The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-12-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Annie Pixley retires from the stage next
season.
The city Of London. England. will build
ana rent houses to workingmen at slight
profit.
Two million and half is the number of
persons VINO are said to work on Sundays in
this country.
Statistics indicate that the cranberry crop
this year will be much smaller than that Of
any year since 1884.
1t Is alleged that the catacombs of Rome
contain the remains of 6,000, 600 human be-
ings. and those of Paris about 100000.
There were employed about Al, 900 census
enumerators for this years United States
census, and the average pay was about STA
apiece.
E. ]. Buckley and his daughter have
retired from the "Paul Kauyar' company.
Ned is entirely too independent for Eastern
managerial tactics.
All of the postoffices in Italy receive
money on deposit. allowing interest at the
rate of 81 per cent per annum and divi-
dend paid every five years.
Reading cars, fitted out with the most pop
ular periodicals and books will be attached
to the passenger trains of the St Petersburg
and Warsaw Railroad.
CObweb parties are new thing and popu-
lar in the country. 1t is played by hiding
packages attached TO intricately woven cords,
and the fun consists in following special
, cord to its prize.
The use of Professor Koch's curative
lymph will be prohibited by the Russian
Medical Council until such time as the
specific has been investigated under Govern
ment supervision.
The second edition of the "Life of Roscoe
COnkling," which was to contain some of
OF his speeches, forensic and Senatorial. will
not be issued. The widow Of Senator Conk-
ling is opposed to it.
The new American oruisa nomuaro fovor
ably IN speed with the fastest war-vessels
an0at, and the battle-ShipS promise to be
among the most formidable and seaworthy
of modern floating batteries.
Count Tostoi is described as wearing
usually such coarse clothing as is worn by
the poor classes. His shirt Is worn outside
OF his trousers. in the fashion of the moujik,
and is gathered in at the waist by leather
belt.
Smokeless powders are not noiseless, as
Is so frequently stated. The noise is some
what different from that of black powder,
being ON higher key; but it can be heard
quite as distinctly and as far as when the
latter is used
There is some prospect that the coach of
the crews of Harvard for the next three
Will be Colonel Bancroft, the only man that
was IN any way match for Bob" Cook of
ale. Interested alumni guarantee a salary
OF $4,000 year.
South Dakota is making a novel bid for
Increased population by calling attention to
the fact that it furnishes the best facilities
Tor divorce OF any place in the United States.
Ninety days residence in the State is all
that Is necessary.
Cloth is successfully made from wood.
Strips of fine grained wood are boiled and
crushed between rolls, and the filaments,
having been carded into parallel lines. are
spun into threads from which cloth can be
woven in the usual way.
The latest thea tricaI inyapfinn &c on alao
trical apparatus for the purpose of pro-
ducing flash lights to initiate lightning on
the stage. Flash lights are located among
the flies and ale operated from small re-
slstance block not more than SIX inches
square.
The principle of the compressed paper
car-wheels, which are so widely used
throughout the world, is applied in France
to the manufacture of pulleys for power
transmission. The pulleys are said to be
very hight, cheap and servlceable in every
respect.
DIR. Fraser of Fernandina, Fla, has an
interesting fossil specimen from the Black
Hills. 1t is that of fish embedded in a
rock that seems to be half sandstone. half
clay. 1t is about four inches long. and the
of the vertebr9.
There are five American ladies attached
to the Italian court, all of whom have mar
ried Italian no6lemen. One of these ladies,
the Marchese Theodoldi, was Miss Conrad
of Philadelphia, and is now the chief lady
in waiting at the court, as we'll as the most
beautiful woman in Italy.
In England they give their football play
ers SIS to $50 week regular salary, with
$1,000 bonus at the end Of the season if their
conduct has been creditable. The plan of
putting premium up for good conduct has
a wholesome effect. The plan might be
tried on baseball players.
A marriage peculiar in the length and
brevity of the high contracting parties was
celebrated in Parkersburg, w. Va, recently.
NJ. V. Collins. 46 years old, 6 feet inches
Fatnsworth. The bride is feet / inch in
height-tall enough when standing on
chair to reach her liege lords shoulders.