The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-01-21
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Savannah claims to have the Oldest thea
ter in America.
There are thirteen miles Of bookshelyes in
the British Museum.
The sugar crop of the Island Of Cuba was
/ $4,000 tons last year.
Two centuries and seven men claim the
invention Of gunpOwder,
10 India the Army Temperance AssOca-
ton has III branches with over 1900 mem
Uer5
A house in Dedham. Mass, built in 1886 is
occupied by the descendants OF the original
builders.
a prominent indianapolis business man
has two cats that are better retTeYeTs than
most dogs.
Twenty-seyen families named Smith re-
Gently held reunion in Kansas town, and
then few We're missed.
The veteran actor COuldoCk wrote his
name on the register Of a Memphis hotel the
other day in as firm and clear a hand as if
he were II instead Of 70.
Chauncey De pew said in the course Ct his
address to the ( Fellowship Club. in Chicago,
that after 4 man has passed forty years OF
age lie makes no new friends.
II is 10 longer good form to call the En-
perOr Of Japan the MlkadO. lie is now
called kotei, and the Chinese Emperor an
swers 10 the title Of Bakuiahan.
4 mule that IS supposed 10 have been in
artillery service under Sherman was sold at
Sheritf'5 sale in Henry County, Ga, recent
! ~, and brought the magnificent sum Of
ST %.
The birthplace Of Chopin, the composer,
is 10 be suitably marked through the activity
of the Musical Society Of Warsaw. The
dwelling Is now occupied by a poor peasant
family.
1t must not be inferred that the grip at
tacks only distinguished people. 1t is only
such people whose troubles the newspapers
| keep track Of. Ordinary folks have 1t just
the same, but they don't get their names
published until they die.
A Jersey City man has beer arrested for
r0bblug small boys. His method was to en-
poy boy TO run an eTrand and then take
bis coat or bat or something OF value to hold
| as q guarantee that the boy would do his
work honestly. OF course when the lad re
turned lie would be gone.
After an absence of fourteen years.
George Mullen, aged 30, Of Philadelphia,
was captured and hei in $500 bail for court
by Magistrate Gillespie on a charge OF en-
beZLlement. In 1877 Mullen drove a milk
route for Joseph Rogers, and left town, it is
alleged, with Sl2J Of his employers money.
Some boys do only what they have seen
! done by somebody else, other DOys-the
boys who make a mark in the WoTld-iook
/ at things with their own eyes, and if a thing
needs TO be done, set about DUNG it. With
! oct brag or buster they act as ii their motto
were, What man has not done, man can
] do"
In the famished districts in Russia public
schools and higher institutions Of learning
which depend on the subsidies Of the CEN
! trail or local government have been closed
one after the other. The money appro-
priated for the institutions is required for
| the purchase Of bread for the starving fam
lilies.
In Reykiayik, the capital Of remote Ice
land, charitable woman has erected on her
| own land a high school for Iceland girls.
Needing more funds for teachers salaries,
! books, etc, than her private income would
cover. she has sCld her family Jewels, many
| Of them heiTlOOms 700 years old, in order TO
obtain the money for her enterprise.
Oscar, Baron Wedcl Yarlsbury of Chris
! tiania, Norway. is dead at Albert Lee, MINI.
| lie was a young man known as Oscar We
/ del. A few days ago came information OF
the death Of his father and his own success
| sion to the barony. 4 remittance Of $4,000
| accompanied the letter. The new baron at
! once went on spree, which ended In his
| death.
! DR.. c. J. Burger of Bonneville, Mo-, is
/ using what he asserts is the keely bi-chior-
! ide Of gold remedy for drunkenness on sew
eral local patients. He says, however. the
! formula, which he AYERS is the same as
| keely's, was printed in q medical journal
fifteen years ago, and that he clipped 1t and
/ has since used il whenever opportunity Of
! fered.