The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-01-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.
| Geneva, Ohio, thinks it has the only horse
| Ill the world that can turn complete SOM
ersault.
Mrs. Rathbone, daughter of A. B. Pull
! man of Chicago, has Obtained a divorce
| from her husband.
c. f. Ruggles of Manistee, Mich, dis
| tributed 5000 pound packages of candy to
| the children of that section.
There are in use nearly $4,000 gas stoves
which are let on hire by the gas companies
who supply the British metropolis.
Australia has begun to send eggs to Eng
| lald. They must bs at least six weeks old
| before they can be put on the market.
| Berlin is the only city in Germany that
has an excess of 100000 population. Only
| twenty-siX have over 100000 inhabitants.
The Corean alphabet is phonetic and so
simple that any one can learn to read in
day. Nearly all the women i'll CUrea can
read.
There is said to be strong sentiment in
Arkansas against the convict lease system,
aud the Legislature will be asked to abol-
iSh it.
any other city in the United States. Among
the lake ports Buffalo. DetrO t, Port Huron,
Milwaukee, and Chicago follow in the order
named.
There are only about twenty really great
diamonds in the wurld. The most famous
II them have come from GolcOnda and Bra
I'll, but the largest are from the South Afri-
can fields.
The new library of Congress will be even
larger than the British Museum. Librarian
SpotfOrd hopes to move in within three
years, although it will take five to complete
the structure.
as a young woman was entering the
Methodist Church, at Dover, y. H., on Sun
day last, about 1900 pounds of snow fell
from the roof upon her She was taken
home In dazed condition.
Several ministers of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church South have been suspended
by their conferences for becoming eandi-
dates for political offices and leaving their
churches to go on the stump.
Stamp collecting and stamp dealing is
growing TO such an extent that good stamp
businesses in London now fetch yerv high
prices, and AN old established business has
Just been sold for no less than el3,500
A Kansas man was injured in n railroad
wreck at Breckenridge the other day and he
would not believe he was not killed until
,he other passengers dragged him to the mir
rOr and made him look at a small wound
on his head.
The Mediterranean is comparatively shall
low. drying up OF GO feet would leave
three different seas, and Africa would be
joined to Italy. The British Channel is
more Ike pond, which accounts for its
chUppy waves.
The Directors of the English Great West
ern Railway intend TO run an express train
constructed on tho American system, as an
experiment. 1t Will consist entirely of long
cars, having communication all through,
from one end t. the other.
One Of the latest crazes in st. Louis il that
OF riding III on the electric cars to cure
rheumatism, aud hundreds of victims of the
dreaded attilcuOn, who have borne their suf-
iern9S IN silence are now eagerly seeking
for information and testing the new cure.
A Grand Rapids man has a unique way of
collecting Dill. y man owed him 81, and
ne called that Dan out of bed at ) O'clock
"Wednesday morning and was still with
him at midnight Thursday, having slept
and eaten with the de btor He SAYS he Will
stick until that 81 is paid.
The new Morris Park Clubhouse, which
is now being built for the New York Jockey
Club, under the supervision of a Hume
ker Morris, the son of the owner of the
track, Will have siXtY-fve rooms and cost
over $4,000. A ballroom large enough
for 800 people Is a feature OF the club
house
man named Simon has been arrested
at the request of the Austrian Government
ut LeschniiZ, Silesia, where he owned
handsome villa and lived in great style, his
neighbors supposing him TO he a wealthy
Spectator on the European BourSes. Evil
was the head OF a secret robbery society,
having agents in London, Berlin, Altoona
anu Vienna
visitor in New Orleans says that there
are three features Of the life in the Creole
City that are sure to impress the stranger
lorclbly. They are the cemeteries, which
are yerltabIe flower gardens; the language
oil The French residents, which Is spoken
everywhere and has the pure Partisan ac-
cent, and the fact that the negroes on the
lower river still sing the old tuneful songs
that were heard in slavery days.
The village If Little City, in the town of
Haddam, Conn, has fine school-house
which has been without a pupil for two
years. Time was when Little City had
prosperous school with thirty children, but
now there is not child in the small hamlet
to educate. The cause is n general aban-
donment of the town by all the young men,
who seek a better chance in the larger
towns, while the women remain unmarried
Another Russian officer is going to make
long-distance experiments ON a bicycle.
This is Baron de Kellerkraus, staff Captain
of the Kovne Artillery, who has already
distinguished himself by ride from Kovne
to TobolSk. He is now waiting for the
warmer weather, and will then travel from
Warsaw by way of Vienna Stuttgart,
Paris, Lyons, TO Cannes. Here he will take
ship for Algiers, and thence continue his
tour into Africa.
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