The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-01-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| ITEMS OF INTEREST.
II Is said That the tourist season bring:
100000 yearly into Switzerland.
The Lexington (Ky.) electric screet-car:
carry school children at half fare.
There are 365 corps OF the Salvation Army
in America, with 1066 officers in service.
1t is believed in Florida that rice culture
is to become profitable industry in thai
State.
A new map of China has been ordered by
the Emperor, and the surveys have alread y
| begun.
1t is said to be curious fact that all OF
| the girls In Wellesley College who lead their
classes are blondes.
;. The Buddhists of Japan propose to estab-
llsh a bank In order to obtain funds for the
propagation of their religion.
A tonrmaline ledge, recently discovered
on farm near Auburn, Me, is said to have
already yielded $500 worth of gems.
During the last 100 years 3S5.0O0 patents
have been issued by the United States.
There have been 100000 applications.
| A supposed ghost which haunted a section
oil Baton Rouge, La, has been captured, aud
proved to be demented colored woman.
Platinum can now be drawn into wire
strands so fine that twentyseven twisted
together can be inserted into the hollow of a
| hair.
| nc Ivan I1dll DldUIdtlOn IN Louisiana
has already turned out 1000, 900 pounds OF
| sugar, with more than half the crop of cane
| yet to grind.
| The Acknowledgement of Texas has de-
| cided that the Courthouse of Bowie County
must De built at the geographical center,
which is in the woods
The Fulton (Ky.) gourmand who under
took to eat three quails day for thirty
uays, stumbled at his twenty ninth bird on
Tie tenth day of his task.
In 1884 it will be 1000 years since Hun
gary became an independent government,
and IL Is proposed to celebrate the ami
Versary with great pomp.
1t Will probably surprise mary persons
10 learn that Harvard University has no
I evening reading-room or library facilities
| whatever for its students.
The production of metal aluminium by
eiectrOiysls at cost little above that of tin
Is what some French chemists are sanguine
| oi being able to accomplish.
A new variety of seagull has made its an
| pearance on the New Jersey coast 1t is
| darker than the old kind, aud the most re-
marka0le popularity is that its tail is mar
roweu TO sharp point.
hoDberS entered boarding-schonl for girls
at South Bethlehem, Pa, few nights ago
ana stole number of rings bracelets and
other Jewelry. When it was noised about
lhat burglars had been in the building sew
eral OF students tainted away.
Inc crowded audience attending the Resi-
denZ Iheater in Berlin on Christmas eve
n maI iOice9 10 SIT 90 minutes in darkness,
broken only by the feeble raw from LIANT er1
placed on the stage, the electric light having
IaIIeu III the middle of the performance.
me Chlnese on the Russian frontier are
issuing the f0rtlhcations of the town of
h9inuiy1' AN enormous fortress is nearly
i iiii5lea. win mud and clay walls % feet
high 20 feet thick and SIS fert in inngt6
Win d moat feet deep and 10 feet broad.
-, New Orleans is making extensive prepara-
li4nS LOT the celebration of Mardi Gras
whlch comes on the 10th of February. .Ths
carnival VIII be on a grand scale, and the
New orleans papers assert the pageant will
eclipse III brllllancy any of its predecessors.
At a test of steel manufactured at Read.
ing, Pa, the other day a one-inch bar broke
at at a strain of 2aa sss pounds. being abSae
authorltatlvely known" The test was made
under the supervision of Government Of
ficers.
There seems to be good reason for the in
creased interest in athletics and various
kinds OF physical culture fads. 1t is report
ed that out of twenty applications for enlist
ment at the United States rendezvous in
Portland only one has been accepted, def
Gent chest being the main trouble.
The Swiss railways intend to introduce
the zone tariff for passengers, now that the
system proves so successful in Austro-
Hungary. During the first year of the zone
tariff IN Hungary the various lines carried
over 13,O0O.00O passengers, against 5000, 900
during the previous twelve months.
Thousands of goldcrests annually cross
and recross the North Sea at the widest
period of the year, and, unless the weather
Is rough, generally make their migratIons in
safety. And yet this is the smallest and
frailest British bird-a mere duff of feathers
and weighing only seventy grains.
A number of young unmarried women
employed in various shoe-factories of Brock
ton, Mass, have formed q syndicate for the
purchase of real estate for investment. AL
ready they have bought nine lots and are
negotiating for another block. 1t is their
intention to build ON all the lots and rent.
negress named Caroline jenkins, living
near Houston, Tex, is veritable Samson.
-Four police officers went to arrest her, when
she took them one by one, threw them out
of the house and locked the doors upon
them. She can break a half-inch rope
with ease by stretching 1t from hand 10
hand.
The city of Toronto will lease its street.
car plants. Under the lease no employe
can work over ten hours day. "A class Of
tickets must be sold at the rate of eight for
% cents, the same only to be used between
the time the daily runs commence and S
O'Clock In the morning, and between 5 and 7
O'Clock In the evening. Another class must
be sold at the rate of TWENTY-FIVE for 81.
and still another class at the rate of six for
% cents.
John L. Tobin, plasterer Of Long Island
City, n. Y, who came from London two
years ago, was breaking up an old trunk
that he brought with him on THANKSGIVING
day, when false bottom was disclosed. and
small package wrapped in chamois fell
out On opening the package he found
twenty-five diamonds in it. He had several
times tried TO give away the trunk and
chopped 1t up 70 be rid of it. The jewels are
said TO be worth $4,000.
When Lawyer Kimbrough attempted to
go on the stand to testify on behalf of his
client, at Memphis, Tenn, the other day,
Judge du Bose ruled that he must first re-
tire from the case. 1.-The rule of this court
is that no attorney in case can testify for
client, SAID the Judge. Wharton on
| Evidence takes strong grounds against such
practice and | will not permit it." KIM
brough formally announced his retirement
and then gave his testimony.
The County School Superintendent of
Adalr County, KY, after paying the ex-
lenses OF his office out of the munifcent al
lowance OF $3.50 year, made to him by the
County Court, realizes the sum of about 81
day-a stipend that would not secure the
services OF many unskilled laborers at SHOW
cling dirt 1t Is less than the salary of any
OF the teachers. Besides the labor performed
for this miserable sum, the Superintendent is
required to give $4,000 bond
Against Chinese Gamblers.
Chinatown's gamblers received a severe
setback yesterday in an opinion delivered
by the Supreme Court. whereby the writ Of
laOnas cOrDQS taken mt nv A N Sipo up do