The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-10-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

man has attained ripe old age when
| he begins to fall off.
The Niagara Falls tunnel has 1l75 feet Of
| It's $3.50 ieet eXcaVated.
The United States imports more gum for
making Yarnish than any other country.
Fashionable men in Paris and London are
using electricity as cure for excessive tip
ping
Francis Darwin, a son Of the apostle OF
| evolution, is making name for himself III
! the science of biology.
temperature of 220o below zero has been
produced by bath OF carbon blsulphlde
| and liquid nitrous acid
A newspaper man in st. Joseph Mo-, has
reported nineteen legal hangings and two
| lynchings for his paper
A cubic foot of newly fallen snow weighs
| az pounds and has twelve times the bulk of
| an equal weight OF water
The recent earthquake released the water
in a subterranean lake near Waverly, lud.,
leaving smell of birthstone.
Indians who live along the Pacific Rail
road iii Western Canada, make living BY
| selling polished buffalo horns.
When mans character becomes tatterpd
and torn we should try to mend it, and not
| make II worse by picking holes in it.
There are in Old Orchard. Me-, three
apple trees which bear each year loads Of
apples shaped almost exactly like pears.
Brooklyn girls will do well to 20 with
saved from a wandering bullet by corset
| steel.
An automatic life-saving belt that can be-
shaped into ball, fired from a gun or
| thrown by hand has been tried on the
Thames. 1t rights itself upon contact with
the water.
Four counties in Illinois - Douglas,
MOultrie, Cole and E gar-supply large
proportion OF the worlds stock of broom
corn, namely, about 1900 tons, valued al
| S1,0O0O0O.
Oae oil the Philadelphia banks makes
strong bid for the women's business by giving
Russian-leat check and bank books with
| sterling silver trimmings TO all its patrons
| Of that sex.
Portions of New Jersey are flooded with
| bogus coffee, composed of clay and four
| paste mixed with the genuine article. State
officers are on a still hunt for the manufac-
ttreTS OF the spurious compound
Cincinnati is lively, wide-awake city. Its
| musical and artistic taste is recognized, but
| on the religious question it is Il little shaky.
1t has 1900 inhabitants to every church, and
| one saloon to every $50 inhabitants.
| An electric insect-kiler is the latest nov
city in that line. 1t is formed by a cover of
wire gauze, which is placed over a lighted
| candle. The gauZe is an electric circuit,
and when Insects touch it they are killed,
From single stalk of jimson weed in
| North Lawrence, Kans., ninety-two burTN
were picked. The seeds of one burr wer-
counted and found to number 70S, making
the total number Of seeds for the one stalk
TO, 1876.
Typhoid fever in New York is said to
have been caused by foul drinking water
brought in by the new and costly aQueduct.
Sewers. Slaughter-houseS and other abOmi-
nations are pouring into the source of
| supply.
| Tramps took possession of the home of
| William Dale, near Charlottesville, Iud.,
| abated their hunger and then retired to bed
When the family returned they we're re-
fused admission, and were compelled IL
| pass the night at neighbours.
A New Yorker named Brush is to marry
a widow named Storms. "Brush-Storms" Is
the way the engagement is announced, ana
| 1t is suggestive of broom-haud!es and do
nestle infeliciteS. But such hint is not
at all likely to break OFF the match.
Dr. George p. Barnum, veterinary sur
geon Of Fort Wayne Iud., is dead OF blood
poisoning. A few weeks ago a corn sup
| purated on the bottom of one OF his feet,
aud the malady spread to his legs. The in
| tense heat also contributed to his death.
| The total receipts of the State Land OF
| flee last year were S135, 693. The office sold
1894 acres OF Agricultural College land for
| S24, 69S and 66S9 acres of Primary School
lands for S5O.003. There were 1920 acres Of
land forfeited TO the State during the year.
A Sedalia (MO.) negro boy driving a de-
| livery wagon ran into telegraph pole. The
collision smashed the wagon and threw the
| boy forcibly to the pavement He merci-
| fully struck on his head and Immediately got
up with a grin, saying, mo flies on dis
| nigga"
In private garden in Rich mond, Va.
there is Norton seeding grapevine, which
| is trained along wall about twenty five
feet on both sides of the main stem. On
this vine. few days ago, over 500 punches
| of grapes were counted, all of which were
| unusually full.
| When the moo rushed to secure the
| Chandler lots and woman was knocked
down in the melee and seriously injured.
| she was by unanimous consent awarded the
lot upon which she fell. The average
| American citizen is always chivalric, even
| in his widest mood.
The wounds made by the new small cali
Der army rifle close quickly and heal read
| lily, showing wonderfully little destruction
OF the soft tissues. The Eext Improvement
| VIII probably result, 1t is said, in the bullets
| being ca>ed in hard metal so as 10 prevent
| spreading and laceraIion.
| A bell, supposed to be from church at
La Vega, Santo Domingo, has been secured
| for the Worlds Fair. This is probably the
| first bell rang in America. Ii is of bronze,
inches high and 61a inches across. 1t was
| found III the branches of tree after the
town had been destroyed by an earthquake.
Twenty-one years is comfortable period
Tor one TO hold fat office, but that fact is
| not so remarkable in the life Of the lat
| Register OF Deeds Billings at Northampton,
| Mass, aged g. who filed that position dur
| ing the stated time, as the extremely rare
circumstance that his father survives him,
| hale and hearty at 90.
Cornell University can boast the biggest
| freshman class this year. II number about
600. II is TO be remembered. however, that
| Cornell has great many departments, and
that the newcomers in all these are taken
into account In the classical department
| Harvard has a long lead in tho number OF
! new students usual.
Lieutenant Maxwell of the United Statas
| Army says the Dakota climate adds to ones
stature. When ordered to that country he
| was over q years old and had reached the
age when growth was supposed to stop, but
| during residence there of over year he
grew three and half inches. Dakotans say
the climate often has that effect
Dogs in native or wild state never bark;
they simply whine, howl and growl. The
noise which We call barking is found only
| among those that are domesticated. Column
bus found that to be the case with the dogs
| he first brought to America and left at large,
for on his return he tells us that they had
lost their propensity to bark. Scientific men
say that barking is really an effort on the
part Of the dog to speak.
A Bath (Me.) school-boy, who had been
making an excellent record, suddenly COM
menced falling behind, but claimed that he
devoted as much time to study as usual
which. was doubtless the case. But his
work failed so fast that he was taken from
school; his parents were greatly dlsappOiut-
ed at his change. A few months after leav-
ing school 1t was found that he was habit
ualIy using tobacco, although no one knew
it but the salesman who sold it to him.
Joseph Williams. the famous freak, the
enormously fat man of Philadelphia, i,
dead. He was sc years old and measured
five feet around the chest, while his enor-
nous stomach distended seven feet in cir
conference. Otherwise than this feature
Williams appeared to be like other men.
His immense girth did not seem greatly t.
disturb him, Although on some occasions
he gave symptoms of possessing the appetite
of TWO ordinary men, yet usually ho had
hard enough time of it trying to earn the
meal OF one.
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