The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-05-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Wexford County. Mich, has an epidemic
of measles.
A grapevine at Oys. Portugal, has borne
continually since 1902
Goshen, Ind, has a newly born lamb with
perfect human features.
The traffic in snakes in New York
amounts to $4,000 year.
notorious woman criminal of Hartford
Conn.,, has spent fifty years in prison.
woman at Augusta. Me-, has brought
suit for remuneration for the board of cat
The Pitt County On. c. Jail is tenantless
and its doors have been thrown wide open.
An eighty-year-Old man of WiIliamsport,
Pa, has lasted forty-fye days and still
lives.
The first complete translation of the Bible
into English was effected by John Wy,lif
in 1880.
Verina IL. Morton, aged %, is the first
colOred woman 10 register as a physician at
Brooklyn. n. Y.
A Vienna woman has lived in the same
tenement forty years without quarreling
with her landlord.
Cleveland, Ohio, has reduced the price of
gas TO 60 cents thousand feet. The works
are owned by the city.
The Agricultural Department distributed
nearly 100000 packages of seeds to MEM
bers OF Congress last year.
A thirteen-year-old drummer at Quincy,
ILL.,, takes more orders than any other sales
man employed by thu firm.
Unknown vandals have desecrated DR..
Cr0nins grave in Chicago by stripping IL of
The flowers placed upon it.
A New York messenger-boy has appro-
prlated $1,000 in bills intruSted TO his keep
Ing, aud thus far has eV9ded capture.
A submarine gun has been successfully
tried In The lake OF Como, its discharge at
depth OF 100 yards causing boat to cap
size
The organs of smell in the turkey vulture
and carTion crow are so delicate that they
can scent their food for n distance of forty
miles.
Charles Oscar de Courcey, who posed as
an English lord and swindled hundreds of
people, goes to the Maine State Prison for
two years.
A Philadelphia surgeon has dissected and
mounted the complete nervous system OF
human being, something never before ac-
cOmplished.
mad dog entered Detroit church dur
ing service and created great excitement
but he was killed before any OF the cOngre-
CATION were bitten.
Those who cannot go as nature intended
them are very numerous. A dealer IN arti-
fetal limbs says that 300, 600 Americans have
lost one or both legs.
business OF raising rats, the skins of which
he transforms into 1.-THE finest quality of
Partisan kid gloves"
AS New Jersey man was in the act of
sitting down he was bitten by the family
cat, which was sleeping in chair, and Is
dying from the wound
"Old Hutch" during his stay in Boston.
was measured for $50 suit. On paying
the bill he remarked that he could get one
just as good IN Chicago for SIS or $50
The exquisite Prussian blue is made by
fusing horses hOofs and other refuse animal
mater with impure potassium carbonate.
This color was discovered accidentally.
A Pennsylvania school board has dis
pensed with teachers services because she
refused to spell the nasal disease "catar"
according to their phonetic proclivities.
In Arabia, British India, Persia. Siam
and Burmah, girls are allowed to wed at the
age OF 10, or even years, and In many in
stances their husbands are not many months
older
The largest carpet ever made at La Sayon-
merle, France, vas probably that mannfar-
tured for the gallery of the Louvre. Ii CON
sisted OF seventy-twO pieces and was over
1900 feet in length.
baby at Litchield, Mimi. Is said IN
nave the hgures i, 2 and distinctly visible
over It's lett eye Superstitious peopIe in
the vicinity constTue the phenomenon as an
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woman prisoner In the Portsmouth
IN. ID jail escaped by sliding down light
ming rod, from there jumping fifteen feel In
the ground and scaling nine-fOOt fence.
When recaptured her hands were badly
lacerated.
A German biologist says that the two sides
OF the face are never alike In two cases ont
OF five the eyes are out of line; one eve is
stronger than the other in seven persons out
than the left.
Pearls get sick, and like men and women.
require change OF climate when their
health Is bad, or else they will crumble and
die. When i'll they lose their luster ana he
come chalk-like. but rapidly improve If
given a change of air.