The morning call., 1891-12-22
Switzerland has abolished national bank

Switzerland has abolished national banks.
Electric motors have been so greatly i'm
proved Of late that they will now pull near
ly So 600 pounds.
1t is Jos years since the British left New
York, but the AnElomanlacS have succeeded
in making British influence still factor OF
life in Gotham.
The condition of the French army is such,
according to Sir Charles Dixie, that in case
OF war with Germany the odds would be in
favor OF France.
Aluminium is found to be an excellent
material to use in the manufacture of beer
mugs, 1t will prevent the beer from be-
coming fiat for long time.
Claims amounting to upward of e100 have
been served upon the Cork Corporation in
respect of glass broken during the progress
of the late election by the rival national
factions.
The Hlndoos of Calcutta have set to the
music of Moody and Sankey hymns loath-
some language, which they present as speei-
mems of tn phrases sung in the mission
services.
Five great English war-ships are declared
to have gus which are unfit for service.
These range from 10 to 81 tons. The
French 75-ton guns, however, are said to be
satisfactory.
The old Wall family gave Wall street its
name. Lombard street in London was so
named because the Lombards, the FIST
LlUUcl -cDhD66Ib IN HeIe LuLOpO
first bankers.
Tiger bones are some of the queer things
in the commerce of China. They are used
as medicine, being accounted a kind Of tonic
which puts into the invalid a degree Of
tiger strength.
Professor Wiggin derides astronomical
calculations far enough to say that the
moon is 100000 miles distant from the earth
instead of 10000 miles, as has generally
been figured upon.
The rush has become feature OF college
life at Wellesley. Every girls college has
its peculiar yell. and it will not be long be-
fora college slang will eliminate in that ter
rihle oath, by gum!"
The successful transmission Of a powerful
current of electricity from Lauffen to
Frankfort has revived interest in the sug-
seston TO send a current Of equal intensity
from Niagara to Chicago.
The use Of the horse as motive power
throughout the country is rapidly diminish
ing. During the past year more than 5000
horses have been taken from the numerous
street-car lines in the country.
How long coffee was in use among East
ern nations before being introduced into
Europe is not known. Aleziri Alhambal1, a
noted Arabic author, states that it was first
made known about $40 of the Hegira.
The French naval estimates for 1892 pro-
vide for an Increase of the Mediterranean
navy from thirty to fifty vessels of the line,
and the formation Of new division of the
navy TO be known as the Squadron OF the
North.
No part Of Australia is so hot and so un-
healthy as TO forbid white settlement, and if
the strip OF low-lyipg coast lands in the
north be omitted. there is no part of it yet
c0ionlZed In which Europeans or Americans
cannot work.
On the Northern France Railway an i'm
portant experiment is about to be tried on a
In fFnG gutf. A
distance trains, are TO be warmed, and the
warmth is to be produced by means Of
boxes of acetate of soda.
a Trenton On. j. barber has six wives.
Ii they could only get him in quiet corner
and give HIM piece of their mind all to-
gether-but what terrOrs have the talk of
SIX poor, weak women for one abie-bodied
barber? lie would still have the last word.
Moonshiners' whisky seldom becomes a
week old, and very often it is drunk warm
from the still, having the effect of broken
glass on the palate. 1t is frequently adul-
thrated, tobacco being added to make it bite
aud rdttleweed to make 1t bead. In the
mounshine districts almost everybody drinks
linen and women, old and young.
Death snperstitions are rife in the West
Indies. To the people there everything out
OF the ordinary is sign" In Cuba a per-
son with sore or wound of any kind will
not look upon corpse, fearing that the
spot Will become ncurable. The run used
In washing dead body is, however. re-
garded as sure cure for all eye troubles.
Eighteen hundred pounds of gold is the
amount consumed annually for teeth fill
lngs IN this country, according to the esti-
mate OF French statistician. This is worth
about $500, eco, and is lost as effectuallv as
ii 1t were dropped into the ocean. The
question occurs, how long a time it will be
before the cemeteries will contain more
gold than the mines.
Before the remains OF Mrs James Mas
Ter were borne from her Mertztown Pa0
nome Tor burial, her coffin was opened in
the street so that her children might look
down from their window upstairs and for
the last time see her face. Two of them
as also their father, were too ill of tyuhoid
fever, of which Mrs. Masters died, to be
brought downstairs TO her funeral
AT the instance of several philantbronic
ladies OF high station Enemies of Tobacco
Smoking" have been formed in st. Peters
burg. Every member of such circle !"
pledges himself not TO smoke and to dis
courage smoking in others. The money
which such member would spend on to-
bacco or cigars from the time lie Joins the
circle TO September ], 1892, he paws 10 the
society, to be sent to the ADMINISTRATION
communities.