The morning call., 1892-01-15
ITEMS OLE INTEREST.

Kansas.
North Dakota has barley farm Of 25G,-
600 acres.
Kingston, New York, has a highwayman
but 20 years old.
A Bnghamton New York. woman died
from night In runaway accident.
Child marriage had its origin at the time
OF the MOhanmedan invasion Of India.
Within the last three years the American
Indians have disposed of % C0O,0C acres OF
their land.
Ordinary rubber ink-erasers, it is said,
Will remove rust from polished cutlery with
out injury.
There are about two and half gallons OF
whisky on baud for every man. woman and
child in the United States.
Tin corsets worn by both men and women
ana hlled with whisky constitute MOntTeaPs
most novel "speak-easies."
All the varieties Of the tame duck are de
scended from the wild mall, which, though
umid, Is easily dOmesticated.
Most ladies are magnetic. All gllS are
attractive. But 1t is widows with cash and
real estate WHO have the pull.
divorced woman in England sued man
for breach Of promise made while she was
still a wife. She got a verdict.
An alligator is certainly sleepy looking
thing; but when awake for business it Is
found there is some snap to him.
L lie COWCdLCHGT OF LHb locomotive, which
has never been patented, was invented by
ID. B. Davies of Columbus, Ohio.
A London dentist. about the middle OF
December, hung out tie sign, Have your
teeth pulled for a Christmas iTesent."
Five hundred children under ten years Of
age have been taken into custody in tWelYr
months in London as drunk and incapable
DR.. Helen DruskOvitch. the first woman
in Austria to follow course OF phii0sUpBl-
cal studies, has lost her reason from over
work.
A well-known business man in Chicago
defines a promoter as a man who sells
thing he does not own to man who doesn't
want il.
Toledo, Ohio. has compassionate street
car system. The air is slowed in batteries
and the ears make trip OF eight miles with
one charge.
Not for years have the British shipyaris
been so busy as now. Tie stress is partly
due to prospective competition over " orld's
Fair business.
In making lard pals a machine is in use
by which one mal with boy as tender Can
produce as many as was formerly produced
by ten skilled men.
After handling substances that leave
disagreeabIe odor upon The bands, if mus
tard water IS used it Will be found Il most
efficient deodOTizaT.
Max Adams, young MN well known In
Atlanta (Ga.J society, has received a CON-
mission from the KhediYe as a captain ia
tie Egyptian cavalry.
Hugo Roger of Philadelphia has a very
old Bible. 1t was printed in Wittenberg,
Germany, in 1917, thirty years after the
death Of Martin Luther.
Miss Ella Ewing of Paramount, No.
though only sweet IS, weighs 32j pounds, is
Z feet lOlnches high and wears a number %
shoe. This SIZE Is Is inches in length.
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self-slaughter in New York State promotes
insleaI Of prevents suicide. Each year
shows an increase over the preceding one.
Never bite or pass sewing-siIk through
the lips. Lead-pOisOnlBg has been known
To result from such a habit, as it is soaked
in acetate of lead 10 make il weigh heavier.
Miss Helen Gould would be- recognized as
beautiful if she did not have hundred
milliOn-dOllar father or any but a calico
dress. This cannot often be said Of rich
mems daughters.
The State Treasury of Arkansas Is re-
ported without dollar, and 1t must remain
in that condition for two months at least
Meanwhile it isn't expected that the Treas
ureT viii skip out.
Irshmen are leaving the British army
at the rate of 1900 year. 4 Quarter OF a
century ago the army contained more than
$1,000 Irishmen, but now the number
hardly reaches %, COO.
The plant which has been established az
Ishpemiug, Mich, for the separation of iron
ore by electricity is reported 10 have been
very successful The works have 50 far
turned out $4,000 tons Of BeSsemer ore.
There is no machinery in the Sierra
Leone Islands except the sewing machine.
The colony is 1913 years Old aud contains
$4,000 people without a saw-mill or any
other kind of mill to do any kind of Wood
work.
Cape Colony, Africa, will make an ambi-
tiOus display at the Worlds Fair. One of
the features will be a miniature diamond
mine, where the whole process of washing,
sorting. cutting and polishing Will be shown
in operation.
There is an annual feast Of false faces
among the Onondaga Indians in Northwest
ern New York, that follows some weeks
after the white dog feast The faces are
mostly wooden masks made by themselves,
but are not old.
1t has been discovered that ale and raw
onions partaken OF in generous quantities
will cure the most stubborn case of hic-
coughs. If one prefers the hiccOughS, how
ever, there is happily no law compelling him
10 use the remedy
Florida is probably the best timbered
State in the Union. Dat Of about 50, 100000
acres, only some 100000 are included in
farms. the rest, INTERCHANGEABLE, excIu-
siVe of the area covered by lakes aud
rivers, being covered with heavy forests.
An electric device for clearing a track of
distractions is among the newest ideas. II
consists Of triangular steel folding frame,
over which a net is stretched. This is
placed on the front of locomotive and can
be opened at will, catching the obstruction
upon it.
In the bottom OF Texcoco, a large lake in
Mexico. is supposed to lie the entire lot of
copper coins made by Don Antonio de Men
dOza in 154l. They were consigned there. IL
- lofa hut ha r,afi lF hat lot
did not regard copper favoraby as metal
for coins.
Ths following notice was displayed one
evening outside small American theater
at which travelling troupe was about To
give a performance: "On account of the
loss of Desdemona'S pocket handkerchief
Hamlet will be given this evening instead
of 'Othello.
Miss May Miller Of Whitneyyille is ae-
curing fame as the tirst young lady to lay
no a bunch OF shingles In Maine Miss
Miller is but 10 years old and probably has
her hunors. The work is said to have been
performed as well as anybody could have
done it.
The gypsies of to-day are divided up into
the full bloOded or tent gypSieS, and the
KatrengTOeS or hOuse-dw6lleTS, who keep
their gypsy blood a secret This division
OF the race shows that they are gradually
yielding to the pressure OF outside in
fuences and the com plete extinction of their
national identity Will simply be matter OF
time.
Rev. Billy Frazier of Boston, who quit the
ring TO preach the gospel several years ago,
has returned to his first love. He wants TO
fight any f2S-pOund man in America. If he
cannot night better than he preached, says
an exchange, he will soon be again on the
lookout for a soft job. A man may pound
a pulpit for a long time and never get
knocked out.
For several hundred years. and down to
q comparatively recent date, money was
coined at from twenty-five to thirty different
cities in France that had inherited the priv
ilege. Now all French money is coined at
the Paris Mint, and bears. instead of the
efigy of some distinguished person, head