The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-12-13
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| A recent invention Is a camera in the form
OF an opera glass.
| kOch's fluid is being used in France to de-
| tect tuberculosis in cows.
| The Pope can speak English. German,
! Italian and French perfectly.
| Christmas is coming, and the hus band who
| can steer clear of the embroidery mesheS 10
| his own household is horn diplomatic.
| The waters of the Grand Falls of Labra-
| dor have excavated u chaSm thirty miles
| long.
| The laxative barber is a thing of bygone
| days. He has been rdiculed out OF exist
| ence.
| The National Barber is the name Of a new
paper started in the Interest OF the art tom
| serial.
Lay piece of charcoal upon a burn,
| leave it there one hour and the burn will be
| healed.
A woman in Paris who bought an old
mattress for trlfe found II, 600 francs in
| gold III it,
| Before the Reformation so per cent of the
| land in the United Kingdom belonged to
| the church.
| Moose are very plentiful in Northern
Maine, as sportsman can legally kill but
/ one IN season.
The money paid in one year for three
| glasses Of beer Il day would pay for the rent
| OF small suite Of rooms Tor year.
Rio Janeiro'S principal street is only
| thirty feet wide, only half q mile long and
no carriages are allowed to enter it.
On the very first symptoms of cold in
| the head, saturate a part of your handker-
| chief with camphor and snuff il vigorously.
Three Sunday school pupils arrested at
| Grand Rapids, Mich, confess that they
| have been implicated in eight recent bur
| glaries in that city.
aIootr;o etroot 49,, ~.
| ark. n. D., the other day was caused by
| autumn leaves that covered the tracks and
made them slippery
The death of Mrs. Gabriel Todd of
| Adrian, Mich. aged 81 took place IL week
after that of her husband. They lived to-
| gether for sixty years.
The application of Harvard to the Cam
bridge Aldermen for permission TO light the
| college yard with electricity has been denied
| Tor some queer reason,
MIR. and Mrs. Charles Stone of Grand Rap
ids. Mich, aged respectively "a and S3years,
| celebrated the sixty fifth anniversary of
| their wedding recently.
Lady Macdonald, widow of the Canadian
| Premier, has drunk no wine since the
| Christmas of 1867, when, IN answer to a
! Joeuisr challenge, she swore off.
a tight shoe may sometimes be made easy
| by laying cloth wet in hot water where it
| plnches, changing several times, The
| Three brothers at Stafford. Conn. have
| fallen heirs to 100000 English estate. A
| trio OF other brothers, whose whereabouts
Is unknown, are also named in the will.
Strive to keep these things clear: Your
| eyes, your complexion, your conscience.
| These things soft: Your hair, your hands,
I your heart. These things clean: our lips,
your name, your mind.
Few men in private, and fewer in public
| lie, lave been more happily welded than
was General Grant. The devotion OF Mrs.
Grant to her husband was constant and the
NANTES station of II intelligent
Miss Catherine Butler is dead in Cbicaoo
| aged 10l years. She died Oh her birthday
| She remembered the Irish rebellion of 1879,
and came from Ireland to America in the
year of the battle Of Waterloo.
A marriage license is for sale cheap in
Hamilton County. Iowa. After the ex-
| peciant bridegroom had procured the docu-
| ment the woman backed out and left the
| man In Sel-out frame of mind.
A disinfectant which combines cheapuess
with general worth is found in permauga-
| nate OF potash. One ounce will make a
bucketfui OF disinfectant. Ii is a crystal,
| and can be kept in this state until ready for
use.
During single year 10000, eco mail pack
| ages passed through the Chicago Postoflice
| in addition 10 27,C00 tons Of mail matter
| transferred from one train TO another The
| inspector IN charge has under his jurisdic-
| ton 10000 postmasterS and their eupIoyps
! When Currier Downing of Ripley. Me.
| left home seventy-five years ago he planted
| an acorn IN the dooryard When he re-
! turned the other day he found that his acorn
| had produced an oak tree nine feet in cir
conference, with branches extending FORTY
| feet.
| The French baker is not only required to
| conform to laws regarding weight. but he is
| also told at what price he must sell his
| bread. He is further required to deposit a
| certain sum of money in the hands of the
| municipal authorities as surety of good
| behavior.
The Hawaiian Islands were discovered bv
| G3tano, Spanish navigator in 1912. The
| Independence of these islands was recog-
| nizpd by the United States in 1929, and
more formally i'll 1913. by Belgium in 1914
ana by England and France later in the
same year.
A floating island in Sadanga Pond. which
| is about mile in length, near Jacksonvi lle
| VT, covers about one third of the surface
and is about two feet in thickness II bears
cranberries. and it drifts from one part OF
the pond to another, according to the direc
| ton of the wind.
Because an Iowa farmer refused to fill out
| mortgage blank that had teen sent him
by the Census Bureau he has been arrested
and bound over by Federal Grand jury
for trial. He had written to Mr.. Porter t.
| mind his own business ana not be too in.
quisitive about private affairs.
IL different parts of the country have Ion @
| existed number of magic stones said tC
| possess the most remarkable properties
| Tradition tells how certain sO-called speak
| ing stones called out when a dead body
was placed upen them or coutradicted q
| person who swore falsely by them.
In the interior towns OF Northern China
| slips Of the bark of the mulberry tree bear.
| ing the imperial "chop" and a stamp which
| denotes their worth have long been used ms
we uSr bank-notes. Marco Polo found this
kind OF money there in his time, and they
| Sill have an extensive local circulation
Down to the time of Homer. who -four
| ished 907 b. c., as little was known of the
| surface OF the earth as is now known OF the
Interior. Greece was then regarded as the
| center OF the earth, which was surrounded
| at the distance of 500 miles by the ocean
river. Later the land was extended farther
| and limited form given to the old conti-
| nent
Between two small lakes near Boras. Swe.
| den, strip of land has Interrupted traffic.
! but engineers have overcome the difficulty
| by constructing ship-raiiway across it and
| building small steamboat that can run il.
| self across from one lake to the other The
| vessel has accommodations for sixty per-
| sons.
The old mill at Ashland. Va. to which
| Henry Clay used to ride with a bag OF his
fathers corn for the miller to grind still
| stands near the Clay homestead, and gush-
| ing from n buff near by IS the spring OF
cold water from which the great Ken
| tuckian used to drink in his boyhond II
was TO this spring that Clay first directed
his loot tens when, grown fanious. he made
| journey From Kentucky to his birthplace.