The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-11-29
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

shape. N. Y. Advertiser.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
An Illinois Mayor revoked license OF 4
caDman who Charged him over rates.
The fountains of Trafalgar square. Lon
don, spout so gallons of water per minute.
Carterviile, Mo-. has chunk of zine ore
weighing $50 pounds TO take to the Column
ban Exposition.
Missouri murderer who was executed
recently said on the scaffold, "Pd orter
been hung thirty years ago."
GarioaldfS sons have made good soldiers,
but have acquired an unenviable reputation
fol shady transactions in business.
Among the recent agricultural products of
Georgia, is potato that was ''half yellow
yam and half red Spanish potato"
The Marion City Qnd) Council passed an
ordinance keeping blcycies off the sidewalk,
and woman was the first To be iined.
A drrary future lies before sixteen
year-old murderer at Milwaukee, Wis, who
has been sentenced 10 life Imprisonment.
The Van Rensselaer, mansion, near AL
bany, \. y, was built in 1912, and is the
oldest inhabited house in the United States.
There is a street in the City of Mexico
named Love" 1t is said to be the favorite
residence street Tor newly married couples.
a young sculptor in Philadelphia has
made very attractive statue of a young
woman clad III the fashionable attire of the
day.
Hymnologlsts give 1897 as the year in
which Bishop Ken wrote the 'Duxology" as
the last verse of his morning aid evening
hymns.
Chemists say it takes less than half the
amount OF sugar TO sweeten preserves if the
sugar is put in after the cooking has COM
menced.
Baron Arthur Rothsehild, nephew Of the
hppH nj fta II 6uanfinI 10 INC
his twelve months In the Ere nch army as Il
private soldier.
A Wisconsin manufacturer in debt es-
capped his creditors by loading his factory
pecemt al on freight-cars and shipping it
over IL Minnesota.
Wages are so low in India that men may
be hired Tor s. "a month to do household
WORK. dollar IS great sum to them ana
one meal day the rule.
T. s"e--.iing an officer II Scotland Yard
there are 100,000 pickpockets In London,
and each one Of them knows an American
the moment he sees him."
Nathaniel Laird of OswegO, Y. Y, aged
100, cast his eighty-seventh annual vote at
the recent State election. He came from
ireland 10 this country in 1907.
1t is said that there are between 1000 ana
5000 colored residents OF Richmond, Va,
who were born in slavery, some of whom
grew 10 maturity IN servitude.
Two hundred unmarried yOnng women of
Brooklyn have fortunes amounting IN the
aggl egate TO SO, 000,OoQ. Brooklyn seems 10
be a good field lor Italian Counts.
Scientists show that the mosquitoes of the
Arctic region become mere and more nu-
merous The further they are beyond the
northern range OF the swallow and tie mat
tin.
The gi.affe is threatened with permanent
extinction. Ten years ago herds of seventy
aud eighty could be found where to-day
thirteen would be an exceptionally large
herd.
1t Is estimated that the right hand Of a
good cOmpositor III taking type from the
frame 10 the stick while setting up $3.50
ems IN eight hours covers distance of
$1,000 feet.
Arabs, on discovering a litter or cubs,
watch for the departure of the lioness and
then rob her OF her whelps. They post
themselves on high cliff or in tree over
looking the lair.
In London negro can go into the finest
restaurants and be served Just like white
man. lie can sit at any public table if he
is quiet and can pay the bill. White W alters
serve him without murmur.
Among the "curios" recently displayed at
an exhibition in London was plir of dog
tongS, presumably used by Oid-time SEX
tons Tor the capture Of dogs which had
strayed into church.
Farmers In the vicinity Of South Haven,
Mich, are obliged to draw water from Lake
Michigan. The severe drought has caus ed
hundreds of cisterDs and many wells to go
dry. South Haven is dry county.
One OF the arguments of Minneapolis
against st. Paul is that by building All ice
palace as an advertisement it attracted at
tentlon to the frigidlty of the climate and
checked immigration to the Northwest.
The mustache was failure in this years
politics. Each of the defeated candidate
for Governor in the fouy leading contests
wore mustache, while their successful
competitors kept clean. stiff upper lip.
"Half-and-half," although an intoxicating
mixture. has place on the bill of fare of
| CbeStnut-street temperance cafe. The tenn
perance "half-and-half," however, is COM
| posed oil equal quantities OF milk and cream.
Michael Coffee left Ireland many years
| ago and settled near Bloomington, Ill. Re-
| Gently he heard that his parents were liv-
| ing near Charlottesville, Iud., aud for the
hrst Time In thirty-hve years they were re-
| united.
| Some OF Tennyson's earliest poetry was
written with ink which has entirely faded
| out. There are people on both sides OF the
water who would be glad if some of the eff
fusluns OF their youth had been written
with that kind of ink.
The 'baby incubator" invented a few
| years ago by Frenchman, has been tried
in Philadelphia hospital and is pronounced
| complete success. A three pound baby
| placed in it recently now weighs twelve
| pounds, and is strong and healthy.
| The paper tree of the South Seas is O
species OF the mulberry. Its inner bark is
| so delicate that soft and pleasant feeling
cloth is made from it which the natives use
in making their "best SUITS" 1t is also
used in the manufacture Of very fiue grade
| Of paper.
In a New York cutlery store is exhibited
| knife about seven inches long and nearly
six inches square at the ends. from the f0ul
sides oil which stick out in all directions Sex
blades, saws, avis, screw-drivcrs, picks,
scissors, and so on. The knife looks like
large magnet with iron filings attached. i
| cost $4,000.
Prize-fghts for the diversion of the Gildet
youth are reported to be getting quite fire.
| quent. The young men who pay high prices
to see couple of sluggers pound each other
rank themselves low down in taste and cul.
| ture; but that is not sufficient reason To-
the authorities to look the other way while
it is going on.
A simple and practical method of apply
ing electricity to raroading has been in
vented by French electrician. The steam
engine used supplies the electric power t,
motors on each Car of the train, and not Il
the locomotive proper. This relieves TIN
tremendous strain on the driving wheels o
the locomotive.
A mason employed at the Saginaw Count.
(Mich.) Jail got inside the furnace TO bricl
up hole, intending to get through the fire
place; but after he had walked himself II
it was discovered that the fireplace was TO
small. or the mason too large, to allow o
his egress, and he was compelled to und