The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-06-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The most turbulent member OF the Topeka
City Council is named LuI.
A resident OF an Ohio town voted a 81
bill in mistake at an election.
a deaf and dumb book agent is the latest
successful novelty in New York.
An entire family of six persons at New
port, Ark, has been jailed for arson.
Three ST Louis letter-carriers have been
dismissed for selling tickets to an excursion.
One million dollars of gold coin weighs
$3.50 pounds ayoirdupois, of silver coin 5o,-
9209 pounds.
A tractof land at Cape May Courthouse,
n. D., Is advertised for public sale to satisfy
debt of 81 cents.
A bee-sting on the temple has entirely
eradlcated the rheumatism OF Josiah East
burn of Fallsington, Pa.
DIR. L. +. Markell and wife, of Mif1in, Ohio,
stricken with typhoid fever, died wit hin hf-
teen minutes of each other.
Patti says she keeps from being seasick on
ocean voyages by lying abed and drinking
ICED champagne and eating peanuts.
Rev. c. II. Gleason. pastor of a church in
S0merS, Conn.,, for thirty years, has sued for
divorce from young second wife.
General Robert Z. Lee when in the United
States Army over fifty years ago prepared
river Improvement charts, which are still in
use in ST. LpuiS.
Henry w. Miller, the oldest merchant in
Worcester, Mass, is dead, aged nearly 81
years. lie kept hardware store for sixty
i've years IN one place.
A pair of chicken twins Matched from
double yOik egg is the latest bridgeport
(C0un) wonder. They are said to be Of the
golden pheasant variety.
A balloon professor" in Illinois, at
tempting the parachute performance, fell in
all 300 feet, turning over three times, and
reached the ground alive.
A discarded sweetheart of a Prussian
tailor appeared with judgment against him
at his wedding and seized all the presents,
also breaking up the banquet
Ia little art museum in a Michigan town
this curious notice, betrayiug the habits Of
the natives, is posted: 'Please do not cut
any OF the pictures out OF the frames"
Rev. Sam Jones says he can cure Jay
Gould's neuralgia, and the recipe is g for
MI. Gould To put Sl2O,000,000 into charity
and wake up in tile morning ready to crow.
The brightest star in the armament was
called the doc star by the Egyptians because
II watches the rising of the Nile and gives
notice by It's appearance Of that important
event.
DiSagreeable moisture of the hands may
be overcome by rubbing them several times
"A day with the following mixture: Tine
ture of bellad0nna, half an ounce; eau de
cOogue, four ounces.
The smallest republic in the world is said
10 be FranceViIle, one of the islands OF the
New HebrideS. The inhabitants consist of
40 Europeans and 500 black Workmen EN-
ployed by Il French company.
Captain Robert Hichb0rn Of Stockton,
Me-, is dead Of blood poisoning caused by
the application Of some new patent corn
salye, remedy ne had used for c0ras, from
which ne was great sufferer.
fe Of, -, lei,
in Chile, and the ariStocrats are lavish in
their expenditure. Many OF the private
residences In Santiago are yerGabe palaces
aud are magniicently furnished.
Neal Dow is living in the house built by
himself in Portland, Me-, in 1922 and in
which lie has resided since his marriage.
The house in which he was born, b uilt by
his father in 1900. is also standing.
One thousand dollars in crisp bills was
found by Ho6oken On. j. boy while on
his way to school. He took the package to
his teacher, who turned the monty over TO
the principal. The owner is unknown.
A girl medical student in an Eastern
college is the proud recipient of two prizes
won from a competition with seventeen
other places One of the prizes was for the
best physical diagnosis OF the diseases of
children.
The immortal Shakespeare is said to have
worn earrings, and Charles | is reputed
to have been the owner Of a magnificent
pair OF pearl earrings, which he bequeathed
TO his daughter the day before he was
executed.
Luck changes The biggest winner at the
Derby this year once distinguished himself
by handing Dolly Tester a blank check to
tll in as she pleased. She cashed it for
s250,000 and then Went off and married Lord
Ay lesbuIy.
AT Douds, Iowa, during the removal of
remains to new cemetery, the horrible dis
eoyery was made that young woman sup
posed to have been dead had been buried
alive. The interment was made twenty
three years ago
Newton Beard, OF New Albany, Ind,
troubled with Jealousy, attempted to frighten
his wife by swallowing powdered chalk,
which he represented TO be arsenic. The
lady poured a dose of Jamaica ginger down
his throat and he revived.
Most persons who use the incandescent
electric light like a new lamp because the
light Is whittier and more brilliant than after
the lamp has been used for two or three
weeks. This is wrong. 1t is this dazzling
white light that harms the eye.
Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes believes that
the body and mind are both affected by the
character of food consumed. AN exclu-
svely pork diet gives a bristly character to
the beard and hair" and too much food
from the sea gives the shine and motions Of
a fish.
The word sulky, as applied to wheeled
conveyance, had its origin in the fact that
when it first appeared the person who saw
it considered that none but a Sulky, selfish
man would ride IN such an affair, which at
forded accommodation to but one indi-
vidual.
Pleasant Mount, Pa, has a stage-driver
who has had the mail route between Homes
dale and Mount Pleasant little more than
eight years, driving thirty-siX miles a day,
2l6 week, lO,90S in a year, during that
time. He has driven more than $4,000 miles
himself
A Brooklyn (Mich.). hen G It lofty ideas
into her head and, flying into an enormous
apple tree. used a woOdpecker'S hole for
nest. She laid it full of eggs, hatched 'em,
and had the brood out on limb trying to
teach them to fly when farmer Swartout
rescued them.
DR.. Baugh read a congratulatory dispatch
from the students of Midland College to the
Evangelical Lutheran General Synod at
Lebanon, Pa, closing with classical quota
ton. When he had put the latter phrase
into English he found that it ran, There
are no flies on Us!
The flag tl0ated by the revenue cutter
Harriet Lane III 1861 is in the possession of
Brooklyn Grand Army men. 1t is the veri-
table standard made memorable by General
John A. DiX'S Deremptory order: IF any
one attempts to haul down the American
flag, shoot him on the spot"
A most unique clock is displayed in the