The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-10-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

If they only knew it. the happiest people
are those who have the iewest respJnslbill-
ties.
II have struck tremendous blow - eX-
claimed the man who got caught IN hurfl-
cane.
The newest patent issued to woman is
for Improvements IN steam boilers and Iur-
uaces.
clock at Port Huron, Mich, recently
made its first stop in thirty-iour years,
breaking the main spring.
A Chicago man Is en- route to Africa to
dig in the mines that yielded such enormous
profits to Solomon aud the Queen Of Sueba.
Powdered flint glass ground to an impal-
pable pow der ana mixed with tho white of
an egg makes one of the strongest cemeuts
known.
a new method Of furnishing power to
motor engines by mixing steam with hot
gases is creating great deal of interest IN
England.
In addition to all of her other resources
Missouri has developed a mouse which
scampers to get on chair whenever it sees
a woman
Seven hundred million gallons of mineral
oil were exported from the United States
during the past fiscal year. Its value WAS
Sol, 313, 4Ji.
j. q. Jost has sold his sheep ranch near
RawlnS. Wyo., for $1,000, and Will make
a poor man.
Fish are much better preserved when
kept hanging iu cold, dry atmosphere.
Lying upon the ice they lose flavor and spoil
more readily.
The heirs of Miles Standish are fighting
for his estate in England. The descendants
of Priscilla. the Puritan maiden" are not
among the claimants.
If you wish to ascertain II dog is a thor
| oughbred or a cur kick him. II he proves
| 10 be well-bred, self-respectlng dog you
| will need new pair of trousers.
The subventions to the Italian theaters
| are being generally cut down. Also the
| sap Carlos Theater in Lisbon is to have It's
| annual assistance reduced from So, 800 to
| $4,000.
| A woman moonshiner has been captured
| and lodged in jail at Charleston, w. Va.
| Her age Is only a. but she has given the
revenue officers great trouble for the past
| eight years.
| works devoted to various electro metal
| lurgical processes will utilize 5000 OF tine 30.
| OO0 horsepower that it is estimated is going
TO waste from the ValloiTette Falls, near st.
| Michel, France.
An elevator in ST. Louis broke down
! wnie between stories aud the passengers
were kept imprisoned for half an hour while
repairs were being made, it being impossible
| to remove the car.
| A curious feature of this seasons apple
| crop in York County, Me-, is that it is un-
usually light all over, except in a belt
about five miles wide, where the yield is
| phenomenally large.
A bright little girl having been asked to
! write Il sentence introducing the word
| ''carrinn," presented the following to her
| teacher: Bad children often carry on in
church when they ought to be quiet"
| A clergyman in England, in an earnest adj
| dress to his parshione:s advocating the es-
| adjustment of a cemetery, asked them to
consider the "deplorable condition of $4,000
Engllsbmen living without Christian burial"
Minced or stewed potatoes. or any prep
arati0n OF that sort, should never be stirred
with an iron spoon. as it is in many kitch-
| ems A plated silver fork kept for the pur-
| pose or a wooden salad fork Is much better.
| AT Marienburg, in West Prussia, a horse
| thief concealed Il stolen horse in bed with
curtains, having removed the mattress first
| and let down The curtains. The house was
searched twice without detecting the animal.
A curious exhibition will shortly he opened
| in Paris at the National Deaf and Dumb In
stitute. 1t will consist of old and modern
examples of works of sculpture, paintings,
engIavings and drawings by deaf and dumb
artists
A museum freak. known as "the man with
the broken nerk," tried to commit suicide
recently by taking poison. A man who
! could 1--we with broken neck can appar-
| entity challenge with safety a curious diet.
| The poison failed to work in his case.
An EmpoTia (Kans) man has invented a
| corn-cutter consisting OF an ordinary sled
with sloping knives on the sides. 1t is
drawn by horse between the rows and
cuts two rows at time 1t will cut 175
shocks fourteen hills square in one day.
A company, which has been prospecting
! on the right bank of the Rhine. near Baden
weller, village OF Baden, has discovered
| ore, which, on being assayed, has been
| found to contain so per cent of lead and it
per cent of copper, the rest being silver.
The devotion of the Prince of Naples to
| his beautiful mother, Queen Margherita,
| is said to be his strongest attachment Her
| influence over him is greater than that OF
any of his tutors or friends, and has doubt
| less done much to iii him for his position.
The most unfortunate town In France
! seems to be YvetOt. Its population Of 5000
has decreased greatly since the last census,
and almost entirely among the males. There
| are 300 more maidens than bachelors, 90
more married women than married men, and
| 315 more widows than widowers.
Chesterfield, Conn, has new colony of
| Russian Hebrews, who are attracting a
! great deal of attention because Of their Pc
| cular industries: One house manufactures
| suspenders, another is given up TO the max
| ing of pants, ana still others are engaged in
| preparing other lines of clothing. The I'M
| migrants strictly mind their own business,
| mingling no more with the native Amerl-
cans tlan the Chinese are won't TO do.