The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-06-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

rope on the same steamer.
A horse has been frightened to death by
an umbrella at Greens6urg, Ind
Seven hundred love letters were produced
in an English breach Of promise suit
A Brooklyn woman sOundly spanked her
eighteen ear-Old girl for diSobedience.
A man at UniOntown, Pa. is on trill FIR
a murder committed twenty-One years ago.
1t Is related of a Connecticut by that he
is shedding his skin as a snake does when it
mOlts.
At Valley Station. KY, burglar entered
the room of child, kissed her as she lay
sleeping and escaped without booty.
Razor straps with silver handles have
been added to the already long list of silver
toilet articles made expressly for mems use.
The number of divorces granted in til
United States during the twenty years rom
1867 to 1886 reaches beyond quarter OF
| million.
Use vaseline or oil upon boots and shoes.
Either will keep the leather in better cond-
ton than backing, and make the footgear
warmer.
Don't get the family lounge reuphol-
stored. Put half the money into silk-coy-
cred cushions and a Bagdad curtain d
cover il.
For simple hoArseness take fresh egg,
beat it and thicken with pulverIzed sugar.
Eat freely Of it and the hOarseness Will
soon be relieved.
| A new and delicious dainty is prepared by
taking the stone either from dates or prunes
and subStitu ting bit OF tie kernel of an
| English walnut
Joseph Joudoin of Lowell, Mass, has a
| child - months old that weighs 81 pounds,
| lifts II pounds with ease and is developed
! pTOpOrtionately.
| A Tennessee country news paper has dis
covered that reaches can fly like grass
| hopperS, and can be seen late at night COM
| ing home to rOost.
a Boston fire was held in check by soda
fountains until the firemen arrived. The
riba!d habit Of girding at the soda fountain
| ought new TO stop.
Don't pay so much rent that you can't
| have a few dollars for an occasional outing.
| Go into the country for health ami recrea-
| ten, not for display.
| The safest piece Of water upon earth IS
! Lake Urumia, Persia, more than 1000 feet
| above the sea level. 1t is very shallow, and
| no living thing can exist in II.
! A couple at North Arson, Me-, were mar
| ried in church just before the services on a
recent Sabbath, and at once went mo the
! choir and assisted in the singing.
/ A New York lady, who has been passing
! through a severe illness, mOurns the death
| of three physicians who have successfully
| attended her case, aud now she has sent for
| fourth.
A Brooklyn man. while slightly intoxi-
! CdIeu. WAS lltlu uOWH Dl Two OIL his COIu Ddu-
ions while a third cut off one side of his
! luxuriant black whlskers, leaving the other
| side intact.
! An Interesting feature of reception that
followed a wedding at Allentown. Pa. was
an Irish jig danced by the mother of the
| bridegroom, who has passed the seventy
| fifth year of her age
Forsyth County, Ga, has developed an
! iniantiIe prodigy, who at 4 years Of age
eau read difficult music correctly at sight.
! His voice is soft and tuneful and he bids
fair to become famous.
When large fower-pOts are used there
! will be more leaves than flowers. Often
| plants do not bloom because, having so
much space, :helr strength is expended in
! forming roots and leaves.
A Washington Heights New York; man
claims that his wife is the most ingenious
woman in the world. He has been married
ten years, and she has hid his slippers in a
| different place every day.
Chilled steel vaults have been completed
in Philadelphia, which increase the MintS
| capacity TO S200,000,000 in silver coin In
one vault there is S33,0O0,000 in silver. The
concrete floors rest on solid rock.
Old Arnold, negro character at Marshall,
Mo-, was recently photographed as
! curiosity, ana begged one OF the pictures to
send to his sister in Virginia. so she might
| know him when they got to heaven
While removing bodies from q Reading
! Pa.) cemetery, razor was found under the
head Of n skeleton. The interment of this
implement with male corpse is said 10
| have been the custom many years ago.
Two policemen and two doctors saved
George Drltschel, a New York jeweler,
| from suicide by chlorOform, by constant
walking. an electric battery and hypoder-
mic injections of whiskey and digitalis.
A colt at Finley, Ind has but three legs.
1t is perfectly formed in every respect
hat hos M Inn ina- cIr
Of one at one of its shoulders. 1t hops
about upon its three legs in lively manner.
In the public schools of Portland. Me-, are
two children, a boy and girl, aged respec-
| lively 10 and II years, no relations at all,
both of whom are as bald as the traditional
billard-ball, and each Of whom wears
! wig.
An old lady made pair Of slippers for
her clergyman in a New England hamlet,
| sent note with them, part of which read:
"And If they d0n't fit, please say so in your
sermon next Sunday, as expect to drive
| over to church."
A teacher tells of gentleman who came
in and asked permission to address her
! pupils. 1t afteTward appeared that he had
| been admitted to the bar, and felt timld
about speaking in public, and had broken
himself in on the children.
Divers in the clear waters of the tropical
seas find that fish Of different colors, when
frightened, do not dart in the same direction,
! but that each different kind takes shelter In
that portion of the submarine growth near
est in color to that of the fish.
According to Herr Japing the hourly rate
of water falling over Niagara Falls is
100000 tons, representing 100000
| horsepower, and the total daily production
Of coal in the world would just about suffice
to pump the water back again.
The educational interests of Spain are in a
deplorable condition. Tbree-quarters Of
million in back salary is due the teachers,
and no assistance has been received from
the Government in seventeen years. Many
of the schools are sustained by charity