The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-07-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The colored people of Georgia are form
ing law and order leagues to control their
own race.
large backsnake broke up dinner
party among the Savannah (Gi.) dOckmen
the other day.
Philadelphia landlords allow their tenants
8 per cent discount il the rent is paid on the
day it falls due.
The foolkiller is badly needed at War
saw, Ind, where 80 people attended the
funeral of dog.
Every workman in Japan wears on his
cap and back an inscription giving his bust
ness and his employers name.
A New Jersey letter-carrer hid a hun
dred or more letters in church cellar to
avoid long tramps over his district.
John McKeown, a Washington Pa.) boy,
was recently drowned while bathing. He
was worth S4000,000 III his own right.
r. j. Jordan, an Indiana expert, predicts
that IN two years there will be no gas i'll the
natural gas fields in and around Finday,
Ohio.
There are % 100000 people in England and
Wales. They are crowded together in
country at least a half dozen times smaller
than Texas.
Harper Hunt of IndianoIa, Miss. is a
raylng maniac, caused b. the delusicn that
be drawn $4,000 in a lottery. He is cou-
lined IN a padded cell.
Young woman of New York, the
daughter Of Judge, although she has fire.
quently made trips TO Europe, recently paid
her first visit to Brooklyn.
AT one of the Goshen Qnd.) churches on
recent Sunday thrifty woman, about to
be married, delivered the Invitations her
self just after the services.
An Atchison man told secret to three
women and three men. In a week he dis
covered that each man had blab6ed, but that
not woman had told a thing
A -,
mat he Is IN desperate straits for a good
hand-organ with which to amuse himself
and drive his neighborS to distraction.
The Emperor of Japan has decrced that
hereafter every challenge to duel or accept
ance of one is to be punished by impTison-
ment OF from six months to t@O years.
Charles Davenport of Cambridge Mass,
who is said to have built the first railroad
car in the United States, has just started for
tour of Europe. He is over 50 years of age
Visitors to Ceylon should be Il little eau
tlouS IN their purchases of the precious
stones of the island, as the natives have a
trick OF charging steep prices for inferior
gems.
A plague of caterpillars is infestng the
northern part of Franklin County, n. Y,
DESTROYING everything in their path for
nearly mile in width. They are moving
eastward.
A woman from Fort Ann, n. Y, pursued
q pahu VI ~ pAItS lItU v tIHlUDl, ana uuueT
cover Of shotgun regained not only her
Cwn kidnapped boy, but another belonging to
neghbOr.
Five brothers from Cape Elizabeth, Me,
who went into the war and came out un-
scratched, are all dead; and no one of them
died natural death nor any two IN the
same State.
Hannah Gibbs, a child-nurse of New
York. pluckily Owed into the Passac river
and rescued one of her little charges, who
had fallen into the water. AT the point the
river was eight feet deep.
The quickest bridge-building on record in
Europe was done by an engineer named
Dredge, who, in eight DAYS, put an iron span
across the Blackwater in Tyrone County,
Ireland, 1t was "A feet long.
Douglass Smith of Jamaica. L. l.. missing
Tor 20 years, and supp sed to be dead, mas
been heard from in a Michigan town. His
relatives are all dead Smith served
through the war with distinction.
In Germany large proportion of the CEN
sus enumeratorS are volunteers who work
without pay. Each has a few houses as
signed to hlm-say half doZen-and the
work is done rapidly and correctly.
The Seminole Indians have good water
route across Florida from their homes east
of Fort Myers clear through TO Mama on
The southeast coast. They come and 20 at
their pleasure in their large canoes.
The eedars in the Maine towns OF Rock
with strange blight and are rapidly dying.
Whole hedges have been dug up and carried
away. Nobody has yet discovered what ails
them.
There are ten main lines of railway cen.
tering III London. Of these 22l0 suburban
trains run in and out daily, while the main
line trains are only about 40. In 1889 the
ten lines carried 400,000000 suburban pas
sengers
If the surface of the Atlantic was lowered
6564 feet 1t would be reduced to exactly one
hall Its present width. If the Mediterranean
were lowered sixty feet Italy would be
Joined to Africa and three separate sea
would remain.
The Superintendent of Education In
Alaska has made arrangements to have
young reindeer transported from Siberia to
Alaska. tie intends to encourage the ma
tiyes to domesticate the animals and use
them as beasts Of burden.
Jasper Bradley of Crawford County,lInd.,
and Jennie Mckay of Vera, Ind. were mar
ried recently. He weighs six ty-ninc pounds
and is ffty-three inches high, and she weighs
thirty-one pounds and is tifty-one inches
high. Both are 81 years old.
A New York judge decided that hus-
band must pay his wife So week for her
support, and said that a foreigner might
1--we on So week If lie wanted 10, but when
he married an American woman lie must
support her in American style.
Twenty-Five years ago the idea of produc-
ing silks IN this country was laughed at.
To-day we are one of the largest manufac-
turers Of silk goods in the world and the
prices are about half what they were and
the goods themselves much better.
Reliable statistics show that the percent
age of insanity among farmers wives is
greater than in any other class. The ex-
PLANTATION is, they work too hard, are lett
alone too much. and have too little chance
to take recreation and enjoy society.
r. I,,.- .Cs
has brought suit for damages for the loss Of
son against former landlord, ascribing
the boys death to cold contracted because
of the cellar walls being cracked, thereby
letting drafts in, and the furnace out of
order.
Mrs. Charles Steubing of BROOKLYN placed
500 in the oven of her range for safe keep
ing. The next day she found it necessary to
light fire in the range When the fire
blazcd up she suddenly thought of her
money. Opening the oven she found that
the bills had been reduced to ashes.
John Thomas. colored, from Louisiana, is
in Troy, N. T., as the guest of his sister,
Mrs. Mary A. Cooper, who ran away from
slavery before the war. Her brother John
was Sold TO dealer. and taken from Mary
land to louisiana. After a separation Of
seventy years they are now reunited.
Governor Mckinney of Virginia recently
pardoned terminal serving a three:years'
sentence, and by return mail received the
certificate of pardon with the following in
dorsement of the Superintendent of the
penitentiary: This man died in camp on
the Warm Springs Valley Railroad March
Is, 1891"
Three women in Atlanta, Ca, have be-
come the talk of the city for their pucky
work in extinguishing fire. Ii was on the
roof, and while one of them got ladder
and placed it In position, the other two
hunted up hoes and hatchets, and they all
then mounted the ladder and fought the
flames. When the fire engines reached the
scene there was nothing for them to do.
A somewhat unusual catch was made re-
Gently in some salmon nets in Scotland.
The fishermen. on examining the nets at
ebb tide, found about u score of crows in
side one OF the pockets. At low water the
nets are left high and dry, aud the crows,
feeding on the sands, must have been at
tracted by something inside the nets. Once
inside, they ware unable to find the exit