The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-04-21
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

st. Peters Church, at Westchester, N. z,
was founded in 170l.
The first heading in the great Niagara
river tunnel has been driven.
Gotobed Fem is the name of farmer liV-
ing in Dickinson County. kans.
Not single marriage license was issued
in Sumner County, Kans., last year.
Over 10 Welsh orphan-boys have arrived
In Boston Ell route to Manitoba where they
will be employed on farms.
The first catch of sealSkins has now been
made, and ladies are at liberty to begin lay
ing pipes for their next winters jackets.
A young woman at Lewisburg, Ohio, who
was kidnapped by a discharged servant when
an infant has been restored TO her parents.
Over S209,000, it is roughly estimated,
was laid in offerings on the contribution
plates in New York churches on Easter Sun
day.
4 North Atchison woman placed a re-
volver 10 her drunken husbands head the
other night and made him sign temperance
pledge.
An Albany IN. " crank thinks that tho
air is filled with electric microbes and that
they are killing thousands of people all over
the land.
man was recently fitted out with two
glass eyes, u complete set of false upper and
lower teeth and an artificial nose in New
York hospital
Michigan veteran has discovered mis-
laid paper which entities him to So a month
back pension from March %, 1863. The
amount foots up S2016.
A fifteen monthS-Old Philadelphia baby,
who was endeavOring to emulate his father
in lighting and smoking pipe, ignited his
dress and was fatally burned.
A Washington ID. c. colored man has
been arrested thirty three times since No
vember %. 1890. He will have a rest now.
Us his last sentence was 354 days in jail.
In a I c,liantifin journal
it has been discovered that the kOla nut has
the power TO restore to normal condition the
worst sufferer from intOXicatiOn or mono
mania.
AT Hoboken, n. j.. the brains of many
school children have been befutdled by 'R.
and r. Drops" q style Of cOnfectiOn con-
tanning rye whisky. The seller will be
prosecuted.
One of the meanest men in Philadelphia
lives in the northeast section. He quar-
relied with his wife because she was caught
long Oh sugar with one pound in the house
on April 1st.
A number Of Jeffersonville Qnd.) colored
boys, none of them over u years old, stole
locomotive from the railr0ad-yardS of that
town and offered to sell it to a junk-dealer
for old metal.
The Delaware Senate has passed bill in-
creasing the appropriation for schools for
cOlored children from $1,000 to $4,000, and
in other respects placing them on a par with
white schools.
Because Brooklyn mans girl complained
of his shabby appearance he stole stylish
suit of clothes from his brother-in-laW, and
was arrested while airing himself il them
on the occasion.
Ether drinking is threatening the health
full existence of not a few people in one part
of Ireland. 1t is in the northeast, and
there, in Drapersport, out of $500 people
600 are victims of this vice.
for the placing of the monument designed
by Mr.. OnslOw Ford and destined for the
grave in which Shelley's heart lies buried in
the English cemetery at Rome.
While an American millionaire's yacht
was Steamlng through storm on her way
to Nlllefranche, an enormous wave depOS-
tied seventy-pound turtle on the deck. It
was good to eat, aud therefore was eaten.
S. n. Cox of Clayton, Ala, has in his pos
session a razor which was used by his grand
father during the Revolutionary war. 1t
is made Of the best material and is much
worn, but shaVes as well as any razor now
made.
Only five crocodiles have. ever been cap
tured in Florida, although alligatOrS are
numerous. One difference between the two
IS that the crocodile works his upper jaw,
while an alligator snaps man in two with
his lower jaw
The doctors of Berlin have agreed that in
future their coachmen shall wear white
hats, so that a doctors carriage may always
be Immediately distinguishable and the
public enabled to summon medical aid from
the streets in urgent cases.
When the Mosque of ST. Sophia, In Con-
stantinople, was built-more than a thou
sand years ago-the stones and brick were
laid in mortar mixed with a solution OF
musk, and the building has been fragrant
with the odor ever since.
A woman lecturing in Cleveland some
evenings ago asked the gentlemen in her
audience to show by standing vote whether
they opposed the wearing of corsets by their
sisters, their cousins and their aunts, and
all the men in the hall arose as one.