The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-09-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The skull of Philadelphia boy has been
fractured by the fall of tobacconists
wooden Indian.
poor wretch at Brooklyn was recently
found raYenOusly devouring the scraps of
food from garbage barrels.
a note cursing the doctors has been found
among the effects Of Texes suicide, worth
100000, who was suffering from cancer
in the stomach.
An experienced caterer says that where
the guests at gathering are well acquainted
they eat at least 20 per cent more than they
otherwise would.
Five Victoria (Texas) preachers are on a
fishing expedition, and are reported having
as excellent luck as did Simon Peter, their
illustriOus predecessor.
A vast number of people take comfort in
the hope of at last reaching Nirvana. The
total number of Buddhists in the world is
estimated to be 100000.
A curious fact in connection with the
deaths in q Pottstown (Pa.) family is that
all the children-nine in number-passed
away in their twenty-second year.
A boy was arraignod in the Hartford
Comm Police Court and fined SIS and costs
for throwing stones at one of the towns
famous elms and bruising its bark.
In the museum of the Dead Letter Office
at Washington, ID. c., there is piece of
parchment upon which is penned copy of
the Lords prayer. written in tfly-four diff
ferent languages.
The aggregate capital represented by the
various trusts" in the United States
amounts to more than S2,000000,000. or
more than two-thirds of our entire manu-
featuring capital.
gang of tramp printers made raid on
the composing-rooms of the New Haven
morning papers recently and got off with
200 pounds Of type and ''cutS," which they
sold for old metal.
George A. Avery of Dover, n. H., has
curraEt bush in his garden which, it is said,
stands twenty feet high aud Is loaded with
large red currantS. They are picked with
sae aid of ladder.
couple of base-bal officials were held
up by stage robbers in \ ellowstone Park
and robbed of $500. The bandits displayed
fine discrimination. They know who handles
the surplus nowadays.
George Merriman, 90 years of age, Of
Lltchheld, Conn, has just completed the
work OF cutting with scythe six acres of
hay. Besides, he raked il up, pitched it on
wagon and then unloaded IL at his barn.
During thunderstorm at Pinckneyville,
ILL.,, a man ran into house, and as he got in
and was shaking off the rain remarked: Il
got in Just in time, when bolt of light
ming cut his words short and he dropped
dead.
a Missouri man is making money by the
sale of snake oil, says an exchange The
old-fashioned oil-fusel oil-that has been
on the market for years and produced
many millions Of snakes, is still popular,
however
At last the OLD topers have found way
to get around the new Massachusetts law
limiting the number of drunks TO two per
annum. When arrested second or third
time they simply declare that it is the same
old drunk. and the Court is obliged to be-
lieve them.
A veriiable curiosity has been captured in
Africa. 1t is an elephant larger than the
late lamented Jumbo pea-green in color,
trunkess and has horns that branch out
something like the horns of deer. 1t is in
possession of q native king, who will not
part with 1t.
In using basket CRATES In chimneys, built
for other methods of heating, complaint is
frequently made Of their smoking - the
chimneys, not the CRATES. An easy way to
prevent this is TO lt sheet of glass twelve
or fourteen inches deep across The front Of
the hreplace5.
Since Brazil became a republic it has
vastly increased in favor as a field for Ger
man immigrants, of whom 1927 have gone
there during the first six months of the
present year, as compared with 1892 during
the whole of last year, while III 1889 there
were only 22S.
A Detroit man has the following neatly
framed pIacard hanging in his office: g The
proprietor of this place keeps $4,000 to loan
TO his friends in sums of So and $40. Just
at present his money is all out, but if you
want any leave your name and you will be
given first choice"
A Norwegian living Ia the sixteenth CEN
fury was accounted master hand at minute
contrivances. In proof of this it is recorded
that he made 10000 dishes of turned ivory,
in every respect without flaw, and so tiny
that ali of them could be safely Graded in a
peppercorn cup of usual size.
Here is sentence Of thirty-two words
which some ingenious person has con-
structed of the six letters found in the word
maiden: Ida, a maiden. mean man
named Ned Dean. ana Media, e mad dame,
made me mend a die and dime and mind
mine in dim den in Maine"
Mrs. Myron Combs Of Inwood. n Y, is
the owner If Bible given her by her great
grandmother, Margaret Floyd, who was q
member of the old Floyd family of Vir-
ginia. The book is 175 years old aud con-
tains the laws of England at that time,
wherein those forbidden by Scripture to
marry are also forbidden by crown law.