The morning call., 1890-11-28
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An ordinary man during an average life
! will drink about TO hogsheads of liquids.
They have high time in Paris now with
that enormous clock ON the top Of the Eiffel
| Tower.
A miser who died without heirs at Lima,
| Ohio; a few days ago, left a fortune of
| $4,000. -
England's military garrison in Ireland Is
numerically larger than the regular army Of
| the United States.
! The people of northern Europe consume
more alcohol. per capita, than their neigh
| bors in the south, for the reason that, rela:
| lively, they are not so well fed. !: -
| By count and estimate, it is said. that
shrimp would every year produce about
| $500 eggs, praRn $500 n lobster 81 500, a
| flonn Ter 1873, 407, mackerel Asa col, herring
1880. cod 1856, $50. ling 10. 24S.625 ::
A huge brewery is to be established at
FrIedrichsrnh, In which Prince Bismarck is:
with some Hamburg capitalists, 10 be inter.
eStsd. IL con be predicted in advance that
Bismarck beer" will he very popular. :.
1t is again proposed to put new. tax OH
/ foreigners for the privilege of residing in
France. When the suggestion was lately
made there ensued wransle among the
statesmen, and the matter went over
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Order of the Bath; it is equally bestowed
upon officers of army, navy, diplomatic and
/ civil service, difference in the badge dis
tiDguishing them, all using red ribbon.
There are $1,000 Masons in Georgia, which
has a larger proportion of Masons-.in its
population than any other State in the.
Union. AT a recent meeting of the Grand
Lodge thirty new charters were granted. =
A magnificent specimen of the white peIf-
can was shot lew days ago at sea, OH
Whitstable, England. This bird is a native
J OF Africa and India, and is. also found in
the southern provinces of Eastern Europe.
1t is said that London society women have
of late attended murder and divorce trials,
at which revolving testimony has been given;
in such large numbers that the Judges have
been obliged TO order them from the courts.
l. When a person wishes to leave Japan
csc theatre temporarily he is not gwen
pass check, as in this country. The; door
keeper takes the person by the hand and
stamps on it the stamp of the establishments
A gentleman lost his watch at race.
course in Washington the other day and a:
detective was sent for The officer made a
tour of the crowd and in fifteen minutes had
captured the thief and recovered the watch.
The Irish Order of st, Patrick was fnsti-
tuted by George Ill, 1888. Twenty-Five
knights, besides the sovereign and Lord:
Lieutenant Of Ireland. complete its num-
bers. Sky-blue is the color OF the mantle
and ribbon. -:
A ball was drawn 1895 times out of an
urn containing an equal number,of whit !.
and black balls, with the result that 20G6
drawings give white and 2030 a black: ball,
so that out of 1000 balls there were 504wlilte
aud 1876 black.
Aburning taper uncovered for a single in,
slant, during which it does not lose power
amounting 10 the one-thousandth'0 of agfain,
would fill with light sphere four1niles in
diameter SO as to be visible from every part
of tine compass. -
..Thirty-two chamois was the result Of the
recent trip of the Kaiser Wilhelm with the
Emperor of Austria and the King Of Sax0ny
in MurZSteg. AS sportsman aud Shot, the
monarch of Germany was inferior. to his
royal companions. -. -
Among the measures devised by the Rus
sian Ministry of the Interior to prevent de-
structive fires in villages and small towns Is:
law making it compulsory for every
house-owner to have two rows OF trees:
planted arohnd his house. :.
There has been so much trouble in 'Cheso:
kee County, Iowa, caused by the resignation
of teachers for matrimonial purposes the
past year. that the School Board how're
Quires every teacher to sign contract nit
to get married during the school year. -: :.
Upon the rumOr that the Vienna brewers
had formed an alliance to raise the price,of
beer, member of the Town Council movFd
that tue municipality should erect a. com
munal brewery, lin order to protect the
Viennese from INSCRIPTIONS speculation. ;:
1t seems to be hardly so well known as 1t.
| deserves that the sole is a very chameleon;
| among fishes. Like the leopard BIZ cannot:
change his spots, though he can vary, their
shade; bur, unlike the Ethiopian, he can
| change his complexion, and that to mar
Vicious extent: -. =.
| Careful experiments go to show that for:
| the maximum efficiency of mind and body
| Of no nj pnpnlatinp m thu M hair
! countries Of Europe and III the United
| States meat or animal products of SINE
| kind should constitute at least two-thirds pf
| the total supply.
Thrty-four years ago the first experiment
| with telescopes at high altitude was made
| at Teneritfe by Pazzi Smyth far upon the
| lava-covered side of Teyde, and tire account
| of his residence and successful observations
| above the clouds forms part of every as
| Economical library.
| PhiladelphianS who have such pleasure in
/ obituary notices in their favorite PAPERS are
| surprised and chagrint.d TO learn that at the
| settling of an estate the undertaken got
| S217 81, the monument man received $3.50
| and newspaper man was allowed 81 20 for
| an obituary notice.
A Lopden gentleman recounts a some
what surprising experience in endeavoring
to engage a cOachman. Three applicants
were found suitable, but refused the place
because the family did not use livery. 1--WE
suits of clothes year were to be furnished,
but it was livery or nothing.
Net few of the phrases in use at this
day originated with Lyly and are found in
in $780, Among them might be mentioned
Caught mapping" "a crooked stick Dr
none" "brown study" Catching birds BY
putting salt on their tails etc.
The meteorological observatory at the
Massachusetts Agricultural College has re-
l1ttAA lft-n rNf m
for the measurement of the electric peteii-
/ TALLY of the atmosphere. This instrument
is the only one of Its kind IN the United
States and one Of the few in the world.
The percentage of Danish wid0wers To
bachelors marrying in the years lSIS-S2 was
SIS per cent as against 8; and white unt II
100 bachelors of % WHO reached 45, II r.
manned unmarried, out of 100 widoWers II
the same age age there was only one. 4
similar tendency shows itself among widows.
Against the ever-growing evil OF usuty
the municipal councils of many small towns
Of Russia have established iawn.heusrs, IN
which money is loaned ut very low rate oil
interest. 1t Is remarkable, say tile ST.
Petersburg dailies, that small country towns
have started this movement while our cal'-
| iial has no such an institution YET, anu the
Moscow Municipal Council Is just now
/ beginning to think of establishing one.
| = Platinum and silver Can each be drawn
| into wire many times smaller than a human
| hair The former metal has been drawn in.
/ to wire so line that twenty seven of them
I twisted together could have been inserted
into the hollow of hair; that is, if human
being or a human-lnade machin. could be
found minute and precise enough for such
delicate undertaking.
The most complex Of all the animal It's
sues is the brain. The fibers Of one single
optic nerve have been counted under a
microscope to the number of about three
hundred thousand, The number in the
brain must therefore be immense. So. with
| regard to cells; they are countless. Ne
| method OF. science has been able to count the
| cells in single square qnart-r of an inch oil
| the outside covering of the brain.
The method by which the sole searches enc