The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-04-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

PicnicS are in full blast in Louisiana.
Cincinnati has 100 policemen each over
six feet tall.
Chattanooga, Tenn, is being paved with
vitrlted brick.
The Garfield monument at Cleveland,
Ohio. cost $4,000.
Isaac Smith. a convicted Ohio murderer,
has been respited eight times.
The recent snow storm in Northern Ala
bama was the first in forty years.
Robert Kimble, a colored centenarian,
dropped dead recently at Garner, Miss.
A Memphis milkman says that his Gus
toners prefer adulterated milk to the pure
article.
Mr.. Dana's salary as editor of the New
to $4,000 year.
Ex-Governor p. B. S. Pinchback of Louisi-
ana, is about to become permanent resi-
dent IN Washington.
The most watery county in the United
States is Monroe County, Fla. 1t is chiefly
composed of small islands or keys.
Dapper little clerks, with effeminate man.
nerS, are said to be preferred 10 athletic
statesmen by the New York women CUSTOM
erS.
Nearly GOO cords of wood have been cut
on the Lehigh Mountain. in Pennsylvania,
from timber destroyed by last summers cy-
clone.
a marriage license issued by the Men,
phis (Tenn) City Clerk in 1880. but which
was mislaid, has just been found and re-
corded
A fifteen-year-old bride at Greenyille, S.
c., has been taken away from her husband
by her mother and forcibly detained at the
latter's house.
A stage-struck Partisan young woman
was cured OF her aspirations by being taken
behind the scenes and shown the dark side
of theatrical life.
Munkacsy is to get 100000 francs $4,000
for the panels he is painting for the Hall Of
Deputies of the new palace of the Parlia-
ment at Bucharest.
Ii is stated that the whole number of Con-
federate soldiers in the late war did not ex-
coed those furnished the Federal army from
the Southern States.
Louis Hamilton, resident of Bradenburg,
KY, named his children London Judge. He
brew Fashion, Chinese Figure, Reputable
Kingdom and Greek Wisdom.
A New York man, whom severe attack
Of the grip had rendered delirious. jumped
head and was instantly killed.
Sweetbread sandwiches are something
new, and are having fashionable run. The
crust OF the bread is all cut off, and the sand
wich made of triangular form
A Boston beam baker is said to have the
finest and largest collection of coins in the
county, IL Is NOILu CJU,uJU lie puts all
the money he makes into old coins.
1t is said that General Di CeSnola recently
gave dinner to some Of his surviving TEL
lOw-officers in pursuance TO promise made
tweDty-six years ago during the war.
When Livingston reached the center Of
Africa he found millions of people there
who never had tasted salt; but they got to
liking IL, and would sell slave for pound
of salt.
Two charming young ladies OF Rayne,
La, recently appeared on the streets
dressed in blue Guinea print and sunbon-
nets. in the olden Creole style. They capti-
waited the town.
The stock of cotton on hand at Augusta,
Ca, is 1889 bales, against 1898 at the same
time last year. The receipts for the year
will probably be 275,0O0 bales-about u, 600
more than last year.
The Australian Federation has approved
the title OF commonwealth of Australia"
for the federation, and also adopted the
clauses providing that the Governor General
shall be appointed by the Queen.
Broker r. b. Davidson of Philadelphia is
the only surviving clerk of the old United
States Bank. He Is 81 years old and was
employed in the bank from 1882 10 1886.
while Nicholas Biddle was President of it,
A Davenport Qowa) merchant who offered
a bedroom set to the first of his girl en-
ployes who married before May LIST paid the
).
She lost no time in bringing her dilatory
lover to terms.
When the Mosque of st. Sophia in Con-
staniinople WAS built, more than 1000 wears
ago, the stones and brick work were laid in
mortar mixed with solution of musk, and
the building has been infected with the
odor ever since.
The 200 or more New York tea
tasters are obliged to forego the use
of tobacco and highly seasoned food. They
are well paid, but their peculiar vocation
often superinduces kidney disease, which
ultimately carries them off.
us a husband worth havingp was
lately asked of its readers by London
Woman. Three wives won prizes by their
answers. In substance each reply was
yes" Many other women answered ives,
if he be a good husband; no, if he be bad"
A New York man has received from
friend in England a lot of peas which are
the product of two or three peas found in
cloth wrapped around an Egyptian mummy,
and undoubtedly 1000 or 1000 years old.
The owner will plant them on his Long
Island farm.
On factory bell in Saylesville, R. l.. is
an inscription purporting to show that the
bell was cast in Amsterdam in 1868. There
is tradition that the bell was used on the
British ship Guerrero, captured in 1872 by
the United States ship Constitution, and it is
supposed to have been before that In an
English convent
Trinity, New York City, is by far the
richest parish in this country and even in
the world. The taxable property, which
produces an annual income and is leased
for secular purposes, is valued at only
S3000,000, but the immense blocks upon
which Trinity Church and st. Paul's Chapel
stand are worth enormous sums