The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-11-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| ITEMS OF INTEREST,".
The bang" is called fringe in En-
There are 3IO.625 miles of railway in the
| South.
There are $50 chess clubs in the United
| States.
According to doctors estimate, nne per-
| son in nine is left-hauded.
All the principal cities in the republic of
Colombia are now lighted with electricity.
If a'boy refuses an extra piece of pie you
may rest assured that the pie is particularly
| bad.
In the city of Berlin. with population of
! 1,3lJ.G00 there are but 26,S00 dwelling
| houses.
Ninety per cent of railroad accidents in
| this country are occasioned by the spreading
| of the rails.
Leprosy's microbe. recently discovered, is
| OF nfnitesimal size, and is remarkable for
its activity.
! The winding of gold chain through the
mar Is permissible these days OF the gorge
! Gus couture.
One reason why mans stocking cost
less than his wife's Is because they do not
| come so high.
Not one matchmaker in 100 can fit main
| spring properly, aud not one In fifty knows
| q correct one when he sees it.
The Secretary of War has reduced from
80 to 30 years the maximum age at which re-
| cIuitS will he accepted TOR the army
| Mrs. Mary Walter of Easton, Pa, n widow
| OF soldier of the war of 1872. has passed
her one hundred aud first birthday. Her
! bodily health Is good, but her sight and
| hearing are defective.
Ex-PreSident Hayes will probably visit
| Charleston, 5. c.. soon. II is forty-twO
years since any other ex-President visited
| that city, and it will seem long stretch be-
| tween Polk and Hayes.
Flyiup machines tina fut11ra will nf no
cessity be OF complicated and delicate
nature. and will require the very highest
| order OF scientific and mechanical skill to
| construct and operate them.
a number of bakers at Kew, Russia,
have been arrested for mixing their bread
| with clay and sawdust. Puverized tree
bark Is used for similar purposes by the
| farmers Of Northern Sweden.
Almost every person of wealth and op-
| portunities has hobby. One has a predi-
| lection ior pictures, another for armor. still
another for coins, or medalions, watches,
or the lad OF souvenir spoons.
James Stephens, the famous Fenian head
center, though 70 years old, retains all the
fire OF youth. Although an indictment for
high treason still hangs over his head he is
permitted 10 reside in Dublin.
Eight hundred dollars bail for trial at
court was demanded from John Mitchell by
| Magistrate Kane of Philadelphia upon the
charge Of m!SdemeaBor for selling cigarettes
to boys under 16 years Of age.
The inability TO secure enough machines
and men to operate them to thrash out the
wheat OF the Dakotas and Minnesota is the
most decisive proof of the enormous crops
that region has produced this year.
Repnlsed by his hired girl, whom he at
tempted to kiss. prominent Lakewood
lnd.) man blew out his brains. He was in
love with the pretty domestic, and his
widow and children are to be congratulated.
When the mnstache is ragged, and, as it
nd thnr
lack OF proper self-cOntrol. When it is
straight and orderly the reverse is the case,
other things, OF course, being taken iuIo ac-
count
Baby Alice and mamma were waiting at
the station for the train one day when the
gong III the hotel opposite the station sound
ed Ior dinner. Alice listened a moment and
then exclaimed: 'Oh, mamma, hear the
| tin. pan hollerp
The Agricultural Bureau in Washington
is deVollng much Time and care toward cul-
| tlyating the bamboo Of China. 1t is the
most useful variety Of that class OF vegeta-
ton known, and its uses enter into almost
| every industry IN China.
Lord Penrhyn lives in great castle in
CarnarvOnshire, where the Brton3 made
their last stand against the Normans. A
Chicago pork-packer offered $500 900 for it
some time ago and was informed that ten
times that sum could not purchase it.
The annual production of sawed lumber
cars 1000 miles long. Adding the timber
for Railways, fencing, mining aud export
the train would reach 1900 miles. Adding
to this hrewood, etc, it would be 2SS 900
miles long
If, as is alleged. barber has to throw
| away the razor with which he shayes a dead
man, and has to divide his So fee with tine
undertaken. II would be more profitable to
him II he were to allow the undertaken to do
the barbering and then shave him out of
half the fee
Balloon bridals seem to be very popular
TINS year. There is something ornamental,
II not exactly heavenly. about marriage in
midair Then again 1t comes high right at
the start. which, after all. is the conclusion
that many people arrive at sooner or later
about matrimony.
The national encampment at the Worlds
Fair will be strictly military affair, only
regular army officers and members of the
National guards participating. The vet
Grams are not In it. 1t is to be show of
the soldiers of the present and future rather
than those OF the past.
Miss Mary Neuman, who was born in
Prussia as serf. but who came to America
in 1866, is dead at Cleveland. Ohio, aged
les. She was only four feet and ten inches
tall and weighed but ninety-seyen pounds
She had simply shriveled up and life ceased
when the vital organs were worn out.
war OF determination on English spar
rows will begin in Illinois on the 1st of
December, when law passed by the last
Legislature offering bounty of cents a
head Tor sparrows goes into effect The
Secretary of State OF Illinois is sending out
Illustrated descriptions Of the English spar
row to every locality in the State
Bank of England notes are made from
new white linen cuttings-never from any
thing that has been worn. SO carefully is
the paper prepared that even the number OF
dips into the pulp made by each workman
is registered Oh dial by machinery. ami
the sheets are counted and booked to each
person through whose hands they pass
Liberty, Mich, has a fair daughter she has
reason TO be proud Of She is lady in the
truest sense of the term. Work has no
terror for her, she is well educated, and
good organist, but her favorite march is n
march to the cornfeid, where she husks out
forty-fve bushels of the golden grain day,
for which her father pays her 3h cents per
bushel.
Hannibal and Mthridates poisoned them
selves to escape being made prisoners
! Samson was the heroic suicide of the Scrip
lures. for, in order to be avenged on his
enemies, he pulled down the temple in
which they were reveling and persisted with
them. Many of the noted suicides of his
tory are due TO the philosophy of heroism
rather than insanity.
A Deceptive Machine.
He stood before penny-in-the- slot weigh