The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-06-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
'Twenty-one last month"
To be continued.

1t has been figured out that it costs rich
man over $4,000 TO die in New York.
An adult laboring man wastes five ounces
of muscle in the course of his daily labor.
A new bicycle outfit contains bottle Of
arnlca, sticking plaster and roll OF Dand-
ages.
A log being sawed in Franklin Pa.)
saw-miil contained a nest OF 127 black
snakes.
After a Beaver County man had burned
log he found in the ashes lump Of silver
worth $3.50.
The word nicotine is derived from the
name of John Nicot, who introduced tobacco
into France.
A Kensngton man can wag his ear hard
enough to flip fly off it, TO the establishment
of the latter.
In the gizzard of hen killed at Lebec.
Me-, last week. was found small gold pu
lost ten years ago.
a child in Waynesboro, Ga, swallowed
galvanized iron staple and experienced no
bad results from it.
At Leaven worth, Kans., recently, ten
persons were struck by tightening, which
killed one and rendered the others uncon-
siouS.
DR.. Keller of Pottstown. Pa, cut
threaded needle out Of the foot of William
Ellis, from which he suffered for several
years.
A woman in Bath, Me-. active and well,
has not been on the city'S principal business
street for nine years. She has been too busy
she says.
An Osborne County (Kans.) man, with a
pack Of hounds, is bagging from ten to fif-
teen wolf scalps day, on Which lie realizes
So apiece.
The coming GLORIOUS Fourth" win be the
one hundred and ninth birthday of James
Layton OF New jersey, if he lives until
That time.
The uneasiuess of pigs before storm has
been theme of amusement in rural life
quite long enough to attest the truth Of the
observation.
The brass bands that are to furnish the
music for Boston Common this summer are
prohibited from playing anything but sacred
music on Sundays.
4 corpse recently disinterred at North
field, MIMI, was found TO have beard two
feet long, all grown after death, which Oc-
CURED twenty years ago.
Bogus is the corrupted form of the name
B0TgheSe, that of a noted swindIer who
passed large amounts Of counterfeit money
IN the West some years ago.
An Alabama cat has mania for alng
young chickens from their natural mothers
aud raising them herself. She is generally
successful in making them fine hens and
rOOsters.
1t is a singular fact that while the major
ltY OF the officials at the Maiden stune Jail in
Kent. England, are suffering from Influenza,
thus lar not one OF the prisoners has been
attacked.
The total export of oysters from the
United States to Europe during eight years
has been 1872 924 barrels. One-third of the
bivslyeS, 264. 30S barrels, wcre shipped from
Long Island.
a will has been probated in Philadelphia
which had been torn into small pieces and
afteTWard pasted on cardboard. The tesla
triX mutilated the document while temper
arly deranged
Montana is larger than the Empire of
Turkey. Texas Is larger than the whole
Austrian Empire by $4,000 square miles, and
New Mexico is larger than Great Britain
and Ireland together.
Richmond (Va.) street-car drivers con-
fScate the hats OF the numerous urchinS who
steal rides. Some Of them have reaped so
large harvest that they talk of starting a
secondhand hat-st0re.
At Oran, Algiers, Jeanne Weiss, the
NibiliSpS daughter, who had poisoned her
father slowly by doses OF arsenic, has COM
mitt7d suicide, having been sentenced TO
twenty years hard labor.
At recent all night session Of the Penn
Sylyana Legislature there was high jinks in
the House. Fire-crackerS, cats, owls and
other musical accessories we're introduced
TO keep the members awake.
The old gray coat once worn by Napoleon
l, which had been stolen from Paris
museum, has been recovered. 1t had got
into the hands OF an Oll-clothes dealer, who
had given seventy cents for it.
Equal parts Of cream of tartar and salt
peter make an excellent remedy for rheuma-
tim. Take ,one.half teaspOOnful of the
mixture and divide it into three doses. Take
one Of these doses three times a day.
: A couple were married the other day at
Columbia, kans.. in one of the dry-goOds
stores OF that city. 1t is Tot stated whether
the bride ran up bill before she left the
store, but the Inference is that she did.
There is an entire neighbOrhood of mutes
living iu Coolspring Township, Laporte
County, Ind. They are prosperous and in
telligent farmers, and appear TO enjoy life
as we'll as any other community in that
county.
The young Chinese Emperor has eele-
brated the completion of his twentieth
year by picking out a new wife. Precedent
allows a man Of his rank seven of these
companions, and this acquisition is only
the second.
The latest novelty in ferns used In Lon
don IS one Stimulating rose. When closed
it looks like a bud. When opened it resem-
IL
with the perfume Of that flower the illusion
is complete.
A mob of armed Kansas farmers, opposed
to either paying interest or permitting fore
closures on mortgages, reiustated Farmer
j. Ii. Bennett of Washington Township,
and said that further official interference
meant death.
Arrangements are being made by a pro-
fesSOr in the Peoria Gid High School and
ciy for fran CoI a.,
They vii! leave at the close of school and
walk over the mountains. The trip will oc-
cupy six weeks.
Small articles made of maleable iron are
nOwfin ished and polished bright by being
placed in revolving drums with curriers'
shavings, from which they emerge with all
of the rough edges smoothed and the sur
face highly polished.
Chocolate should be taken a. early morn,
with no more solid accompaniment than
piece of bread; it should be so thick that
spoon might stand upright in ii, and imme-
diately after its degustation glass Of cold
water should be drunk.
Judge William Allen of the Massachusetts,
Supreme Court 10 dead at NOrthamptons
Mass, of neuralgia of the heart. His father
was President or BOwdOin College, and his
grandfather was Rev. Thomas Allen, the
Fighting Parson" Of the Revolution.
Nearly all the st. Louis banks of any
magnitude now furnish their employees with
u O'clock luncheon. They claim it con-
duces to the moral welfare of the clerks,
besides keeping them throughout the day
directly under the eyes Of the bank officials.
A remarkable volume will soon be pre-
scented to the Harvard University library.
1t contains manuscript copies of all the COM
mencement programmes Of the college from
1880 TO 1890, and specimens of the order
of commencement exercises at intervals
from tine first graduation in 1912 to the Rev.
dictionary war
A Forkston Pa.) woman has applied for a
divorce because she is compelled to fight
wildcats too often. The part of the country
where she and her husband live is infested
with these animals, and as he refuses to
move she wants to leave him. She says
that In the last three years she has killed
fOTty-three cats.