The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-06-24
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The United States navy has paper Doat.
A strawberry is an excellent substttu tie
for dentifTice.
Detroit (Mich) will be 100 years old on
July oath this year.
A neat stamp-boX is made in the form OF
United States mailbag.
A recent patent is a daylight reflector Tor
Illuminating dark corners.
The Gar receives from his Siberian gold
mines about $4,000 annually.
A mule at MoTrell, Pa, attempted to stand
on his head and broke his neck.
A Philadelphia man carries cane $50
years old that has been in almost every
country of the globe.
A new pack of cards has the portrait of
some member of the royal family doing
service on each Of the face cards.
The unpleasant smell of newly painted
apartments may be lessened by setting
pals of fresh water around on the floors.
A Philadelphia lady buys live sparrOws
by the dozen from the small boys of the
neighborhood as It'd bits for her canine pets.
There are 100000 widows in Germany,
OF whom only 5000 live on their own re-
sources or incomes QrOm interest or rents.
There are Z, 200, 600 married women.
At South Hadley Falls, Mass. where if-
teen years ago 1900 shad were taken in a
single haul, none at all have been taken this
year
Cleanliness may be next to goodness, but
the soap advertisement can crowd the re-
ligious notice into an obscure corner on the
inside page.
In COwley County. Kaus., out of twenty
farms sold by the sheriff, seventeen were
mOrtgaged for mora than they were worth
and abandoned.
a Kansas boy earned Bible by commit
ting loco verses to memory, when he traied
his Bible for a shotgun and accidentally
shot his aunt in the leg.
A large fat woodchuck made his way into
the dining-Toom of Mrs. Foster at Rich
mond, Me-, the other d,y, where he was
captured, and IS now ia cage.
At Grand Rapids, Mich, Charles W.
SeIdell pleaded guilty to blgamy, admitting
the existence OF five living wives and that
he was preparing to take a sixth.
If mans recuperatiye powers were as
great in other lines as in the rapidity of re-
CoYery OF wounded pride there would not be
cripple or sick man on the earth.
c. Mason Moody, for the past fifteen years
Treasurer Of franklin County, Mass, has
confessed to taking Sl6, 1853 of the count
money and using il In his private business.
While attending confession at Youngs-
town (Ohi0) church Patrick BIaInon, aged
20, dropped dead from heart disease. He
was just recovering from an alta k of the
For cut take powdered resin, pound il
very fine and spread or sift it over the cut
Wrap piece OF soft linen around it and
wet II in cold water quite often. This will
prevent Inflammation and soreness.
An enterprising Carrollton (Mo) girl in
sertS the following advertisement in one of
her home papers: "Wanted-A husband |
am 20; good, pretty and industrious, and
would like TO make a home happy and
cheerful for some nice young farmer. Ad-
dress, etc"
curious fact, 1t is said, has been brought
to light by the Verney case, and that is that
no roll of the members of the House
OF Commons is in existence. The
only official record of the members Is to be
found IN the return book, which gives the
date OF election, etc.
The greatest novelty In dolls has been in
vented IN Nuremberg, the great German
town Tor dolls and playthings A machin
10 the doll causes il 10 move its hand and
write neat little letters on a stats or on paper
Whole sentences can be written to the grea
amusement OF children.
An American woman is getting herself
disIked on the other side" She repre-
sents that she has wealthy daughter over
here and that she wants a husband for her
Mamma-iD-iaw gets cOurteSieS. theater triDS
dinners and money galore. Then she sud
denly takes ticket 0i-leaYe.
Dill arp the Georgia humOriSt, whose
Jokes have reused aDpreciatiye smiles north
OF Mason and DlXOn's line, is 90 years old
and the father OF nine children. He NAV
| properly be sly led also the father of Amer.
can humOT for he has entertained two gen.
eTatl0ns OF newspaper readers and is still
at it.
A WateTyille, Me- photographer on his
| travels the other day ran across a school
house. when the summer term was in ses-
sion with one pupil aud the schOOlma am.
he schOolma'am mad insisted upon being
! the teacher, and the parents had become
! disguised and taken the young unS'
| right out.
4 remarkable family history Is develoDed
! from the return Of SaXe-Altenburg of a for
! mer citizen OF ATTENDING, who has spent
| many years In America, and who now, al
| the age OF 50 years, TeVisits his father aud
| mother, aged respectively ia and 123 years.
| The old couple have had eighteen children
| In all, Of whom five went to America.
| Professor Foster of Denver, thinks thai
| MethuSolsh did not live to he 1000 years old.
| Long ago, before the planet Mercury was
| born, the earth was much nearer the sur
| than az present. Its speed was therefore
| much greater. and the orbit being smaller
! the year must have been quite ShOTt-per-
| haps only few weeks in length That ex-
/ plains il.
A young widOwer 10 Wichita, Kans., who
| is the father of two little children, is paving
| his attention to well-known society lady
| in that city. When he calls on his affianceC
| he drives up to her home with his children,
| and upon his arrival the father and mother
| of the girl take charge of the children and
| team aud continue the drive, while tin
| lover stays and keeps the young lady com