The morning call., 1892-03-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

In Mexico streetcars are used for funerals
Genius is the hare. industry the tortoise.
The nurseries are being drawn upon for
tiny bridesmaids.
One of the things that is not faithful to
the end Is a cheap cigar.
Twenty English and American women
are studying at the University at Leipsic.
The worst Insult one Paris cabman can
infiict upon another Is to call him "Prus
sian."
Twenty-seven young Swedish girls have
been appointed as extraordinary" sele-
graph clerks in state positions.
Adiian (Mich.) College students have pc
tlti0ned the faculty to place the study of
the Bible on the regular curriculum.
A minister in England, whose scientific
attachments are considerable, finds tine col
lection and sale OF fossils partial source Of
income.
According 10 sworn report made by the
miners of Indiana for the last year tn the
State Board, their average wages was SIS OF
per month.
Another theater manager, this time in
MINNEAPOLIS. has been sued by al indignant
man who could not see the stage on account
of high hat in front al him.
The blood-vessels in the white of the eye
are so small that they do not admit the iittl,
red eorpuscles to which the ordinary real
appearance of the blood is due.
The harmattan is a periodical wind which
blows during the months of December.
January and February from the interior of
Africa toward the Atlantic Ocean.
Pearls were an article of commerce among
the earliest commercial people, the Pheni-
clans. Theophrastus places them among
the most loved and valued stones.
A jury in Alabama has recently done
public service by fixing the value of a kiss
A young man had kissed young woman
$50 times and he was promptly assessed a.
many dollars.
A farmer who is a strict church member
got mixed on dates and hauled a load OF
corn into Aureiia, Iowa, on a resent Sun
day morning. A dozen almanacS were
mailed to him.
A curious case of perverted appetite is re-
ported from Germantown, Pa. dog III
that town refuses to eat sweetneats, but
disposes of onious, turnips aGd potatoes
with greediness.
According to the venerable curiosity
known as the Harieian MSS. in the British
Museum, if Christmas fall on Friday the
winter will be hard, the spring early ami
the summer fine.
Plays In Paris generally begin at o'clock
and nnish about midnight Ii they were
over earlier the audience would not think
that they had received their moneys worth
of bad air and good acting.
The most dreaded and ferocious shark in
existence is the great white shark OF tropi-
Cal WdtPtS. 1t Is tl0 iuail-tdlctkpdt excel
leBce. Specimens have been captured
which measured II feet IN length.
The millinery effects" may be regarded
as invading the table when we read OF an
arrangement of black and pink tulle caught
up with pink roses as part of the table deco
rationS al recent fashionable dinner
The Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool, has beer
fitted up with a complete interior telephon
installation. In each room Is fitted a CA
box and transmitter Oy means OF Will
visitors can communicate with the hoi
office or with other guests.
A man in New York City has started on
to tell impromptu stories at ehidren's par
ties. lie engages to tell as many stories a
the children may desire. They are to nam.
topic and tell what kind of tale the,
wish, and without any previous preparation
he will proceed 10 tell the story.
The organized militia of the United State
consists OF 101 ,32l enlisted men, commando
by SST9 commissioned officers, besides i24s
staff officers, making a total aggregate al
111,94S men. The number of men in the
United States available for military duty.
unorganized, is S.567, $50.
In Norfolk County. Va. few days ago
Cornelius Wood fired at another negro,
, named Henry Adams, at close range. with
pistol. The ball struck a bottle OF whisky
in his pocket, passed through it aud strues
"a quarter of a dollar aud glanced of.
Wood, seeing the whisky running down the
mans leg. thought he had killed him, and
made his escape.