The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-11-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

There is little discussion about taxing
posters in London. In France the yield
from this source is 100000 francs.
London is now to have penny weekly
called Treasure Trove, started by the en-
terprising Archibald Grove of the New Re-
view.
The report that all the grave-diggers of
the Glasnerin Cemetery, near Dublin, are
on strike is curious note in labor discus
sionS.
The Michigan State Board of Health, be-
leyng consumption a communicable dis
ease, advises that ali pupils affected be
excluded from the public schools.
Electricity has been introduced as lihgt
into the British Museum, thus enabling
THAT Institution for the first time in its ex-
istence to be kept open in the evening.
1t has been calculated that it would be
possible to take from section OF the River
Negro lakes, occupying about nine square
leagues, upward Of two millions tons of salt.
A law hes been promulgated at Hardan-
ger. in Norway, to the effect that 10 girl
shall be eligible for the MARI age state until
she is proficient in spinning, knitting and
baking.
The Petit Journal says that picture of
st. Joseph carrying the infant Jesus has
been discovered in a village near Belfort
anu that cOnnoiSSeurs believe it to be a
Raphael.
After a series of very careful experiments
Professor COhn of Breslau has found that
the heating of damp hay to temperature
sufficient to cause spontaneous combustion
Is due to fungus.
A writer in the Lancet remarks: 81 have
read all, or nearly all. the cases of mussel
POISONING on record, and l gather from such
details as are given with respect to the
places in which the mussels were found that
they were in contact with sewage or stag
nant water"
Some few years ago the Paris picture
dealer, Ferret, bought picture for 10
francs in rag and bone shop. He soon
discovered that it was portrait OF Jordaen,
and got rid OF it for 5000 francs to the late
NJ. Rothan, the diplomat. The picture
which is in JOrdaen's best manner-has just
fetched $1,000 francs.
From an autumn idyl in the Springfield
Republican: Through all this pomp of
regal bloom ipsinuateS and permeateS and
controls the mysterious beauty and enchant-
ment of natures sluinber charm, whose
very essence Is the elusive, withdrawing,
attractive scent Of the wych hazel"
The following method of making paper
transparent Tor copying drawings has been
found very servicehbe: Place blank
sheet Of paper over the drawing and rub it
lightly with pure benzine. The tracing can
then be readily made. and the DeDZine, upon
evaporation, leaves the paper as opaque as
before.
Johann Sebastian Bach's piano has just
been overhauled by maker in Gohlis. 1t
Is OF Saxon Manufacture and OF wonderful
tone. Alter Bach'S death 1t passed into the
possession OF his son, Friedemann, who sold
it to Count Boss. Some twenty five years
ago it became the property of its present
owner, Herr Paul de Wit of Leipsic
A society has been started by women OF
high social position ID New 1Vrk. IL is Sad
for the advancement of propriety and
frugality in dress A black list, made out
by the pastor of the church in which the
society originated, includes AS articles to be
avoided the decoilele dress anu sleeveless
bodice. l0rgnetteS and useless trimmings.
DshOra kairoft, Russian Prince, was
hanged recently at NladiyoStock. He was
Captain IN IScherkask regiment, and
murdered six persons in their steep in re-
venge for an Injustice which he imagined
had been done him. The Prince, who had
asked to be shot, did not confess his guilt
uni er the gall0ws lie was only 50 years
OF age.
Clarence Phi lips, a boy residing in
Tampa. Fla, has been presented with
handsome medal OF guild and silver by Mrs.
j. Z. w ill,amS Tor bravery In putting OUT in
leaky boat to the rescue OF party of
ladies in a disabled yacht, and succeeding in
getting the impefiied craft Into safe harbor.
Engraved upon the medal is view of
Tampa Bay.
New I ork City has now craze for white
buildings, and they accord admirably with
The climate. The Fifth Avenue, the Abe
marie, the Hoffman, the st. James, the Cole
man. the new Imperial art all white, and
every one is pleased with the tendency. But
New York will do well to relinauish all no.
ton OF burning soft coal If she wishes to
dress In white.
The present economical condition of
France is considered unusually favorable
by her statesmen. The harvest this year
was about IN, 000, 600 heciolitr-s 600 quarts
OF grain, the largest of the last decade. The
export of manufactures has increased as
well as the import OF raw materials AL
most $500, 000, 900 lie in the savings banks.
The railway profits have also increased.
A lawsuit involving the possession of ST.
000,000 worth of securities and GOLD, Of
1,200.000 sheep and hundreds of thousands
OF acres Of land in all parts Of European
Russia, will Come to trial in ST. Petersburg
in about a week. All this vast property is
the estate of a German CoioniSt named FalZ-
Fein. The suit is between his second wife,
as plaintiff, and his children OF his first wife,
as defendants.
According to medical protest against damp
or cold beds, warming pans should come
into fashion again. One medical writer
says: =" Not only the guests, but the family,
often suffer the penalty OF sleeping III cold
rooms and chilling their bodies at time
when they need all their bodily heat, by
getting between cold sheets. Even in warm,
summer weather "a cold, damp bed will get
in its deadly work. 1t is a needless peril
and the neglect to prOvide dry rooms and
beds has in it The elements Of murder and
suicide
BERTELING has the only reliable methods to
fiji defective sight. APT Kearny street.
An Ohio man received So7 from an acct