The morning call., 1891-03-29
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Since 1861, 100000 people have died in
Philadelphia.
The Manhattan Club of New York en-
plOys 1l5 servants.
There are still fourteen different places on
this globe where cannibaism is practiced,
but the custom is gradually dying out.
When cast and maIleable iron are used in
the same structure a galvanic action is set
| up between them, and the maleable iron is
c0rrOded.
Nearly $4,000 violent or sudden deaths
occur every year in England calling for i'll
quests, aud for every violent death there are
at least fifty accidents.
Virus taken from hares is being expert
mented with in France, aud thus far it has
been found To work equally well for the
purposes OF vaccination as virus taken from
calves.
Cork covering fer steam pipes has proved
very successful in England, and in some
cases it has hren found 10 make a difference
of 1902 to 124' from the temperature of I'M
covered pipes.
Governor Hill has definitely determined
that he will not resign his office of Governor
until next December. He cannot take his
seat in the United States Senate until then
and lie does not relish the idea Of IA summer
OF ldleneSs.
An Illinois man left by will S1O,O 600 to de-
fray the expenses of removing a certain tree
and placing it by the side of his grave. The
tree was twelve niles away. The tree has
started on its journey. large amount of
earth is moved with the roots.
The question is being raised in Maryland
as to the power of the Governor to appoint
a successor TO Senator Wilson, lately de-
ceased. AS Governor jackson is anxious
for the place himself, he will be glad to have
the matter deferred until the Legislature
meets.
Near Bombay recently two British ships
were within mile of each o.her. One had
one end OF the broken Bombay cable; the
other mad the other end. One wished to
communicate with the other. 70 send
boat would have taken too much time, so
word was sent by wire, 1000 miles around.
Lord Greville, who has himself expert
enred the benefits of NJ. Pasteur's treatment
III Paris, is anxious to secure the establish
ment OF Pasteur Institute in London He
has collected $500 toward il, but $1,000 is
required. 1t ought not to be difficult 10 get
the balance of SO small sum in a city of so
many millions.
Persons sitting by a coal or a wood fire
are aware Of sharp cracking sound as the
coal and wood ignite. but few know the
reason for it, A gentleman Of a scientific
turn of mind explains that it is due to the
air or liquid contained in the pores expand
ing by heat and bursting the covering in
which it is confined.
If cloth can be made out Of fine spun
glass it would seem a simple matter TO make
it ont Of wood, aud this is done by boiling
strips of fine grained timber, crushing them
between rolls, carding the filament into
parallel lines, as with ordinary textile ma
terial, and spinning them into threads, from
which cloth can be woven in the usual way
A new device Is used by travelling men for
the name strap on their valiSes A card
bearing their name and address is slipped
into the leather card pocket in the usual
way, but now In al dltlon piece of mica is
slipped IN on top OF the card, keeping il
neat and clean, and at the same time Der
hitting it being read by reason of its trans
parency.
A new discovery was made in the lannon's
Wind Cave Of the Black Hills last week by
which openings were found that took a
seven hours tramp to one of the sublerra-
mean chambers and return. This cave is
SURPRISING the famous Mammoth Cave of
Kentucky in magnitude, and will be a prin-
cipa object of attraction to visitors of the
Black Hills.
There was lively scrapping match he
tween two Indiana light-weghts the other
nl@ht' ana When the victor returned TO his
home in Seymour pulled up over his victory
and 500 in his pocket, his mother realized
that his egotlsm might prove his downfall if
not nipped in the bud. She therefore
squared off and broke his jaw, and Knocked
him out in the second round.
AN ESy ptldn Scl Inc recently unearthed is
exhibited among the antiquities in the nri0
vate museum of Flinders Petrie in Londrn
The shaft of the instrument is wood SIM.
porting a row of flint saws, which are Sc
curely cemented into it. This discovery will
set at rest the speculations which have been
made as 10 now me crops of the land were
gathered in the flint and copper age.
There is truly most remarkabIa ooso 30
marriage and death reported from Nova
Scotia groom and his blusbing hrida
stood up before minister to be marriad
when the groom fell to tile ground cornse
Heart disease was the cause. The local
paper says that the groom's father and
grandfather died in the same manner aud
at the same period of the marriage ce ere.
mony.