The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-08-31
ITEMS OF INTEREST,

Detroit doctors are quarrelinG over their
ability to kill diphtheria germs.
One room in the Westinghouse Cottage
at Lenox cost $4,000 to decorate aud fur
nish.
The French naval authorities have de-
cided to train 500 carrier pigeon Tor sea
service along the coast.
Visitors to Old Orchard find diversion in
the novel outfit of a wagon drawn by three
steers.
While fishing at Ormond, Fla, man
caught shrimp about five inches long, with
claws resembling both lobster and craw
fish.
wife of VIII Lennon, painter, In Macon,
has given birth to child weighing forty
pounds.
The frozen meat trade of New Zealand
has developed remarkably. More than
100000 carcasses are now sent yearly to
England.
The electric spark has been photo
which the sensitive plate rotated $500 times
a minute.
A woman at Chester, Pa, dresses her
children in their bathing-sults, distributes
them on the front lawn, and then turns the
hose on them
Another youngest soldier has been found
and his name is Wallace Riley of Buchanan.
He enlisted in a New York regiment when
only L years old.
The Grand Army of the Republic was
born at Springfield, H., in the winter of
1856. The first post was formed at Deca-
tur, ILL.,, April q, 1866.
Sixty-fve years ago Emmons Ridge was
arrested in Hartford. Conn, for selling ice.
as the doctors OF the city had decided that
it was unhealthy TO use it.
The Russian Government has made an
appropriation of 1900 roubles annually for
the maintenance of Pasteur institute in
Tiflis for the cure of hydrophObia
The birth rate in England and Wales has
been decreasing ever since 1876. The last
quarterly report shows no diminution, the
rate being only about four per 1000 above
the French average.
The Calumet and Hecla copper mine, one
of the Monte Cristo properties of this con-
tinent, is said to have paid in dividends the
enormous sum OF $40, $50, GEO. 1t has been
worked nineteen years.
A census-taker at Danbury, Conn.,. en-
countered the wife of an Irish hod-carrier,
who tried to conceal her husbands hum BILE
occupation by stating that he was an
''ascender and descender."
An interesting experiment is being tried
by tie Portland Me- National Bank. 1t is
running savings department in connection
with its regular business. Deposits are not
received in trust capacity, but are loaned
to the bank, are payable on demand, and
IL allowed to remain the interest Will be
compounded semi-annually.
A novel use of the electric light is made
on the ST. Lawrence River, near the ThOus-
and Island resorts One Of the lights has
been placed at the end of yardarm on the
steamer st, Lawrence, which has dynamo
aboard. The light stands in front of a
powerful reflector, and as the boat steams
about at night among the islands the search
light is cast upon them, revealing with
staitling distinctness their beauty and the
beauty OF the landscape.
The vaulting ambition of Miss Kate Dean
of Mlddleport Ohio, q good Hooking twenty
two-year-old girl got her in jail at Pomeroy.
Miss Dean was arrested for going into a
pasture field, making bride Of her apron
string, mounting horse belonging to Ben
Hamilton and riding the animal man-fash-
ion around the field. She varied the per-
formance by occasionally pulling small
boy or girl up behind her and giving each
whirl abont the pasture. The Justice of
the Peace sentenced Miss Dean to Jail for
fifteen days, but she was released the next
day on writ of habeas corpus.