The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-09-29
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A New York clergyman has married over
IL, 000 couples and received over 100000
wedding fees
The grave of an unmarried man in the
AtchiSOn (kans.) cemetery is covered with
bachelor buttons.
A company to insure tobacco planters
against loss by hail is one of the latest
schemes in Connecticut.
A shoemaker says that 10 per cent of the
people who try on shoes in his place have
holes in their stockings.
The ruins OF Bluebeard's castle are said
to still remain in lonely mountain road
near Interlakeu, Switzerland.
Big farming is not confined to the West.
Several AroostOok (Me.) farmers report
crops of 10000 bushels Of potatoes this
year.
OF the $40. 226 children of school age in
Louisiana only $1,000 attend the public
schools, and many Of those go but for one
month.
Berlin is the only city in Germany that
has an excess of 1000, 600 population. Only
twenty-six towns have over 100000 in
habitantS.
A thirty-year-old woman at Browns Run,
Ohio, is only 2S inches tall and weighs thirty
six pounds. Her growth ceased when 3
years of age.
An Allegheny City pa official. recen tly
acposed, has managed TO get away with
over $4,000 municipal funds in the past
eighteen years.
In the Antarctic Ocean the icebergs that
have been noticed from time to time were
400, $50, 700 and even 1000 feet above the
water, and were from three to five miles
long.
A girl in Alton, ILL.,, was Rugged so hard
by muscular lover that enc of her ribs was
broken. Victims Of tbs young mans atten-
ton would be justified in wearing steel
corsets.
In selecting trained nurses for their pa
tientS some doctors give preference to those
who can play musical instrument. Music
often has wholesome effect in the sick
chamber
A drench;ng rain at Ipswich, Mass, re-
| Gently, did not deter the Fire Department of
| that city from marching in their annual
| parade, proving that they were able TO cope
| with water as well as the fiery element.
DR.. Clement, who was treating horse at
| Better. Mich, supposed to be in bad shape,
| discovered a tooth growing out of the ami
| mails ear. The strange ivory was extracted
and the suffering animal promptly recoy-
eTed
Texas is infected by rabbits and lots of
| people are earning wages since the bounty
| law went into effect. In one day 1900
| scalps were turned into the commissioners
| court at Midland and paid for with county
scrip.
The letter-carriers of Burlington, Iowa.
| and the Superintendent of the Car company
| have made an agreement whereby the pay
| ment of 81 per month by each carrier they
are privileged to ride anywhere and at any
| time on the electric cars.
Blankets are loaned to the poor during the
| winter months, free of cost, by a kind
| hearted citizen in Brunswick, Germany.
| They are stamped to prevent them from be-
| ing sold or pawned, and they are returned
| at the close OF the cold weather.
| Tho ynung wnnoap If
are competitors in raising chickens, ami the
town has more poultry than any other in
| the State. Under q single roof a prominent
| breeder had as many as 5000 broilers at
| once, as well as 1000 hens. In one season
| Hammonton has sent &, 900 birds to market
There are said to be men in Chicago who
| buy or sell hundreds of thousands of BUSH
| els of wheat each day, and Yet would not
know u grain of wheat if they saw it.
| These are men who do not contribute much
| to the industrial wealth of the country
| Their winnings come from the losses of
Others.
The modest little Scotch girl who as
founded the 1900 male students of the Uni
| versty of London by carrying off the honors
| of entrance is named Charlotte Higgins. 1t
| was her widowed mother who gave her the
| education needed to encompass her brilliant
ambition. Miss Higgins is 20 years old, but
does not look it.
| AS most people know, Schultz is a vel y
common name among Germans. A striking
| illustration OF that fact is found in the city
directory Of Berlin, which has nearly 200
pages Of citizens bearing that name and in
certain departments OF the city government
there are numerous sub-departments, each
| having different set of clerks to take
care Of special divisions of the Schultz
| family.
During a cyclone near Mount Herman,
| KY, in June last, a hen was imprisoned
under the tmbers of barn, but when re-
leased. few days ago. she hoped about as
lively as ever. On making a calculation il
was found that she had been confined in
her narrow prison for just seventy days.
| During that time she had laid an egg and
Matched chicken. AS the bones were
found near the hen, it was supposed she had
eaten it.