The morning call., 1891-01-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST,

ITEMS OF INTEREST.
a chimney 125 feet in height is to be
$1,000.
One hundred and five Americans visited
summer.
In Paris there are $1,000 gaslights, so that
1t Is just 100 times better lighted than it was
century ago.
Salt has been found near Annapolis,
kans., at depth Of $40 feet. The vein is
240 feet thick.
A stock company with capital of 81, Ooo,-
GOO is to reopen an old-time mica mine at
Warren, n. II.
The average Wellesley College girl weighs
1I9R pounds and is a Iritie over 3 feet
Inches III height.
Into the streets of Denver SIS, oOo0 600 in
gold and silver coin are shoVeled from the
mountains every year.
The wagon and carriage manufacturers in
ST. LOUIS have formed trust with pro-
visions against cutting rates.
lie leading lumber concerns of Georgia
have organized trust to control the worlds
supply OF long-leaf yellow pine.
Vassar College points with pride to the
fact that no graduate of that Institution has
ever been divorced from her husband.
The celebrated variable star Algol mas a
diameter of 1,l16,000 miles, or 256, 900 miles
greater than the diameter of our sun.
A New York doctor says there are millions
OF bacilli and bacteria on street car straps,
and advises people not to hang 10 the straps.
The fifty Yale graguates in Toxic. Japan,
are the astonishment OF the natives for their
boat-rowlng and prodigi0us kicking powers,
Maine men do some strange things. The
owners of an unsuccessful pants factory
are converting 1t into maple syrup factory.
Lately an electrical apparatus has been
i,,tI fnr oil,
and other machines and motors instsntan-
eously.
Sidney Ann White of Sedalia, Mo-, is LOG
years Old, weighs 80 pounds and was a
slave to George Boone, a brother of Daniel
Ba0ne.
Oyer 100 species Of fish abound along the
coast Of Uruguay, and more than 200 spe-
cies of insects have been classified WITHIN its
borders.
Tough paper is made by mixing chloride
OF zinc with the pulp. The more concen-
trated the zinc solution the tougher will be
the paper.
The magpie. as though self-conscous that
its own thieving habits may be Initiated by
ITS neighborS, surrounds its nest with
hedge OF thorns.
1t is rnmOred that the Farmers Alliance
IS talking OF buying the Springfield Reaper
" otks and running 1t in competition with
the harvester trust.
The sociable grosbeak of South Africa
joins nest to nest until the tree is said to
break down under the acculrgks.ed weight
OF tbs common edifice.
Six boys of one Augusta Me) family
drew their pensions last week. they all hay
ing served through the late Civil War, being
now gray-headed old men.
Cuttings Of the Mexican vanilla plant will
become rooted in about a month, but do not
bear fruit until the third year They con.
tinue to bear for about thirty years.
Thew are cutting a good deal of ina davvp
in Maine nowadays. Maine papers declare
that 1t Is very fine ice, remarkably Graz snS
sound. There IS every indication of big
crop.
According to Chinese legend the virtues
OF tea were discovered by the mythical En-
peror Ginning, s737 Is. G., to whom all ag-
ricultural and mechanical knowledge is
traced.
CellulOid in solution is now being extern
slvely used us a lacquer for all kinds of fine
metal work and as good varnish, with re-
suits that are said to be superior 10 the old
| methods.
The most expensive thermometer in this
country IS in use at the Johns Hopkins Unit
verSity. 1t is known rs Professor Rowland's
| thermometer, and Is valued at $4,000. It's
absolutely perfect
A royal proclamation was published in
England a week ago calling in by February
2S, 1891, all gold coins not of the present
reign. After that date all such coins will
not be legal tender.
Poiato-growing experiments in France
show that the crop from whole seed Is ABOUT
700 pounds per acre more than that from cut
seed, allowing the difference in weight be-
tween the two sorts!
Woman lives longer than man, goes in
sane less numerously, commits suicide one
third as often, makes one-tenIh the demand
on the public purse for support III Jail, pris-
onS and almshouSes.
In hotels the life of a napkin is put down
as three months, provided il is of extra good
material. A sheet lasts six months, and
tablec,Oth depends FORTS existence upon the
care that is taken of it.
The largest waves to be found are off the
Cape OF Good Hope, where at times there
are not over half a dozen to be found to the
mile. But they are not at all dangerous CON-
pared with other places.
The large bronze for the soldiers monu-
ment at Portland, Me-, designed by the
sculptor Simmons, was successfully cast at
Rome last month. 1t Will be IN Foruahu
some time during the spring.
At a recent attempt at "sweil recep-
ton, in Torrington, Conn, the hoSteSs was
much cnagrined to find that some OIL tnoSe
nresent nut sugar aud milk in the cups Of
hamilton. supposing it to be coffee. or tea.
mo less than dozen States" says the
Detroit Free Press, ARE making ready to
follow in the footsteps of Minnesota and
enact law TO compel the officials on Sleep
ing-cars 10 close the upper berths when not
occupied"
1t was an old superstition that hiding a
lock of hair in a tree would cure a tooth
ache, and relic of this was found the other
day in Porter, Me-. when in cutting down a
white-Oak tree lock of hair was found
under the bark
The carving Of hard woods, as we'll as the
decorative cutting Of stone, has been brought
to high degree of perfection in this coun-
try, and only the best class of European
work equals that put into comparatively ex-
penSive buildings here.
House decorators say that the beantlul
Quartered oak, so much in use now, IS not
the expensive thing that .uniniormed pei,
sons might suppose. In fact, IL IS tlie iiiUst
beautiful, and at the same time one OF tne
| cheapest OF the hard woods. Black walnut.
| for example, now little used IN mouse aeco-
| ration. is considerably more expensive.
At an elegant private german given in
| town near Boston the otDer nlght, Tie men
went M TO a slot-macaine, put IN nickel
smnnlied by the hostess and received forth
9TH a dainty roll of chocolate with the
name of his partner on the wrapper. Now
| that slot-machines have made their debut
|. into society, we may expect TO be introduced
| in one way ana another to the various &C.
| centric members of the family.
Lane Lecture.
The third of this cnursp of Lane free lee