The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-08-02
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A Colorado girl broke her arm while try
ing TO ride calf bareback.
A balloon at Falls City, Nebr.. frightened
horse so badly that II ran into the river
and was drowned.
Twenty-four foreign nations have officially
accepted the invitation to participate in the
Columbian Exposition.
The only Sunday recreation Of Brockton
(Mass) people is ride On the electric rail
way, nine miles in length.
The city of jacksonville, Fla, protects
catfish in the river as scayenserS. 1t is a
SIS fine TO catch one OF them.
Hail destroyed $4,000 celery plants belong
ing TO Scott Philleo of Ayr, Nebr. lie will
be obliged to replant the crop.
The Italian Government will revive the
medieval Venetian custom by wedding all
its future war-ships with the Adriatic.
The Health Commissioner at Milwaukee,
Wis, reports that the city was never SO
dirty and never so healthy as at present.
An English gardener has discovered way
of making edeiwelsS grow in an ordinary
flower pot as well as on the Alpine slopes.
A hitherto respected resident of Norridge-
wock, Me-, is charged with poisoning a
neighbours cattle and held for the Grand
Jury.
bed early in Philadelphia. They even
charge 10 cents glass for soda water after
IL O'clock.
Elizabeth Sinex, aged &C. who has lived in
New Albany, Ind, for seventy years, has In
her possession a bible printed over 200
years ago.
A IolStOi community at Kharkoff con-
tanning number OF educated men who have
lett society, has been suppressed by the
Government.
After suffering for eight days from the
effects of drinking I've, CINCINNATI baby
died from exhaustion, being unable TO take
nourishment
a SOutherner has offered to return to
General Isaac Burrell OF Massachusetts the
sword which he was forced to yield at Gal
weston IN 1862.
A ghost story that excited all Denver was
run out by newspaper reporter and found
| To have its foundation in the barking of a
dog at the moon.
AT recent concert at Exeter, n h, Ole
Bulls fayorite violin, which has not been
heard in public since the great masters
| death, was used.
Mrs. Elizabeth Dean of EPSON. England,
| after whom Elizabeth, n. j., is said to have
been named, has decided that city property
| valued at $4,000
Heinrich Schmilinski, the greatest mil
lionaire of Hamburg, has decided to leave
| his immense fortune to build an asylum for
| unmarried women.
| a man, two horses and a wagon blown to
/ suit OF recent nitro lycerlne ex plosion ut
| Washington, Pa. Loss. $4,000
| Onyx is in danger OF losing its special
| value. Besides the great deposits dis
| covered in Missouri extensive layers have
been found in Smyth County, Va.
A New York widow is suing a CAV and
heartless young dece!ver for $4,000 as dam
| ages for breach OF promise OF marriage.
! While there Is lie there is hope-lor the
! lawyers.
The Y. NJ. c. AS of the country now
own property worth S12,250,000. One
| thousand and eighty-three persons are en-
gagged as paid officials and there are Us, 900
| members.
One of the greatest obstacles to the settle
| ment of vast regions III Africa has been the
tsetse fly Although harmless to man, all
civilized animals die from its bite in two or
| three days.
The proportion of insane to sane persons
in the United States is one to every 49,: in
| Scotland IT Is one TO every 574 ia agricul-
tural districts of England it is one in 72O; in
London the proportion is one in 400.
The death OF her betrothed two days be-
fore the proposed ceremony so darkened the
| lie OF Miss Ollie Caulfeld OF Cleveland that
| she lett home with the avewed intention
never 10 return. Her parents are wealthy,
| Speedy retributive justice has overtaken
| an ONO Sal0on-keeper. who was instantly
| Killed by the son OF couple who persisted
|
| the effects OF liquor sold them in violation of
| their sons orders.
| Clarence New OF Riverside, W. Va, muir
| dered his father when only IA and ESCAPED
through technical errors in the law. la
recent fight with another boy he crushed his
| skull with a loaded whip, killing him in
stantly, and fled the country.
A novel challenge is that Of Now
| Yorker. who has educated a monkey to kill
rats with tack hammer. He offers to
match the monk" against any dog in the
country IN rat-killlng contest, the monkey,
OF course. 10 use the hammer.
Mysterious sounds in Boston saloon Mt
night suggested burglars TO Jealous officer.
| and after ten OF his comrades had sur.
rounded the building and the door was
forced, an automatic beer pump in the cellar
| was found to be the source of the noise.
A welve-year-old Brooklyn boy robbed
his grandfather Of a diamond ring valued at
So, watch worth S25 and Sos in money.
| and ran away from home. A few weeks
ago the boy stole opera glasses, a diamond
ring and SO III money, and was forgiven.
After paying the undertaker's travelling
bill Wiikesbarre Pa) man who wired
his family that he was dead from Syracuse.
| n. T., did not consider his ''joke" so en-
eessively funny. This demand, with other
preliminary expenses, created quite yacu-
| um In the joker's pocket.
| They break up jams of logs in the An
|
| lashed 10 long pole and forced thronph
the boiling water. The jam leaves at once
Formerly men went out on the jam, but /
was very dangerous work. Sometimes eight
cartridges are exploded at once.
| A plethora Of fatalities recently occurred
at Pittsbnrg. A boarder in a lodging-house
committed suicide; then the house canpht
| fire and two Of the Iandlady's children were
| burned, after which the chimney fell in and
| killed another boarder. A doctor was called
| and on his way home he was thrown from
his horse and nearly killed.
The subjoined yarn, by an Eastern An.
| anias, is fshy enough to cause the sbade
| of lzaak Walton to rise and enter protest.
| ALT Woodruff, veteran fisherman. went
| down TO Sugar Creek to catch a mess af
| bass. He tied a line to each ankle and went
| to sleep. When he awoke he was in the
water, but managed to catch hold of the
root of a tree just as he was being dragged
under. He pulled himself out, and aiso
! two handsome five-pound bass, one of which
had been hooked on each Iiae while he
slept.
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