The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-11-10
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

Inc SanQWlchmen OF LONDON are eStl-
| mated to number $4,000
1t is stated that James Russell Lowell is
engaged upon life of Hawthorne.
| Jay Gould never eats more than some fruit
and plate of soup for his luncheon.
The orange crop in Spain and Southern
| Europe generally this year is failure.
| Nine. Christine Missions husband has been
made Under Secretary of the new Spanish
Cabinet.
Mrs. Dorothy Stanley is preparing illus
| tratiOns for the forthcoming book of travels
| by Count Tolstoi
| There are, a London correspondent says,
156 packs of foXhoundS i'll England, as
| against 153 last season.
The HiDdoos consider flesh food as defl-
ing a man, a vegetarian diet being the first
essential of their religious life.
Ex-President Hayes is very fond of candy
He dearly dotes on duck, and he has spe-
cial aversion to pork in any shape.
The knot, or nautical mile. Is 60S6.7 feet,
while the statute mile, which is employed
in measuring distances on land, Is $3.50 feet.
Mrs. Bohn, the widow of Henry G. Bohn,
the well-known founder of B0hn'S libraries,
died recently in London. She was worth
over million dollars.
Henry NJ Stanley will have his hands
full if he accepts all the invitations to dim
ner which have been and will be rendered
him by New York clubs.
Count Won Moltke's eyesight has become
affected from reading every line of the
thousands of congratulatory messages he re-
ceived upon his birthday.
Simplicity in living strengthens not only
the body, giving it great muscular power
and endurance, but purifie5 the mind, en-
abling vital force to be accumulated.
An employe of the Pullman Company has
invented an electrical air brake, which is so
constructed that the air chambers can be re-
charged, whether the brake is III operation
or not.
In man the lower jaw has much freedom
of lateral movement, which aids in grinding
food between the molars; the jaws Of car
nivora admit of only the upward and down.
ward movement.
The slave population of the country was
2,009 043 in $780, .4o7 355 in 1910, 3,2O4, 313 In
1850. and 1886, 700 in 1860 Missouri had
25,091 in 1889. 5S,240 in 1910, 1922 in 1850,
and Ia, 1851 i'll 1860.
Nathaniel p Banks, ex-Speaker of the
House of Representatives, and VINO has for
quarter OF century been prominent IN
New England and national politics, was in
early life an actor.
The Chatauqua Literary and Scientific
Circle, which was organized in 1873 with a
members hip of 100 has now 1900 circles
located in all parts Of the world, including a
branch at the Cape OF Good Hope.
The late Mrs. Booth left an autobi-
ography, which will be published in a
couple of months. General Boo II is writ
ing the introduction, and the proceeds will
be used for a memorial building, to take
the form of a creche or aSsemOly-hall in
London.
The Siamese have great regard for odd
numbers, and insist on having an odd num-
Der of windows, doors and rooms ia their
houses and temples. There must be an odd
number of steps in the stairs and an odd
number OF feet IN the height OF all SteepleS
ana minarets.
The Bradley Martins of New York have
set a fashion " ich will probably fad imta-
tors among other rich Americans. Instead
Of spending the winter in New York or
Florida they have secured palace in Cairo
and will give some SumptuOuS entertain
ments in true Oriental spendor.
A number OF horsehesh restaurants have
| just been started in Berlin, and they are
| doing a brisk trade. 1t is Strauge that they
| have not been opened sooner in Berlin, for
| those which have existed for several years
| past in Dresden, Hamburg, Magdeburg and
| Frankfort have done an immense business
] from the first.
The Prince Of Wales recently sent an init
| nation to Count FesteticS that he would be
| accompanied on his visit to Schoss KeS-
zthely by several friends, including Baron
| Hirsch, whereupon the Count CURLY replied
that he declined to receive the Baron as a
| doned his visit.
| In the way Of prize offering an English
| paper stands at the head. The inducement
Is pretty wife with an endowment of 800
| per year. The lady is to be selected by the
| editor for her beauty, and then she is TO
have the choice of one of ten gentlemen,
| who will agree beforehand to marry her if
such be her choice A wedding rousseau is
| also TO be provided.
Mrs. Burnett is said to stand at the head
of our authors just now in her literary earn
| ings. The London Daily News says that she
| has received for her American rights on the
| play of Little Lord Fauntleroy" no less
| than sl7. 600 $4,000, and that if we were to
| add her similar profits in England on "enor-
nous sales of this novel, the amour. earned
| out of the book would be quite startling"
Mr. William Steinway of New York, who
got home from Europe recently, did not lose
| his interest IN lapld transit during his resi-
dence abroad He regards the Berlin system
| as pretty near perfection. This consist of a
viaduct road built of stone and iron 1t is
twenty feet high and has four tracks.
Trains Of ten cars are run, and they make as
little noise, Mr.. Steinway says, as an ordi-
nary horSe-car.
A Chattanooga lawyer has peculiar views
of the duties of policemen. He wrote to
Cincinnati for information about his MSS
ing son. He wants the policeman that finds
him to obtain for HIM situation in some
lawyer ONCE, the Dhy being GOOD Stefl-
ographer. The salary must not be less than
SO a week. More than that, the officer is to
see that the boy pays his board and behaves
himself, and is then to report the lad s
| progress to his father.
1t is strange coincidence that exactly 100
years ago young girls in London We're in
| constant terror of meeting the Jack the
| Ripper" of that day. He attacked and
wounded several ladies in different parts of
| the town, cutting their garments and CASH
| ing them in the body with sharp pointed
| instrument, although he never went so far
| as murder. In April, 1890, a large reward
| was offered for the apprehension of THE
! Monster" as he was popularity called.