The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-07-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ohaha mas sixteen addltIonal letter-car-
riers.
Lusi, the last of the servants of DR.. Liv-
ingstone in his African travels, is dead.
1t Is assumed that hundreds of thousands
OF dollars worth of jewelry have been
buried with the dead In New York Gene
teries.
The equestrian statue Of Grant for Chi
cage, cast III bronze at Chcopee, Mass, is
SAID TO be the largest portrait statue in this
country.
Surnames at North East, Pa, are Stur-
geon and Housekeeper, and at recent
wedding in that town the H0usekeeper got
the Sturgeon.
An Omaha clergyman was rout-d out of
bed mt A. NJ. to perform a marriage cerG-
mony, 1t was a case Of elopement from
Lincoln, Neb.
A shower from hose-nozzle placed inside
the shirt-collar is proving an effective
treatment for drunkards. Instead OF the
lookup, Mt H0ulton, Me.
Evan Wirslng, prominent farmer of
hlngW00d w. Va. committed suicide be-
cause his father objected to his marriage
| with the girl of his choice
An educated, accomplished young lady of
fetoSky. Mich, has split twenty cords of
WOOD with her own hands. and has it piled
| neatly TO season Tor summer use.
A Philadelphia who was once prominent
IN debating club confesses that he never
| dictates into photograph that feeling of
stage fright does not overtake him.
Switzerland, the little mountain democ-
racy or Federal Republic of Europe. will be
| GOO years old on the 1st of next August. The
| Swiss propose to celebrate the event.
On the railroads in this country at least
| one million workmen are elm ployed, aud the
disbursements for supplies and labor amount
| to not less than 500, 900 per year.
There are two Major William McKfn-
leys In One. The one is the Republican
nominee for Governor and the other is a
Democratic saloonkeeper in Mansfield.
A new claimant for honors as a faster is m
Indiana rattlenake, which has gone with
out food for thirteen MONTHS 1t is con-
fined in the Depauw University museum.
The Byron (He) girls have caught the
god-digging fever, and the heroine OF the
town is a Young woman who mined one
dollars worth of the real stuff from Smith
Brook.
You cannot talk to q woman half an hour
without discovering what Igion she affects
you can talk to man forever without
ascsrtaining that he has religious belief OF
any kind.
4 Springfield (Alo) woman. who slipped
into mudpuddie while trying to board a
street car. threatens to sue the company for
the price of a new sprlng suit and cart
wheel hat.
Nearly 100000 in mutilated currency was
received at the New York Treasury re-
Gently in single day. 1t consisted mainly
Of 81, 81 and 50 notes, which were replaced
by new bills.
Jefferson A. Harlow, letter-carrier ut
Kansas City, slept near an open window
with the moon shining full in his face, and
in the morning when he aWoke he was
totally blind.
Wolves have killed large number of
sheep IN Webster County, West Virginia,
aud the County Court offers $50 each for
Inc trri,i nh ~
will add SO.
The chimney is modern affair, being not
yet seven centuries old In the thirteenth
century chimneys were allowed only on re-
lgiOus houses, manor houses and noble
mems castles.
There is a three-armed deaf and dumb
freak IN Wisconsin dime museum who eau
talk so fast on her fingers that there Isn't
stenographer in the State who can report
her verbatim.
1t would take all the Lancashire cotton
factories 400 years to spin thread long
enough to reach the nearest star ut the pres
ent rate of production OF about 15j, 600 600
miles per daE.
1t is a curious fact that mayoanaise dress
ing will disagree with delicate people.
whereas the same ingredients put together
without an egg French dreSsing) will be
easily digested.
Father dying of pneumonia mother drunk,
three little children starving. was what Off
GERS OF the Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty TO Children found in a New York
tenement recently.
Irwin Fowler OF Viola, Wis, has con-
fessed that he was the murderer of four per-
sons in May, 1888. Another man was sus-
pected of the crime and lynched three days
after its occurrence.
Omaha's sehool-census enumerators are
charged with padding their lists at least 80
per cent. 1t Is said that in one ward last
years returns were padded to the extent of
between 800 and 1000 Names
The first known weather record was kept
by Walter Merle Tor the years 1887 to 1874
A few Photographic copies of the original
SATIN manuscript, now in the Bodleian
Library, have just been made.
Ladies and waiting maids among the an
Client Greeks and Romans wore plain hoops
OF gold or silver In their ears, and as time
progressed these became more elaborate,
precious gems being set in them.
A yearlng colt at Middleton, Ohio. has
four glossy white feet, white name aud tail.
while the rest of 1T is 4 jrt black Both sire
and dam are jet black. The owner has re-
ceived several lucrative offers from parties
who desire to purchase the animal for ex-
hibitiOn, but thus far he has refused to part
with it,
Two sentences passed at the sama session
OF court at Stafford, England: A collier,
committed for unlawful woundiDg was sem
fenced to six weeks hard labor: in the
other case woman found guilty of stealing
shilling was sentenced to seven years
penal servitude, folio led by seven years
police supervision.
A carrier-pigeon is trained for race with
as much care as is devoted to prize fighter.
They are dieted, exercised and cared for in
much the same way. The result of this
careful training is very satisfactory. A
greater degree of speed is attained, ana in
teligence TO a surprising degree is mani
tested by the birds.
One OF Pittsburg's residents is an Africa
Prince of royal blond, the heir to the throne
OF the Ga tribe on the Gold Coast He is
fne-lookng man of 80, with a coal-black
skin, and is known to civilization as +. Il. S.
Peregrino. By profession he is tailor, and
he has no longing TO return to the barbaric
splendor of his ancestors.