The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-07-29
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A Chinese leper has been seereted in
New York tenement house for over year.
Schoharie, n. Y, according to the last
census, has about 1900 less people than she
had forty years ago.
At the present rate of consumption the
white pine of Wisconsin, Michigan and
Minnesota will be exhausted in twenty
years.
Severe quarantine regulations have been
established at the port Of New York IN
view OF the yellow fever now raging III
Havana.
A new model school in Germany which
has been built at cost of S22j, 900, contains
large dining-room where 700 poor children
can be fed in winter.
About 10 per cent of the students at
Georsia's State University are poor boys
who are in their places through rigid econ
omy practiced at home.
Some practical but inartistic German has
made up a compound OF sugar and con.
densed milk and tea, from which cup OF
tea can be had by simply pouring on boil
ing water.
II. NJ. S. Blenheim, just launched, will be
the king of cruisers. She is of 5000 tons
displacement, 10000 horsepower, y knots
speed for four hours, unarmOred, with steel
deck 81 inches thick, two 22-ton guns, and
other small arms.
VIII lie baby was sitting in the middle
of the street at Oxford, Me, nursing from
its bottle, teamster drove over IT, For
tunately the horse stepped a little to one
side and the baby passed between the
wheels uniDjured.
Two burglars broke into Henry Vincents
house, TWO miles south of Grand Haven.
and in the haste to get away when discoy-
cred overlooked $1,000 which was in the
trunk they carried away but dropped III the
woods when given chase.
About a week ago Luther Clough of Bow,
Y. H.. was bitten through the hand by two
cats which he attempted TO separate while
they were lighting. Soon after he became
i'll, suffering greatly from his wounds, and
his death is now momentarlly expected.
A Scotch physician has discovered that
playing on bagpipe wears away the play
er's front teeth in four years. The effects
on the people that hear the noise come
sooner; their teeth are set on edge and
their patience worn away in about four
minutes.
The Baltimore American relates that a
couple from Pocahontas, W. Va, who went
to Cumberland, Nd, to get married, were
delayed so hours in having the ceremony
| performed, because the groom was not old
enough by that number Of hours to get
license.
| OF the s, 32l 900 people who crossed the
| Brooklyn bridge during the month Of June
| 3,022, 600 were carried in the cars. The
| most interesting feature of the Brooklyn
| bridge trustees report is, however, that
they spent S2723 for legal expenses" and
but $1,000 for coal.
Tne most thoroughly Disguised man in
! Kansas is DR.. Burton, OF Andoyer. lie
| spent S12 and large amount of work on
| the cultivation of Russian mulberry trees,
and the one tree that survived developed
into healthy sycamore. The doctor has
| returned to his patients.
Isaiah Matthews, a colored man of Balti-
| rnhhah a pDmpantOn and the
| money in his mouth for safekeeping When
| the officer compelled him he expectorated
81 81 in quarters, dimes, nickels and pen
MES. This was not all of the money stolen,
and it is presumed he swallowed the rest.
Perhaps the most wonderful currant bush
ever seen is owned by r. Lounen of May
| vile, n. j. He found the bush growing
| wild in the woods, brought it home and
TAINTED il by the side of the house. The
| bush has grown up the side OF the building
to the height Of about 20 feet, aud is about
! feet wide, bearing currants as large as an
ordinary cherry.
| American naval officers who have adopted
| the cholera belt in the tropics find 1t so
beneficial that they often retain IL in all
ATTITUDES. 1t is simply broad band of
flannel worn night and day the year around
| tight about the waist so as to protect the
stomach from sudden changes in temper
ature. 1t is an excellent preventive Of
| stomach disorders.
The greatest steepe- climber in England
is said to be William Green. He has re-
| paired fifty or more steeples and spires and
is sent for from all parts OF the kingdom.
| His great achievements have been in re-
| pairing the spire of Salisbury Cathedral,
4O4 feet high; Louth, Lincolnshire, $50 feet
Graham, 800 feet, and a steeple in CAM
bridgeshire, 800 feet.
A novel race is soon to come off in West
| Chester. Each contestant is to wear laced
| Shoes and all the shoes are to be taken off
| and placed in barrel. The runners then
| tart from mark, run % yards to the bar
el, pick out their own shoes, put them on,
| lace them up and then run 100 yards to a
| mark. The man who gets over the entire
! route first, with shoes properly laced, will
| be the winner.
On st. PauFs River, in Liberia, there is a
| homemade steamboat. 1t was constructed
| by negro named Irons, who was once a
| slave in South Carolina. He built his
steamboat in this way: He remodeled q
canoe 90 feet long, put in the engine of a
sugar-cane mill, rugged up paddle-wheels
steamer is not beauty, but 1t carries
freight and passengers and does good work.
Its builderis of inventive genius and should
be encouraged.
Sir Henry de Burgh-Lawson thinks that
he will revolutionize naval construction by
his plan for constructing ships with three
keels between which their bottoms are
curved in combination with special inter-
nal pr0pellers, worked and housed in
chambers from which the water is partially
excluded, each propeller having a sepa-
rate set OF machinery, working indepen-
IDENTIFY OF each other. Sir Henry claims
that rolling would be almost prevented and
that the ships power of climbing waves
would be immensely increased.