The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-05-04
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A Georgia woman recently killed l9O rats
| In two days.
Vermont's population has increased only
| 1856 in ten years.
Many Yale College students are down
with scarlet fever.
A Maine woman has changeable silk
dress 104 years old.
A woman bunkO-Steerer has euchered an
Indiana farmer out of $1,000.
One hundred and sixty women are en-
plOyed in the Bank Of France.
The Memphis (renn) working women are
to have a clearinghouse of their own.
An Eastern hair-dresSer utilities the dis
carded tlesses OF children for dolls wigs
The ground on which Yakutsk, Siberia,
is built is perpetually frozen TO u depth Of
6l2 feet.
AN indianapolis woman died of blood
poisoning, contracted IN counting and ban
ding bank bills
A Belfast (Me) woman has found 50
gOld-piece under carpet. She lost the
coin i've years ago.
During fire in Buffalo, n. Y, ease of
lamp-chimneys fell from the third story and
not one was broken
The Boston Stock Exchange has on its
roll four men who have been members Tor
nearly hall century.
Squire Beasley of Aberdeen, Ohio, has
married more than 5000 runaway couples
within tweuty-0ne years.
a Philadelphia man who attempted to
bride a juror will spend the next year in
prison and pay $50 to the city.
A Camden On. j. woman tainted when
told that supposed solid gold ring she had
bought Was OF little or no value.
Father Atkinson" of Benton Harb'r,
Mich, is dead, aged 80. lie was the Oldest
Methodist clergyman in America.
BY new law in Ontario, ministers are
now compelled 70. pay taxes upon their i'll
comes and also upGn their residences.
An English clergyman receives the munifi-
cent salary OF 92G-Ur about Sl30 per year,
and is said to be suffering for the necesSaries
of life.
After a heavy rain at Chattanooga, Tenn,
the streets and hOusetOps were covered with
thin coating of yellow powder resembling
sulphur.
The Siamese authorities consider amateur
photography capital crime, and are about
to enact laws providing for the execution Of
offenders.
A girl in Kentucky has recovered $500
damages from a steamboat company for
naming boat after her without asking her
permission.
State Senator Fassett of New York charges
that the police OF New York City exact
$4,000 blood money every month from
lquor-dealers.
Walter Miller, a Boston boy, found a
package containing $1,000 on the street,
hunted up its owner and declined a reward
for his honesty.
A recently enacted Michigan law cOmpels
boys under IA years Of age, engaged in any
class of work, to attend school al least four
months In the year.
Six little RDxbury Mass girls realized
$50 by holding fair, which amount will be
sufficient to send seven poor children into
the country for week.
General Albert Pike owned the largest
meerschaum pipe in the world, and he knew
how to operate it without materially cutting
short the span OF his life.
Jacob Chamberlain (colored) of Mckin-
ney, Tex, is 81 years old, has twenty chill
dren, and has been preaching 90 years aud
never received cent for it.
An Indian chief, visiting Chicago, was so
impressed with the beauties of false teeth
that he had his sound natural ones extracted
and q complete false set inserted.
Senior GaldOs, rising Spanish novelist, is
modest ana retiring man, very foAd OF
hemming handkerchiefs on sewing ma
chine when not engaged in writing.
Two sharpeTS in the guiSe of farmers have
collected considerable money at Buffalo, \.
Y. under the pretense of applying it TO the
relief OF destitute grangers of North Dakota.
A Detroit physician asserts that tobacco
smoke in the presence of a patient afflicted
with contagious disease will give the Wis
itor or doctor complete immunity from i'll
lection.
A Boston man has received a letter from
his son, whom he had not seen or heard
from since 1864 The Grant scion is pros
| porous merchant in Chile, unmarried aud
in excellent health.
A Boston woman complains of people
who persist in giving her three year-old
candy in church, thereby diStractlng the
mothers attention and causing her TO lose
| the drift Of the sermon.
A siXty-seven-foOt snake Of unknown
species has been captured in Central Brazil.
IL is variegated in hue, blue, green and pink
predOmlnatlng, has tuSks like boar and
horn two feet long on its forehead.
A tame goose at Bristol, Conn, joined q
flock of wild geese passing over his head,
but after flying mile and half dropped TO
| the ground and waddled back home. His
wings have been clipped by his owner.
The latest fad with English women is
learning how TO garden" A school for
| horticulture Will be opened in May, where
| women can learn in practical fashion.
| The manager is to be competent woman.
A man who died recently at Watson,
| Ark, confessed that many years ago, when
| Il boy of r. he killed his Steplather. Old
| residents remember that the bodywas found
in creek, but it was supposed that the I'M
fortunate man was drowned.
j. A. Love, fullblood lives In Jack Fork
| County, Choctaw Nation. Love is 50 years
! old and enjoys perfect health. When boy
| the medicine man of his tribe told him that
| he would live to the age of lib years, when
| he would die seated in a chair.
| Little desks are now considered proper
| part of the furnishing of a fashionable par
| lOr or, indeed, almost any room. The tops
| are used for ornaments and bTic-a-brac. and
| properly placed the desk aids very mu' to
| the style and character of an apartm n
| A Massachusetts school-teacner has dis
| carded the Old-time method of seating the
| boys and girls on opposite sides, and gives
| them alternate desks, so that each boy has
| girl for a neghbor and vice versa. The
! plan is said to give excellent satisfaction.
Rev. Thomas James, colored, former
| slave, who recently died at Rochester, N.
| Y, was in his youth snapped for pair OF
| oxen. He was born at Cauajohare. n. y,
when the peculiar institution" was in ex
| lstenee In that State, escaped into Canada,
| and returned when slavery was abolished.
DIR. Henry Baker of Lansing Mich, ex-
| President Of the American Health Associ-
| source OF the grip, which he declares to be
the prevalence of north and northeast winds
| and the excessive amount of ozone In the at
mosphere
] A suit involving the possession of
| 100000. which has been in the English
| Court OF Chancery for forty -four years, has
| just been decided in favor of the plaintiffs
| Mrs. Weir of Wilmington. Del, and Anna
| Qnarvell of England. The properly con-
sists OF French and English estates ana
| securities.