The morning call., 1892-02-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

AausaS Clty mas man WHO eats glass anu
carpet-tacks.
A vein of coal has been discovered at the
Strait of Magellan.
A PHILADELPHIA crank wears his hair in
long plat down his back.
Chicago has a college to educate brewers
IN all branches Of their trade.
a Bangor Judge ruled that Hebrew chill
dren might play ball on Sunday.
England has $4,000 policemen, of whom
1920 belong to the London force.
The oldest horse on record is at Louis
vile, KY, and is about 30 years old.
A Philadelphia boy has a pet rabbit which
he has trained to draw a small wagon.
This winter is said to be the worst the
Russian peasants have had in 100 years.
Paris has surface electric cars for dis
tance of four miles between the Opera and
St Denis.
Twelve thousand failures in this country
during 1891 seem to upset the assertion that
there's no such word in the dictionary
Mrs. john Sherwood says it is not I'M
usual for A New York hostess to spend
$1,000 on a luncheon for twenty women.
DuXbury (Mass.) official ran over a list
of 1900 townspeople and found among them
"A over so years of age. The Oldest was 1O3
In Philadelphia cOld-stOTage house an
English hare has been kept frozen Tor Jour
teen months, and IS apparently in good coll
ditiOn.
Polish chemist has discovered that
liquid oxygen is not cOloriesS. In layer Of
80 mlllimeters thick lie finds that 1t has a
bright Sky-blue color.
hundred and twenty-seven years ago
England seized the first eight bales of cot
ton raised In the south and declared its pro-
ductiOn should cease.
Twenty persons were killed or disabled
during the thirteen years which it took to
build the Brooklyn bridge. Actual labor
was begun on January ,, 1870.
There is to be a new Prussian throne.
Frederick | had one, but Napoleon took it
off and melted il. and there are now only
two small chairs Of small value.
At Northampton. England, recently, boy
of II was sentenced TO ten days imprIs0n-
ment and five years in a refOrmatOry for
stealing foUrpenny worth of sweets.
The hair-dressingof ladies was an expens-
i've affair in the sixteenth century. Queen
Elizabeth at one time was possessed Of no
fewer than eighty attires Of false hair.
Jean Gombier, an employe of the Leland
Hotel, Chicago ate so much ice-cream that
his stomach actually became frozen by the
cold. The unfortunate man died III great
agony.
Heretofore coffee has made more fortunes
for people of Nicaragua than any other
product, but within few years the product
OF the cacao plant will be one of the chief
exports.
One-hfth Of the 100000 families in
France have no children. AS many more
have only one child. and of those who have
a. many rs seven children the number is
only 10000.
In Burmah it is the woman who does the
woOiug. Not only does she select her own
husband, but when she tires of him she
pr0cures a divorce for the asking Of it aud
marreS anew.
Charles Booth proposes that every person
in England over 80 years of age shall re-
ceiye from the state five shillIngs a week.
That can be done for seventeen millions
sterling annually.
A new parasite has been discovered which
infects paper money and is found nowhere
else. 1t is invisible TO the unaSslSted eye,
does not attach itself 10 persons, but multi
plies ut rapid rate.
A understanding locomotive has Just
been conn leteu in Bloomington, HI, for use
on the Chicago and Alton Railroad. 1t is
said TO be the most perfect!lOcomOtlve of the
kind ever constructed. Not a puff of smoke
escapes from it. The inventor is 4. X.
CaYner.
a new torpedo was recently tried at Ports
mouth, England. 1t is intended for dis
charge under the water, and with engines
developing hlty-twO horsepower il can real
iZe q speed Of thirty knots an hour. The
maximum diameter Of the torpedo is eight
cen inches.
Mrs Frederick Mitchell and David Dick
son, residing in Hammond, Lake County,
Ind, are TWO of eight heirs in the United
States TO an estate OF S3,0O000O in Scotland.
They have received a cablegram telling
them Of their good fortune. The property
was Owned by an aunt
An Old Mans League was recently or
gained at Upton, Ind. with none OF its
members under 10. James Brown was the
first to die. 1t is said Of Mr.. Brown that ne
built the first frame house at indianapolis.
He voted for General w. Ii. Harrison ana
also for General Ben Harrison.
a Chicago barley syndicate has secured
control OF $4,000 acres of land in North
Dakota, and next spring they propose to
send thousands of German immigrants to
settle there. The newcomers, who are eX-
perts in barley culture, will not be tenants,
but Will buy the land on easy terms.
The Arabs believe that the date palm
brings happiness ami COntentment 10 the
country in which it grows. 1t is beautiful
tree, tail and straight, sometimes reaching
height of sixty feet. The leaves are from
S to 10 feet long, aud the spadices, OF fruit
bearing branches grow from $50 to 200 dates
each. a bunch of dates weights from % to
. pounds.