The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-08-07
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

An astronomer estimates that 146,O0O,000
meteors fall upon the earth annually.
Maurice, Lee, Chicago's oldest man, is
| dead, aged 105. His widow is over 100.
Nearly 10000 Pittsburgers recently
availed themselves Of the public baths in
| one week.
Overstudy has caused the incurable
| arrangement of a brother and sister at Sioux
| City, Iowa.
Captain Herman Kopperhold of Waldo
boro. Me, has fife that footed at the battle
| of Bunker Hill.
The Declaration of Independence was
read at Graham, Mo-, July 4th, by girl
| only years old.
A Germantown Pa.) couple whose triplets
| died day or two after birth have preserved
the bodies in alcohol.
New York City mail-carriers have n pretty
busy lite. During June they delivered over
265, 900 pieces Of mail matter.
| a Georgia exchange explained the recent
absence of editorial matter from an issue by
| saying that it was too hot TO write.
A New York kiss is worth So; at least,
| Judge fined man SIS for stealing three
kisses from Niueteenth-street girl.
The death is recorded Of an Allentown
! Pa) man. aged 81. who for the past thirty
years has done nothing but read the Bible
all day long.
Mayor Harrison of Shelby, Miss. recently
| committed suicide by shooting. He was
| very popular and the incentive to the deed
Is mystery.
Several Lynn CMass.) men are sailing
| down 81 per week toward obtaining suffi-
| Gent funds to enable them to take in the
| Worlds Fair.
An experienced caterer says that where
| the guests at a gathering are well ac-
| qua!nted they eat at least 20 per cent more
than they otherwise would.
A man recently died at Wakefield, Nd,
| who had been unable to assume a recum-
| bent position for two years, the result of in
| lurleS from a railroad accident.
| A Texas infidel rode ninety miles to get
religion under the auspices of an evangelist.
| de listened to two sermons, profeSsed re-
| ligion, and mounting his horse started for
| home.
NJ. Alder of Paris, after expanding more
| than 100000 on flying machine, has pro-
! dnced one in which he flew about 100 yards.
lie says il is propelled by "a combination
| of vaporS.
| A peddler arrested Mt Shenandoah, Va,
for peddling without license had S4646 in
| money on his person. He said he had no
ialth IN banks. and carried all his money in
| his clothes.
The customary explosion followed the at
| tempt OF PlttSburg woman to start ire
| with coal oil, but strange to say she came
| out unscathed, though the building was
| consumed by fire.
4 Pottstown Pa.) nine-year-old girl is a
| confirmed thief. She will be sent to a re-
| formatory until she attains her majority
Her brother. aged 13, is in limbo for steal
ing pair of shoes.
The State of New York supports seven
schools fer deaf-mutes, in which there are
about 1850 pupils. These schools have
graduated many thousands, and most of
them are doing well.
a Lafayette Qnd) girl, mortified beyond
measure from being chastised by her father
for dlsObedience, drowned herself. 1t was
the Old story of encouraging the attentions
OF forbidden suit0E.
Pittsburg letter-carriers are greatly an
noyed by vicious dogs, three of them having
oeen severely bitten. A citizen attributes
this condition of affairs to the inability of
| the dogs to obtain water.
An Augusta County (Va.) ex-COnfederate
has handkerchief which was perforated
with fitty-three bullet-holes in an engage
ment. He retains the bali which made Il SUI
perhcial wound in his thigh.
At Sunday-school excursion TO Bayside
Park, Staten Island, young man who was
bathing and had become caught in a qEick-
sand was rescued from drowning by
clergyman over 10 years of age
A Philadelphia man who stole a watch
thirteen years ago has become conscious
stricken and has sent tile tinlepiece to The
Superintendent of Police. with instructions
to restore the property to its owner.
According to the latest municipal reports
there are in St. Petersburg l53 streets and
squares without pavement, sewers or gas
lights. They are the breeding spots of dis
ease ana crime in the great metropolis.
1t takes seventeen yards OF silk or satin.
at from 81 90 to 50 30 per yard, to make
gown for one of the Supreme Court JUS
tees. according to information furnished by
the modiste who makes nearly all of them.
In Douglas, Wyo, two servant girls sued
We an rl,pl hot, For
wages. The case was tried by women law
yers before jury of twelve women. As
the Judge was man, verdict was eyentu-
ally reached.
The hull of the Anchor line steamer
Utopia, which was wrecked at Gibraltar
some months ago. has been safely lodged on
the beach. The skeletons of thirteen grown
males and several children have been found
on the steamer.
A mixture of sweet oil and enough kero-
sene to scent it, lightly brushed into
horses coat will repel flies and small YER
min and keep the coat bright and smooth
| and clean. Use rather stiff brush and add
little elbow grease.
While Six years ago there was not an cleo
trlc launch on the Thames sixteen were
! counted at the Henley regatta this year,
| and there are nine stations between Kings
ton and Oxford, at which the storage bat
| teries can be replenished.
A war veteran in Michigan has figured in
no less than three divorces, and the strangest
| part OF the affair is that two of them were
from one woman, whom he married twice,
and the. third was from his first wife, with
whom he has now taken up.
| The costliest dresses In the world are
worn by the women of Sumatra. They are
| made of pure gold and silver After the
| metal is mined and smelted it is formed
into fine wire, which is woven into cloth
| and afterward made into a dress.
ex-Mayor and five members of the Demo-
cratic City Committee for $4,000 for the loss
OF his hand by the explosion of giant fire.
| cracker thrown from a wagon by the Off
cials during last fairs campaign.
| A Greensburg (Pa.) father dressed his hope
iul up IN skirts in order to punish him and
Keep him in the house. but the boy, un-
daunted, went out into the street and played
tue girls part so awkwardly that he was
arrested for impersonating female.
At recent prohibition meeting in Blaire,
| Nebr., collection was taken up, but the
money was left in the hat for awhile, and
! when the man for whose benefit 1T had been
given went to take it, it was found that
| some miScreant had appropriated it all.
Writing by telegraph. now so much talked
about, was tried in France twenty years
ago. Signatures were sent from Pau to
Paris, and the experiment was considered
entirely successful. After that the whole
matter was suffered to fall into allegiance
Vincent Griest of Lower Oxford, Pa, wit
| messed a combat between an owl and a
smaller bird, and VIXEN the little one seemed
to be getting the worst OF the battle he went
to its assistance. The owl thereupon at
tackled him and bit him in the arm and face.
People who through accident are Obliged
to use glass eye should have one for night
and one for day use. The pupil of the
natural eye Is smaller by day than by night.
A glass eye that looks all right during bust
ness hours gives the wearer an uncanny APP
pearance at night.
Ii the eyes are tired and inf1amed from
loss of sleep, by sitting up late or long
travel, apply in the morning soft white linen
| dripping with hot water-as hot as You can
bear it-laying the cloth upon the lbs. You
will feel the eyes strong and free from pain
or distress in half an hour.
a H0llaway (Mich.) druggist used tartar
| emetic instead of tartaric acid in his new
soda fountain and invited the crowd, which
had come III to see the new concern, to have
one with him, and all joined in the revery
| IheV subsequently, all laanad nva- fapoa