The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-04-17
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London.
A home for broken-down bachelors has
been founded in st. Louis.
A four-winged duck was Matched a short
time ago at Bar Harb0r, Me.
In Kentucky town recently every one of
tie 72l adult inhabitants had the grip.
A Michigan drummer owns horse which
he has driven over $1,000 miles in the past
nine years.
Patrick Brennan. who recently died at
Hurley, Wis, aged l02, had voted for twenty
Presidents.
A man has been arrested at Gate City,
Wash, for stealing a saw-mill and carting
II twenty miles.
Fred Douglass mourns that he cannot
celebrate his birthday. He does not know
when lie was born.
A clergyman at Pittsburg. Pa, advised
his congregation to use whisky moderately
to Keep OF the grip.
woman in Islesboro, Me-, SO years of
age, who has used tobacco all her life, has
discarded the weed.
The State of Alabama pays SI25,OOO in
pensions to its eX-Confederate veterans, but
has no soldiers home.
a sign in Westerly *. L., barber-shop
reads: Hair cut and whiskers trimmed %
cents, children Is cents"
Senator-elect Palmer OF Illinois once
worked for % cents a day on a farm and
a1terward learned the trade of cooper.
Spotted fever is the cause of great NOR
tally at Mesquite, Tex. 1t has become cpl
demie, causing suspension OF business:
A man at Reading, Pa, was bitten by n
pet parrot, aud died soon after from blood
poisoning. AT last accounts the parrot was
Still talking.
The London Telegraph's ST. Petersburg
correspondent says that another conspiracy
against the life of the Gar has Just been
discovered there
A Salina (Kans.) family is eating fresh
ripe tomatoes from vine that was taken
into the house last fall and carefully nur-
tured during the winter.
George Venable of Madison, Ind. took
bath, and while in the water attached q gal
vanlc battery to himself to cure his rheu-
matism. He died in great agony.
The younger Pitt century ago remarked
in Parliament: " l have been accused of the
Infamous crime of being young man, one
that can neither palliate nor deny"
Among the recent arrivals at Boston was
the four raSted, tull-rigged ship Trafalgar,
from Calcutta, the first vessel of its kind
that has visited Boston harbor since the var
Casper Clement, charcoal burner in
Bergen County, New jersey, found Sf7O0 in
greenbacks in an old violin which he bought
for 50 cents at pawnbroker sale in Phlla-
delphia.
A leading New York physician says that
dusty streets, theaterS and rooms are one of
the chief causes Of the grippe, the flying
particles of dirt therein being the breeders
of the sc0urge.
There is still a great deal of superstitious
nonsense in the mind of the average mari
ner. Even the best educated sailors refuse
to put to sea in a vessel that carries the body
of dead man.
The Salvation Army halls in Buenos
Ayres have been closed By the authorities
on the claim that the army is not recognized
by the church. The Salyationists have ap-
pealed to the President.
Professor Pfuhl of the Berlin University
has received years leave of absence for
the purpose of assisting his father-in-law
Professor Koch, in the preparation OF his
works for publication.
Massachusetts discovers that some men,
bers of her Legislature .haye charged the
State for cigars assumed to have been
smoked while in the public service, and
have been paid for the same"
The proportion of actual cash used in mer-
camille transactions is very small, most of
the business being done through the medium
of checks and bills. The percentage of cash
used in New I DIRK Is 1.3. while i'll London il
is only 8.4.
To clean gold chain that is dirty and
dull from long use, put it in bottle with
warm water. grated CASTLE soap and pulver-
ANoo t4iaIht ohHhC hVll lluoo III tblu
water. Rub dry on clean cloth and polish
with channels skin.
Frank +. Stockton and ex-senator ingalls,
recently exchanged condolences about their
daily hours of work. The novelist said he
tolled for two hours a day, and the Senator
(Alr. ingalls, was then One) declared he
worked eighteen hours.
Thomas May, calico printer of East
Greenwich, X. L., on recent Sunday car
red his twentieth child to church for bap-
tism. Mr.. May is II years of age, but his
wife is many years his junior, and is said to
be as Spry as cricket"
ga Colonel? A Kentucky Colonel? ?" said
one OF them. "A Colonel, sub, is gentle
man who owes it to himself to treat not only
everybody in the house but also any Incl
dental niggahs who may happen to be in the
bathroom at the same time, subj"
Immediately after a marriage ceremony
at Railway. n. j., Anton Henry, the bride
groom, was accidentally shot dead by one o.
the guests who fired fusillade in honor Of
the occasion. The bride went into convul-
sions and her recovery is doubtful.
The best recruiting station for the regular
army is in st. Paul, Mimi. In February it
furnished % per cent more men than any
other station in the country. and during
March also the number of enlistnents is re-
ported as unprecedented in that region.
Chattanooga dentist lost valua BILE dia
m0nd ring the oth0r day in a curions man.
ner. He was examining the back teeth Of a
patient when the ring slipped down the lat
ter's throat. The ring has not yet been re-
covered. How the patient endured the or
deal is not stated.
Upon election day, at Akron, Ohio, FL. A.
KassOn bet a coffin with Il. p. Hill that
Miller, the Democratic candidate for Mayor,
would be defeated. Hill won and now Kas-
son refuses to pay the bet, insisting that the
coffin was not to be delivered until the
winner died
A Pittsburg man was to marry young
lady, and just as the minister was about 10
pronounce the words that made them man
and wife, he tainted. The ceremony was
postponed, and few days later the young
lady married his rOOm-m mate, who had also
been paying her attention.
General Buffers luncheon, which he eats
at 2 o'clock, does not vary from day to day.
1t comprises one small ham sandwich, QUE
small chicken sandwich and q few swallows
of brandy and water He brings it with
him from Lowell to Boston every morning,
and eats nothing else between breakfast and
dinner.
Joseph Corbey, New York Italian, az
rested for threatening to shoot Il boy, WAS
found when searched to be armed with
revolver, jack-knife with blade five
inches long. and file sixteen inches
long with one end sharpened TO q point
The later was in tin case and concealed
In MS trousers leg. lie was sent 10 jail.
A dozen people at Bath Beach, l.. l., are
satisfied they have seen devil. "a mon
ster all covered with hair, with faring red
whiskers and Satanic howl, has swOOped
down upon them at night and nearly driven
them into Mysteries" This is a new species.
of summer resort advertisements and i
liable to drive tire sea-serpent out Of the
business.
A wealthy and respected business man of
Detroit, Mich, wen; to variety show for
the FIRST time in his life. and became very
much interested in the high kicking of one Of
the performers. When he went home he
astonished his wife by trying to initiate the
kicker, and in making an effort to kick gas
jet that was seven feet from the floor he dis
located his thigh and could not lower his
leg.
An old bachelor OF Abbevville, Ga, was
miraculously saved from drowning recently.
In attempting to wade a creek he got into
deep water, and, as he could not swim, went
down and clutched the first object that he
came in contact with under the water. For
tunately it was a monster turtle of the
loggerhead variety that he seized. The tur
tie, strange to say, swan with the man to
the ShOre