The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-01-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The revenue OF the Salvation Army is
$4,000 year.
Washington society is said to be per
turbed because Of the scarcity of young men
at dances.
The factories of England, France. Ger
many and Holland produce about 100000
pins daily.
Daniel Parsons, who resides on the old
Salem Mass road, has a curiosity in the
shape OF hen which has adopted litter OF
five kittens.
Earl Davis, O rine-year-old boy of Adrian,
Mich. shot himself fatally in the lung be-
cause he had been chlded for running away
from school.
Three earthquake shocks occurred re-
Gently at Parral, Mexico, causing the gallery
OF convent 10 give away, killing SIX and
wOundlng nine persons.
& Annie w. Baxter of Jasper County, No,
has taken possession of the office of county
clerk, and is discharglng her duties to the
full satisfaction of the public.
A small leather bag was kicked about in
the streets OF New ork recently by pedes-
TRANS which, when opened by a hotel por-
ter, was found to contain $4,000 worth of
diamonds.
George Schur of Detroit, while running a
lathe, was struck in the corner OF the eye by
nose and entered his left eye. He will prob
ably lose the sight in both eyes.
Ada Gray is the only colored female dent.
list in the country, and practices in Cincin-
natl. And her torceps are just as yanking
in their embrace as If they were in the
hands of a white lady tooth torturer.
In Japan the act of flirting is a penal
offense- Serious complications arise under
the law, but the young people OF both sexes
know that they cannot wink and blink and
glggle at each other unless they mean bust
ness.
1t is claimed that the education of the
sexes in Columbia College, Missouri, is
success. The facts show it. Forty-two
marriage engagements so far have been
made between The boys and girls of that in
StitutOn.
Tolstoi's niece has prepared an edition of
"War and Peace " for the blind. This
edition will be printed entirely in raised let
tiers, and each copy will contain about 1000
pages The preparation of the work has
lasted five years.
The ninety-fUOt tower erected at Kearnev,
Y. j., in lS43. has been torn down. Haskell
built the tower. and on a certain day as
cended it with his family, expecting the
Lord to snatch them into heaven. They
were disappointed.
Some of the Georgia papers have psDoused
the Swedish theory of handling and selling
whisky and intoxicating drinks In This Man
company is appointed to deal in LIQUORS
with certain appointed statesmen and book
keepers, with stated salary for each and a
stated gain for the corporation, and the sur
plus to go to public and Charitable institu-
| tons.
On their return from their holiday vaca-
| ton the Cornell students found at the en-
trance to the college grounds a snow bust of
! Professor Corson. 1t vas more than eight
| feet high and an excellent likeness. II Mas
| the work of Professor II. d. Williams and
MT. WINS, OIL the department of Industrial
| art. Two years ago Professor Williams
| constructed similar bust of Shakespeare.
| No forger or counterfeiter ever thoroughly
| succeeded in Initiating the signature on,
| legal tender notes of the late General spin
ner. He started it when a lad but did not
| perfect us laDyrlnthlan turns and maZes till
| he was Treasurer of the United States II
| was quite task 10 work and often after
| day of signing notes his wrist would he so
| swollen and sore as to require careful treat
| ment.
Edison, the electrici an, has more the loo,
| oil country grocer than man of science.
and he can cheerfully submit to be bothered
| by lot of children without showing anv
annoyance at having his mind abstracted
| from deeper studies. And he is inst as
happy patching up the fractured inhab
itants of child's Noah's Ark as he is whan
| trying to make the telephone self-record
| ing machine.
a diamond necklace formed of a siuole
row OF enormous soitaires suspended from
slender gold chain set with little diamonds
cacn stone u marvel OF purity and brilliapcy
as well as size, adornS the showroom of n
Paris jewelry-Store. This splendid orna
ment was to have formed the Christmas Gift
OF one of the partners in tho banking bonse
of Barring Brothers to his wife. INIT whan
misfortune befell the firm the necklace was,
left on the jewelers. hands. 1t is yalued at
100000. 60
Prince Nicholas of Montenegro bas M
dained in his Official Gazette that everv one
OF MS acuVe warriors shall plant duriup
1891 200 grapevines; every brigadier must
plant 20, every commander and under com
mander OF battalion 10, every drummer or
colOr-bearer o. Every guide moreover
must plant olive trees and every cornora
l. The Gazette calculates that in consr-
quence Of this order Montenegro will have
100000 grape vines and &c, GOO olive trees
on next January LIST.
One little Indian boy WHO attends scbool
at Indian Island, Oldtown, Me. takes an in
telligent interest in his lessons and does not
simply learn them by rote The teaeber had
been giving instruction in punctuation. and
closed by saying emphatically: Nav when
you come to period you must stop. a
little black-eyed girl then commented to
read and went on in a reckless manner re-
CARELESS of the period in question. where-
upon the fat and bright little Indian how
poked her in the ribs and electrified The
school by yelling Justify, "WhoaF' He
grasped the situation.