The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-07-07
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

In Massachusetts, there are 703 ordained
ministers who are Free MasonS.
The late Cord Meyer of Maspetb, l.. l.,
leaves S1,000,000 to each of his five children.
A Richmond Va) woman sent 500 palm
leaf fans to the convictS in the Penetintlary.
A hotel for the exclusive use OF colored
people is to be the latest innovation IN BoS-
ton.
Henry E. Hopkins. New York lawyer,
goes to prison for four years for grand lar
ceny.
Robert T. Barker of New Bedford, Mass,
has read the Bible through no less than 100
times.
A college girls expense account shows
81 10 for Progress OF Women and SIG 70
for candy.
Seven hundred and sixty-eight gophers
We're killed in one day by some farmers near
Hartley, La.
The coast line of Alaska exceeds in length
by 500 miles that OF all the rest OF the
United States.
The members of the Omaha Board of
Health recently adjourned their meeting 10
attend circus.
The one part of the world in which no ma
tive pipes and no native smokers have been
found Is Australia.
At Queretaro, Mexico, cakes of soap are
used for currency, and are legal tender for
the payment of deOts.
A sweet clover tea is the fad of the mo-
ment and everything is pink aud white that
decks the dainty feast.
A New York woman. on trial for murder,
went OFF in dead faint when Il verdict OF
acqulttal was rendered.
Photographs of the sun are said to show
that the great lumiuary makes complete
revolution III eleven years.
A French army surgeon suggests the in
PRODUCTION OF shoes with rubber heels as
means OF lessening fatigue.
The sale of farm machinery in Kansas
This season Is about double what it was last
year, and cash is paid for il.
When you tell friend of your troubles
you do yourself no good and you hurt him
by reminding him of his own.
A Judge in New York sent the city dog
catcher up for month for keeping thirty
dogs for three days without food or water.
1t was mild sentence.
brother of Mark Twain is an attorney
in keOkuk, Iowa, the cid home of the hui
morst He is well 10 do financially, aud de-
votes but little time to his profession.
The wild beast business seems to be very
active. Carl Hagebeck Of London has dur
ing the past year disposed OF al lions, over
200 tigers ana $50 elephants and panthers.
Swarms OF big flies swo0ped down on
EaStport, Me-, the other afternoon, making
life there miserable for the time they re-
manned. Where they came from is a mys-
terry
: The electric railway between ST. Paul
and Minneapolis IS a Government mail
route. The electric cars carry the mail so
that deliveries are made in each city every
two hours.
The Arabians have four unlucky days in
every week-Sunday, the day of the
prophets death; Monday and Thursday,
but they esteem Saturday more unlucky
than all the rest
gun operated by electricity is a recent
invention of Edward A. Hyde of kenosha,
WIS, who claims that guns made of paper
or wood, and operated by his system, would
be effective at long range.
Charles Warner of Lebanon, Conn, now
in his seyenty-ffth year, has recently ex-
perirnced much pain in his jaw. He con-
suited a dentist, and found that new set of
teeth were cutting. This will make his
third set.
The japanese language is said to contain
10000 words, every one of which requires a
different symbol. IL Is quite impOSS Die to
learn the enire language, and a Wel-edu-
Gated Japanese Is familiar with only about
10000 words
A seat posted for sale in the New York
Stock Exchange is that of Cyrus w. Field
Jr., who tackled the street five years ago,
fresh from College, with the reputation OF a
clever fellow. His record is perfectly clean.
but the young fellow seems disheartened.
An Atchison woman who could not af-
IGtq 10 puy houfhihg when her husband
Hltu' wore the usual cntors uhtll he had
oeeii Gedu hoout SIX months, when she sue
ceeueu III SAYING enough money TO astOnish
every one by appearing heavily covered
with Grape.
The Princess Of Wales having ordered her
photographer to place likenesses of the
."Sai fanny on SET OF her dalntest china,
the lued hds oeen cauSAt up oy the public,
anu al hh!iahu IS engaged ia embeilishinS
SHoICS ctochely WIN l"hlIy Nkenesses.
Nc" u4A' teo' IS loloWihS suit.
II unique carpet Is being made for the
Church OF lie C9ur de Jesus, MJutnartre.
In Paris, by some Partisan ladies. 1t will
cost 4lOOo, auI the names Of the workers are
10 oo elnoIOlGered around the border. The
oeut 20. le !it eSents Molltmartre, ana above
are u ue 'he arms oI inc city oil Paris.
In tie marEet supply OF New York there
Is sale OF about $4,000 pounds of fish, or
10 tons, every day, or 3l,l3I1a tOns-63, S75.-
OUV pounuS-in the course ot the year, even
a Gilg i counts tliat 90 per cent IS exported.
a. ", mi % ooie WI ousI fuiton market,
winch 10 'HI HlooI ASH IidIhe III Tie world.
A lew years ago gentleman bought 100
acres several miles below Macon, Ga, on
the East tennessee road. for which he paid
SO an acre. lie improved the property at
cost Oh only 81 per acre, and within four
years from tie date of the purchase cleared
$4,000 from the sales Of fruit grown on
TINS iahd'
The inhabitants of the interior of the
Fill Islands Will not partake of food while
cloud Is in sight, especially if the cloud lies
IN the west, Tearing that the Great Air
Whale, whose believing (thrnder) is often
heard in that country, Will pounce upon
them and utterly annihiate them for such
irreverence.
The street railways of Paris are und the
Government control ana the rules for their
guidance arc very strict. Only four pas
Nehger' are allowed to stand on the back
platform, and they must pay the same fare
as the hrst'class passengers inside, viz, six
cents, while those on the roof of the car ride
at hall rates
T. Nj. Duflield, aged 20, n mail-carrier in
jackson County, w. Va, claims to have
walked 10 OOD IniIaS i'm ,Io H., a., -.