The morning call., 1892-02-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

END UT IN L IN Ed l.
Maine is getting new crop Of spruce gum
ready for the market
lola has passion for collecting rare bits
OF furniture, rare books and the like.
a paper has been started at New York
with the sole purpose Of printing cluD news.
The savings banks of France have ), 49,
coo depOsitoTS, with 2,9ll, 100000 francs due
them.
Bits of camphOr laid about closets where
mice are won't to frequent will draw their
visits to close.
The present faminei in Russia is the eighth
that has afflicted the Cars domains during
the nineteenth century.
The VicerOy of China has the grip, aud
the doctors are trembling for fear that he
will get a grip on them.
The cheapest car-fare known is said to be
the cents fare on the PlttsbuTg traction
road for a distance Of six miles.
George Dustin, an old soldier, is dead at
Mora. Mimi. He was supposed to be- 1O5
years Old. and had no relatives living.
Mrs. Mary Lowell Of New YORK. prac-
teal electrician, has invented Il cUntriYance
by which she is enabled to light her kitchen
fire.
Reliable authorities say that the death
penalty is always inflicted in Siam on any
one who Is heard 10 mention the Kings
name.
Mrs. Sarah johnson. aged 81. of Putnam
County, Ind, has given birth 10 vigorous
child. The husband and father, james
johnson, is aged 70.
Certain kinds of tinware, which, by the
old process required a day and half for
one man to turn out gross, are now IN
creased to five gross in the same time.
Leadviile, Colo. has no cats, the thin
atmosphere at that altitude 10000 feeO
being fatal 10 them. The town Is free
from rats and mice from the same cause.
a flour is now made from the banana,
which IS said to be a useful article. The
skins are used by idiots to decorate side
walks and furnish work for the surgeons.
Railroads and machinery are largely rC-
spOnSible for the aggregate OF accidents. A
year IN which there Is a great deal OF rail-
road building is sure TO he fruitful Of acci-
dents.
A Berlin workman recently made his
mark. He found and returned to the owner
lost package, containing 10000 marks, one
OF which the oyerjoyed owner gave him for
bis honesty.
Brooklyn Qnd.) veterans have started a
movement for the erection of an equestrian
statue Of General Grant in that city. The
cost OF the monument, II is thought, vii.
be about $500
a recent issue of the London Lancet
attributes, somewhat weakly, tut still with
degree OF insistence, an increase of NEIL
tai instability among women a. Il result OF
continuous tea-OTinkiBg.
Mrs. Jackson says, in her memoirs of her
husband, General "StOnewal" Jackson,
that whenever she visited the General III
Camp he he spent all of his leisure time
playing with their baby"
The printers of Vienna propose holding
an exhibition in that city next summer 10
illustrate the origin, development and Char
acieIlstics of Typography from the date OF
It's discovery to the present time.
A st. Louis dry-gOOds store displays a
sign IN the window which reads: Dan
aged goods at half price" a rival store
next door has a card reading: mo dam
aged goods sold here at any price"
During Christmas week IS, 600, 900 letters
and parcels were posted in London, and
o3,0OoUU were delivered. Fifteen thousand
sOrters and pOstmen were on duty on Christ
mas eve within the metropolitan area.
The boundary controversy between Mas
sachuSetts and New Hampshire, alter 300
years, has been finally settled. The cary
surveyors did not understand the variations
OF the magnetic net6e, hence the quarrel.
They are talking Of placing ar-p.ows in
the front oil locomotives 50 as to attain q
higher degree of speed by overcoming much
of the natural resistance which the air offers
10 the locomotive.
The shr-buiding firm of William Cramp
~ COuo GAlplp}S OOO IiCUs L il1 value Ul Tue
SHIPS at present under construction IS Sl4,-
100000, and the premiums earned by TINS
firm by excess OF speed in Government con
tracts has been S31S, PA.
The superstition of the yellow donkey or
India; the story Of the swift ass of Eastern
Asia and the ass Of DOlySius, and many
other marvellous stories, are ali sutyiyals II
that curious form Of religious Worship
the alteration OF the ass head.
A Canadian electrician states that elec-
trlcity causes the tides and demonstrates It
by eiectTltylng a rubber comb and rubbing
II through the hair, and then drawing Il
over the top of a glass filled with water, the
result being that tidal waves follow tie
comb.
Ii you want a lovely OdoT in your rooms
break off branches Of the Norway spruce
and arrange them in large jug we'll filed
with water la a few days tender, pale
green branches feather out soft and cool 10
the touch, and giving the delightful health
giving OdOT.
The heir to $3.50 goo occupied free quarters
at The police station at Wheeling W. Va.
on a recent Saturday. having applied there
as peunIless tramp. lie was informed Of
his good fortune on Monday. and left
Wheeling on Wednesday to take possession
of his pros erty in Cortland. n. Y.
An old man in Paris killed his sen in
quarrel over legacy. When geldaTmes
arrived to arrest him he barricaded himself
in the house and finally took refuge in the
cellar. From this place OF refuge he fired
at gendarde, whereupGn Il second gend-
Rrae fired his IiSIOl ut the murderer and
killed him.
In remote times a sacrifice Of some kind
Was always offered at the completion of
building, either public or private. SaCri
fees were not only offered at the completion
of structures of all kindS-the foundations
themselves were usually laid in blood,
Whether the structure was castle, bridge,
cottage or church.
A young Milwaukee girl, who met Paul
b. du Chaiilu recently, says that the ex-
plOrer is a funny looking little man." who
sat and stared at her for an hour before he
was introduced and then overwhelmed her
with hattery The genial travellers reputa-
ton as "lady's man" seems, from this all
ecdote, to be not wholly undeseryed.
Richard Saters. colored man, who has
for years lighted the lamps in the Beleyille
section of Newark, n. D., died some time
ago. He had been failing for a year, and
during all that time his wife has gune upon
the rounds cleaned the lamps by day and
lighted them at dusk. She is said to be the
only woman lamD-lighter in the country.
Women are quite as often deceived by
high-priced goods as by the bargain counter.
An importer tells of having sold for 81 80 Il
yard piece Of sealSkin plush to retailer
who promptly cut it into three pieces and
marked them respectively S10 So and S14.
The highest-priced lot sold first. and the re-
taller at once bought another whole piece,
marked it S14 and sold it out before the $40
lot was gone.