The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-05-02
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fifty babies were born in New York City
last year. Poor things, they could not help
it'll
An enormous reservoir Of water only 100
feet down has been punctuTed at El-Golea,
Sahara Desert. Its flow is almost forty gal
Ions per minute.
William c. Brooks, pioneer Of Redding,
jackson County, Ind, and over 80 years old,
has cut almost an entire new set of teeth
In the past few weeks.
Stephen Girard, the founder Of the Girard
College IN Philadelphia, was not native of
the United States. He was born in R0r-
deaux, France, on May "a, 100.
Some Swartz Greek (Mich.) women made
their names public property on April 1st by
parading the streets in their husbands cloth
ing. They wish they hadn't now.
A wOman's pocket defPs the cleYerest
pickpocket nowadays, and yet the woman
carries her purse III her hand. The trouble
is she cannot find the pocket herself
Near Oneonta, Ala, Ed Strange, farmer
while loading rifle to shoot hawks, acct
Mentally shot and killed his wife, to whom
de had been married only two months.
New York mourns the scarcity of shad
this season, but it looks at this distance as
if there were enough other scaly affairs in
Gotham to fully supply all deficiencies.
Mrs. z. T. Barnum expresses the opinion
that woman car often make her husband
by refratning from too many questions"
A bride ia Montreal is said to have ap-
peared with her pet canary fastened to her
shoulder by golden chain. The bird en-
liyened the marriage ceremony with a song.
A Kansas City woman. hitherto considered
one of the "400." has been detected in i'm
personating one of the real elite and procur-
Ing thousands of dollars worth of goods on
credit.
Eight Arkansas men recently INDUCED in
free fight in which two were hacked to
pieces and two more fatally wounded. The
bone OF contention was the disposition of a
jug of whisky.
1dleness must be at discount at Cincin-
natl, Ohio. A recent issue of d journal of
that city contained five and one-half long
columns, in small type, Of 'help wanted
advertisements.
A Philadelphia lodge recently held q
"Night-cap Ball" in which more than 30O
couples participated. The caps they wore
were taken at random from box, and those
corresponding became partners.
When transplanting or setting out plants
received from the florist be sure and shade
them for TWO or three days, or until they
have time to get start in their new quar-
teFs Water thoroughly when you set them.
Julia Marlowe receives through the mail
an average of one offer of marriage day in
every town where she plays. All Miss Mar
lowe asks OF town is good engagement.
and yet she rejects all these offers to get one.
The mother OF two English beauties APP.
peared with her daughters recently in black,
with vest and hem Of gray astrakhan, a
combination to be recommended to ladies of
dark complexion, with gray or powdered
hair
John Jones of Dale County, Ala, is in
jail on the charge OF assault with intent to
murder his nine year-old son for some trIfing
fhA ~. a.
thumbs, whipped him numerically and left
him to die.
Most fountain-pens will work better if
the ink is diluted 50 per cent with water. a
man who thought a coating of glycerine
within the pen would prevent the ink from
hardening in ii, has concluded that that
theory is e had thing for a pen.
The effect of the awful sight of the wreck
Of the Utopia at Gibraltar was most extra
ordinary. One man on the British war
ship, when the Utopia first sank, got so
excited that he cried out: ''Ohl l can't
stand this" and jumped overheard.
A horseshoe made of several thieknesses
of cowhide firmly compressed is in use In
some parts of Europe. 1t is said that this
shoe does not slip on smooth payements like
asphalt, is as durable as the iron shoe and
that the hoofs OF horses wearing them do
not split.
At a Salvation Army meeting in Boston
the other day HindOo speaker declared
that he finds more spiritual darkness in
America than he ever found in India, at
which an enthusiastic nearer shouted on
general principles: That's so; bless The
Lord"
A resident of Searsport, Me-, lately dis
covered peculiar phenomenon on the
beach. Large quantities of clans had been
forced out Of the sand and were lying in
piles in the ciefts of the rocks on Mosman s
Ledge. He hauled away more than seventy
five bushels.
A Cincinnati paper speaks of a recent
dinner given there as being Handsome -
Why handsomep If the personal pulchri-
tude Of a repast is to figure in newspaper
reports we may expect soon to read of
homely dinners, ugly luncheons and freck-
led breakfasts.
The royal commission appointed to ex-
anime Westminster Abbey in its relations to
future burials report shat there is room for
forty or fifty more, but space can be made
for seventy-elght more by deyoting every
available spot Tor the purpose. The present
rate of abbey funerals is about one year.
Secretary Blaine, who for years has
rented his large brick house in Washington
to u. l.. Letter for $1,000 annually, will
lose his tenant, Mr.. Letter having deter
mined to build mansion which will eclipse
in elegance any residence in the city. The
lot covers 1900 square feet, the price of
which alone is SS4,000
There is a tradition that Hannibal was
born in Malta. This famous and historic
island was the chief stronghold in the Med
iterranean of the Carthaginians of old, as it
is now Of the English. There and in the
neighboring island of Coco there still re-
main extensive ruins of Carthaginian Tor
Ph@uician) temples and an abundance of
Carthaginian graves.
Escanaba, Mich. is the greatest iron port
in the world. During the navigation season
of 1890 it shipped 100000 tons of iron ore,
or nearly double that of all the ore
ports of Wisconsin and Minnesota CON-
bined. Its lumber output amounted to
about 40, 900, 600 feet, while the freight ca
pacity of the vessels entering and clearing
from its port exceeded 5000, 900 TONS
One can cut glass with scissors as easily
as though 1t were an autumn leaf. The
secret consists in plunging the pane OF
glass into tub OF water, submerging also
the hands and the scissors. The scissors
will cut in straight lines without flaw.
This result Is achieved in consequence of
the absence of vibration. III the least por-
ton Of the scissors Is left out Of the water