The morning call., 1892-11-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Japan has $50 newspapers.
The British Museum has thirty-two miles
of shelves filed with books.
JOseph's coat of many colors is said by
| rabbis to have been made of camePs hair.
John j. Taylor OF Streator, ILL.,, once
wrote 400 words of the blank side OF
| postal-card.
The Egyptians and the Phenicians are
| joint claimants for the honor of the inven-
| ton OF water craft
The population of many South Sea islands
manufacture their entire suits from the
! products Of palm trees.
Bees never store honey in the Hight be-
| cause honey so exposed graduates and is
| thus useless TO the bees.
The Austrians consume more tobacco
| than any other nationality or race on the
| globe, civilized or savage.
Homer men lions Thracian wine so strong
| that even Ulysses was obliged TO dilute IL
with twenty parts-of water
There is q lighthouse to every Ii miles OF
English coast, TO every 81 miles OF Irish
coast and one TO every SO miles of Scottish
shore line.
At DundenoDg. Australia, there is a blue
gum tree which has an estimated height OF
40 feet. 1t is believed to be the talleSt tree
In the world.
Testing the big Krupp guns is said to be
responsible for the cracking of every brick
and stone house in Essen, the seat of the
great aTmory.
AT York, Pa, i'm the orchard of Simon
Mueller. there is a tree that annually bears
a crop of three different kinds offruit-pears,
peaches and apples.
The moth has fur jacket and the butter
fly none because the nocturnal habits Of the
moth require Ii. The durnal movements of
the butterfly do not.
The larges; and oldest chestnut tree in the
world stands at the foot OF Mount Etna. 1t
is 213 feet in circumference and is known 10
be at least 1000 years old.
Leaves attract dew; boards, sticks and
stones not not, because leaves have a
chemical use for dew and detain it, Will q
boards. stick and stones have none and do
not.
In England many Of the peasantry still
Beard" on their house roofs as a pre-
ventive against thunder. lightning and evil
spirits.
Cape Colony is the natural habitat Of the
largest known species of earthworm. 1t is
soft, scaleless thing between six and seven
feet long, and much resembles our common
angleworm.
A chain made for the United States
Government at Troy, y. Y, In 1888, was
six miles and fraction in length. 1t was
made OF bars OF iron. each two and half
inches In diameter.
Milan is to be supplied with electric lights
by the utilization OF the water power of the
tilloresi Canal at its fall at Tessin. II is
estimated that $4,000 horse power can be
developed al this point.
Granite is the lowest rock In the earth's
crust 1t is the bedrock of the world. II
shows no evidence Of animal or vegetable
life. Ii is from TWO to ten times as thick
as the united thickness of all the other
rocks. IL is the parent rock from which all
other rocks have been either directly or in
directly derived.
Both the Kurds and the Cossacks believe
that ATarat is guarded by an unearthy
being, and that 10 man can ascend the peak
and live. They have a somewhat contrary
opinion. however, rs to what kind of spirits
are on guard. the former claiming that the
devil 10 guard supreme, the latter that an
gels are on watch.
In Turkey II man falls asleep in the
neighborbood OF poppy field and the wind
blows from the field toward him he becomes
nsreotlzed and would die II the country pe0-
pie, who are we'll acquainted with the cir
cumstances, did not not bring him to a we'll
or stream and empty pitcher after pitcher of
water on his face and body.
The subjects Of Great Britain are the
most tremendous patent medicine swal-
lowers on tie globe During the past year
the revenue derived from the three half
penny stamp upon patent medicines
amounted to ST. 900. Licenses for
the sale OF patent medicines have increased
1910 In England and Ill in Scotland
About 14s6 Thomas Conecte, a preaching
the pointed caps, or honnins, and granted
absolut0n to the small boys who pulled off
the ladies' caps In the street Many duels
resulted, together with several riots, and
the fashion was temporarily abolished to
reappear on the departure Of Conecte.
The longest horse railroad In the world
runs from Buenos Ayres to San Martin in
| the Argentine Republic, the distance being
| about hfty miles and the schedule time OF
the trip thirteen hours. Trains leave
r.
twice during the night Every morning aud
| evening express trains leave. carrying only
| baggage.
There are to day more than 100000
| women in the United States earning q living
by professional and personal service out
side that OF mechanical labor or work In
| the shops. in tbs practice Of law and medi-
| cine, the teaching of music and art, litera-
| ture and science, and In clerical work of
| different kinds in Government and other
| official places.
The obtaining OF tortoise-sheil involves
intense cruelty to the tortoise. When the
creature Is caught 1t is fastened down to
| the ground and covered round tho shell
| with leaves and grass, which are set alight.
The heat forces the scales OF the shell to
| separate, and they are then cut off with
knife. The poor reptile Is then released to
| grow fresh scales.
Boxing matches are very popular with
the Burmese. They hold public contests,
| at which prizes are offered for competition,
and 10 which the people flock from all the
country round. The form displayed would,
however, scarcely meet with the approba-
| ton OF British patrons of the noble art of
self-defense. Every sort and kind Of hit Is
allowed. and the contestants attack one an
other with feet as we'll as hands.
Mud baths were common among the an
| clients, the mud on the seashore and the
| slime OF the rivers being especially priced
Tor this purpose. The Tartars and Egyp-
tlans still use them in certain diseases.
They are taken by the people at many
places IN the continent OF Europe, among
which may be named Driburg, Eiisen,
Neundorf, Pyrmont, Spa. Marienbad,
Franzensbraun, Eyer, Kissingen and Tep-
liz