The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-11-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The issue of S1000-Treasury notes is ca lied
the edition de luxe.
Sunday is now generally observed in
Japan as day of rest.
The number of Italians in New York City
is roughly estimated at 10000.
Dublin is better provided with open spaces
than any other town in the United King
dom.
Berliners may be a little slow, but they
have buried all their telephone and te!e-
graph wires.
In some foreign cities there are men hired
to attract crowd to their employers win
dows by staring and gazing into them.
1t is said that in the river approach to
Lake Nicaragua and in the lake itself are to
be found what are said to be the only fresh
water sharks known.
The mines along the Union Pacific Rail
way now produce over 100000 tons of coal
annually and the owners are preparing Tor
mnch larger output.
The loveliest summer resort on earth is
probably the plateau OF Newera ELLA, the
Kings Summit, as the natives cali it. in
the highlands If Southern Ceylon.
A single hair can support weight of two
ounces, and is so elastic that it may be
stretched to one-thlrd of Its entire length,
and then regain its former size and condition.
1t is said that in New York, there are
professional blackeye c0ncealers, where
those employed are fully occupied in paint
ing black eyes with mixsare OF white and
red paints.
A rug valued at 5000 was sold in London
recently. 1t was about thirteen feet square
aud had about 256 stitches TO the inch. The
material was wool, combed, not cut. from
the animal
Near-sig is overrunning the
French people as much as the Germans.
Among the senior boys in the different
French colleges more than 46 per cent are
near sighted
Think of living for thirty-one years as the
guest OF the same hotel. That is the record
made by boarder in the New York Fifth
avenue Hotel, who has reen there continu-
ously since August u, 1859.
At Amherst, n. S., recently Rev. DIR.
Hartley lost a valuable ring. He adver-
tIsed, but got no tldngs, until dream re-
vealed to him the fact that the ring was I'M
der his bed and he found it on one of the
Stats.
A young man of Menominee, Mich, who
surrendered $500 of embezzled money and
was let off on a, count II his friends, re-
quested of his employer a letter of recon-
nlendation 10 assist him in getting another
place.
One O tie largest forests in the world
stands ON ice. 1t is situated between Ural
and the Okhotsk sea. A we'll was recently
dug in this region when it was found that
at depth OF 116 meters the ground was still
frozen.
1t is said by New York writer that $1,000
a week is modest estimate of the cost of
four or five dinners weekly for any one who
in the social swim. But who would be so
yulger as to.sive four or five set dinner-par-
ties weekly.
Aroostook's potato crop this year is esti-
mated as worth at least Sl.200, 600, many
claiming that the Maine farmers will re-
ceiye even more than this fer it. The Aroo-
stock starch factories will grind up about
100000 worth OF potatoes this fail.
German teachers are so poorly paid that
the number is being reduced to an incon-
venient extent, and in the coming session
the Prussian Landt3g will have to take the
matter in hand After preparation OF five
years the teacher finds position which pays
about $50 year less than any trained
artisan may obtain.
A negro woman apparently died in Shreve-
port, La, but when the funeral procession
arrived at the cemetery next day she rose I'D
in her coffin and wanted to know what was
going on. The muurnerS were terror
stricken and dispersed in hurry, leaving
tile woman 10 take care of herself. She is
now as well as ever.
In New York it is estimated, according to
the output, that the annual consumption is
fifteen whole pies for each man. woman and
child within the city. There are twenty
establishments that bake pies exclusively.
OF these one company turns out $500 pies
DAY, or 2,obo,oO0 pies year, not counting
Sundays, aud another averages 1000 a day,
or. 2,191 goo year.
Kansas has more miles of railroad than
all the New England States put together.
She has 1l50 more than New YORK, whose
population and wealth surpaSS Kansas four
to one. she has more than the great States
of Pennsylvania, Iowa or Texas. Kansas
to-day has 1874 miles of railroads Illinois
alone surpasses her with 5000 miles. Next
comes Iowa with 1854 miles. Following
her is PENNSYLVANIA with S2l4. then comes
Texas with S2l0 miles.
Tie probabilities of future scarcity of
gutta percha have been straightforward
to the French Government, which accord
ingly sent scientist (M. Sernllas) to the
Malay peninsula and adjacent islands to in
yestigate and report on the matter. NJ.
Serullas states that until some substitute is
discovered gutta percha is absolutely indiS-
pensable to submarine telegraphy, for other
gums cannot be used for the purpose with
any practical results as they do not possess
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