The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-12-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The ptarmigan is noted among birds for
having triple mOult, with three distinctive
dresses.
The latest news from Stratford-on-Avon
Church Is that crosses are being sold there,
made from the wood of the old gallery.
An English paper says that stage curtain
was first used In the Curtain or Courtain
Theater that stood near ShoSeditch in about
1900.
The engines Of the large ocean steamers
make about 100000 turns in crossing. the
Atlantic between New York and Liver
pool.
The credit of being the first place where
the lymph was used in this country goes to
Yale College. The crimson must dip its
eolors.
Six boys Of one Augusta (Me.) family drew
their pensions last week, they all having
gray-headed old men.
Marshall Pass, on the Denver and Rio
Grande Railroad, 1881 feet above the sea
level, Is the highest point crossed by any
railroad inside the limits of the United
States.
Some German newspapers are venerable
years old, the Magdeburg Zeitung is 2l2
years old and ninety-eight others are over
100 years old.
In 1894 it viii be 1000 years since Hungary
was established as an independent Govern
ment. There Is movement among the
Hungarians to celebrate that anniversary
with great pomp.
wet silk handkerchief tied, without
1oldlng, over the face is complete security
against suftecati0n from smoke. 1t permits
free breathing and at the same time ex-
cludes the smoke from the lungs.
A Russian peasant named Namischeff en-
tered the barn of usurer to whom he owed
money and hanged himself upon the door,
writing upon it with chalk the words This
pays Off my Indebtedness to you"
The Luxembourg at Paris, which has for
some time been overcrowded, is at length to
be enlarged A new gallery twenty metres
long Is 10 be erected along the Rue Waugh
rard, detached from the main building.
The most expensive Legislature in the
world is that OF France 1t costs annually
about So, 100000 The Spanish Parliament
costs S250.G00. the Italian $3.50, Geo. the Bel
gan S20o,O00. the Portuguese S150,000
There must be an inexhaustible supply of
dogs somewhere in Burmah. The munich
panty Oh Mandalay has been killing them at
the rate OF 1000 month and yet there is
said to be no diminution of the numbers.
The Salvation Army has a revenue of
$4,000 year. The War Cry has circu-
latlon oil 100000 week, and there are close
on thirty newspapers at home and abroad
attached to The service of the organization.
The best magazine rifle of the war, and
one that still ranks high as weapon of cav
airy, Is the Spencer rifle, patented by an
American in 1862 and supplied in large num-
bers to our sailors and our troopers in 1868.
The curious discovery has recently been
made that vegetarlaus are never affected
with seaSlcknesS. NJ Ghany says that per-
sons who have never eaten meat are proof
against the poison of the most venomous SER
penis.
By the method of spectrum analysis re-
searches have revealed the existence of
TO- 70.
ing matter OF eggs, to the admixture OF
which in certain proportions all their tints
are due.
About twenty years ago the Japanese
author, kioyte Bakin, completed a novel
upon which he had been at work for 38
years. 1t comprises LOG volumes, and is said
to illustrate all classes of japanese society
and life.
When the Empress of Austria desires to
travel incognito she passes as "Mrs.,Nichol-
son OF Corfu" Ofcourse no one presumes to
90 behind the returns, but 1t is noticed that
nothing is too good for Mrs. Nicholson of
Corfu when she travels.
Maine vessel put into Gloucester.
Mass. on Monday, having on board a novel
cargo. 1t consisted of 400 Christmas trees.
She had deck-load which filled her deck al
most completely from stem to stern, pre-
sentlng solid mass of evergreen.
An Australian paper alleges that the late
Earl OF Carnarvon acquired 100000 acres in
Australia during his colonial tour of 1887,
that the Duke of Sutherland owns 100000
acres, the Duke of Manchester 100, 600. and
Lord Brassey 10000 in the same colony.
Canadian sardines are to be brought to
Europe in hopes of competing with the
Mediterranean and Breton product. Im-
mense quantities of sardines are caught on
the New Brunswick Coast, and this year is
SO large that the fish are almost unsaleable.
The Cherokees are probably the most In.
telligent Of the American Indians. John
Ross, the present Treasurer of the Cherokee
nation; Bushyhead, Boudinot and others Of
them are college graduates or have been
educated in the East, aud don't indulge in
the Sioux ballet.
The receipts of the Passion Play Mt Ober-
ammergau were over 700, COO marks (e35, OOO),
or double as much as ten years ago. The
salaries of the players-who numbered about
zoo in all are small. Mayer (he chief
actor received ESQ for the season, as he did
ten years ago. The leader of the choir and
Calphass each receive $40; Peter and Plate,
20 each; and the others less in proportion,
down to the cock, who only gets e. for
Growing the whole summer