The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-11-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Only per cent of cases of amputation are
fatal.
Williamsport Pa, will saw 270,OOO.O0O
teet OF logs this year.
Baseball is played in Chicago hall as
winter entertainment.
English is now sometimes called by Amer
leans 'the American language"
Statistics prove that only one man in six
who emigrates does so with advantage.
A new safety stirrup releases the foot of
the rider in case of his being thrown from
the saddle.
A penny or large silver piece will remove
paint from glass readily. Just we. il and
rub the paint.
The profits of the Milwaukee water-works
owned by the cty) during the last fiscal
year foot up $4,000.
Leading French writers are using green
paper for manuscripts, as 1t is less fatigulng
to the eyes than white.
Some statiatician has figured out that more
than one-half OF humanity die before reach
ing the age oi 10 years.
A Saugatuck (Mich.) man recently melted
4 cents on load of muskmelous that he
had shipped to Chicago.
Thirty per cent Of thei women in all
United States are working for living, an
increase of per cent over the year 1891
What is this we see? Fashion has de-
creed that the glory OF woman" shall be
cropped short and friZzed to resemble the
hair Of man.
1t must make the Marquis de Leuvile ex-
cesslyely hungry to read of those delicious
dinners which Willie Wide is eating as the
guest of hospitable New Workers.
The Chilean Minister In Washington is
described as rich, dapper and OaudbnX-
like gentleman. He is small and delicate
and doesn't care much about discussing in
ternational matters.
Although the summer of 1891 was excep-
tionaily cool, murders and suicides were
unusually numerous, fact that throws
some discredit on the old theory that heat
is prOm0tiye of crime.
An electric insect-killer is the latest nov
city in that line. 1t is formed by cover of
wire gauze. which is placed over lighted
candle. The gauze is in an electric circuit
and when insects touch it they ar killed.
Western farmers are urging the trial of a
modification of the Iain-pruduciug system
to see if mists cannot be formed at times,
which Will reduce the radiation of the heat
from the earth, and thus save the crops from
frost.
The human heart is six inches in length,
four inches in diameter, and beats an aver
age OF 20 times per minute, 1900 times an
hour, 1O0,So0 times per day and 36S1,720
times per year. SO in life of eighty years
the heart beats 300,000000 times.
a writer in Nature tells of q small tortoise
which last winter was Inadvertently left IN
its small pond, the water Of which froze
completely into one block of ice, Enclosing
the tortoise. When the thaw came the Great
ure was found alive and 1ourishing.
1t is a fact that dish-washing is the one
great irksome fact of houscwork II makes
the wife determined that she will have a
servant, and makes the servant hate to bo
one. Dishes and knives and forks are the
great curse of our modern civilization.
1t Is constantly growing more apparent
0f
hampered by their costumes. A Detroit
woman tried to commit suicide by jumping
of ferry-boat the other day, but her skirts
caught on the rail and she was saved.
A Scandinavian physician reports the ap-
parent rupture of the stomach of a would
be suicide by the use Of the stomach-pump.
Like injury was produced in dead bodies
by the injection of two or three quarts of
water into the stomach under the usual
pressure.
Chicago man, after paying his fare on
q street-car, discovered he was in the wrong
one. His demand for the return of his fare
being refused, he obtained satisfaction by
ringing up two fares on the reg ister 1t
cost him So, however, before a Justice the
next morning.
The operation of q large mill in Provi-
deDce, H. l., was stopped Tor half day re-
Gently by cat The feline, which had
been asleep IN the engine-room. on being
suddenly awakened jumped between the
fiy-wheel and belt. The animal was killed,
but II broke the belt.
Tea Is said to have no i'll effect upon the
nerves II IL Is taken weak and cold To
prepare your cup of tea so that it will meet
with the doctors appro baton, pour it into
your saucer and add little cool water.
The very thought makes you SILVER, but it
Is a good thing to do just the same.
There is story that some children had
discussion concerning the services in one
OF our fashionable temples. One youngster
who had reached the mature OF said "Pd
Just ike to Know what preaching is for ?'
"Oh, don't you know?" inquired his 5-year-
old sister; its to give the singers rest, Of
course"
There has been new departure in floral
decorations for bridal suppers and break
lasts. The flowers are not SO numerous, but
more select and costly. The different rooms
are decorated with flowers of different colors
ana selected so as to harmonic with the
| wallpaper, drapery and furniture Of the
| apar tment
Eight sophomores of the Rochester On.
~ University have been suspended for
| rebellion. They made noises in an unpopu-
lar professors recitation-room. The rest
OF inc class have held meeting and voted
10 CUT recltatlons, SO far as that pro-
| lessor Is concerned, until the eight martyrs
| IRE reinstated.
he poet Swinburne Is shy little mau,
with very unimpressive appearance. He
was teu 10 his mothers apron-StringS up to
the very time he went to college, and it is
SAID that even when youth of IS, if he
wanted an extra slice OF toast at breakfast
| ne nad to ask his mother for it in q very
timid and deferential way.
Several years ago the Ohio Fish Commits
sion planter quantity of cells in the Miami.
They have become SO numerous in those
| waters that 1T is reported large flour
| mill on the stream was compelled to shut
down, the water-wneel having become com
| pleteiy choked up with eels, making it
necessary to stop every few hours to clean
| them out.
The systematic replanting of the Malayan
| forests Is urged in Kew bulletin or gutta
percha VIII disappear. Fifty years ago that
substance was unknown in Europe. Now
| the annual consumption amounts 10 1000, 900
| pounds. with constantly increasing de-
| manq. and the trees where it is obtained in
| the East Indies cover very limited area
| and are being rapidly used up.
1t is a very bad habit to scrapa the finger
| nails either on the outside or inside with the
| blade OF knife When there is dirt under
! the nails it should be removed with the nails
| OF the other hand, with an ivory nail-celner
or even with an ordinary wooden to0tll-pick.
But never use steel knife blade. 1t breaks
| the skin OF the nail, and then dirt catches
| and adheres despite every effort.
An eghty-four-year-old Union veteran
] has tramped from Chattanooga. Tenn, to
| Columbus, Ind, to call on au old comrade
| whom he had not met for twenty five
| years, with view to assisting him in get
| ting pension. The old man has not re-
| ceived dollar since he was discharged
| from the service, and he claims something
In excess of $4,000 is due him as back pay.