The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-03-04
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

over 80. 600 meals are served in the House
oil Commons every session.
Eighty-fve per cent of the people who are
lame are affected in the left side.
Wax manufactured from petroleum ha 8
become an important article Of export.
There is said to be a ten-year-oid Georgia
boy who is cutting his third set Of teeth.
The cholera, it is said, has broken out 10
the shoals Of sharks in the Indian Ocean.
A prominent grocer in London has a
provision cart" that is run by electricity.
The ocean cables Of the world stretch over
120, 80 miles, There are 1000 cables in all.
1t is possible to draw platinum and SiIve r
into wire that is finer than the human hair.
Old loose kid gloves worn when ironing
will save many callOus places on one S
hands.
There are 300 newspapers published in
Fleet street, London, eleven of which are
dalies.
Belgium exported last year SIS. 400. 600
worth of firearms 10 every fighting nation
on the globe.
The Semens Electric Company of Berlin
will spend $685. on its exhibition at the
Worlds Fair.
The people Of Hayii and several tribes in
Central and South America hold the moon
IN great veDeration.
Ii cost Glasgow waxworks proprietor Is.
per mile recently to convey lion by rail
from London to Glasgow.
There are twenty-one properly qualified
women doctors in the English provinces
and three in India.
Baltimore boy is reported to have died
the other day from the effects of mosquito
bite received last summer.
Along the coast OF the United States dur
Ing the last fourteen years there have been
IL. Us casualties to vessels.
Africa has an estimated population of
163.O00O0O people, or A., co., coo more than
inhabit the three Americas.
Fifty per cent Of the books taken for pc
rusal from the public libraries Of Paris,
London and New York are works of fiction.
OF the half hundred titled doctors in Eng
land only ore Is veterinary surgeon, aud
he lives al Windsor and treats the Queens
horses.
Mrs. Tel Sono, said to be Japan's first
woman lawyer, is in this country lecturing
in behalf Of Christian school for nigh-caste
Japanese girls.
A cooperative cabmen's society has been
formed IN London. The first to take
shares to the amount OF $3.50 was tram
way conductor.
The trade in precious stones is much
more important now than formerly. Before
the discovery of America, India was the
great emporium.
Mr.. Bland, the godfather of the freedom
age Dill, was close student when q school
boy OF that old text in his copy-book which
began, speech is silver
1t is a coincidence that the first arrest
made IN Ohio under the Brewer law for
compulsory school attendance is that Of
citizen in Jefferson named Brewer.
Household troubles should be kept far
away from the sickroom. For the time
being let the sufferers have immunity from
the hundred and one cares of daily life.
1t is estimated that it would cost the
people OF Chicago So, 600 COO per year to rid
their city of the smoke nuisance by using
anthracite instead of bituminOus COAL
Two human feet, pronounced by physi-
clans TO be those OF woman about Is years
OF age, were found in an ash pile at Du-
buque, Iowa. The police are mystified.
An English governess is hereafter to edu-
cate the daughters Of the King of Siam, and
she will be rewarded therefor with salary
OF $500 year and residence in the royal
palace.
There are 40 women In the Berlin te.e-
phone exchange 1t has been decided to
employ only women in the future. as their
voices are much more audible than mems,
owing to the higher pitch.
The jarra wood of Australia is hard and
as durable as oak. 1t is well adapted for
paneiing and carving. and is destined to be
much in favor with church builders, owing
to Its rich deep mahogany color.
Recent postoffice regulations in England
allow newspapers to be sent through the
any part to which it is desired to call the
particular attention OF the recipient.
The Lancashire County Asylum at Pres t.
witch. with 23O0 patients, and COlney Hatch,
In Mlddlesex, six miles north from London.
with accommo cd atoms for 2250 patents. are
the largest iunatic asylums in England.
THE lottery people are having hard time
OF II all around The Mayor of Boston has
advised tie council 10 enact an ordinance
fOrfeiting the license of any theater which
permits lottery advertisements to appear
npon Its programme.
1t is proposed 20 run new railroad line
from the north of England TO London via
the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire.
The London terminal will be on the Maryle-
bone road, where will be built passenger
station and large hotel.
new cement is attracting considerable
attention In England, owing to lis adhering
SO strongly 10 iron. wood and stone. 1t is
made OF twenty parts of gas tar. seventy
five parts of clay aud silica earth aud five
parts OF natural sulphates.
1t is not generally known that the reign
Ing houses OF Europe, with few exceptions,
are descended from two sisters, the one be-
ing the mother OF almost all OF the Catholic
princes and princesses. and the other of the
majority OF those of the evangelical confess
sion.
.ohn Turnbul of Wyandotts, Mich.
promised to ray all costs and leave the
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against him for threatening to kill Wesley
Littleneid was withdrawn. Everything
was dropped in the hope that he would
leave, never to return.
When the air balloon was first discovered
DR.. Franklin protested great faith in its
capabilities. Some one fiippantly said to
him: "Of what possible use is foolish
toy like tbat?" ''What is the use of help
less newborn infant" replied the doctor.
''Some day it will become man.
A deputati0n waited upon the Lord Mayor
of.London the other day to obtain his aid in
securing fair trial In London for antnra-
cite coal. They said there was prejudice
against this coal in London on the part of
domestic servants, who complained that it
was very difficult to light fires with anthra-
cite.
A camel of the largest size has been known
to drink from thirty TO fifty gallons aud
then travel without water for twenty DAYS.
The water remains pure, and numerous in
stances are on record in which human life
has been saved in the desert by killing
camel ana using the water from its stomach.
Duty first. then pleasure. Take DR.. Bulls Cough
Syrup to cure your cough and cold.
Do you know you buy the best liniment out
Salvation Oil. for only 25 cents.
Judgment for Fifth.
Mary Ice HenshalI in her emit aoai,ct