The morning call., 1890-07-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The sun yields 100000 times the light OF the
The word " its " only occurs once in the whole
OF The Bible.
London consumes over one hundred million
pounds OF butter d year.
Cocoa should never thleken in the cup; If it
does 1t shows tile presence OF starch OF some
Kind.
sensation has been produced in Heidelberg
by the IumOr that the Government may close
the university.
Small bank accounts are the fashion now, the
gded youth OF New York pleferilng TO pay
their .itle bulls by check.
Tie best shot of her sex must be the Countess
Maria YOU heus6y OF Bohemia, who on one day
last winter on her estate OF Chance shot 1873
hares.
President Carnot has signed a decree cancellng
reducing The punishments OF upward OF
seven y-two persons who had been Condemned
for their actions during the recent strikes.
An English fashion writer says: =" While the
lot OF lie dres>maker's apprentice IS not au en-
vIabe one. there are few trades for women that
offer such prizes IS making clothes for other
women"
A Towering plant has never been found within
the Antarctic cllcle; but ~ the Arctic region
There are 49, Kinds OF MOWERS Iheir coIors.
however, are not 50 bright or varied as those oil
warmer regions.
Pennsylvania underiakers have just wound up
their convention at Erie. These little affairs
should D. encouraged. for il IS a remarkable fact
thai during their absence not single death &C.
CURED IN any place from which delegate was
sent.
Overhead electric wires SHOULD never, says
Herr Semens, have more than 500 volts pres
sue; Underground conductors with transform
eTS, no more than 1000 volts. The transformers
and conductors Should, however, be tested up TO
1000 volts.
The Rayarisn peasantry is still loyal to the
memory NJ poor King Ludwig. What II he did
10000, GOO marks ?'' said a peasant to
tourist lie other day. What is that for a King2
All Ibis money was spent III Bavaria aud eyeIy
trade got profit oct Of lI!''
he ability Of the electric system OF street-ca
propulsion to handle enormous loads was demon
strated in many places during Decoration week
In Buffalo on the following Sunday the four.
electric cars of The street-rallwaY company car
RED over $4,000 passengers.
The Russian War DEPARTMENT, 1t is reported,
is considering the advisa bility OF acquiring the
sole night TO new shirt OF mail. which IS said TO
Dr. extraordinarily light, imperyons TO bullets or
saLer lhrusts, and cheap 10 manufacture. A
Russian General Is the inventor.
Among the various charity societies Of Mos
COW there is one for the endowment OF poor
brides. The funds OF the society are constantly
increased by the gifts or requests Of benevolent
persons, but only the interest OF Tie money Is
used Tor the designated purpose.
letter, recommending the bearer as an
honest, sober, truthful and industrious young
man, was found In the pocket OF young fellow
arrested Tie other night IN New York for steal
ing silver watch from the pocket OF a slumber-
lDg Italian vendor Ia upper Broadway.
Tie Parisians ate expecting TO be able shortly,
by dropping hall franc piece into slot. TO bear
devised an apparatus for this purpose, which ii
has named the " Theaterphone." and 1t is pro-
posed TO Introduce II into clubs and hotels.
In a wafer telephone recently patented In
England the apparatus employed for tile cOllec-
tiUu OF sound Il ansmltted through water between
ships has been improved by constructing the ap-
paIatus so that any pressure caused by The ill.,
creased density Of Tie water has no effect upon
IT,
A census enumerator In Florida got Into a
quarrel with neigbbor whose house lie was
visiting fOr census statistics and stabbed him TO
death With kuiIe. he must have felt very
badly aiterward when he reflected til al lie not
only had committed a crime but had also lost 3
GEMS.
The regular running OF trains between Baku
aud 1lis on tue Trans-Caucaslan line was
stopped for over an hour on May 13 lib because
immense masses Of locusts covered the tracks.
large gang OF laborers was required TO clear
lie way. Now there is . sweeEIng-machine at
tached to each Train.
There are 2OS clubs In the city OF New York,
and very lew have less than 200 names on their
rolls. SUme are purely social, while others mix
politics religion literature athletics with
sociabiliiy Some OF them own great buildings
aud maintain expensive cuisines. Nearly every
fourth adult man III New York is a member OF
club.
Experiments made In Sweden by NJ. Sandberg
on The strength of iron rails during winter have
shown thai steel rails containing over per cent
oil carbon are apt 10 break In cold weather. In
Tact, the result OF his Investigations points to the
use Of rails having less carbon than tnIs-say 3
per ceDt-ln countries as cold IN winter as Nor
way and Sweden.
An Englshmsn who had been travelling 10 the
West says that the word mississippi" always
anectS him 10 laughter, because II looks so drOil
with Its rs and SIS and p's tTeading on each
others heels Maybe IL does look little funny,
remarks The New York Tribune. but IL is isn't
hall ridiculous as "BOgelly-cumswank' and
similar names common In England.
Mrs Ann Stokes of Urbana Depot, Ohio, tele-
graphed 10 the Pension Bureau few days ago In
some alarm that her property was abont 10 be
sold uuder an execution aud asking II her pc IL
sion could not be granted and her home saved.
Next day lie Commissioner telegraphed: =" Pen
sion claim allowed. You viii receive about
$1,000. Certificate will be issued to-day"
HCases of lead poisoning among tie jacquard
neavers In swiss factory were traced to the
dust from leadeu weights which are used by The
WeaYeTs To carry lhe threads OF their warp.
Alter The varnish has been rubbed of the
weights the leads begins To wear away and falls
in fine particles among the dust on The floor In
some cases Tie dust was as much as 56.S6 per cent
lead aud even when The utmost care had been
taken Or 10 per cent Of lead was found in IL.