The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-05-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

a Maine girl SIX years of age recently
Travelled from Michigan to her home in
Ihomaston unattended. She attrac ted more
attention than circus.
ScOtchmen banqueting in London are now
entertained with music OF real northern
bagplpes, played into phonograph and
sent to London by express.
An Ansonia Comm druggist has an
electric bell in a cabinet containing poi
sons. When the door opens the bell rings.
reminding the compounder that he is hand
ling poisons.
1t is thought in French literary circles
that Talleyrand's hitherto unpublished
memoirs VIII at last be brought to light.
lie great diplomatist refused their publ
cation during his life.
a rich italian has purchased the Villa
Zirio, at San Reno, in which the Emperor
Frederick was III so long before he went to
Berlin to be crowned, and has closed it
vigorously against all visitors.
An English naval officer has invented a
pneumatic iine-throwing gun, very light
and portable, which fires a hollow shell
bearing the cord to a wrecked vessel or into
aburning building on dry land.
a rat which attacked brood of chickens
at PottStown was killed by the hen. and
after the battle the barnyard rooster. who
had viewed the battle from q safe perch on
Tue renee celebrated the victory by crow
ing Justify.
A new red glass has been RECENTLY nro-
duced in Germany. Besides its use for the
manufacture OF bottles, gOblets and vases
OF various kinds, 1t is applicable in photop-
raphy and In chemists and opticians Lab.
0ratorieS.
Mrs. John G. Curtis of New York has n
most remarkable orchestra made up of men.
women ana children from poor families.
She has had them instructed by a good
teacher, and now they play for public
charity entertainments.
Captain Owen j. Sweet of the TWENTY
fifth Infantry and a special detail of troons
have completed the work of setting head.
stones over the graves of General Custer
brave band who fell in the battle of the
Little Big Horn, June %, 1876.
An Ottawa, ILL.,, man has been fined S1os
Tor kissing another mans wife. MANY adj
ditioDal Judges would have to be annninted
IN pennsylvania, Gnd they would be kent
mighty busy, too, If all the men guilty. of
the same offense were fined in that State.
Mrs. Mary Miller of Western Pennsvl.
vania, probably the wealthiest coiorsd
Her income was $500 day. Four wears
ago she owned n barren piece of ground
but there was oil beneath its surface which
made it oil right.
Monuments have now been completed
over the burial places of the Enolish
iehOH uuu 1taliau troops Killed in tha
Crimea during the war of 1S54-55. Rms
STA: sia's o memorials over her fallen soldiers on
the same plains are on grander scale. as
she still holds the fort-Sebastopol. va
One by one the old New England institu-
tions are dying out Now the "candv-
wagons, whose advent used TO be hailed
with delight by old and young, are to he
Withdrawn from service. The confection-
ers have decided to adopt the more m0dern
methods of the drummer instead. Il
A French painter named Bloch shows
this year an incident OF the Franco-Austrian
war which will amuse those who are fond
Of dogs: The regiments dog, named Mns.
tache., is dragging from the hands of an
Austrian officer the colors of the regiment
1t is an incident from the battle OF Solfe.
rino.
A new method of ventilatng railway car
riages and preventing dust from entsrino =
with the air has lately appeared in Francs
The more quickly the train moves the mora
rapidly the APPARATUS works. The air oi ia
made mac to traverse a receptacle containing
wafer a Wnich cools 1t and relieves it of dust.
after which 1t goes through another filter'
Ing before entering the carriage