The morning call., 1891-12-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| of vioets every year.
There are thirteen miles o. book-shelyes
In the British Museum.
For every foot of stature a man should
| Welgn twenty-six pounds.
Rabbits are so thick near Burleigb. Pa.
| that the trains run over them.
| II you have half-dollar of 1888 with an
| ~ above the date you can get S12 for it.
| One hundred and eighty millions of tons
OF coal were mined in Great Britain last
year.
An employer Of German clerks SAYS that
they work 20 per cent slower than English
| ones.
The Atlantic cable alone would entitle its
constructor to live in history as the true
| Cyrus the Great
Electric headlights Of about $500 candle
| power are now in general use on the rail
roads in Indiana.
A letter was recently received by the
sender which had been travelling around the
world Tor nine years.
In the province of Silesia, Germany, there
| are twenty pedigree herds of red cattle,
| consisting of 1910 head.
The number of mail trains leaving and
! arriving at Chicago every day is 2i9. which
| Is equaled by no other city.
In Corfu sheets of paper pass for money:
one sheet buys one quart of rice, or twenty
! sheets piece of hemp cloth.
queen Nlctoria,s crown, kept with other
royal regalia under strong guard at the OLD
| lower, is worth about S6O0,0 600.
. MARX Twain is getting $1,000 week for
the series of tfty-two letters hs is writing
from EUROPE That Is $50, 1000 year.
The temple of Hom-mou-ji, at Inkegami,
Degun IN 12S2 and finished in 1907, is one oil
The most famous religious structures in
| Japan.
The Imperial diamond which was re-
| Gently purchased by the NiZam of Hydera-
0ad from London dealer is valued at
A solar disturbance lasting fifteen
minutes, in which vapors assembled to
distance OF $4,000 miles, was recently Oh
served by astronomers
Telephones are put in the houses of
Stockholm, Sweden, at a rent of 81 70 a
year each. For each call. however, there is
charge Of 2A cents extra.
IL Is believed that there are 1900 pro-
lesSional women painters, SculptOrs and
engraYers Ill Paris, besides those who live
by painting menus, fans, etc.
Liverpool is the largest shipping port in
the world, then comes London and then
| New York. which stands second to London,
however, as general commercial city.
Jerry Wallace, farmer of Riverdale, Ga,
was carrying sack Of apples from his
wagon to store, when the sack overbal-
anced and broke his neck, killing him in
| stanty.
The Oldest capital in the United States
| Is Santa Fe, which was the seat of Govern
ment III New Mexico as far back as 1910,
| aud yet Its population is only 6lS5 accord
| lug to Porters census.
The largest animal known to exist in the
world at the present time Is the roQuaL
which averages 1O0 feet III length; the
smallest Is the monad, which is only I.I2,-
| 600 OF an inch III length.
A young man who has never had the sense
| OF smell has been the subject of some curl
| GUS tests, which have shown that many
things which We eat with relish are moi
| tasted, but only Smelled.
Good specimens OF wood and seed were
| recently obtained 1910 feet below the sur
lace at Galveston, where an aItesian we'll
| was sunk. Biologists compute the age OF
this formation at about 100000 years.
To protect itself from the rain the orang-
outang crooks its arms over its head The
halr on the orangS upper arm points down.
| Nard, while on the lower arm IL points up
ward. the apparent purpose being TO shed
| the rain like thatch.
| Philadelphia Judge has decided that
| the stealing of Bible is worth one month
| more IN prison than the larceny of shoe
| brush. How he reached the conclusion is
not known unless it be to give the thief
| more time to read it.
A good housekeeper, clever home girl
ana splendid manager. These virtues are
| claimed for Madeline S. Bridges, the poet
ess. 1t IS not often given to feminine
| genius to know how to boil potato as well
| as to turn out sonnet.
The polar night at Hammerstein. Nor
| way, begins on November 18th and Iasts
until January 23d, but hereafter the 1000 in
habtants Will enjoy The benefits OF electric
| light during that period. Each house III the
hamlet has an electric light.
The fact that first strikes American Wis
ltoIs 10 nome Is the notlceably modern char
acter OF the Holy City, and the antiquities
| nave TO De Looked Tor. The city appears
| prosperous and improving, but these are
| not things usually said of il.
| Strawberries and mosquitoes are said to
De plentiful In the neighborhoOd of Mt. ST.
Elias. that region Of perpetual ice and snow
Along the edge OF tue glacier is IA strip OF
| luxurlant vegetation, where strawberry
vines cover the ground for miles.
| Rev. DR.. Whitaker of Lynn, Mass, one
OF the leading Methodist divines of New
| England, has been found after spending
| thirty-slx hours lost in the forests OF
Maine. he went deer-hunting, became lost.
prayed loud and long and was rescued.
-, 1t sometimes pays for railways to meet
the people half way. In Hungary. where
| the railway fares were reduced by the
| Zone system from 30 to 80 per cent the
receipts have increased Is per cent, aud the
number OF passengers rose from 9, 600, 900 TO
| 100000.
Clara Barton of Red Cross fame, is the
| only woman who ever sat in the National
| Council the only woman to be decorated
with the Iron Cross by old Kaiser William.
ana the first person TO decorate soldiers
graves as patriotic rather than personal
| act of homage.
A young pupil in the naval school of Co
| penhagen named Simonsen Committed sni-
| eide on account Of the repeated lazings of
his bigger schooImates. The Danish Gov
eminent has appointed a commission to ln-
| to 1t is expected
| There were blooded dogs in early Egypt.
| and highly priced Their names were
carved on monuments which still remain.
One OF them. his name showing his foreign
| origin, was called Abaikarou, a fai him
transcription OF the word abaikour, by
which the hunting dog is designated in
| many of the Berber dialects
Elizabeth Dodge died at Damariscotta.
Me-, recently, aged 100 years and months
| Her parents, Daniel and Jane SOmes, came
from Ireland in 1TSS and settled in Edge
combe. Her father was captured by In
dams and killed. Her husband, Daniel
Dodge, soldier in the war Of 1872, has been
been dead forty years. Three sons and two
| daughters survive her.
| On the Erie and Pittsburg Division of the
| Pennsylvania Railroad are five brothers
named Mcdowell, all conductors. There
are also tive brothers named Fitzmaurice,
| all engineers. There are also five Peterses
| father and four sons; also five DOnlins,
| father and four sons. The Pittsburg Fort
Wayne and Chicago Railway has among its
employees Mir. Falor anu eight sons. These
instances show how railroading runs in
| families.
At the grand receptions of President
| Garnet IN Paris the President does not
shake hands with the guests, but bows to
them in solemn way as their names are
announced while they pass by. The func-
| tIonary who announces the names at the
Eysee wears court dress, with a sword at
his side and steel chain around his neck
! which falls to the waist. President Uarnot
is always digniied and impressive in his
| manner.
An artificial limb may not always be n
| misfortune, as was instancsd at Waynes-
| boro, Ga, the other day. A man went
| duck-hunting, and his boat being accident
| ally upset. he was thrown into the water.
| He was unable to swim, and had it not
| been for his cork leg he would have been
drowned Fortunately his artificial limb