The morning call., 1892-10-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Japan has $50 newspapsrs.

bapdH HAS JJo
The man who preached the first Christian
still alive.
Jung Pasha. the elephant that succt eded
Jumbo ia the London Geological Gardfn. is
reported TO be only three inches Smaller
than Jumbo.
A Pittsburg man returned from Hot
sprinrs. Cal. a few days ago and brought
with him a cluster of quartz crystals which
weigh about fifty pounds.
Old shoe throwing Is done for many pur-
poses. In ireland the election of a person
TO almost any Office is concluded by throw
ing an old shoe at his head.
The nearest approach yet to perpetual
motion is the discovery Of a European
elockmaker who has invented a clock that
will run for ten years without winding.
HThe wealth of the Russian state church
is almost inealeulable. 1t could pay the
national debt, some three billion and more
dollars, and still be enormously wealthy.
Two land grants, said to bear the sigma
lures Of John Adams and Martin Van Bu-
rem, were recently found in a lot OF waste
paper at the paper-nll in Palmyra, Mich.
An English physician who has made a
study of bronchial diseases says that women
teachers are subject to a peculiar throat
affection. He recommends that they be
taught in training-schoois how TO manage
the voice.
causes the tides and demonstrates it by
electrifying rubber comb by rubbing it
through the hairand then drawing il over
the top OF glass filled with water. the
result being that the tidal wave follows the
comb.
Iowa ranks fifth among the IS States and
| Territories OF the Union in the extent of its
railroad mileage, s444 The States which
lead Iowa are. In order. Illinois. with IO, 235
| miles: Pennsylvania. 1878: Kansas. seO1
| Texas. 1854 The total mileage in the United
States Is 171,070. and of the world 1888. 500.
Much of the paper money used in the
| Spanish-American republics Is engraved in
New iors. ana u not unfrequently happens
| that the same firm OF bank-note makers is
| called upon to furnish currency for succcs-
| siye revolutionary governments In the same
| republic.
| The announcement of Forthcoming we'd
| ding contains the request that the old ems
| tom OF throwing rlce and flowers should he
| dispensed with. Throwing a slipner Nor
| the bride is an old Saxon custom, bnt throw
| ing rice is Oriental. and IN England dates
| only from the time Of the Indian nabobs,
NJ Adam Paulson of the ROYAL Danish
| Academy has been conducting a series NJ
| experiments to measure the heights of tho
aurora borealis. At Godthaab the apnroxi-
| mate height was from one to four miles. at
| Cape Farewell from one to ten miles m
| Spitzenburg from one-thrd of mjIe tn
eighteen miles. The measurements vera
made with theodo lites.
The first Presidential election TO ba do.
termned by the popular vote cast in tha
| several States and not by the choice Of cleo.
tors by the respective Legislatures was
that of 1924, when Andrew jackson. Henry
| Clay. John Quincy Adams and w iIIia,n II
| Crawford were the opposing eandida,a.
The total vote cast then was $50. 062 which
was 5000 less than the total vote of Tsxes
| poled four years ago.
The Malayan savages know that IL is nos
| sible for plant or flower to be a real cd
diiy. Tor botanists tell us that they have an
them by name which signifies "wondar
wonder" 1t Is flower. and a flower nnIu
having neither leaves. stem or root # IL
a globular parasite about three feet across
and bursts into dream of loyelness fron,
the surface of decayed logs and stnmns 0''