The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-11-23
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ware capes.
Whena young man is writing love-lester
ne Snouid Keep constantly before his mind
| now 1t would look in print
1t IS an old question whether workers will
| the hands or with the brains need the more
| substantial nourishment
| a ball that can be rolled uphill but not
| down, ana 10 zgzag line, but not in n
straight one, is one of the newest TOYS.
Two Of the great engagements of the r.
| belion, the battle of Bull Run and the bat
tie OF Chickamauga, were fought on Sunday.
| A New York company has offered to fur
| nlsh free of cos. all the timepieces that will!
be needed in the building during the Worlds
| Fair.
| A Frenchwoman will seldom be jealous of
| another woman's cleverness. She will far
more readily forgive her this quality than
| beauty.
| The photograph has been applied to the
| telephone, so that any conversation coming
over the wires during the day may be readily
reproduced
,. The Government is considering the feast
| pity OF establishing carrier pigeon ssrvic--
between the Annapolis naval academy and
| Washington.
| A bar of aluminium in its natural state is
worth 50; Made into jewelry it is worth
| 1t is worth $3.50, OO0
The widows of two gallant warriors. Mrs
| w. .. hancock and Mrs. George B. Nc
Clellan, will spend the winter on different
sides of the Atlantic.
| The freedom enjoyed by American women
| mas enabled them to mold themselves in
their own fashion. They copy no other
| women; they are original.
One hundred years ago the first sale of
real estate took place in Washington. 1t
was for parcel of land lying between the
| White house and Georgetown.
| They we're talking about trees. "BIy IA
1 she n ia
your favorite?" 'Yew," he replied nav -
=, Sixteen colored babies have been given
the name OF Benjamin Franklin in Wash
lhston, u. e., during the past two months,
| ana the list is being constantly added To-.
1t took two sailors who were wrecked in
the South Sea five months to reach Homo
| lulu Ill an open boat. They touched at sew
| erai islands, obtaining supplies and food.
Education is the only sure foundation
Whicn VIII elevate character and brains to
| the height where their possessor can reach
| his. 'O"'u ~
That dancing is the chief form of amuse-
| ment IN New DIRK society is shown by the
increased number OF bathrooms each season
and by like increase in the size of these
| rooms.
Many football players now wear a big
| rubber nose to protect their faces in the
| game. 1t is held in place with strap
around the forehead and by the teeth Of the
player.
Washington is a city of big calves and all
normally developed bceps. The bicvcle is
| responsible for this condition Of affairs
There are 1900 Of them in daily use at the
capital
- What do people want in their newspapers?
One might find thousand answers, but the
only practical answer is to be Obtained by
getting really popular paper and analyzing
| Its contents.
Queen Victoria has in her possession a
dress woven entirely of spiders webs
| which for fineness and beauty is said to sur
pass the most splendid silk. 1t was gift
from the Empress of Brazil in 1877.
The Chicago women who wish to vote
| must hight for their rights in court. Let the
question be carried from tribunal to tribunal
| until there can be no mistake as to the
| reality OF the demand or the Importance of
| the ISSUE
Max ORell has sailed by the Majestic to
| give fifty lectures i'll America, winding I'D in
California. He is going thence to Australia
to give go lectures, after which he proceeds
TO India, remaining away from England
three years.
1t is perfectly astounding to note at what
prices clothing is sold in London. A good
wooden tweed suit can be had, made to
order. at SO to 81, and an excellent cassi-
mere OF very high grade, well trimmed and
lined, is made for SIS.
According to the story of two girls who
were arrested at J0hnstown, Pa, in male
attire, they We're compelled to leave home
because OF i'll treatment by their parents,
and adopted boys clothing hoping thereby
the more readily to obtain work
sam" Jones was a drayman in Atlanta
Ga, before he became preacher, aud his
outnt Is described as small rickety,
rafting, ramshackling wagon, and sorrel
horse that was old and experienced enough
10 nave come down from the Revolutionary
war;"
Tennyson has taken a violent fancy to
Ada hehan, while she speaks with enthusi-
asm OF the charm of the Poet Laureate's
personality, of his health and OF the enjoy
ment of life which he displays, though 50
years OF age. some months older than Glad
stone.
A Grand Rapids !Mieh.) man who paid
$40 for burying his dead father was ready
to kick himself all over the county when he
learned that, his parent being an old SOL
der, lie might have made the county pay
the bill. he put in a bill of $40 to the Su
pervisors and it was allowed
Norman Etheridge of Pleasant Grove,
Norfolk County. Va. has trapped so far
c0ons, two minks and large lot of 'po,-
sums. Other trappers have been unusually
successful, owing to the immense yield OF
the corn crop in the Dismal Swamp.
Charles Wombell. employed in a factory
at Ballardyale, Mass, has fallen heir to an
estate in Australia valued at 100000. It
was LETT by his father, who went to Aus
tralia from England thirty five years ago.
and from whom nothing had been heard
since until the announcement of his death
The Oldest rosebush in tie world is at HI
deshelm, an old town in Hanover, capit;l
OF Prussian administrative district. Il
was planted more that 1000 years ag bv
Charlemagne in commemorative of a Wis /
made TO him by the EmbaSsador OF TIE
Caiiph Haroun- al-Raschid IF Arabian
Nights" fame.
A well-dressed stranger has been annoy
ing ladies at Greensboro, \. c., for several
days past. be appears to be Il sort Of harm
less lnnatic. He declares his determination
to marry Il rich woman, even if he has t.
take an old maid or widow. The resi-
dents have been sleeping with barrcaded
doors and windows
Nearly all the prominent hotels in Wash
ington claim special and particular client
hge. One is the resort of travelling foreigners
another is the headquarters of Eastern and
New ork politicians, still mother isatfected
by Southerners, but the Ebbitt House has
always been known as the headquarters for
army ana navy men.
The dog of Charles Craus. who resides
near Womansville, Ind. and who had been
hunting. came running home bowling pite-
ously. He made such a fuss that he was
followed two miles. and Craus was found
bleeding to death from wound accident
ally inflicted. Ten minutes later Craus
would have been dead.
The skin is composed of three layers of
membranes. The exterior layer is the
cutcle. Throughout its surface 1t is per-
vaded with millions of minute pores to per-
nit the eXhalation of the body to escape
Its reputation and renewal are carried ON
upon the under surface, whilst the worn out
skin is thrown off in minute fakes, dust or
scales.
Earle V. Beals of AIuskegon, Mich, has
invented new type-setting machine. The
principle upon which it works Is the I'M
pressing OF each line OF type as it is set up
into matrix paper. from which stereotyI es
are cast. Great practical difficulties have
heretofore attended the application of this
principle. but he is said to have successfully
overcome them.
William Linslev of Hopkins Mich, be-
coming enyious of his neighbors by reason
OF his failure to secure as large strings of
Enl tl,1. r. L.