The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-08-03
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| is on the increase in London.
Kansas has been boycotted by tramps this
| season. Work is so plenty that 1t is notsafe
| for loafer to strike the State.
Rev. DIR. Walker of Bodenhammer. Tenn.
has preached the gospel and practiced medi-
cine fifty years. His age is 81
The New York police are gathering in
scores Of juvenile tramps who utilize the
City Hall park for lodging purposes.
Two English children, aged A and re-
spectiyely, have made the trip from Bristol,
Engiand, to Cleveland, Ohio, unattended.
| London has two cast-iron tunnels for an
| electric railway which are three miles long
! and between forty and sixty feet below the
| surface.
Hannibal Hamlin's grandfather had
seventeen sons, the eldest OF whom were
| named respectively Europe, ASIA, Africa
and America.
A Brooklyn dog-catcher has been given
| twenty days to moralize behind the bars
| over his folly i'll purloiniDg pet canine Of
| wealthy citizen.
The old "unlucky" superstition finds a
| firm adherent in Pittsburg railroad man,
| who asserts that travel is lighter Oh Friday
| than oil other days.
Georgia has produced this season the
| largest crop of watermel0nS ever raised in
| that State. South Carolina is also coming
| in with heavy crop.
An Alabama girl began laughing at some
IuIliS luHuy Uub cOuIu HUL sup, anu uudily
| died from exhaustion. A doctor called in
| was unable to save her.
Antonio MenendeZ is the name of full
| blooded Mobile (Ala.) Chinaman, who is
| quite wealthy, and has placed his daughter
| in a New Orleans school.
Empress Frederick is fascinated by the
| genius OF ID. Rider Haggard, and by way
of returning the compliment he has dedi-
| Gated his last book to her.
The Grecian mother, before putting her
child in It's cradle, turns three times around
| before The fire, while singing her fayorite
song, TO ward off evil spirits.
To dance or not 10 dance on Sunday is the
| rock upon which opposing religious societies
| OF Montreal have split, and intense excite
| ment exists in the community.
The smallest ''moonshine" distillery on
| record, with capacity of only three gal
| Ions, has been captured AT Atlanta. Ga, and
| sent TO Washington as a curiosity.
a fireman at Myerstown, Pa, wore cell
| luloid collar to fire, when it became ignited
| from too great exposure to the heat and
burned his neck and discolored his face.
Roumanian mothers tie red ribbons
| around the ankles Of their children to keep
| them from harm, while Esthonan mothers
| attach bits OF aSaf9tda to the necks oil their
| offspring.
Granny " Sarah Davis (colored) who
| died recently at indianapolis, was known
| 10 be 115 years old, and her age was placed
| by some at 1873. The family records extend
| back 1G5 years.
A pygnTy recently taken to England from
| equatorial Africa, and now on exhibition in
| Liverpool, Is of the female sex. only SO
| inches in height and appears TO be approach
| ing middle age
a chimney 17j feet high at an Iowa peni-
| Tertiary Is the exclusive work of convict.
| number vi electric lights will be placed
OH its summit. which will be visible for
| many miles around.
| The great seal of the United States is
| affixed 10 nothing but treaties, pruclama-
tons, commissions. pardons and passports.
! The Government has had but two seals in
| the 1UO years since its foundation.
Boston sends millions to Africa annually
| Tor spIrltqallzing the heather, and at the
! same time imports immense quantities Of
| Medford rum tc quench the thirst Of the
natives CONSISTENCY, thou art jewel"
| Perhaps the only instance on record where
snake bite resulted fatally month after it
| was inflicted has occurred at Springfield,
| ONO. The victim was a boy and the poison
| III his veins wasted him to veritable skele-
| ton.
Addressing a camp meeting at Decatur,
| ILL.,, Bishop Turner said that any Iaan who
| thought he was near to the close of his life
| AT 90 or 70 ought to be ashamed of himself,
and that those who Obeyed natures laws
| ought to live to the age of 100 years.
A citizen Of Chestnut Ridge, Pa, owns
| tame crow that is remarkably intelligent
| Last summer he split the birds tongue and
| taught him to talk. The crow delights in
calling The cows, and will laugh immOder-
| ately when he succeeds in fooling the dog
| and eat.
| AT Wilmington. Del, recently, bride
| groom of 40, bride of Ii, and her iraIe
mother we're the principals in horse
| whipping match, in which the newly made
benedick came out second best. The priest
| who TIED the knot Is threatened with prose-
| cution.
Durham. Pa, is terrorized by a gang of
| despeTadoes who make life miserable for
| the Inhabitants by committing the most
| Nanton acts of violence. The residents fear
to have the members of the crowd arrested
Tor fear that they will be made the object of
| the gangs wrath.
During the recent hot term in Berlin
| thirty persons committed suicide in one
| week. In most cases the cause was the heat
| A club OF progreSSlsts concluded a discus
| sion on the circumstance by drawing up a
| petition to the Emperor praying him to have
| an inquiry made.
Alexander Grourly, veteran Of the war
| of 1872, is dead at Leayenworth, Kans.,
| aged 49, He also served in the Mexican
war with distinction, took part in many
| Indian wars and went through the war of
| the rebellion without scratch, enlisting
| therein at the age of IS.
| A citizen of Oconee, Ga, who had chewed
| tobacco for forty-fve years, a few weeks
| ago got auid that tasted very strongly of
| sulphur, and he threw it away after chew
! ing il awhile. He rinsed his mouth, but the
| taste Of sulphur remained, and he has had
no desire for tobacco since.
The members OF a Maine family have been
| badly scalded In strange way. They were
sitting about the dinner table when 49,
| pound rock from blast III a nearby ledge
crashed through the roof, and, falling
! plump into the soup turseu, splashed the
| hot liquid over all the diners.
! A girl Of Il years mas died at Dusseldorf,
! Germany, from excessive joy. She had
| been promised one of the most delightful
her with such overpowering joy as TO pro-
| duce strain upon the hearts action and
she fell to the floor and died
| To cure fel0n, make a thimble of
| leather and fill 1T with composition made
| as follows: Stir air-slacked lime into COM
mon soft soap until it is the consistency of
| glaZitr's putty. Insert the finger therein
| and change the contents of the thimble once
| in twenty minutes and a cure is certain.
A peddler alrested in Shenandoah, Pa,
for not having license said that he had no
| faith in banks, therefore carried all his
money in his clothes. His pockets were
searched before he was sent to a cell and
| exactly S46i6 40 in cash found in them. He
halls from hear Shenandoah, but travels all
| over the country selling his wares.
Qulle an INDUSTRY mas Deen worked up In
/ Philadelphia by man who collects all the
stale bread left on the bakers hands after
the poor people have purchased the two-day-
old stock al a reduced price. This hereto
fore unstable stock is now dried in ovens
and ground into crumbs for which ready
| market is found in hotels and re staurants.
a desperate named Busch, who was SEN
fenced to be beheaded for murder in Bus
troye, Germany. made iespera tie attempt
to gain his liberty. He knocked down the
| priest who visited him in his cell, dressed
himself IN the priests garb and ran out.
After long chase he was caught, but he
fought his executioDers like Wild beast be-
fore s'head dropped.
a house at Richmond. Ind, appears to be
surcharged with electricity. The BRASS
headed tacks in The carpet, the stove anu
the poker are heavily charged, and il one
shuffies his feet across the carpet and then
touches the stove it is at the risk of being
knocked down. tits even possible to light
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