The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-01-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The Cramp0 have S14,OO0.OOO worth Of
ShIps IN the works and employ an army Of
| 5000 men.
The tallest and the shortest people *
Europe. the NOrwegians and The Lap I've
side by side
- New Y ork man made over all his prop
T 1i'S 70 MS vile. She eloped and he Is now
| IN the pOor-hOuse
ne horses fed to the animals in Z00logi-
| car gardens are we'll fed and sleek-lor king
before they are killed.
A French officer in Buisson has inv ated
| hippometer which will register the aces
and ground covered by a horse.
One of the biggest of the insurance e1n-
panies in this country is said to pa It's
! woman manager $4,000 a year.
| Thimbles have been found in the Egy ptian
| catacOmbS in mummy cases RntedatiU re
| Christian era 10 to IS centuries
A movement is on foot to cOnsOida lie
three provinces Of Prince Edward Is aud,
| Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.
| The University Of Michigan has 159
students, larger number than is enrolled
III any other institution of its kind.
Inc owl is unable to move the eye ball,
! "nIch Is lmmOYably fixed in the sOCke- u-
Strong, elastic, cartilaginOu5 case.
An Italian engineer has originated sys-
tem Dy when he proposes to utilizl 5Ae
| power OF Trains running down grade.
! The skin OF a black deer is worth a89qs
! $500. One of these animals has rec nifty
| been seen III Maine, and hunters are aftsr4t.
The first vessel launched by the srly
American cOt0niStS was the Blessing OF the
Bay, launched in Massachusetts Bay, siy
4, 1851.
Fish swallow their food whole beCsus3
| they are obliged to keep continually Cgeu-
| ing and closing the mouth for the pui pg5s
Of respiration.
The frog, owing to its peculiar strucur
cannot breathe with the mouth open, All III
1t were torcibly kept open the Gre lurs
would die of suifOcatiOn.
-Four skeletons Of giants have been az
earthed near Florence, Mo. There is ira
! dItlon tnat four mule loads Of gold are
| buried in the same vicinity.
few days ago Patrick MCFadden fell
through hatchway in PittsbuTg, distance
OF ninety feet, and escaped with only few
bruises and broken bone.
UnVentilated hats are the most prolific
cause Of badness, says I}g. Joseph Ly0a,
and next IN order Of haTmfulness come ex-
cessive brushing with stiff brushes.
There are lots Of men ~ the world a me
foot 0 the procession who h-He hey are
at the head, though they aql at The
procession Is going the wrong wa.
Matrimony runs high in Memphis, accord
Ing to the latest advces from that sec. iln.
A Mrs. Annie Dunn, q widow with S125 o.
has married penuiIess youth Of q.
One hundred and thirty-two men. or ut
tWo-thITd5 OF the senior class at Yale, We
voted IN favor Of caps and gowns, and Iey
VIII be worn on Commencement dav
There is no country in the world in W 20
the raven IS not found to be a native; IS
also the only bird known to OrnithOl0l
which is Of such cosmopolitan character
The modern watchls so cheap that ma
are expanding their ingenuity on elabo
dals to catch the cash of the Cresus. as
DH-gt led q
Chemists have extracted from coal TAX
sixteen shades or blue, SIN cen of vel a-.
twelve Of orange, nine OIL violet bes
shades OF other cOl0TS too numerous tot -c-
ton.
A Norfolk (Nebr.) man cabIed to I
the other day and received an answe e.
two hours aBd half. This is better re
than is usually made between Norfolk d
Omaha.
Do not worry, young housekeeper
there IS mold on your preserves. Their IS
nothing on earth that will keep them IS
well; it is alright, and they viii improve
every month.
Colonel Gordon of Saline County is BE-
lieyed to wear the champion whisker5 of
Missouri. He is fully feet high and when
he allows his beard TO stretch It's full length
IL sweeps the sidewalk.
As far as known at present there are but
nine words which end il 'dOus." They
are: Tremendous, amphibOdouS, hazard 3Gs.
abodous, pteTopodOus, cephaledOuS, CASTE
| 0podOuS, stupendouS and gaStrOpOJous.
Annie r. Chittenden of Osceola, Mie1
has patented a rOad-cart, which is desirre
to relieve the animal of all strain, ana e.
Obviate the diSagreeable Jar and other OBJ
Jectlonable features Of the carts now in use.
The bog of Allen, Ireland, is the LARGEST
| unTeclauned bog. covering nearly gu r'er
of a million acres. The heating power OF
peat is about half that of coal, and it forms
very valuable article to the poor lrisa
peasant
1t is said that the timber on the Kaama
River IS so dense that when the trees are
sawed off they stand on the stumps, not
having room to fall. A Swede recently
sawed of seven trees, and is now waiting
for wind 70 blow them down.
| Herr Won Bonner, millionaire nero
| Of Hamburg, has presented MS native CITY
| with half million dollars TO found a
woman's hospital in honor OF DR.. Michel
| sen, famous woman physician, wiIase
skin, he thinks, saved the Lille of Frau ven
Bonner.
The Winchester gun people are exDeri-
mentng with a machine gun that has cred
$50 shots IN one minute through one barrel
The Maxim gun can fire but $50. Around
this new gun Is water-jacket holding a
gallon. In action the gun eYapOTaLes a gal
Ion a minute
An inspired writer long ago wrote: ga
lUOilSu Sun Is Ll6 CdldmIly OF MS IdJleE
A modern author wrote How sharper
than a serDents tooth it is to have a THANK
less child" Both maXmS have been EN-
phssZed by ths criminal acts Of the sons OF
distinguished men.
The shoes worn with ball dresses or any
full evening toilet are now made of tho
same material as the dress, with q ribbon
rOSette or pOmpon, and the points embruid-
cred IN beads or fine modern kid, with tho
points embroidered with the same col lred
silk and metal beads
a Frenchman has designed an electrical
tuning box for the use of leaders of Orches-
traS and others interested I'm music. 1t 91a-
sstS of a dry-pie battery connected With
an electromagnetic. When placed on
sounding-bOard the required note is ob;a ed
by moving small communication located 10
the box.
a letter received by an Augusta (Gel
publisher a few days ago from Salem, OI0.
was mutilated in a remarkable manner.
The Ohio Postmaster had nc0sed the letter
in an official envelope, along with a not, aT-
planning that the mail-Carrier who collected
1t mad been shot by a hIghwaymaD, De
charge passing through the pouch and 's
contents 0nd taking effect in his leg
The new German patent law went 70
effect October 1St. Under this law Ger 1ao
patents can be applied for at any 'he
within three months after the issue o 1888
United States patent This liberal fea arc
wiz prove lllSHtY DeueuCtdi 20 AtueItCdi sfA-
vtntUTs, as under the old law OF 1887 the
German application had to be lodged gior
to the issue of the United States patent
England Is just now admjring the crea on
Of an artificial Venice, on scale so large az
in some sections to be an absolute fac-sil
of the original The whole exhibition co IS
one and half acres, at the famous DIVA lia
in London. aud the visitor is ruwet a NC
in gOndoia. The water in the canal
warmed by the Kosher system of lea ing
water. extensively useddn swimming ba,hs.
John Weaver Of Chester, Pa, ana his new
bride started housekeeping recently, but
we're considerably annoyed by the humH ing
of bees. An Investigation developed Ire
that the hons ware also hnma u, nn nIn IN