The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-01-04
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


! miles long.
| Constantinople has been besieged twenty
! eight times
Tomatoes were not cultivated seventy
| five years ago.
Blotling paper is made Of cotton Tags
| boiled in soda.
| Harvard college has 219 courses in liberal
| arts and sciences.
According 10 doctors estimate, one per-
/ son in nine is left-hauded.
| The profits Of the SueZ Canal are said to
| exceed s., 800, coo annually.
| FIVE hundred ana siXty-fOur stores and
| 3679 dwellings are vacant in Toronto, On
| taTio.
A watch beats 157, $4,000 times in year.
! In the same length Of time the wheels travel
| 3J5Sa4 miles
Naturalists have enumerated 657 different
! species Of reptiles. OF This number 400 are
as harmless as rabbits.
In extending the course Of medicine at the
| University Of Pennsylvania 10 four years
| long step forward has been taken by the
| faculty
A man in Rockland, Me-, offers to leave
| off swearing if his daughter will practice
| two hours day on the violin. After that
| his ncighbOrS will do the swearing.
After sporting clergyman had been lost
| in the Maine woods for two days and eX-
| pended all his ammunition in hiring for help
lie came upon herd of ifty-four deer
A family in Milwaukee is endeavoring to
| mOnOpoliZe the law business. All of its
members. consisting Of a father, mother aud
! three daughters, are practlcing at the bar.
| Inauguration day was fixed on March 4th
| not by provision of the Constitution, as is
| popularity supposed, but through an act of
| the Congress OF the Confederation In 1888.
Dr. Deems said in a recent sermon what
| is worth remembering: ITO love the truth
/ - hot 70 han Ia 20 a ligrg and ho II
one hour is worth more than days de-
| nunclation OF rOgues."
Tie Mkado of Japan has offered to build
! for the Columbian Exhibition Japanese
! house surrounded by Japanese garden at
| a cost of Sl00,0 00 and afterward to present
it to the city of Chicago.
A lady in Paris was out of patience and
spirits al hearing nothing but French day
| after day. One morning she heard the cock
| growing and exclaimed; Thank heaven,
there's ,omebody who speaks EngishI
Queen Victoria is the latest convert to
| type writing. She is 50 pleased with this
| work that nowadays all orders, lists of
| guests, etc, in connection with the royal
| household are written by means OF a type
| writer.
| A New York man has sued hospital for
| $50 900 damages because, for alleged mis-
| treatment, simple fracture of his sons
| leg resulted ia gangrene and amputation.
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| case an interesting one.
| Women have borne patiently for years the
| gibes and jeerS Of the opposite sex because
| of their inability 10 put point on pencil,
| but now a woman has taken out patent on
| an invention Tor sharpening lead pencils
| that promises great success.
London curiosity-srekers are delighted
| with Colonel UIptS, who stands thirty inches
high when he braces up under the standard,
/ as we'll with a little friend of his, Miss
! Aama, pretty bud of To- who is eight feet
two inches high and is growing fast.
| The saddery business of this country is
| a great industry, and our exports are keep
| ing pace with new avenues of trade. Mill
| ions of dollars are invested in the business,
| the general term of saddlery including
many articles besides the mere saddle.
| An editor was awarded damages to the
| amount Of SS25 against saloon-keeper who
refused TO sell him glass of beer. The
| editor was a colored man, but this judicial
| determination OF the exact value of a drink
| to an editor has not come day too soon.
White Eagle, the last chief OF the Omahas,
] is buried at Sulphur Springs, on a little
| plateau overlooking the tribes namesake
| city. The curious thing about his grave,
which is marked by only a low mound,
! is that the noted Indian was inferred sit
ting upright on the back of his favorite
| horse.
| The 'Seven Golden Cities" one of the
most popular legends of the latter part of
! the Dark Ages, were said 10 be situated
| on an island west of the African coast. The
| island is represented as Astounding in gold,
| with magnificent houses and temples "tne
| high towers of which shone at a great dis
| lance"
The Pemigewasset House at Plymouth,
| n H., which has lately been crowded with
| the people in attendace at the Amy trial,
is the house in which Nathaniel Hawthorne
| died, while he was on his way to the White
! Mountains, or tie Crystal Hills" as be
called them, in company with his friend,
| Franklin Pierce.
A German resident on the Isthmus of
| Panama claims to have discovered several
| beus of pearl oysters in the Caribbean Sea.
| on the coast above Colon. He is arranging
| for expert pearl-divers to do some expert
! mental fishing, and he expects TO develop
with the beds the fact that he has something
more valuable than gold mine.
| There are seven sisters living within a
| few miles of Mem his. each of whom is
| provided with a name remarkable for
| euphony and rhyming with the others,
| The expectations of the young ladies are !:
| Nancy, Emeline, Lucinda Caroline, Mary
| Haseltine, Jane Palestine. Lulu Paradine
Virgie Valentine and Maudie Anna AID.
| cline.