The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-06-05
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

all hotels are to be altogether closed on Sun
days.
The Mohammedans, it is said. consider
silk unclean, because it is produced by a
worm.
The town of Roanoke. Va, has grown in
10 years from population of 600 to one of
%, 600.
South Carolina is the only State in the
Union in which NO official record OF mar
riages is kept.
The steel used by the United States Navy
is recommended by the Austrian Society OF
Engineers as the best known in practical
science.
A papyrus containing problem in chess
said to have been solved in the time OF Ram
eses the Great has been offered to the Brit
ish Museum.
Forms of etiquette and good manners take
a wide range, and il seems strange that two
centuries ago the first gentlemen of Eng
land habitually wore their hats while eat
ing.
The custom of shaking hands. which ex-
lists among the Amos, the aboriginal inhabi-
tants of Japan, was so strange to Japanese
| author, in a work published as late as 1855
that he gives an engraving OF 1t.
The Brazil nut contains from - to "a
seeds, which all terminate at one time. The
most vigorous one gets first through small
hole at abe top to the open air, and there
upon it strangles and feeds upon the rest.
Like some of the rings Of to-day the sig
nets worn by the 1SraeliteS bore nScrlp-
tons. The breastplates of the high priests
were set with y precious stones, each one
representing tribe of the Children OF
Israel.
woman In Springfield Ohio, has, &C
eOrding to dispatches, apparently died four
or five times during the past year, was laid
out for burial, and each time returned to
vigorous life just before being consigned to
the grave.
An old man caught on hook in Briar
Creek, Ga. last week rock FISH that
weighed 80 pounds. 1t was feet inches
long and in its stomach there was jack
fish which measured 30 inches and catfish
Is inches long.
joseph BoSsbagen. German living in
New Haven, has petitioned the Superior
Court to change bis name. He says that
tia Yankees all call him Boss Bargain,
and that the ridicue involved is detrimental
10 his business.
The Russian likes no sleeping place so
well as the top of big soapstOne stove In
his domicile. Crawling out OF this blister
ing bed in the morning he likes to take
plunge in cold stream, even II he has to
break the ice to get into 1t.
The hose used in sprinkling the plazas OF
Paris is queer cOntrVance. 1t consists Of
lengths of iron pipe, each length mounted
at the end on short aXles having two small
wheels, and the lengths joined together by
short pieces of flexible hose.
a couple of months ago a Philadelphia
woman bought rustic table made OF the
boughs of some trees from which the bark
had not been removed. About two weeks
ago the table began to throw out green
sprouts. aud now the whole table is in full
bloom.
Kansas City, Kan. has band OF youthful
terrors called stone throwers." Their
unique mode of attack consists in throwing
stones against the windows Of houses TO
ascertain if the folks are at home, Then, if
the road is clear, they enter the place and
steal what they can.
A wealthy old bachelor OF Liberty Town
ship. Porter County, Ind. has advertised in
the public prints ia effect that for the next
80 days he is open to sealed proposals of
marriage from eligible candidates, but ladies
inclined to disturbing domestic traits or ex-
tTayagaut tastes are warned not to COM
pete.
In the seventeenth century the faVOTte
color OF the Scotch COvenanters was blue,
and blue and orange or yellow became the
Wing cOloTS after the revolution oil 1858.
Green is the color Of the Irish Roman Cath
OlieS, while opposed to it is the orange of
the 0rangemen or Protestants of the North
Of Ireland.
The Laplander crawls. head and all. into
a bag made Of reindeer skin, and sleeps
warm and comfortable within il. The East
Indian, at the other end OF the world, also
has sleeping bag, but il Is more porous
than the Laplander' 5. It's purpose is to
keep out mosquitoes more than to keep the
sleeper warm.
A resident of FItehburg, Miss, is in luck
and In trouble at the same time. He is
wanted TO receive $4,000 lett MIN by will
for stopping pair OF runaway horses and
saving young woman's life. The reason
he cannot be found is that he disappeared
last fall TO escape judgment OF $1,000 given
against him in court
Some unique features were introduced at
a wedding in Wisconsin recently Besides
the maids of honor, best man, four brides
maids and four ushers, one lady acted the
part of Qneen Venus, dressed in classic
robes with Ieweled crown on her head.
Her part was to bring the minister from
some hidden retreat.
Ia Miramichi. n. b., double cedar knot
is carried in the pocket as cure for rheG-
matism. La Missouri the disease is pre-
vented" by carrying in the pocket a nutmeg
or walnut. In other localities hickory
nut is used, in others, still, buckeye, while
perhaps tie cOmmonest Of all these amuletS
Is the hOTSe-cheStnut,
In cemetery indefinitely located ION the
SuSquehanna River" there is grave with
this epltaph on the marble memorial slab:
'Charles Lewis; he voted for Lincoln" A
Baton Rouge (La.) grayestone bears this
legend: Here lies the body Of David
Jones. His last words were: 1 die 3
Christian anG Democrat
At Sharpsburg man purchased piece
of land at Aspinwall on which there were q
number Of trees, These were cut down a
few days ago, and in one, white oak more
than two feet IN diameter was found large
size seven-inch horseshoe. The shoe was in
the center of the tree some distance below
the main fork, and was "a feet from the
ground.
There has almost always in English his
tory been some one industry that was sup
posed to be king. In the middle ages 1t was
the growth and export Of raw wool; last
century 1t was the wooden manufacture It
self; early in this century aud down to a
very late date cotton was king; more lately,
since the beginning Of the railway and
steamship era, it has been coal and iron.
dog is refractory to the incubation of
the tuberculosis of birds, but quickly sue
cumbs TO that of mankind. Hence MN.
Charles Rchet and Hericourt have en-
pl0yed the virus of bird tuberculosis to vac
cinate the dog against human tuberculosis.
The result of their experiment Is TO prove
that after incubation by bird tuberculosis
dog becomes refractory to human tubercu-
loSis.
Mayalipuram, India, Is graced with seven |
of the most remarkable temples in the |
world, each one of these unique places of |
worship having been fashioned from solid |
granite powders The "Hevesa-G0da- Ga"
the largest of the seven, is three and half
stories high and its outlines resemble those !
of an Atlantic steamship. The inside of |
the bOwlder has been ehiseled away until |
the walls do not exceed 8 inches in thick
ness
Alternate wires of copper and zinc are
run around the trunk of tree, at dis |
lance of about half an inch apart. The |
casual caterpillar begins to mount the trunk
Of the tree and unlimbers himself with the |
confidence and vigor born of an impending |
feast. Presently he reaches the copper wire. |
pOkes his nose over 1t, and leLs another kink |
out OF his backbone. Half an inch further |
up his front feet strike the zinc, the circuit |
ic and ha nm fortuno m lar ia