The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-06-18
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sage 10 60 from one end of the Atlantic cable
to the other.
A London statistician has calculated that
there are about 200, 900 families living in that
city on about 81 a week.
Two prisoners in the DoylestOwn pa
jail, allowed to attend the circus the other
day, returned to their cells after their pleas
ure.
At Brest, in France, the milk yield has been
Increased by giving the cows hot water to
drink instead Of cold. The increase is said
to be One-thiTd.
James Ritter, who died recently at Elm
Springs, Ark, weighed $40 pounds, and it
required the strength of twelve men to lower
the body into the grave.
Great Britains greatest naval station on
this continent, Halifax is defended by nine
are also strongly protected.
On the farm of Levi Fetterman, near Vera
Cruz Lehigh County, Pa. stands pear
tree known to be $50 years old. One at
Monroe, Mich, is still older
A tramp in Indianapolis stole bar of
soap, and the victim was so overcome when
he discovered his loss that he followed up
the thief and gave him quarter
In proportion to its size Colorado Springs
is probably the richest town in the United
States. One single street contains the resi-
dences Of twenty-one mtllionaires.
A COW at Petersburg, Va, while in search
of her calf, entered house and climbed Il
flight of sixteen stairs. Hearing her calf
outside she descended without trouble.
There are ITO street railways in the State
of New York, and they carried go, 100000
passengers last year, which allows a hum
bred rides for every inhabtant OF the State
A middle-aged Russian who arrived the
other day at New York from Europe on the
steamer Elbe wore long beard, one-half
of which was pure white and the other half
brown.
A woman was recently summoned as a
juror in st. Louis and took the matter phil
osophically and attended court, only to re-
cejve the apologies OF all concerned in the
blunder.
Next to America, France employs more
women in clerical positions than any other
country. Their wages as book-keepers and
accountants range between 1000 and 5000
francs year.
A Russian physician has brought libel
suit against a widower who had pasted on
the tombstone of his lately deceased wife
the last prescription he had given her the
day before her death.
Besides keeping dogs to watch over camp
the German army Is training them to hunt
for soldiers hidden in the woods and fields,
so that after battle the wounded might all
be found and brought IN.
1t was not an uncommon thing for artists
of olden time TO paint their ublects with
Barred feet, but this Is seldom done now, as
it is said TO be almost impossible to get
model with ~ell-Shaped foot.
The tallest trees in the world are the gum
trees OF Victoria, Australia. In some dis
tricts they average 800 feet high. The
longest Frustrated one measured 470 feet,
and 81 feet in girth near the root.
Documents which have just been dis
covered at Bonn. Prussia, where Beethoven
was born, in 1770, prove that the Beethoven
family came originally from Antwerp and
that they were professional musicians.
The QuakerS have $50 women preachers
in tile United States, the UniverSalists
thirty-fve, the Unitarlans sixteen, the Con-
gregationalsts six, the MethOdists one and
tile Lutherans and Free Baptists several.
A cOlOred laborer near Opeika, Ala re-
ports killing snake which contained the
extraordinary number of thlrtY-seven rat
ties He conquered it after severe battle,
in which he was twice bitten, but without
fatal reSults.
number of fine residences In the Back
Bay section of Boston are being equipped
with elevators operated by electric motors.
The machinery is very simple and compact,
and the elevators Will carry two or three
persons at good speed.
An aged tramp who was admitted to the
hospital at hillersbuTg, Ohio the past
winter, suffering from frost bites sustained
while sleeping out Of doors, was discovered,
just before his discharge, TO be worth SIS, 900.
lie was compelled to pay up.
The volcanic feature of Iceland is the
sofatara valleys, plains studded with a
number Of low, cOne-shaped hillocks, from
whose tops jets of steam ascend. In other
places boiling mud Issues from the ground
six or eight feet into the air, as in New Zea-
land.
A score of pretty girls were recently de-
,rrir, III
Park, near Newark, n. j. The girls were
too pretty to be arrested as vandals, and the
officers stood dumb until one of the maids
saw them. Then there was scamper, but
the girls escaped.
Divers in the harbOr of ancient Syracuse
have discovered a magnificent marble build
ing, whose highest point is only three metres
under the water. The building contains
great stairways and cOlumned halls. 1t is
believed that the edifce was once used as a
bath or temple.
A missionary, who recently returned from
Angola, said he thought it far more sensible
for white man In tropical Africa TO take
some native woman for his wife than to
carry with him white woman from the
temperate zone, who would be certain to lose
her health in that trying climate.
A handy lamp-hoder has been devised
whereby perfect comfort can be secured for
the eye, while bright light is maintained.
The holder can be placed In any deSired
position, and by use of ''halt-shade" the
light can be concentrated on any subject a
desk, typewriter copy-stand or piano,
and all strain on the eyesight is avoided.
An Illinois Central conductor says that
female tramps are on the increase. They
are not as daring as the men in jumping on
or off trains, but they are found hanging all
over freight-car. on the trucks or cinging
to the truss rods by hands and feet: in fact,
in a good many dangerous places that q
male tramp would never think of getting in.
One of the peculiar features of school life
in New York is the reading of the list of
contagious diseases in the city. The list is
furnished to teachers by the Health Board,
and when it is read the pupils are asked if
any of them live in that vicinity. When q
boy or girl stands up he or she is taken aside
and cross-questioned. Ii dangeris suspected
the youngster is sent home.