The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-12-05
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husband Seventy-five years after the mar
rlage ceremony was performed.
good iniment for inflammation. rheu-
matiSm, swellings, ETC.. is olive oil we'll
saturated with camphor
A young man serving on jury at Ida
Grove, Iowa, was granted leave of absence
long enough TO get married.
hundreds OF fish are still alive in the
royal aquarium in ST. Petersburg that were
placed there more than $50 years ago.
The sea nOstoffice system recently estab-
llshed on ocean steamers in Europe saves
five hours in the time of delivery of mail
Coal mining requires an average sacrifice
of two lives per day OF each $50 men
working IN the mines one must lose his life
within one year.
Levi says of the natives of Brazil that
they are subject to fewer diseases than the
Europeans, and reach an age of from 100 TO
120, or even $40 years.
FreemaSonry has lost its Oldest adherent
in the death of Hon. Samuel Creelman of
Halifax. Ms, aged 102 He was also the
Oldest resident of the province.
Ohio's State Treasurer has received a
S10O0-blll from some unknown conscience
stricken individual A small piece of paper
accompanying it bore the words Conscience
money"
The census Office has issued bulletin
giving the population of Ohio in 1890 as
1872 316, against 5, 19S, 062 in $780, OF the
creases.
All the criminal returns published of late
have happily tended to show that crime is
decreasing, says the London Telegraph. The
judicial statistics for the past year bear the
same testimony.
A Vermont farmer picks the apple-seeds
from his cider-presses and sells them for
use in the manufacture of prussic acid He
gets about one bushel of seeds from 40
bushels of apples.
A young barber in Camden, Y. j.. has
just completed, after nearly two years
work, remarkably fine either. It has
wonderfully sweet tone. and experts say il
Is worth at least $3.50.
Calico printing originated in India. 1t
was imported into Holland by the Dutch
East India Company and spread into Ger
many. It found its way into England in
the seventeenth century.
A st. Charles (Mo) landlord, unable o
make non-paying tenant leave, took the
doors and windows away. The man says
he likes ventilation, and is still master of
what remains of the dwelling.
Danbury, Conn, has woman who has
eaten soap as a regular diet since her in
fancy. An habitual persistence in this
queer regimen has Injured her stomach so
that her recovery is impossible.
The Superintendent of Schools in East
Feliciana Parish. La. has recommended
that carrying pistols to school should be
pOoillfciN 1OI Dluutll, anu ally IeaCler know
ingly permitting it should be dismissed"
Two men of equal means will patronize
the same tailor and furnisheT, the same hat
ter and shoemaker, and yet the results will
be as utterly different as though the TWO
were born IN remote continents and a CEN
tury apart.
Physicians are not likely to consider with
any seriousness the experiments made in
Shelbyyllle, Ind, to cure consumption by
feeding the patients with dogs meat They
VIII regard it as simply the application OF
the essence of bark.
To clean gold jewelry. make Iather of
plain yellow soap and tepid water, anu
wash the ornaments in it; dry them thor
oughly, and afterward brush them with ii
little dry whiting, finally polishing them
with very soft leather.
The latest royal parsonage to seek literary
honor is the King of Siam. Some time aga
he made tour of the Malay peninsula
Now it Is announced that he Is lust fin!sh-
ing book about his journey, and that it
Will be profusely illustrated by the author
Twenty-one specimens of fossil shells
have been found in the vicinity of Boston
Some Of these fossils were found in the
Muddy River, on the border of Brookline;
the Charles River, nsar the Black Bay.
Some OF the oyster shells are ten inches
long.
Silk tights have been formally declared
by the Board of General Appraisers of New
York to be the tools of trade" of an ac-
tress. Young persons who go upon the
stage to elevate it will take due notice that
feshings are among the necessary appii-
ances.
One OF the largest poultry farms in the
vicinity OF New York City is managed by
two young women, who, only three years
ago, were pupils in DR.. Vests Seminary for
young women, on the heights in Brooklyn.
The farm is located near Baldwin'S, Long
Island.
One of the missionaries of the Seamen's
Mission in England has during the year
visited 5000 vessels and read the Scriptures
in English, Danish and Norwegian He
has distributed 1900 New Testanents and
700 gospels to English and foreign seamen
and emgrants.
A North Carolinian of a timid nature tried
to run away from his wife, whose sharp
tongus keep the poor fellow, as he ex-
pressed il, ION tenter hooks" but he lost
his way in the woods, got badly frightened,
and returned as soon as he could get his bear
ings TO captivity.
A Cheyenne blood is nursing thirteen
knife wounds as a result OF his active par
ticipation in recent swell social event IL
the thriving wyoming metropolis. The
social season of lS9l-92 may be said to have
opened with bright promise of many good
things in store for the Cheyenne 400
Outside passengers by one of the London
road car services were recently aStOniShed
to find fixed to their seats funnel contain
ing an umbrella which might be used with
out extra charge on wet days. The only
condition attached to its employment wa,
the modest request that it should be re-
placed.
S. r. Dennan, DID, in the New England
Magazine, says that every young mau 10
have homo must have a wife. He can
never substitute boarding place. i club OF
a hotel for a home. This is to go through
life hanging upon the skirts of life, leading
loyiess, selfish, unnatural and unpatrIotic
existence.
1t is not at all certain that the white race
has prior claim even upon the invention OF
the cigar. In all parts of New Guihea, the
largest island in the world, that have yet
been visited, tobacco is cultivated, and in
some OF these districts the humble pipe con
tributes nothing TO the enjoyment OF the
weed, and is not even known.
A. Major of New York, the wealthy pro-
prietor of well-known concentrating iu-
dustry, obtained the recipe for it in a trade
lew years ago, when both he and the
other man were almost penniless. He had
just pawned his valise 10 buy dinner, and
gave away the pawn-tieket Tor ths formula,
out of which he soon made fortune.
just what young woman can do when
she sets her mind to it is shown by the
achievement of gOod-iooking widow near
Oshkosh. Wis. Her first husbands name
was Mayd, and when she married again /,
was observed with some reasonable sur
prise that she had become Mrs. Wyffe. Ha.
ing been maid and wife she is now widow.
The roster of circus travelling through
South America has "a performers. II milsi-
clans, 6 bill-posters, IL canvasmeu, chan
delier-men. property men and 8 hostlers.
They have % horses and ponies and troup.
OF performing stations, dogs aud monkeys.
Among the performers are more skirt
dancers and fancy dancers than tumblers.
leapers and bareback riders together. ndi-
eating the decided change in the attractions
offered as compared with an old-t;me circus.