The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-07-13
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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The greater part of the ocean bed is pitch
dark.
A Frenchman has invented steam
phaton.
Chicago letter-carriers have a Saturday
half holiday.
Germany publishes more periodicals than
all the rest Of Europe.
Tobacco merchants handle a larger amount
OF ready money than any other class of buSl-
ness men.
Only about one person in thousand can
undertake to write poetry without fooling
away his time.
Twenty Saginaw (Mich) boys have or
ganlZed WORLDS Fair club, and are saving
up money to 90 to Chicago.
Brussels, an inland city, is ambitious OF
becoming seaport The plan is to build a
ship canal from the North Sea.
Frank Shelter of Van Buren,, Ark, has
strawberry patch OF eighty-tive acres. He
employs 900 hands to pick the berries.
A lady never swears. But step on the
hem OF her dress, catch tine expression oil
her eye and you Will conclude she don
have to-"
The Missouri River is cutting new chan
mel at st. Joseph, Mo-, in such way as to
leave the new 100000 bridge standing
over dry spot.
Corks STEPPED in vasaline are excellent
substitutes for glass shoppers. They are
not affected by acids, and never become
liked through dlSuse.
The demand for the revised version OF the
New Testament in 1881 exceeded that for
any other book that has ever been pub
liShed before or since.
A determined fisherman at Grovervlle,
Ga. catches alligators with huok-nOt an
ordinary hook. however, but an iron affair
attached to strong pole.
nu . ha
sous have been drowned in the waters o
Plttsburg and vicinity 1t is said that all of
the victims were unable to swim.
1t Will be found when we get to heaven
that God has never put anybody in this life
IN such situation that lie did not at some
time use him 10 give blessing to others.
Sergeant Charles Campbell Of the Seventh
Cavalry, who was shot through the Jaw at
the Wounded Knee fight, carries $50 worth
OF god in the great hole made by the bullet.
a Portland (Mich) man has chicken
that has como, spurs and ali the trap
pings oil rooster, including the ability 10
crow, tina! lays an egg every day in the
week.
All people who think they are artists are
not so. No less than 10000 pictures were
rejected this year by the Selection Commit
tee OF the British Royal Academy. Most 0 t
them were hopelessy bad.
a Conn ectlcut River shad dressed al New
Haven had In its stomach railroad spike
i've inches long ana weighing seven ounces
The spike was rusty and the liver and side
OF the hSh were coated with rust
colored man Of Orlando. Fla, is respon
sible for saying that large mud fish fell
from above during the heavy rain, coming
very near striking him ON the head. He
states that he picked it up and had ii cooked.
Some of the girls have even gone so far as
TO have their pocket-bookS covered with
French gingham to match their morning
gowns, and really, with a silver monogram
upon 1t, the pocket-boOk has quite stylish
air.
An English authority has underken TO
settle the question, WHAT is pe-writing-
the written sheet or tile act of MritingP' He
says the machine is a typewriter; an oper-
atoT is typist; when working the type
writer she Is tipping.
While n. Ham of Valdosta, Ga, was
rambling in Swanoochee the other day he
heard spaShng in the water. On investi-
eating he was surprised 10 fluid two large
aiilRators fighting. 1t was the hardest
light he eyer saw and lasted FULLY an hour.
Mrs. Phoebe Brown of Lowell, Mass, IS
years old, spins three skelnS of fine warn a
day, lends hand in the homework, keeps
the weeds out OF garden, and occasionally
varies the monOt0ny of existence by making
barrel OF soft soap, doing all tue work her
self.
The most valuable Oriental mats in the
world are owned by the Shah, the Sultan
and the Maharajah of Bareda. The former
| two possess some valued at over 81, SOC. coo
each, and the latter owns one ornameuted
with pearls and diamonds said to be worth
S350,0O0.
commercial traveller. on opening his
sample bags before a custUmber in Griffin
Ca, was amazed to fimd them filled witt
potatoes, cabbage, lemons ard the like
Scmo practical jokers, friends of his, had
a. Ing GUNS if1.f.., h.
vegetables.
In settlement called Newell in Caldwell
County, Tex. reign of lawle.sness is re-
| ported. Several persons have been notified
to leave on pain Of death, but have refused
to comply. 1t is said that i. is unsafe TO
travel through the region without being
well armed.
Not long ago there was a school picnic al
Lake Grove, Maine. A little boy, whose
father Is dead and who had no money to
/ pay for the ride, walked to the grove, and
then chased the car most of the way home in
view OF the happier children who were rid.
ing all the way.
Constantinople has fifty newspapers.
Nineteen OF them are daily, semi weekly,
II weekly, semi-monthly, monthly, In
nationality 8 are Turkish, Z Armenian, s
Greek, French, French and English,
Italian, 2 Hebrew, Bulgarian, Arabian,
Persian, German.
DioSn DIN oftioHisbo WHICH were u Idu
last year. are scOrned by those Of high de-
gree ut present Why? Well, there is O
black overshirt that looks just like the silk
at distance that is selling for 81, and even
as low as 90 cents. The black shirt is un.
commonly common.
There is no accounting for the ways OF
Cupid. He may bring about alliance 10 the
most unexpected places. The first Mohanl-
medan marriage in England was celebrated
few days ago, when a Mosem lawyer was
welded according to the rites of his religion
to the daughter Of Lord Justice.
A Sturgis (Mieh.) father on learning that
his prospective son-in-law was incumbered
with numerous unpaid bills, stopped the
wedding preparations that were going on in
his family. His unchivarous refusal to rise
to tine occasion and iquidate the debts him.
sell mas cast gloom over the community.
A loving couple from the rural districts OF
Moose River went TO Bangor the other day
and got married. After the nuptial knot
had been tied they made a tour of the town
in the electric cars, took in view of the
| shops. and at 99-cent-stnre invested in 8
baby carriage. their only purch ase.
A hive of bees swarmed in corset that
had been hung out to air in North Atchison
kans. The owner of the corset tried Il
coax the bees of by beating tin pan, bu
they settled down to business, and she hat
to go without her corset until her husband
came home at night and smoked the inva.
ders off.
John Anderson of Hastan, Mo-, recently
removed three hard fiiutv stonps from n