The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-09-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

New York has expended So, OOO. 600 in buy
ing land for new parks.
Mrs. Eunice J. Jose, a ninety one year-0!d
Saco (Me.) woman, is cutting her third set OF
teeth
An English firm has purchased the right to
slaughter and pack 100000 hogs year IN
Seryia.
Tomatoes are eaten in London for bilious
ness. They are proposed as remedy 1or
chronic throat troubles.
vicious stallion at Rochester, Ind, bit
its owner in the shoulder, then attacked
passing dairyman, and finished up by biting
off the ear of the latter's horse.
In only five States now can teacher
legally fog pupil. But there are many
other ways in which an unruy urchin can
be made to feel very uncomfortable.
1t is said that Harvard feels so keenly the
conviction that it is about time TO outr0w
Yale that, abandoning her previous policy,
She Will hire professional coach Tor the
University crew.
Because a South Bethlehem Hungarian
with weakness for singing would not de-
sist in his warblngs of "Lil An Rooney"
on Sunday night, his boarding boss knocked
him inSenSible with tlatiron.
1t is told OF a young man in Hancock,
Me, that though he goes to meetings, par
ties and other gatherings he has never been
known to speak to anybody but his parents.
No reason is assigned for his silence.
a rug valued at $4,000 was bought in Lon
don lately. 1t WAS about thirteen feet square
and had abont $50 stitches to the inch. The
material was wool cOmbed, not cut from the
animal, and worth more than its weight in
silk.
NJ. Topping of Plainfed Livingston
County, Mich, has been postmaster through
thick aud thin for fifty years. He was APP
pointed by Franklin Pierce, and is DOUBTLESS
one of the Oldest Democratic postmasters III
the world.
A bill will be introduced into Parliament
next season which proposes to restrl.t the
public performances Of hypnotic expert
meutS. According to medical testimony
much harm is done by amateurs dabbhDg in
this science.
A drake owned by Neversink (Berks
County, man, killed and devoured fourteen
chicks IN one day. During the summer sixth
young chickens and ducks have been missed,
and il is safe to say that they were gobbled
by his drakeShip.
a woman was mysteriouSly drowned iii
the Mississippi River, near st. Paul, the
other night, and in her husbands room was
found subsequently copy of the "Kreutzer
Sonata" Here is promising material for
Mr.. Wanamaker.
Abner Dorset, negro living in Hickory
Mountain township, \. g., has the largest
head of any person living in the United States
so far as head from 1t is y inches in di-
ameter, and gives Abner a decided top
heavy" appearance.
Some one has invented an electric mouse
trap. 1t consists of a metallic cage contain
lag cheese. The mice naturally approach it
for purposes Of investigation, but the in
slant they touch the wires an electric cur
rent strikes them dead.
Several old villages in Cass County,
Mich, have chung to the ancient custom of
ringing the church bell whenever any body
al hgIr m n
tolling at night has depressed many de-
spondent patient unto death.
At the Tamarack and Osceola Copper
Manufacturing Company's Wire Mill in
Houghton County, Mich, coil of copper
wire pa mills in length was recently drawn.
est ever drawn in the world. 1t weighs "a
tons.
A house III Georgetown, d. c.. has just
been shingled for the first time since 1903.
and the carpenter says he has found sawed
shingles that had been laid within ten years
in much worse condition than the shaved
pine shingles which had been in wear 81
years.
Miss Alice Wood, the daughter of the man
who works the farm of the Inte Judge John
Porter IF Queechee, VT, has just moved a
field Of grass fifty acres in extent. She did
the work alone, using mower drawn by two
horses. Next year she will be graduated
from high school,
a retired English army officer of means is
on tour through the Western States.
When he sat down to dinner a day or two
ago he met with quite a surprise. The
waiter who took his order was his son, who
had run away from home TO scalp Indians
some seven years ago.
book-keeper named Davis ia New
Haven, Conn, whO while visiting brewery
with party of friends, drank corrosive
sublmate in mistake for champagne cider,
was Immediately given powerful emetc,
and now, barring blistered throat and
stomach, is as well as ever.
In paper on tuberculosis in Belgium,
Messrs. Destree and Gallmaerts came to the
conclusion as the result of their investiga-
tons, that. III comparing the mortality from
phthisis OF bachelors, married men and
wld0wers the last are very much more sub
ject to the disease than either OF the other
classes.
Charles p. Berkshire of Morgantown is
making cane for the Worlds Fair at Chi
cago in 1898 which will contain 1872 pieces of
West Virginia wood. have gold ferule and
diamond tipped head. He has made
several valuable sticks and expects this to
be one OF the finest works of wood engray-
ing to be seen at the fair.
A Paw Paw (Mich.) man deserves the
medal for Observation-Disclosures Early this
week he obtained a license to be married to
local belle. Something happened, and in
about two hours he returned and wanted
Mrs. Anderson, the license clerk, to take
back the license and refund the money.
She would not do it, and advised him to try
and fix it, with the girl. He acted on the
advice and is now benedict.
Mrs. William A. Slater of Norwich
dropped a smelling bottle in New London
harbor the other day while being rowed
from her husbands yacht the Sycamore
She has so many associations with that
smelling bottle, which In cold cash is said
to be worth only $500, that she persuaded
her husband to engage the services of Cap
Thus far. however, the search has been I'M
successful.