The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-01-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The present wealth of the religious ord ers
of France is computed at S2OO,00O,OOo
Thirty Khirgese, while riding across the
steppes in Orenburg, Russia, were frozen to
death.
This year is the century of the plug hat,
which scarcely betrayS lis age save on occa-
sions of civic pomp.
A British professor has estimated that
the cloud of smoke which hangs over Lon
don weighs 800 tons.
At Milwaukee all theater bills are here
after to be submitted to tie Chief Of Police
before being posted.
Galvanized iron hOrse-collars are still
proving satisfactory in their trials for
London draught horses.
The man who kept Hamilton Lock in the
Thames for twenty-five years was lately
found floating In it drowned.
The wagon ana carriage manufacturers in
ST. Louis have formed trust, with pro-
visions against cutting rates.
A negro woman at Dryline, La, named
Anderson, recently gave birth TO four chill
dren, who are all alive and doing well.
There are now 200 regularly ordained
women preachers in the United States,
where forty years ago there was only one.
Sydney Ann White of Sedalia, Mo, is
106 years old. weighs go and was slave to
George Boone, a brother of Daniel Boone.
Ocala, Fla, has lady whose hand is so
small that orders for her gloves have TO be
sent direct TO Paris, where they are made to
order.
The sewing machine is only forty-four
years old, matches have been in common use
since 1929 and Americas first street-car line
dates from 1926
About three quarts of solid "mud-daubers"
nests were taken by tuner from an organ
III one Of the Apopka (Fla.) suburban school
houses recently.
A lumin Gus crayon has recently been in
vented 10 enable lecturers to draw on tile
black board when the room is darkened for
the use of the lantern.
The English dinner hour has been getting
later d uring the whole of the present
century. When the Queen married it was
o'clock. She now dimes at 8.
The total length of the streets, avenues,
bouieyards, bridges quays and thorough
fares of Paris is set down at 600 miles, of
which nearly 200 are planted with trees.
Mormon zsalut has started paper at
East Jordan, Mich, which be christened
Herald OF the Millennium. One article in his
creed is that it is ungodly to wear boiled
shirts.
Probably the heaviest stag ever killed in
Scotland Or Ireland has been shot at Muck
ross, near Killarney. 1t had horns of four
teen tynes, and its clean weight was nearly
a ton and half.
Z. Elwood OF Mount Morris, Mich, guessed
| he would die nine years hence. He was so
sure OF it that he had his tombstone erected
and dated 1899. His prophetic vision was at
| fault, as he has just died.
A couple were married at Atlanta, Ca.
VINO were first betrothed thirty-five years
! ago. That engagement was broken off, and
| since then the man has buried two wives
and the woman one husband.
CorSets, tight shoes and all artificial and
| fake ideas OF dress are discountenanced at
| MIR. Moody's Worthfeld School, and girls
are taught the higher ethics as well as
| practical results of physical culture.
A Begear-Journal has been started in
Paris and meets with success. The. cost of
a number is cents, and it contains articles
on the best methods of pursuing the bust
ness and advertisements of use of those So
Letting charity.
According to a Boston literary woman, to
be born i'll Boston, graduated FROM Harvard,
and 10 own pew in Trinity Church. a villa
on the North Shore and a burial lot In
Mount Auburn, sum up the ideal career of
man from Boston Athenian's point of view.
When some boys and dog were chasing
rabbit at Rich Hill recently, it took shell
ter under a hen with brood of chickens
The old hen nearly picked and scratched the
eyes out of the dog, and from that day to
this the hen ana the rabbit are inseparable.
While Mr. Williams of Montezuma, Ga,
was driving under an oak tree, at dusk, the
other day, he was amazed to find his horse
leave the ground and remain in the air In-
vestisation proved that the affair was not
SUPERNATURAL. as itl6 Hhu Rbt
IN a swing hanging from bough OF The
tree.
In speaking of the minute parasites which
are found in the hairy part OF tigers foot,
n scientist says: They constitute one OF
! the most wonderful curIoSltleS know OF In
the animal world. The parasites are so
small as to be almost invisible to the naked
eve. and yet each is perfect counterpart
| of the tiger"
A tame crow belonging to Mrs. Henrietta
Mcpherson of Herkimer, y. Y, will whip
any dog in the neignb0rhood, and amuses
itself jumping upon chair with spool of
I thread. picking the end loose and unwnding
the spool in the face OF the cat. AS the cat
| jumps for the runaway spool the crow wilI
| laugh like child.
In the first six years OF the "forties" no
other American city could compare in gayeIy
or in the bravery and show of wealth, with
the City OF Mexico, which was far more i'm
| uortant than ever Paris was to France or
| London to England. It was not only the
seat of Government, The residence OF foreign
representatives and the largest city; 1t WIS
in many senses the only one
A Brunswick (NIe.) physician tells the
Brunswick Telegraph that the pecunlary
loss for the past year in that town arising
from a loss of time. paid ior pnyslcians'
medicine. ETC., from typhoid IeVet s a,Onr,
wonld nav the interest on system OF sewers
for Brunswick. The same is proDaoly true
of other places. This is one OF the arlth-
meticaI facts that can not be brought to
public attention 700 often.
At the last election Indians on the reser-
walton in Isabella County, Mich, were
about evenly divided, halt Republicans, half
DEMOCRATS. Political aspirations with them
are confined to the lower steps only. They
become Justices of the Peace, Township
Treasurers, Constahles and school officers.
but no red man has ever received the honor
of coerty Office. The white man takes
care Of that, because it is fat.