The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-12-01
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A Schenectady horse is recovering from the
operation of tracheotomy.
In England about eiehty-seyen peers are
directors OF public companies.
The leader of the Salvation Army has ap-
piled TO the Finnish Senate for permission
to establish branch Of the army In Fin
Land.
Reading cars, fitted out with the most
popular periodicals aud books, will be
attached to the passenger trains of the st.
Peter sburg and Warsaw Railroad.
At the census of 1881 the population of
British India was found to be 1913, 755, 800,
showing density Of 222 persons per square
mile.
The great chemical trust in England has
been reg istered as the United Alkali Com
pany. with II capital of S30,000,000 in $50
shares.
| OF fight have one weil-marked characters
tic-they have long wings, with sharply
pointed ends.
Up to the end of October the loss from fires
in the United States and Canada for the year
| 1890 was SIS 1861 sos less than for the CORE
| Spending ten months in 1899.
Cincinnati has new terror in the woman
who drives" OF the thirty persons injured
on the streets of that town last month
twenty-five were victims OF the woman who
| drives"
| A shoe dealer says that girls between 16
ana Is have bigger feet than after 20 and "a.
| The foot is fieshy at that time and large but
| as years come the foot decreases and the
| muscles grow more firm.
| Collections of portraits are late artistic
hobby. Just now in npsyivania those o
Martina Washington, Grant, Hancock, Web
| Ster and others are in great demand with
admirers OF political bric-a-brac.
| The effect of the electric light current on
the compasses of some vessels is so great
| that IL becomes necessary to determine how
many hours the dynamo has been running
before working out the vessels reckoning.
A new sketchins apparatus for cyclists
has recently appeared in England. The
| paper is placed on small board In front of
| the cycliSt and the work can be roughly
| coDtoured i'll about half the time ordinarily
| required.
The safest piece of water upon earth is
the Lake OF Urumla, i'll Persia, situated
| more than 1000 feet above the sea level, 1t
is much salter than the Dead Sea, the water
| being found on analysis to contain nearly %
| per cent of salt.
Football Clubs are so popular and make
so much money in England nowadays that
many OF them are converted into Joint stock
| companies. The spectators seem to enjoy
the lighting which is an inevitable accom-
| paniment of the matches.
a trade journal has just published some
| statistics concerning poultry in France. 1t
states that there are in the country 45 900, 90 0
OF hens, which, at an average price OF 2
francs so confines per head, represent a
value of liz, $780, 600 francs.
In the year 1900 chimneys were scarcely
| known in England. One only was allowed
| In a religious house, and one in manor
house and one in the great hall of castle
or lords house. but In other houses the
smoke found its way out as it could.
The suns perpendicular rays do not FLU
mine the depths of the sea at all, or any
thing like it. On the contrary, they only
| penetrate, at the very outside, some 200
| fathoms down into the world of waters, be-
| yond which distance all is utter darkness.
Strictly speaking, the only precious stones
are the diamond, ruby, sapphire and emerss
aid, though the term is often extended to
| the opal, Notwithstanding Its lack of hard
hess, and to the pearl, which is not a
mineral, but strictly an animal product.
Popularity gem is a precious or semi-pre-
| cious stone, when cut or polished FOR orna-
| mental purposes.
| HerodotuS tells of sorcererS who once in
every year had the power OF assuming the
| semblance of wolves for several days at a
time. Marce.lus Sdetes also tells of men
who at the beginning of every year were
| afflicted with form of madness during
| which they believed themselves to be
| wolves or dogs and spent the night prOwl-
| ing about burial grounds.
c. Hagermann, well-known resident of
| Morrisville, has lost the use of his right
a.
| delphia Record. He went to bed as usual
one night week ago and fell asleep with
| his right hand under his head. On awaken
ing In the morning he could not raise his
| arm. 1t was paralyZed, and all efforts thus
far to put the blood in circulation have
failed. 1t is thought it will be months be-
fore he will De able to use his hand again.
| The oyster planters of Long Island Sound
are taking limestone from the Hudson River
| with which to make oyster beds on which
| the spawn can attach itself. These planters
| first used all the oyster shells they could get
| from towns along the sound and from New
| York. Then they brought them by the ship
load from Maryland. The oyster shells,
| however, broke up rapidly and were washed
! away, and 1t was found necessary to resort
to limestone, which is found to make per-.
| manent bed.
ment which has quite little romance. 1t
is to enable Joseph Grandbois to change his
name to that Of De Villeneuve, and it is
asked by the Count and Countess of
! 'Villeneuve OF Paris, who, being childless,
have adopted Grandbois as their sou. The
| latter is little orphan boy. four years of
age, born in ST. Casimer selected in Canada
by the Able Casgrain at the desire of the
| C0untand Countess, and he will now BIZ heir
to the title and S7,o00,000 besides.
| An amusing incident happened to Ban
| gor lady who advertised for a housenaid.
The girl seeking employment, instead of
| waiting for the mistress OF the house to
question her, commenced asking questions
that would have done justice to a lawyer
| cross-queStloning a witness. After this had
been carried on for about fifteen minutes
the girl asked the follos ing question ::
"Madam, what church do you attend?" The
| deslted Information was given, but whether
| the querist thought the mistress would
answer the Commercial does not state
Malarial fever is the one sad certainty
| ,s,,I A fr,sA
Its geographical distribution is still un-
mapped, but generally it prevails over the
whole east and west coasts within the tropi.
| cal limit, al! along the river courses, on the
| shores OF the inland lakes and all lOw-lyng
ana marshy districts. The African malaria
spares no man the strong fail as the weak :;
no number OF precautions can provide
against it; no kind of care can do more than
make the attacks less frequent; no predic-
tion can be made beforehand Us to which
regions are haunted by it uni which are
sale.