The morning call., 1890-09-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Krupp guns cost $40 per ton.

| Up to the present 100000 persons have
visited the Edinburgh Exhibition.
| In a short time Coney Island will be the
| only place not visited by the Kaiser.
| A statistician has estimated that court
| ships average three tons of coal each.
| There is said to be an alarming increase
| in the death rate in Naples the last few
| months.
The whole worlds produce of salt per
annum is 100000 tons. England produces
| the most.
Devices for saving ice are in demand.
| There is none better than wrapping it in
| newspapers.
| rent OF flats in New York because of their
| multiplicity.
The father of a family was seen lately
! bearing eight OverShues of assorted size
"neSted' ike Chinese puzzle boxes.
| In Liverpool the mode of landing passen-
gers from the Atlantic steamers is just
| about one hundred years behind the age.
| One day in July last there were over
| seventy American lnvalids at Carlsbad, each
| and every one under "the treatment cure"
In the Metropole, London, the under
| ground railway goes under the reading
| room, which Is startling surprise to some
| visitors.
| lrreverent Congressman call the big silver
| mace with which the House is sometimes
| the goose"
| A well-known countess in England re-
| Gently paid a board bill for herself and
! t~enty-three cats, over forty goats, two dogs
| and monkey.
By the late cyclone in Finland, almost un-
| precedented in so northerly a region, some
| 10000 trees have been blown down between
| NlborS and Vimanstrand.
The export of canaries from Germany is
| very large. Every year about 10000 of
these birds are sent to America, 1900 to En-
gland and about 20O0 TO Russia.
A bell. cast recently for the Kharkow
Cathedral, contains 6S per cent of pure
silver 1t weighs 646 English pounds. and
its vibrations last several minutes.
A delinquent subscriber presented
Georgia editor with a beet weighing twenty
pounds. and the editor publicly thanked the
donor for 80 characteristic gift"
1t appears that the great majority of per-
sons committing suicide IN japan are over
30 years of age. Next on the list come per-
sons between 20 and 80 years of age.
The Photographic newspaper is the next
thing in journalism. Paris already has one
which deals with all sorts of subjects in the
most thorough manner. London Is likely 10
have one very soon.
The japanese suffer from many special
diseases, due TO Il too exclusive diet ON fish
and rice and to the want of exercise, espe-
cially from indigestion, but they escape a
great many by their exquisite personal
Cleanliness
The Cinnamon of New York have given
to their joss, at 16 Mott street, a new TIM
brella which they had brought over from
China. 1t Is covered with dragons and other
monsters with glittering eyes, and is said to
have cost $500.
Rouen and Havre are making great eff
forts to prevent Paris from becoming sea-
port by the deepening of the channel Of the
River Seine. These fiOurishing seaportS
realize that their trade would be gone If
Paris should become port.
The "Old Witch House," in Salem, Mass,
+ sta s8df-- Just as in the days OF Haw-
..ircunstsuce, almost opposite K S, n
Il door q sign witch reads liEe ll.5- 'tIar-
i>yoyap. aud z lsiness Med ava
she hansmsn IS nan named
ears 4 bIai5aEs- !.ll! !aa.lorpl with
oo52. H I.dd whts elass. las
never had hang woman, tot the ths--l
oeror th.u s stranzulation is a punishment
| winch shcild be reserved for males.
| A youns Wisconsin man. a 2, Hanson /
/ by lame, who is now resident & Cppel-
| hagen, b IS made an nfenil0I tilat is likely
| to inauaurate an era ~ printing, Re calls
! it a colograph. By it two or three, or even
| more colOrS can be printed on the same pa
per at one impression.
The Bradford (Fla.) County Commission
ers pay $50 month for man to guard the
| county Jail, and when the Sheriff has pris.
oner that he is afraid will get away, or one
/ whose life may be in danger, the county
pays his expenses TO some Sate Jail instead
| of using the money to repair the Jail at
| home.
! The island of Tristan, in the south Attain
| tic, is inhabited by eighty people, the patri-
arcl! of the party, Peter Green, Il verltable
Robinson Crusoe, having oeen there for
ffty-two years. He has just sent letter
complaining that some OF the groWn-np
children show desire to leave their lovely
| island home.
The religion of Dahomeyland is to the ef-
| feet that any soldier killed while fighting
white men goes straight to heaven to be-
! come n handsome young man OF twenty
| FIVE who is provided with fifteen wives and
Ali the game he can eat for 1850 years.
| Hinder this belief hundreds of men do their
| best to get killed.
German and Swiss enthusiasts for the
| "nniverSal language of VOlapuk" have just
| held n festival at Constance, at when an In
| teresting feature was dramatic perform
ance ut The theater in Volapuk. This was
more elaborate entertainment than the
Woiomkers assembled in Boston could
undertake according to the Journal.
One of the letter-carrierS i'll Franklin,
pa saws that the idea Of having their mail
delivered is such novelty to some OF ihe
neOple along his route that, although they
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actual correspondence, they answer news
paper advertisements and devise various
other plans for the purpose Oh receiving
something at every de livery.
Same wonderful work has lately been done
in the removal of diseased parts OF the
human body by electrolys's' DT. Aprasn.
who has paid special attention to this oranch
of surgery, states that he has removed
tumors and cane ers with ease by electricity
where no snrsical INTERFERENCE win me
knife was possible, cases which nave Dalleu
all medical and surgical treatment.
In western town the 0ther day wv
funeral professions met IN q narrow stTeet
and the driver of each hearse refused tS
give way, resulting in blockade whlcl
lasted for honrs. Meanwhile the somewhat
hilarious mourners passed the time in songs
The names of the songs are net given, pu
| nothing could be more appropriate than
a Body Meet a Body" suggests the Pltts-
burg Bulletin.
One of the longest telegraph lines in tn!
world is to be opened this month IN Soutl
America. This overhead electric railwa.
will be 1856 miles long, and VIII connec
Buenos Ayres with Montevideo. !ts oo1ee :,
is to allow Of travelling letter boxes to be DIS
patched every two hours between the w
cities. The line will cross the La Plat
estuary, in that part where II is nlneteel
miles wide. The two wires Will pe supported
on either side OF the river Wy WV 'o"ei
nearly 270 feet high.
Lightning Episode.
A co!ored man about 40 years OF age en-
tered police headquarters yesterday with III
head tied up, and said to the Sergeant: :,
BOSS, want your opinyun. Look at di
leN head and tell me- What you think of il"
II think somebody gave You pretty goo
., wack with a club" replied the officer.
e. Was it club?"
le "hwas weapon of some sort"
sc "Nasn't | hit by lIghtnlnS?
"lihtning, no!o
Wasn't hit by lightning las ,nite?"
"Hsw could YOU be, when there was
thunderstorm last night?"
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