The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-09-28
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| EeHeFeS neuralgia.
The broGd-gauge railway will cease to ex-
list in Great Britain in May, 1892
Those who make the worst use OF their
| time most complain Of its shOrtness.
A brave priest at Hazelton, Pa, recently
rescued two small boys from a watery
grave.
Few people are more virtuously indignant
| than the cheat when ne finds himself out
| wtted.
The more one endeavors to sound the
depth of his ignorance the deeper the chasE
appears.
Fortune has often been blamed for her
blindness, but fortune is not so blind as
| men are.
The Liverpool ssil-makers are angry be-
cause sewing machines are being used for
sail-makng.
The best way to live is to cast away
troubles and contentious, which cannot be
cured by fTetting.
A carrier pigeon taken from the vicinity
OF Berlin TO London, having escaped, flow
direct to It's old home.
Lancaster County, Pa, has turned out
over $4,000 cases Of tobacco this seas0n-the
largest yield on record.
The history of the past is a mere puppet
show. a little man comes out aud blows
little trumpet and goes in again.
Over thIty-fiye tons OF documents de-
! posted at the British Public Record Offi;e
have been destroyed, as OF no value.
Swarms of rats from a demolished hotel
! adjacent have driven $1,000 worth OF eaters
from a Cincinnati restaurant within
month.
A Reading (Pa) clergyman received an
anonymous letter. stating that his sermons
were too long. He made the letter the sub
| Jeet OF a sermon.
1t is said that disease of the heart is very
prevalent in Munich, where the consump-
ton of beer amounts on the average to 56J
lltres per head annually.
A portion OF the congregation of a church
AT Shenandoah, Pa, want the pastor dis
| missed, but he Will stick to his pulpit uItil
they pay him $1,000 debt.
A sturdy Benton QlL) farmer. who was
recently held up" while driving home,
jumped from his wagon and killed the high
wayman with one blow of his fist.
The Medical Board of SaxOny will advo-
cafe the framing of Il statute which will
| make 1t possible, under certain conditions,
to place drunkards under guardians.
a Highland Park Tenn) minister has
| been hauled over the GOALS by his cOngrega-
| ton for painting a fence ON Sunday. His
| defense Is that he thought it was Saturday.
A Lake (Wis.) man whose wife was forced
| to leave him on account Of i'll treatment has
caused her arrest tor burglary because she
broke into the house to obtain her own prop
| erty.
The wife of defaulting official at
Youngstown, Ohio, has died from mortifi-
| cation aud shame. Her rrcreant husband
was one Of the most popular young men i'll
the city.
| Dependency over the simultaneous loss
| OF his position and the affections of his be-
trOthed has driven Charleston Is. c.
| prOof-reader to suicide by the cyanide vi
| potassium route.
Georgia alone among the Southern States
| provides pension for widows of soldiers
| OF The C0nfedeTacy and permits none but
disabled veterans to carry on business
| without license.
| At Bonn, Prussia, so many barbaric en-
| counters have taken place during the last
three months that nearly every student one
| comes across has his face scanned and gaShed
in the most unsightly manner.
John Lyons, who left a wife and four
| children at Troy, n. Y, twenty three years
ago, has gone home rich and been surprised
to find that the first barber lie patronizeu
was his hye-year-old Dan OF 1868.
The longest continuous fiber known il
| that OF silk. A COCOON of a weil-fed silk
| worm will often yield 1000 yards long, and
in one instance one has been procured
which contained 1898 yards without break.
The RAILROADS of the country employ 100
! GOO men. Each year they lose 20U0 OF their
| number in killed, and 10000 of them are in
jured annually. 1t is estimated that 5000,
900 people depend on these eHiiJTJyos for Il
| living.
Harvar University has 365.OOO bound
volumes IN its library; Yale has 20O0 900,
Cornell 10000, Columbia 10000, Syracuse
$4,000, Dartmouth $1,000. Lehigh $1,000,
| Bowdoln $4,000, and the University OF Viz
| GINA 10000.
| A little girl in a Philadelphia grocery CON-
| tended with evident sincerity that she mad
| lifted 450 pounds. An investigation by the
excited grocer revealed the fact that she
had lifted the two weights marked 200 and
| go pounds respectively.
| A house still standing in ChicOpee, Mass,
| is reported to be 225 years old and is pr0ba-
| bly, the oldest dwelling in the Common
| wealth. 1t is in good state of preservation
and Its present owner has occupied it fifty
| seven years continuously.
| A post mortem examination of the body
| of flteen-year-old Philadelphia boy whu
| died suddenly mas disclosed the fact that
death was due to nicotine poisoning from
! excessive cigarette-sm0king. The jury rem
| dered a verdict accordingly.
| Great indignation exists at Nashville,
| Mo-, over the fatal shooting of a supposed
| tramp by constable. The victim was the
| son of wealthy aud respected resident of
| Nashville, Tenn, and the crime was con-
mitted without provocation.
| An American tourist recently returned
| from ST. Petersburg says The stories that
| the Gar does not stir out Of his palace are
| false. On the contrary, he drives about III
| an open carriage without guard, and with
| only an aid as an attendant.
| A loDg-continued political warfare be-
| tween the City Council and the Police De
partment of Iexarkaua, Ark, has culm-
mated in the adjustment OF the latter, and
| the city is now minus legal guardians, pre-
| sentIDg tine field for the lawiesS classes.
| A remarkable case is reported from Mar
| shall, LII. There are four deaf mutes in
| family, and the youngest girl of years,
| was home from the asylum visit when
she spied the cat Capturing mouse. Her
| speech, which had been lost through sick
| ness, was restored.
In Kansas mile after mile of side track is
| filled with cars loaded with wheat awaiting
| chance 10 get Into the markets. Where
| now be the schemers who urged the farmers
| to hold their wheat and where are tile leI-
| lows who prated about the mortgages the
| grangerS couldn't pay?
| The German patent law provides that IN
| ventions shall be considered now if They
| have been lost sight of Tor 100 years. The
| principle OF granting subsidiary patents has
been extended, and the Patent Office has
| been good deal remodeled by the employ
ment of legal and technical experts.
Spurgeon was only 10 when he preached
| his first sermon. Even then his eloauencs
| was remarkable, and within lew years he
| had gathered about him a large rongrega-
| ton. AT that time he was a pale and slen-
| der STRIPPING, with noticeably large head.
His rotundity Of body came many years
| later.
A Lancaster (Pa.) lineman, while on Il
pole thirty feet from the ground, was trans
fixed with 600 volts of electricity. He shot
downward from the bar on which he sat,
| Dut MS uuuy WAC Oli u WIG uuutt-
meath, from which he hung unconscious in
the air. He Was rescued from his position
| and will recover.
The hughest articles in the culinary line
| are to be found in the kitchen of the Bon
| Marche in Paris. Among the articles emu
merated are kettles" the smallest holding
| seventy-ive quarts and the largest 375.
| Even the frying-pans are 50 large as to b.,
| able to cook 800 outlets in each, and to frs
| 220 pounds of potatoes.
! While in the act of assaulting his wife
! Georgia farmer has been fatally shot by his
twelye-year-oid-son, who interfered in her
| behalf. The man had been several times
on the Grand Jury and was a trusted and
respected citizen. He has a family of five
or six children. The boy says he is not "a bit
| sorry. as he was bound to defend his moLIler