The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-05-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

st Augustine, ria, mas Inree-eyed
alligator.
About 200 London couples are said to
elope every year.
The Turkish Sultan's culinary delicacieS
cost 100000 year.
1t is stated that more than 600O dogs were
killed in Kansas last year.
a Cincinnati firm manufactures all of
Uncle Sans drums for the army.
Broken Bow, Nebraska town of 1000 In
haDitants, imposes $4,000 annual license
on saloons.
There is a Postoffice in Georgia where the
receipts are So 30 month. 1t is an Office
that seeks the man.
a blind barber at Camden, n j., is the
most expert at his trade OF any OF his fellow
workers in the city.
A green cotton umbrella has been the
constant companion Of a Boonville (kanS.l
man for sixteen years.
In Norway there is a Law forbidding the
marriage OF any girl until she can prove her
ability 10 bake, spin and knit
LOra Adair, young girl of Cheyenne,
Wyo.. engaged to an elderly man, commit
ted suicide because he Tilted her.
Only 100000 of New York States voters
cast their ballots at the last election. The
registry contained over 100000 names.
a drummer kissed a pretty chambermaid
at KrOkuk, Iowa, against her will, and paid
her S25 for agreeing not to prosecute him.
A girl at Springfield, ILL.,. who was Tilted
by her lover, gained access TO his room
and destroyed his clothes with sulphurie
acid.
Since March 23d, when Hugh C. Miller
was arrested, charged with arson, there
have been no incendiary fires in Brooklyn,
NY.
The will Of a New York woman has been
set as 'eause she had formerly been adj
judge matte and had not been Tehabili-
tatea
William Shakespeare, New York thief,
has been tried, convicted and imprisoned in
less than twenty-four hours after he COM
mitted the larceny.
The latest victim of the deadly gasoline
is Miss Jennie Tucker, a bright Chicago
schoolgirl. In cleaning curtains with the
fluid the can exploded and she was burned
to crisp.
1t is said that there are fully 1000 able
bodled cOl0Ted men in Washington who live
in luxurious ideneSS off the earnings OF
their mothers, wives and daughters, W no
are laundresses.
Two Maine girls who had been per-
sistently annoyed on the street by the. I'M
welcome attention of a pair of eXqusites,
drew TevolyerS on them. The girls Will
walk unmolested hereafter.
Mrs. Mehitabel Dayton, COnnectieueS old
est resident, has passed her 104th birthday,
She was married 10 1906 ana went to Hart
ford on her wedding tour She distinctly
remembers the day of General Washingtoa's
funeral.
The largest block of stone ever quarried
now lies on the ground at tire Ninalhayen
granite quarries of Maine. 1t is a solid
shaft, without a crack or flaw, 115 feet long
and 10 feet square at the base. 1t Is de-
signed for a monument
The Paris street extending from Neuilly
to 81. Denis is lined with tumbIedown tene-
men;s that are said to shelter more vice and
iniquity than can be found in any other spot
in the world. The houses throug with
criminals. The street is KNOW as tue
Route de la Rey0lte."
The case of the man who killed his par
ents and asked the court not to be too hard
on poor orphan has been matched in ST.
Paul, Mimi, where an old lady borrowed
money in the name OF her Son-ln-law and
then sued him for hurting her feelings by
refusing 10 honor her prOmiSSory notes.
John T. Cotton was born on the banks of
Indian Creek, in Switzerland County, In
diana, in 1903, and he Is still living on a
farm within three miles Of his birthplace.
He has voted in the same township ever
since he was a voter, and is claimed TO be
the oldest natiye-b0rn resident OF the State.
Wild fowl have an aversion to passing
under the Mississippi River bridge at ST.
Louis. A wounded goose hoated down the
stream the other day until il came to the
bridge, but would go no farther. 1t stemmed
the tide until completely exhausted aud then
swan to the shore permitting boy to cap
ture il.
Colonel Gritzenko of POttawa, Russia, is
lis years old. He entered the military Serv-
ice in 1889, and received from the hands OF
the Empress Catherine. after the taking OF
Ismal, where he was serving under Sou
war0tf, the military gold medal. This bears
the inscription, For exceptional bravery ut
the assault of Ismail, December IL, 1883"