The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-05-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

a pony mas Deen ra1eu OH at d uI"~Oi-
| phia church fair.
A blind man has been arrested In Phlla-
! phia for murder.
A rare postage stamp has been sold III
New I DIRK for 1926.
DR.. 4. Farley, Missouris most skllllul
| Ocullst, is dead at Marshall.
Ii is colossal mistake to think that stale
bread makes the best toast.
The German Government has refused TO
allow women to practice medicine.
A New York policeman CALAMITY paid the
hne OF two women arrested by him.
Sunday funerals have been prohibited by
Archbishop Ryan of Philadelphia.
A technical school for millers-the first n
the worlds to be established at Paris.
! Three children born to different families
IN Minnesota this spring are web-footed.
! A photograph showing a family Of five
! generations has been taken at Riyerhead,
| l.. i.
A paper-mil girl at Holyoke, Mass, has
| contracted smallpox by handling foreign
rags.
BY the death of Glasgow Scotland wo-
| man tile Salvation Army receives legacy
| OF S3j0,000.
Justice is said to be blind. and Topeka
has elected Judge who has been blind for
thirty years.
Amarked two-bit piece has reached the
! pocket of a New Yorker who parted with 1t
| forty years ago.
A Kalamazoo (Mich.) clergyman, aged 50.
has married his adopted daughter. twenty
| years his junior.
An English Coroner's jury verdict: The
| deceased committed suicide at the inStiga-
| ton OF the devil"
a West Virginia girl Drained a burglar
/ with an ak, then tainted, and is now dan
! gerouSly i'll from fright.
| A Chicago woman is dying from grief at
the death Of her husband. The doctors say
| she Is free from disease.
! Three of the leading nations have thirty
| i0ur w0mens missionary societies, With
! 1897 workers in the field.
A Cincinnati brewery workman who was
| told, as joke, that he was wanted by the
| police became respondent and drowned HIM
! self,
An Indiana man has left his wife and
| good deal Of property, and has written that
| he did so because his wife was too good for
| him.
An Irish Judge has been presented with
| white gloves to mark the entire absence OF
| criminal cases from the calendar in his cir
| cult.
Chicago street-car companies refuse to
| permit conductors TO turn in more than four
nlckels apiece at the end Of their days
| work.
| uo uiSb ICt-CItdu lIteZtI WAS utflSCu
and patented by Mrs. Nancy Johnson of
Washington. d. c. She cleared $500 by
/ the invention.
Mrs. Elizabeth Apologize, who had been
a resident OF Brooklyn, n. Y, for ninety
| one years, is dead. She was born on Long
Island IN 1895.
A mortgage for .$1,5OO,oOo was recently
FLED at Albany, n. Y, by the New Jersey
| Steamboat Company to the Farmers Loan
| and Trust Company.
a nail-drjving tournament between four
| young ladies Is IN progress in a Pennsylvania
| village The one that misses her thumb
| Oftenest wins the prize.
The Navajo Indians stretch a lariat of
! horsehair about their tents at night. 1t is
! an effective barrier for keeping out snakes,
;arantulas and centipedes.
| 1t is difficult to grow strawberries in Aus
tralla. me lew growers, who after all are
only comparatively successful, get from 70
cents to 81 pint for the berries.
In the National Printing Office, st. Peters
bnrg, Russia, documents can be printed IN
| every known language. 1t is the most COM
plete office of its kind in the world.
j. A. WaIkinshaw of Buffalo, n. Y. a
! popular real estate dealer, who has been
! missing for some time. is believed to have
thrown himself over Niagara Falls.
Death is expensive in Mexico. The Ameri-
| can friends OF mau who died in that cOun-
| try had to pay native undertaken 1891 for
| his services, which were only ordinary.
A Cincinnati woman who has lost her
| good name proved that she was not entirely
| devoid of principle by restoring to the
| owner well-1lled purse she picked up In
| the street.
Queen Victoria is no deadhead while
| travelling She pays railroad fare at the
| rate OF 81 % per mile, whatever the dis
tance for herself and frst-class fares for
| her reunue.
! The oldest postmaster in the country in
| point of service is Roswell Beard sley, who
was appointed at North Lansing, Tonpkins
| County, n. y, on June IS, 1923, and still
! holds the Office.
BY decision of the English Court Of
! Chancery, Miss Ladds Of ST. John, n. b..
in il digent circumstances, becomes Lady
| Auburn and the heiress to a $1,000, 600
estate in England.
John l.. Sullivan's recent stay in Gin.
cinnati was characterized by extreme de-
mureness on his part, owing to strict police
orders for his arrest should he indulge in
| his eccentricltieS.
Charles Tappan, who built the famous
| New DIRK IOmbs Prison, is still living in
that city, at the age of 90. He has seen the
metropolis grow from a town Of less than
| 100000 inhabitants.
| Joe Cook was tardy at Troy, n. Y, re-
| Gently, and the audience which had assem-
bled to hear him lecture became disgusted
and took French leave Joe became hop
| ping mad and boarded the next train.
An Ohio detective aSceTtaned the where
| abouts of two kidnapped children by vebe-
mently wo0ing an old maid who mad them
| in charge. He then disappeared, thus de-
strOyIng the only chance of her lifetime
A seventeen Year-old boy at jefferson
| vile, Ind, who elOped with a girl three
years his junior, has been vigorously cow
! hided by his indignant mOther-in-laW, who
also spanked the youthful bride aud put her
! TO bed.
A thirteen-year- old Brooklyn girl went to
! ball while her mother was dying Re-
| turning, she found her mother dead when
! she stole S1l and tried to runaway to at
! tend another ball. She went up for six
months.
During the demolition OF an old house at
| Glens Falls, n. Y, an antique chest was
found buried deep in the cellar, containing
! disintegrated human bones. 1t is thought
| that murder was committed and the body
| dismembered.
A susceptible ST. Paul man of go intrusted
| his betrothed, aged 20, with $40 to defray
! the expenses Of her tr0usseau, when she
! skipped with the money and his ardent af-
lection cooled. lie has procured warrant
| for her arrest.
During the trial of an alleged Pennsvl-
| vania chieken-thief rooster was brought
| into court as evidence Upon the de-
| PENDANTS conviction the bird expressed his
| qualification at the result by three ear
splitting crows.
Rev. Edward Cowley of New York is
| dead. de will be remembered as the head
| OF the Shepherds Fold in that city, against
/ wi hmm n pf efu I'll