The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-10-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


ate opium, then got out on the roof, sang
Annie Rooney and chanted the kreutZer
Sonata to BeethoN VEINS notes
A Brooklyn woman, Mrs. Augusta Elk
blon, who is seeking a divorce from her
husband, has been married three times
soon after marriage.
The largest diamond found in the South
African mines Is the Victoria or Imperial,
which weighed originally 1917 caratS. In
It's finished condition ii weighs $50 caTats
and is worth 100000.
1t is stated by pharmaceutical confer
ence that the growth of the patent medicine
mania has been Tremendous in recent years,
and that the present generation is much
more credulUuS than the last.
They have a lady in Grand Rapids, Mich,
who is as great a crank on black as the wife
of Senator Davis of Minnesota. All her
undergraduates. as well as the sheets and
draperies OF her bed, are black.
1t is estimated that if the tobacco used in
France during a single year were twisted
into cord two inches i'll thickness it would
be long enough to encircle the earth thirty
times, following the line of the equator.
The following advertisement lately APP
peared IN a morning newspaper: "DOg-Re-
CURED kind master for an excellent black
retriever dog. Owner parts with him on ac-
count OF savage tendencies. Address, etc"
Butterflies are to be the next victims of
fashion. Fans are decorated with the
beautiful Wings OF these insects caught in
hundreds for the purpose, the body, antenna
and legs beng sketched in afterward by an
artist.
The French Academic des Beaux Arts
have accepted the curious bequest of NJ.
Eugene Plot, amounting to about ESQ year,
to be devoted TO founding a scholarship to
be competed for by lady sculptors and
painters.
A teE-dollar Confederate bill was taken
in exchange for goods in a Georgia store.
The clerk discovered the error, and, after
hunting Tor the man for two days, found
him on his way to the store, having dis
covered the mistake when he reached his
home.
1t is asserted that the Pennsylvania Rail
roads new train-shed In Jersey City will
have the largest span in the world. 1t will
be 256 feet lOng-Seyente5n feet longer than
the celebrated st. Pancras station in Lon
don. The building will be ninety feet high
in the middle.
Willie Austin, a Chicago child, strayed
from home few days ago and his mother
and sympathetic neighborS searched for
him in vain. Wilie's Newfoundland dog
was then sent out and found his little mas
ter the next morning asleep On the Marine
Hospital lawn.
a farmer of jackson County, Mo-. has
sold the product Of his apple orchard to Il
Cincinnati firm for nearly $4,000. The apple
crop In that county Is said to be enormous,
aud many farmers will make III IRE off their
apples than they could have got for their
farms in the spring.
a German Of d Istgn, well known at the
South End, recently took trip to the father
land. 1hrre he died. While living he
turned the scale at $50 pounds. His body
was cremaIed and the remains, weighing
SIX ounces, were lnclnsed in an envelope and
sent to his family IN Boston by mail.
The lines in Longfellow's Building of the
Snip" which excite the chaste adherence of
certain dyspeptlc purlsts IN the Brooklyn
Board OF Education are III part those in
which the poet SympatblZeS the ocean re-
ception of the gall mt ana beautiful craft by
the hguIe OF the bridegroom receiving his
bride.
A woman was at the depot at Decatur,
Ill, the other day who was on her way to
Nebraska. She had seventeen children
with her. She had been married only ten
years. The first three years she had trip
lets. Then she had twins for two years.
After that they came singly, but regularly,
for four years.
The pug dog, as ret, has an interesting
history. He was at first imported from
China and Japan, and came into fashion in
the reign of William Ill. 1t is stated that
the King believed his life to have been saved
by dog OF this breed awakening him to his
TO be made on him.
A New England weekly had an item to
the effect that manufacturers of chewing
gum were buying up all the old rubber
boots and shoes in the country, and the
news wasn't week old before two manu-
facturers began heavy damage suits. The
editor has 20 prove it or quit the sanctum
Tor the potato patch.
a man who spent ten months in South
Carolina, where divorces are never granted,
made record of $40 separations, many of
them with murder as the result, and sew
eral hundred cases where husband and wife
have lived together for years without
speaking. He says that divorce would have
been Gcdsend in every case.
A barrister who is shortly going to enter
the holy state OF matrimony was seen scrib-
bling in his brief the other day in court
Later in the day his clerk, happening to
glance at the writing, read these old lines:
Fee simple or simple fee. And all the
fees entail, Are nothing when compared to
thee, Thou best OF feeS-female!' .
Secretary Rusk is about to visit Grand
Island, Neb., to inspect the great beet sugar
factory, which has just begun operations.
The factory cost S40O, 900, and can convert
800 tons of beets into thirty tons OF sugar
every twenty four hours. If the proprietor,
Mr.. OXnard, finds this venture success he
will establish five other plants in this coun-
try. Secretary Rusk is sure one will be Ia
Wisconsin.