The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-11-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The Russian Government has decided that
in the future all its railroad trains shall be
lighted by electricity.
The latest fashion in the way of flower
decoration is to employ only one kind of
flower to ornament a table.
A patty Of expert oil-drillers has just
sailed from New York for India, where they
are wanted 10 search for oil.
The Hawaiian Government has applied to
the japanese Government for 50G0 more im-
migrants, and they will be sent.
Providence is to have statue of Robert
Burns, erected by the Scotch residents Of
that city, in Roger Williams Park.
A grain of musk will scent room for
twenty years, and at the end of that time
will not show that it has diminished in the
least.
Liverpool, England, has $50 miles of the
best paved streets in the world, and it costs
less than LOCO year to keep them in per-
feet repair.
Nearly 1900 horses are annually con-
sumed as food in Paris. In Vienna and
Berlin the annual consumption is about
6000 horses each.
A tunnel to Prince Edwards Island, across
Northumberland Straits, distance of 81
miles, is the next great engineering feat
talked of in Canada.
Standard time has been fully accepted in
Asia by not less than 100000 people, in
Europe by an almost equal number, and in
America by more Than 100000.
There were 1895 houses in Philadelphia
which were closed during the summer; 5605
were reported to the police. and of these
four only were entered and robbed.
The total length of the streets, avenues,
b0ulevards, bridges, Quays and thorough
fares of Paris is set down at 600 miles, Of
which nearly 200 are planted with trees.
The dynamo is replacing the battery to
such an extent in telegraphy that its use
will, 1t is thought, be universal in fey
years. 1t is both cheaper and more eff
Client
A Connecticut Judge has decided that
hotels conducted on the American plan have
the right TO charge guests for meals as long
as they occupy room, whether the meals
are eaten or not.
The Veretschagin collection of paintings,
which attracts SO much attention at the
Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, is
shortly to be broken up ana the pictures sold
at auction in New York.
''Pittsburg Phil" the turf plunger, is re-
ported to have made 100000 clear ON the
race-track this season. On some days his
earnings reached $4,000. while his losses
never exceeded S3000a day.
The increase Of about 1000, 900 people in
thirteen years in Spain is attributed in a
great measure to the success that has at
t,nded the changes in the hygienic condi-
ton OF the cities and towns.
At Budapest a monograph is now ex-
hiblted from which the voice of Louis Kos
suth can be heard on payment OF an entrance
lee. The voice OF the venerable revolution
ist is described as still sOnOrous in spite of
his great age
The Popular Science Monthly alludes to
the belief of some that as man in the savage
state has Tor the most part been largely, If
not wholly, carnvOrous, he will, with the
alxy
vegetarian or use only the roducts of aui-
mails, as eggs and milk, with vegetable food.
One of the electric-lighting companies in
Paris has introduced q travelling testing
room or ambulance laboratory for use when
repairing cables. The Van is fitted with a
battery and testing instruments, including a
phOtomettr. and Is large enough to hold TWO
persons. The plan has been in use since
April, and is found to work well.
An ingenious numismatic has devised an
ingenious method of exhibiting coins. which
is now used in English museums. The pull
ing OF lever rotates frame-containing
cards In which the coins are inserted-in
such manner that the diverse and reverse,
with a full description of each coin. are
shown at the will of the observer.
Eighty-two per cent of all public school
teachers are women. Men hold the chief
ofhces, however, in the National Educational
Association, though this year, for the first
IN, UoA'c, noMeS appear IN Tile llSt OIL
Vice, Presidents. They are also on the
Board OF Directors, but not among the Trus-
lees. They ought 10 lie everywhere. and
will be one of these times.
Apropos of the educational progress of
women in England, it is worthy of nnte that
at Birmingham there are forty-one women
ana only three men candidates for the Cam
bridge higher local examinations; at Brad
f0Id, tWenty-fOur women, one man: Leeds.
thirty-fve women, two men; at Manchester
Iorty-tw0 women, one man; at Liverpool,
fifty-nine women one man