The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-07-18
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| in America in 1851,
! A Connecticut merchant advertises iron
| bedSteads and bedding"
About 100 Harvard graduates have died
| since last years commencement.
| A waterproof paper has lately been in
vented that will even stand boiling.
Governor Pattison of Pennsylvania has
written eighty-seven vetoes this year.
| RoSe-bugS are creating great havoc in the
| 1rnlt and vegetable crop III certain portions
| of Vermont
George W. Childs of Philadelphia owns q
| small harp which once belonged to To III
| Moore, the poet.
1t is better to go TO bed hungry once in
| while than to get up every morning head
| over heels in debt
A woman at Canton, Ohio, has become a
violent maniac from Drooding over her sons
arrest for intoxicatiOn.
Boston Common has over 1900 trees which
are SAID to be slowly dying, owing to the I'M
fertiilZed character of the soil.
Seventy years mprsonment-the maxi
mum sentence for burglary-has been i'm
posed upon New York criminal.
AT recent funeral of a young girl at
DanYtie, Va, sixteen maidens dressed in
pure white acted as 1ower-bearers.
Addie Dow. a Bar Harbor (Ie.) servant
! girl, recently committed suicide. Later in
the day her twin brother was drowned.
At Connersville, Ind, a man overtaken
by train on trestle bridge jumped 30 feet
to the ground and escaped with broken
leg.
The stock of lambs in New York's Cen
trai Park increases so rapidly that the
Commissioners are selling many of them at
auction.
According to the last census about % per
cent OF the entire population of the country
1--we in cities having population OF 5000
and upward.
The Director of the Mint estimates that
the United States can rely upon producing
at least S33. 100000 per year in gold for Sc "
eral years to come.
Owing TO the great increase in the erection
OF lren structures in Chicago there is said
to be great demand for architectural iron
workers in that city.
Josiah Morris, California pioneer of 40.
is dead at Salem. n. J. He made his pile in
the gold diggingS, and has since enjoyed his
wealth in his Eastern home.
Before the war there was no such flower
as the daisy in Virginia. The hardy flower
was curiosity. Now the fields just around
Richmond are white with them.
Notwithstanding all the recent develop
ments in Philadelphia, that city claims
to have 100 millionaireS whose aggregate
wealth amounts to over $780, 100000
At birmingham, Conn, girl stepped on
garden rake. the tires of which penetrated
her foot. Shortly afterward lockjaw super
vened and she died in terrible agony
For neuralgia make small muslin bag,
fill 1t with salt. heat it very hot and lay 1t
against the aching place. 1t will prove a
great relieyer, as salt retains the heat long
time
A Massachusetts, farmer claims to have
found au apple that Is OutWardly perfect
but the inside of which has been entirely
consumed by worm that crawled in through
the stem.
A pair Of determined Chicagnans are
lighting in court over the magnificent sum
Of one cent One got Judgment against the
other for that amount, but the other refuses
10 pay II, and the suit now Is 10 make him
Go SO.
At Richmond, Va, a man rented a type
writer, stating that he was about to engage
IN an extensive business The next day his
office was found vacant, and it was dsc0v-
cred that lie had pawned the machine and
skipped.
The word Estate" was first officially used
May Is, 1855. when Mr.. Archibald Cary re-
ported to the Virginia Convention, then in
session at Williamsburg, the famous resolu-
tlon ." to declare the United Colonies free
and independent States
Several prominent citizens OF Huntington,
w. Va, signed Il notice warning a widow to
leave town. Instead of complying with
their request, she has brought suit again st
each of the signers for 5000 damages,
amounting III all to 500, 900.
A New Orleans colored man WHO swal-
lowed silver dollar was taken to the hos
pltal The coin stuck in the mans gullet
After considerable work the surgeons man
aged 10 extract the coin, which the moment
1t was brought TO light the darby made a
grab for.
1t is not every boy who can make bicycle
for himself. let that is what a. sixteen
year-uld negro boy of Georgia, a black
smiths apprentice, has done. lie made the
bicycle out of raw metal picked up in the
shop, and 1t rides as smoothly as a factory
made machine.
In the town OF Rallies. Pomerania, a great
potato country, the entire population of be-
tween 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 bellringer alone in
charge of the town.
Tive brothers and sister, each under 0
years OF age, have been arrested for eXten-
sive burg lares at Concord, n. ii. While in
the police station they stole several articles
of minor value. They were discharged on
account of their youth but the same night
entered store and stole $50.
A New Haven Comm museum manager
advertised tailed SaraguP' as among his
curlosltieS About 500 people invested their
dimes, when the mysterious animal was
found to be simple wooded image. The
police had hard work to rescue the manager
from the vengeance oil the hoWhng mob.
A Cleveland (Ohio) thief entered a board
ing-house in broad daylight, arrayed him.
self in the best suit of one of the boarders
and leisurely walked out of the room, when
he was detected and arrested. When
searched, three watches and chains were
found in the pockets of his borrowed"
clothes.
The discovery Of about seventy SIX eletons
in q dilapidated house in Chicago caused
great excitement until it was found that the
place was the work shop of professional
skeleton bleacher and wirer, and the skeie-
tons, numbering about seventy, were his
stock in trade. He promised to remove the
Objectionable merchandise.
The game of billiards was invented in
1850 bv pawn broker by the name of Will
lam Kew, in London, WIN was in the habit
of taking down every night the three balls
which hung before his shop, and pushing
them about with his wooden yard-measure
on his counter Hence the name billyards,
which is a corruption of Bills yard.