The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-08-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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There are about $1,000 arrests each year
In Paris, and OF those arrests thirty-tive are
aSsaSSlns.
An actor says that not one comic song
In ninety introduced to the public ever be-
comes popular.
Ci!ieOpee, Mass, has house 225 years old
In winch the present tenant was born hfty
seven years ago.
A flea can jump over barrier SEQ times
his own height. At that rate a man could
jump over wall nearly mile high.
A bank which failed in Florida town the
other day had liabilities amounting to
$4,000. while the assets footed up Sl76.
The number of POstoffices in the United
States IS officially stated to be "a 391, show
lng an Increase Of 2O0O over last year at this
time.
Paul Revere. the hero Of the famous ride,
was the President of Boston's first Board Of
Health. 1t was organized in Faneuil Hall
i'll 1899.
Brains is the name of a Meadville Pa.)
newspaper. Brains is an auSpIclouS name,
but its projectors must have beef to sub
sist on.
Watermelon parties are 10 season in
Texas. They include moonlight ride TO
some plantation, UNLIMITED watermelon and
dance.
A suicide at Fort Wayne, Ind, ordered a
slOO coffin q week previous To committing
'"N IAO Noo - SAAbpiSs Out VI hOIh
and despondeut.
A Shelby IN. " man, aged so, who db-
Quoted and married child of IA, has fed
the town to escape the vengeance of an in-
dlgnant pOpulace.
Lesvenworth (Kans) couple, aged S3
and 20 respectively, have Joined issues for
life. This is the brdegroOms sixth venture
and tn. brides fifth.
For the first time on record, woman has
been appointed master and referee in an in
surance suit at Cincinnati. She Is the Supe-
rlor Court stenOgrapher.
The Southern authorities make quick
work of horse-thieves. One of the gentry,
convicted at Christianburg, Va, goes to
prison for Twenty-Five years.
The fees incidental TO the obtaining of the
title Of baron in Germany are said to figure
up about 5000, that of count $4,000, duke
$4,000, and prince $4,000
The hobby of a Bangor merchant was to
collect all The stray buttons that came III
his way. During his life he accumulated
barrelful, and no two buttons were alike.
A railroad watchman at Buffalo, n. Z.
has been literally stoned to death by chunks
of coal in the hands of depredating hood
lums, ranging IN age from to IA. Thirteen
OF the gang are in Jail.
a girl at White House. n. j., while pick
ing cherries fell from the tree, overturnIng
beehive in her descent, and, in addition to
breaking her leg, was probably fatally stung
by the infuriateu bees.
1t is just FlOrida's luck, when she gets a
good thing, to get too much OF it. Accord
ing to dispatches, cabbages are so plentiful
III that State this year that they are being
gwen away for cattle feed.
The queerest carload on record was re-
Gently unloaded at Missouri town in the
shape OF ten tramps, who had enj iyed 4
Tree ride II 100 miles. They were provided
with lodgings in tile County Jail.
Nathaniel Holland of Barre, Me-, Is
credited with being 9s years old, and is also
credited with swinging scythe for three
weeks recently and to have kept the younger
iarm-hands hustllng TO keep up with HIM.
A Georgia editor has this unique adver-
tisement: " For sale-One Washington
press that never told a lie; one subscrip-
ton-b0ok, containing hope of hereafter,
and the good will of an Impoverished man.
Call early and avoid the rush"
A small boy at Omaha. who believed in
providing t0r a rainy day, stole So from his
uncle and made bee line for bank, where
he deposited tue cash. The uncle, however,
did not regard the boys provdent habits
with favor, and caused his arrest.
When a man thinks that he can bluff
bar-teuder in Lowell, Mass, his friends had
better call for his remains. One man went
into saloon there the other day aud after
buying % cents worth of cigars rendered
$1,000 bill In payment. The bartender
pipmPtiJ SufC llIi EJJJ 10 Ill Change.
A small boy at Newark. n. j., converted
q s0da-water bottle into a cannon and
touched it off. The explosion was grand
success, but the boy, who is having the
pieces OF glass dug out of his body at hos
pital, has concluded that the experiment.
was IA failure.
Guessing parties are quite popular in
Michigan. Invitations are sent to the young
men in 'Our set" from the young ladies, to
this elect, Party in our set this evening.
Guess where and come there" Shortly
after o'clock the hunt for the house be-
gins and sometimes 1t is quite late before
the right house is found.
There is another warning to smokers. A
very influential citizen of Rockville, Conn,
chased two ladies in their own yard and
began to hug and kiss them very Zeal0uSly.
lie was about to be shot, when he pleaded
that he had fits aud kissed women when the
seizure Game on. His family physician GER
tned that 1t was so, and said the fits resulted
from excessive smoking
Several months ago Samuel Nutting of
Richmond. Ind, was run down by a switch
engine and instantly killed. He had no
relatives save sister, Of whom he had not
heard for years. Recently the Richmond
postmaster received a letter from his sister,
saying she had dreamed that her brother
had been killed, and it had preyed upon her
mind until she had been constrained to
write for information.
just previous to his execution a negro
murderer at Perryville, w. Va, confessed
that he had killed two men. shot mauy
others, fought in an encounter in which
twenty-five men were said to have been
killed, spent some time with a gang of
counterfeiters. one of whom was hanged
and others sent to the penitentiary. and said
that he was member OF band of min
streiS. and sang before Queen Victoria.
Robert Packard and wife of New Hart.
ford Iowa, are the father and mother of
twenty-ninc living children. The first of
the, ,ohsprinSs, man now 40 years of age,
Is married, and lives on a farm adjoining
his parents. The other twenty-eight are
single and live under the parental roof.
There Is only one girl among the number.
The first child was born alone. TIE next
hve births were tr.plets, aud the remainder
are sets Of twEnst