The Morning herald., 1877-11-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ITEMS VI 1NA""noA' y
uro vife of the Arctic explorer, Cap
tain p Tyson, is Washington 'millliinnear. lina.
ure Haweis writes that wonan's nat
,ra1 quality is to attract, and, having at-
trscted, to enchain-
u,o nopulation Of the CITY Of Mexico
- -omained almost stationary since the
fall Of Macmillan.
The highest railroad bridge in the United
States is on the Cincinnati Southern line
~" soross the Kentucky River.
A pie which was presented 70 King
George in 1862 weighed $50 pounds, and
contained 1s1 birds, ono leg Of veal and
one half ham.
The warden Of the Connecticut State
Prison combats the idea that most Of the
crime is caused by intemperance. He says
that not moro than one-fourth Of the CON-
victs have been drunkards.
An Englishman for wager of $250, 900,
has begun walk through France, Ger
many, northern Russia and Siberia, to
China, and thence through India, Persia,
southern Russia. Greece, and Italy, to
France. The time allowed for the walk is
| six years.
switzerland has several renowned watch
schools, where the old-fashioned system of
matchmaking was taught to inquiring minds.
These schools are, however, rapidly fading
in repute, as machinery of American inven-
ton hats generally superseded the old pro-
ceSses.
Ostrich farming in South Africa is lucra-
tive, The feathers are sometimes clipped
and sometimes plucked. A strong bird
can be relieved Of feathers three times in
fourteen months. The feathers from the
male bird are the handsomest. The bird il
easily tanned.
In point of numbers London has more
railroads than any city in the world, bu1
more than half of them are short roads
running to the suburbs or the seacoast
The number of trunk lines is eight or ten
but if all the short suburban lines should b
Included it would swell the number TO near
ly twenty
The centre of population of the United
States is said to have travelled westward
keeping curiously near the thirty ninth par
allel of latitude, never geting more thar
twenty miles north or two miles south Of it
In eighty years 1t has travelled only 4O'
miles, and is still found nearly fifty mile
eastward of Cincinnati.
The hospice on the Great st. Bernar
was founded in this famous pass of tn
Alps over nine hundred years ago b,
Bernard de Eenthon, Savoy~d nobleman
1t is said to be the highest habitation ii
Europe and is occupied by about doze
st. Augustine monks and their dogs, wh
annually rescue many human lives.
About $780, pistols have been made
Norwich within the past year. Orders Al
increasing, and many Of the works are rs'
ming day and night. The Bridgeport C1
ridge Works make some 700, 900 cartriast
a day. They have supplied Aussia VII
100000 900, Turkey with 10000, 900, a.
have just got an order for 1000, 600 fro1
Italy. The Russian and Turkish inspectle
officers have been working side by side
the factory.
A recent traveller in Cornwall, Englan'
writes of churchyard in that curiou
remote county:-"Her is the combin
ton so often found in Ireland, Of snpes''
tious regard for certsin sites with psactic
irreverence. You find an Irish churc'
yard overgrown with nettles, full of boz
heaps, an ugly, uncared-for place, yet
that spot which they thus have neglsctt
many families take infinite trouble to bril-
their dead from miles away" This is strae
ly true. The pigs may often be set
roofing among the bones in an Irish grav
yard. ..
If boasts are ever made about old win
that have tickled the palate, they had ba
ter notbe made in the presence Of Frena
man noroad Ro,%ha1nh He recentlv opoAl