The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-06-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

What's In name? Andrew Jackson Is to
hang for murder On July 30gh at Memphis,
Tenn.
Lawyers fees in suit at Ancora, n. j.,
have eaten up all but S31S OF S12,0OO
estate
The 1890 record for British life-boats
shows saving Of 555 lives, besides rescuing
q vessels from destruction.
Cards in Russia are Government m0nop-
oily, and the proceeds from their sale amount
annually to more than 10, 100000 rubles.
A harness that looks luminous in the dark
has been invented. 1t is intended to pre-
vent collisions between vehicles at night
A fine COW at Windsor Locks, Conn.,, was
recently found hanging dead from tree,
her horns being interlOcked in the branches.
Girls are no longer to be logged in the in-
dustrial schools of Kirkdale, in Lancashire.
Such is the order of the local government
board.
tribes nave lett Tor London to show the re-
suit of their education and training by CIV
ing concerts.
A Chicago hoy who could not get off the
railroad track in time threw himself fiat
upon it. The train passed over without
harming him.
Koch is at work again OIL his tuberculine
and hopes to improve it during the next few
months. after which he will publish his own
report upon it,
Wells, according to the latest Partisan
verdict must float and not be confined by
single pin. They must not touch the face,
but hang away.
To feed an orange to sick person cut it
in half, croSSwise; then, with a spoon, take
out the hcshy part, containing the juice, re-
jecting the seeds.
Lightning striking a dwelling in Belpre,
Ind, strange to say, burned the gilt figures
OF tie Wallpaper without harming the white
ones in the least.
Statistics show that in the first quarter Of
this year ,692 Germans emgrated to this
country. This is the largest number on
record for six years.
Representative w. H SWEET of York,
now In his elghty-secOnd year, has planted
with his own hands 5000 hills of corn and
potatoes this spring.
In the contest for the most popular flower
In the schools Of New York State it was
found that the rose was the faVOrite of the
girls and the goldenrod of the boys.
During the past few years crime has de-
creased to such an extent i'll England that
over 100000 year less Is spent upon
prisons than was the case ten years ago.
A Georgia teacher who could not teach
one u her young pupils to remember the
letter II cut one of the letters out aud made
min swallow 1t. This had the desired effect.
During thunder at Hammonton,
Pa, lightning came down the chimney, kill
ing Instantly Daniel Cross and his two little
daughters, aged respectively II and II years.
The Porte has liberated fifty convict bri-
gandS to assist IN the pursuit OF the band Of
brigands who have Just released the ran
somed Germans whom they held prisoners.
Put camphor gum with your new silver
ware and il will never tarnish as long as
the gun is there. Never wash silver in
soapsuds, as that gives it a white appear
ante.
A blind clergyman has been installed as
pastor of a Jersey City church. He gradu-
ated recently. having studied through the
assistance Of his wife, who read the lessons
to him.
poor carpenter in Springfield, Ohio, is
said to have fallen heir, by the death of an
known relative. to 100000, and, unlike most
heirs Of the kind, 10 have actually received
the money.
1t is said that of 1O1 meu who left Show
hogan for the war in Company +, Third
Maine Infantry, only two are lett in the
town to greet he old Third at its reunion in
SkOwnegan next August.
German capitalist has offered a reward
OF SO, 900 to any astronomer who can salts
factoriiy prove to him that the sun, the
moon OF any one Of the stars is inhabited,
or that it contains any solid matter what
ever.
They have discovered M neral springs I'M
der the ground at Berlin, about 700 feet be-
low the surface. Water containing salts of
chlorine, bromine and iodine is in plenty,
and the city is really bullt over deposit of
rock salt.
In the Recorders Court at Cohoes, n. Y,
recently, John Stokes, aged 10 years, was
convicted Of burglary and sent to the House
of Refuge. His accomplish, aged years,
WAS released. being too young to send to any
Institution.
On April 10th Mrs. John Moser of Hig-
har
Mrs. Smith, declared that she would never
again partake of nouriShment She kept her
word and d'ed from exhaustion after a
fast of fifty-four days.