The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-10-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST,

There never was will made yet that
didn't .disappont somebody-especially a
woman's will.
A Goshen Qnd.) couple were married on
the race-track, in front of the grand stand.
Sixteen thousand people witnessed the cere-
mOny.
Eddie Condor was killed near Midland,
Mich, by runaway team recently. The
same horses killed his father in the same way
a few weeks ago.
4 Bar HarbOr (AIe) woman is so fussy
that she compels her coacbman to take off
his hat when he goes to the telephone In the
stable 10 speak to her.
The La Crosse Humane Society finds much
SCOPE for work. Two little children were
found in large dog kennel tied to rope.
They had been left there by drunken pa
rents.
The Supreme Court of Minnesota is re-
ported 10 have lately rendered q decision de-
cIaring that "bdnk checks are not cash,
and do not possess legal value as money
until cashed."
The demands of the new navy will neces-
state the withdrawal of all officers detailed
at various colleges as professors Of marine
engineering. In the army the correspond
ing assignment has been quite popular.
An Admission (Ala.), man killed another
man twenty years ago. He was arrested at
the time, but his trial has been continued
from time to time, and last week he was SEN
fenced to term of one year for his deed.
Charles Smith of Bovine, Mich, has
team of horses 26 years old whose teeth
dropped out, and which now chew their
cuds with set of false molars adjusted by
veterinary dentist, and held In place by
rubbers.
The German fleet is already so important
that it stands at 139 vessels in a French
estimate of effective naval forces, which
gives only 191 to France. Italy comes be-
fore it with 152 vessels; Russia before Italy
with 165, and England before all of them
with 3S3.
There is a tree, or trees, in front of a
saw-mill at Palatka that Is curiosity. A
hickory and magnolia, each fully two feet
in diameter, have grown solidly into each
other from the roots to some distance up,
the bark covering the whole without seam
or break.
James Russell. Detroit man, expected
and desired son each time his wife pre-
sented him with 4 daughter. When the fifth
child was born to the family q few DAYS ago,
his JOY was so great that it developed into
insanity His physicians think it is only
temporary.
Five years ago those who enjoyed bowl
ing or '.ten-pins' in and about New York
City certainly did not number more than
5000, says the New York Times. To-day,
if census would be taken, it Is doubtful
if less that $4,000 patrons of the alley would
be counted.
A strange story has just been published in
Germany on the strength of letter from an
eyewitness, now dead, to the effect that
General Abel Douay. who fell at the battle
of Worth, was really shot BY an officer in. a
Turco regiment, who was furious at D0uayS
order OF retreat.
!. a Meadville attorney who recently won for
client an important suit, the Outgruwth of
a third partyS raScality, received hand
some fee, and as he did SO remarked: "0dd,
isn't it? l have an overdue note at the bank
which l signed for this same chap, and this
fee will just lit it," and it did.
DR.. Fischer of st. Louis kissed q saloon
keepers wife without her permission, and
was put to bed for four days after being in
terviewed BY the irate husband. He then
sued the saloon-kee er, who was discharged
by the Judge with a compliment upon Ibis
domestic loyalty and pugilistc ability"
Some sly rogue. who had learned the ex-
act location of the boxes and barrels in
store at Woodstock, Ga, crawled under the
store and bored auger holes through the
floor into the coffee and sugar barrels and
then by holding sack under them. sue
ceeded in getting supply of these articles.
A New York swindler entered Fremont
(Wis) store. leauedhis elbows heavily on the
glass case and broke it through. The owner
demanded damages, but the stranger
claimed he was strapped. The store-keeper.
seeing a $50 bill sticking out OF the others
vest pocket, seized it ana gave back SIT. 1t
was 81 bill raised.
Cairo QlI) BOYS are doing a wholesale busi-
ness in sparrows. The birds make a roost
of an old chimney in an abandoned house.
The boys have secured net, and after the
birds 90 to ro9st at night they spread the
net over the chimney top. Every morning
they have from 80 to 200 sparrows, for
which they get "a cents per head bounty.