The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-08-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A Charlotte (Mich.) boy, 10 years old.
weighs 30 pounds.
Japan has 1000 newspapers Not a sin yle
Journal existed there twenty-i five years ago.
In Beverly (Mass.) garden may Do seen
rhubarb leaf 81 inches wide and 81 inches
long.
An Odd Fellows Picnic Association, with
200 members, has been organized at Hills
dale, Mich
Hai-storms do not occur in weIl-woodAd
districts, according to the observations Of u
noted Swiss forester.
deposit of coal has been discovered
near Rockville, Conn.,, aud arrangements are
being made to work it.
Large-s!Zed peaches frozen whole IN Ma
oeIra wine, served with delicate white cake,
Will be an enjoyable dessert.
The oat and corn crops of the border
counties OF OHIO and Indian have been en-
tirely consumed by myriads of grasshop-
peIs
A Waterville (Me.) gardener has found a
new way to raise sauashes. He vets the
young plants down three times week with
skim milk.
The little Kansas town Of Qundaro, that
once seorned Kansas City as Il rival, is now
ruin, with moss and ivy covering its once
handsome buildings.
Many OF the large summer resort hotels
nave provided for the comfort of amateur
photographers by having dark rooms built
where they can develop their plates.
Lightning knocked pipe out Of George
La Rue's mouth at Union. Nebr., but be-
You'd breaking the stem ami slightly TX
Ing the smoker no damage was done.
The Treasury Department has reached
the climax OF absurdity in its ruling that
postage stamps sent abroad and returned by
mall must pay duty as printed matter.
Ohio pays no bounty for English sparrows.
and lucrative business is done in border
counties running across the line In the
heads OF birds killed on Buckeye territory.
A e0lored man is in jail at OskalOosa,
Iowa, charged with stealing church at
Evans. He was on of the trustees and ne
gotiated loan by forging the names Of the
other trustees.
The skin OF the wolf. according to an old
superstition, was to be worn either to cure
hydrophobia or 10 prevent epilepsy. and the
skin OF the head was a safeguard against all
malevolent demons.
A Brooklyn cable road has employed
welding machine to join the sectiOn5 Of its
cable, and 1t has found that the tensile
strength of the cable Is greater at such juno
lions than anywhere else.
A man in Muskeg0n, Mich, is making Gus
pidors OF his own invention, which can be
sold two for cents, or 80 cents doZen-so
cheap that people will throw them away,
instead of cleaning them, after use
A Unity (Mass.l man who lost his false
teeth while in bathing on Sunday, and found
them again while taking another DIP Mon
day, thinks he has some slight idea OF how
the renowned man OF bramble-bush fame
felt.
Boston Common was recently the scene
of fight TO finish, bottle-hoders and all,
between two fitteen-year-0ld boys. The
youthful "pugS had pummeled each other
an hour and half before the police were
notified.
John Stowe. Birmingham Comm team
ster has about made up his mind TO go out
OF the teaming business, as he can make
more by swallowing live frogs for the
amusement OF any one who cares to pay 81
to see it done.
Two Grand Rapids (Mlch.) fishermen have
discovered cave 70 feet long and 40 feet
wide in hillside. Silver beads, copper
Ratchet and copper kettle were found, and
settlers say there are traditions OF treasure
being buried there.
There is post at the corner of the public
square In Fairmont, Mo, which gets a bolt
of lightning from nearly every thunder
storm that comes along. Three men, five
horses and twenty or thirty sheep have been
electrocuted at the spot.
Among all the disasters on land and on
sea which have shocked the world. amonI
ALI the brutal crimes which have disgraced
mankind, among all the terrible mistakes
in human life, no one has ever been due to
total abstinence from intoxicating drinks.
Very appropriately New York chorus
girl is to have frogs skin grated on her
neither limb to supply a deficiency of cutce
caused by a severe burn. The exiravagant
use of his hind legs made by the batrachian
makes this look like a case of simiiibus Gu
rantur.
Various people were frightened by strange
noises in an old grave By an Arkansas road
side, and robust ghost story WAS on for Il
long run, when several Young men made an
investigation and found that an old coon
and lot of young ones had Made their home
in the bushes about the mound