The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-06-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


Marshall, Mo-, has a ffteeu-year-Old girl
who weighs 30S pounds.
New York has brewery that uses $780,
| COO bushels Of malt year.
Some genius has discovered that watch
| gives 116, IA, 600 ticks year.
1t is the Gullest ice season for years in
! Maine. Sales are slow at 81 per ton.
| Writing 10 Australia is encouraged. The
! postal rates are To be reduced one-nalf.
| A negro at Madison, Ca, is getting rich
| by raising goldfish, which he sells at 20
| ceIts each.
The street-cars of Augusta (Ga.) are to be
| allowed by the City Council to make twelve
| miles an hour
indianapolis has an electrical fountain
! which furnishes lofty and splendid display
| OF Light and color.
Chicago has called in all of its wooden
! Indian tobacco signs, as we'll as those Of the
! barber-striped pole design.
| Statistics show that men Of thought live
on an average three years and a half longer
| than men in ordinary yocati0nS.
| The Oldest man in Pennsylvania is said to
| be Jacob Steel OF Fayette County. He will
! be los years old October -, 1891
Great excitement prevails at Yonkers, n.
| Y, caused by the discovery OF over 5000
! pounds OF dynamite III a vacant house.
An explosion OF natural gas has COM
! pleteIy demolished a saloon at Montpelier,
| Ind. The bar-keeper was fatally burned.
Keepers OF insane asyIums say that crazy
| women as Il rule are much smarter than the
male patients aad require closer watching.
At recent public sale near Bridgelon,
| y. d., buffalo robe which cost S2l when
! new, ten years ago, was knocked down for
| $50 %.
SleepleSsness caused by too much blood
| III the head may be overcome by applying
| clOtn wet with cold water to the back Of
| the neck.
The lob ter is greatly in dread Of thunder,
| and when the peas are very loud numbers
| OIL them drop their claws and swim away for
! deeper water.
A new railroad is to be built to the sum-
init OF Pixies Peak. The line Will be TWEEN
| tl-three miles III length, with grade one
| foot in twenty.
Valparaiso. Ind, offers prize Of $40 and
! all expenses of license and minister TO any
| couple who Will be publicly married on the
steps OF the Porter County Courthouse
| July Attn.
| RutherlordtoD, n. c., is III years old, and
has been entirely without rail- cOmmunica-
| uon until two years ago. 1t Is now 10 have
| an electric railway, with its terminus at
| Asheyllle, Al miles distant
An Adrian (Mich) Street-car motor en-
| glneer Is suffering from peculiar disease,
| SAID 10 be blood poisoning, resulting from the
! copper brake haudle having worn IA blister
| on the palm Of his right hand
DR.. Ira jerks OF Hart, Mich, expects to
| die soon, as he is IS years old, anu so has
| recently bought himself a lot IN the grave
| yard aud has erected thereon a suitably IN
Scribed headstOne for himself.
a Florida man has taken three wives in
! succession from one family in Miller County,
| ia. lie took the third and last daughter
| only few days ago. The parents made
| considerable objection, but in vain.
ONO Kranenmann OF St. Louis fell asleep
| IN a cOal-yard with $50 in his Inside pocket,
| and dr. AIMED that some one had robbed
| him. When he awOke the dream proved to
be reality, as the money was missing.
W hen the Beecher statue was being placed
| IN position III Brooklyn the workmen fast
| ened rope around the neck OF the statue,
| with black Cap drawn over its head, and
| lett 1t dangling IN mldaIr while they went 10
| dinner.
An Alegan (AGich) man brought wolf
| from the woods with him as pet. The
| other night 1t broke loose and wiped out a
| SO hen-rOost. The next day the get was
| shot, aud now the owner claims So bounty
! from the county.
Thomas Tully starved and mourned him
! self 10 death at ManisIique, Mich, because
| OF the death OF his wife. He refused meIi-
! cine, comfort or food, and after four weeks
! OF the most abJect melancholy, died and was
! grateful for the end
\ North Adams (MasS) dove recently
! Matched hens egg which had been laid In
| her nest, and, as the chicken turns out 70
! Dc Branma, the dove has more trouble to
| take care OF 1t than hen has to bring up
| flock OF young ducks.
| c. q. de Haven Of CaSs County WAS born
! IN Indiana III 1870 ana mas never lived out
| side the STATE. lie offers 50 cash, turkey
| dinner and week board 10 any man with
| similar record, and he claims to be tue
| oldest native InQIanan.
A German woman, who could not speak
| III perfect English, asked for pint of beer
| at brooklyn police station. she was
around with what Is termed grOwler. She
had mistaken the snowy building for a no.
! tel, ana was more or less discounted when
| She discovered her mistake.
FOreign papers say that an American
| named HOttlng has won $4,000 francs at
! Monte Carlo. The fortunate man, II is
! added. was intoxicated at the time. The
| success, however, brought him TO his
senses, as he departed for Paris on The same
day, to the great regret Of the crOupiers.
Mrs. Chloe Quden, colored OF Indianapo-
| lis, is dead. The family report her 127 wears
| old, and while this is possibly exaggerated
| 1t Is known that she was in excess of ITO
She has been bed-ridden Tor years, due to
senlle decay. Her first child, Mrs. Rosa
Blue, was born In 1871, and is still living.
William Hester OF Spring Hill Pa. has a
carry messages like n carrier pigeon. Mr..
Hester took the uncanny bird to his place
Of business in New Castle, aud having made
arrangements at home 10 note the exact
time of It's arrival, let it loose The bat flew
mile in 27% seconds.
There is not a mile of railway in Brown
County, Ind, nor within six miles of it.
Nashville, the county seat, has 400 inhab-
itants and but one brick structure the court
house. The Jail is built of logs. The
county has not sent anyone TO the Eeniteu-
tiary Tor seven years, aud there is not
saloon within its limits.
The crucifX which Christopher Columbus
wore when he discovered America is re-
puted to be in the keeping of the Sisters of
Loretto, at Durango Colo. An inquiry will
be set on foot with regard to the anthem
ITCHY OF the relic, and ii its genuineness
is established it will be exhibited at the
Worlds Fair at Chicago.
The Typewriter has hitherto been sup
posed TO be an English invention, subse-
quently developed by the Americans; but a
patent has been discovered in the French
archives which gives the credit of original
ing the idea to a Frenchman. NJ. POgrin
of MarseilleS, who devised and illustrated
his apparatus as far back as 1888.
The fashion of outdoing each other has
sometimes taken humorous forms. For in
stance, Sir Lambert Blackwell once invited
the Duke of St. Adams to dinner and
dressed himself in a superb suit of Lyons
manufacture Shortly afterwaId Sir Lam
bert returned the Dukes visit and the SER
want who waited on him was arrayed in an
exact copy of Sir Lamberts suit.
To Prevent Confusion.