The morning news., 1894-06-04
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

the new Congregational church, at Middle
boro, Mass, while the parents attend the
services
In the case OF a Kentucky woman who sued
railroad company for damages for the loss
OF her husband and her horse. the jury gave
her an award OF $50 for the animal and cent
for the man.
Kentucky mathematician has figured out
some statistics on gum chewing. He says
that the Jaws Of a small Inouthed young
woman who is addicted to this habit, move
$500 inches, or 1903 miles a year. at the
rate OF thirty chews minute for ten hours q
DAY, .
Those who have tried the experiment affirm
that large sponge hung in the room, if it
can be beh, nd convenient screen. and. kept
constantly wet. will greatly assist in keeping
the room cold; or a cloth hung in the window
over the bind will cool the, room as il a
shower had fallen.
" The cradle is fast becoming a curio.
espe cially in its earlier hooded form" OBJ
serves the Kansas City Star. The modern
American baby is not graded and not carried;
but taught to content itself with a mattress
like any one else so that the phrase the
hand that rocks the cradle rules the world
refers TO arcustom almost obsolete. -
The exodus of Scandinsvians this spring
from New York TO their homes across the sea
has been nearly twice as large as in any rre-
ceding year = says the New York SUM- Most
OF them came from farms in New England
and the west. The hard times have driven
them to their old homes, where they can live
about twice as cheaply as they live here
Near Milton, o. there is slight elevation
know as Shaky Hill which appears to have
been the work Of mound builders. Years ago
II was much given to a quiVering motion.
Recently il has begun to "shiyerr again, and
its action is more violent than ever, The In
dians believed there wasa great tortoise un-
der the hill. and that the shaking was caused
by its eIorts TO release itself t.-.i
Two extraordinary cases Of bullet wounds
becoming active after lapse Of twenty.four
years are reported by a German medical pa
per. One is that OF a matchmaker named
&leeman living at Dusseldorf who was
wounded in the Franc oGe erman war. three
years ago he had a bullet successfully ex-
tracted from his right shoulder and week
ago, after a months illness. Sc econd bullet
was extracted from his left side. The second
case is that OF station master who. q few
days ago was operated upon at Bonn and had
| a French bullet which pierced his right
shoulder in the war cut from his right side.
Charles A. Hancock connected with Har-
risonville, Mo. Sunday school is in trouble
in consequence of starting a pretty little
daisy chain of his own. He sent a request to
well known man for 10 cents, asking the
man to request three others to send like
amounts, and each of those to extend the
chain in the familiar method. The debt OF a
church N Texas was urged as an inducement.
postof1ce inspector discovered that there
was an unusual increase in Mr.. Eancock's
mail and he set an investigation on foot the
result OF which was an arrest. 1t is figured
out that BY the time the fifteenth link in the
chain had been forged 8451 ,295 80 would have
teen contributed.
"A few Sundays ago the family of W. A
Wykeham Musgrave on,entering their pew IN
Thames Park Chapel, Qxfordshire says the
London Standard. were surprised to see a
partially built robin nest on the book and
ledge against tnnly bvF
DooE The family Immediately decided to
occupy another seat and TO leave the little
redhreast unmolested in its strange abode.
On the following Sunday the nest was com
pleted and contained tve eggs; and on the
succeeding Sunday the bird sat on the eggs
during che. whole OF the service. 1t has
now been found that the bird has hatched
four young ones and the mother flew in
and out of the chapel during the service last
Sunday with food for her young"
Nearly all the head WATERS in the big
hotels and restaurants up town get pointers
from guests and dabble in stocks says the
New York Advertiser. Several wears ago
two or three walters in Delmonicos pur
chased Chicago Gas and got cleaned out effec-
| tualy Another waiter in a big hotel it is
sald, was ahead OF Wall street at one time by
| $50 He could not resist the temptation to
! speculate again. and soon lost it nearly all.
| They get tips from brokers and million
aires, and often put up the saviags of years
| IL may be said that they Usually accumulate
! more in tips" than they make in salary
The walters complain of duh times and the
| pouclty OF pourbotres. They know more
| about stocks than the average man. Few of
them become immensely wealthy because
| speculatlng in stocks Is very uncertain.
On the rim of the ear may be discerned or
felt little three -cornered muscle, says the
| New York Post This, says Mr.. Darwin. is
the rudimentary pointed tip which indicates
our woodland origin. that we even now blush
to admit In the Marble Faun'' it will be
remembered that Donatello S curly locks now
and then reached the pointed tip still erect
Ears. 1t seems, are still the most exact rhvs-
tcal indication of our evolution into CIVILIZED
beings. we'll shaped ear denotes beauty
symmetrical highly developed organization:
an III shaped ear, tendency toward rever-
sion Hereditary madness is fOretokened in
horrible ears Mrs, Crawford says that Guv
de Maupassant's madness was loI e -foreseen
by the shape Of his ears. In fact, many doe
tors are able to look out for patients by TAX
ing cursory glances at peoples ears. The
heavy lugs on peasant merely indicate that
he is not far removed from an animal but on
an aristocratic person that in time he will
have to be shut up.
European scientist advances the fol.
lowing theory Of hail; A hail cloud is drawn
out by the WIND in the forms of horizontal
tongue. BY Its rapid eyapora tion
here here. is ST. produced an intense cold:
! dry snow which by friction against the min
ute drops of water become, According to
| Faraday, charged with negative electricity
| anu cIt kltH dtIEdtltQ Dy Ile positive cleo
| trlcity of the drops of water The snow
| flakes behlnc the cloud that is to the wind.
| ward, are coyel ed with layer of ice, at first
| dry and then moiStened. At the sane time
| according to recent researches of Lenard
| they are charged with positive electricitg
| and are driven in an outward direction nv
| the positive electricity of the rain-drops
! , thus being cooled below zero and breaking
| through the cloudy stratum they became
charged anew with negative electricity, are
| coated with new snowy layer and are again
| attracted by the clou1. Each hailstone
| taking wavy line, becomes enlarged
by coating itself with alternate
| LAYERS Of Opaque and TRANSPARENT
matter, and is ultimately thrown TO the richt
or the left, occasioning thus the roaring noise
which precedes the fall OF hail which then
takes place in two parallel bands, separated
/ from each other by region of rain Il hese
views agree we'll with the structure Of hail
stones as often Observed and with the mar
row linear extension of the hail over belts Of
country. and with the generally short dura-
tion Of the storm.
Probably the most cunning of all animals
IS the mink. Its propensity for stealing is
marvellous, and the methods OF stealing and
hiding the proceeds of its robberies are
unique in the history of tine lower species
We do not refer here to the depredations of
the mink among poultry. for they resort TO
henneries only when the waters are frozen
a suDplV of ism is DnObtainsTyIa ~.