The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-08-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

season.
There are nine medical men in England
| upon whom the title of bar0net has been
| bestowed.
A steam merry-go-round took in S1247 so
! at Bedding, Mich, in a lew days, over $1,000
being profit.
The employees of large iron works at
| Pittsburg receive wages yprying from 81 90
to S24 IS per day.
An electrical expert says that no light has
been found that will penetrate fog better
than the old oil lamp.
1t was a Boston boy who recently defined
wedding as nothing but prayer meeting
| With d S0clable after It,
Mrs. Louisa Irving of Hopkinton, Mass,
! though IS years old, took her first ride on a
railroad train recently.
A projected shoe factory at Keene, n. H.,
| has been offered exemption from taxes for
| ten years by the authorities.
Every workman in Japan wears on his
cap and back an inscription giving his busi-
| ness and his employers name.
Bills are now posted in Paris by ina chin
| cry, Which is said to be an improvement on
the hand and pastepot system.
IL is said that harvest hands in Minnesota,
Dakota and Montana are being paid from
| s. 90 to 81 80 per day and board
The daily consumption of coal in Pitts
| burg even now, with the large amount of
natural gas that is used, is over 60O0 tons.
| For stings or bites from any kind OF insect
| apply dampened salt bound tightly over
the spot. II will relieve and usually cure
| quickly.
Mrs. Armpriester of Reading, Pa, saw
boy drowning in the canal. Instead of
| screaming or fainting, she fshed him out
| with Il rake.
At Muskegon. Mich. a box-car has been
loaded with IL, 800 feet of flooring, said to be
the largest amount of lumber ever packed
into freight-car.
A Judge at Decatur, Tex, recently ad-
| louTned court for fifteen minutes in order to
| marry an clipping couple whose stern parents
| were in hot chase.
Ten cents each day for drink is over $50
a year. Thirty dollars 4 yeay for twenty
| years IS home. y home in twenty years is
! comfort and plenty for all age.
The smallest newspaper in the United
States Is the Citizen, Palatka, Fla. 1t is 4X5
| inches, four pages, ana has TWO editors who
| part their names IN the middle.
At Brighton. Mass, recently burglars
were frightened away by the striking of an
alarm clock which had been miss-set for
$3.50 in the morning instead of 3.
1t has been calculated that the actual
J amount of salt contained in the ocean
! would cover an area of 100000 square
miles with layer one mile Trick.
An entire train on the Long Island Rail-
read was recently wrecked by lightning.
| The engine ana cars were deraied and the
| passengers narrowly escaped death.
A former well-to-do Kansas farmer who
| is over SIX feet high and weighs nearly 200
| pounds.is stranded in Oklahoma, and is
| selling bouquets of wild flowers for living
The largest spring in the world is at
| Mammoth Spring. Ark, from which 10000
| gallons OF water gush forth every minute
| making total Of l29, 100000 gallons a day
When the Congressional Library Build
| ing Is finished ana opened TO the public in
| 1886 it will contain alcoyes, stacks and iron
| shelving sufficient to stow away 1850, 900
books.
In the 351 towns and cities of Massachu-
setls 24S now have free public libraries, and
the State has lately provided aid for tile 1OS
small towns and villages which have no
| libraries.
Three couples, all over 10 years of age,
| have been married within q few DAYS
! Sullivan County, New York, is the home OF
! two Of the couples, while the third lives in
| Michigan.
Mrs. Ann Woods, who ldied recently at
| Cynthiana, KY, aged IS. was years old
| when Washington died, and had a fund of
interesting "reminiscences concerning the
| great patriot.
The Vassar (Mich.) Times has put col
Letting wagon on the road ami picks up all
! kinds OF farm produce, house plants, carpet
| rags, dry bones, etc, and credits the same
| on subscription.
In a recent storm in North Dakota hail
stones OF Sucn extraordinary size fell that
| residents sought refuge in cellars. One Of
| the hailstones, it is said, measured twelve
inches in circumference.
a silver dollar rolled out from clam
| that was opened in Center Moriches l.. l.,
| the other day. 1t was coined III 1875. and it
| Is not known kow long it had been keeping
company with the clam.
a young New York business man, who
| had been started in business three times by
! his family and who was the husband of an
heiress. has lost $40 COO by playing the races,
and is now in jail tor theft.
Perhaps the English language is not
| growing, with many thousand more words
In the newest dictionary than were ever
collected before. And the language is
growing at the American end too.
The New York girl who lost her engage
| ment ring IN wash-basin only to find it
| two years later in the gutter, where it had
| been washed from an open sewer, had
| meantime been married and widowed.
The largest gun ever made by Krupp is
| the property of the Russian Government
| 1t is made of cast steel and has barrel 40
! feet long, with bore of 134 inches. 1t
| costs $500 to fire single shot from the gun
1t was a London woman who blamed
| every servant IN her establishment for los
| ing her key. She finally took a narcotic
and went to the sleep While sleeping she
| arose and found the key where she had
| secreted 1t.
| Mrs. Mary White Martinez, Sadie Marti-
not's mother, has patented in seven coun-
| tries steam WaShlng-machine, gas-stove
| t-bath, an ice-cream freezer and q
| clothes-dryer, and she makes her models
| with her own hands.
| A Battle Creek (Mich.) man has patented
| a typewriter for musical composers. The
copy which it makes can be photographed
| and plate reproduced for printing which
| Is SAID 10 be much better than plates made
| in the ordinary way.
Boys in Charlottesville. Ind, have bal
| loon.parachute craze and cats are daily sent
| up, the parachute being so arranged that il
| will detach itself from The balloon at a GER
| tain time. The cats axe not taking kindly to
| this aeronautic mania.
Cincinnati physicians are puzzled over
| the case OF man who, acting as peace
maker In an ARRAY, was struck OH the breast
| bone ana has been dumb ever since. The
injuries TO his breast have healed, but he is
| unable to articuate word.
| A Lewiston (Me.) woman has needle in
! her sewing-machine that she placed there in
| the fall Of 1874, and which has not once
been removed. II has done all the family
| sewing since that date, and continues to do
it, although worn rather thin.
| There has been gain of 1913 newspaper;
| in the United States during the past year
| and the last returns give the number in the
| United States and Canada as 1888. A
| siuBlt udJ tulbS Jul iIOI6 news at present
than did half century iniFranklin's day.
| A boy entered Buffalo On. " black
smith-shop with small pony which lie
| wanted shod. The blacksmith could not
| get down conveniently. so he picked the
| pony up and put him on an old box, where
he could pick up his corners more readily.
1t is claimed by Canon Rintledge that St
Martins. Canterbury, England, Is the old
esi church in Europe. He asserts that it is
| the oldest edltce which was built originally
| as church during the first four centuries
and has remained a church until the present
| day.
The State Of Iowa prohibits the sale of
| liquor. but permits priZe-fighting. What
| car be said Of State where selling drink
| of beer is held greater offense against the
and plug uglies to see two men hammer each
! other?