The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-08-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The price of beer in Chicago has dropped
from So to So so per barrel.
Until 1776 cotton spinning was performed
by the hand spinning wheel.
To salute with the left hand is a deadly
insult TO Mohammedans in the East.
Germany manufactures over e2000,0 900
worth Of children's toys every year.
Goldsmith's Deserted Village" has been
translated into the tongue of the HindoC
race.
China's solitary railroad is 81 miles long
and cost $4,000 mile 1t uses American
locomotives
The cultivation Of tobacco has been for
hidden in Egypt and the duty upon the i'm
ported article raised.
A st. Louis man lost his temper and shot
parrot because the bird asked him if II
was hot enough for him.
Thieves entered Kittanning Pa.) resi-
dence and stole the family clock. They
will do time when arrested.
The Confederate Veterans Home at At
lanta will be completed in September. The
question is how TO maintain it.
Johnstown contains more inhabitants to-
day than she did before the disaster which
drowned $500 of her people year ago.
Only TWO of nearly 200 people buying
Marie Bashkertseffs book in a New York
house could pronounce the girls name.
II lCuuCtlUu VI pUSldl rates Ill Jdpdu WAS
expected to cause deficit in the revenues,
but instead they showed an increase.
A sum of $4,000 has been collected by
American ladies for the furtherance of the
higher medical education Of women at the
Johns Hopkins University.
A wealthy banker of Columbus, Ohio,
hearing through newspaper that he had
been drawn Tor jury duty, took the first
train to get out Of the State.
Tho hoe fbic cd p.
"Writers of fiction Qadies especially may
be supplied with new materials of an eXcit-
ing and romantic character"
President Seelye retireS from the PreSi-
deucy of Amherst College, and his successor
is to take hold in the fall. But who that
man is the Board of Trustees decline yet to
announce.
w. S. Williams of Cherokee County. Ala,
Is the father Of twenty-eIght children, the
eldest of whom is 40 years old and the
youngest 6. MIR. Williams is in his seven
tieth year and is still hale and vigorous.
Ii. NJ. S. Benheim, just launched, will be
the king of cruisers. She is of 5000 tons
displacement, 10000 horsepower, % knots
speed for four hours, unarmored, with steel
deck OK inches thick, two 22-ton guns, and
other small arms.
While baby was sitting in the middle
of the street at Oxford, Me-, nursing from
its bottle, a teamster drove over it. For
tunately the horse stepped a little to one
side and the baby passed between the
wheels uninjured.
All through New Mexico, Arizona. some
parts of Colorado and also in old Mexico no
rain has fallen for months, and thousands
upon thousands OF range cattle are lying
dead in the parehed valleys and thousands
more are dying for want of grass and
water.
While tearing down Joe Smiths old hotel
the Mansion House, at Nauvuo, ILL.,, work.
men found the skeleton of an infant under
the flooring, a silent evidence to some crime
of the long ago. The old Mansion House
is one of the lew Mormon relics left at
Nauvoo.
The most monotonous city in its buildings
is Paris, the houses there being almost all
alike. An attempt is now being made to
vary this by building houses of the style Of
the Renaissance and Louis Al, and hope is
expressed that the example will be followed
generally.
The thermometer in the House of Repre-
sentatives will drop several degrees TN the
day vote of thanks is rendered to Speaker
Reed for his rulings during the present ses-
sion. Members will be able to hang their
coats on the icicles formed on the Demo-
cratic side.
Portugal has female bull-fghter. Her
name is Clotilde Mejstrik. She has prac-
ticed for bull-ighting only since last April
LIST, yet she is wonderfully expert in the
arena. AT her debut in Oporto she killed
two bulls, and a week later il Lisbon she
killed two more.
The place to send old stamps is the AISLE
des Billodes, Locse, Switzerland. In 1883
this asylum received over 100000 stamps,
of which the best the children assorted and
sold for S240 to dealers and collectors,
While the others were used for decorative
purposes, rooms indeed being papered with
them.
The latest addition to the State Library
at Albany, n. y, is a collection of woods,
WHICH is designed to include every kind OF
timber growing naturally within the limits
OF the State. The first installment COM
prises forty-three species. Each specimen
is taken from the trunk, 81 feet long, and
shows the bark and grain.
"0ld Billy" says the Boston Globe. Is
now 40 years OF age, and is the oldest rail-
way horse in the world. For twenty-five
years he worked on a car running from
Brookline to Boston, and during this re-
markable career never lost trip from
sickness or inability. He actually Travelled
during this period over $4,000 miles.
Temperance advocates will be shocked to
hear the record of a Russian centenarian,
who has just died at Perm at the respecta-
BILE age OF los. Since he was is years old he
has gone to bed drunk every night. He had
only been i'll once in his life, when he fell
asleep in the street during tit of intoxica-
ton and his nose and ears were frozen.
If you have ever paid money to see
gorilla 20 and demand it back ut once, for
the most eminent naturalist Ill the country
says that no gorilla-no genuine, straight
edged gorilla-has ever been captured by
man. and that if he had he would never
live to make the journey from Africa. They
simply have been giving US overgrown
monkeys.
An oculist in Breslau has recently treated
800 cases or defective eyesight. for which
the cause was not apparent. 1t rose as sud-
denly as an epidemic, and was confined to
men entirely. At last he found the reason
for it in a new fashion of very tight shirt
collars. He made the young men inhibition
their collars and their eyes got well. This
may account for the vacant stare Of the
dudes.
Mr.. A. Montefiore, who has been travel
ing in Florida and devotng a careful study