The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-12-29
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A Cincinnati horse objected to having to-
bacco juice sqairted on him, and chewed the
sQuirter
All-the New. York hospitals are clamoring
tor;lupus cases. The German Hos pital has
hung cut the sign that it will take no more
patients suffering from phthisis.. 1t will
take surgical cases and patients having
lupus aud bone tuberculosis.
One OF the odd sights in Chicago recently
was the moving of stately elm tree through
the streets from Crosse Point to Graceland
Cemetery. The tree was lifted as 1t grew
ana transported upright in a crate, giyin.
the impression of travelling tree.
Philip ii. Holmes, an artist of Gardiner.
Me-, has just found in the corridor of the
Girard House in Philadelphia a canvas.
2Oxl5 feet, which was lost at the time of tht,
centennial Exposition. 1t is view of the
Adirondacks and is valued at $1,000.
The Empress of Russia is now AZ wears
old. Russians say that she has not the
capacity Of the Princess of Wales to louk
considerable younger than her years. The
chin begins to double and the cheeks haye
long since taken comfortable expression
A very extensive domestic industry in
Russia consists IN the manufacture of
wooden spoons. which are made to the ex-
|. tent or 100000 annually, mostly of birch.
The poor of that land are happy il they can
get something to eat even In wooden spoons
Duefing continues very frequent in Italy.
DuIilS Tie last tWelV6 mouths ZIOY QueiS
were fought and fifty of the combatants sue
Climbed. Some of the duelSts We're wound ID
several times in the same conflict. for 1901
wounds We're inflicted and over 100 of these
we're serious.
Although whales grow to enormous size.
sometimes eighty and even ninety feet long,
the throat is so small that the animal coui,i
not swallow a bite as large as a tea-biscnil.
IRIS applies To the common whale The
spermaceti has mouth large enough TO
swallow man.
Sarah Hunter. aged Is, employed in the
household Of w. II. Smith, near WinOna,
Ontario, tried to poison. her, employer and
bis family, and af,erward succeeded in de-
stroying her own life with 'Roueh on Rats
The girl felt agErieved because she had been
chided for allowing the fires to 20 out
A novel suit is before the Superior Court
OF Maine. The plaintiff, a Cape Elizabeth
man, brings suit against a. Portland man for
alternating his wife,s affections, and the de-
PENDANT; in his plea, declares that the wife
never had amy affection Tor the husband.
consequently be could not ALLEVIATE them.
LIE will stand trial on this ground.
A New York World dispatch from doi.
land Pdtent, n. Y, states that Nancy White
Guiteau, who has Just celebrated her one
hundred and second anniversary, has bright.
red lips, finely colored cheeks, and alI.n-r
faculties, save her hearing, unilHpaired.
She needs scarcely any waiting upon, aud i,
OF little care TO her daughter and her family
The Long Island City seamps who joined
funeral eortege as mourneiS the bettnr III
shove spurious dollars on wayside taverns
en- route to the cemetery. adopted a novel
trick; but it failed TO work as intended. ami
the whole gang were changed To yeritable
mournerS BY being captured in their weeds
while quenching their grief for the depar tel.
at u Fostering bar.
From the report of the State Engineer of
. New urk il is learned that Nj,pur, Eafls