The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-12-19
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It's fad to make plaster impression Of
baby'S head.
Partisan women have very generally dis
carded earrings.
The bath is improved by the addition Of a
little baking soda.
This will be the second largest year in
The Number Of Immigrants.
Some housewives say the Hubbard squash
makes the best pumpkin pies.
The Baptist Church ladies at Fulton, Mo-,
cleared sol 90 on four 'possums.
Sour beer will bleach the hair, and good
beer will make one light headed.
II took 1000 cars to transport the grapes
OF the United States to market last year.
Twenty-one railroads center in Mime
apolis, which produces $1,000 barrels of flour
daily.
The principal difference between lobster
and a lobbyist is that you can make lob
ster blush.
Women who wear diamond rings outside
Their gloves are, contrary to hope, not all
dead yet by any means.
The volcano of Colima, Mexico, is active.
The column of fire from its crater at night
can be seen for 100 miles.
Shadrack Nugent, negro, who died re-
Gently IN Washington, maintained that he
was over 80 years of age
New effects in portrait photography are
nothing If not startling. The head looks to
be in cloud Of cotton smoke"
While shoeing horse recently Phila-
delphla blacksmith found $50 gold piece
Embedded IN The hoof OF the animal.
A young couple who desired to be odd
were married recently seated in buggy on
| top OF the Natural Bridge in Virginia.
Pennington. n. j.. is proud of setter
dog that reached that place alone from
| Philadelphia. after changing cars twice.
The celebration next year of the hun
dredth anniversary of Kentucky'5 admis-
sion to the Union is TO be very memora Bile
affair.
Turkey has forbidden Hebrew immi-
grants to enter Turkish territory. The plea
is that the spread of disease must lie pre-
vented.
Captain Wood of Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
and his four stalwart sons have rescued
over leo persons from drowning in the
North River.
They say there is an abundance of room
in Minneapolis for the Republican hosts,
and that the hotels can easily accommodate
$4,000 people.
Ex-senator Thurman of Ohio, who re-
Gently celebrated his seventy-eighth birth
day, was elected to Congress in 1874 as its
youngest member.
Senator Gibson of Maryland will be paid
Tor his short term of service at the rate of
about $1,000 week. This is better than
drawing two salaries.
a Frankford Pa.) man drives a brisk
trade In hiring out guns by the day, 80 cents
Tor Dreech-lOaders and % cents for old sh-
Toned muzze-loeders.
A Philadelphia has educated a house
hy to respond to a prolonged ''buz-z-z"
which brings it from its Granny any time Of
day for its supply OF sugar.
Mrs. Mary Crittenden died at her home
at Penn AN, N. T.. recently at the age Of
| 102. Her grandmother, a Massachusetts
woman, lived to be 10S years old.
The Tower Bridge over the Thames, built
on the bascule principle, has caused the I'M
derwriterS of LloydS to refuse to insure
vessels that have to pass beneath it.
GalignanPs Messenger has not very
lively appreciation for news, for it recently
devoted only four lines to duel that oc-
| Cured In one of the faubourgs of Paris.
A Prussian hunter has invented an at
| tachment by which guns can be rested
| against trees while taking aim. William II
| has had the invention attached to his guns.
| A citizen of Scott Township. Pa. coughed
| up a beech-nut shuck that had gotten into
| his lungs sixteen years previously. and
| saved himself IRON death by consumption.
William Ii loves homely fare He insists
| on having on his table every Thursday
| dish OF mashed peas, smoked beef and sauer-
| kraut, to be eaten together. This is q real
| old Berlin dish.
| In a turkey killed at Braddock, Pa, two
| fully developed hearts were found. Two
| physicians, to whom the hearts were
| given, said they had never heard of a sim
| liar case before.
| The famine reports from Russia increase
| in terrible details, and the desperation Is
| described as very great. Everybody gives,
| but all is not half enough-and the help is
very badly organized.
| One million two hundred thousand visit
| ors paid for admission to the international
| electric exhibition at Frankfort-on- the
| Vbs. hal Il
| to Palermo company.
Agricultural labor is said to be so scarce
| IN some OF the midland counties of England
that the crops are lying on the fields I'M
| gathered, Notwithstanding that wages have
been advanced 20 per cent.
James Chalmers OF Dundee was the in
ventor of the adhesive postage stamp in
1884. The stamp is in the possession of
! SIgmund Friedi, an extensive postage
stamp merchant of Vienna.
! In London the electric mains ara placed
beneath the sidewalks, and to avoid acct
| covers. each connected to earth. The outer
| cover is thus rendered harmless
| An electric wire breaking in q mine will
| frequently give forth spark, thus explod-
ing the dangerous gases. A recent inven-
ton Is safety mining cable, which can be
| torn apart without spark, arc or flame.
A Crisfield Va.) man captured and
| penned up eighteen opoSsums few days
ago. The same night however, they es-
| capped. and took parting revenge upon their
| captor by eating up all his chickens on their
| way home to the woods.
| Marble busts of Frances E. Willard and
| Matilda b. Carse Will fill inches In the new
| Woman's Christian Temperance Union
| Temple. Not bad motto, by the way. for
| this excellent association would be: Let
| all your 'busts' be MARBLE
For century and half a firm in Aix-la-
| Chapelle has possessed the secret of dyeing
| the regulation robes of the Roman Catholic
| Cardinals their characteristic red color and
! of the manufacture of the cloth, ana, there
| fore, has the monopoly Of making the robes.
| A large hawk, few days ago, in Creag-
| erstown, Va, flew through window with
chicken in its talons, breaking heavy
/ pane of glass in its passage, and fell on the
| floor Of room, where it was captured after
a severe struggle The chicken was scarcely
| injured.