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

lIEMS Or INTEREST,".
A Munce Qnd.) man has been jailed for
| refusing to register his dog.
A Beverly On. j. man has been drowned
| while making long-distance swim on a
wager
A lie Mars Qowa) man wrote to Secre-
| tary Rnsk for some seed to raise electric
| light plants"
Cook County, H., in which Chicago is
situated, pays its Judges $4,000 annually
and its jurors $4,000.
The stump OF hickory flag-pole, erected
| in 1914 in honor Of President Polk, has been
unearthed at Shelbyvile, Ind
Blossburg, Pa, proposes to celebrate the
centennial anniversary of the discovery OF
| coal IN that vicinity next year.
4 Sioux City Qowa) man, supposed to
nave been drowned. has turned up in Can
| Ion. D. OAK, temporarily insane.
Numerous desertioBS from tho army are
| alarming the Italian Government. The
'auses are arrears in pay and poor food.
\ veterinary surgeon has sued Dubuque
Iowa man for $500 for attending a horse
| valued at half that amount and which died.
The Cleveland (O) water board officials,
| in balance OF their books, are greatly
bothered over surplus OF Al cents, which
discrepancy obstiHately refuses to straightea
| itself.
A JeffersonyiIle Qnl.) couple were re-
whole party, including the minister, sitting
| In their buGgies
Two new baby-farms have been discny-
cred side by side in a New Jersey village.
Death was harvesting the crop nj the rate
OF three or four week.
A locomotive on the PENNSYLVANIA rail-
road has run los. 1856 miles in fourteen
| months The distance Is equal to about
Az times that around the world.
A hard-hearttd RoSeville Ohio woman,
who had been alienatPd from her husband.
forbade her son from looking at his fathers
dead face as he lay in his colin.
Eliza E. Knight, Brooklyn widow, is re-
ported TO have fallen heir to large fortune
in Dumfrieshire, Scotland, estimated to be
between 100000 and S!.G00.o0o.
AWiikesb barre (Pa,) man is on still hunt
for bis wife, WHO has disappeared after rob-
ping MIN OF $500 He threatens to prosecute
her to the full extent Of the law.
John Bailey, an honest track-walker of
the Pennsylvania Railroad. recently found
$4,000 money package on the track and
returned 1t to the express company.
a man living near Pennington, Iowa, was
nned eo and costs Tor driving along the pub
| lie highway in such manner that team
behind HIM could neither pass him nor drive
! faster than slow walk.
a young Reading pa girl who purposeIy
| lost herself in the mountains has been found
| forty miles from home after i've days ab-
senee. one SuDslsted on huckleberries, and
refuses to explain her strange conduct.
| Liquor, gambling and evil companions
have led 10 the downfall of n young and
hitherto trusted empl0ye Of an Easton Pa)
firm, who has embeZzled several thousand
dollars. lie has made full confession
Linton Richardson of Hartwell, Ca,
Killed Joint snake recently. 1t was about
two feet long, and had n horn on its tail.
Upon handling it after it was killed It be-
came disjoined. The Joints were two
inches long
a company has been formed in New York
which performs marriages at ali hours for q
lee OF $40. Absolute secrecy is guaranteed
where the parties desire il, no license is
necessary, and no record is filed with the
| Board Of Health.
A dog in Missouri Valley, Iowa, slept
| behind gasoline stove, and some of the
fluid leaked Oh it. When the hired girl Lii
the stove the dog caught fire, and it was
ing several houses.
turtle four feet across the back had
been located in Current River, Missouri,
for fifty years Tie other day a hunter
SHOT It between the eyes. but the ball
glanced pf and imbedded itself in a tree,
White the turtle swan placidly into deep
water.
Probably the oldest living triplets in
PennSylyania are Rebecca, Benjamin and
Samuel Roller, of Sumneytown. who re-
Gently celebrated their seventy seventh
birthday anniversary. They are three of
thirteen children, and enjoy remarkably
good health.
The people of Thessaly were the first to
break horses for service in war, and their
proficiency as equestrians probably first
gave rise to the ancient myth that their
country was originally inhabited by cen
taurs, fabulous creatures supposed to be
half horse and half man.
A Brooklyn girl whose wealthy patents
Kept her secluded and refused 10 permit her
10 receive company, got even with them by
leaving home and engaging as chamber
mald IL boardlng-house, where she was
found by her brother and returned home
upon the promise of revocation Of the OBJ
nOxious order.
AT Johnston, j. l., recently, the life of
baDy, who was choking, WAS saved by
pug dog, which, by barking and other
demonstrations, attracted the attention of
It's mistress i'll an adjoining room. The
child had swallowed six-pointed jack
stone. which the mother extracted from its
throat just iii time 10 save its life.
A story of the trying times Of the war of
1872 comes from an old Bath (Me) sail
maker. Money was an unknown COM
modify along the Maine coast and barter
the invariable rule. BY and by, when the
SKIES began to brighten, a skipper offered to
pay IN cash for a lot Of fish purchased of q
fhippsburg party 1t was great novelty,
and the fisherman shook his head dubi-
ousiy' enchanting: No. you can't have
them. must have rum-rum and molasses-
or you can't have them"
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