The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-04-18
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A Georgia editor has twenty-three chill
dren, and certainly has the right to call the
particular attention OF advertisers to his
large issue.
woman recently entered store at Fort
Worth, Tex, and demanded the keys, claim
ing that she owned the concern. She proved
to be insane, and was taken to an asylum.
a leading Sunday-school at Albany, n. Y,
WAS to have given an entertainment. The
officers met and postponed the entertain
ment. When the question was asked why
the date was changed one of the officers in
tmated that it was because Bernhard was
to be there.
A few miles west of Honey brook, Chester
County. Pa, resides Daniel Overy, aged 80
years, who cuts wood daily and does other
outdoor work of a similar character. 1t is
said he averages a half cord of wood daily.
John Kerell lives mile distant from Overy.
He is 90 and works daily at his trade, that
of shoemaklng.
Founders replenish the ocean at very
rapid rate. In a season one founder pro-
duCeS many millions of eggs, scattering them
broadcast through the water. The sole pro-
duces 100000 eggs, place not less than
100000. while large turbot has been
credited with the deposition of 100000 or
100000 Of eggs.
One thing sorely needed in this country is
an educational society to impress on parents
that children locked up alone invariably
begin TO play with ire, and that little ones
LETT in solitary juxtapositiou to tubs of boil
ing water never fail 10 fall in. The horrible
accidents of this nature almostdaily reported
seem to have no effect on this parental care
lessness.
The OctOgenarian physician, Baron Lar
rey, has been writing an exhaustive biOg-
Taphy of Nine. Letitia BOnaparte, the
mother of Napoleon. 1t is said that he has
devoted all the spare hours of busy life to
81. lIa-s all 6 IL. .trw-
iating to Madame Mere" whom he re-
CARDS as the best, most beautiful and most
intelligent woman of her time
Concerning Perry Mason g. Co., pub
fishers Of most successful juvenile journal,
the Youths Companion, which has a eircu-
lation of over 100000, Boston letter writer
says there never was such person as Perry
Mason. and the Go" is just as mythical.
Daniel S. Ford the owner and publisher,
chose that form of firm title with which to
go before tue public, instead of his own
name.
The smell of paint may be taken away by
closing up the room and setting in the cen
ter of it pan of lighted charcoal, on which
has been thrown some juniper berries.
Leave this in the room for a day and night,
when the smell of the paint will be gone.
Some persons prefer pail of water in which
n handful of hay is soaking This is also
effectual in removing the odor of tobacco
smoke from room.
The estate of Christian Rausch, sup
posed pauper, who dropped dead on one of
the streets at Galena, H., a few days ago,
will inventory. it is thought, upward of
$4,000 in cash, Government ponds, notes
and other valuable securities. Rausch had
long been supported by charity, and for a
short time was an inmate of the county
house. The fortune left by him was found
slowed away IN different places in his howell
of home,
Wire netting as delicate as ordinary mos
quito netting aud attached to an electric
battery is an invention for entrapping the
Jersey stork, yclept the mosquito. The net
ting hangs in folds around the bed or crib,
by lighting a lamp and awaiting attack.
The stork, attracted by the lamp. will alight
on the canopy. The invention consists of
pressing a button and turning on the fatal
electric shock.