The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-12-05
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

There are sixty-six liquor-saloons in New
! ork that are kept by women.
New York boasts of the publication of 27C6
distinct newspapers and periodicals.
| The Canadians expect to send Sardines to
Europe to compete with the French article.
A lawsuit is now in progress at Norris
| town, Pa., over the ownership of six chick
| ems.
| The first theatrical performance since the
| great Hood Is about to be given at Johns
| town, Pa.
Germany boasts the healthiest army in
| Europe. Belgium is second best, and En-
| gland comes III third.
| There is a scarcity Of Lieutenants in the
| British navy, and every officer on the list is
| IN active employment.
A velocity of about six or seven miles
| serond would suffice to cary body away
| from the grayitatlon of the earth.
| Peter Vickers is the wealthiest negro in
Coffee County, Ga. He Owls between 5000
ami 5000 acres OF land and is No. farmer
A woman at Oil City, Pa. recently paid
dry-goods dealer tur a cloak which she
SAID she stole from him sixteen years ago.
| The penitent thief was forgiven.
A German resident of Glendale, Ohio, has
| sued for divorce from his wife becau e sh,
| throws sticks and stones at him. He saws
| she has chased him a tuil mile from the
| house.
| Out of compliment TO bridal couple a
train was stopped at Buena Vista, Pa and
| this action averted a serious accident which
could not have been avoided had the train
| gone on.
A traveller with the postage-stamp mania
acknowledges that he has yisi Ell countries
| lor no other purpose than to get rare postage
| stamps to add to his immense collection,
valued at thousands of dollars.
| Society in Edinburgh has been startled by
| one OF the managers of the recent exposi-
ton marrying one of the Japanese girls who
were an attraction OF the show. He is said
to be very proud of his brunette wife.
The rate of wages paid to iremen on ships
sailing from London is e3 los per month on
| voyages up the Mediterranean to Australia
and New York. To the Cape of Good Hope.
Natal. China and India IL stands at from
| rs 10 to 81 per month.
Thomas Rasley. who acted as the execu-
toner OF Birchall has ceased to be steward
| OF the Sunnyside Boating Club. his resgna-
| tnon being accepted by the Directors. His
| reason for leaving Is that he had become OBJ
noxious owing to his acting as executioner.
| A young woman who had check for Sl4
on a certain Detroit bank presented it at the
cashiers desk, and he politely said: "You
| will please indOrSe it, MISS" She took it
over to the desk and wrote on the back: Il
want this money awful bad yours truly
| please pay the bearer"
! In the village of EIchfont, near Devices
there are five brothers living whose unitrd
| ages amount to 415 years. In a neighboriug
| village five persons, related to each other,
live in one house, their united ages making
| mp 391 years. A horse 80 years old serves
| them Tor all their outings.
| One thing especially noted In Maine is the
| impetus given to the appie-canniBg business
| by the partial failure Of the apple crop
Fruit that was formerly considered only
| good enough for cider escaped the press this
| year and has gone into cans TO help furnish
| the world with apple sauce.
| A dog who had lived in a certain house
| hold for length af time was surprised and
jealous at the arrival Of a baby. When he
| discovered that this mite to whom every
| one bowed down had come to stay he re-
| tired to neighbours, six miles away, where
he IS boarding at this writing. Woodbury.
| Item.
Chimpanzees have often been taught to
| walt at table and sweep out rooms. the wages
given them for such work being usually paid
| In bananas. Indeed, they respond better for
training purposes TO gentle treatment than
| to severity, and much can be done with them
easily by permitting them to go hungry for
while, and then giving or Withholding the
! fruit.
Alligators invade the lighthouses of Lou
| isiana planters. A resident of Plaquemine
| Parish. hearing c0mmoti0n among his bid
| dies few nights ago, went out to discover
the cause, and was cropping in the dark
when something snapped at him, cutting
and summoning help, he found big atIi-
| gator. which was killed and found to meas
ure II feet 10 inches in len 9Th, with head
| 21s feet long.
A grim stroke of bumor is being attributed
! to the Marquis of Aiiesbury in Wiltshire
| A large supply of hand grenades for extin-
| gushing tire had been ordered for the man
| sion at Savernake. After all the corridors
had been sufficiently supplied there were
stlll SIX OF the grenades left over. A servant
asked NaF hat chnt, la
with them. His lordship reflected mo-
ment and then replied: Il think you had
better put them in my coffin.''
The abandonment of tea cultivation in
| China would be strange indeed, yet Foo
| chow Journal reports that, in consequences
| of the distressed condition of the tea cult
vatorS in the Fukhien Province, the authori-
ties are advising them to abandon the cuiti-
Walton OF tea altogether ana TO replace il
with rice and potatoes. Many landowners
in districts where water is abundant are fol-
lowing this advice, ami it is said that opium
also Is to be extensively planted.
In the early days of tie present generation
of business men. there were, in popular
estimation, but five millionaires in this coun-
try. They were William Gray of Boston,
John Jacob Astor and Stephen Whitney of
New York. Stephen Girard of Philadelphia
and Nicholas Longworth of Cincinnati.
There are now at least 500 In the city of New
York alone. more than one of whom has an
| annual income equal to the combined for
| tunes of all the millionaires of half "a century
| ago.
A new phase of street vender has APP
| peared lately in New York man who car
| ries long staff that has the appearances of
| hoe-handle. with pretzels strung upon i,
| like beads on string. He walks up AID
| down his particular beat" and transfers
| his business" to the shady side, or into a
| doorway, in case of rain, with the greatest
| ease. When he has customer he elevate,
| the lower end OF his staff. and dexterously
allows one or more pretzels, as may be re-
| CURED, to slip oil into The hands OF the pur-
| chaser.