The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-07-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| Cherra POOnjeP, in the Assam bills, has a
rainfall OF over 800 inches per annum.
A man named Dixon in Edgar, Nebr.,
lived for nearly week with broken neck.
The double-decked street-ears in WASH
lnRtop, ID. e., have proven great success.
The Chicago authorities have decided that
| Incense cannot be issued TO saloon on
| wheels.
Indian elephants cannot live in Central
Africa, the home of a larger and more hardy
! species
a genuine game of poker for two can be
! played on the latest nickle-in-the-slot
| machine.
It Is claimed that the forest fires in
| Northern Michigan have ruined the buckle
| berry crop.
The total amount OF life insurance in Great
| Britain Is nearly Identical with the total ma
| tlonal debt.
| Three Bird Island (Minn.) children are
uehd from eating poisonous roots which
| they found OH the prairie.
A Colorado man has been awarded $780,
| C00 Tor the alienation of his wife's affections.
The defendant will appeal.
| AT recent English marriage ceremony
the bride was exactly twice the age and
| twice the weight Of the groom.
| The most extraordinary freak of extrava-
| gance Is an Eltei tower in diamonds, one
meter high, recently sold in Paris for
| $4,000.
An old graveyard in Orange County,
| Ind, has bean found TO be rich in petrified
| bodies, AT last accounts sixteen had been
| taken out.
| The Pixies Peak Railway ascends 7747
| 1eet In nine miles or in II, 500 feet. That Is
| Just about one foot in six, or 100 in 600, or
| 1000 in 5000.
| Prlncess -Aenla is but IL years OF age, yet
She Is now betrothed to the young King of
Servia. Sne is the daughter OF the Prince
| OF Montenegro.
Quite novel punishment was that i'm
posed by Woodhaven On. " Judge on a
| nlteen-year-old hrebug, who was baniShed
| from the town.
! A bear that had been caught in a trap
| near Shepherd, Mich, managed to extricate
itseli by eating OF one of Its feet, which it
| lelt as memenio OF its visit.
A brooklyn officer who had a warrant for
one John iller found that there were six
other men OF the same name working in the
| shop where he was employed.
Ills Majesty of Greece has the smallest in
come OF any sovereign, viz: go 600, and
ms includes 94000 each allowed hin by
Great Britain Russia and France.
Vene kinner, a farmer near Aberdeen,
| ONO, has curious freak Of nature in the
shape oil a colt that has neither eyes nor tail.
IL Is month Old and Is doing well.
one OF the novelties at the Worlds Fair
Will De miniature Venice. Houses will be
Calais similar to those in the Venetian city,
| Mrs. Eliza Saunders of Texas is the own
| er O! Dig that bears striking likeness to a
| miniature elephant. There were niue in the
litter ana the other eight were just ordinary
| pigs.
The custom of distributing costly souye-
| mrs among the dancers at editions has been
abandoned in Paris. Ladies are given
bouquets and gentlemen buttonhule orna-
meELs.
AT Gainesville, Tex, recently, a grand
! lather, sun ami grandson vera granted
divorces on the same day. The men are
| Chlckasaw Indians and their wives were
] White women.
A departure for Europe is now considered
an occasion for showering presents on the
| prospective tourists, The 2. r., however
| Is expected to return them with ttinkets
| gathered abroad
| A pathological statistician calculates that
IN inc year 2o00 there will be 1,700 100000
| people who speak English, and that the
| otner European languages will be spoken
| by only 500 900, 600 people
| An excursion to public hanging, with a
brass band and other attractions, was re-
Gently given by Louisiana railroad. The
attendance was so large that it was peces-
| sary to provide extra cars.
| "A prominent church in West PHILADELPHIA
displayed the sign outside its doors on a re-
| cent Sunday, much to the amusement of
| passersby: We do not close our doors ia
hot weather. Always cool"
A colored resident of frankfort, Pa, says
| during the shower few days ago a large
terrapln Tell from the skies and dropped in
1roHt of him, but his veracily is questioned
as lie has eaten his evidence
A woman in Oxford County, Me-. took
her husbands overcoat containing a $500
ron OF bills and used it to cover up her
| pants. Missing bis garment he Instituted a
search and found 1t in the garden.
James Henderson, an old sailor at Nor
| 1oIk, ' a., has an image of full-rigged ship
lattu0ed upon his arm which is So small
that 1t cannot be fully distinguished with
out the AID OF magnifying-glass
The Buddhis. religion was founded early
in the seventh century by Sakya Mum, or
Gautama Prince of the Kshetriya, caste
who took the name of Buddha the ..awak
ened." He died at great age in 543 b. G.
"A burglar invaded the study of an In
dianapolIs priest, locked the door, ransacked
| the place and left by window, recurring
the reverend father to crawl through a win
| dow when lie wanted to get into the room.
A Burlington woman refused to contribute
| to the fund for the support of her pastor
because he sometimes practices law while
| engaged in the ministry. She holds that
| no man can be good Christian and practice
| law.
The most prolific playwright the world has
| ever seen was Lope de Vega C1562-1635) 1t
| Is calculated tnat 2l,SCu,OO0 OF his lines were
! actually printed and no less than 1890 PLAYS
| of his composition were acted upon the
| stage.
| BY running single thread of worsted
| through all the silk he imported. a New
| York merchant saved more than s.. 500. 600
| in customs duty. His lawyer, with w HON
| the idea originated, was remunerated with
| $4,000.
Two young ladies of Saginaw. Mich.
have announced their intention of walking
to PetOskey, sixty miles distant As an in.
| centve their gentlemen friends have nut nm
purse of $50 for them in case they make
! the trip.
At Pittsburg when they catch bogus de-
| tective they pop him into the workhouse
| for ninety days in order to give him an
| opportunity to study the criminal classes at
short range and pick I'D pointers in his
| business.
The city of Jacksonville, Fla, protects
| catfish i'll the river as scavenEers 1t is a
| SIS fine to catch one of them, aud the fish
| seem to know it,. The river is full of them.
! aud they vary in size from a baby to 200
| pound man.
The CongreGationalists are the longest
| pedigreed people in Kansas. They all trace
| to the Mayfower. Deacon Bradford, who
| used to keep music-st0re in Atchison, Is
| chief. He traces to old Governor Bradford
| of Plymouth colony.
| A Chicago photographer claims to be do
| ing good business among the young men
| of that city by photographng the pictures
| of THAR evaathaarfS on thar orms ,,I,a,,