The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-07-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

a ldbdl atIdck OF lOcRldW IOllON6u the Ok
traction of tooth from the mouth of a New
York man.
The moment you are instinctively
prompted to rub your eyes, that moment
stop using them.
A law has been drafted in Pennsylvania
forbidding the docking Of horses tails un-
der fine aud imprisonment.
The value Of diamonds and other precious
stones imported Into this country in sim
gle year is SET at about S12,000,0 900.
In Richmond, Mo-, there is horse which
measures 1874 hands high, and tips ths beam
at $500 pounds. He is years old.
The law prohibiting the piping of natural
gas outside the State has been pronounced
valid by the Supreme Court OF Indiana.
A Sedalia (Mo.) surgeon removed a birth
mark from young lady'S face by peel
ing her cheek and grating new skin thereon.
1t has been found that small dose of
strong alcohol shortens the time that food
remains on the stomach by more than half
an hour.
A Southern paper thus sums up the differ
enee between men and dogs at this season:
Both have summer pants; put dog has
fit sometimes"
Rare specimens Of the orchid, faithfully
represented III enamel and mounted in gold
or silver, are worn in the hair or used to
fasten the corsage.
Burial ground being very scarce in Hong
AbIS CUIOult tue dDNoIuIutuL pIUpOoGS u
take up and urn Chinese unclaimed dead
buried Tor i've or six years.
The one English railway in Mexico, after
long and Stubborn struggle, Is bandOn-
ing It's clumsy English engines and using
powerful American locomotives instead.
Three-cent fares prevail on Pittsburg
railway. and papers in Springfield, Mass,
and Buffalo, y. Y, are endeavoring to in
duce their roads to follow the laduable ex-
ample.
cynical correspondent says that summer
Is the time when great many of our best
citizens go to Europe and great many of
our worst citizens that art TO be come from
Europe.
John S. Hykeman, wealthy resident of
Holland. Mich, presented his church with
5000 organ and lived just long enough to-
hear it used for the first time. He was IS
years old.
Tee prevailing Sunday sport in Cuba is
coek-hgnting. and it is not an infrequent
sight to see Cuban gentleman going about
the streets of Havana with his pet bird on
the way 10 fight.
Two Japanese mining engineers are trav-
cling among the coal mines of Pennsylvania
studying American mining methods, which
they desire to apply to the development of
the coal deposits of Japan.
A supposed haunted house in East Buf-
Iai0, n. T., aroused so mach fear among
Poles residing in the ueighborhood that they
made an attempt to tear down the struc-
ture. The police quoted them.
Counterfeit bank-notes are uniformly
smaller than genuine ones. The plate is
made by tracing over the lines of good bill,
and the damp paper shrinks, making the I'M
preston smaller than the plate.
Queen Nictoria's yacht, the Osborne has
cost Just S1S5, eco in the last seventeen years.
She uses the yacht only a fortnight each
year, and it is sometimes used little by
other members of the royal family.
Both for scientific and for Industrial pur-
poses standard OF color has long been de-
sired, and in order 70 attempt solution of
the question the society OF arts is investi-
eating the subject through committee.
The largest gold coin now in circulation is
said to be the gold ingot or ''loof' of Anam,
French colony IN Eastern Asia II is "A
fiat round gold piece, and ON it is written in
India ink its value, which is about 500.
There are not enough graduates from
West Point this year to fill the vacancies of
commissioned officers in the regular army,
and not EN- ugh applications to supply the
required number of calets for next year.
One of the interesting objects which will
be exhibited at the Worlds Fair is a table
made from the timber of a house in Fun
chal, Madeira, in which Columbus lived Tor
time before lie began his voyages of uis-
covery.
A young married man of Superior, Nebr.,
named Frank Wallace got drunk, went
home and whipped his wife, was arrested
jailed and tarred and feathered by some of
his neighb0rs all in one afternoon and
evening.
Millions of flying ants swept down in
dense mass upon San Antonio, Tex, few
days ago. Several business houses were
forced TO close their doors on account of
the insects, which were swept out in great
quantities.
turtle four feet across the back has been
located in Current River, Mo-. for fifty years.
The ether day ii hunter shot it between the
eyes, but the ball glanced off and embedded
Itself In tree, while the turtle swan
placldly into deep water.
John. the orangeman," is the most pop
ular member of the under faculty at Har-
ward College. BE has sold fruit TO the
students since 1886, and has valuable
acquaintance among the distinguished
alumni OF the university.
A large horned snake was killed near
DanielSyille, Ga, by Lewis Gambler, a few
days ago. 1t measured 3 feet and 8 inches
IN length. This makes the second one of
the kind killed there within week. The
bite of this snake is fatal.
1t has queer look to read the advertise
nlent of Vermont firm for boys and girls in
Boston to receive and sell flowers. Two
facts are indcated-the growing demand for
cut flowers and the economy of raising them
for market in distant spots.
The Smithsonian Institution has received
from China pair of stockings manufactured
from human hair. They are worn by fisher
men over cotton stockings (being too rough
for the naked skim and under straw shoes
as protection against moisture.
Captain r. E. Hardwicke of Christians
burg, Va, coWhided Rev. Samuel Saunders
OF Kadford, for making some sighting re-
marks about his (Hardwicke's) wife and
several other ladies. 1t is said that the
whipping was very severe one.
A new sewing-machine invented by a
Weishman has no shuttle or bobbin. The
thread Is supplied directly from two or
binary spools and sews through the assist
ance OF rotary looper. Ii is vastly more
simple than any other sewing machine.
A st. Louis salonn-keeper who had suf-
Tered from repeated populations suspected
his bar-keeper and discharged him, but
shortly afterward discovered his wife to be
the thief. Being informed that he could not
legally prosecute her lie applied for d.
yorce.
A New Hampshire man whose cows
bothered him by jumping over fences,
shoed them with bOrSeShoes, and has had
no further trouble. He explains his method
by saying that the cows surprised at finding
that they have solid instead OF split hoof,
do not attempt to jump.
Daniel Averill OF Muskegon, Mich. has a
recking-chair that was made for him in
1872 He was rocked in the chair when a
baby. 1t was the last chair his grand
mother and mother sat in and is i'll such
good condition that it may be the last one to
be used by his grandchildren.
The elegant villa at Albany, n. Y. which
the late Fritz Emmett gave his wife at tho
time OF their separation year ago was
valued ut Sl50000, and IL is said he also
presented her with like amount in bonds.
The house was curlousiy designed within