The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-08-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

At a French festival, initiating old-fash-
Toned customs, the musicians will be placed
in garland-wreathed hogsheads, as in the
good old times
The patrons of popular excursions in En-
gland are termed ''cheap trippers." A
very large number of them went over to see
the Paris bull-fghts.
J: Van of Macon offers a big. prize of
$1,000 to the homeliost woman in Georgia to
ride on his float during the trades display
parade at the State Fair.
The Cunard Steamship Company employs
not less than 10000 men, and during the
past f0rty-four years has lost neither YES
sci nor a life through accident
A horse in Waterbury, Conn.,, is inordi-
nately fond of pie, and often, walking to
the kitchen door, refuses to leave until his
appetite for the dainty is satisfied.
Halsted street, Chicago, is one of the
longest streets in the world, being about
eighteen miles in length in a perfectly
straight line within the city limits.
Peter Bracket and George w. Bryant. of
Blddeford. and John f. Nesbett, formerly
OF the same city, but now of New York,
enjoy the distinction of having fought
through the whole of the late war
Lightning struck the Cathedral of the
Holy Cross in Boston recently, detaching
three large granite blocks, one of which
weighed go pounds, and which fell 12j feet
to the sidewalk below. Fortunately no one
was injured.
The police made a raid on a rendezvous
for tramps in New Haven, arreStiDg a num-
Der of outcasts. On one of them, named
Dunn, were found three bank-books, show
ing deposits aggregating $3.50 go 1t is
thought Dunn Is insane.
Several newly Matched chickens $50 the
story goes were recently found in bale of
hay at Belfast, Me. The owner of the bale
thinks that the eggs were probably pressed
into the hay when it was green, and were
Matched by the heat generated.
A big pile of money goes through the
hands Of the Controller Of the city of New
York. For the quarter ended June 30th
he received over ST, 600 QncludIng a
balance of S1600,000 from the previous
quarter, and spent it all but about So, co.,
eco.
The recent increase of the salaries of
Government officials in Germany will swell
the civil list in the postal department by
about 81, 100000. AS $1,000 persons 80 per
cent OF the German postal employees are
affected by the increase, no one will get a
very big slice.
Besides fruits and vegetables, Florida
raises rattlesnakeS in great abundance. A
farmer who lives near Tampa says he has
killed thirty large rattlesnakes in his neigh
borhood within a few months. The last
one was seven feet four inches in length.
The Tampa Tribune vouehes for tie verac-
lty of the farmer
A boy named John Hale, who was stolen
from his home, near Marion, Ind, five
years ago, when he was s years old, by gyp-
sizes, recently ran away from them and
made his way home. The parents had
searched far and wide for him, and had
given him up for dead. He says the gyr-
sizes maitreated him.
Fifteen Indians sold a lot of huckleberres
at Saginaw the other day, blew in nearly
all the money they received for frewater,
and then entertained the passengers at the
Michigan Central depot with veritable
war dance. The improvident braves had
barely enough money left to buy railroad
tickets to their up-country homes.
The ChautauQua schools of sacred litera-
ture have contained fifty ministers, forty
four college students, twenty-seven pro-
dealer, carpenter, an editor, dress
maker, dentist, travelling salesman, an
evangelist, a merchant, a patent lawyer, an
elocutionist, a miller, a banker, a fruit
grower and a builder.
The French and Italian artillery ma
neuvers this year took place near the
boundary of the two countries, in Savoy.
The officers met and fraternized, but as
they had no leave to depart from their re-
spective countries they set up long table,
one-half in France and the other half in
Italy, with red cord on the dividing line,
anu Iau July sVuu lIlllt anu RUOu uIuueI.
A shepherd dog fell into dry well in
OglethOrpe County, Georgia. A young man
went to the cannes rescue, and, as soon as
the animal heard his voice, went into
raptures of delight. The man procured
rope long enough to reach the bottom OF
the well, and, lowering 1t, was surprised to
see the dog grasp the end firm in his mouth
and hold on until he was drawn to the top.
The dog had received no serious injuries,
and, being given hearty meal, was as
risky as ever.
A gentleman who wrote concerning the
price of board in a country town is said to
have received this telegram in reply:
q Board $50 week, including washing up
the carriage and piano agent. Robinson"
He wrote in answer that, though both agent
and carriage needed cleaning, he was not
accustomed to such charges in board bill,
and soon after learned that the original
copy had run thus: :" Board $40 week, in
Guiding washing use of carriage and piano.
Agnes Robinson.