The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-05-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

a twO-yeaT-old boy at GlasSboro, n. D., Is
an expert rOler-Skater.
The price of whale0one has reached its
top nOtch-S6 per pound.
Wethersfed, Conn, has an apple tree
which was planted in 1858.
An Allegheny Pa barber-shop contains
q sign, Clean towels specially"
An Indiana cat purloins clothes-pins by
the dozen and takes them to its mistress.
A Cincinnati woman has been twice
robbed of her hair within the past ten years.
a nine-year-old Italian boy is under ar
rest In New York for stabbing a companion.
Nearly one-third OF the income received
by the Government is paid out in pensions.
Rice beer, a Southern production, is said
TO produce hilarious effects after week
! inhibition,
a York Pa) woman has lived 81 years
without medicine OF any kind. She Is in
robust health.
One # the eldest and most popular physi-
! clans of Wheeling, W. Va, is charged with
| grave robbery.
John Mulligan, q Mechanicsville On. y
! centarian, and the Oldest member OF the
G. A. r.. IS dead.
Boston dry-go0ds firms refund the railroad
fares Of customers living within seYenty-tYe
miles OF the Hub.
a st. Louis woman recently cOwhided the
object of her jealousy until both women
tainted from sheer exhaustion.
Every adult male resident of Croswell,
Mich, is liner that is, member of
one or more fraternal societies.
Three complete sets of lungs accounted
for the extraordinary Squealing power of
hog recently killed at Perry, Ga
General Benjamin f. Butler declares his
intention to seek legal redress for his recent
eJectment from Boston courtroom.
When mans eyes and his tongue agree
yOu may know he is either telling the truth
OF that he is very accomplished liar
An indignant North Carolina girl mas shot
a man who traduced her character. He will
recover and Will be prosecuted for SANDER.
James Hubbart, JOG years of age. is dead
at Indianapolis, Ind. He had been married
ffty-siX years, and leaves 13S descendants.
Bridgeport Comm vandals have desc
Grated the city cemetery, destroying over
$4,000 worth OF monuments and graveStOnes.
Washington, Pa, has a newly born lamb
with two noses, a double tongue and three
eyeS-the extra organ Of sight in its fore
head.
Common salt sprinkled on the floor Is said
! to be wonderfully effective IN clearing
/ house of rats. 1t is a deadly poison to the
/ rodents.
! Cattle and horse thieves and burglars are
/ committing wholesale depredatOnS in
| Travis County, Tex. A Vigilance Commit
| tee has been organized.
a Troy u. y workman has been in
/ stantly killed by the breaking loose of one
/ OF number Of rapidly revolving knives,
| which penetrated his heart.
a Mortified (Minu.) doctor sets down the
/ end OF the world for April II, 1901, and
! says that in 1894 nations will be destroyed
/ by the blo0diest war ever known.
/ q Philadelphia paper, in describing
! New York preacher, said: HE is ike an
...l r-l.@ l.
| time and quits when be is through"
| The arduous labors Of assisting in house
| cleaning made a Mount Clemens Mich
I cleTgymau'S back so lame that he was
/ obliged TO deliver his Sunday sermon sit
! ting,
! A Michigan man has been sentenced to a
/ years Imprisonment for clipping with a
married woman, who got off scot free. She
! absolutely refused TO return to her hus-
| band.
a Middletown Pa.) man, whose place of
! business IS four miles from his home, has
| walked the intervening distance twice q
day Tor twelve years, or total OF 81, 200
! miles.
popular Catholic bishop of Hartford.
Conn, on the eve Of sailing for Europe, has
| been presented with purse of $1,000 by
| his pariShiOners to defFay the expenses Of
| the trip
Recent experiments in Paris have estab-
| lished the fact that tubercul0us diseases
yield readily when the air in a room is satu-
| rated with mixture Of eucalyptus oil and
| creOsote.
The grave Of Rev. John Southmayd, the
! second pastor Of Waterbury, Conn, who
! died 136 years ago, was recently opened and
the body found IN an excellent state of pres
| eTvation.
Mrs Helen Cougar says she has kept a
! record OF the accounts OF wife murders by
! drunken husbands published in the daily
| papers since January !, 1889. The aggre-
| gate number is 1904.
A yeritable mine Of stolen treasure, en-
! bracing valuable articles Of all descriptions,
! has been discovered by Chicago officers.
! Much of the plumber has been identified.
! The thieves are IN limbo.
PlutaTch mentions a SagaciOuS dog that
| King Pyrrhus found beside the murdered
| body of his master. AfteTward it sprang
! fercely upon two of the kings soldiers. thus
! pointing them out as the murderers.
a ST. Louis man who endeavored to part
| two quarTe!ing women, emerged from the
| contest with two black eyes and a broken
| nose. He IS now an ardent disciple of the
| doctrine of nOn-interference.
A woman. 70 years of age. who had a
| regular shOp-lifter's pocket in her dress
| was arrested in New York store the other
day. She had nipped 4 pair of corsets and
several other articles when arrested.
| n new L OK pOOi-TOOm Keeper mas been
| mulcted In $1,000 fine aud an Imprisonment
of three months. The Judge stated that the
| next case OF the kind coming before him
! would subject the offender to a term in State
Prison.
1t is quite likely that the Executive Board
| OF Rochester. n. Y, will decide to operate
all Of the lift-bridges over the Erie Canal in
that city by electric power. 1t is estimated
that the necessary machinery can be in
| stalled for $500
Negroes are not so shiftless as some peo-
| pie state them to be. In sixteen cities of
| Virginia the negroes own property worth
| So, 324, 542, the greater part of when is in
real estate. In Richmond their possessions
amount to $500, 13S.
A reporter of a Kansas City paper,
charged with vilifying the character Of
women residing in Texas towns, has been
tarred and frathered at Waco, that State.
He was afterward ridden on a rail and
ducked in frog-pOad.
An amateur Photographer is no longer re-
| garded as hend or person to be laughed
| at, as men IN all branches and kinds of bust
ness are finding out that an amateur pho
| tOgrapher connected with their Offices is a
very mandy man to have about.
The English language rights itself when
too much of the dead languages gets into it.
! OleOmargarlne Is now simply "oeO." This
saves great deal OF time and breath, and
does away with the fierce dispute as to
whether the "g in margarine " should
be given the soft or the hard sound.
The descendants of Mrs +. C.. Pownall.
who died recently at Brooklyn, n Y, aged
81, are 10 children, "a grandchildren, the
same number of Observation-Disclosures and
| Observation-Disclosures Her eldest
daughter, aged 70. is down with the grip.
Mrs. PownaIPs husband was a soldier In
the war of 1912.
A Virginia City gentleman became unduly
elated Monday night and was run in and
next morning tried and fined for drunken
ness. He told the Judge If the Charge
could be changed to 'boisterouSness or
hilarity" he would plead guilty and never
mind the costs. The Judge called it hilarity
and assessed the defendant $50, which was
promptly paid.
There is small community Of people 70