The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-05-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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New York painters now get So so for a
day of eight hours.
A Brooklyn couple recently died of the
grip on the same day.
A New York restaurant has three Gus
toners who eat egg shells and all.
A New York German has committed sui
eide from grief at the death of his wife.
An Indianian takes SO newspapers and
reads them all. Bunco men give him wide
berth.
The London city directory contains fifteen
closely printed pages occupied by the Smith
family
Sometimes the vexed silver question is
epltomized into a short request for loan of
% cents.
Mark Twain is said to have invested
$4,000 in a patent for type-5stting
machine.
A Fayette County Ohio man has dog
which has killed Coz rats and other yermin
in one year.
Blackberry seeds lodging in the blind in-
teStine caused the death of George MackeY
of Preston. Hollow, N. Y.
Brooklyn's single colored policeman has
been brought before the commissioners
charged with dereliction III duty.
Several New York merchant tailors who
had Judgments against delinquent customers
for over $1,000 have sold them for S317.
Mile Capece, aged 16 of HazIeton, Pa,
committed suicide in preference TO marrying
an aged sutton, the choice of her parents.
A Texas stage-robber has obtained only
81 as the fruits of his industry, which would
hardly pay for the persuasive weapon he
used.
Mrs. Lease, the Alliance woman anarchist,
is now called the Amazon of Kansas
The Amazon, you know, has mouth 100
miles wide.
At Lyon Mountain, Clinton County. n.
Y, there has been 140 days of sleighing,
and it is as good now as at any time during
the winter
Rev. Robert T. Hanks of Dallas, Tex,
noted Baptist preacher, has been indicted
for libeling other ministers and calling them
| notorious liars.
The largest Christian church in the world
| I'm floor area is not st. Peters in Rome, but
! the cathedral Of Cordova, built originally as
| M0Slem mosque.
Mr.. Frank Stockton's "CoSmie Bean" is
| not meeting with great favor in Boston for
the reason that the people there do not wish
to make any change.
Rudyard kipling set up the type, printed
and published his first book himself in India,
| and as it had sale OF over 500 copies it
paid all his expenses.
One of the queerest cases of grip yet
heard of is that Of Philadelphia woman
eye is wholly unaffected.
Bay County, Mich, has paid for 3S095
sparrowS since the sparrow law went iat0
effect, and it is claimed that the pests are
getting decidedly scarce.
Memphis has second Zeuxis in the per-
son of ten-year-old boy who paints apples
so lifelike on paper bag that children who
see the picture cry for them.
A resident of Joinville-le-Pont, near Paris,
is said to have 0,000geese, which produce
annually 20,000,000 of quilts. He has tile
largest quill mandatory in the world.
Judge Eve of Augusta, Ca, had before
him the other day poor devil named Adam
and sentenced him to the chain-gang for
three months. 1t was the same old spirit
over again.
In Paris the drivers of the cars on some of
the street railways are placed on ton of the
car, thus giving them better control of the
horses, while gaining additional space for
passengers.
An ingenious Connecticut woman has
written letter. on the back of postage
stamp. The address Was on the small mar
gin of white paper which accompanies
sheet of stamps.
The University of Michigan has 2420 stu
dents in attendance, of which 425 are women,
and of these 54 are studying medicine. The
attendance of women has nearly doubled
within the past four years.
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came engaged while in Germany to a Danish
gentleman who is in business in China,
where they will live. So the world goes on
growing less and less provincial.
Theresidence of William Moyle, in Beaver
Brook. near Danbury, Conn. was infested
by ghost until a thorough search revealed
in the cellar monster bat" Since which
time there have been no Gnearthly manifes-
tations.
A hound was born at Rldgewood, N. Y,
last week without any foFelegs. The ami
NAL lived less than twenty-f0ur hours, and
upon its death was taken to taXldermiSt
who, after stuf1ing the curiosity, placed it in
glass jar.
The Board of Education of Sandusky
Ohio, has issued an order prohibiting the
school teachers from dancing. The majority
of the women instructors are society lead
ers, and there Is vigorous kick against the
regulation.
A box containing s35 in geld coin has been
unearthed near Troy, Tenn. 1t is believed
to have been buried "befo' de wah by an
old blacks NTH, who, upon his death, left
scarcely sufficient funds to defray the ex-
peHses of his burial.
A farmer near Mount Clemens, Mich,
quarters, halves and dollars, 20 the registers
Office to make the first payment on new
farm. He had been his own banker for
quarterly of a century.
Miss Frances E. Willard proposes to "lift
woman from mere sexho0d up toward
glorious womanhood." Unfortunately the
English language has no available word
which quite eliminates the sex idea except
humanity" and even that, as Mrs. Part
ngton used to say. "has got darned man
in it."
Goldfish a few years ago could only be
bought by the quintal and had 30 be piled
in cellar-way, Honey was brought in out
of Old-fashiouea hives. dripping and repul
siye-lo0king; mince meats were in kegs and
barrels and had to be put out Of sight. Now
these three particular articles, which the
merchant tried to store in the most out-of-
tne-way corner, are so put up that they are
main shelf and counter attractions.
At Brownstowp, Ind, Philip Renting
young man who had never connected him
| self with the church or made any religious
| demonstrations, called for Bible, selected
| a text and preached most sOul-stirripS
sermon. The effect of his words wee to
bring many worldly persons to a .senSe of
| their sins. He had not closed his sermon
| longer than FIVE hours when he suddenly
| dropped dead.
A leather apron played prominent part
| in the Mayoralty campaign at Oswego, n. Y.
! An opposition paper Sneered at John keh0e,
| young blacksmith, one CT the nominees. as
the Heather apron" candidate. The work