The morning call., 1892-12-30
TEr1S OF INTEREST.

OF. LOUIS mas spent SIi,UUUOOO In new
buildings this year.
The valuation of the State of Maine Is
placed at S265, ,000000.
Kansas mines produced 60 900, coo bushels
of coal this year.
The town of Forsyth, NO., is ffty years
old and never had church.
Two hundred and eightv-nine bullfghts
have taken place in Spain during the pres
ent year.
A Kansas policema, walks so little that
he has worn only one pair of shoes in the
last three years.
1t is stated by an actor that the electric
lamp used as fOOtlights is harder on the eyes
OF the performers than either gas or candle
light.
In the wine districts of France, Spain
and Italy grapes are still tr0dden with the
bare feet under the idea that the wine is
better.
Black patches shaped like stars, cres-
cents. hOrseshoes and even like coaches and
horses were worn by the ladies Of the Court
Of Anne.
Marshy y. Lyles. a colored woman of
Sylvania, Ga. who is now over 20 years of
age. started TO school for the first time few
days ago.
A Maiden (Mass.) woman recently ended
letter with the following sentences: Il
had two pigs, seven hens and five children
baptized last week."
II. H. Hogmire of Fenneville, Mich,
Claims to have raised off a small piece of
ground during the past season $3.50 worth
Of peppermint.
drying-house for lumber has been
erected at Ottawa in which electricity is the
heating power. This is the first establish
ment of the kind in the world.
a new marine light which will soon be in
place near Hayre will be the most powerful
IN the world. Ii will be visible at sea dis
tance of from % TO 81 miles, according TO
the condition of the weather.
Mrs. Mary King. 60 years old, native OF
England and resident Of this country for
nearly half century, was naturaliZed on
Friday IN the court at Mobile. Ala, so as TO
enable her to make a homestead entry.
A veteran Washington club man who
hasn't 1t on his conscience that he ever
missed making love to pretty young
debutante during the past thirty or forty
years, now goes among his fellows by the
sObriquet of The Souvenir Spoon"
The Fayette City PA News contains the
Following unique advertisement: - g.
otanforth. undertaken, eighteen years ex-
perience. In that time | have buried over
1000 persons. My motto is Live and Let
Live. Good goods and low prices to every
one"
Electricity, where unretarded by atmos-
pherle influences, travels at the rate of 2SS.-
goo miles second. Along a wire it is, of
course, vastly slower; a perceptible period
of time is occupied by the electric curren t
IN sending kilograms over long distances.
Three years before the invention of CEN
ter-hre cartridges the idea was hit upon by
a nomad Indian. lie had collected the shells
thrown away by cur troops and fitted a
percussion cap into a hole which he had
bored In the TOP. These shells, which he In
turn discarded, testified TO his ingenuity.
One OF the professors at Vassar College
failed TO put in an appearance several days
for 70 Nfa hod
quarter of an hour for his arrival, they ap-
pointed one of their number professor pro
TEN, and when the teacher arrived about
half an hour later she found the recital ion
going on as usual
A novelty seen at recent sale of
fancy work was broom cover to he used
In dusting down walls and ceilings It was
made OF linen, the shape of the broom it.
SELL and was really an inverted bag when
adjusted. After it was drawn. over the
broom shirr strings held it close where the
handle joined the sprnts.
When Joseph Lynne picked up a pheasant
ne mad shot on the mountain near Belle
fonte, Pa, he Was surprised to fad that the
bird was constructed on the, plan of the
Siamese twins. Both birds were perfectly
developed and the connecting link was
half an inch thick and Joined them lust in.
front OF the wings.
About s4000O.OO0 Is paid every year In.
Germany Tor the creation and preservation
OF forests; 100000 families are supported
from them, while something like 8 30@0.OO0
find employment in the various wood indus
tries OF the empire. The total revenue from
the forests amounts to .Sl4. 500. 600 and the
current expenses are S50e, Goa.
Japanese men and women In their own
country are distinguished ~chieffy by their
hair. The men shave the crown of the
mead, While the women not only allow all
their own hair to grow, but frequently add
to it by purchase. The. hair is usually
twisted and coiled in the most fantastic
way The higher woman's S rank the more
elaborate is her coiifure. -. :.
The Brazilian Government has entered
into negotiations with:the Mi kado of Japan
for bringing into the Brazilian plantations
number of agricultural laborefs to take
the places of the emaneipated negroes.
Companies are started in Rio and San
PaulO for the establishment of a line O {
steamers between Brazil and the: East tor
the purpose OF bringing over AsiatiG inmi-
grants. ....
If Napoleon III was poor general. he
was at least a -frst-slass scrappeT and
learned The manly are when he was con-,
stable in London. The Siecle says that when.
he was in New. York a rowdy once pulled
bis long mnstache. whereupon the. future
man of Sedan pulled off his coat, sailed Int
the fellow in John L. fashion: and knocked
him out In short order. For this he was
arrested and fiued. H:
Ever on the lookout for fresh markets, the
New Zealanders have been attempting to
get mp a frozen venison" export trade with
the old country. The venture has proved
disastrous. The average price obtained
was 10 cents per pound. and out of this all
charges had to be betrayed. On the othe r
hand, Scotch and English venisou was SELL
ing at II cents. Russian frozen deer FetcheS
z cents per pound on the London market, so
that the New Zealanders will have to aban-
don any attempt at business in this diree-
tion.