The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-07-20

Newfoundland is suffering from the most
fearful rayages of the grip.
medical journal states that five clergy
men live as long as eight workingmen.
A woman at Sabinsville, Pa, counted the
stitches as she knitted quilt. There were
nearly 100000.
The year 81 saw the end of the English
mems custom to dine in celebration Of the
battle of Waterloo.
drunken New Yorker was recently
gathered in who had $3.50 in Confederate
notes on his person.
One of Chicago's "rapd transit" COM
panies has reduced its capital stock from
S6,O90,0o0 to $4,000.
At a military dinner in New York the ice
cream came in the form of cannon balls,
guns, swords and drums.
A Quincy (Mass) man who swallowed lis
false teeth was relieved OF them, but died
shortly afterward of fright.
Tennis biscuits are new. They are very
brittle and dainty cracker, recommended to
go nicely with lemonade"
Some Chicago butchers are charged with
making SauSages from dead horses. The
dog Is not lin it " this time.
A Brooklyn Sunday school boy has con-
fessed to robbing the church collection
plates for the past six months.
May OF the small maple sugar-growers
in Vermont have declined to apply for
bounties on account OF the red tape.
Baltimore widow, distruStful of banks,
has boarded five $50 gold pieces for twenty
six years, only 10 be robbed of them.
The foxes who have escaped from the men
who hunt them for amusement on Long
Island are becoming pest 80 the farmers.
When man was sentenced to be hanged
in Nebraska the other day one of the news
papers announced that Mat gets hemp
necktie."
During the past year there we're over
100000 pieces CT matter Withdrawn from
the mails because OF incorrect OF insufficient
addresses.
A suspected firebug at Middle Haddam,
Conn. who was tried and acquitted, is to be
given $1,000 by the citizens providing he will
leave town.
Inveterate carelessness in money matters
was salient characteristic of the leading
fictonal writer's of France from forty TO
fifty years ago.
Some miscreant, through the neglect of
the janitOr to lock the door, has stolen the
benches and organ out of church at Mich
igan Center, Mich.
The returns of the pensioned veterans who
fought under the great Napoleon, who now
receive $50 year, put their number at liz,
instead of $50, as in 1888.
The Duke of Beaufort upon one occasion
picked up brace OF grouse which had col
llded and killed each other in mid air. This
is not an infreQuent occurrence.
The Central Statistical Society of st.
Petersburg announces that in Decent Der
last the inhabitants of Russia numbered
1lO,0O0,O0e, an Increase OF 100000.
The bite of rat on the finger OF New
London Conn.) man caused his arm to
swell 10 enormous proportions and neces-
Stated the amputation of that member.
Alvarus Bernhard of Warren County,
Pa, was struck and killed by lightning
while blowing, and his body was cremated
where it lay by the electricity igniting his
clothing.
Every house should have an accessible
trap-door in its roof, and when this is left
open current of heated air must rise
through 1t and make a general draft over
all the house.
Thieves robbed Stephen Trice, wealthy
farmer Of Lathrop. Mo-. of $500 ana /,
horse and buggy. They frightened him so
badly that he did not mention the matter
until two days afterward.
Thirty years ago lad named MAYNARD
was driving milk team for living. That
lad grew up To be Hon. T.. Burr Maynard,
who has just been appointed to the Sui erioI
Court bench OF Massachusetts.
Lightning played queer freak In New
Hampshire town recently. 1t took off the
tall feathers of each of twenty hens sitting
OIL roost, and affected rooster SO that he
has not been able to crow since.
Pennsylvania village is much exercised
over the fact that one Mr.. Hustler, a local
clergyman, left the place with young girl
named Willing, and that Miss Willing never
returned, though Mrs. Hustler did.
Electric coaLcutters are rapidly replac-
ing hand labor III many mines. Not only
is it possible to do the work more cheaply,
but there is a decided saving of coal, due TO
the small height of the undercut.
Samuel Noble, founder of Admission, Ala,
is being done in granite to perpetuate his
memory in that city. The statue repre-
Sents MIN standing beside pile of pig
iron stacked up impressively like cord wood.
A large number of crawling locusts have
settled in Tripoli, and are rapidly destroy
the grass, the green foliage, and all green
crops, while the water in the wells is be-
coming poisoned by their decomposing
bodies.
Charles Shaw of Indianapolis is said to
nave swallowed neither food nor drink fol-
three years, on account of injuries to his
throat by carbolic acid. He chews his food
1t is said, and forces it through tube to his
stomach.
The PuDjab has this years had terrible
visitation Of locusts, the worst there has
been for many years. An army of about
ten miles wide OF unfledged locusts took ten
days to pass through. Trains were delayed
on all roads.
Combating the insects which have been
running the trees and crops in Bavaria has
cost the Government 100000 marks, and
the communal authorities probably as much
more for coating the trees with specially
prepared preventive.
The black snake which has Its home In
the cellar OF Jacob Herteps house at Allen
town, Pa, has not yet been captured. II
has several times drunk up all the milk
which has been placed in bowls on the eel
lar floor. The snake has been seen several
times,
A tramp detected at Port Jervis. N. Y,
in the act OF attaching to the trucks of a
railroad car novel Continuance for steal
ing ride volunteered the information that.
seated on the continuance, he had journeyed
over 1900 miles. 1t was constructed somo-