The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-11-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Tie population of the Fiji Islands is 123,-
| 600.
OF the $4,000 women teachers in France,
1000 are Sisters.
Only Y per cent of the population of
India can read and write.
Miss Braun, the organizer OF the German
barlnaids. has been exiled.
In Lubec. Me-, there is one place of wor-
ship to each 30 inhabitants.
Trains loaded with geese arrive daily at
Berlin from Russia. Ten thousand came
recently on single train On the CONT
nent the goose takes the place of the turkey
with us.
A gardener living near st. Louis pays
500 an acre yearly rent for six acres of
ground. He sold $1,000 worth of vegetables
from 1t this summer. the largest item being
tomatoes to the value of $500.
John Hartman of Warsaw, ILL.,. drove
over bluff 100 feet high into the Missis-
sippi River the other day. He was unhurt,
and his doctor says he would surely have
been killed if he had been sober.
A Paris paper publishes list of "Amerl-
can drinks" furnished at a hotel in that
city. There arc over sixty named, about
half OF them never heard of in America.
and lager beer is not on the list at all.
The ordinary posta ge-stamps cost the
Government q little more than 7 cents a
thousand, and are all made under contract
and by private firms. The stamped envel-
oDeS cost prOporiiOnately much more.
Plaster casts which are properly waxed
may be wiped off with a damp cloth, and
will last fur years without being injured
while an unwaXed one soon becomes Soied,
and it Is practically impossible to clean it.
A Southern exchange is the authority for
the statement that in Georgia settlement
is a school with twenty zone scholars, all
carrying the same surname-Dreggors
Aunt Tabitha DreggOrs is the grandmother
of the lot.
Twenty-six pippins picked from Edward
Roses apple tree near Bristol, Pa, weighed
26R pounds. They were bought by boarl-
lng-house keeper with twenty six in his fam
lily, aud made up into twenty-six mammoth
apple-dumplings.
The postage stamps sold every year the
world over far surpass in value the riches of
Jay Gould or the Rothschilds, and the post
age stamp industry of the world is one of
the great factors in the machinery which
moves the universe to-day.
Charles Il. Capen, master of the Boston
Latin School, has been connected with that
institution for forty years 1t is half
century now since he was himself pupil
there. Al that time Edward Everett Hale
was an Usher In the school.
AS a dancer the Kaiser is not success.
He is stiff and unbending as ramrod He
wnlrls with great rapidlty and everybody
on the floor gets out Of his way, not 50
much from res pect for royalty as to prevent
broken shins and torn costumes.
new Philadelphia society is called the
Modern Order of Old People. The men,
beers are required to frankly tell each other
their faults. AS far as known there are no
rules governing the settlement of disputes
resulting from differences OF opinion.
The brands OF tall hats thus far put out
by the leading matters Indicate that they
doubt that the time has yet arrived for
radical change in the block. On the other
hand the imported tiles all tend to large
uess and the bell shape Is most marked.
The New Jersey Postmaster who discoy-
cred that fifty-two tramps had camped in
his barn and who only caught two of the of
tenders naturally feels sore. Four per cent
is a miserably small proportion of captlre
in raid from which so much more was ex-
pected.
The ravenous sea continues to dpvour
great hunks OF the Jersey coast and the
more it absorbs the worse its temper seems
to get. This Is not to be wondered at for
the sandy soil Of Jersey is well calculated to
give even the monsters OF the deep the worst
form Of dyspepsia.
A Berlin merchant who foretold market
movements with astonishing success and
was maxi ing himself rich, is discovered to
have been IN league with chief telegraph
operator. Buth seams are now IN prison.
How many ingenious spectators honestly
belong in the same place?
This snake story comes from Mnine: A
farmer OF Cornish. on his way home from
shopping at the country store, dropped a
sheet of sticky fiy-paper, and the next morn
ing large brown snake was found stretched
over the sticky surface, making desperate
efforts to gain its freedom.
Miss Kate Minor, the Fourth Vice-Presi
dent OF the Board of Lady Managers of the
Worlds Fair, is Z successful suger-planter.
assisting her brother in the mana cement of
plantation embracing 5000 acres. She ex-
poets to exhibit at the fair creole kitchen
and an ATcadan settlement.
The Jeriph0 .Taffa and laruo,lau,
road through the Holy Land is progressing
very slowly. The Turks are very inefficient
contractors They perform the easier parts
of the work first, and then a rain-storm
comes along and washes it all away and it
becomes necessary to begin anew.
The British Admiralty claim to have pro-
duced in the new war-ship Blake the largest.
swiftest and most powerful cruiser in the
world. She has cost So, 500, 900, and if Off
cial hopes be confirmed she will be cheap AT
the price. She Is guaranteed to steam y
knots an hour. Her boilers will develop
20, 900 horse power, aud she has phenomenal
| cOa-carrying capacity.
Leuwenhock has computed that 10000
threads of the web of a ful-grown spider
are not larger than a single hair of a mans
beard. He calculates that when young
spiders begin to spin, 400 of their threads
are not larger than one from full-sized in
sect Ii this be fact. 100000 webs of a
young spider are not as large as a single
hair from a mans face.
The smallest known species Of hogs are
auartered at the London Geological Gar
dens They came from the southern part
of Australia and are known as ''the pigmy
hogs Of the Antipodes." They are well
formed. friSky and goOd-natured and about
the size Of a musk rat They are real hogs.
and not to be conf0unded with guinea pigs.
which are a species OF rodent.
An advocate, seeing that there was no
longer any use of denying certain charges
against his client, suddenly changed his
plan of battle in order to arrive at success
in another way. swell, be it So" he said
my client is a seoundrel and the worst
liar In the world" Here he was inter.
rupted by the Judge, who remarked:
"Brother B. you are forgetting your
self"