The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-06-29
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.
The citizens of Green Cove Springs, Fla,
raised a subscription and purchased a
hearse.
The costs in the baccarat suit amount in
round numbers to something more than
$35.000.
Colgate University has been enriched by a
gift of S1.000000 from Mr.. James Colgate
OF New York.
Utica On. " tinsmith fell from roof
thirty feet to the ground without receiving
the slightest injury.
Three sisters of Natchez Miss, are
among the heirs to New York property said
to be worth 100000.
Scissors with silver handles that fold over
and protect the sharp points are made for
carrying in ones pocket.
A ware Mass pastor, who sued one OF
his deaconS for SANDER, has recovered l cent
damages. He wanted $4,000.
There are eighteen counties in Pennsyl-
van;a that have no debt The combined
debt OF all the other counties is SOS. 979, 972.
The Mayor of Waterville, Me-, has for
bdden religious services at the Poor
Farm, on the ground that lit excites the
paupers."
a West Roxbury (Mass.) hostess who
makes business of boarding cats saws that
" a week is about fair price for boarding
a cat in the country.
In negro divorce suit in Atlanta the
other day there were twenty witnesses, and
not one OF them knew month in the year
or could tell the time of day by clock.
Superintendent William Woodward Of st.
Peters Sunday School, Baltimore, is 80
years old, and has been engaged in Sunday
scDO0I WORK ever since the spring of 1919.
A schooner OF PrOYincetOwn, Mass, has
returned from twenty months mackerel-
fishing cruise in African waters. She sent
home 1000 barrels, and brings fifty barrels
more.
The recent English census gives the pop
ulation of Liverpool at $4,000. The census
OF 1881 gave that city 552, sos. This shows
decline OF 6.2 per cent, but the reason there
for is not given.
-Four things are required of woman"
say the Chinese, that virtue may dwell in
her heart, that mOdesty shine on her fore
head, that gentleness flow from her lips,
and that work employ her hands"
An egg from which vigorous chick had
Deen Matched by dove was discovered the
other day IN barn at Dana, Mass. The
mothery dove had f0stered the egg as care
FULLY as If it was of her own species.
Fields Martin, who lives near Flowery
Branch, ga, has worn a coat only a few
Times since the surrender Of General Lee.
lie says he feels more comfortable without
Que, no matter how cold the weather is.
very interesting census has Just been
taken OF The Indian students at Oxford.
Ihe group includes seventeen persons, ia
many respects representing the most highly
educated classes Of their ell0w-cOuntrymen
An electric car in st. Paul, Mimi, while
passing the end of a bridge in heavy rain
recently, was struck by lightning. The cab
was set on ire and the machinery rendered
useless. Not enc OF the passengers was ID
iured.
The Constitution Of Maine was adopted
IN 1920. 1t prohibits the lOaning Of the
State crsdit, and limits the debt contracting
power OF the Legislature. 1t also fOrbids
the Legislature to charter corporations by
special acts.
In every town of good size in Mexico
there are public schools. These are we'll at
tended, though most of the rich MeXicans
send their children to the schools OF the City
oil Mexico or to foreign countries, or have
private teachers for them.
The cost of an ordinary iron plain front,
20 by 100, i've stories high, is from $1,000 to
S3OOO according TO Ornamentation. If the
standard Doric, Ionic, C0rinthIan or Egypt
Ian designs are used the price is cheaper
than where special designs are used.
Thomas Cooper and wife. who live near
tloWery Branch, Ga. have four daughters
=. an except one married widows sons, all of
tnelr nus bands being named William, and all
OIL them the youngest OF the family, and all
married on the third Sunday in the month.
lady of Jacksonville, Fla, has swal-
lowed one box of pills week for sixteen
years. There are about twenty-five pills in
a box, and she has consumed S32 boxes
20 800 pills. For each box she paid 25 cents.
making total spent in the sixteen years OF
$205.
In the jungles of Sumatra is found an
enormous spider, which measures three
lHcnes across The body and seven across the
legs. 1t is black in color, with red ana vel
low markings. 1t spins geometrical web
aOoat IUur feet IN diameter between two
trees.
During the celebration of a wedding at
PIttSburg the company became so bolster
Gus that the police raided the house and the
bridegroom, with twelve other men, was az
rested and sent to the wOrkhouse tor thirty
days. Meantime the bride remains dlscon-
ISOLATE.
An engineer the other day, while leaning
out OF The cab window near Canton Me-
sneezed his false teeth out. The run was
completed without delay, and after re-
turn 10 the scene of the accident and n
search OF several hours the lost teeth were
recovered.
physicianwhO kept 4 nightly record Of his
pulse for i've years reports that every wear
III ialS through the spring until about mid
summer, and then rises through the autumn
TO November or December. Then comes a
second fail and a second rise, culmin 4ting
in February
In the town of Rallies, POmeIania, q great
potato country, the entire population of
between 5000 and 1000 shut up their houses.
leave The Keys with The Mayor and scatter
all over Pomerania to the potato harvest
leaving the Mayor and beI.-ringer alone in
charge of the town.
The Hudderfeld (England) Guardians five
years ago gave relief to man TO the extent
OF $50 Since his death his daughter who
earns about eight shiilipgs weekly as char
woman, by denying herself all luxuries, has
repaid the money In order 10 maintain the
honest Independence of the family.
II is claimed that John Rockefeller could
give every man, woman and child in
the United States 81 each and still have
lett 81, OO0,oC0 with which to start "a peanut
stand. William Waldorf Astor could do the
same thing, while Jay Gould could give
81 90 each and then have left S., Goo 900.
Georgia editor says: 1--WE came across
snake few days ago that surpassed any
thing IN the snake line we have ever seen.
The reptile was no larger than a lead pen
eli, but was ABOUT nine or ten feet long and
It's head was about the size and shape of
tea saucer. On top of its head was an exact
likeness of tiger"
John Canada Of Brazil, Ind, the hero Of
five divorce cases, was heavily fined for de-
sorting his present wife. She testified that
he cut her across the hand with a razor and
he swOre that she retaliated by giving him
an ugly slash down the back with the same
weapon as he leaped the back fence Both
were bleeding profuSely at tue trial.
The unearthing of a cracked skull at Con-
cords, \. H., cleans up mystery OF nine
years standing. In 1882 a man disap-
peared, and although he was thought TO
have been murdered by his brother, the