The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-02-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Leather-covered frames are now the IA
vorite Enclosures for photographs.
Ii costs GA cents to run a train mile in
England
Telephones are now being introduced Oh
board men-of-war
Short Bull smokes cigarettes, but he fights
shy Of the pipe of peace.
The daily surplus of births over deaths in
the United Kingdom is 1900.
1t costs the Government $3.50, 900 year to
print the Congressional Record.
At present nine American women are
matrimonially engaged to titled foreigners.
Cork, if sunk twenty feet in the ocean,
will not rise on account of the pressure Of
the water
tltioned the Kansas Legislature to have
their name changed.
An Oswego man has bought 10000 bush
els of potatoes in Perth, Ontario, for the
Philadelphia market.
Capitalists who have the money propose
to spend S60,000,0o0 in under-rlver and un-
dergr0und railroads in Gotham.
Whisky labeled shoe-pegs " has been
seized IN quantity on the premises of Boot
seller W. H. Dye, at Parkersburg, w. Va.
cat owned by Farmer Dykeman OF Ben
ton, LackawanDa County, Pa, attacked a
fox and rode on Reynard's back for a dozen
yards.
1t is said a society has been formed in
Southwestern Kansas by farmers for pro-
lection against lUdn and investment COM
panes.
The colored man, Professor Carter, in
charge of the ColOred State Seminary at
Tallahassee, Fla, is the grandson of an AT
rican King.
The number of ladies who are at home on
Sunday, says the New York Commercial
Advertiser, has been multiplied hundred
fold this year.
FIJI is commencing the cultivation of to-
bacco, the enterprise being assisted by the
concession OF Government land to the plant
ers on easy terms
l.. G. BROKER of Scots Bluffs County,
Nebraska, found pair of Texas horns the
inches from tip TO tip.
The severe weather continues in the
northern part OF Africa, and the Arabs of
the mountain tribes are suffering greatly
from cold and famine.
The St. Peterburg Novoe Vremya an
nounces that Russia has issued her last
per cent loan, and that in future Russian
loans will be Issued at per cent.
Governor Taylor of Tennessee granted sol
pardons during his four years term of office,
and now Tennessee is declaring for differ
ent stripe Of Governor or fewer jails.
An unfeeling burglar captured a pair of
wedding pants at oturgis, Mich, in an ex-
CbtuiHBI5 luUppOtbuu6 he we'd
ding had to be postponed in consequence.
Spokane Falls has grown rapidly since the
fire Of year ago. The population then
was $4,000, and the recent census gives
the town $1,000 Seattle has about 80. 1000
people.
The smallpox scare in Savannah. Ga.
is growing daily. The negroes are es-
anxious to be vaccinated and virus is at a
premium.
There were 937 buildings erected last
year i'll Montreal, OF a total value of So. 3O8.-
606, q falling off of ninety-sx buildings and
S299,S96 in value as compared with the pre-
vious year.
This beats the record. A woman at Ben.
nington, Mich, two years ago gave birth to
twins. year ago paralyzed the record with
triplets, and now twins again-seyen chill
dren in two years.
The official Russian bulletins now being
issued assert that the number of German
colonlsts within the empire have become
per cent Of the population.
Until quite recently the old Essex Head
Tavern on the Strand, London, which was
one of DIR. JohnS0n'S favorite resorts. has
been kept by two Misses Fielding, who were
descendants of the author of "fom JONES'
Now. however, the old building is to be
pulled down.
Mrs. Stanley invited 500 of the Young
ladies OF Wellesley College to hear her nus,
band lecture and paid $3.50 for the seats.
Mr.. Stanley ought to be ashamed of him
self for not making liberal discount on
such wholesale order. But perhaps he al
lowed Mrs. 5. neat commission on the sale
or promised her new sealskin.
More cabin passengers arrived Mt Nav
York in 1880 on the ocean steamers than
ever before in the history of that port. The
steamers made total of 9l4 trips, bringing
90, 1S9 cabin and 81, 593 steerage passengers.
British steamers made S64 of the trips and
landed 54,9n cabin and 119, 679 steerage pas
sengers. During the GA trips there were
40 births, 63 deaths and II suicides,
1t is not impossible to find ladies not moro