tbs same length.
The throat is the gate 10 the lungs Bron-
clitis and kindred diseases are thieves try
ing 70 break through the door IL reach the
vital organs. Keep them out
A last they have had a really fatal duel
II Europe II TOOK place IN Berlin between
two doctors. 1t Is by no means the first IN
stance wherein q doctor las killed hls man.
Some 10 Hers, fortunately few in number
1 have a ly!d red color, resembling that II
dead meat. by which and by their uupleas-
ant od0rl tuey attract the attention OF flesh
flies.
A Cass County (Mich.) Supervisor Included
such necessities of life as oranges, pineRp-
pies dates, aprc0ts, candy, etc, sin his
! bill Of expenditures from the county food
fund.
The man does not live who is entirely
friendless, but The man without an enemy
IS IF 50 little use in this world that the
sooner the community is rid If him the
better.
The new drawbridge in Burlington, Iowa,
is menaced by al ice gorge, aud ia case 1t Is
swept away The town VIII be isolated from
Eastern railway traffic Tor an Indefinite
period.
Mr.. Gilman, formerly American Consul
In Jtrusalem, AYERS that The city is now
growing toward the northwest, Just as it
was predicted by the prophets jeremiah
and cdaTIah."
TIE winter term in Dartmouth College
opened the other day wIth only three
fOurths of the students present. The others
are away teaching school 10 pay their
college expenses.
uF lduDuS IOLun-tdLcIS, Wuen iuey IOUuQ
themselves about 10 die, threw themselves
into the sea. The CherOkees OF Tennessee
formerly made practice Of throwing their
dead into the rivers.
Andrew JacksOn'5 carriage, made out of
timber from the Old waT-Ship IiOusldes,
Daniel Webster's carriage and one that be-
longed TO Abraham Lincoln will be shown
at tile Worlds Fair.
The French sculptor Bartholdi, will ex-
hibit al the Worlds Fair heroic figures If
Washington and Lafayette. with the flags
OF France and the United States inter-
twlned in the background.
A Sanllac Center Nlich) Juror was so
drunk the other day that il took the COM
olned efforts Of the whole court to waken
him, Tie Judge having adjourned for five
minutes TO accomplish the feat.
1t is reported that there are persons liv-
ing IN FOlusia County, Fla, who can
daily hear the whistle OF a locomotive only
lew miles away, who have not only not
been On railroad train, but have never
seen one.
AT a certain church near Ledbury, Pa ..
an annual sermon is still preached az in st
the vice OF dueling. This is done in accord
ance with the last will and testament Of
damsel whose rival lovers died fighting for
her hand.
BarthodPs studio is crowded with new
/ works IN various stages Of completion, HIS
lotoot pAouuCliOH - q group lOI monument
that Is to constitute the Offering OF a wealthy
| citizen OF StraSburg to Thea republic Of
! Switzerland.
/ The term ''tabby cat" is derived from
Atab. a famous street in Bagdad, Inhabited
| by the manufacturers Of siken stuff Gale d
atibi or taffety. This stuff is woven vi til
waved markings Of watered silk reese milling
'tabby" cats coat
! a well-knOwn veteran, Father Dose, has
celebrated his one lundTad and fnu r th
! birthday at Rehhorst, in Schleswig, In good
/ condition, mentally and physically. He
| has used both liquor and tobacco all his
/ life, but moderately.