The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-04-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Mans duger-uails growGabout an inch and
a half every year.
The United States still has 2,s36,757
square miles of public land.
The New York divorce courts put
asuhuer about five couples per day.
L. d. Heard of Washington. Ca. owns
old
Room rent for Office is 81 a square foot
York. W"
A Cincinnati boy earns as high as So to
90 a Jay Oy singing popular airs on the
v The TIL, first hoopskirt was worn by a New
1 OK lady In 1910 She was arrested by the
police.
a copy Of the first edition of Tom jones'
has Just been sold in London for S345. Il
was uncut and in the original boards.
In Missouri husband cannot desert his.
vile without committing a penitenti ary
of1ense unless they have lived together at
least ten years.
The membership Of Masons in the United
States Is about $4,000. Odd Fellows zoo, GOO,
dSn Of Labor 297. AIS, Knights of Pythi
$50, GOO.
For the first time in the history of Bel
gum, II IS SAID. the principle of monetary
compensation for breach of promise OF mar.
rage has just been established.
The. settlers on the Quillayute prairies in
Washington are afforded fine snort in
thousands of wild geese that come there In
the fall and make the region their winter
home.
There is superstition that it man
counts funeral carriages a member of his
family will ole. There are many cases in
which this shocking result has seemed to
follow this apparently harmless action.
The large and valuable collection of fos-
Sis ana G.her geological specimens, etc..
which the late Ralph Butterbua of Kansas
CITY bequeathed, together with $1,000, to
Dartmouth College has arrived at its destl-
nation.
The population of New York is increased
during the winter months by as many as
5000 patients undergoing operations or
treatment in the hospitals and at the houses
OF doctors. They come and go, many get
well. some die under the knife and some
linger in hopeless invalidism,
The far and frontier West does not
appear TO be peopled exclusively by tough
citizens. At Winnemucca, New, jury was
formed last week of men whose average age
was q, who were all total abstainers from
drink. none smoked cigarettes and none had
ever cnewed tobacco.
A dead bullfrog owned by a resident OF
New Haven, Conn, is claimed to BE- one of
the oldest and largest frogs in this part of
the world. The animal Is known to be at
least Il years old, and measures IS inches
from head to foot, u inches across the baeK
and weighs pounds.
Nine. Allemand, who died n few davs
ago in Paris. left $1,000 to the Swiss Govern
ment, S2U, goo to the city OF Basel S6OOO 10
tue Canton Basel aud $4,000 to the Canton
Solothurn. The interest of the money is to
be used in paying fer the wedding outfits of
the daughters of poor Swiss laborers.
In a side street of an Italian town a sign
hanging in front of physician Office reads
in part as follows: "The said Professor
Ricci will use for his salves in making them
live snakes and large serpentS, wolves,
bears. monkeys, marmOts, weasels and
numerous other live animals alive and in
good condition."
The birds of the South have suffered
almost equally with the deer and wild
animals OF the far North and West through
the unusual severity of this winter. The
turkey buzzards have died in great numbers
in South Carolina and other States from cold
and hunger, the earth having been frequently
hidden under snow.
1t Is about two years since seventeen
Egyptian mummies in the old museum of
Berlin proved 30 be the bodies OF fellows who
short time ago took their beer in the
saloons OF the capital OF the empire of Will
liam III. 1t is now believed that there Is not
a museum in the world that has not been
imposed npon by frauds of this kind.
Flowering plants that were rare and high
priced i've wears ago are now comparatively
cheap, and at the greenhouses about New
orK IL IS possible Tor less than SO 20 obtain
a score of plants that shall include speei-
mems of almost any popular flower save
those Of recent introduction. New varieties
of plants long familiar TO the public also
command special rates.
1t has been argued by some that ishes
would not thrive and multiply in artesian
wafer The question seems to have been
definitely settled by the Waco Fishing and
Boating Club Of Waco, Tex. which has near
that place a lake of fifteen acres in extent
and of an average depth of fifteen feet,
which IS well stocked with game fishes, such
as bass and perch. which is fed with water
from an arteSian we'll
A few young women employed as tyne.
writers have found it profitable to learn inc
mystery OF the phon0grapb, as 1t is slowly
making its way in the business world. The
delicaey of its mechanism makes it pecu-
liarly fit instrument for the deft hands 0f
woman. So small is he thread carried by
the spindle of the phonograph that the pro-
cess OF threading requires the aid of me-
chanical device.
Stephen Langiord, a wealthy farmer Of
Madison County. XIV. has made for his oc-
cupancy stone coffin weighing al bout 1850
pounds. 1t WAS flushed in Lexington and
delivered TO him last week. and is now
stored in his house awaiting developments.
Mr.. Langford is so years old, but is in good
health. lie says he wants to assure the
fact that his body shall be preserved from
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