The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-10-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

In Mexico the stre.t-cars are being used
for funerals.
Hebrew is again becoming living Ian
guage III Palestine.
There are so MANY trees in Missouri that
some localities want GruObing day substi-
tuted for ArbOr day.
Pin Hook, Hog Eye, Rubber Neck and
H0ltin-theGIOun are names of few of
the postofiices in Missouri
A Chattanooga CTena.) man is dead from
pertontis, caused by taking a so-called in
falli6le paten: liver medicine.
A new method of diverting and healing
the insane of Blackwells Island, y. Y, is to
have them rehearse in comedy.
Allegheny County, Pa. has sixteen per-
sons awaiting trial for murder, five as Access
series and four for manslaughter.
1t is said that electric heaters will take
the place Of the deadly car-stOye on one OF
the great trunk lines next winter.
A perfumed lamp. which burns cologne
and spreads delightful scent about the
room, is the latest household novelty.
Mrs. COrnWell of BridgetOn, l.. l., had a
dream and warned her husband not to 90 10
work. He was killed the same day.
In Africa elephants tongue and liver are
deemed great luXurieS, and small wars often
arise for possession of departed Jumbo.
Some OF the planters In North Carolina
are making arrangements to Introduce in
tUelT DldHldllOUS SUIuS VI LHe
Russian Hebrews.
A German medical journal relates that
woman in SaXOny who was baptized by iul-
mersiOn died shortly afterward, the cold
having produced an attack of heart d seasa.
1t is said that owing to financial reverses
the BOrghese family are likely to sell their
famous gallery of pictures, valued at 10000
600 francs, and constituting one of the
sights OF Roma.
A tho cuhianf If
says: THE people of Zanzibar should stand
high from the comprehensive character of
their cuisine. Among other delicacies are
small monkeys and fruit-eating bats"
An italian publisher got the opinions of
100 writers and scholars as to who are the
best authors. The replies placed Darwin
at the head of foreign writers, Shakespeare
next and Schiller, Goethe and Humboldt
following,
Travellers in Ceylon are astoniShed to dis
cover that the men there are far more
graceful than tho women. They are better
looking, also, ard dress more stylishlY,
while the women work in the fields and be-
come coarse and homely.
Just previous to a wedding at Brunswick,
Ca, the acute smell of the bride to be de-
tected the odor of liquor on the lips Of her
Detrothed, when she fatty refused to marry
him, and the match is off. The parties move
in the highest social circles.
A family of Piers of Milwaukee, Wis, take
the cake for legal powers. Mr.. Pier is
lawyer, Mrs. Pier is a lawyer and also
Court Commissioner. One daughter has
been admitted to the bar and two others are
studying for the same honOrs.
A Cedar Springs (Mich) clergyman is Ian
caused the false Imprisonment of a man
alleged to have disturbed a religious serv-
ice. He spends his time In continual ex-
hortation to his fellow-prsoners.
The Honorable Mrs. Craven, who died
recently in Paris, began to write when past
70 years old. After that age she made some
very interesting books and did newspaper
work which would do credit to the intellect
of any man or woman of any age.
the wealthiest insane asylum in Amer
lea is the Sheppard Asylum in Baltimore.
1t was endowed In 1857 with $500. 600.
Since that time the Trustees. using the in
terest alone. have expended SS80,OOO in
buildings and land. aud still have capital
of 100000.
A tired modiste In Philadelphia bazaar
was heard complaining, II had no less than
five dresses sent back to me last week" On
being asked what was the trouble she an
swerei warmly: 1.-THE same trouble |
always have. Every one of the woman was
badly formed"
Miss Flora Grace of Iowa is the inventor
of a cooking thermometer which, instead of
registering summer heat" blood heat
and freezing point, marks the boiling
point, the gently simmering altitude and
the varying baking points for meats, bread,
cakes and pies.
A queer sight, to be seen almost any day
upon the street, of Dauvile Ind, is that Of
| johnny Craig, the largest man in the world,
wheeling his six-mouths-old baby in any
| ordinary carriage. Craig weighs 1913 pounds,
| while young Master Craig is not above the
average six-months- old child.
Cider-making in Caroline County, Nd,
has already begun, aud many cider mills
which had been stored away for years past
have been given an overhauling and gotten
ready for u>e. The apple crop in the county
is unprecedentedly large, and a correspond
ingly large quantity of cider will be made.
The most novel race on record-a contest
| of speed between several goats-was re-
! Gently witnessed by over 5000 people al
| Houston, Tex. Thousands of dollars
changed hands on tho result. The Mayor
and other city. and county officials acted as
starters and judges. Some of the goats
made 800 yards in 80 seconds in harness.