The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-08-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The star Areturus has diameter of TO-
000,OO0 miles.
Paper-weghts with tiny clock inserted
| in tbs top are new.
Maine has potato famine, the crop hay-
| Ing been exhausted.
DR.. Hinckle of Americas, Ga, has piece
OF chinaware 791 years old.
Washington, d. c., is experimenting with
the Paris system of street cleaning.
Partisan experts are said TO earn $40 in
one evening by tying gentlemen's crasats.
| One of the youngest pupils in the schools
at Homer, Mich, is an aunt of the teacher.
| An Indian burying- ground has been IN
earthed IN the heart OF the city of Alpena.
Mich.
An electric outfit for one of our large
cruisers costs anywhere from $751; to
| 100000.
I a Bristol Pa.) man declares he has dog
that can bark distinctly many letters of the
| alphabet.
A Burrowtown Pa) boy is said to have
| swimming.
An enterprising soap manufacturer has
| placed his advertisement ON a prominent
rock in the Straits OF Magellan.
There are so many trees in Wichita, Kans.,
and they grow SO rapidly that it is neces-
| sary to regulate them by ordinance.
Professor r. L. Perkins of Boston is tho
owner of a copy Of Horace that was printed
| in 1916. 1t has an index to every word.
| After q cOurIshiD of forty-fiye years
/ Munich Germany couple, aged 20 and IS
| respectively, have entered the matrimonial
| harness.
George Scbweich, a merchant of Rich
mond Mo-. owns the table upon which the
| Book of Mormon was written. lie values
| it at $4,000.
| Too penurous to pay physician and too
proud to receive charitable medical attend
| ance, great Detroit miSer solved the great
| hereafter unattended.
Brooklyn physicians are being windad
| by rogue who calls in their a6se nee and
| pays fictitious bills with bogus che cks, re-
ceiving tie change in cash.
The latest fad with girls is to make pill
lows stuffed with love letters received from
| their adorers. The fashion prevails among
all the best girls of Chicago.
a conscience stfeken New Yorker has
sent s495 to the City Treasurer. with a note
| stating that the amount was due for taxes,
which he had falsely sworn down.
Nervous neighbors object to a Philadel-
phia dentists electric plant, which they
maintain creates great racket. They have
sued for its suppression as nuisance.
A Hamilton Ohio woman has narrowly
escaped premature burial. She bad appaT-
emily died and verything was ready for the
| funeral, when she came to life, and will re-
| cover.
| W hie wv. val man was
out with fishing party at Gladys Fork a
| dynamite cartridge, which he carried in hts
hand. ext loded and tore the member into
| ShredS.
young fellow of 16, near Scranton.
| Iowa, supplanted his brother in the affec-
tons of the latter's wife, and the injured
| husband sent the foolish woman home to
her mother.
| The life insurance carried by John Wanna
maker amounts to 81 200, which is dis
tributed in twenty-nine different companies
| Tine premiums on these policies amount To
| $4,000 year.
child born without arms, 20 months
| old, in BinghamptOn, Y. Y, is said to
handle his playthings as cleverly with his
| pedal eXtremities as an ordinary person does
! with his hands.
Some of the boys at Fowlervlle, Mich,
| have habit of ducking barber of that
town when he gets drunk. The last time
they tried it he fooled them. He had his
| razor with him.
rabid dog was killed on tie streets of
Tama, Iowa, after it had bitten four horses.
The dog was also seen in the iowa pasture,
| and the citizens are afraid to use the milk
| from their cows.
Throwing a small boy in the water to
make him swim has been defined as an as
sault by an Easton Pa.) Justice, and the
offenders-two other boys-have been re-
| manded for the offenSe.
| FOR attempting 10 KISS woman against
| her will, prominent citizen of Newman
Ill, lies dead at his home with fractured
| skull, the result of a blow with a hatehet in
| the hand of the woman.
Henry Judd, an aged scissors-grinder,
who annually paid nearly every town in
Michigan visit, has just died at Michigan
| City, Ind. The result of his labor is shown
in AN estate valued at $4,000.
An express train near Linwood, Pa,
! struck tramp and threw him several feet In
the air. When the trainmen found him he
was relighting his pipe. aud was angry be-
| cause lie had to waste match.
IF this gravel bank falls on me the city
will have to pay" said Walter Chambers to
a Philadelphia policeman. Within less than
| five minutes the bank did fall on him. and
| he died a little while afterward.