The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-11-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Skating parties are all the rage in North
ern Michigan.
During October 434, 155 barrels Of salt were
inspected in Michigan.
The 25-cent piece will be the first of the
new coins to 60 into circulation.
The United States is the first nation in
the worlds history to have three cities OF
over 100000 each.
The women in Boston have been CON-
PEELED tG begin a crusade against expectOr-
atlng in the hGrse-cars.
10 relieve earache in children bind on
small bag of hops mostened with boiling
water and keep it warm.
The women of Venezuela use fire-fiies for
decorating their hair at night. They are
fastened with silk thread.
There are about $1,000 Pinkerton detec-
tives in this country, maintained at an an
nual expense of over 100000
1t takes six years to paint the great
Brooklyn bridge, and as soon as the job is
completed 1t has to be done over again.
Since the Mkado of Japan permitted his
subjects to emigrate to other countries nearly
100, 0O0 Of them have left their native land.
The long-eXpected statue of the Marble
Faun, tho original of which is in the Cap
ltoline Museum, has arrived at Bowdoin
College.
To show the growth made in the industry
OF furnishing kndling wood, single factory
In Pennsylvania turns out 100000 bundles
month.
The popularity of the cab-horse in Wash
lngtOn, ID. o., is that he seems to know just
where you are going and the speed that
you would like
Recent experiments at the Illinois ex-
pertinent station show that the best fer
tilizer known for land on which wheat is
raised is ordinary barn-yard manure.
The latest decorative fad is a cushion
covered with the yellow ribbons in which
cigars are punched They are designed as
presents for gentlemen who smoke.
1t appears that the poets have been vast
Ing their talent in raving about the sweet
scented flowers. Scientists inform us that
SO er cent of all the flowers are odorleSs.
General Reynolds, who was killed at
gettysburg, has memorial at the new City
Hall III Philadelphia, and there will soon be
one of General Mcclellan as a companion
piece.
Sir John Millais had a picture in the
Academy when only II years old, and
Michael Angelo at 80 had finished his great
est painting, the ceiling OF the Sistine
Chapel.
Philadelphia has a flourishing woman's
club called The Acorn. This seems to indi-
cate that tile women of the future intend to
play the part OF the oak Instead of the ira
ditional ivy.
The mushroom in the former Philadel-
phia residence of William l.. Elkns has one
OF the handsomest and cOstliest floors in
the country. 1t is mosaic, and it took two
men three years to lay it,
The expense of collecting precious stones
is great, and yet fashionable women have
developed passion for this sort of thing,
and are said to make heroic sacrifices in
order to crafty the new within.
Balzac, who eschewed tobacco as a weed
that injured the body, attacked the intel
lect and stupefed the nations, drank great
Quantities OF coffee, which produced the
terrible nervous disease that shortened his
life.
Business in the London fashionable mar
rage market seems TO he unusually active.
One leading coufectoner received in one
day no fewer than thirtv- eight orders for
brides cakes. TO be delivered during the
month.
A gray-haired man was found dead in
fence corner near Reading, Pa, recently.
The mans death was mystery until an
empty whisky bottle was found in his
pocket. The testimony whisky bottle
bears is never challenged.
After long waiting Rudolph Selgrist of
New York has gained his point. He wanted
TO dle and i've months ago shot him self, the
bullet lodging in his brain. Although 70
years of age, he had immense vitality, and
did not expire until few days ago.
The Sultan of Turkey has ordered the
construction Of eighteen new cruisers for
the Ottoman navy. The chief problem
thereby suggested is as to the means of pay
ing for the same, in view of Turkeys far
from tiourishing financial condition.
Lancaster County. Pa, has a custom that
prevails, perhaps. nowhere else in the
United States. SETTLING day" in that
county falls upon April 1st, and on that day
thousands OF country folks gather at Lam
caster, the county seat, to pay their debts.
Home-making ought to be by slow pro-
cesses. The house beautiful from the
hands OF artists and upholsterers can never
be the home complete. As In other things,
essentials must be there, but the adornings.
the touch Of femintnity pervading, must be
q growth.
The chivalric gentleman never boasts of
his popularity with women, but the cox
comb has the ineffdble meanness to Drag
OF iavorS that he has never received, and
to represent that he is an object of admira-
ton IN quarters where he is regarded as
nuisance.
The tendency in the devising of improved
rifle bullets is now TO attain increased
and the consequence is that
much OF the smashing power of the old
bullet is lost Some Of the latest bullets
are more like lead pencil in shape than
anything else.
There is, perhaps. no more pious fbbing
done than in the practice of asking for an
honest opinion. Inc world may extol can
dor ana friends may ask you to tell them
the exact truth about themselves, but can
dor is not popular nor the outspokeu friend
long cherished.
Athletic lung" is a medical term used to
designate the abnormal development of
lung possessed by some athletes. The con-
dltlon Is produced by those forms of exer-
else that call for the constant use of the
lungs at their highest power. The result is
III enormous development of lung Capacity.
A Massachusetts farmer knows a good
thing when he sees it. The pupils of the
high school of latham solicited the priyi-
lege OF husking his corn and furnishing the
refreshments besides, and he granted both
requests. The young people had q good
time and found enough red ears to satisfy
them.
No one has yet sent in million cancelled
postage stamps to the Postoffice Depart-
ment although 200 letters arc received
annually requesting information about the
prize of $500 which the Government is sup
posed to offer for that number. How this
popular delusion originally started no one
can tell.
There has been a pronounced change In
the manners and customs of the Quakers in
Philadelphia. The women have discarded
their little black DOnnets and sedate black
dresses with black collars for more modern
costumes, ana their thou" and thee" Of
address are as unfamiliar as their old style
of dress.
A woman bee-keeper has won a case In
court against builder who destroyed her
swarm OF bees which happened to settle in
his garden. The bees annoyed him and he
took pail OF paraffine and tar and held il
under the swarm until they dropped, stupe
fed, into the flames. The court condemned
him for his act and gave the woman dam
ages.
novel plan for raising the wind has
been adopted by the Portuguese Govern
ment. taxing advantage of the craze for
collecting postage stamps, the authorities
propose TO issue a new series and thus cause
the present stock to be bought up immedi-