The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-05-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Brief and Newsy COMBINATIONS From All
Over the World.

Chicago has 1900 policemen.
Philadelphia is flooded with imitation
coffee.
A tombstone in Boston cemetery bears
the date of 1866.
The average savings per capita of Rhode
Islanders is $40.
Wolves are devastating the sheep-folds in
Iowa rural districts.
White kids are en- regle for visiting and
street wear in the East.
Census statistics show that there are 81, 535
lunatcs in this country
An annual average of $500 persons are
tried for murder in the United States.
Norwalk, Conn.,, has an epidemic of
measles. Over 10000 cases are reported.
At South Chester, Pa. spirited battle
between hen and rat terminated in a
victory for Bddy.
There are 1,135.O0O freight cars in the
United States. What train they would
make all hitched together!
While being examined as to his right to a
pension, Peabody (Mass.) man dropped
dead.
An apparently inexhaustible flow of natu-
raj gas has been struck near BlOoming ton.
John Mclean of Vermontyille, Mich,
who died recently, left quite a fortune, but
not blood relative in the world.
i mduISOH-SluATo
will be demolished next year to make room
for an annex TO the Fifth Hotel.
a Scranton (Pa.) man, wearied of matri-
monial bliss, disposed Of his wife and the
household furniture to friend for $3.50
Kent Comm Congregationalists have cell
ebrated the one hundred and iftieth ami
Versary of the founding OF their church.
Philadelphia man, posing as clergy
man, has been convicted OF keeping a
thieves den and receiving their plumber.
\ Michigan murderer has served thirty
four years of life-sehtence. He pierced his
stepdaughteri body with a red-hOt poker.
A petition against the employment of
young girls as barmaids has been presented
the King of Sweden. The petition has
10000 signatures.
Springfield Ohio man. suddenly
stricken blind, recovered his sight as quickly
as 1t was extingniShed after Two days of
absolute darkness.
In Holland no one goes to the house when
a funeral takes place. The graveyard is the
meeting-place. but only intimate friends
present themselves.
A new cumming machine for envelopes
can gum, dry and deliver envelopes at the
rate of 10000 per hour and at a cost Of a
little less than one-half cent per thousand.
A cashier of a Saratoga Springs On. "
hotel has pass according him the right to
send free of charge, packages over an ex-
press company's line, issued twenty-six
years ago.
Archibald Andrews, North Cardinals
oldest resident, is dead, aged 107. Three
years ago he walked seven miles to vote for
Cleveland. surviving brother is over 100
years old.
A law on the statute books OF Massachu-
setts requires that any person finding prop
erty to the value Of So or more shall have
the same recorded at the Office of the town
or city clerk.
An advertisement for lady stenographer
by Cleveland Ohio firm contains the
significant hint that she must be a good
speller. and that style and good looks
don't count"
The Lion Bridge in China, which extends
"a miles over an arm of the Yellow Sea, is
SAID to De tine longest in the world. 1t is
supported by 800 stone arches, and the road
way is 20 feet above the water.
The new Russian customs tariff, which is
to go into effect in July of the current year,
Will be particularly severe on all chemical
products, The duties on all goods Of this
class viii be greatly advanced
At a Springfield, Ohio, golden wedding,
the aged couple proudly exhibited a piece
Of the cake baked on the occasion OF their
marriage. Those who partoOk of it said
that it retained its delicious flavor.
life prisoner at the Maine State Prison
~
He is old and feeble and is thought to be
temporarily insane, as he has always APP
peared contented during his long coniue-
ment.
The Superintendent of the Money-order
Department IN the Chicago Postoffice says
that young women are equal to men in the
positions they fill. They are swift workers,
competent, reliable, and do not lose their
tempers.
The highest place in the world regularly
inhabited is the Buddhist monastery Halue,
in Thibet, which is 10000 feet above the sea
level. The next highest is the railway sta
ton at Galena, in Peru, which is located at
height of 1866 feet.
A Chicago woman and her 14-year-old
daughter have for years accumulated ILL
gotten gains by obtaining situations as ser
wants and footing the valuables of their en-
pl0yers. Their lodgings were piled with
household goods and jewelry.
In the trial OF negro at Dover, Del, for
capital crime, the novel plea was made
and allowed by the court that inasmuch as
there were no col0red men on the grand and
petty juries, the defendant was not ar
Taigned by or tried by his peers.
William Burger, pupil ia the Bridgeport
Comm High School, took a snake into
school and set it at liberty. Several of the
girls tainted, all the rest ran out of school
and the pupils had to be dismissed for the
day. Burger has been suspended.
The Buffalo On. " Labor Union has pro-
tested against the placing of lettsr-boxes in
street-eaTs, on the ground that if those
vehicles became carriers of the mail they
would be under the general control of the
United States authorities, and it would be
an otfenSe against the Government to delay
them.
Among the survivors of the Utopia dis
aster was William I. Colbron, q member of
the New York Camera Club. He had been
on notwithstanding trip along the shores of
the Mediterranean and had taken several
hundred views all of which were still un-
developed when the wreck Occ urred They