The morning call., 1892-08-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

In l774 Maskelyne, the astronomer royal
OF England, first calculated the weight of
the earth. The weight. as estimated In all
encyclopedia, is GOO, 0o0, COO, 000, 900, COO 900
tons.
The evidence obtained from the three
enumeratious of 1872. 1881 and 1892 tends
to show that the hill aud forest tribes Of
India are gradually being Incorporated into
HIndOoism.
Trees In Central Park. New York, are
said to be dying for lack of proper atten-
ton. 1t Is also said there Is not enough
earth in the park TO permit of proper de-
velopment in trees.
1t is reported that fully $4,000, 600 feet Of
timber have been recently destroyed by
forest fires along the line of the Northern
Pacific Railroad west of Missoula. The
fires are still raging.
The United States manufactures $1,000
hats every day, while England manuiac-
lures about 10000. The largest hat manu-
factory in the world is the Brussels, which
turns out 10000 hats a day.
Mars has started on its return trip It
is travelling at the rate of about 40 GOO
miles day. When il shall come again as
near us as ii was August il will have tray
eled something like'600, 100000 miles.
The average consumption OF meat i'm the
United States is not less than IT'S pounds
Year for every man, woman aud child, and
that includes the great element of infancy
where the meat eaten is trivial in amount.
Cape Colony is about to raise the electoral
qualification FROM S125 to 1915, and has
abolished the illiterate voter For the
measure, which has been read a second
time. Cecil Rhodes, an advanced Liberal is
responsible.
In England the country roads are so good
that a single horse can pull n vehicle with
two passengers and driver more than 40
miles a day and do il with perfect ease
The public highways are likewise good on
the Continent.
There is village In Austria called Ster
beck Of which all the Inhabitants ara chess-
players. The game is regularly taught In
the schools and every year there is public
examination In the game and a distribution
of prizes in the shapeIof chess boards.
Evening dress indispensable in the grand
and pit tier boxes, stalls and dress circle.
In all other parts of the house morning
dress will be admitted" These are the
regulations at Drury Lane and Coyent Gar
den theaters, London, during the opera
season.
A London schoolboy brought 10 his
teacher letter from a physician stating
that "this boy is unfit TO attend school for
304 days" The long and rather exact period
named aroused the teachers suspicious and
be discovered that the physician had writ
ten 80 or days" This the how had
changed to 1904 days.
In the regular army, military rule alone
applies TO the soldier while in service an a
his punlshments are either adindged n "
court-mart!al, when the offense is serious
or he Is punished TOR lesser offenses nv his
commanding officer. The militia are vo,nn :
teers, and while in service they are snbisct
to military rule, though not so stricily an
piled.
The area in square miles of PHILADELPHIA
Is 1898. that OF New York Al. The largest
city N square miles in the United States is
Chicago. with an area of 1851 square miles.
Philadelphia comes second. New Orleans
San Francisco, San Diego, St Louis. st.
joseph. ST. Paul, Minneapolis and Wash
ington all cover more ground than New
York City.
Sir Edmund de Cane. a student OF crime.
says that there were 80, go 'habituaI crimi
mails" known to the London police i'm 1864
and that IN 1890 the number had fallen To
5000. de scouts the idea that crime
would cease IL drunkenness were sWept
away. III any social habit more than
another leads 10 crime" he says, cit is that
oil betting and mbling, which derive their
attraction from the hope of getting rich
without work"
a quick courtship is chronicled by n
Georgia paper. A man stopped an house
In Dongiassvllle and asked lady for a
glass OF water. When he had quenched hi,
thirst he asked her If she was married OF
single. She replied. widow" On which
he said he was a widower In search of n
wife. walk in" answered the widow.
and we'll talk the matter over" One
hour later the twain were made one bv the
nearest minister.