The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-11-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The personal estate of the Due de Mont
pensier has been sworn at nearly eleven
million pounds sterling.
A little salt sprinkled over the surface of
a mustard plaster will enable the patient to
keep it on for hours without much suffer-
ing
The Leaning Tower of Pisa is 1873 feet
high, and is, if the cornice be included, Is
feet inches out of the perpendicular. The
walls at the base are Is feet thick.
Want of wholesome and adequate food
docks one-quarter, one-third, or one-half
from the natural term of the industrial force
for all those who come to mans estate.
Sheriff Alison is authority for the state
ment that in the city Of Glasgow alone 10000
people get drunk every Saturday night, and
crime has increased six times faster than
population.
The Italia and Lepanto, Of the Italian
Navy, are two of the largest warships ever
built, they are 400 feet long, IA feet broad
and possess mean draught of water ex-
ceedng 80 feet.
In 1881 Belfast had 20S, 100 inhabitants;
Dublin, 249, co.; Cork, 80, l24. In 1871 Belfast
stood at ia, 412. Dublin at 346,326. The de-
crease of the one and the increase of the
other are remarkable.
physician has compiled some very
elaborate statistics to demonstrate that men
Of thought live, on an average, three years
and a half longer than men in the ordi-
nary vacations OF life.
A recent survey has established the num-
Der of glaciers in the Alps at 1155, of which
249 have a length of more than Az miles,
The French Alps contain IA glaciers, those
of Italy Is, Switzerland AL and Austria 462.
The population of Quebec is about ], 5OO.-
600, of whom 1.20O, 600 at least are French in
blood, language, sentiment and instincts.
A man being prosecuted by one of his
brothers and defended by another on a
charge of assault with deadly weapon is
the latest legal novelty in the West.
Simplicity in living strengthens not only
the body. giving it great muscular power
and endurance, but purifies the mind,
enabling vital force to be accumulated.
Take in your hand a crystal of quartz, a
stick of deal, daisy. an acorn, and you will
not find in them single element of matter
that is not also found in your physical
frame.
The highest church spire in the world has
lust been completed. 1t is that of the
feet high. The top of the cross on the dome
of st. Peter's, Rome, is 44S feet above the
pavement
The slave population of the country was
zoos 043 in $780, 24S7 355 in 1910, 800, 1913 in
1850 and 8. 953. 760 in 1860. Missouri had u.s.
O91 slaves in 1880, SO, 240 in $780, S7422 in 1850
and ,931 in Chicago.
A young lady artist, whose summer sketch
ing t0uls in this country have been copsid-
erably interfpred with by the predatory in
cursiOns of ants and other insects, finds that
by sprinkling circle of cayenne pepper
around easel and camp-stool she is left un-
molested.
In the most flourishing period OF Rome,
under Vespasian, about 20 A. D., 1t had a
population of / 300. 900; in 1856 A. d., 1t Ind
100000; in 1877 only 1900; under Leo X,
4OOOO; in 1887 about %, 600; In 1871 it rose to
244,O0O; in 1881, 100000. and in 1889 more
than 100000.
In England and Wales, out of 26,954 food
samples which were recently analysed, 1896
were found to be adulterated. This is equal
to liz per cent, percentage lower than in
any previous year since 1883, when it was
under II. Nearly oDe-half Of the samples
taken we're Of milk. and the percentage re-
ported against was 1872. Taking London by
itself, 1t was 21.2 per cent, which compares
with 119 in Leeds, Ill in Sheffield, 93 in
Liverpool. 80 in Manchester and Sc in Sal
ford.