The morning call., 1890-09-29
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Oysters live to the age Of from IL to 10
years.
An average reader gets through 400 words
minute.
There are said to be 13, 900 different kinds
of postage stamps in the world.
One OF Mr.. Gladstone's most recent SEN
tences numbered 214 words
In Bueuos Ayres the police alone have the
right of whstliDg in the streets. Any other
person whistins is at once arrested.
Labor is cheap in Ceylon. The coolies
there can live on a 81 month and are glad
to get l2H cents day for their work.
One Police Court in New York in three
hours last Monday disposed OF 120 cases
an average of a minute and a half to each
case.
In 1906 anyone absent from church on
Sundayewas fined one shilling. An act for
restraining amuSementS on Sunday was
pas Sed in 1925.
A colored man living in Worth County,
Ga, is the owner of little red steer that re-
Gently trotted twenty-five miles in four hours
hitched to a cart.
At the National Library of Paris manu-
script Of the Bible has been discovered. 1t
was written in 1853 in suburb of Perpig-
nan, and is richly Illuminated.
A law recently passed in Denmark pro-
vides that all drunken persons shall be taken
home in carriages at the expense of the land
lord who sold them the last glass.
A man stood on street corner in New
York on Tuesday and offered 10 bet $500 to
cent that "behind the clouds the sun is
still shining" He had no takers.
Doylestown Pa.) ducks are addicted to
dissipation. They eat the tomato refuse from
seed establishment which has undergone
fermentation and get beastly drunk.
Captain Holmes of Mystic, Conn, who
has just returned from his sixteenth voyage
around Cape Horn, believes he has made the
trip oftener than any other living person.
A young woman who has a drassIne king
establishment in New York makes her rent
by storing furs, wraps and winter dresses
for her customers during the warm weather.
The military authorities Of st. Petersburg
have decreed that in future foreigners shall
not be allowed to serve in the army unless
they are willing to become Russian citizens.
The State Geologist of New JERSEY saws
the coast Of that State is sinking at the rate
of at least two feet in century. Other OBJ
servers hold that the rate is much more
rapid.
The total imports of bananas at New York
during the year 1889 aggregated 1886, ,593
punches, to which Jamaica contributed
about one-third, or 1,346,062, while Colon
sent 216,5 52S.
Death from seasickness is so very rare
that the case of Mrs. James Pierce of To-
ronto attracts attention. She never recov-
cred from the nausea induced by trip upon
the great lakes.
Blackening the nose and cheeks under the
eyes has been found an etfectual preventive
OF snow blindness or the injurious effect of
the glare from Illuminated snow upon eyes
unaccustomed 10 it.
Mrs. f. p. Richardson of South Branch,
Mich, left a tub of boiling water standing
on two chairs She returned to find the tuO
overturned and her 2-yearold son scalded SO
terribly that he died.
The income derived by French people
who rear fowls, according to official returns,
is 337, 100000 francs, OF which 153, ,50O, 900
francs represent the value of the flesh and
1S3.60O, 900 francs that of the eggs.
Professor Day of the Geological Survey
says: "All attempts at making coke on an
extensive scale in Illinois have thus far been
without favorable results. The chief diff
Guilty is the impurity of the COAL"
l.. G. Gregory, a journeyman jeweler in
Codwater, has built an engine with boiler
half an inch high, piston with an eiSht-inch
stroke and balance wheel a quarter inch in
diameter. 1t weighs four pennyweights.
1t is not often men enter suit for holes,
but three Trenton (Me), citizens have man
aged to collect $1,000 by that process from
telephone company that put eight post
holes without permission on their land.
A scientist computes that with the aid of
machine constructed on the principl,, of
of the mosquito, hole could be bored to
The center of the earth in less than day.
A vessel recently reported in a Belgian
paper as bound Tor the west coast of Africa,
had aboard IA missionaries, 400 tons OF gun
powder, IL cases of gin and 10 casks OF rum.
An unusually large proportion OF mission
aries
The number OF wealthy Americans WHO
rent moors and fishings inScotland is greatly
on the increase. A financially gifted man
of New York reckons the sum total expended
by his countrymen at no less than 960o, 4
year-this for rent alone.
A prominent Denver man got married the
other day. With somewhat unnecessary de-
tail the dispatch sent out stated that he mar
riei Colorado woman. The demon of mis-
chief who is always about on such Oc, asiuns
caused the dispatch to read that he married
"colOred woman.
A painter named Bellebon was accident
ally killed at Colquitt, Georgia, one day last
week while carrying heavy piece of timber
on his shoulder. While taking the piece
from wagon he stumbled and fell, and the
timber falling upon his neck. broke it, pro-
duclng almost instant death.
Louise Garnet Of Pullman, ILL.,, is suing
Horace +. Medbury of Providence, r. l.,
for $4,000 loaned hlm while they were en-
gagged to be married. Medbury, 1t is alleged,
used the money to such good advantage that
he became rich man and then refused to
carry Out the marriage contract.
For some years a record of storms, mag
neJic disturbances. ETC., has been kept at the
Berlin Postoffice. The results show that
underground wires are much less disturbed
by magnetic storms than overhead wires,
while, ON the other hand, accidents from
lightning are much less serious IN towns
where the overhead system prevails.
An ingenious photographer possesses a
camera which he beasts cost him but 81 20,
| So cents of which went for broken-dOwn
opera-glass, from which he got his lens.
His outfit of working tools comprised saws
| for % cents, hammers for Is, auger-stocks
for %, bits for 10 and jackplanes for 35.
Belle River, little village twelve miles
cast of Windsor. Ontario. is in a state of
| great excitement over the discovery OF nat
ural gas. Men were boring for water on Eli
Trudeau's property, and at depth of
eighty feet gas vein was struck. The bor-
| ing machinery was blown to pieces, and
when the gas was lighted tine flame shot up
fifty feet.
Mr.. Gottschalk Of New York owns the
only genuine and perfect holy shekel in the
world. The interesting relic Is about 34OO
years old, and was used in King SolomOn's
temple. Mr.. Gottschaik is on his Way to
| San Francisco to fulfill promise and show
| the shekel TO friend, who is relebf at,d
numismatist and has the largest cnilect;on
] in this country.