The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-06-21
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Three-cent cable-car fares are success In
| Pittsburg
Paris walters want to be permitted to
! shave off their whlskerS.
The average earnings of a London 0mni-
| bus per mile are Is cents.
A doctor says that stammering is almost
unknown among savageS.
The custom Of tipping" is said to be de-
| cliniDg on English railroads.
Twelve per cent of the London water sup
| ply Is drawn from arteSlan wells.
A copy of the first edition of Robinson
Crusoe" was recently sold for S275.
One-ffth of members of the House of
Commons belong to the legal profession.
An OculiSt says that scarcely one in
twenty of watchmakers suffers from weak
eyes.
On the west coast of Africa young wife
can, IL is said, Dc bought for $4,000 COW.
ries"-Sl2
C. w. Spencer of Oxford Valley, Pa, has
only two legs could beat it in walking
match.
Costly cherries were those stolen by an
Annapolis (Md.) youth who devoured seven
of them. He was fined 81 20, or 81 10
apiece.
The largest passenger engine in the coun-
try, weighing $4,000 pounds, pulls Royal
Due LINE eApICoS UtlNbcu
| Baltimore.
Put old rubber rings into weak ammonia
water and they will recover their elasticity.
This IS quite an item when much fruit can
ming Is done,
MuSkegon (Mich.) women are now begin
ming TO tether their babies with 1OO-f0ot
ropes, to keep them from under the deadly
electric cars.
There is a great scrrclty of household help
Mt A .
girls can find employment in comfortable
homes at good wages.
A dog that died in Derby, Conn, estab-
lished a reputation as 4 liie-SayeT, and also
for beer-dlinking, and seldom of late years
was 1t sober, it Is said.
The lobster is SAID to be greatly in dread
of thunder, and when the peals are very
LOUD numbers of them drop their claws aud
swim away for deeper water.
A woman applied to diSpensary to know
what was good Tor the ''Old man, who had a
bad attack of dictionary" Inquiry devel-
Oped il was case OF dysentery.
The latest fad among Eastern society peo-
pie is 10 be domestic. Young matronS of
high social position can be seen daily push
ing their baDy-coaches through the streets.
In a recent French lawsuit wife testified
that not only had she changed her own
name 10 elude the pursuit OF cruel nus
band. but had even changed the name of
her pet dog.
William j. Haines, who has Just been
mustered in by the Frank p. Blair Post, q.
A. r., Of st. LOUIS, is 1913 years old anu
veteran of three wars. He Is said to be the
oldest Union solder in the country.
Four old maids Of 0'Fallen, Mo-, couldn't
agree on the color OF their joint home, so
they drew lots for four portions of the house
AMI each painted a portion to suit herself.
RainbOws were not III it with the result.
The bridal veil originated in the custom OF
performing the nuDtial ceremOney under a
square piece of cloth, held over the bride
and groom to cOncehl the bushes of the lat
ter. At the marriage of widow it was dis
pensed with.
Evidently there is no need yet awhile of
worrying over the likelihood of the United
States becoming 0vercrowded. A statisti-
clan figures out that the population of the
entire country could be placed III space
nine miles square.