The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-01-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The death-rate among conyicts is only s
per 1000.
Single women on an average live longer
than single men,
An English barrster cannot plead In the
Isle II Man courts.
The profits of Bass & Co., the English
brewers. are $40 900 a week.
@Cricket was played under the name of
'cluD ball'' as early as the fourteenth CEN
fury.
In Austria women are employed as bod
carriers and are paid at the rate Of - cents
a day.
Tiger bones are used as a medicine in
China, where they are supposed TO posses
tonic qualities.
MI Crisp will keep order in the House
with beautiful new gavel made OF Georgia
pine inlad with gold.
The greatest plague ever known visited
Naples In 1906 and carried off $685. 600 people
IN twenty-eight weeks.
The latest within for the owners Of dogs
is make them wear shoes III the house for
the purpose OF protecting the polished floors.
They are made Of chamois, with leather
SUleS.
First-quality second-growth white ash for
carriages is SO scarce that the probability is
in a few years oak will be used for coach
poles ana other purposes for which ash is
now used.
Henry Irving recently attended the re-
hearsal OF play TO be given by boys in the
Manchester England Grammar School and
assisted the amateur actors with many little
suggestions.
The total number of clergy of the Church
OF England is about % 600 If we include
the clergy IN the colonies and those en-
gagged III missionary fields the total IS
swelei to $4,000.
What was fine Favorita rasf1opaa If
leon III at 81. Cloud was reduced to a ruin
by Prussan cannon IN 1070-7l, and it is now
in such a dangerous state of dlapidation
that 1t IS 10 be removed entirely.
In Holland the children hang up their
wooden stockings by the tiled chimney
piece and then 60 sOberiy to bed, quite sure
that good St Nicholas will visit them, pro-
Yided they do not disturb him in his call.
There are three families 10 Eaton Rapids,
Mich, who are putting to blush the state
ment that the native born population of the
United States is decreasing Their children
number respectively nineteen, fourteen and
ten.
a plan has been adopted by the Methodist
Church in Remove, Pa. whereby class of
people IS drawn TO it who are not in the habit
of going to church. full brass band is i'm
attendance and renders lis services every
Sunday.
A student in the Lyons (Nebr.) school was
nearly caused a panic among the scholars.
lie was revived after time. His trouble is
supposed to have been the result of cigarette
smoking.
The Countess dEu is not popular in
Brazil. She is said to be a bgot in religious
matters and to have wild ideas of economy.
She gave balls at Dom Pedro's mountain
palace when Brazil was in the throeS of the
smallpox SCOurge.
Australian butterflies battle. One viii
alight close to the water into which it backs
until the whole of the body Is submerged,
the fore legs alone retaining their hold on
dry land. In a moment 1t will fly away, an.
parently refreshed.
Ellen Terry's signature is worth exactly
los Cd sterling. She placed her name, un-
solicited, on some ISL photographs of her
self at an Edinburgh fair the other night,
and tho price Of the pictures at once ad-
yanced to one guinea each.
February, in 1890, will not contain twenty
nine days, although it will be leap year
February, in 100, also contained only
twenty-eight days. There is a slight error
in the Gregorian calendar, but it viii only
amount TO enc day in 1929 years.
There was almost as much betting in
Washington on the race fer the Speaker
ship rs there Is on an ordinary horse-race
The largest winner was W. T. Blackwell of
North Carolina, who is reported to have
won $4,000 in sums from $500 down.
During The months OF August and Sep
TENDER IN the city and vicinity of VoruneZh.
Russia, more than 5000 horses were killed
for their hides because their owners had no
food for them. The Strengthening of good
horses has continued ut even a larger rate
since that time.
In the new works OF the Piraus-Athens
Railway Station tho marble head of a wo-
man has been found of good workmanship.
1t wears diadem and the features are very
finely carved, 1t is thought to belong to a
headlesS statue found on this site in the city
little time ago.
A new hair ornament is shown in the
form of a diamond-Set gold ribbon that
fastens about the head like an ordinary rib
bon and ties In u bow just little to the left
of the center. The trlnket is in two parts
and can be easily converted into necklace
and bow knot PIN for the throat.
The Burmese women are important per-
S0nages and play great part in their house
holds. They choose their own hus bands
and divorce them when they like, retaining
their own property and all that they have
earned. They are at liberty to marry again.
whether as widows or divorces.
Mrs Sarah Yundt of New Holland. Pa.
celebrated her ninety-Seven birthday re-
Gently. she is quite active, aad has good
appetite and reads without spectacles. She
is the mother of twelve children, ffty-one
grandchildren, fifty-three eat-graudchil-
Her husband died twenty EIGHT years ago.
The Municipal Commissioner Of Baroda,
India, has published a pamphlet in which
he advocates the incubation Of the blood
serum OF the common weasel as cure of
snake bite. The animal is. he contends,
proof against the poison of snake bites,
from which it never suffers in the slightest
degree, and attacks and kills any snake it
comes across.
The standing army of the Argentine Re-
public numbers 5000 men and there are over
fifty Generals on the active list. This gives
a General to about every hundred other
warriors OF all lower grades. At this ratio,
when the officers are all accounted for the
poor private must be a dreadfuly lonesome
creature. They manage these things still
better in some republics, where every man
in the army is an officer Of some sort.
The authorities of the city of Tambov.
Russia, have printed check books contain
ing each ten to twenty checks. Every
baker In the city gives for every check a
pound of bread, Tor which 1t charges the
city kopecks. The residents of the city
were notified not to deal out any money to
mendicants, for such money is III most cases
spent on drink, but to buy checks at the
City Hall and to distribute them among the
poor.