The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-11-04
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

HlTy SOu-pTOWeTS from inherent paris Oh
the country have put in bids for decorating
the Worlds Fair.
The greatest number of Pariaments that
have met in any one reign was twenty
seven, which assembled in that Of Edward
Ill.
Samuel Reems, Mnnesota's Oldest man, is
dead at Dayton, aged 103. He was prom
inent Pennsylvania politician from 1915 to
1910.
Coins Of low denominations circulate very
rapidly; thus it is calculated that every
penny in circulation changes hands dozen
times week.
The first steamship to fire gun in action
was the Royal William, slde-wheeler.
which crossed the Atlantic in 1888. She was
built at Quebec.
Leeds, England. finds employment for 500
women and girls as rag-sorters. They earn
. shlllngs week and sing merrily in chorus
during their work.
The schools in Kansas have about been
given over TO women. They are county and
city School superintendent, principals,
teachers and tutors.
Suit has been brought by the Cleveland
lOhio) Gas Company against the City Council
for reducing the price of Illuminating gas
from 81 to 60 cents a thousand feet.
Mrs. Abbey E. Pope, the Brooklyn biblo
maniac, has the finest library Of any woman
in the country The books are her own,
not by heredity, but by purchase and per-
sonal right.
Austria, the principal matchmaker of the
Old World, produces no less than $500 tons
OF them every year for expectation merely.
ln England the individual average is about
eight per day.
A Dooly County (Ala) man is expert
mentlng with wine-making from the juice
OF the watermelon. He claims that it makes
a most delicious wine, and lie is storing
away quantities of it.
The next convention to attract attention
will be that of the Worlds w. C. T. u,
which is to meet at Boston in November.
Several of the foreign delegates have lately
arrived in this country.
pathological statistician calculates that
In the year 1000 there will be 200, 600 600
people who speak English. and that the
other European languages will be spoken by
only 800. 100000 people.
The railways of India at the commence
ment OF the present year aggregated 1921
miles IN operation, with 2272 miles under
construction. The increase during the pre-
vious year was SIS miles.
1t is the confession of a Burlington Qowa)
Widower, who has been thrice married, that
the first wife cures man of romance, the
second teaches him humility, and the third
makes him philosopher.
The Inspector Of the pearl-shell fisheries
oil Western Australia informs the Colonial
Government that some pearls have been
discovered near DrOOme, on the southwest
coast, valued at $4,000 each
We consume in this country about 1OO.-
100000 pounds of prunes annually. OF this
amount this State produces about IL, U00, 900,
and the remaining 600 pounds are im-
ported from Asia and Europe.
A young couple were married recently on
the summit of Pixies Peak. The ceremony
was performed in the open air. with the
bright sunshine falling upon their heads,
with glittering snow drifts on every hand"
" Talk about realism" remarked Mr.
Barnes former; "why, when we showed at
Jacksons Crossing, Iowa, we gave such
realistic Arctic region scene that the town
Constable froze to cur trunks and the audi
ence shook us cold"
Happy are the rate-payers of Deidesheim,
IN Rhenish Bavaria. The Government has
discovered thal the inhabitants have paid
higher taxes than their strict due during the
past few years, so the excess will be re-
funded from the State Golfers.
1t has been proposed, on account of the
scarcity of black walnut, to substitute for
1t the black gum which grows so plentfuly
throughout the Southern States. 1t can be
stained so that an expert can hardly detect
the difference between the woods.
A deaf-mute, who was walking on the
track of the Flint and Pere Marquette Rail-
road, was killed by locomotive. Two yeaIs
ago he was struck, but not seriously, by the
same locomotive, driven by the same en-
gineer, and nearly at the same place.
The former penalty against a German SOL
dier or sailor of the standing army or navy
VINO lett the fatherland was fine of zoo
marks or forty days Imprisonment That
has now been raised to a thousand marks
fine or Imprisonment for four months.
Mrs. Julia Benson, an inmate of the
Bridgeport Comm Hospital. has reached
the age OF 100 years. She was born in
Oyster Bay. l.. l., on October IA, 1879, and
has had nine children, of which nun Der but
one survives. This child is now over 10
years OF age.
AT COnsuegra, the Spanish city which has
been inundated aud almost destroyed, the
Franciscan monks have shown wonderful
herolsm and devotion IN digging out and
bury ing the dead. The streets are still filled
with muck, four feet deep, that conceals
many corpses.
In Germany nursing is one of the dead
Hest occupations known to man, OF rather
to woman. A healthy girl of II devoung
herself 10 hospital nursing dies on an aver
age twenty-four and half years sooner
than girl of the same age in the general
p pulation. This is due to their liability t.
tuberculosis.
The rhetoric class was mp for recitation In
Maine normal school. A young lady, in
repeating several paragraphs very glIDlv,
made use of the word idOm. What is an
iuiOm" asked the teacher, as the young lady
paused for BREATH Why, I-I-ddn't look
it up, took 1t for granted it meant the
same thing rs idiut."
A gang of strikers in Queensland insisted
on a hotelkeeper dis harging his Chinese
cook, who was excellent. When he was
turned ont the local police engaged him.
The leading striker was soon arrested for
sedition, and the first thing he was set to
work Mt in the prison was cnopping wood
for the Chinese cook.
Great trouble is sometimes caused in the
household Inv knives and Othpr St..al rpt
becoming rusty. This may easily be pre-
vented by little care. Steel cutlery should
be plunged in pan of whiting after wash
ing and eleansed Just before 1t is used.
When ii is wiped 1t will be perfectly bright.
and II kept In this way 1t cannot get rusty,
Mrs. Sarah Wier Of Wilmington, Del.
writes: Il have servant who has been
with me f0rty-three years. Size has during
that time never been out of my house over
night or for Whole day. She has been with
me ever since the frSt day of my married
lie, nursed ali my children and sorrowed
at their death with me. She Is now hale and
hearty"
There may be money In autographs, and
then again there may not. The late Edward
II. Leflingwell of New Haven, Conn.,, left
an autograph collection, which many judges
pronounced the hueot III the world. 1t COR
tanned the signatures of nearly 10000 noted
people. Nevertheless, 1t was modesily put
down in the inventory Of the estate as worth
$4,000. and the family would have been
willing TO accept even less Not long ago it
was sent to Boston to be sold. aud to the
surprise of everybody II brought S5l, 200 OF.
Christian EDdesvor Convention.
The twentieth quarterly convention of the
Golden Gate Union Of the Christian En-
deavor societies will be held in the First
Presbyterian Church, Van Ness avenue and
Sacramento street, tomorrow night. An
address Of welcome is to be delivered by
Rev. DR.. Mackenzie. pastor of the church.
ton" will be read by Ii. n. Beyier. Tbe
convention will close by Testimony meet
ing" to be followed by social reception,
Traffic Association.
President Stetson OF the Traffic Associa-
a., Los onnointaI IL w w., c.o,.t1..