The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-04-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

a Norwegian engineer has invented a
machine which can pack 1000 boxes of
matches in minute.
AS memorial to Mr.. Astor, beautiful
and costly bronze doors are to be placed in
Trinity Church, New York.
A new meteorological and volcanic OBJ
servatOry is to be opened next May in
Pompeli, when there Will be congress of
scientific men.
Six young Siamese, selected by the Gov
eminent, are on their way to this country
10 become students of Westminster College,
at Wilmington, Pa.
The English public is trying to get an act
OF Parliament to compel the railroad COM
panles to provide proper restaurant accom-
mOdatl0nS at their stations.
Fishermen say the Rush Lake, in Mont
morency County, Mich, has been over
stocked with white fish by the Fish Com
mission, and that they are starving to death
by scores.
A Paris thief stole the horse out of the
shafts of cab while the driver slept, and,
mounting 1t, was riding off and would have
got away II passing citizen had not awak-
ened the driver.
The New South Wales Minister for
Mines declares that excluding the quantity
obtalnable from the Clarence River Dis
trict, the colony has over $4,000, 900, 600 tons
OF coal available.
Baltimore is rapidly assuming metropoli-
tan airs. She has made an effort to secure
paid fire department, and hopes are enter
tanned that the wise reform will be COM
pleted before 1899.
cat in Millyille, n. j., finds pleasure in
swimming, and often catches fish in shall
low water with its DAVIS. It has been
known to swim in pursuit OF dock rat
clear across the river.
Owing to the scarcity of ice Eastern sa-
loon-keepers propose raising the price of
lemonade this summer. Many of the peo-
pie viii therefore boycott the lemon and
stick to gin and sugar.
Mrs. G. w. McGinnis of Alpharetta, Ga.
has breed of chickens that she says will
eat only six months in the year; they fast
the other six, and are as fat at the end of
their fast as they were before.
Mr.. Glider of the Century says: 1.-THE
| very best poem, the very best novel. short
story, essay or descriptive article that can
be written in the English language, and
especially by an American writer, is in con-
slant demand"
1t Is stated that in one of the London in
situations which still maintains its quantity
OF alcohol a per cent of the typhoid fever
patients die. whereas in the Glasgow Fever
Hospital, where milk is used, the mortality
Is only L per cent.
The conclusion reached by modern mete-
orologistS Is that cyclones of great inten-
sity are ascending spiral whirls of wind.
having rotary motion in direction in the
northern hemisphere, opposite to the move
ment of the hands Of a watch.
Tiger-hunting is pleasant pastIme in
Georgia. The man who wants to engage in.
this dangerous sport can find good. healthy
tigers IN Bullock and Newton counties. Ii
has not been settled how the tigers got
there. All the same they are there
D. Morris, the Assistant Director of the
Kew Gardens, London, claims to have dis
covered the way to raise sugar cane from
been the formers method, and expects TO
realize great results from the crossing of
breeds and the improving Of the stock as
well as eheapening of cane raising. The
seed he discovered by the aid of a micro
scope in the panicle OF flowery head of the
cane.