The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-04-04
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
London has TWENTY-FIVE free baths.

| Nearly all the artificial eyes come from
| Thuringa, Germany.
A German scientist has discovered 140, 400
| hairs in human head.
| Fewer icebergs than usual are seen in the
| North Atlantic this spring.
Houston, Tex, is to have a soap factory
| with capital Of S15,000,000.
| The annual consumption of tobacco in
| Paris is said to be two pounds per head.
| The century-old Office of City Barber has
| been abolished by London's Lord Mayor
| Mrs. Elizabeth Dodge of Damariscotta,
| Me-, has passed her one-hundredth birthday.
! After three months trial at Montreal,
| Kochs lymph is said to have proved a
| failure.
| Rev. George c. Baldwin of Troy. N. Y.
| has made 24V0 couples happy (or miserable)
| for life.
| The Kansas Legislature passed only
| thirty bills out of 1900 introduced at its late
| session.
Steamboat travel on the Hudson River
| has been resumed, the ice having diSap-
| peared.
| New York has an eight-year- old confirmed
| inebriatr. Ills true, it's pity, and pity It's
| lis true"
Applications for liquor licenses to the
number of 1858 have boon made in the staid
| old Quaker City.
Widow Van Colt. who is conducting re-
| viyal services at Chicago, has rounded her
sixtyfrst birthday.
At The recent railroad wreck in Wisconsin
valuables were looted to the extent of
| 5000 by heartless ruffians.
One of the landmarks of New Orleans
| ST. Pau's Episcopal Church-hasS uccumbed
| to the flames. 1t was built in 1858.
\ Kansas desperate, pressed hard by Off
| GERS at Pueblo. Colo, blew out his brains in
| preference to submitting to arrest.
A San Antonio Crex) physician has
achieved remarkable success with K0ch's
| lymph. Several patients have been entirely
| cured.
Nora Gray of Ramsey. ILL.,, Overtaken by
train while crossing a bridge, jumped fifty
| feet TO the ground and sustained no serious
| Injuries.
La grippe increases in virulerce at Chi
| cagO. SeVenty-tw0 trained nurses are pros
trated by the disease, which has become
| epidemic.
Walter and Julian Wood. brothers, of
Georgia. who had often wished to die to-
gether recently met their death by accident
on the same day.
Fritz" Emmett, with all his faiIings, has
always adhered 10 a strict observance of
the Sabbath, as far as his appearance on the
stage Is concerned.
a Martinsville Qnd.) youth, aged 10, has
married fair, fat and forty widow, weigh
ing 80 pounds. 1t goes without saying who
| will be boss of the ranch.
Miss Evelyn Simpson, said to be the best
authority on history in Pennsylya mia. is
dead She was teacher in the Pittsburg
schools for thirtyfye years.
The late Josiah Morris of Montgomery,
Ala, left S3,000,000 estate, all acquired
within the past ten years. His daughter,
Mrs. DIR. Baldwin, is the sole legatee.
Seven lovely Scotch lassies. all sisters, re-
Gently landed at New York. The eldest is
10 and the youngest years of age, and all
have hair OF beautiful goldeu-red tint.
Henry Johnson, for forty years vagrant,
Is dead at RiVerhead, l.. l. He was man
of more than ordinary ability and might
| nave distinguished himself had he SO chosen.
4 law prescribing the sale of cigars and
| tobacco on Sunday is still in force at Bos-
| ton. a futile effort for its repeal was re-
| Gently made in the Massachusetts, l. gisla-
| ture.
A Susqnehanna (Pa) woman has per-
| formed the dlurnai grind of lighting the
kitchen lire for forty-fve years, consti-
| tutng her husband the oldest tire-escape on
| record.
Buffalo hoodlums recently succeeded in
| completely routing a contingent OF the Sal
walton Army. The captain, when he
emerged from the fray, was a veritabIe
| tatterdemallon.
Rev. Hugh Hand, a Brooklyn priest.
| says that his average marriage fee Is only
| 81, and thinks that man who cannot pay
| al least So is too penuriOus or TOO poor to
| support wife.
William Schoonover an intrepid sixteen
! year-old hunter of Pike County, Pa, while
| in quest of game recently was attacked by
| two mOnstrouS bears, which lie succeeded in
| killing after - prolonged conflict.
The noted Hatfield Mccoy feud has been
| declared ''of by a marriage between two
| of the members of the respective families.
| The truce, however, may be but temporary,
| as household chickering's are>llkely to super
! vene.
Rev. Thomas Dixon, one of New York's
most talented divines, though deporing the
| New Orleans tragedy in q recent sermon,
tacitly Endorsed the assassination, declaring
that the prOvncauon was terrible and the
result inevitable.
About loco Cinnamon recently witnessed
an exhibition of stereoDticon views of the
| life of Christ in New York church. The
| exercises, singing, etc, We're conducted in
the Chinese language, and were listened to
with rapt admiration.
A frontier town has settled the social
question in novel manner Those who put
out their washing belong to the aristocracy;
those who do their own laundry work are
members OF the middle class, and those
who take in washing form the lower class.
Mrs. Ensminger of Providence, r l., is
still hale and hearty at 101 years of age
Her father was in Bradd0ck's campaign in
1855, and in 1887, at the age of 101, walked
from Philadelphia 10 Cincinnati. whence he
wrote to his family, which was the last It'd
ings ever heard of him.
A bill has passed the British Parliament
vestlng the corporation of Stritford, County
| of Bucks, Trustees of Shakespeare's
birthplace and other memorial places, with
power to purchase Anne Hatheway's cot
Iage and Wilmcote cottage, which belonged
to Shakespeare mother.
POLICE Officpr Cantwail nf Prnnllvp imam
the twentieth anniversary of his appoint
ment on the force, was presented by his
| felow-officers with a handsome goid-headed
| cane and floral emblem bearing the in
| scrlpton, Three thousand arrests and
| clean recOrd." worked in 1erns and carna-
tons.
John Counors, New York's ''ink-slinger'
is dead. He had mania for running ladies'
| dresses with blue ink, which he elected from
an ingenious continuance of his own design.
| Hundreds of valuable gowns were DESTROYED
in this manner. COnnOrs died in prison,
where he was serving sentence for the
qualification of his pet II bby.
Harriet butcher is dead, in the Washing
ton County On. Y poorhuuse, in Argyle, at
the advanced age of 116. She was admitted
10 the county house Oh April u, 1884, being
the first person registered, and had been
there continuously for ifty-seven years
| The county house records attest her great
age. She was quite active until short time
previous to her death.
A wealthy kleptomaniac. who refuses to
| reveal her name to the police, is in Ludlow
| street jail, New York. Her CT me was the
| theft of a pair of stockings. When arrested
she was arrayed in a hand some seal-skin
| coat and had diamonds in her ears. and a
large sum of money in her purse. She gave
| her real name to her attorney, to whom she
stated that she was the widow of an old
| time WaShingtonian.
In an old geography printed in 1872 ap-
pears the following: California is wild
and almost unknown laud. Throughout
| the year it is covered by dense fogs, as
| damp as they are unhealthful. In the inte-
ror are active volcanoes and vast plains of
shifting snow. which sometimes shoots ND
columns to great heights. This would seem
almost Incredible were it not for the we'll
authenticated accounts of travellers.
The Archbishop's Lecture.
The lecture on temperance by Archbishop
| Riordan, which will be given in the Grand
Opera House next Monday evening, promises
to attract crowded house. Applications
| for tickets of admission are coming from all
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