The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-12-29
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The barns of Penn Valley PA stock
farm are lit by electricity.
A Philadelphia Oddly is a booth devoted
exclusively TO shoeStrlngS.
An "anti-church- bell association" has
been formed in New York.
a New York merchant has $4,000 worth Of
cut class i'll one bay-window.
The medusa is fish so fragile that when
washed upon the beach 1t meltS and diSap-
pears.
A soldier on trial for murder in New York
is a descendant, ii is affirmed. of P0ca-
hontaS
1t would take 145, COO cars Of 400 bushels
each to haul the wheat grown i'll Kansas
this year.
y Baltimore spinster has sued a man for
breach Of promise who couried her for eight
cen years.
A new herring bank, 100 miles long, has
been discovered off the west coast OF New
foundland.
Lord Lytton was believer in ghosts.
HIS home (hnebsworth) was haunted, he
was convinced.
MIR. and Mrs. Benjamin Follett of Olivet,
Mich, have celebrated their siXty-tAiTd
wedding anniversary.
Three hospitals in Philadelphia are man.
aged exclusively by women for the treat
ment OF wOmen's diseases.
\ few books, well studied and thoroughly
digested, nOurish the understanding more
than hundreds garsled IN the mouth.
a prominent Iicbmond preacher recently
proposed that his congregation start a sub
scription for monument 10 the slaves.
An Indiana man wants $1,000 from the city
OF Grand Rapids, Mich, in royalties for the
use OF device Tor opening the doors OF fire
eng.ne-houseS.
a Swiss woman has invented watch for
the blind, on the dlals OF which the hours
are indicated by twelve projecting pegs, one
of which sinks every hour.
Catharine Ailcorn OF Rome, Ga, is 92
years old, was never married, reads without
glasses. can walk mile without stopping to
rest and Is In excellent health and as gay rs
Il lark.
Ire Shah of Persia consumes one bottle
OF brandy per day and never complains of
snakes. The reason for this seems to be
that he fills in the time between drinks
smoking opium.
The late DIR. Amos Lusk, who died few
days ago in Zelienople, was humble vii
iage physician, bu probably the ablest lin
gust in Pennsylvania and noted in that
capacity Throughout tine United States.
Chicago guide book for the use of in
tending English visitors advises them not
to buy an OUTFIT before coming, but TO get
their clothes In Chicago, in order not to at
tract attention by the different cut of their
garments"
a French physician claims to have cured
twelve cases OF consumption by placing the
patients for two or three hours every day in
a compartment filed with compressed air
containing the yapors Of creseote mixed
with eucalyptus.
The Will of the late John Hamilton OF
Strattord. Ontario, provides that two-thrds
of the rentals of certain property shall be
handed to the Mayor every December for
the purchase OF bread, meat and clothing for
the deserving poor.
Consul Heath saws that MANY nj tho bousas
in Catanla are built Of the lava which
poured forth from Nit. Etna in great streams
on the neighboring clay beds. This mixture
Of clay and lava is now mixed and used to
great advantage in building.
The Grand Falls of Labrador are said to
be moro than twice as high as Niagara Falls,
being 800 feet against Niagara's I64 feet
The river Is but 200 feet wide where 1t falls
over the rocks, and for 1888 feet above the
cataract 1t descends in rapids at angles OF
3Oo
Domenico Nocchia is a reprobate Italian
brigand, SO years old, who has just been
turned loose on the world through mistaken
clemency. -Four murders and whole mag
aZIne OF robberles were booked against him,
and the wonder is why he has been allowed
to live so long.
Herman Daily, a seven-year-old rosy
checked Philadelphia boy, has been ex-
PEELED from a primary school in that city for
kissing the little girl pupils. They reported
the case to the teacher. and. as stated, the
youngster was dismissed. The affair has
created no little stir and amusement in
Philadelphia school circles.
A locomotive has been built at the Crewe
Works of the London and Northwestern
Railway which is capable of drawing a
train at the rate of 100 miles an hour. The
speed attained by this engine in trial runs
between Crewe and Chester was ninety
miles an hour; but this was shown to be
considerably below its full power.
The longest electric railway in the world
is to be constructed in Russia The project
is being considered of constructing a line
from st. Petersburg to Archangel, a port of
the White Sea, distance of more than eight
hundred kilometers (49S niles. The cleo
trio current is to be furnished by a series Of
generating stations distributed along the
line.
Rev. Napoleon Smith of Mason. Mich, is
getting a big share of the weddings in his
vicinity, and he ought to. Along with the
marriage certificate he throws In six-verse
poem of his own composition and the first
verse reads as follows: "God bless this
hopeful pair. throughout this changeful
life-preserye from ev'ry snare the husband
and the wife,"
Three miles an hour Is about the average
of the gulf stream, though at certain places
it attains speed of fifty-four miles. In
the Yucatan channel, for instance, where
it is ninety miles wide and 1000 fathoms
deep, the current is not over quarter of
mile an hour. In the Straits of Bemiui the
current is so rapid as to give the surface of
the water the appearance of being O sheet