The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-09-07
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The new liquor law of Boston has resulted
in the arrest of more women than men.
| Montgomery, Ala, is to substitute cleo
tricity for mule-power on her street rail-
ways.
David Carter of Bristol, Pa, never ate
meal at a table. He always eats while
walking. a.
A Wilmington Del.) man, aged 81 is cut
| ting his third set of teeth and suffers infan-
! tile agony.
Two persons dead. "a dangerously i'll. is
the result OF drinking from foul we'll in
| Milwaukee.
New Haven (Conn) oystermen propose to
organize patrol to protect their Oystsr-beds
| from pirates.
Wild cherries have q gOo1 sale among
! liquor-dealers. They are used to make a
delicious brandy.
Al Goshen, Ind, recently two. married
| sisters became the mothers Of bouncing
| boys at exactly the same hour.
| Beer and whisky were the concomitant5
of recent camp-meetlng at Hanover, n. j.,
and horse-trades were in order
The German Government has decided TO
establish complete telegraph system on
the German East African coast.
Herr A. Noll of Beringer in the Black
| Forest has invented a clock warranted TO
| go without winding until A. D. 1899.
| The smallest church in the world is at St.
| Lawrence, near VentnOr, Isle of Wight. Ii
| has seating capacity for twelve people.
Wonderful indeed was the escaps of
| Chicago slater who fell fifty-fve feet from
a building without mourning serious injury.
BY recent appliance to kitchen ranges
| the refuse from the kitchen is thoroughly
| dried, converted into charcoal aud used as
| fuel.
Gable trains, hOrse-cars, double-trolley
| and singe-trolley cars all pass over one see
tiOn OF street railway track in Cincin-
natl.
Out of eleven children originally in the
Neville family of Lewiston. Me-, six are
now living, with an average age Of over 70
| years.
To clean teakettle take itaway from the
| fire and wash off with a rag dipped in
kerosene, followed by rubbing with dry
| flannel cloth.
| For simple hoarseness take fresh egg.
| beat ii and thicken with pulveriZed sugar.
Eat freely Of it and the hoarseness will soon
! be relieved.
| The happy reunion of two sisters who
| had been separated for thirtv-threa years
| was caused by an advertisement in q Brook
| Ign newspaper.
A Kansas City woman, recently married
| to No. 2, gave her first husband $4,000, con-
| ditioned upon his consent to divorce. She
| is worth $3.50. coo.
| Persons with divining rods are searching
| for ancient Spanish gold supposed to be
buried in the banks Of the Ohio, near New
| New Albany, Ind.
A woman who solicited aims at an ele-
waited railroad station in New York received
S37 10 in three hours. The fact was brought
| out IN police court.
| Pittsburg machinists are "beating" the
| nichel-ln-the-slot cigar machines by drop
ping in steel buttons the exact size and
| weight of fve-cent piece.
/ & Ii =.
In the nature OF European animals intro
duced into Australia. They are learning TO
| climb trees in their new home.
A foolish Buffalo On " girl has been
rendered Incurably insane from "lOge pow
derS" administered to her by a fortune-tel-
| er, who is in the grasp of the law.
BY actual count Chicago has 1853 hotels.
| But she Will need great many more to ae-
| commodate the vast crowds that will gather
| there when the Worlds Fair opens.
At Fort Smith, Ark. recently it took three
| hours for coroner's jury to get together
the remains of man who kicked can
| which proved TO contain dynamite.
That blood is thicker than water is proven
in the case of an Indiana man in Jail for
heinous offense, whose father, brother and
uncle were lynched for similar crimes.
The millions of gold which Uncle Sam
sent to hungry European bankers will soon
start on its return trip. Your Uncle pays
u
On the summit of Ben Lomond may be
seen the smallest tree that grows in Great
| Britain. 1t Is known as the dwarf willow
| and is, when mature, only about two inches
| liz height.
John B. Linn and Mrs. Charles Cockefair
| OF Mace, Ind, have been united in marriage.
The bride is still dressed in mourning for
| her first husband, who committed suicide
| two months ago.
! Velocipedes having been introduced in the
| regular service of the Russian army, as re-
| ported, an official name Of SlayOnic origin
| has been devised for them. The new name
| is samoskaty, "Self-roller."
| The old-fashioned Russian wagOn-driver,
| who carried passengers and freight long
| distances in his rude, self-contrived vehicle,
| Is still competing successfully with the
steam horse in the land of the White Gar.
| The Climatologist is a new monthly pub
| LEGATION issued from Philadelphia, W hose
| chief end is the printing Of papers showing
| the effects of climate in various parts OF
| the country as remedy or preventive of
disease.
Three lotos plants set out in a.lake in
| Central Park, New York. three years ago.
| have increased to hundreds. and scores of
great pink blossoms are now tossing their
heads in air. 1t is one of the finest sights in
| the park.
Suit has been brought at Chicago against
| woman who, after months of courtship
| anu Tile pIcStuk Vi CSOUU ITOH lpNeT, re-
| fused to marry him. Her promise 10 become
| his wife was conditional upon the receipt Of
| the money.
The old plan of setting thief to catch a
| thief hasn't turned out well in Arkansas.
| They hired an expert to find out how much
| their defaultng State Treasurer had stnleu,
| and now the expert has got away with $780,
| 600 of the State funds.
Thomas Erskine, who sailed from Boston
| in the bark Lanark for San Francisco in
lS49, and up to his death was member of
the Associated Forty-niners" of Boston,
is dead, aged Il. He was born at White
| field, Me-, in December, 1919.
Half million bushels of onions are
| raised every year in Lake County, Ohio.
Not all the water in the rude, rough seas
as King Lear said, could wash the balm
| from an anointed King" were the ointment
| from that neck of the woods.
The immortal Smith family recently held
| their seventeenth annual reunion at Pea
pack, n. j. Special ordinances forbddins
| the attendance of more than limited num-.
Der were passed by the towns for hundreds
| of miles around, for fear they would be de-
| populated.
| When fire. as it often does. catches in
cargo of lime the only way to extingnish it
| is 10 stop up every crack in the vessel wi th
| soap, so that no air can reach the lime.
| They have been known to burn several
| months, and it is instant death tO go inside
such burning vessel.
Some giIlS in town in Maine have dis
tinguished themselves by giving a negro
| minstrel show. They called themselves
Smoked pearls: and play to immens
| crowds. There are four "end men," and
| the entertainment included great variety
of local gags and general funny nDthings.
When Charles Tunnison and Ell Camp
bell were killed by stroke OF lightning al
ball game at Warren, Ohio, they were
sitting beneath tree. On the chest OF
| TunnIson the undertaken found photu-
graphed. apparently by the flash upon the.
skin, the image of branch of tree and
its twigs.
DIR. M. A. Holmes of Waterville Me-, aged
IS years. has grandfather still living In
| England ut the great age OF ia years.
| The latter Is a surgeon by profession, and
| DR.. Holmes remembers that when boy
over sixty years ago, he assisted his veneer
able ancestor in the amputation of SOL
dier's leg.
At Goldgraeber, near Hauland, in the
Province Of POsen, lives shoemaker
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