The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-08-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Smallpox is prevalent in the interior of
Mexico.
A new Chicago apartment building is to
contain 101 flats.
The average daily mortality of New York
City Is stated at $50.
There are no street-cars allowed to run in
Canada on SUNDAYS.
Chief Justice Lucas of West Virginia is
said to be only four feet high.
A Waveland Qnd.) couple have been mar
RED after courtShip of twenty years.
A Circassian mothers first care is to pro-
mote the growth Of her chIldren's eyelashes.
During spell of coughing Miss BERTHE
Troupe OF Harrisburg, Pa, disloeated her
jaw.
A report from Vera Cruz says that yell
low fever Is causing many deaths in that
place.
Three brothers who separated in England
| nearly thirty years ago recently met in ST.
Louis
There are twenty-six engineers and sixty
hremen always on board the steamship City
of Paris.
William Turner, Phenixville Pa) ma
cninlst, has been working in one place for
fifty years.
The postoff1ce in Chicago Dies larger
registering letter business than any other i'll
the country.
A An Ashland (Mo.) physician has on his
are q virtue"
Missouri is the most pc pulous State west
OF the Mississippi and is nearly as big as all
of New England.
New Orleans is TO have a paid fire depart
ment the CRY having been always depend
ent on volunteer service.
In 1882 Indiana was the banner wheat
state OF the country, and the probability is
that now the State is again in the lead.
=. a. Howard of Belfast, Me-, has q clock
still keeping time that was wedding pres
ent to his grandfather in the fall of 1861
dog at Auburn, Me-, regularly disap-
pears into the country on July Sd, and
doesn't come back till the racket Is over.
Nine. de Stael was most proud of the fact
that she had acquired seventeen trades, bv
any one OF which she could make liyeli-
hood.
The most serviceable. certain, safe, re-
numeratiye, atIainable quality in every
study, in every pursuit. is the quality of at
tentlon.
watehful Chicago dog "treed" n burglar
on pile Of trunks in the store-roum aud
kept him there until the man of the house
/ arrived.
Miss Minnie Williams, daughter of n
well-to-do farmer near Laurel, Ind, drowned
herself because of unrequited love. ShJ
WAS aged %.
1t has been proposed in Kansas City to
manufacture cold air and convey it to
dwellings as gas and water are served
through iron pipes.
Nine. Modjeska is evidently not a fayorite
in Russla- A theater there wass closed to
her and her photographs were suppressed
oy Government officials.
As a result OF drunken row at Richland,
Ind, Henry Wheeler was knocked senseless
ny brick thrown by James Absheir
Nheeler's skull was fractured.
The pensions will cost this year $780, Oo0.-
U'o more than Grant and Garfield sal
would ever be required on this account ten
years alter the clpse Of tile war.
Mrs. Peter Petrie of Huntington, Ind:
while walking along the street was over
come by the bursting of q varicose vein, ami
narrowly escaped bleeding to death.
There Is to much riyalrysin the marrying
line OF JeiferSonvIlle, Ind, that elopementS
are at a premium. Rival sQuires are mar
rylng clipping couples free 0f charge
DIR. &. +. Rand of Washington POSSESSES n
curious relic of the rebellion. Ii is a piece
OF hard tack that formed a part OF one
OIL the doctors rationS just thirty years ago
The first Cook excursion was made fifty
years ago. Thomas Cook took party from
Leicester to Lonsborough, eleven and
half miles, on July 5, 1871, and that was tbs
first OF the famous cheap trips.
Women are excluded from the galleries of
the Japanese Parliament because, as I;
japanese newspaper says, they might be
moved by the debates there TO further po-
Stoves are compelled to do double service
IN Russia, TO warm two rooms at the same
time. They are built in the walls, between
TWO rooms, and thus the apartments on eacn
side are warmed by the same stove.
Two New York police sergeants have
commenced unique race. Inspector Steers
IS to decide which of the two men Will have
the most knowledge by New Years day.
Both are bright and efficient officers.
A man in Oakland City, Ind, boasts that
he never wore pair OF socks until he was
nifty years OF age, that he had made three
has always voted the Democratic ticket:
A sycamore tree. near Newton, Conn, is
said to be So feet high and q feet in diam
eter, while its branches shade an area ex-
tending so feet from the trunk. 1t pro-
duceS large and abundant white blossoms
At fire in a Georgia town, there being
no water at hand, some little colOred boys
pelted 1t with watermelons which were
growing in a neighboriDg field, and the
melons bursting soon quenched the flames.
Canada only lacks 237,OOO square miles to
be as large as the whole Continent of Eu-
rope. 1t is nearly thirty times as large As
Great Britain and Ireland, and is $4,000
square miles larger than the United Stat 5.
Virginia old gentleman, who is mildly
insane upon the subject of advantages of
out-of-door life, has taken up his residence
in an apple tree. Strange to say his health
has not suffered by the exposure, but has
actually improved.
Elijah Kellogg, the man who wrots spar
tacus to the Gladiators" and "ReguluS to
the CaTthagenians," once SO familiar to
every sehoolboy, is still living in Ha-ps well,
Me. He is clergyman, 81 years old, and
now breaches occasionally.
At Marietta, Ga, a jury on retiring to de-
liberate on their verdict asked local
Campbelllte preacher to lead them in
prayer, then talked about the evidence.
q ota
and then acquitted the prisoner.
In certain sections of the country they
sevm to be after the doctors with a sharp
stick. In Iowa habitual drunkartis are de-
prived Of their license TO practice and in
Georgia any inebriated physician has 10
pay heavy fine and is debarred from
practice.
The mother of Probate Judge Elwell If
Arenac County, Mich, is gifted with very
practical variety of second sight Her eyes.
which bad shown the weakness of advan lng
age, suddenly became SO strong that she is
enabled to read the finest print without
spectacleS.
An English naturalist has discovered
proofs that the bedhRg was quite common
in the armies of the world at least 100 years
before the Christian era, and that he was
ever sea rover, as the fleets of that day
had their timbers stocked with this bre,d of
nocturnal providers.
Women seem to have it all their own way
in Sinaland parish in Sweden. There is a
woman teacher at the school q pOStmis treSs
lady organss and II lady secretary at tn,
savings bank In addition there is tailor
bookbinder, a shoemaker and butcher
and baker-all women.
There were just thirteen inmates at the
Forrest Home. near Philadelphia, and the
superstitious old actors were a bit uneasy
about it. A new arrival dispelled their
fears. but they had not got over their re-
jcicing when one of them died, and now
they are sure there is a fatality in it
In Shanghai and in many other places in
China the crows build and raise their bruods
in the streets of the city. They are espe
cially abundant in Picking. On account of
the Buddhist reverence for all life, no one
harms them. There Is one variety. which.
from It's having band of white about its
neck, is known as the "Parson crow"
In Snain Erannn Iraland aud s.....