The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-10-13
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Pittsburg's tax rate for 1892 has been FIXED
at 81 So on the S1O0
IAN hands round" said the dancing
master when he set his clock.
Some OF the new bOunct-SlringS are so
wide that they look life scarfs.
AT Bordeaux, France, 100000 Goldfish
are yearly prepared for cOusuml ton.
Jane Patterson, Texas fat girl. is dead.
She was 10 years old and weighed I9(
pounds.
The census of Kansas shows that S4h per
cent of the population are native born white
Americans.
Alter an existence of two wears, the So
cety for the Protection Of Birds number
$50 members.
Ten negroes at Llurelston. S. G., have
been sentenced TO hang Tor the murder of q
man of their color.
Sawdust and shavinys, when reduced to
powdered charcoal, axe now used in wine to
absorb unpleasant OdOrs.
Rather than submit to an expected casti-
CATION, a Mercer County (Pa.) boy guilty of
trivial otf5nSe committed suicide.
a French electrician has gotten up de-
vice by which he can send $50 type-wrtten
words per minute over single wire.
Portland, Ind, boasts the champion
peach-eater. He recently devoured fifty
luscious specimens at a single sitting.
a new kind of cash-register, which lops
off the fingers Of these who attempt TO rob
it, is in operation in Wilmington, Del.
There are in Old Orchard, Me, three
apple trees which bear each year loads OF
apples sha ed almost exactly ike pears.
The Worlds Fair power plant will be of
"a, eco horse power, and will require the SER
vices Of 250 engineers. tiremen and attend
ants.
There is girl in Sedalia, Mo-, who has a
big, thTee-c0rEered harp that cost $1,000.
she goes around the adjoining towns giving
concerts.
Poker playing among the ladies has be-
come very prevalent in Buffalo, n. Y.
Young ladies' and old play it, and they play
for money, too.
Recent Improvements In telegraphy
enable certain companies to transmit one
hundred words for % cents and realize O
handsome pTOnt.
A tree near Firth, Randolph County, Mo-,
was found to contain twelve gr0undh0gs,
ten skuuks, two swarms Of bees and a large
lot of fne honey.
TIE new class is the largest that ever en-
tered in Brown in the history of that VEN
cradle university. 1t is 50 or 40 per cent
larger than the average for ten years.
The Norwalk Comm borough's three res
ervoirs are nearly exhausted, and consumers
are virtually Without water. n % rain worth
mentioning has fallen since early spring.
a criminal case at TuScumbia, Me, which
has been pending for three years has cul-
minated in the conviction OF the defendant
of perjury. with 4 sentence of seven years
The largest dam Of any kind in the south
ern hemisphere Is that at BeetalOO, South
Australia. 1t is built Of concrete, has ca
pacity Of 500, 00O,O 900 gallons and cost 1855, =
coo.
Camden On j. Judge fined a man
SIS 81 for kissing young woman. On
that basis our youths would be bankrupt
in one evening alter calling on their best
girls.
There is an old woman in lola, Kaus,
who attends all the funerals and preserves
all the obituary notices which appear in the
papers. 1t is the greatest pleasure she has
in life.
At recent cake walk" in Baltimore.
the participants became gloriously enthusi-
astic and hilarious, with the result that
thirty-iye Of them were gathered in by the
police.
a legacy of 5000 is awaiting a man who
skipped with 3d. coo of his wife'S aud
mother-in-law's money some time ago from
Woburn, Mass. No steps have been taken
to prosecute HIM.
A pretty Japanese maiden Is about to
settle Ia Chicago in order to study dentistry
and TO fit ner to carry back to her own coun-
try knowledge of the profession which will
JUSTLY Htl III pidCblOiilS H.
Samuel Wilcox, whose house at Oxford.
n. Y, was recently robbed of S57 while he
was at church, on returning home day or
two later found SIS tied to his door latch
probably lett there by the conscious
stricken burglar.
Seventy-one years ago died Daniel Boone.
He is chiefly remembered, perhaps as a
great hunter, but he was much more than
that. He was The pioneer OF civilization
over the Allegheny Mountains, and played
conspicuous and honorable part In the
"winnins of the West"
The water supply of Berlin, Ohio. has
been found to be polluted from a graveyard
in the vicinity. The Secretary of the State
Board of Health ascertained that the STRAIT
OF rock were so formed that the water veins
in the earth flowed over the dead bodies in
the cemetery. Heordered proper protection
from continuance OF the horror.
Vegetation in the Alps recedes downward
from year to year. Formerly Alpine roses
grew at al altitude of 1000 feet. Now they
ara seldom found higher than $500 feet and
are at that height stuGted. Beeches have
gone down to 1900 feet. Various berries
which once fourished 1900 feet above sea
level do not grow in higher attitudes now
than $500 feet.
at recent family reunion at Muncie.
Ind, Mrs. Catherine Kirkwood had the
rare pleasure Of having all her children to-
Stlucl dltCl VI tulIJy-Ouo years,
There were four generations present. the
oldest being in her ninetieth year. The
family Is composed of the mother, twelve
children, thirty-two grandchildren and ten
atgranchildren.
There are over COCO walters In London
not one Of whom is paid any salary by his
employers. AS a rule, indeed. he has To
pay sum varying from two to three shiii-
ings a day to the proprietor of the restau-
! rant in which he waits. In the case of one
large and well-known foreign restaurant
the walters In some of the rooms nave 10
pay shiilings day to the proprietor.
The Bon Marche in Paris possesses prob
ably the largest Kitchen in the world. 1t
provides food for ali the employees of the
house, 1000 in number. The smallest kettle
holds 70 quarts, the largest 375 quarts.
| There are 30 fryiDg-pans, each of which is
capable of cooking 300 outlets at time. or
I of Trying 900 pounds of potatoes. When
there are omelettes for breakfast 1900 eggs
are used. The eoffee-machine makes 75O
quarts of coffee daily. There are 60 cooks
and 100 kitchen boys employed.