The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-04-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

An intrepid woman of Orange, n. j., re-
Gently sent bullet through the brain of
mad dog.
Indian elephants cannot live in Genital
Africa, the home OF a larger and more
hardy species.
Mayor Grant of New York is a much
better-looking man than his pictures make
him out to be.
queen Victoria has progressed so rapidly
in the study of Hindcstanee that she now
writes it with ease.
William Church of Hamptonburg,, N. Y.
died recently in the room in which he was
married, tifty-fve years ago.
Judge Henry of Newark, n. Lin dress
makers suit for pay, remarked: shall
have to leave the decision of this case to my
wife"
Mrs. John B. Thomas of Cleveland
smokes fifteen cigars day. At least her
husband says so in his application for
divorce.
Mr.. J. Nail and Mrs. Hickman of Queen
City, Tex, were married few days ago.
The groom is so aud the bride 81 Both are
pert and lively.
Several of the occupants of front seats in
the st. Petersburg theaters have been in
jured by opera glasses falling upon their
heads from the boxes.
One Henry c. Berg, who has been posing
at indianapolis as Franciscan monk and
was baptized in the Christian Church, has
been proven stupendous fraud.
Mrs. Bridget KinSela died in Westbury,
n. Y, last week, aged 80. She leaves three
sons, three daughters, thirty-eght grand
children and thirteen great grandchildren.
a Wisconsin lady, the wife of secretary
in the Brazilian War Department, has the
somewhat solitary distinction of being the
only newspaper woman in South America.
Miss McKinstry Mills. an aged wealthy
spinster Of Westminster, Md, died two
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will the document was found pasted on the
fly leaf of her Bible.
E. p. Vasard of Paris is in Chicago ar
ranging with company for bringing the
| great GODDARD captive balloon. to remain
| during the Worlds Fair. 1t is to be allowed
| to rise to height of 1892 feet.
The Hotel Argyle at Babylon, n Y, has
been sold for S125,000. 1t cost S250,000 to
build and furnish, and was originally sold
| TO an English syndicate. 1t is now bought
back by Americans Tor the price named.
Many of the guards on the New York ell
evated roads are sufferers by the grip. I'VE
often get wet" says one of them. 1--WE are
out all kinds of weather, we are liable to
| chils. we are exposed to draughts. au0 we
| can't wear overcoats and muffiers like other
| folks. l wonder that all of us have not
been laid up or laid out during the past
| month"
Several railway spoilers, who presumably
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| train bands, have been ordered out of the
| State, under penalty of lynching if they re-
| turn. The spoilers are said to be Chicago
| toughs, against whom great indignation
| prevails throughout the entire community.
| One of them was severely whipped by the
| railroad men.
a curious phenomenon has been reported
| from the village of Kirnujarwi, near Paja,
| Lapland. During the winter the earth be-
came spontaneously heated in many places
| to such a degree that the snow and ice
melted at those places, and it was impossible
| to touch those spots without burning ones
| hand. The cause of this phenomenon is not
| yet explained
John Ray, an old resident of Croton
| Landing. n. Y, says that he once purchased
| goose that was 90 years old for 70 cents.
| He kept her for three years. Each year the
| goose laid over fifty eggs, and the first year
raised eleven goslings, the second year
| twenty-five and the third year forty. He
then sold her, and says to the best Of his
| knowledge and belief the goose is still alive,
| making her So years old.
A modern Fagin has been unearthed at
| Buffalo, n. Y. he has nine children. all of
| whom of suitable age he and his wife had
| trained in pocket-picking. Seventy-one
| pocket-books were found in his house. The
| exposure grew out of the arrest OF two of his
| girls, who were detected in picking pockets
| at a museum, and who have been sent to a
| reformatory. The worthy couple will prob
ably be retired to Auburn Prison.