The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-09-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| Altoona Pa) Catholics have Dedicated
fine new church building, costing S3S. 600
There are over 800 counterfeits OF the old
| masters in private galleries 10 THIS country.
There are 100000 stars in the armament,
OF which only 6000 are BILE to the nak-d
| eye.
Bands of different colors painted around
| tue tourists trunks are for quick Identified
ton.
The New Jersey law of July, 1890, re-
| quiring all physicians to be registered, is 10
| be strictly enforced.
The New Castle (Del) Jail is crowded to
the doors and a neighbOring fort has To
| be utilized as Il prison.
| A house was recently burned at Laurel.
| Md, the bricks of which were brought from
England 240 years ago.
A Midlothian (Tex.) ten-year-old boy CON
| ducts successful grocery and attends TO all
| the details of the business.
Annie Patterson, fifteen-year-old Nor
| weglan girl OF keokuk, Iowa, Is about to 90
| insane from too much drink.
The undertaken who furnished Mrs. POlk'1
CONN performed the same service for Pres-
| dent FOLK forty-three years ago.
| There has been an increase of 10000 in the
number Of United States postOffices during
| the past year. They now number "a, 39l.
What woman reporter saw in Chicago:
| II saw eleven out Of every fifteen girls |
met with laced waists and powdered faces"
OF the 213 species of trees in the United
| States sixteen Will sink In water. The
| heaviest Is the black IRON wood of Southern
| California.
| Dissatisfied relatives are contesting the
Will OF Davenport QOwa) woman who be-
| queathed over 100000 to religious and char
table institutions.
PottsvilIe, Pa, has been damaged by rain
| aud lightning to the extent of Sl00,00U, a. d
| 400 families were driven to the upper sturiss
o. their homes by the flood.
A farmers boy at Ashland, Nebr., has
been burned to death by the bursting of a
bottle of Ca rbolic acid which his father gave
him to hold while driving home.
AT La Crosse, Wis, the butternut trees on
lawn were almost completely denuded uf
| leaves by four torrid days, as though they
had passed through hard frost.
| AT KeOkuk, Iowa, recently, an old Mis-
| sour IarIner, While full OF whisky, snatched
kiss from a middle aged woman and
paid $50 and cost for the privilege
George PrObst of Logansport, Ind, has
| been warned by White Caps to clean up his
| premises, 20 to work, educate his children
| and keep his son John out OF saloons.
The average weight of the brain of man
bears definite relation to the climate in
| which he lives. a heavier brain weight being
found In cold than lii warm countries.
England has potato blight. The whole
crop of South Lincolnsh hire and Cambridge
black spot" having appeared in every
| field.
A girl at Richland, Mo-, has been HE
| coughing iBcessantiy tor fourteen hours a
| day since August 9th at an average OF
thlrty-hye times minute. The doctors are
| al sea.
The history Of the world In Arabic is
being written by Mahmoud Fehmy Pasha,
companion Of Arab in exile at Ceyiun
He hopes to finish it this year. 1t will be in
| i've large volumes.
About year ago Buffalo On W girl
| was dlshgured for life by some miscreant
throwing vltrI0l In her face while asleep.
her suiferings so preyed upon her mind
that she recently committed suicide.
Some Interesting ruins of ancient cities
| have been discovered in the heart of the
Sierra Madre. near the natural warm baths
| OF the Piedras Verde, Mexico sumo OF
| the houses are In good state of preSerYa-
| ton.
There is two-year-old stallion at Reese,
| Mich, which, when commanded, will kneei
| TO be mounted, will lie down or will sit ON
his haunches like dog and survey terrestrial
| objects with an appearance of great equine
| cUmposure.
A new steam yacht on the Like of Zurich
| Is made OF aluminium. 1t carries eight per-
sons, and with petroleum engine runs at a
| speed OF SIX miles an hour. The aluminium
was produced by the electrical method OF
| ONAaiAbauotH.
An aged New York professional nurse re-
Gently suicded by injecting poison into his
| blood by means of hypoderinic syringe.
| In letter ne stated that sickness, suffering
| ana the neglect of former friends caused
| him to take his life.
A recently arrived foreigner did rushing
! business in Wlnstead, Conn. selling water
melons a, two for cents. 1.-Two for five"
| was the only cry he knew, as his employer
hau never before sent him out to sell any,
| thing but bananas:
They tell up on the White Mountains of a.
Boston man on vacation who burned his
| nose so red that when he got up in the mid
die OF the night and looked out the window
rooster In the barn-yard cr0wed because
| lie thought the san was rising.
In Austria it has been found that the
santing Of letters in writing causes eurya-.
lure OF the spine, due to the position main
tanned ut the table or desk, and supreme
council has recommended that upright Iet-
tiers be cultivated in schooling.
a New fork woman who is summering in
quaint backwOOds village, met native the
other day, and in the course OF a little talk
asked him why all the children went bare
loot. Why," he exclaimed in surprise
that's the way they were born"
An Arkansas City (Kaus) man, who de-
tected his wife in the act of clipping, first at
| tempted her life, but finally let her 60, then
wrecked every article of furniture in tho
mouse, cut clothing, carpets and bedding to
| pieces, and left for parts unknown.
The great 800" Canal accumulates a
| trade lar in excess of that which passes
| through the Suez Canal. Some idea of its
| immensely can be gathered from the fact
| that closing lock for three days caused to
| shippers loss of more than 81, 100000.
Miss Theo Alice Ruggles. BoSton's woman
| sculptor, Is only 20 years old. When she
| was only II two Of her works were accepted
| by the Paris Salon. She has Just submitted
| model Tor the statue of Shakespeare,
which the city of Providence is to erect.
1t is reported of a young Maine maiden
who is stopping for the summer on an island
| where there isn't calendar, that she miss
| took her birthday aud lay under the trees
| in her hammock and made all her new resO-
lutionS the day before her real birthday.
Larry Locher, employed at the cement
| works In ROckbridge County, Va, wore a
leather girdle around his waist which be-
| came saturated with kerosene Oil. 1t caught
| fire from the explosion of a lamp and burned
| so deep into his body that it caused death.
A hotelkeeper at Springfield, Mass, gives
| aqueer excuse for4not having fire-rscape
! from bedroom in the second story. He
| says that he had one placed there Il year
| ago, but the first two weeks three b0arders
skipped their bills by its means and then he
| had it taken out.
The sword of Major-General Sill of Ohio
| was taken from his hand, after his death at
| the battle of Stone River in the late Civil
| War, by CAPTAIN ID. NJ. White, Texan
| The latter officer now proposes TO restore
| the weapon 10 the Generals friends, aud is
| about to visit OHIO for that purpose,
The Oldest church in Europe is said by
| some who are discussing the question to be
| St Martins, Canterbury, which was bultas
| a church before the end of the fourth cen
| tury. t.-MarY-in-tre-Castle, Dover, was
built about the same time, but for nearly 200
| years IL was used as garrison fuel depot