The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-04-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Brooklyn has negro policeman.
Only one nan in a million attains the age
of 10S.
Phosphorus is now produced by elee-
tricity.
Cincinnati turns out 100000 busges an
nuaiiy
General Wolseley is an earnest advocate
of plenty of sleep.
An Ohio farmer has plowed up Spanish
silver com dated IVA.
A London publishing firm issued 77,000,
600 tracts last year.
Peter Parker New Jerseys oldest Free
Mason, is dead, aged "a.
The authorities of wicked Chicago hauled
in 62, $50 offenders last year.
Ohio has more universities and colleges
than any State in the Union.
The founder of Beeviile. Bee County,
Tex, was a man named Bee5ee Beebee.
John Kennedy of izabeth, n. j., ate fifty
one fried eggs in nine and quarter minutes.
Samuel Morris of Gendolu. n. j., who
had been a locomotive engineer for forty-
six years, is dead.
An electrical expert says no light has
been found that Will penetrate Jog better
than the old oil lamp.
France has passed law giving criminal
courts power to suspend sentence for I'VE
years loI Il HTSJ OHeust.
A flute 5000 years cid has been found in
an Egyptian tomb. 1t was so well preserved
that 1t could be played upon.
Out of 5l43 marriages performed by an
Ohio Justice IN the past twenty-0ne years,
there have been only four divorces.
The heirs to 100000 in securities in
Indiana transferred the property to another
State to avoid the tax on personal property.
During heavy rain at Brldgeton, n. j.,
two suBhah anu perch were caught In a
gutter. How they came there is a mystery.
The grand old man" has three hats, one
Of which, a soft felt, is his constant travel
ing companion and was purchased prior to
1860.
The Detroit G. A. R. advertiscs for SO, 900
beds Tor the accommodation of part of the
national encampment crowd expected there
this year.
Smoking concerts" have been inaugu-
rated by the Canadian militia. Every man
must smoke necessarily during his stay in
the room.
3. The late Mary Cash Cheairs of Bolivar,
Tenn, predicted two years ago That she
would die on her ninety-fourtn birthday,
and she did so.
A North Carolina man the other day
found wad OF bank notes, amounting to
SOL, in a secondhand mattress that he had
used Tor year.
Gas in Edinburgh, Scotland. is very high
priced and exceedingly poor IN quality. The
citizens are anXi1usly awaiting the advent
of the electric light.
contest for abstinence from sleep is
among the atiractiaiiS of d Detroit museum.
Eight persons have entered the list to deter
mine the championship.
An excellent remedy for cold feet Is said
to consist In striking light blows with the
hand on the leg just above the knee, causing
the blood to course downward.
A schOol-house in which susan 3. Anthony
taught for three years in Canajoharie, Cen
trail New York, has been advertised for sale
at auction. 1t was built in 1919.
1t is said that the cost of apparel and
other requisites Incurred by Englishwomen
to put them in preSeutabe condition at
buckingham Palace is nearly $500.
The late John ID. Lewis, a eolored lawyer
of Philadelphia, bequeathed 100000 as a
fund to aid in securing 10 cOlored persons in
the United States their civil rights.
1t is said that the blacklist man in Glynn
County, Ga. is named White, the whitest
man is named Brown, the tallest man is
man is named Lowe and the largest man
Small.
Rev. John Jasper, the 'sun do move"
colored lecturer, reSoutely declines to ac-
cept more than $50 year from his congre-
CATION, declaring that that sum is sufficient
for his needs.
from home when seven years OF age. half a
century ago, has found his mother alive and
well in Pennsylvania town. He had sup
posed her to be dead for many years.
Mrs. Goddard of Grand Rapids, Mich.
who sued DR.. Westcott, aged IA, for breach
of promise, was awarded $500 damages on
the first trial, but on an appeal she recovered
six cents and was obliged TO pay the costs.
Thomas Schofield of North Lyme, Conn,
reached his centennial year March DIST. He
started the first power loom in Connecticut,
and his father, also weaver, wove the
broadclOth for President MadisOn's inaug-
nral suit.
The works of watches are now plated with
palladium, which is a whittier, lighter and
more tusibe metal than platinum About
one-seyenteenth OF grain uf palladium
will, by electrical deposition, coat the works
of an ordinary watch.
The famous house of Peter the Great, at
Zaandan, near Amsterdam, which is one of
the sights of Holland, is being restored by
order of the Gar, to whom it belongs. The
house was lifted bodily by means Of cranes
in order to lay new foundation.
Miss Emily Howard, Director of the First
National Bank at Auburn, n. Y, is the
first person OF her sex in the United States
to hold such position. Miss Howard is
rich, and for several years has maintained
at her home school for farmers sons and
daughters.
Peter McGiveny of st. Louis is 10Y years
old and in good health. When II years Of
age his father gave him horse, and the boy
named it after General Washington, who
was present and requested him to do 80.
The animal proved great trotter, and was
subsequently sold for $4,000.
An Confederate, while listing the
cyclOrama of the battle of Missionary
Ridge at Chattanooga, became excited and
perforated the figure OF Union soldier
with his revolver. He explained in court
that he took part in the battle, and the recol-
lection was so vivid that he lost his head,
He was fined S25.
the road the other night, thereby bringing
great good luck to his father. That gen .le-
man lost pocket-book last fail that con-
tanned $1,000, and all search for it was IN
availlng. But while the son was u1ting
for his lost rubber he came upon the long
missing wallet with its contents intact.
Susan Jones, a seventeen year-old Della
ware girl, weighs over 600 pounds, Is six
feet in height and is still growing. Her
parents are OF medium size. Susan has
lately been wrestling with the grip, which
produced no visible reduction of her adj
posity Der brother and sister are as di-
minutive in proportions as she is large.
Major Thomas Harvard of Brooklyn. N.
Y, was 102 years old on March 18th. He is
in fairly vigorous health, his only infirmity
being impaired hearing, aud he reads large
type without the aid of spectacles. The
Major received his title by being connected
with a Massachusetts cavalry company prior
to the war of 1912.
A writer in a ladies' journal has a word OF
encouragement for girls who lament having
red hair. The GATHERINGS who made Russ a
great had red hair; so had Maria Theresa,
who saved Austria and made it the empire
that it is; so had Anne of Austria. who
ruled France for so long; so had Elizabeth
of England and Catherine Borgia, as well as
Marie Antoinettc, whose blonQe tresses had
in them CLINT of gold