The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-11-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

An average OF four persons die daily in
England from delrum tremens.
ChestertOn, Ind, reports woman who
pail poll-taX for six years before discover
ing it was an Illegal collection.
The employees in the Elgin watch factory
are being organized. There are 5000 opera
tiyes, two-thirds of whom are women.
Great Britain and Ireland last year drank
567, 100000 gallons of beer, Il. GOO, 600 gallons
more tnan were consumed in Germany.
The largest bell In the world is the great
bell at Moscow, Its circumference at tn G
bottom is nearly 6S feet aud its height more
than q feet. The thickes. part is % inches
thick, 1t weighs 1882 pounds and has
never been hung.
A preacher was turned out OF church in
Wesimoreland County, Pa, the other day for
driu king cider before IL was ripe, and a man
has been murdered in Mich gan on account
OF glass OF that beverage. TINS seems to
b. hard cider year.
A second Charley Ross case Is reported
at Mulberry Grove, H., where young son
OF clergyman Is supposed to have been
stolen August Is, 1890, ami is still missing,
though his father has been all through the
South in vain search.
Jonathan Rosenberger's pet I3-pound cat
disappeared from It's Quakertown Pa.) home
TWO years ago. Recently the family moved
TO new home, when the cat returned,
hunted them up. and began displaying some
OF his old funny tricks.
Austria Is the home OF a conglomeratinn
OF separate races and natiOnalitics. Its
1900. GOO Inhabitants speak the following
languages, besides various idioms German,
Czech, Polish, Ruthenan, Slovenian, Ital-
ian, Croatian and Hungarian.
One of the popular superstitions of the
negro OF antebellum days was that If a
bOneysuckle had forced its way through the
chlnks OF the ca bin and was growing side,
as 1t often did, 1t WAS sure indication that
they had not led upright lives.
Canary birds are good deal troubled nv
mosquitoes. The toes of the bird are amply
provided with small veins, and as the mem
brane between the toes is extremely thin an
observant mosquito may see his fayorite
fuid circulating in plain sight.
The records say that there we're in all
10 ~ regulars aud l6i,0S0 volunteers, or
294, 79l soldiers in the aggregate on the
American side in the war for independence.
The figures as to the, number OF sailors in
that struggle vary within wide range.
The working classes of Italy are yery
poorly fed. The consumption of meat ia
very scant except upon feast days, and but
little wine Is drunk. Living is exclusively
confined to cereals wheat, maize, rice). with
vegetables and other green herbs, cooked
with bacon.
very superior quality of brick is manu-
featured from the waste sand employed at
the factories in grinding and polishing
glass, which necessarily accumnlates in
large quantities. The bricks thus produced
have specific gravity Of only is and are
perfectly white.
Here is highly credtable transatlantic
honor conferred on a Charleston &. CO
medical man. Dr. Alard Memminger OF
that city has just been awarded a gold
medal aud diploma by the Partisan A ademy
Of France for recent discovery of great
merit. He has also been elected CORES pond-
Ing honorary memb of the society.