The morning call., 1890-11-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

There are 130, eco Hebrews in France and
Algeria.
Cloverdale. KY. has a new daily paper
called the Dairy Girl.
Railroad statistics show that no one car
on train is safer than another.
The Kaweah colonists have started a
shipgle- mill that cuts 10000 day.
A torpedo net, constructed of interlocking
steel rings, is soon to be put to u practical
test.
Ottawa, Kan, boasts OF rooster so large
that it must be helped upon its roost every
night
Experience in electrically welding pro-
jectiles shows that the metal is strengthened
at the point of welding.
Compressed paper is now used as a sub
stitute for wood in the manufacture of
shuttles ana their wheels Tor looms.
At Trafton, Colo, a man got caught in
one of his own bear traps and nearly starved
to death before he was discovered and re-
leased.
II. C. Wheeler of Odebolt has under Guilt
walton the largest farm in Iowa. 1t COM
prises 600 acres, every foot of which is I'M
der cultivation.
The fifty largest libraries in Germany pos
sess about 12,T0o0O0 volumes, against En-
gland with about 6450, 900 and North Amer
lea with about 100000 volumes.
A plan for colossal maneuvers of German
and Austrian troops on the plains of SaXony
next summer is being discussed by the mill
tary men of the two great central European
powers.
An organization modelled after the Ameri-
can Chautauqua Literary and Scientific
Circle has been organized in Great Britain,
under the name OF the National Home Read
ing Union.
The floating island at Sadawga Lake,
NhlttlnghaO, VT, contains over 100 acres,
n oytst nllx HNs.
Is not attached to the main land on any part
of the lake.
A Bddeford (Me.) man offered to pay his
barber 20 cents if the barber would shave
him in less than a minute, provided the
barber would do it for nothing if the opera
ton consumed more than that time. The
job was done in "a seconds.
The largest cotton-planter in the world is
James >. Richardson of New Orleans, who
ewns $4,000 acres of cotton land and en-
plOys 5000 negroes He has refused an
English syndicate'5 offer of SO, 500, 600 for
his plantations.
A brown or black bear would soon be OBJ
served where the coyote makes his home,
but the latter, lying in the sides of the mills
covered with dried and sunburned vegeta-
ton, is almost perfectly safe from intrusion
if it but remains quiet.
Married persons live longer than single
ones, and the tall have better chance for
long life than those of short stature. WO-
men have more chances of life in their favor
previous to so years of age than men nave,
but fewer afterward.
The receivable traditions of China go back
to 1900 years before Christ; and one of their
sacrtd books, the Sinking Creating of his
tory and of the government and laws of thu
ancient monarchs), begins with the En-
peror Yao, 1851 years b. G.
Recent discoveries have enabled the
manufacturers of IncnDdpScept Iampc in
the face of the advanced cost Of platinum,
to r duce the price Of siXteen-randle lamps,
in large quantities. to "A cents each. Three
years ago the price was 81.
A newspaper at Newcastle, England, COM
memorated it's centenary by republishing its
first issue, During the day country couple
called at the Office to answer an advertise
ment for help on farm. They were in
formed they were 100 years late
vegetarian recommends as DAYS food
for an adult, three pounds of ripe fresh
fruit, one pound of dried fruit (igs, dates.
prunes, ralslns or sultanas), half a pound OF
almonds or nuts (walnuts, Brazils, tilberts,
etc., four eggs, and a quarter to half a
pound of cheese Dutch or Gruyere)
1t is proposed to introduce a bill in the
English Parliament, when it again assem-
bles, providing for the pay of the members
OF the House OF Commons. As is known by
all familiar with English Parliamentary af-
fairs, members of neither the House Of
Lords nor the Commons have ever receive
a salary.
Island No. "a, on the Mississippi. has an
owner, but belongs to no State. county or
township. 1t appears that, according TO en-
actment whereby the States Of Arkansas
and Mississippi were created, tile river
boundary Of the former extended to mid
stream, that of the latter to midchannel.
Herein is the difficulty.
A terrapin farm is described by the Fer
nandina (Fla) News. 1t is an Enclosure
about twenty feet square, one-balf of it
filed with loose sand and tank occupying
the rest of the space. The tank is b, low
tide level, and at high tide the salt water
runs in from the marsh to depth of four
feet The tank is all perforated with holes,
and the owner. digging down with his fin
gers, uneartIed some baby terrapins an inch
or two long.