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

A Buffalo On. Y ) girl has inherited mag.
nihcent estate lii Australia.
Ira Dooner of New York. aged So, has
| spent twenty years 10 prison.
Eight valuable st. Bernard dogs have re-
Gently died in the Cincinnati Zoo.
| Woodland, Mich, is paying % cents each
for wOodchucks. and the officers have set.
| tied for 500 in three weeks.
c. W. Mellor, an Ann Arbor mich. )
| news-dealer, is one of the nine heirs TO q
| S2,500,000 estate in England.
| The venerable elms on the Boston Com.
| mon are dying, and the city foreSteris kept
| busy setting out young trees.
A man near Athens, Ga, has been takinu
| gold Tor years from . stream near his farm.
| which PANIED out about 81 a day.
The authorities of Nashville. Tenn, have
! decided to enforce the ordinance forbidding
| brass bands from playing on the streets.
A New York girl with the grip attempted
| suicide twice and then got married Des-
perate diseases require desperate remedies.
While Robert Cornelius, an aged and re-
| spected citizen of Key West, Ky, was ex-
| hortlng in prayer-meeting he suddenly fell
| dead.
During the past year there were over
| 100000 pieces Of matter withdrawn from
the mails because OF Incorrect or insufficient
addresses.
Two bushel baskets full of murderous-
looking knives have been found in the pos
session of the 1000 prisoners i'll the Ohio
State Penitentiary.
A Mason City Qowa) couple have been
bound over for trial for almost beating to
death a school-miStress who inflicted de-
served punishment upon their refractory
boy.
A little shop in Yorkshire Eng0 town
Is said TO be kept by young Ame rican, son
OF an abnormally rich man, and his wife.
whose society is not desired in the family
circle.
A Nelson (Nebr.) druggist has been con-
Vlctod OF manslaughter for substituting cor
rosive subimate for calomel in a Drescrip-
ton. The mistake caused the death of a
young woman.
One of Mount Holly's On. j. curiosities
is man who never lent cent in his life,
never smoked cigar nor used tobacco, never
drank drop of liquor, and never used pro-
fame language.
Oliver Dyncoop, Postmaster and mer-
chant at GadSden, Ind, has skipped with
his handsome servant girl, leaving debts of
$500 and a wife and two small children. He
Is also in arrears IL the Government
The bell-ringers of English churches held
convention recently. the 20 delegates rep
resentng 1000 memJers OF the profession
They discussed methods for atlcyiating the
horrors OF the Understanding bells.
The idea that a connection exists between
an earthquake shock aud the height of the
barometer has been proved 10 Dc incorrect.
IhlS statement Is based on tbs observations
OF 53l earthquakes recorded IN Japan.
A Detroit policeman has been acquitted
upon trial for not entering the church upon
his beat in which mad dog was creating a
terrible commotfon. He swore that he
thought they were only elocting deacon.
a benevolent AtchisOn lKans) woman
ina NJ ~,
that runs through the town for the use OF
tramps, ana number Of them may be seen
at that place every day washing themselves.
The wealth Of rich men is very apt to be
oYerestimated. John Plankington, who
died recently in Milwaukee, was supposed
during his lie to be worth at least S10,-
OOO,OO0, but an inventory of his property
fuUts up only S1,6O0,000
A Boston man claims that the first saw
lngs bank IN America was the 'PrOYident
Institution for savings in the town of Bos-
ton, Incorporated IN December, 1916, and
opened for business in January or Febru-
AIRY, 1917. Ii still exists.
What's in a name? Thomas Lawless is
IN st. Louis hospital on account OF bat
terng he got while trying to save young
glTl from Insult by couple of rowdies, and
James Thoroughbred has been sentenced to
death IN Delaware for felony.
On the arrival of women cOnvicls at the
island OF Saghalen, Russia they are drawn
up III line, ana the unmarried male prison.
eTS ordered 10 point out those they wish as
wives. Ii the choice is mutually satisfac-
tory, they are married on the spot.
a Howell (Mich.) jury values a husband
at SIS, 10 30, and this is the verdict it gives
against the Detroit, Lansing and Northern
Railroad Ter killing August Grostic The
trial lasted four days and the case will 20
up. Mrs. Grostlc sued for $3.50
II i al Iot bo ,.Ft a.
chine is very Old. In an inn in one of the
rural districts of England the tobacco for
the guests was kept in box which was
opened 10y an English penny. This box was
certainly, SO the landlord aVerred. $50 years
old
Richard Reddick, a Bridgewater Pa.)
negro, Is ia years old. He uses tobacco
occasionally, and takes a drink of liquor
whenever he can get il. lie has recently
been making garden, Is as spry as a man OF
90, and says lac expects to live until he is 200
years Of age.
Here is queer advertisement which APP
peared IN Liverpool newspaper; Wanted
Immediately, IN country, a Christian home
clergyman or doctor preferredl for a lady
(PrOtestanU, baby and child; lady of Intern
perdte habits. Address, stating terms
(noderate), G l06.
They break up jams Of logs in the Andros-
cOggin River, Me-, with dynamite. The
Cildi 70 Is ldSheu III long pole ana forced
through the boiling water. The Jam leaves
at once. Formerly men went out on the
jam. but il was very dangerous work Some
times eight cartridges We're exploded at once
a gang of hoodums at Middetown, Iowa,
is making life miserable for Rev. Mr.. Nc
Even, WHO denounced their lawless deeds
from his pulpit. He has been peiled with
rotten eggs ami other uuSavory missiles and
his life has been threatened. The authori-
ties so far have been unable to stop the out
RACES.
A physician has devised an excellent way
of utilizing rubber in the treatment of
wounds. He places one end of the strip of
rubber on one lip of the wouad, and then
stretches the rubber to fasten the other end
TO the opposite lip. In this way he draws
the severed parts closely together, and the
elastic rubber continuously holds them
there
SUNDAY MORNING ROW.-At an early hour
yesterday morning Officers Riordan and Har-
TingIon arrested Michael Cunningham in a Gar.
deH-Street saloon for fighting. WAS hook ad