The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-09-21
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

There are 1O0S2 school districts, 62,372
teachers and 2,S00,000 school children in
Japan.
Near Canton, H., farmer plowed up
skeleton believed to be that of Frank Irwin,
who mysteriously disappeared nine years
Labor trouble and strikes are cropping
out all over Europe. No sooner are they
settled in one place than they break out in
another.
The Governor of Chinese Turkestan has
resigned his post in order that he may at
tend on his aged grandmother tie rest Of
her life.
1t is known that the Chinese, as early as
969 A. D., faS stoned rockets TO their arrows,
that the latter might be thrown at greater
distance.
To the list CT poisons may be added, as
source Of occasional danger, the fragrant
nutmeg. At least one fatal case has &C.
Cured, where boy of 8. having eaten two
nutmegs, fell iEto a comatose condition,
and died within twelve hours.
The worlds stock of diamonds has in
creased enormously in the last fifteen years.
In 1876 the output of the African mines was
about /, 100000 carats, last year it was over
100000 and the great trust which controls
all the principal mines assert that they have
600 carats Sin sight at the present
time.
1t is a risky thing to receive into the
DUSOm Oh Tue 1dlUliy q IOHS-iOol oOl WIZ
no strawberry mark 10 identify him. a
Pennsylvania farmer has been vIctimiZed by
clever sharper. who personate1 the re-
turned prodigal long enough to eat the
fated calf and secure 5000 in cash. Then
he lost himself again.
An American miionaire"has aStonished
the natives of West Midland County, En-
gland, where he las taken country vicar
age for two months, by the magnitude of his
establishment, to accommodate which a large
extra house has been hired. 1t includes
thirty servants, twenty horses, twelve dogs,
four COWS and fourteen cats.
A new invention in musical instruments
is violin piano. case containing six
| violins, two vi0las and two violoncelloS re-
| semble5 a pianoforte frame. The iustru-
| ments are connected by circular bands,
| which are brought into contact with the
| strings by means Of the keyboards, the ham
| mers OF which bear upon the bands with
| varying pressure.
The motley collection of patients who have
| been treated in the PaStcur Institute IN New
| York has been added to by an arrival from
| Arizona. This is Is Iac Moore, who received
| a bite in his right loot from Il skunk. The
| animals teeth were so firmly imbedded that
| piece Of the flesh was torn away in pulling it
! off. Two cases of skunk bite have recently
proved fatal in that Territory.
A French scientist, Victor Mennler, has
| calculated after careful inquiries that Ameri-
gold annually into the teeth Of their GUS
TONER'S The Scientific American says, that
making allowances for the increase OF popu-
| lation, in less than 100 years American
cemeteries will contain a larger amount OF
| gold than now exists In France.
A will made by Frederick the Great in
| 1741. during the first Silesian war, has just
| been published in a German history OF his
| wars. 1t reads as follows: Il am only
| king so long as | am free. III they kill me L
wish my bo1y TO be burnt in Roman fashion
| and my ashes TO be inc!osed in an urn at
| Rhpinsberg. In this case Knobelsdorf (hs
| architect shall construct monument for me
| like that of Horace Of Tusculum."
| 1t appears that the old residence Of Alex
| ander H. Stephens in Georgia is not owned
| and occupied by the colored man, Frank
| Rogers, as has been stated. The former
| home of the Vice-President of the Southern
| Confederacy is the property of the Stephens
| Memorial Association, and it is occupied by
| Professor " L. Sanford. The col0red man
who was reputed to be the owner of it has
recently been arrested ON charge of assault
| and attempted murder of his wife, who had
| sued him for divorce and alimony. He is q
wealthy barber.