The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-02-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

One company has a monopoly of Paris
funerals
Mr. Gladstone gets 80 cents word for his
magazine articles.
1t takes fence six miles long to inclOse
the Wor!d'5 FAIR buildings at Chicago.
\ cololed man took an oath in a Kansas
court The other day that he was ITO years
old.
company has been organized in Phila-
dephia 20 Keep the streets and sidewalks
clean.
1t is understood that the pension agents,
as a rule, think u rather cOwardly Of Chile
20 have ayeTted a war
There is said to be a factory not far from
Hackensack y. j.. where h0Tse-meaJ saul
sages are manufactured.
The Emperor OF Russia began in his boy
hood a collection Of birds eggs, 10 which he
still Z5alOu>ly adds whenever he can.
Bellows Falls, VI, has a 17-yeaT-0ld giant
named Fred Smith. He Is six feet eight
inches in height and weighs 1Si pounds.
President Hyde Of Bowdoin College has
started @ crusade against the obnoxious
cigarette, giving daily lectures on the sub
j-ct
Ii is estimated flat the elevated railroads,
the bridge and ferries Of New York and
Brooklyn carry $4,000 coo passengers per
year.
Il IS chiefly through books that we enjoy
intercourse with superior minds; and these
Invaluable communications are within the
reach OF all
The widow Of ''St0uewal" Jackson SUI
fers severely from neuralgia affection OF
the head, ana Is under treatment therefore
Ia Richmond.
= snort. stout man in a long tailed frock
coat Is an IHcOngTuIty. II is well not 10 be
fashionable If one Is to hazard being laughed
d, Tor ones pains
Il is proposed 10 build al electric road be-
tween Chicago and 81. Louis in which the
promoters promise to ron trains at the rate
OF 100 miles an hour.
By an act passed in the thirty-eighth year
OF Henry III, all persons possessing
yearly income Of $40 were compelled to be
knIEhted or pay fine
The death rate of Dublin has been more
than doubled by tie grippe, and at Brighton,
a healta resort the rae mas reached sixty
per thousand Per aunuH.
Governor Stone says that but one other
State has larger number OF teachers em-
piOyed IN It's schools Ia proportion 10 its
popuiatIon than Mississippi.
j church census at Portsmouth, \. Il,
reveals the fact That, IN population of TO-.
GO, 1850 are PTutestauts, ana vi these about
Oue-tuiId never 20 to church.
Richard Henry StOddard's handwriting is
so minute that lie can compress the equiv
alent Uf half column Of newspaper type
into single page OF manuscript.
The census shows that the railroads of
the country own 2Sl,0OO,000 acres Of land,
and foreign and domestic syndicate5 81, Co.,
COO, making a total of 365, 900, 600.
Mrs. Patrick II. Cantlin OF Davenport.
Iowa, who was married when she was Il
years cid, seeks divorce from her husband
after living with HIM eleven months.
DR.. Caroline Bertilon has been appointed
Wis ting physician tO the Lycee Racine, the
most important college Tor girls in Paris.
Ii is the first appointment of the kind made
During the past year. it 10 said, more
than 5000 600 were invested in new manu-
factories, o. in Tie enlargement and i'm
pruyement Of those alTeary established in
Maine.
An old negress who resides at Norris
town, \. j., is said to be at least 1O6 years
Old. Although freed from slavery IN 1904.
she stil lives with her original master 5
| family.
There is only one vessel in the British
navy which in the last thirty years has been
engaged Il a sea fight with a hostile War-ship
the Snah. She is 10 be sent to Bermuda to
die a hulk
1t is said that the late Justice Joseph p.
Bradley had the finest private library in
Washington. He began buying books sixty
years ago when at school, and had kept 1t
up ever since.
There is a man in Dubuque, Iowa. 81
years Of age, who has never ridden in a
railway train, and he declares that he is so
old now that Il would not be worth While to
| break his record.
A girl in CarbOndale, Pa, has no desire to
! get married. She has money Of her own, a
parrot that SWear5 and monkey that cheWs
! tobacco and spi;s. Therefore she has no
use for a husband.
| Diamond dust, which has the appearance
| Of gray mud, Is made by pulVerizng chips
! in an iron mortar and grinding the particles
| with an agate mortar and pestle TO various
| degrees OF hneneSs.
In the southwestern district of Africa
! large ed beads, either OF oval Orcylndrical
| forms, are still the favorltes; also small
| beads Of indigo hue, small black ones and
| others with req dots.
A woman has patented a cOlIar-button.
| If it is one that strikes an alarm when it is
| lost. and keeps on ringing till It is found, Il
| Will make her fortune and improve the
morals of the country.
A very extensive domestic industry i'm
! Russia consists Of the manufacture of
| wooden spoons. which are made to the
| amount OF 100000 annually. They are
nearly all made OF birch.
| Nothing eXasperates a woman who has
| been shading her eyes from the gas!ight
| with her hand all the evening so much as to
| mOnd ring on the wash-stand
The fire in Nine. Judic's fiat in Paris. that
! resulted in a loss Of 100000 to the actress,
| Is believed 10 have been caused by the up
! setting Of table by her two pet cats in a
! fght-a veritable catastrophe.
The first official document sent to the
| Omaha Indians, dated in 1896, was intro
! duced as testimony the other day in the
! Wayne-ThurstOn (Nebr) county seat con-
test. 1t is owned by the Winnebago fire
! chief.
| Venice is a cheap city, especially if you
! dine with the people in the fish kitchens Of
| the street Of the Smiths. There you get
/ a slice Of smoking pOenta as broad as a
| gondOliers palm and somewhat thicker, for
penny.
The women warriors of Dahomey are on
| the warpath again. No native soldiers of
| Africa, except the Zulus in their palmy
| days, have TiYaled the ferocity of the
| trained women regiments Of the King of
| Dahomey.
Legendary history says that Noah took
| the true and original philosophers stone"
| with him in the ark, and that he hanged il
up in the center Of the great boat that all of
| the living creatures gathered therein might
| be lighted by its presence"
The most wonderful and the most power
| full explosive known is said TO be chloride
| Of nitrogen. 1t is believed to be the only
| substance that will explode on coming in
contact with bright beam of light, whether
the beam be from an electric light or the
sun.
Dali