The morning call., 1892-01-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A bee does not weigh the hundredth part
Of an ounce.
Thirty-three words a minute is considered
rapid writing.
Darwin says an acre of pasture land con-
tainS 26.000 worms.
There were produced in the United States
last year IA. 229,5l3 tons Of coal.
Negroes with red hair are common in the
West Indies and South America
Nearly two hundred kinds Of the things
called tOad-stOOls are at least edible.
A book is soon To be published which will
contain $50 different recipes for cooking the
irish potato.
A Grand Jury of San Antonio, Tex,
served an attachment on the Judge and he
put them in jail.
A fashion note from abroad says that
canoes are very much in vogue and are dis
placing diamonds as head ornaments.
People who become lame are more fire.
Quently so affected on the left than on the
right side. according to the investigations Of
an authO Tity.
There has been some discussion as TO the
best time for bathing. Undoubtedly the
best time for taking warm bath is at night
just before going to bed, as the danger of
cold is avoided.
According to the testimony of the medical
examiners OF the life insurance companies
similar diseases and at about the same age
as their parents. The evidence Of heredity
is very strong.
The genuine Shetland pony is infre-
sQuently imported to America because of its
cost. 1t can be bought for from S2j to $50
on its native heather, but the expense of
getting it to the coast and then across the
Atlantic makes it high priced here.
At the gathering of Catholic clergy in St.
Louis to celebrate the jubilee Of Arch bishop
Kenrick 1t was observed that the predOm-
mating number OF bishops and priests
present were graduates of Maynooth, one
of the greatest Catholic colleges in the
world.
A hired man Of Byron, Mich. lost box
Of cartridges while cutting wheat and could
not find them. The box was found in good
condition the other day by the thrashers.
When they stopped running the box had
exhausted itself and one of the thrashers
had hole in his ear.
Block Island Is doubtless the most eXclus-
siye spot in the United States. There people
grow up, marry and are buried without ever
having touched the mainland, not twenty
miles away. Only in summer is Intercourse
with the outside world encouraged. Almost
everybody on the island is related to every
body else there.
The Old-fashlOned Conestoga wagon Is be-
coming so scarce in Pennsylva ia that when
NtlS j. seen IL is CUuSiQeItQ WUTbuy OF note.
The POttstOwn Ledger refers to one which
passed through its town recently. 1t Is de-
scribed as having had red running gear,
blue bodies, high at the ends aud big bows
and ahte covers.
The echo at the Eagles Nest on the banks
Of the Killarney is renowned for its Tepeti-
ton Of bugle call, which seems TO be re-
peated by hundred instruments, until it
gradually dies away in the air. A the re-
port of q cannon the lOudest thunders re-
vertebrate from the rock and die In SEEM
ingly endless peals along the distant noun
tains.
4 factory near Paris makes annually 90
100000 quill tOothpicks and is the largest
establishment of its kind in the world. 1t
was started many years ago TO make quill
pens, but when they went out of general
use it was converted into a toothpick mill.
Large ti0cks Of geese are raised by the farm
ers in the section where the works are To-
Gated.
The correspondents say that the new
style of hat for men brought out in Paris
this year, and likely to appear in America
next year, is hide0us. 1t is described as the
''stOvepipe" style, cut down aud sat upon.
Its height is about half that Of an ordinary
silk hat, considerably wider at the top than
at the bottom, and with curly brim pointed
back and front.
In Penobscot County, Maine, an Insane
woman was sent to the State Asylum. Her
husband procured n divorce on the ground
that MS wife was incurable, and married
again. The first wife was discharged as
cured recently, but when she learned what
her husband had done she became helpless,
although sane. The husband refused to
support her, although he had given bonds
TO DO so, and the woman is now town
charge. The authorities are suing the man,
! who is worth S00 nll for her m a I'M en- anct,.