The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-04-07
ITEMS OF INTEREST,

A Florida paper appeared in green ink on
St. Patrick's day.
The use of electric lights is increasing
with great rapidity among the London shop
men.
In Edinburgh n wholesome meal of yege-
table broth and bread can be had for one
cent.
There are six women police officers in the
L ondon police force, all employed as de-
tectives.
The greatest body of silver ore in Mon
tana has been discovered at the Mountain
Lion Mine, near Cooke City.
A parrot in hospital at Pittsburg, Pa.
got drunk on some alcohol left within her
reach. and shocked the inmates by her pro-
family.
Ben Hogan, the ex-prize fighter aud
evangelist lost $1,000 worth of stereopticOn
views and paraphernalia in fire in New
castle, Pa.
Georgetown girls wear one yellow and one
black garter, because they think the wearer
will receive marriage proposal before the
close of the year.
The Hudson River peach crop has been
ruined by the alternate warm and freezing
weather. but there is promise of an abund-
ant yield of grapes
Bears and wolves have committed such
depredations in the department OF Orel, in
Russia. that the soldiers have been en-
ployed to eXterminate them.
Two hundred and fifty battalions will
take part in the Russian maneuvers to be
held in the presence of the Emperor in the
province of Volhynia next autumn.
All of the bank-note currency of the Ital-
ian Government is engraved and printed in
the United States. The notes are neat, but
small, resembling somewhat the fractional
notes issued in war times.
Thomas Seymour Denton has invented
the word "manuprint," verb, adjective and
noun, for work done with the typewriter.
1t Is at once more accurate and suggestive
than manuscript" for such work.
The Almanach de Gotha is over century
and quarter old. When it was first issued
there were only three republics, Switzer-
land, San Marino and AndOrra, while to-
day there are twenty-six republics.
The prisoners in the Jail at Mooltan, In
dia, celebrated their New Years by cutting
off the nose of their jailer. 1t was from
this same Jail that several prisoners recent
ly escaped, but soon came back voluntarily.
The largest plate of glass ever cast, meas
urng 145X195 inches and weighing 1000
pounds, was drawn from the annealing fur
naces at the Diamond Plate Glass Works,
Kokom0, Ind, on March Goth. 1t Is per-
feet.
j. E. Lewis. living few miles from Cul-
pepper, Va, has mule which for sagaclty
and agility takes the cake" Mr.. Lewis
found the mule In the hayloft the other
morning. The only mode OF ingress to tie
loft is by ladder.
How sad it is to think that seventy-five
men were compelled to seek other means of
livelihood by the closing of pool-rooms in
Baltimore. The majority of the men i'm
mediately packed their collar-boxes and
started for Washington, d. c.
In prehistoric cemetery, lately uncov-
cred near Montpelier, in the south of
France, were two skulls, evidently belong
ing to the Aryan race, and some human
bones that, judged from their proportions,
must have belonged to a man at least 10
feet In height.
The number of applications to the Quebec
Government from fathers of twelve chill
dren for the offered free grant of 100 acres
Of land is exciting surprise, notwithstand-
ing French-Canadians are proverbial for
large families. Up to the present time 145
such applications have been received.
An interesting aerial contest was wit
messed at st. Augustine, Fla, between an
eagle and fish-hawk. The fish-hawk was
being pursued by the eagle. and in order to
make its escape had to drop its burden,
which proved to be large foun der The
fish fell in yard and was taken in and a
meal made out of it.