The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-08-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Heligoland has a national debt of el0.
The revenue is between $4,000 and 5000.
James Yates killed an owl on Hawk
Mountain, Ga, which measured feet Z
inches from tip to tip of wings.
At an equality of age the male is gener-
ally heavier than the female, except toward
the age of u, when the average weight in
both sexes is about the same.
The New Orleans Picayune heads its
leading editorial "The Garbage of Ltera-
ture." OF course, the head has no connec-
tiOn with the article that follows.
1t is reported that a Judge at Troy has
declared that the baby-earriage is nuis-
ance, when it runs into law-abiding citizens.
There is no appreciation for the poor baby
anywhere.
The most valuable metal in the wori3 IA
said to be gallium, which is worth $3.50 an
ounce. Calcium brings $500 pound and
cerlum $3.50 per pound. Gold is WORTH
S24C a pound.
Baseball is getting terrific hoid in
Cuba and promises TO unseat even bull
fighting. 1t is said to be strange to hear all
the terms OF the game used in English by
people who otherwise speak only Spanish.
A book-binder in Vienna was called upon
to bind volume of 100 leaves worth 100000
gulden. Each leaf was bond for 1000 gull
den, the book being the owners gift to his
only daughter.
The only attendants at the funeral of
Jeremiah Miller of North Mountain, Cum
berland County, who attempted to kill his
wife and then killed himself, Were the re-,
porters, who acted as pastor, paii-5earers
and grave-dggers.
Consul Meyers of Hawaii is authority for
the statement that there are tweBty-eight
Chinese leperS at Hawaii who make con-
siderable money by encouraging drinking,
gambling and opium using among the mell-
bers of the leper colony.
MaCnnuan oyal N
Washington, Pa, saw a circus performer
eat glass, and it so pleased him he deter
mined to learn TO do it. The first attempt
made him sick, but since then ne has expert
enced no i'll effect, though he is no taller
than boy of or 10 years.
A Coon Rapids telegram saws: Dan Hem
bricks, living near Viola. Iowa, killed a
two-legged rattlesnake the other day. 1t
was three feet long and had two legs two
inches long, placed about six inches below
the head. When first seen it was walking on
the legs. wriggling the lower portion OF the
body. 1t had five rattles.
Leigham Court, Streatham, near London,
comprising sixty-six acres, has Just been
sold for $50 O00 1t was for many years the
residence of the late NJ. j. Treadwell,
railway contractor, who began life as a
NAVY His widow still preserves the pick
and shovel with which he worked as la
borer.
At Bristol, England. are two young arti-
sans who are the prize twins of the world
They are of the same height and weight;
have eyes, hair and complexion of the same
color; walk, speak, laugh, sing exactly
alike; follow the same occupation; have
the same religious pursuasion and likes
and dislikes; are both married and have
the same number of children, who are Of
the same sexes-three boys and three girls.
The bunko man appears 10 be a peTmG-
ment figure in our civilization. Local ordr
nanees he desplses and his victims ara
| legion. Only the other day, at New JET
sey seaside resort, retired builder lost
| $500 BY sharpers whose devices were
| almost transparent. Two weeks ago
PENNSYLVANIA farmer was ROBBED OF $l0O
| by bunko men IN New York, and all TINS
| despite the fact that the farmers read the
papers,
OF all the vegetables which furnish nour-
ishment to man the banana IS the most pro-
| life. single cluster often contains loO 10
18C pods and weighs from sixty 10 eightY
pounds. Humboldt says that piece OF
land 40 square yards viii pr0iuce 1910
pounds weight OF fruit, while the same area
will rarely produce more than thirty pounds
weight Of wheat or eighty pouuuS Oh 20
tatoes.
a flower has been discovered In South
| America which is only visible when tue
| wind blows The shrub belongs 10 the
| cactus family and is about three feet hige.
| The stem is covered with dead, warty-iook-
| inc lnmrs in calm weather; these Jumps
| howeyer. need but slight breeze to make
| them unfold large flowers oil creamy
white. which close and appear as dead as
| coon az the wind subsidies.