The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-05-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Philadelphia has 200 branch poStoffices.
Indiana has been nearly denuded of for
ests.
President Washington's inaugural coat has
been sol0 for S103.
Jefferson City, No., has the largest State
prison in the Union.
A Rome (Ga.l colored girl goes to prison
for SO years for arson.
A seventeen-year-old Baltimore boy is
charged with murder.
a tiger recently killed lion in the Calcutta
Zoo in just ten minutes.
Londoners write 57,511 letters day. re-
quiring thirty gallons of ink.
An English dentist extracts teeth while
his patients are III hypnotic state.
Seven people have died at Denver, Colo,
within two months from arsenical poisoning.
During the week ending April 26th
nearly $4,000 steeTage passengers landed in
New York.
Arkansas has shipped carload Of cedar
wood to Europe. 1t will return in the shape
of lead pencils.
The first locomotive built in Arkansas has
been turned out at Argenta for the Iron
Mountain road.
Snakes are said to so prevalent at Sey-
mour, Ind, that the girls wear boots for
sef-pTotecton.
Mrs. Susannah Nelson, an ex-slave, who
was said to be 128 years old, is among the
Washington victims of the grip.
A $4,000 fire at Ithaca, n. Y, was caused
by hens scratching match which had been
inadvertently left ON barn floor.
Chicago physicians say that the grip has
disappeared from that city. The mortality
during its continuance was fTightful.
A good deal of the trouble in this life
comes because men take too much time TO
make money and too little to enjoy it,
A Gladstone On. - boy of IA is six feet
two inches tall and weighs 1876 pounds.
His average annual growth is four inches.
One of the best paid branches of industry
for New York women is that of trimming
hats and bonnets. Experts command $50 a
week.
Abbeville. Ca, pays its municipal expenses
from lines and forfeitures, no tax being
levied. There is always surplus in the
treasury.
India sportsmen affirm that the true Ben
gal tiger is fast becoming extinct, owing to
the large rewards offered for the sIaugII-
ter of wild beasts.
A pilot recently died at Lisbon, Portugal,
who had saved many hundred lives. King
Charles and all the Ministers of State al
tended his funeral.
In the Crystal Palace, London, there is a
happy family Of twenty in one cage. 1t in
ciudes lions, bears, tigers, pantheTs, ponies,
goats and b0arhounds.
"A NAANuo AACfOA AuuS bOO 1pbS 4ul tHo SPOC-
tators, but let sermon last over forty
minutes and the congregation can hardly
manage to control their profanity.
Hot Springs, Ark, seems to be the head
quarters for buHko-SteererS, gamblers and
thieves, more than go of these gentry haV-
ing taken up permanent quarters IN that
town.
1t is said that all along the coast Of the
African possessions Of Germany gibbets,
are erected, and it is common sight TO
see an Arab strung up, as warning TO
others.
Mrs. Randall of Buzzard's Bay. Mass.
known as Aunt KeZiah," is nearly los
years old. She lives alone, aud occupies her
time in attending TO flower and vegetable
garden.
A bottle thrown into the Atlantic Ocean
in November, 1887 has been picked up in
the Caribbean Sea, 600 miles from its start
ing points
A six-roomed house on a wide street 10
Baltimore Is advertised fOI sale at $500. A
similar dwelling in San Francisco or New
York would bring an annual rent of treble
the money.
A Goshen Qnd) clergyman off1ciated at
wedding in 1854. The husband died a year
or two ago, and now the dominic has become
her spouse No. 2. His age is 70 and his
brides ".
An unusually large destruction by fire of
ice-h0uses In the East it is thought will
have the effect of rendering the concealed
necessity veritable luxury in the coming
torrid days.
A stage-struek Chicago girl, rendered in
sane by her parents objection to the gratifi-
cation Of her pet hobby, iabors under the
deiusIon that she is man and must wear
male attire.
Seth Green used to hold, and there are
plenty Of others of the same opinion, that
mans luck in fishing depends more upon
certain underlined magnetism than upon
skill or bait.
A doctor who described himself as ''Dhysl-
clan to his Royal Highness the Emperor of
Russia" has been placed under $4,000 bail
in New York for practicing medicine with
out being registered.
A suit about calf in Texas resulted in
wiping out all the parties involved except
the calf. One of the litigants shot the
other, and the Sheriff shot the survivor in
trying to arrest him. The calf was valued
at So.
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