The San Francisco call., 1899-01-01
THE WORLD OVER.

Wisdom skippeth the device set by
fools.
Douglas Jerrold: Titles are straws
that tickle women"
1t was the old colonial settlers that
first minded their peas and queues
The Irish seem to take kindly to Au-
stralia. There are 100000 of them now
on the continental island.
A St. Louis woman mortally wound
ed a policeman, and, strange to say,
he was the man she shot at.
Montana is said to be a paradise for
servant girls, where either hgher
wages or husbands await them.
In the United States and Canada six
out of every ten young men who have
reached the age of 80 are unmarried.
Tobacco has got a pretty good grip
on the male biped. I'm civilized coun-
tries" four men in every six usa to-
bacco.
Ancient saying: THE wise wife op
poses wrath with kindness. A sand
bag will stop a cannon ball by its
yielding"
frank woman in a divorce case in
Chicago said that she couldn't live with
or love her husband after his money
was gone.
In time a "salted sea" may become
no sea at all. A German scientist es-
Inmates that the Dead Sea will be one
-NNAN~~@
years.
The following is the copy of sign
in a remote Georgia county: "a Few
Bright Scholards Takin TO Lern Writ
in, Spellin and Figerin.'
When a young lady offers to hem
cambria handkerchief for rich bach
elor friend you can set it down that
she means to sew in order that she
may reap.
At a recent Western wedding the
bridegroom stood his ground and went
through the ceremony while twelve girl
friends of the bride Whistled the we'd
ding march.
In England they have learned to pre-
serve all their old landmarks. The cot
tage in Hampshire wherein Jane Aus
ten wrote all her famous books is still
standing and is apparently unaltered
since her day.
The earth need not put on so much
style over the moon after all. Astron-
omers say the earth's surface only eX-
ceeds the moons by about 1872 times.
The moons surface is fully as large as
Africa and Australia together, and
nearly as large as North and South
America without the islands
What is a blush?" asks an anxious
subscriber A blush is a temporary
erythema and calorific effulgence of
the phySiOgnomy, aetiolOgized by the
perceptiveness of the sensorium when
in a predicament Of unequilibrity from
a sense of shame anger or other cause
eVentuating in a pareSiS of the vase
moter nervous filaments of the facial
capillaries, whereby being divested of
their elasticity, they are suffused with
radiance emanating from an intimida-
ted praccordia.
They tell this story of Ouida's hand
writing: One of the leading American
magazines asked for and received an
article from her pen, paying therefor
some fabulous price. In course OF. time
the editors gave it out to be set up,
but even the most expert and long suf-
fering compositOrs in the houses en-
ploy struck against the city, it was so
utterly undecipherable. BY consequence
the manuscript was passed over to an
expert, who admitted that hieroglyphs
and cuneiform Inscriptions were as
child's play to it, yet managed to de-
cipher and dictate it to stenographer.
AS to the correctness of the translation
deponent saith not. All that is GER
tainly known is that to this day the ar
ticle remains unused in the editorial
archives