The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-12-04
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Most sheep die before they are year
| old.
s6 coo nue. ''faaiVaFius violin will fetch
Women of rank go bareheaded in
| Mexico.
| Europe is reported to have $1,000 match
! factories.
Every year the population of the United
States is increased by 100000.
| About 10000 young men and women at
tend the colleges and universities in Kan
| sas.
| At the Royal Mint at Stockholm a
woman has for years been the engrayer of
| medals
| France will spend nearly s., 100000 for
| arms and ammunition for the cavalry alone
| next year.
For over goo years Nuremburp. Bavaria.
| has made most OF the toys used throughout
| the world.
During the present year nearly 2300O 600
oysters have already been consumed in Eng
land and Wales.
Artificial grass for the grounds OF seaside
cottages is one of the Industries at Man.
chester, England.
At the top of Pixies Peak the air Is so
rarehed that cats taken there invariably
have fits and die before they get acclima-
tized.
A larger proportion OF children survive
| their first year of existence in Dublin than
| In the twenty-eight large towns of England
and Wales.
Electrotype reproductions OF rare pieces
| OF silver, sucn as are found only in museums
| or valuable art collections, are among the
| latest fads.
The French photogra pher, NJ Marcy, has
succeeded in phOt0graphing a dragon-fy on
the wing. The time of exposure was only
| 1880 of second.
onsflv rlioa 10 tho+ ,.hiah H. ~
Persia smokes on state occasions. 1t is
stated to be worth $4,000 and is set with
| rubies. diamonds and emeralds.
q Philadelphia preserving works will ex-
| mott at the Worlds Fair map of the
United States, 1ox25 feet, made entirely of
pickles, fruits, vegetables, etc.
Three battalions of infantry recently bad
Gays target practice at Bisey. In all
1924 rounds were fred bv the men and
machine guns, producing 517 hits.
In 1871 the density of the population of
| the United Kingdom was NJ oderate-twenty-
| nVe persons per acre-Ous in 1881 there
! were ffty-six and a half persons per acre.
| TheOsophists favor cremation for two
| reasons: it is the common Hindoo method
| OF disposing Of the dead. and 1t is con-
| venlent and expeditions way of letting
| loose the astral body.
1t is singular coincidence that the
| United States Collectors of Revenue at
| ogden, Utah and at Lineolp, Nebr., are
both from Pennington, Me, and both
named Norton.
The yearly waste in the United States
| through drink is at last $500, COO 600. In
| forty years $4,000, 000, 600 have been thus
wasted. This is equal TO the whole savings
OF the people from 1888 TO 1857.
The oldest armchair in the world Is the
throne once used by Queen Hatafu, who
! hourished in Egypt 1900 b. c. II is made of
ebony, beautifully carved, and is so hard
4 . nfrn h
| from black marble.
A late portable plate-warmer is made of
| timed wire and will hold twelve plates.
| The body of the rack, which is a stoutIv
made wire frame, shaped like half circle,
rests on four legs and is divided in q way
| similar to toast rack.
Some of the native women of Australia
| have queer idea of beauty. They cut
/ themselves with shells, keep the wounds
| open Tor long time, and when they heal
| huge scars are the result. These scars are
| deemed highly ornamental.
Ii your nerves were steady enough to
admit handling the silkworm's threads, and
| you were TO take a carpenters rule ard Law
| such threads side by side until they covered
! the space OF an inch, you would find, after
| completing the task. that you had handled
| exactly 1909 threads.
| When an Egyptian dog wishes to drink a.
| the Nile he goes short distance up the
| river and bowls for some time. The croco-
diles, being attracted by the sound, immedi-
| ately crowd to the place. while the dog
hastily runs to the part which the croeodiles
have left and drinks in safety.
The compass plant of Asia Minor. known
| all along the eastern shores of the Mediter-
! ranean and as far east as Arabia and Per-
| STA. IS mentioned in the Bible where the
| prophet refers to that senseless thing
Whlch lsmore stable than man, inasmuch
| as 1t always pointeth in the one direction"
Koomiss, mares milk fermented IS men,
| toned In The thirteenth century by Gulel-
! mus de Rnbruquis, travelling monk:
AFTER man has taken drRught thereof it
leaveth behind taste like that of almond
| milk, and maketh ones insides feel yery
comfortable, and it also intoxicateth weak
heads"
The Vienna Academy of Sciences Is about
to publish the EtTuscan ritual book. which
was discovered in the wrappings of
mummy last year by Professor KralI, This
bnok IS the only survivor of the famous
Etruscan literature of divination and ritual
OF which we hear so much in the Latin
classics, especially in Cicero and Livy.
No sensible person will ever wear single
eyeglass unless he is blind of one eve. Its
use means that one is neither employed nor
unemployed, but engaged in ceaseless.
though no doubt unconscious efforts to see
as much as its more favored fellow This
straining is as harmful as anything could
we'll be. and cannot fail to lead to the gray
Dentists say that the greatest difficulty
they meet with in their work is the match
ing of false teeth with the natural teeth Of
their customers. The tooth factories sup
ply dentists with rings upon which are
strung thin metal bars. each CARRYING &
tooth at its extremity. There are twenty
five of these sample teeth. that run all the
way from nearly white TO shade that is al
most olive.
Among the great men OF the world blue
eyes have always predominated Socrates.
Shakespeare, Locke, Bacon, Milton. Goethe.
Franklin, Napoleon ana Renan all had blue
eyes. The eyes of Bismarck, Gladstone.
Huxley, Virehow and Buehner are also OF
this color, and all the Presidents of the
United States except General Harrison en-
joyed the same cerulean color as TO their
| optics.
The horseshoe superstition is very old.
| The ancients believed that iron as metal
had unknown powers, and would drive
nails into their walls TO keep off pes,iienee.
1t has always been thought uncommonly
lucky to find piece of the metal, and as
horseshoeS were tie form in which IL was
most frequently found. the superstitious
regard came TO be transferred from tho
material to the shape.
In the northern part OF Peru, in what Ia
otherwise an arid desert the celebratef
rain tree" grows. This species, Batss
vaperO. though not large or of much COM
mercial value, Is veritable South American
wonder, having the extraordinary properly
OF eondensing what little moisture there is
In the atmosphere so as TO cause a continual
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