The morning call., 1892-01-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Inc OIly OIL MEXICO mas $500 luhdO
itauts.
The pennyweight was the exact weight OF
the old British silver penny.
Young women are not allowed TO grad
uate from German universities.
a French wOman's baby was so small
that she used her shoe for its cradle.
Paper matches are coming into favor, and
a factory viii be built shortly in Michigan.
The average woman is just about as IN ueh
interested in politics as the average N an IS
in dTy-gOOds advertisements
Philadelphia jeweler displays in his
window a clock having a skeleton perform
ing on a trapeze for pendulum.
The Northwestern demand for lumber
has this year brought 1000, coo feet TO
Chicago by rail and the great lakes.
At present the sword in any form Is sell
dom employed IN warfare Neither the saber
Of the cavalTyman nor the cutlass Of the
sailor is used TO any extent
A French Canadian takes bis produce to
the Bangor Me- market in a wagon drawn
by a caribou. The animal is SAID 10 lie a
very fast one, aud easily able 10 pass auy
horse 1t meets.
When gun is fred abso lutely in the YER
teal, the ball viii fall a few inches south
aud west from The gun in northern latitude,
due west AT tie equator aud north west In
southern attitudes.
A CORE poudent of Nature has observed
that guats and masqu toes always become
more abundant after the departure OF sWal-
lows, and, therefore, suggests that these
birds should be- specially protected.
Tea and coffee stains VIII usually come
out Of linen II put into water at once or If
soon washed. II they are of long standing
rub pure giycerlDe on them, and t.en after
washing this cut wash the linen ia the usual
way.
Lemons are used for soap in many coun-
tries where they grow. When the men and
women Of the East Indies want to wash
their hands they squeeze the juice OF a
| lemon ever them briskly in water until
they are clean.
There is a rock in Mexico which forstells
the weather. In fair weather it wears Il
neutral tint, and when II is about to rain II
turns to a dlngy red. Its temperature in
creases, ana It appears as if it were being
heated by an internal fire.
Consul Knowles at Bordeaux has found
| that France produces S5,0O0,000 worth Of
! trufflss annually ami exports 100000 pounds
| of Them. The trutfle is worth s. pound in
the locality where ii is found, aud 1t sells
| for twice that in the principal cities.
A South American proverO says, A
! cocoauut tree is a brides dOwry," and
really the many uses to which the palm aud
! its products are put are wonderful. They
| provide a family with food, shelter, fuel,
| house, utensils and, If need be. clothes.
The very incest thing to do with plain,
| stale cake is to crumble it, soak il in milk,
| stir into il an equal amount Of apple sauce
! and the rlnd of a lemon. Then bake IL. 1t
! will be much more delicate than Brown
| Betty" made in the old-fashioDed way.
The family Of John Saffhire, an Ogdens-
| burg IN. " farmer, had partcularlarly
! happy Thanksgiving. The 23-year-old son,
| stolen twenty } ears ago by r band Of rowing
! gypSies. had tracked himself back home
| again, arriving two days before the feast.
The famous salt lake Of Aala Paakai,
! near Honolulu, occupies the crater of an
| Immense lula cone, whose ejecta cover sew
| eTal square miles, and are especially re-
markabe for containing numerous aggre-
| cations OF crystalline grains Of pure Divine.
1t was a custom among the heather of OBJ
| serving days. good or bad. They were
| called the dies atri and dies abb. The atri
| were pointed out in their calendar with
! black character, the dies abb with white
| the former to denote 1t day Of bad sue
! cess, the latter d day Of good.
Gypses have been a wandering race ever
/ since history first noticed them. At one
| time they were supposed to have come from
! Egypt but new scholars have asceTtained
! that they were originally al Indian triba or
! group OF tribes, making their first appear
| ance in Asia Minor early In the Middle Ages.
! 1t is no small Item of care about a house
! hold to make sure that we are not pois-
| Oned. In cities the chief danger is from the
| positively bad ways of living of a part Of
| the inhabitants. In the country we escape
this danger In part or wholly but we can
| not escape our share of dangers of other
| sorts.
An English manufacturer, while examin-
! ing the texture and quality Of some band
| ages found on a mummy was astOnished o
| find that the arrangement of the threads
was exactly like that which he had paten ted
a few months before, and which he had
a 10 IN ind
| his own.
A popular notion is that the whereabouts
of drowned person may be ascertained by
! floating a loaf weighted with quicksilver,
| which is said at once 10 swim toward and
stand over the spot where the body lies.
| This Is very widespread belief, and in
stances OF It's occurrence are from time to
! time recorded.
Edwin II. Graham Of New Haven is the
| owner OF the horse thought TO be the Oldest
| in Connecticut. She is % years old, and
since 1888 has been on the retired list, hav-
ing been harne5sed only twice in that time.
| She Is a chestnut-cOleTei animal with light
name and faint dash of white in her FORE
head. She Is about Is hands high, weighs
| $50 pounds, and is Of Morgan breed.
NJ. OOvaroff, Moscow scientist. has dis
covered that when lightning strikes in a
forest the white poplar (pOpulus alba is the
| first 10 attract it, lie came to the concIu.
sion that this tree can be used as q natural
lightning rod, and he submitted a memorial
to the Minister Of the Interior advocating
that the planting of white poplar before
every house in a village be made obligatory
upon the peasants to prevent fire by light
ming.
A recent traveller in Morocco says that for
people who dress in white and love to be
very neat in their personal appearance, the
MOrOCcans are very indifferent to the clean
illness OF their towns. Around the most
beautifully furnished houses are heaps of
refuse and the bodies of dead animals. All
the care Of the people is conferred upon the
interior of their houses. They furnish them
as extensively az their means permit, but
what is outside their walls does not trouble
them,