The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-07-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

In many parts OF Maine there Is an actual
potato famine, and in several villages the
people nave not eaten potatoes for weeks.
Richmond, Va, is astonished to learn
that about 100 OF the Virginia volunteer
uniforms are III the hanis of a pawn
broker
Most of the ships in the French navy
nave been equipped with telephones. In
heavy firing, II Is said, the speaking is quite
distinct.
New Hampshire housewife has found
ne" way to shell beans and peas. She
runs them through the family clothes
wringer.
A haibut of sos pounds was taken re-
Gently at Cape Elizabeth, Me-, with a six
pound handllne, after a struggle lasting over
an hour.
One Of the sights of Bangor, Me, on re-
cent morning was herd of four deer
calmly feeding upon the lawn of subur-
Dan residence.
10 preserve picture frames from flies boil
three or four young onions in a pint Of
water, then with soft brush or bender go
over the frame.
a young Tullahoma (Tenn.) man has
peen given 100 laShes on the bare back by
masked men for brutal treatment of his
bride of three months.
-, Miss Asenath Philpott of Gainesville,
lex, has hair 10 feet inches long. This
growth Is since 1884, when her head was
shaved after brain fever.
Physicians of this country are paid an
hually nearly S1,500,000 for medical eXami-
nations for life Insurance companies Three
companies pay over $250,000 each.
Anewspaper in the gypsy jargon, the Ro-
many tongue, is soon to be published in
England, with the expectation of making it
tile organ OF the wandering people.
German girl who arrived in New York
TO marry an old lover. on meeting him re-
fused 10 keep her promise, declaring that
she never thought he was SO homely.
Spanish milled dollar of 1913 has been
found IN the dirt under house in West
Par,s, Me. The coin was in excellent con-
ditio1, the design and lettering being very
clear.
July is an unlucky month for Alpena,
Mich. Twice great fires have come near
Wiping out the town in that month, and the
1olks are always nervous until August 1st is
reached.
a German engineer has been fined $50
marks at Glatz for hypnotizing girl named
Emily Winter three times daily for week,
by which treatment she was driven viz
lently mad.
Six Pittsburg boys. all under IL, despoiled
a paWn-Sh0p OF watch and eight revolverS
and are now the enforced guests of the city,
having indefinitely postponed their wild
West" tour.
a streak of Grand Rapids (Mich.) light
ming followed an electric-light wire into the
chlIurens department Of ST. Marks Hos
pltai, eoolly turned on the gas, lighted it
and lett Tor parts unknown.
Des Moines, Iowa, is proclaimed the
greatest city In the world without saloon.
IL may be of interest to note in this connec-
lion that Des Moines has $4,000 inhabitants,
according to the last census.
The New York girl who lost her engage
ment ring i'll wash-baSin only to find il
two years later in the gutter. where it had
been washed from an open sewer, had mean
time been married and widowed.
AT New Haven, Conn, recently, man
was found dead leaning out of one of the
windows of a soldiers monument 100 feet
high. The slightest variation of the body
would have precipitated it to the ground.
Red stockings are generally colored from
matter of aniline which contains large GUAM
titles OF antimoniac products. When per-
spring this matter becomes soluble, enters
the pores OF the skin and produces a violent
rash.
There is withered and weakened old
bookseller who sells from a barrow near
Franklin's tomb in Philadelphia, the dream
OF whose life is some day 10 see New y ork
1T must be wonderful city," he SAYS;
chow I'd like to see it!'
The girl baby of W. ID. Singleton of East
Greensburg, Pa, is months old and weighs
only six and half pounds. 1t Is the small
lively as cricket. An ordinary finger ring
would 60 on either of her legs.
While the funeral of his wife was being
preached IN the Methodist Chur, Il of Tower
Hill, ILL.,, Rev. w. Il. +. Corley fell from
his seat and died In a few minutes The
and Mrs. COrley were buried together.
An ingenious cobbler in West Philadel-
phia has fitted up stranded horse-car as n
shop aud dwelling. The establishment is
as cosy as can be and as neat as a ship's
cabin, aud its inmate is not half as crowded
as he would be if his Car were on the road.
A Searsport (Mel man has furnished
new illustration of thrift. He walked from
his town to Belfast, distance of six miles.
to take an excursion steamer to Bangor, be-
cause the fare was tho same from both
places and he would thus get more sail for
his money.
A farmer at North Stonington, Conn.,.
owns remarkable pair of turkeys. The
hen has laid ninety-fve eggs in succession
and is still laying. As she absolutely refuses
to set, the gobbler has taken upon himself
that duty and has already Matched fifteen
small turkeys.
a Philadelphia preacher announced that
he would more than redOuble his work dur
ing the heated term, making his sermons
longer and holding meetings every night in
the week. Within two days his cOngrega-
ton had made up purse to send him TO
Europe for three months.
The discovery has been made that not a
child has been born in the White Hills
Comm School District in nine years and
that the youngest child attending school is o
years of age. The population is about $50
persons, and soon the schools viii have to
be abandoned, the prospect for an increase
being very poor.
The Milan museum has recently come
into the possession OF remarkable clock.
- DEnfI fiTnn mi
bread crumbs. A poor Italian workman
made it, Every day he set apart portion
of his modest meal in order to carry out his
curious project. The bread crumbs are
hardened by the addition of salt.
The Mayor of Chicago has stated pub
licly that 1t Is his firm and inflexibe pur-
pose to lop off the head of every police
officer in that town who permits gambling
house to operate on his beat. And yet it is
understood that stranger seeking a little
game IN Chicago can generally find it by
inquiring of the nearest policeman.
Lexington (Ga.) has a town marshal well
equipped for his duties. A few DAYS ago. il
Is said, he had occasion to arrest three evil
doors in bunch. He gathered one under
each arm, their legs dangling in the air. and
drove the third along in front, and in that
way proceeded to the calaboose, where ali
three prisoners were locked up.
A Bradford (Pa) man recently died who
uCsOi otoOu VI IiS Itch TIC DUueS oil his
legs contained no animal matter and were
very brittle. One of them was broken
twenty-seven times, and the injury was as
painful as similar mishap 10 any other
man. He leaves son, aged 16, who is sim
ilarly afflicted and who has had his leg
broken sixteen times.
The building of the contagious disease
branch of the Health Board, New York
City, becomes like great nursery during
the afternoon. IL Is then that the mothers
take their babies to be vaccinated, and there
are babies eyerywhere-on the staircase,
the steps In the hall, in the basement, on
the sidewalk-there are babies, babies. ba
bies. until one wonders where they hail
from.
:, An atrocious accent in pr0nouncing
French stood an Englishman in good stead
In Paris recently. He went to Paris mutual
office to place 900 francs on the horse Pa
pillon ". for the Prix de Bretagne. Owing
to the Englishman's faulty pronunciation
the clerk understood only the last word.
.quatre," and gave. him ninety 10-franc
tickets on Jean la FOlle. Jean la FoIle won
easily and the lucky BTitisher cleared 81 900