The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-02-28

Water in which orange-peel has been
soaked freshens the complexion
The. State of Texas has SIP $50 in the
treasury after paying every claim.
1t is reported that white servants are rap
idly replacing colored help in the towns Of
Southwestern Georgia
Justice is the name of man who was re-
Gently sentenced tn IS years Imprisonment
in the Illinois Penitentiary.
Bismarck is the name given to mixture
of beer and champagne. The Iron Chan
cellor is said to be very fond OF it.
Scientists say that the orange was origi-
nally berry, and its evolution has been
going on for more than thousand years.
Editor Brown, who reconciled Cleveland
and Hill, is out $50 so by the achievement.
He received ninety-fuur congratulatory dis
patches G. .. ID.
A Massachusetts man named Higgins,
who married poetess, had to change his
name to Gienerue because Higgins wasn't
romantic enough.
A witness in contested will case at
Philadelphia said the teStator was not a
hard drinker, as che only took twenty-five
Or thirty drinks day."
A recently launched Baltimore schooner
was chriStened with water instead of wine,
the liquor always heretofore used on such
occasions The vessels owners are said to
be strict temperance men.
al NOLuSll liSuGS CuuNGil-
ton, including workers from the three
Scandinavian countries and Finland, will be
held in Stockholm next August.
Some of the Alaskan natives acquire very
respectable fortunes in the fishing trade. A
Nicholas Bay Indian has been known to
pay down $1,000 III hard cash for blankets
and trnketS for one potlach.
In the Wheatstone automatic method OF
telegraphy, when transmitting at the rate of
600 words minute, there are IS, 500 currents
per minute sent out, each having duration
not exceeding .002 Of a second.
Hens and chickens worth $1,000 apiece at
tracted curious slghtseerS at the poultry
show in New York. while domestic fowls
worth each few hundred, were so common
that they hardly won any notice.
A Western farmer, after missing the milk
from his COW for several evenings, deter
mined to investigate the cause, and was sur
prised when the thief proved to be a pig
which appropriated the contents of the
cows udder.
The royal standard of Persia, 1t is said, is
an apron. Stout old Gao, the Persian black
smith, raised a revolt that proved success
full, and his leathern apron, covered with
jewels, Is still borne at the van of the Per
sian armies.
ma Brazilian bark which arrived In New
York the other day reports seeing eighty
four Whales in one day. Some of the mon
sters were two or three miles away, but
Others came SO close 10 the vessel that the
fishy odor made the sailors sick.
The reverse side of printed page for the
blind looks not unlike cribbage board
After the page has been indented with
these points the paper is hardened and
sized by special preparation. Such a
page will last, with constant use, for years.
A bear which weighed $40 pounds was
killed by Solomon f. Perry of Ronceverte,
w. Va. who had followed the animal back
and forth over Sassafras Mountain for thirty
days. The bear killed eleven dogs. The
bears hide showed twenty-seyen bullet
wounds.
In Germany experiments have recently
been made with small locomotives for tow
ing heavy boats on canals. Instead, how
ever, of attaching the rope 20 the locomotive,