The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-08-18
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


London employs 500, goo factory hands.
Inc Alps stand in six different States.
clad.
Pepper cost els an ounce in Henry Wis
reign.
The big Worlds Fair building will be a
mile around.
:, Of the twelve largest cities in the world
three are III Japan.
The weather in Kansas during July! was
the coolest In twenty years.
?, EDISON was recently referred to by an
Eastern Journal as the lizard of Lewellyn
Park"
=, A society has been formed in Berlin for
the breeding of rabbits to serve as an article
Of food.
Iowa has no statute providing for the pre-
Venton OF prlZe-fghtS or Furnishing the par
Elephants.
The population of Paris is stated to be
:, 0,945. or 162,024 less than it was five
years ago.
A Memphis man while asleep was stung
on the Eeck by spider and died two DAYS
afterward.
A cowboy, woman and two children
nave been fatally gored by Texas cattle near
the Neosho River.
:, A: I; Horn, who participated in laying
the hrst transatlantic cable, is dead in a Ne
DraSka pO0r-house.
Inc french make paper umbrellas, rem
uered wholly waterproof by gelatined BIZ
chromite of potassium.
AT Brooklyn recently Bible was stolen
Dy some mean thief. 1t contained the fam
lily records for 100 years.
1t is said that nearly every town in Kan
sas mas park, and nearly every park has
preaching Sunday evening.
There are 2700 telephones in Christiania,
norway, ana the average number of mes
sages per weekday is $4,000.
Whole farms along the Yallobusha River,
MISS, are completely inundated and the
corn ana cotton crop ruined.
Philadelphia recently received a shipment
OF $4,000 watermelons in one day. They
SOLD Tor SIS per hundred wholesale.
\ chicago letter-carrier stupidity drunk at
o CLOCK In the morning was one of the re-
cent sights on the streets of that city.
The male locusts have the power of emit
ting loud chirping sounds, the means of
erecting which varies in different families
Ihe largest life insurance policy in the
world IS said to be that upon the life of Wis
count Dudley, who is insured for e, 200, 600
When casual acquaintance makes con-
huenceS to you which you do not want, you
may suspect that his motive is to invite your
own.
1t is quite a fixed belief among the Rus
ciou pShoubliN ludl lUIUNllII lI6 uSUu DOW
OF drunkard into the river is sure to bring
rain,
brazilian capitalists have secured the
services of several experts from Pittsburg,
who will bore wells i'll the hope Of obtaining
oil or g.s.
capitalists are about 10 invest S1,000,000 in
piping water from Il Wisconsin spring to be
sold IN that city.
1nere are $50 blue-rib bon societies in
Sweden, with an aggregate mem ership of
10000. The Good Templars numbered As
I36 on February 1st.
Texas has Fat Mans Association. the
Initiation fee of which is a cent pound.
Men who weigh less than 225 pounds are in
eligible to membership.
The Russian Hebrew must serve in the
army, but can never be more than q private
lie must pay taxes, but can never be a
Mayor or elder" of MS town.
The water with which Alexandria Vic
toria Alberta Edwina Louise Lady Fife was
ehristened was brought from the River Jor-
dan by Prince George OF Wales.
On at least one great English railway the
luncheon baskets which travellers take up al
one station and leave when emptied at an.
other are provided with very seryiceabIe
table napkins made of starched tissue paper.
A good remedy for the accidental shootngs
resulting from the carelessness of the didn't
know-it-was- loaded idiot, would be to turn
the bereaved survivors loose on his trail
with liberal supply of firearms of the
dead-sure-it-is-loaded kind.
A crowd of young men hanging around
the doors OF Northport d. H. church dur
Ing Sunday evening services and smoking
cigarettes have become such nuisance that
the trustees threaten to cause the arrest
any one repeating the offense.
a Lelpslc scientist has demonstrated by
facts ana hgures what most people have al
ways beileved that colds are oftener caught
by those who wrap themselves I'D and avoid
the severity of the weather than by those
who dare to brave the elements.
by means OF powerful jet Of compressed
air German military engineer officer drives
dry cement down into the sand or mud at
the bottom oil stream, so that the water
Immediately ilxes the cement and it becomes
like soiid rock, suitable for foundations
On Cabinet days the President of the
United States sits at q desk which has an
interesting history. 1t is made of the tim
berS oil the bark Res olute, which went to
the rescue of Sir John Franklin, and was
presented to the United States by Queen
Victoria.
For tender feet take two quartz of cold
water and add one tablespoonful of bay rum
and two tablespoonful OF ammonia. The
feet should be soaked in this for ten minutes
throwing the water upward to the knees.
Ruo dry with crash towel and the tired
Ittlllip Will Dt gone.
Fifteen tailors, inhamed by LIQUOR and in
dulglng in free fight, was one of the at
fractions not down on the programme at a
recent Philadelphia picnic. At the trial of
the offenders the services of seven inter-
prefers were required to render good En-
gllsh out OF the Babel Of languages.
Some OF the monstrous cranes used in the
Baldwin Locomotive Works at Philadel-
phla lit big locomotive rs easily as q
mother does baby. Each of them saves
the labor OF $50 men, and does away with
the necessity of having complicated sys-
tenn OF tracks for shifting locomotives.
Mrs. Lena Kraus of Far Rockaway is now
undergoing treatment at Bellevue Hospital,
New York. She has experienced all the
tortures of slow but gradual petrifcatiop,
This strange malady has progressed until
the victim Is now almost living statue the
flesh having become as hard as stone to the
touch.
Dayton. Ohio, recently had wonderful
series OF fatalities in one day. Edward
Ralley died of dropsy, an express train
killed an unknown woman, stable burned
in which two little boys-Ausu,t Young
and Frank Enzel persisted, and John
Boner was fatally stabbed in a saloon
brawl.
Father M0llinger of Troy Hill, Pa, whose
alleged cures have attracted so much atten-
tion, is Hooded with letters of inquiry from
every part Of the world. They number 1000
a month. He answers about half of them
and throws the rest away. He anticipates
10000 pilgrims during the feast of ST. An
thODy next year.