The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-11-30
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| WlttleSt woman in India.
| About $500 women ara employed in the
| British POStOlhce, or one to every eight meu
| employed.
1t has been found by actual measurement
| that the pouch OF pelican VIII hold six
! gallons OF water.
Ephraim W. Bull, who developed the
| Concord grape nearly fifty years ago, is still
| living near Concord, Mass
The United States ranks high among the
! cntfee-drinking nations, being surpassed by
Belgium and Holland alone.
PortugaPs first woman doctor, Amelia
| Cerdia, has received her degree. Her grad
uatiug thesis she dedicated to the Queen,
mo accepted 1t.
Tho newest anesthetic is named "pental,"
discovered by Professor Won Mering in
Halle. 1t Is d preparation OF tertiary amyl-
alcohol, and Is for small operations only.
a New i ork opera singer has inherited
an estate worth $4,000 from an old gentle
man whose daughter she befriend ed during
her last illness IN Paris.
Two Berlin bankers committed suicide
because they were about to be punished
for spending their depa>itors' money. They
were unfortunate III living SO far from eau
ada.
A butcher in Roubaix, France, caught the
loose dogs of the toWD, fattened them for
few days and then slaughtered them and
sold the meat to his customers. lie will be
| tried.
Mrs. Mary Hecker OF Stamford, Conn,
| has matricuiated with her two sons at the
Kentucky University, and is the only
| mother on record to enter the college with
| her boys.
Anemones are well known to visitors at
! aquaTiums. The animal can be cut into any
number of parts, ana each part will develop
into perfect animal, and tie part cut OF
will be quickly replaced.
MaeungIe. Pa, has the champion heavy
weight family. 1t consists OF Mrs. Jacob
Bosch, 200 pounds, and her four sons, Milton
240, Jacob $50, John 80, and Peter 207. The
Total weight is 1l5I pounds.
Ii the Georgian Bay. the north extension
of Lake Huron, there are thousands of
small Islands on which the Huron Indians
| took refuge when their enemies. the lCo-
quUls, Overcane them in 1919.
A striking feature of the national library
| building now in course of erection in " ash
lngton will be thlrty-three cheS sur
| mounted by representative heads OF the
| thirty-three races of mankind.
The peSky little cigarette is quietly but
| effectively getting in lis work. Recently
| young woman died soon after smoking one
and another woman who went to sleep with
| one III her mouth was burned to death.
Lucy Mcclure, the pretty West Virgtniau
| girl recently arrested for ''moonshiung,"
| has sold 5000 worth of Illicit whisky with
| i'll the past two years. Size was chased 100
| miles on horseback before she was taken.
| In MashonaIand. South Africa, butter is
| SIS 10 Il pound, jam and milk 81 80 tin,
| cheese IS 10 pound, and brandy has been
| sold for sly 90 a bottle. With this prospect
| ing is very poor, no gold being discovered.
| 1t cost the Philadelphia and Reading
| Company s., 500 Coo to get the elevated rail-
| road ten blocks III the very business center
| of Philadelphia, and its outbulldingS are
| yet to be erected, which will cost q large
| sum.
| According to a society directory Just out,
| there are 530I bachelors among the people
| who make up good society in New ork-
| that is, twice as many unmarried men as
| women and more unmarried Gen than mar
| RED.
Mrs. William Northcott of Bowmanville,
| Csnaia, was scratched on the hand by a
| pet cat a short time ago. The hand imme-
| diateiy began to swell, modification set III,
| aud her arm had to be amputated below the
| elbow.
| Over a million yards of carpet were re-
| Gently sold al Il New York auction. The
| sale made a stir in the carpet trade, as the
| Offering included choice lots of Administer,
| Gobelm, moquettes, yelYets, tapestries and
| Brussels,
| The great principle OF the bicycle wheel is
| that 1t has tension spokes. That is, it diff
| fers from the ordinary carriage-w wheel in
| that the weight hangs from the tire instead
| OF being supported upon the hub by stiff
| radiating spikes.
A Port Huron (Mich.l diver will endeavor
| to recover the treasure that went down in
| the Pewabic in Lake Huron twenty-six
| wears ago. Sixty feet is about as far down
| as diver can work with safety, but this
one will work in LOG feet Of water.
| 1t takes the Georgia editor to get the bet
! ter of soulless corporation. One who re-
/ Gently moved TO another town Doycotted
! railroad which refused to give him pass.
| He shipped his hand-press by another road
| aud walked the whole distance, seventy-fiys
| miles.
| A French Journal announces a cure for
! obesity. This is to never eat more than one
\ dish at each meal, no matter what that dish
may be, aud person may consume sufli-
| cient quantity TO fully satisfy the appetite.
| No condiments, soups or desserts are to be
| allowed
| The young lady who does not know how
| to make good bread, brol beafsteal and
| make good cup OF coffee should retire
| from the parOr and the matrimonial mar
| ket until she masters these accomplish
| mentS. Money wont make up such de-
| iciencies
| Dunbar Jack. who is one of the best
| hunters in all the down-east region, is deaf
| and dumb. He has a camp near Bedding
| ton, Me. He trapped four bears and a large
| number of offers, muSkratS and minks last
| season. Trapping and hunting Is the greater
! part of his business.
Enormous sacks have been placed in the
| kazan Cathedral st. Petersburg Russia,
for the receipt of which will be sent to the
| famine districts and distributed. Some
| pieces of bread not larger than radiSh,
which mad been toasted by the contributors,
| were found among the donations.
Medicines should be given in such man.
ner that the effect of the first dose shall not
have ceased when the next dose is given,
| therefore the intervals between the doses
| should be regulated accordingly. 1t is well
| also TO remember that fluids act quicker
than powders and powders sooner thal pills.
Miss CIeswel, the postmistress of Gibial-
tar, is the superintendent OF the Govern
| ment Telegraph Office, and has sole control
| of the poSt0flice. with 4 large staff under
her, and branches at Tangier, Magzagan
| and other towns OF Morocco Miss Cres-
| well gets $500 a year and occupies the
| unique position OF woman civil servant.
| The most important ship in the French
| navy, the Brennus, has been launched, after
| two years and half of building, at 4 cost
| of Is, 100000 francs. Her heaviest guns, Of
which there are three, are of fifty-eight tons.
| These are mounted on a barbette, but with
| a roof to protect them from small ordnance,
and there are also great number of small
| arms.
During the season there have been dug up
| and housed at the Poorhouse on the Lehigh
County (Pa.) farm between 2600 and 200
| bushels of potatoes. Four hogsheads Of
much more will be put up. A steer weigh
ing $50 pounds and hog of 500 weight are
consumed in week. No wonder the tramps
| head that way.
Among the many hermits in Maine, John
Hall0n of Keys Corner. in Wakefield, is
the queerest. He lives in tumble down
hut, through the roof Of which rain and
| snow, sunlight and starlight have easy
access. lie caoks his own food, makes his
own bed and does all the work about his
estate" including the care of an enaciated
| horse. He believes In witches, and every
night. despite his 20 years. he mounts guard
| with shotgun to shoot any hobgoblin that