The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-07-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

L OF IN
Bohemia miners wages average si32 a
year.
White House changes this summer will
cost $50, 600.
From 10000 to 10000 hairs grow in a
human scalp.
The United States has 100000 miles Of
telegraph wires.
A Leavenworth County (Kans.) farmer has
43l acres in apple trees.
Air brakes on electric streat-cars are to be
Introduced on Pittsburg roads.
The latest Paris music-hall sensation is
the donkey which plays the violoncello.
Mrs. Arthur de Vail of New York pos
sesses necklace containing 100 pearls OF
large size.
Twelve of the signers of the Declaration :
OF Independence were Irishmen or of Irish
descent-it is said.
Three thrones in Europe are now occu-
pied by children. those OF Spain, the Meth
erlands and Servia.
Heavy rams at Kalamazoo, Mich, re-
Gently did $4,000 damage by flooding 800
acres OF celery ground.
.Twenty-six people named Mahoney are
employed in various capacities by the city
government of Chicago.
W. j. Rainy of Butler County, Pa, was
picked up by vicious horse and shaken
until one arm was broken.
Linen that has become yellow from being
laid away may be whitened if soaked in but
termllk TWO or three days.
1t takes the tuSks of $4,000 elephants a
year to supply the worlds piano-keys, bill
lard-balls and knife-handIes.
Michigan farmers are being swindled bv
gllO canYasSer, who is Introducing a thistle
eXtermInator at So 80 bottle.
lave at least two pairs of shoes of the
the same weight and do not wear the same
pair TWO days in succession.
The laundresses of London are on a strike
ana they propose to wiring the bosoms of
their employers until they submit
The largest reseIyo in the world is the
great tank Of Dhebar in India, which covers
an area OF twenty-one square miles.
white pitch has been discovered that
can be run into deck seams hot, and will
stand the suns heat in any climate
New Zealand is shipping butter to Eng
land. If kept at temperature not above
40 1t arrives in excellent condition.
Jeremiah Cullen, aged 107 years. is dead
at BankstOwn, Iowa. Mr.. Cullen was a
native Of County Wexford. Ireland.
Keep your dollars in circulation at home,
II possible, whereby home people are bene-
hted ard home interests are prOspered.
An Irish judge was presented with white
gloves the ether day, to mark the entire alb
sence OF criminal cases from the calendar
surgeon in Manchester England. whr
has operated IN 139 cases OF cancer of the
tongue. reports l19 recOveres and 20 deaths
Farmers in Maine and Vermont are plant
ing their potatoes and corn over again. the
cold, damp weather having killed the first
crop.
A mathematician has discovered that
man can travel fifteen miles on bicycle
with less exertiOn Than he can walk three
miles.
The organs of smell in the turkey vuture
and n - t.au prf u
can scent their food for a distance oil forty
miles.
The japanese have imported into Chicago
Il process OF whisky distilling which will re-
duce the cost OF production about four cents
a gallon.
It is very much easier for the average
man tn make sacrifice for a friend than 1t
is to resist telling him afterward that il was
a sacrifice.
Under the game laws of New York the
English sparrow is not protected aud it is
made mlsdemeanor TO give food or shelter
TO that bird
Commissions in children should be treated
with cold bandages TO the head and heat to
the body. A tub Of warm water and mus
tard Is good.
Australia is the only country in the world
10 when Illuminating animals are not ind-
genous, and yet cattle and sheep of various
breeds thrive there amazingly.
Russian tea, another cooling drink. is
made Ike ordinary tea. but served in small
glasses with thin slices of lemon floating in
them. 1t is to be sugared to taste and taken
ice cold.
A thirteen-year-old lad living near May
helu, Mans, mas been granted a teachers
certlhcate. He made an average OF 70 per
cent in the ten branches in which he was
| examined.
Al play called "Nell Horn" brought
out at the Paris Theatre Libre to illustrate
London life the programme shows "rudes d"
| for r9ughs and " totalisateurs de the" for
| teetotalerS.
To indicate his reputation as an expert
wood-carver, a culored man in Hutchinson.
kans., recently, i'll fifteen hours, carved a
chain nearly six feet long out of a solid
piece Of wool.
An interpreter Yves necessary at a mar
rage ceremony which was performed the
other day by the Probate Judge of Labette
County, kans. The bride came all the way
from Germany to marry her husband.
vast banyan tree, covering between SIX
and seven acres, has been discovered on the
tiny Lord Howe Island, 300 miles from Port
Macquarle, in Aus:raiia. 1t is surpassed in
size only by the greatest OF those in India
A. NJ. Henry owns the farm upon which
the first battle of Bull Run was fought, and
owned ii al the time of the fight He was
away from home, but his mother was killed
in her bed by shell from Federal battery.
Water which is drunk is not the only
source of danger. Many ii widespread and
fatal epidemic has been traced to milk from
dalres where the pans had been washed in
| impure water, er the milk itself adullerated
| with it.
The reduction of postage between India
and England Is thus announced by a Kulu
| Branch Postmaster: " Sir, Europe postage
| she is degraded. she is two annas six pie.
registration lee she stands two annas, she
| intact"
| A sea captain and the owner of eighty
| parrots touched at Baltimore the other day,
| and the chatter of the birds created "A con-
| siderable excitement along the wharyes,
| 1t must have been reminder of the Yam
| kee school-h0uSe forty years ago under the
| regime OF memorlZlng lessons then in vogue
| A comedy mans trousers cost more time
| and as much money as several irreproach-
! able suits. The cut must be so grOtesqueIy
| horrible, and the patches so artstically
| variegated, that the construction of such a
| garment IS q serious matter, and only a
| tailor with skill and patience is equal to the
| task.
The Boards of Directors of three New
| York City bank ks have adopted resolutions
| of coincidence In regard to the death OF Mrs
| Deborah Powers. the lady banker of Lam
| singburg, n. Y, who died redently In the
| one hundred and second year of her age
| Mrs. Powers was born in Vermont on Au-
| gust 5. 1890.
Inc TlBhI IOr Tue Otate oil Wisconsin TO
| establish Kelley institute for the cure of
| liquor and opium habits, where the same
| treatment Is given to patients as by DR..
Kelley himself, has been purchased BY par
ties residing at Lancaster, Wis, who are
looking for suitable location with good
railroad facilities.
A Norborne (Kans.) mother sternly re-
| buked her son for making arrangements
preparatory to going fishing on Sunday, and
threatened to make the fact known to his
father. Imagine her surprise when she was
informed by the youth that his father was
down south Of the barn digging the bait.
But both went to church.
Luther Holt of Exeter, Me-, while walk
ing in the woods lay down to rest in the
shade of the roots of large overturned
tree. Workmen, not knowing of his pres
eDce, chopped the trunk from the roots,
which, when released, flew back into place,
imprisoning Holt beneath them. He was
dead before he could be released