The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-10-13
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A grand jury at Toronto recommended
that poor families of prisoners incarcerated
in the Central Prison should receive 40 cents
per day, which is the average earnings OF
men in the Central Prison.
a Bangor (Me.) policeman was riding in
carriage the other day when highwayman
essayed to "hold him up" Tue officer
leaped out, and alter a tuSsel overcame the
criminal and locked him up.
In the opinion of real estate men the re-
cent cyclone at South Lawrence. Mass, has
had the effect OF improving the district nearly
10 per cent in value, by reason of building
improvements which followed.
1t is now asserted that the ghost of Bar
tholomew, hanged at the Easton County
(Pennsylyania) prison for the murder of
Washington billiard, visits the Jail the first
night following each new moon.
George Eliot wrote 10 a friend, after read
ing Cardinal Newman's "ApOlogia,"
know hardly anything that delights me
more than such evidence OF sweet brotherly
love being reality in the world"
The Methodist ladies of Salina, Kans.,
pledged themselves TO raise 81 each for
church purposes. Among them was a
woman 70 years old, who earned her dollar
by making eight baby dresses by hand.
A Brooklyn jury has given Alexander
Ellis verdict OF $50 in suit brought
against druggist who furnished extract OF
carbolic acid when a solution" was called
for. EiliS put the stun on bunion, and
gets this $50 as a salve for his feelings.
The school authorities In Hungary re-
Gently procured legislative enactment
making the study Of the ancient Greek lam
guage optional in grammar schools. The
result is a surprise. for only two lads have
requested TO be exempted from the study of
Greek.
Old King Cotton, far more benignantly
swaying the sunny South than lie did of
yore, looks down with joy on busy Charles
ton harbor, where, the other day, he saw no
less than ten large iron cotton steamers
waiting for a cargo of that staple which
glories in so great crop this year.
Mohammedan woman has just closed
her medical studies in Odessa wi h brilliant
examination. Her name is KutoIaroff-
Hanum. She is the first Mohaumcdan
woman who has received an NJ. D.'s diploma,
aud the State has granted her special per-
mission to practice her profession.
Since 1857 England's small wars have cost
her about S11O,00OO0O. The war with China
in 1S57-62 cost her $4,000, 600; the Abyss
sinian expedition, 1S67-70, sal, 100000; tho
South African war in 1879 so, $1,000, COO;
the Nile expedition in 1885, So, 250, 900;
the Afghan war, between 1880 and 1886,
$15,000,000.
Miss Mary Franz of New York has
brought suit against a physician for making
an uufayOrable report on her case to bene-
fetal society of which she was DESTROYS of be-
coming a member. Several doctors have
certified that her health is good and it is
expected that the suit will develop interest
ing legal points.
The old Jail at York, Me-, one of the con-
Spcuous attractions TO summer visitors, is
believed to be the oldest structure of its
kind in America. 1t is said to have been
built in the sixteen hundreds, and stands to-
day practically unchanged, with its massive
oaken doors, creaking hinges aud locks and
mill-saw gratings.
Two Augusta (Ga.) ladies have been thrown
into commissions by the bite of the buffalo
worm, an insect which, viewed through a
microscope. resembles buffalo, being heavy,
and in color having much the appearance Of
that animal. Its bite is inflicted by a pair of
muscular incisors. and the poison injected
is of extreme virulence.
A great financial crisis Is reported ut
Manila. Hemp and sugar, the two prin-
cipal interests of the Philippines, are in a
terribly demoralized condition. Owing to
the hemp trust in the United States scarcely
any hemp has been exported, and there are
100000 bales stored in Manila with no pro-
spects OF immediate sales.
An Adrian doctor says that down in
Palmyra, County Lenawee, resides family
Of seven. Every Monday regular 300
pound hog Is butchered, and by the follow
ing Sunday the hog has been eaten up. Be-
sides all this there is the usual quota OF
beef and other meats disposed Of during
the week, which is about 45 pounds OF raw
hog to each person.