San Francisco vindicator., 1889-02-16

The late Duchess of Galtera gave
$40, 900, 900 TO the City of Genoa fnr
hospital and other public works. her
husband also gave it S5.OOO,OOO Tor
harbOr improvements.
Mime. Marie Geistinger. the famous
German actress, we'll known in this
country, is reported dying in Hagen
furt. Switzerland, from the result or
an operation for cancer OF the eyeiio'
Mrs. Hicks-Lord has touched the
stomach of New York society by de-
claring that receptions are an unmltl-
gated bore and that she will have none
hereafter, but will give dlnner parties
instead.
The German Empress wears An apron
at home as token that she attends 10
the children and the cook, and doesn't
NEEDLE with social and political CUES
tinns, nor seek to win a place III the
intellectual world.
1t is said that Saxony furnishes the
largest percentage of suicides OF any
civilized state. The number last year
was l.1O4. or one to about every 500
of the population. In 1881 the total
number was l.248.
Mrs. Mary c. Patten, 9S years old.
has had charge of the infant class IN
a Sunday-scnool at Taunton, Mass,
during the last forty-eight years She
never misses session of the school,
and the children almost worship her.
Micaiah Henley, the man who In
vented roller skates, lives In Rich
mOnd, Ind. He was poor wood
SAWYER and il took nearly his last dollar
to pay for the patent, but the craze
for skating that spread over the conn-
try made him rich.
Frank Melville, Of Clay county Vir-
oinia, followed fox into hole and
found himself in cave almost h!led
with foxes He had only club with him
and they made il lively for him. but
he succeeded in killing ten Of the ami
mails and drove the others Oft.
| Catharine A. Teacle, a coi0red resi-
dent of Westchester, Pa, died recently.
She was the wife Of Dir. Teacle aud
leaves an estate valued at S7O,OUO.
| She was born ia the South and at one
time was slave Most of her money
goes to charitable institutions.
Armstrong Hall, at the Tuskegeo.
Ala, Normal School, has recently been
completed. 1t was built by the Tuske'
gee students, who are negroes, they
Saving the lumber, making the brick
and doing all the work of erection and
finish except putting on the tin roof.
Mr.. Gladstone has delighted the
hearts of the opponents OF compulsory
vaccination in England by writing s
letter to one of them, in which he re
peats his formerly expressed opinion
that .'there are under the law as j
stands both hardship and inequality.
An editor out West put love lette
he had written into the cOpy-hox. ans
his editorials upon the proper Observ
ance of marital duties he sent to hi
love. Pie letter appeared in his pa
per, and he is chasing his composition
all over the country, with tomahsw
in each hand.
Some time ago. Matte Tennell.
Young lady of Santa Barbara, Cal. ha
some lemon juice accidentally spille
over her hair on one side of the head
Since then the hair on that side Ia
become perfectly white, and tie end
of the hair curl "a though treated wit
q curling iron.
, John Simmons of Galveston. foun
a good-sized pearl in dish of oyster
A few DAYS since. He placed the pear
in a collar box in his bedroom. Tw
DAYS later he found the pearl q so
qravish mass with red center. If
finger Is placed on the pearl it b
comes hard and the red spot disaI
h pears.
William Perkins, of OwensbOrOugl
i Kv., is blind and ingenious. The r
suit of his affection and his genius
v a writing machine for the blind, wnic
the bow las Just perfected. II is sa
a that San Francisco firm has paid hi
5000 for the right To mauutactu
: and sell the machine in the CD'te
70 States.
A Texas newspaper says that TWEEN
, ty-ive years ago in that state IL
d deaths from yellow fevera yeraged nea
ly one-half of all the cases; now I'll
l. percentage of deaths from Yellow JAG
y are about 10 per cent of those attacks
by the disease. Improvements
D. nursing and doctoring are thought
y be causes for this good showing.
e New Zealand. according to- rece
writer,is splendidly endowed countr
~ Besides such natural cur;osilies
" boiling lakes of sulphur, smoking VI
ID canoes, snow-clad peaks and magnl
cent waterfalls. IL has splendid virg
s. forests of rare and useful woods, gre
"a fields of coal. iron. copper, gold, $
'A YER. etc. all awaiting the capital
- and workman.
IN "Zeb, the hermit fisherman "
- lived lonely life near Stoningto
Conn, mas amassed fortune OF -
900 from an annual income of from 8
TO $500 which he has male from
fishing boat during the past foi
'u' wears. He started with capital
IS 500. which he invested in = dory, a
lG- his annual expenses, food and all, hs
10 rarely been more than k25.
~ Rome Is regarded chiefly a. s. Q
a.. Of antiquity, but remarkable mater
= progress has been made there in
Ias last twenty years. During that u
ite eiqhtv-two miles Of new streets rs
NJ been made, over three thousand hou
have been built Or enlarged. about =