The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-07-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

that washes.
The superst!tious girl wears yellow
garter to Uring her Il beau.
New York has Turkish restaurant that
Is Oriental in every particular
In four transfers at Bay City, Mich, H.
500, 600 feet of lumber changed hands.
William Mcknish, the founder of the city
of Newmarket, Tenn, Is dead. aged 1O2
At Albion, Fla, there are colored la
bHrers working in the phosphate mines.
A Wisconsin woman was recently turned
out of church because she snorei IN her pew.
Mayor NOEL of York. Pa. has n pitcher
brought TO America Ill 1924 by the Stand
ford family
A young woman in Clay County Mo, car
ries mule-shoe for luck and says 1t works
like charm.
A Topeka schOol-boy, u years old, has
composed play which Is TO be presented by
his classmates.
Harvard College is 255 years old and has
graduated 1900 students. little more
than half of them are living.
An Elsie (Mich.) business man offers
prize of 10R-pOund stick Of striped candy
10 the handsOmest baby In town.
wedding at New Alexandria, Pa, had
to be postponed because the Clerk OF the
Courts had omitted to sign the license.
Ten years ago there were only two In
dams on Les Chenaux Islands, Mich, but
lively industrial population 1t is.
A Philadelphia physician says: when
| see child smoking cigarettes I'm sorry
Tor him; but when l see man smoking
them feel like kicking him from river to
river"
The custom of distributing costly souve-
Mrs among the dancers at cotilons has
been abandoned in Paris. Ladies are given
bouquets and gentlemen buttonhOle orna-
mentS.
A Lawrence Kansas) drugstore window
is ornamented with two enormous native
leeches, which measure foot each in length
| and lave. combined, blood capacity OF one
gallon.
To get rid of flies. expose in a plate a
strong detection OF quassia chips and brown
sugar. The tiy-paperS sold for the purpose
are made by smearing melted resin with a
little sugar on paper.
At Frankfort KY, a servant girl visited
the Geological Gardens and, unseen by any
one, took off her clothing and lumprd into
the bears pit. Her mangled body was found
in the pit the next morning.
To cure catarrh use a douehe OF equal
parts OF the very best whisky prOcnrable
and glycerine. The whisky cuts the mucous
and the glycerine heals the cut part 1t is
| said to be an unfaiing cure.
a Missouri tramp has new rack ct. He
| claims to be doing big pedestrian feat on
time, on a wager, and fares sumptuously
their feet ana get no notices in the paper.
The sublimest state Of misery is endured
only by man with stitfiy starched white
wai5tcoast, a collar that wont stay but
toned behind, pair of tight shoes and a
seed from the raspberry jam between his
front teeth.
The steamer Majestic Of the White Star
Line is credited with carrying abroad the
largest letter mail that ever crossed the At
lantic In a single vessel. 1t was taken re-
| Gently and comprised $50 sacks, weighing
| thirty-tye tons.
The most popular teacher at Hamilton,
| Ontario, won months trip to Chautauqua
| Notwithstanding two rivals hired a news
| paper pressman TO print them 5000 extras
| OF the paper over night. from which to cut
coupons Of popularity"
The unsanitary condition OF Sing Sing On.
| " Prison is the cause of numerous deaths
| among the cOnvictS. The structure is of
ancient design. having been built in 1910,
| ana in certain portions Of it the air is an
absolute pestilenca breeder.
A nervy woman of Port Norris, Pa, felt
| something moving in her bed, but thinking
| ii a mouse, turned over and went to sleep
again. In the morning she found her bed
fellow TO be an enormous water-snake,
which she quickly dispatched.
When the Scotch-Irish Congress opened
in Louisville. KY, some time ago there
were on the platform eleven college profess
sors, five editors, four Supreme Court
Judges, fifteen distinguished diyines and
no end of great bankers and merchants.
The more the cigarette is legisIated
against the more its consumption increases
| The output of cigarettes throughout the
country for the month of March amounted
to 30 50l, 500, against 154, 2S5. 800 during the
| same month of last year. This shows the
| enormous increase of SO 267, $50.
A lady living in Torrington, Conn, found
humming-b bird with its bill buried half an
| inch in one of the wooden posts of the
| verandah OF her house and quite dead. The
| little thing had evidently darted at a
| flower close by and struck the post with
| such velocity that 1t could not get away.
In Benton County, No., near the village
| of Cole Camp, the earth one night caved in,
| disclosing running stream at depth of
twenty-six feet. The water is twenty-five
feep deep. The cave-in is gradually enlarg-
ing and it is thought big underground
river will be added TO Missonri's other nat
ural resources.
AT church, the theater and other assem-
biies the japanese take off their shoes. AT
the large theater in Trukiji, Toxic" says a
correspondent, "the rush for shoes is some
times tremendous. Imagine 1000 people
after a matinee crowding and elbowing and
pushing TO get at their shoes, so as not to be
late for their superb
Blacksmith Ripper of Iglau, M0ravia, had
attempted suicide several times and been
lnterfered with; so he constructed box
like clock-rase, seven feet high. the door
OF which could be fastened with paddock
inside. Then he put strong HOOK in the
top board, entered, locked the door and
comfortably hanged himself inside.
The Government of Spain has granted to
two merchants in Angola, Africa, the ex-
elusive privilege, for ten years, of exporting
from the Province of Angola a new indus
trial product invented by them and extracted
from O common tubercle which has not vet
been scientifically classified for any indus
trial purpose. The product is to be applied
10 the tanning of hides