The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-08-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

recent hail-storm at Norristown, Pa,
killed sparrOws by the hundred.
Cremation is not popular in England,
although the Duke OF Bedford has spent
100000 trying to make it so.
Few ladies consider that they carry some
forty or fifty miles of hair on their head;
the fairhaired may even have to dress sew
enty miles of threads Of gold every MORN
ing.
The chateau designed by Richard NJ.
Hunt for George Vanderbilt. near Ashe-
vile, n c., is said to be French renaissance
in style and to call for q facade 800 feet
long. The material is Indiana limestone.
About two months ago tract of 100 acres
of land in Scranton, Pa, was sold to some
coal operators for $4,000. Since then an
extensive vein of superior coal has been dis
covered ON the property and 1t Is valued at
S1.000,G00.
Chicago means to enrich her collection of
real estate by anneXing to the Libby exhib-
it the house in which Lincoln died. Better
lay in your stock of ruins and relics before
the second city in the Union booms the mar
ket on you.
Fashionable men in London wear i'm
mense buttonhole bouquets of gardenias
and pinks. until, as one English paper says:
1.-The swell looks something between a
coachman going TO a wedding and a bride
coming out after one"
During a thunderstorm in Houghton
County, Mich, a Mrs. Kapper received
pretty strong dose of electric fluid. She
had been suffering greatly from intiam-
matory rheumatism, but since the shock
has not felt single pain.
Johnstown, Pa, which was so nearly de-
stroyed by a flood something over year
ago, has not only been rebuilt, but is said
to have gained over its previous population,
Notwithstanding nearly two thousand six
hundred of its citizens were drowned.
A pack of hyenas is reported by the In
dian papers to have appeared near Mon
ghyr. The animals are making great dep
relations. One night child of about 2
years of age was carried away. In the
morning the head and two hands were
found.
An agriculturist says that one reason for
the fact that children leave the farms is
that they are not inculcated in rural tastes.
Agriculture is too often made Shaving
business" instead of an elevating pursuit
where skill is highly esteemed and science
has its proper place.
A queer white and red robin astonishes
the fishermen of Quonochoutaug, r. |. 1t
has built its nest in a shaggy reach of
pasture near the. laundering ocean break
water. The birds body is OF snowy
white, even to the tip of its tail, except its
breast, which is of rosy red.
An eagle and ram had desperate fight
near Port Jervis, n. Y, a few days ago.
The eagle attempted to carry off a lamb.
when the ram went to its rescue. The bird
was severely injured by a blow from the
rams head and it was killed by the farmer,
who was attracted TO the spot.
A planter at Alpharetta, Ca, has an
acre of cotton every stalk of which is of
deep red color, leaf, boil and bloom. This
novel crop is the product of seed derived
three years ago from two stalks of red cot
ton found in u cotton field. There Is for
tune in this new variety il it can be per-
petuated.
Weldless tubes of steel are now made in
Germany by the Mannesmann process, out
of solid bars. A pair of rolls revolve at the
rate of ECO or 800 revolutions per minute. A
bar of hot and therefore plastic steel is de-
livered to them, and by their action it is
stretched, and a hollow is made in the cen
ter. The tubes made by this process are
peculiarly strong and light.
A warning against undue physical exer-
ton by those not accustomed to it is con-
tanned in the remark Of the chief surgeon
of the National Soldiers Home at Dayton,
Ohio This physician says that of the 5000
soldiers In the home fully so per cent are
suffering from heart disease in some form
or another, due to the forced physical ex-
ertions OF their campaigns"
A Scotch writer says that lie has sprinkled
waspS and bees with rose-cOlOred pow der
and has found that thus handicapped they
could with ease keep up with tile fastest
trains. They were not carried along by the
rush OF air caused by the train, but would
enter and leave the cars by the windows,
sometimes disappearing for minute or
more and then returning.
A Tallahassee dispatch to the Florida
Times Union says: Miss Eppie, daughter
OF Robert Munro, died on Saturday night.
Two weeks ago she wore bunch of daisies
at her throat, and spider or some other
poisonous insect crept therefrom and stung
her. Eryspelas set in and went to the
brain. She suffered untold agonies. The
best medical skill was called in, but to no