The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-12-31
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+" Artificial ivory production isinereasing.
. Mark Twain is n ow living in: New y ork.
" Massachusetts leads in incorporated
! Cape Gods: cranberry crop. is $50. GOO
barrels :: : " -: ~
:....Gingham comes tolls from the JaVanese.
language. r.. . Fl. :::= IS, .
+ Kreutzer was. socalled from the cross on
the reverse. ~ !:
Aiarigold took its name from: Queen !.
Mary Stuart. :: - -. !. -:
Fetish. and zebra are from a dialect Of.
South Africa. ::.: i.
The world raises and eats: every year
$4,000, 900 tons of rye: ::
!. The South African gold mines outputs
increasing greatly. -: 80: =: ::
The restaurants in Paris sold:in 1891 49,.
600 dozen frogs legs. * =. = :.
Topaz was named: from the island of To-:
psZas in tho Red Sea. - ...., .'.@<
= This rourtrY''s crop OF beansis estimated
alto. 100000 bus hes.:~: a.:
= India las 10000, 600: goats w hich yield
100000 quarts Of milk daily. =:
Ten million bushels of -walnuts are
gathered in this country *annually:..:'* -.
=. The United States exported: FAC, 905. 237
gallons of:petroie um last:year.. =, :
The cultivation =of& sal hemp-is a. prom
lSing future Industry of ;Elorda.: =: f..
!: A paper: devoted exclusively to>the banjo
has been started in LGndon.. : XIII. > =.
:: The. National =Educa ton. Association of
the Unrled* IS tates was forme d:in<1S60:: n.
=. The great School OF. Harrow: I'M. England
was founded by. John Even :in*l5S1. .@.:
Saloon-keepers in New: York CITY have.
added: snuff to their free-lunch counters.
Education among the Hind oes has. az
ways been In the hands OF. the Brahmins.
= Fine first. medical school: in the United
States was founded in.>P hlladelphfa in
1864. +: ~. r 8.
Fifteen widows of; veterans. n. the War
OF the Revolution are still drawing pen
sions :: 81 =
Colorado's gold output will show al in
creaseof more: than 100 per cent this year
over last. - 8 +. E: -. = -
Few women have knotty fingers few. are
endowed with high poWero the reason
ing faculty. .:..: =: :, :,
The Hungarian. Prime. Minister has sue !.
ceeded in re-establishlng aToyal court in
Buda-P esth. | :: - p :: :.
A good line of Saturn or. luck Indicates
an Individual generally fortunate in: his
undertakings. : II:
" People whose life is. without incident,
vegetatiye in Character, generally have no
line of SATURN. = :
:. The plilosophic hand is broad, rather
hard than soft, with very long thumb. and
knotty fingers. :: X. / .:--:.
Deer are said to be becoming a great
annoyance 10 farmers in Northwesterns
Maine whose farms are djacent to the
large forests. 4: =: !. - r. +
{ China is ma king great preparations for
fair to be. held within "a year or two,
which occurs: every: sixty years. Her su b..
jects fl ON all over this world are expected
toattend.. 81 = :. Is
The Greeks consume annually to each
inha bitant FIVE pounds of sugar and one
pound of coffee. They make up the def .
cheney in wine, drinking eighteen gallons
each in the twelve months. r: +
:. When: an old black walnut tree twenty
three feet in circumference was cut down
a =Flatbush,L Il. L. .athe other day fonr-
foothol e.was: found in its center from its
roots to its branches. At the first branch
a red currant bush had thrived for three
years, and: this. it is thought, Slapped the
lifefrom I he trees heart.