The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-04-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Solomon's Temple was dedicated in the
| year 1904 b. G..
In 454 b. c. the Romans sent to Athens
| for SolOn's laws.
Excessive rains are creating havoc In
| Southeastern France.
The deadly lrichinosis has claimed four
| victims ut CentCrvllle, WIS.
Mr. Brandies is the appropriate cOgnO-
men OF the Boston Liquor-dealers' attorney.
The eradication of smallpox is al present
the objective point of the ST. Louis author
| tiles.
A Georgia editors comprehensive instruc-
tons to his staff: Hang grammar! Print
| the news!'
A Philadelphia surgeon has dissected and
| mounted the complete nervous system of a
| human being, something never before ac-
compllshed.
A Georgia editor has twenty-seven chill
dren. He positively refuses to insert an
| advertisement announcing that a boy or
| girl is wanted.
w. Mackay Laffan of the New York Sun
has bought iadeite jar for $4,000. And yet
there are people who talk about "lhc poor
newspaper man."
An Italian psychologist has demonstrated
| by experiment that thinking causes a rush
| of blood to the brain, Which varies with the
nature of the thought.
Senator Pettigrew will drive trained
moose against a trotting horse for $500 a
side at the State fair to be held at Sioux
Falls. Dakota, next fall.
A new departure in cremation Is reported.
A patent has been taken out in France for
an electric fun mace for the rapid iucinera-
ton of human remains.
An immense 2O0-ton piece of granite,
which will dress to pillar feet in
diameter ana As feet long, has recently been
quarried near Petersburg, Va.
A foreipn Xyatnb-maker has TOD do
vice by which an hour or two before a
clock runs down the word wind" will ap-
pear at an opening in the dial.
Samuel L. Manahan of Lowell, Mass.
aged Sc. had protracted and interested
chat with General de Lafayette during the
distinguished Frenchlnans visit to Boston
in 1924.
Carl Bitter, an accomplished sculptor, only
% years old, is to do The most important
work in John Jacob Astor's plan of the
placing Of bronze doors in Trinity Church,
New York.
Edward J. Florence, a New York million
aire OF twelve years ago, Is serving months
sentence on Randalls Island for habitual in
toxication. He was formerly power In
Wall street.
Hiram McConkley of Springport, Mich,
has just awakened from an eight months
sleep. A blood clot in the brain is supposed
TO have been the cause Of his protracted
s0mn olence.
A $1,000 salary is awaiting competent
male stenograper in one of the city depart
ments of Boston, but in addition to the Gus
tomary qualifications he must pass a civil
service examination.
Boston newsboys have recently been pro-
hibted from boarding the cars of the West
End Street Railway, owing to an accident to
one of them, Tor which the company was
mulcted in heavy damages.
Elsie Sandgren, a bright Swedish girl en-
ployed in New York silk factory, was I'M
justly accused Of theft, and preferring death
to sullied name took poison, with fatal
results. She was but IA years of age
Texas Is differed by Governor Hogg,
Judge Pig, Senator Lamb, Representative
Durham and Sheriff Buffalo. And yet some
of the Lone Star State to agricultural pur-
poses.
At Decatur, Ala, while a Prohibition
leader was opposing the Issuance of LIQUOR
licenses in the city court flask of whisky
fell from his oyercoat pocket, creating such
CONSERVATION that an adjournment WAS
taken.
Alabama has four square miles of valua-
BILE oyster beds. Every barrel of the sue
culent bivalves taken out of the State is
subjected TO q tax of 10 cents, which aug
menis the State treasury funds $4,000 an
nually.
A veteran Philadelphia smoker asserts
that a dry cigar invariably emitS cracking
sound when held to the ear, and adds: IF
you could put it on one of the machines that
magnify sound it would approach roar in
| intensity"
Louis Purdy. said to have been the oldest
postmaster in the United States, is dead at