The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-06-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

a lies MONIES dealer mas maze S0U,uUU on
corn this spring.
gastronomic season.
In British India %, 100000 acres are Guilt
waited by irrigation.
An eleven-year-old Kansas boy has been
granted teachers certificate.
A deficit of 10000 600 francs has been dis
covered in the Peters Pence Fund.
There is not mile of railway in Brown
County, Ind. nor within six miles of it,
Billy Kavanagh, a fisherman of Buffalo,
n. y, has record of seventy lives saved.
The young women at Bryn Mawr, Pa,
have facilities for talking in fifteen Ian
guages.
Nearly $500 immigrants landed at New
York III two days recently. of whom about
$500 were Italians.
Africa is completely encircled by sub.
marine cables, which make up altogether
length OF 1900 miles.
new comedy called "The Last Word"
is pronounced 20 be an unqualified success.
1t is peculiarly woman's play.
In London one woman in every twenty is
a pauper, one in every thirteen is iliterate,
and one In every sixty is gn-drlnker.
Soho, w. VII, has a curious railway STA
ton, Which is built around gigantic elm
tree. with roof shaped like an umbrella.
On Irish railways women are much en-
plOyed as booking clerks, and in Dabi n
tickets are given almost entirely by women.
Cyrus Small, Superintendent of the Bos-
ton Police, has just entered upon the for
teth year of his service in that depart
ment.
A lady in Flint, Mich, covered her flow-
ers with sheets In the morning she discov-
cred that thieves had the sheets ana Jack
Frost the flowers.
A German in New York by the name of
He'll wants his name changed. He says that
his name subjects him to Tidcule, and that
he cannot get married.
A cat at Mason City, Ind, is dead from
the bite Of garter snake, thereby disprov-
Ing the popular impression that that class
OF reptiles Is not venomous.
Major Turner Goldsmith of Atlanta, Ca,
enjoys the distinction of having lived under
twenty-one Presidents. He is SO years old.
and has host of descendants.
Well-paved, wel-maintained and WELL
cleaned streets are TO our cities what we'll
hoOTed, well-repared and well-sWept hall
ways are to our buildings and 10 our houses.
When woman goes away to make
three weeks visit the probabilities are that
she will stay six. A man will start out TO
stay six, and be back at the end OF week.
A badly spelled love letter from woman
was found in the pocket of New York sui
eide. He is not the first man who took his
life while under the influence of bad spell
The estimated value of the late p. T.
Barnum's estate Is announced as follows:
Personal property, 81, 1885, 99; real estate,
S2,993, 933. making grand total OF S4,-
279, 1872.
There is but little demand for yachts in
England Just now, and an upprecedentedly
large number are in the market. A boat
which cost $500 to build was sold lately for
only 9640.
two things needed 10 these days: First, for
rich men to fud out how poor men live;
and second, tor poor men to know how rich
men work.
A fad of the moment among some young
women is to chew flower, or, to put 1t
more elegantly, to wear one between the
lips. This, 1t may be added, is purely
house fashion,.
A Parsons (Kans.) man claims to have in
vented muSlc-turner which, being attached
to piano, is operated by the same move
ment which touches the key, and it turns
the leaves with nicely and precision.
A woman was killed in runaway acct
dent at Watervile Me-, in life had red hair,
but when her body was taken I'D 1t was
found that her hair had turned to very
dark brown. probably through fright.
The standing army Of the United States
consists of 2i67 commissioned officers and a
little over 10000 private soldiers, exclusive
OF those performing civilian duties; thus
one-tenth OF the force consists Of its officers.
The tea-box makers of FoochOw, China,
are complaining bitterly of the great reduc-
ton in orders Tor boxes for the coming sea-
son. and numbers of men of that trade fear
they will see the season over without max
ing cent.
The first American woman who ever en-
tered Chinese city was Mrs. Oscar, who
has lately died. She circumnayigsted tine
,l.~IN. ii h.nr -a.a,,,g a IL
sixty years ago, and it was then that she
visited China.
Que young young woman constituted the
graduating class at New Jersey semi
nary few days ago. All the ceremonies OF
graduation were gone through with, how
ever A clergyman delivered telling ad-
dress to the class.
A man in Louisville, KY, had a piece of
his chin bitten off in a tight and went to
police station to swear out a warrant against
tie bitter. He brought the piece along with
him As evidence. LII it fits the hole in the
chin lie has good case.
Among those who saw Robiuson's circus
parade at Knoxville, was Susan Anthony
(col0red). of Hawkins County, aged % years
She had never seen an elephant and caught
a glimpse of QUE just as it gave a loud snort.
This scared the girl into FITS, which killed
her.
A suspected joint in a sewer or drain pipe
may be tested by wrapping it with single
layer Of white muslin mostened with il
solution OF acetate OF lead. AS the gas
escapes through the meshes of the cloth,
1t VII! be Dlackened by The sulphur Cum
pounds.
During sponge baths Of water of quite
low temperature children should stand in
hCt water up to their ankles. These baths
should also be administered quickly, and
followed by a brisk rubbing with coarse
towel after which pYarciSp Should bn an
Outraged.
A doctor Of repute says the demi-tran is
an emphatic success as Il collector aud dis
seminator of disease. After short stroll
the SKIRT is filled with deadly germs, and he
recommends persons 10 shake such robes
carefully each time after wearing them, and
to shake in the open air.
For a long time past the sportsmen of San
Antonio, Tex, have been trying to secure
the conviction Of dog thieves. They Eeld
that man who steals a 500 dog is al cul-
pab!e as one Who steals $50 pony Harry
Hardy, a negro, has been given two years
in the penltentiary for the theft of pointer
dog.
Alexander Bales. who disappeared from
Knoxville, Tenn, thirty-three years ago,
and who was supposed to be dead, has re-
turned with S250,000. He served through
the war and then went to Kansas, where he
engaged in cattle-rasing. He was Tilted by
his sweetheart, who has been dead for
many years.
A Rhode Islander, wanting to destroy
caterUiilars that infested tree, whose
branches overhung his dwelling. decided
on the fire method, using large oil torch.
He succeeded beyond expectation, burning
out every nest and portion of his home in
addition, the sparks dropping from the
limbs on TO the roof and igniting IL.
The thread of the sik-worm is so small
that an average of forty-two of them are
twisted together to form a thread of common
sewing SILK; tnat OF the spider Is many d.
by weight would, if stretched in straight
line, reach from London, England, to Edin-
burgh, Scotland, distance of over 400
miles.