The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-09-21
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| $4,000 to found u home for destitute chill
| dIen.
Edison is of the opinion that ultimately
| the house will be both lighted and heated Tor
| sixty cents year.
Magnolia. Mass. Is to have fine summer
hotel, costing S150,000, to be erected by an
English syndicate.
A Southwark On. j. man while digging in
| his garden turned uD an English Sixpence
| bearing the date OF 1888
By recent legislative enactment, Georgia
| physicians who indulge in in toXicants are
| disqualified from practice.
Ii there is anything that makes very
| poor man feel sarcastic it is to read advice
to rich men on how to secure a good appe-
| tite
| A Baltimore man has been fined three
| times in twenty-four hours for drunk enness.
| Upon each discharge he proceeded to fill
up again.
The telephone companies in Philadelphia
! have abandoned the overhead system OF
wires, and already 1000 miles Of wires have
| been buried.
A young lady in Gainesville Tex. has
| the longest hair in the world. It trails on
| the ground over four feet, and is of beaUti-
full red-gold color
A well-known mineral water is to be
brought from thesprings to Chicago in glass
pipes, which will be surrounded with an
outer case OF iron.
will delye no more by the pick and shovel,
having, by the death of an uncle, fallen heir
10 a S1,OO0,OOO estate in New Jersey.
A very good authority gives simple rem
edy for hiccough-a lump of sugar saturated
with vinegar. Tried as an experiment 1t
stopped hiccOugh in nine cases out of ten.
The highest-paid Congregational minister
in New York is DR.. Taylor, of the Broad
way Tabernacle. who gets a salary of S16,-
600, and IN addition tue cost OF heavy life
Insurance.
j. j. Halliday rode from Ervay to Casper,
Wye, distance of 20 miles, in six hours,
| changing horses but once. He went for a
| doctor to attend a woman who had dis
| located her hip.
An Independence (Mu.) girl who failed to
| obtain her fathers consent to become the
wife of his comedy hired man, took adVan-
tage Of pater's illness, skipped, and the TWO
were made one.
A Missouri man once stole a saw-miI, n
Galvestonian abstracted red-hot stove, but
ii was left Tor Kansas TO cap the climax.
man IN that State has stolen field of
wheat. Kansas always leads.
The unusual spectacle of father and
four sons on trial for grand larceny was re-
Gently seen at Cadlz, KY. One sou was con-
victed, two acquitted, and the father and
remaining son bound over until next term
| of court.
September lat the free-school law went
/
! likely TO grow out Of this step is the reste-
ration of the letter ''h b" to its normal fune
tons among the hardy yeomen of the tight
| little island
The largest gun ever made by Krupp is
| the property OF the Russian Government.
II is made of cast steel, and has a barrel
| lotty feet long, with bore of thirteen and
| a half inches. 1t costs $500 to fire a single
shot from the gun.
The tunnel that will connect Butler Val
ley, Pa, with the bottom of the mammoth
Ebervale vein Will be one of the greatest en-
gineering feats of the century. 1t will open
an almost inexhaustible supply OF coal, and
will serve as a drain for all the collierie5 ia
that vicinity.
Mrs. Anna Baxter, County Clerk of JAS
per County, Mo-, is complimented by the
county paper with having placed the Court
house tax upon the book, ready for the
collector, in the shortest Hime ON record
less than fourteen hours after the Court
ordered the levy"
Ralph E. OlmStead, a prosperous farmer
of Prospect. Conn, killed a two-headed
snake on his farm. The reptile, With both
heads erect, was trying to reach worm
which was on top of a cabbage. 1t was 20
inches long and. had white streak AT he
throat. Each head is perfect.
A handful Of raw pig-iron, weighing about
five pounds, is worth cents. 1t would
make about sixty taOle-knlfe blades, worth
S15; converted into steel watch-spring>,
there would be about ITO, 200 of these Little
coils, which, at the rate of 81 70 a dozen,
would be valued at S16,o70 49,
A Muncie Qnd.) man has flag of a Kan
saS regiment which was carried through the
war, and in which the body OF General Lyon
was wrapped after his death at the battle If
Wilson's Greek. The flag can probably be
secured by the officers OF the regiment or
the authorities Of the State, who may desire
to recover it.
houriShIns burg, but 1t has iapSea into
| deeadenee, and the entire town. includin,s
| churches, school house. saw-mills, stores
and residences has been sold by a real
| estate broker for $3.50. The purchaser is a
| farmer, owner of land adjoining this once
| brisk little town.
Mrs. Xyacinthe James, who died at
| Bonnie TerTe recently at the age Of 100, is
said to have been the oldest person in South
east Missouri Her maiden name was Au-
buchon, and though her entire life was spent
in Southeast Missouri, she had lived under
three different GOvernmeDtS-Spain. France
and the United States.
The late British Postmaster General, Mr.. d.
Raikes, was usually to be found IN his bIii-
iard-room in the evening, resting from tie
labors of the day. On such occasions he
always wore postman's suit of dark serge
edged with red. He was a book-lover and
his library contained many copies of the
work OF the medieval printers.
A single pound Of good steam coal has
within 1t dynamic power equivalent 10 the
work of one man for one day. Three tons
| OF the same coal represents mans labor for
the period of twenty years, and one square
| mile of seam coal, having depth of four
| feet only, represents as much work as 1,00o,-
900 men can perform In twenty years.
A Cleveland Ohio concern has recently
constructed an enormous gear-wheel for use
in mine in South Africa Tbs gear is 80
feet inches in diameter and 80 inches face.
The teeth, l62 in number, are inches pitch
and were cut by machine. The hub is
feet inches in diameter and is bored for :,
27-nch shaft The vessel is built in sec
tions and weighs GO tons.
A Georgia doctor has a different method
of dealing with burglars from locking them
up or shooting them. The other night he
caught one in a closet in an upstairs room,
and, seizlng him, bore him to the yard,
where lie fastened him to post and pro-
ceeded to fog him. The man begged for
mercy. but the doctor did not stop until he
| had administered 100 laShes.
In this country, as In no other, every
| sober. industrious and trustworthy indiyid-
| ual, capable and willing to Dake himself
| seryiceaOle and useful, can find some thing
| to do that will afford him reasonable COM
pensation. The individual, physically and
mentally sound, who cannot get along in
this county, simply adyertises his jncapac-
ity and general worthlessness.
At recent initiation of q candidate in n
Pittsburg secret society an enormous bat
| flew in at the window and attacked the uD-
fortunate man, who, though suffering great
pain, believed it to be part of the eere-
Inony aud endured the torture with Spar
tan-like heroism. The unweleome Intruder
was subJugated after severe tussel, but
there were no more proceedings that even
Ing.
John and William Garrison of Tennyson,
Ind, are twin brothers. They look alike,
weigh the same, are of the same height,
both wear long, gray beard, with shaven !
upper lip, and their voices are alike. Dur