The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-04-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


Chicago has a training school for firemen.
Great Britain has 202, 300 acres of or
chaTds.
Chicago is about to add 1000 men to her
police force.
Hot water cannot be raised to any eonsid-
cradle height by suction.
Iron can be rolled 10 the eighteen-hun-
dredth OF an inch in thickness,
A Biddeford (Me.) fisherman caught
lobster that weighed % pounds.
Two Italian savants believe they Lave
discovered the germs OF lOekjaw.
1t is now proposed to use aluminium in
place OF magnesium for Photographic fash
lights.
twenty English and American young
women.
Curious evidence shows that cubic inch
OF air at sea level contains about $50, 600, 600
molecules.
Chicago now limits her buildings to $50
feet III height, and only ON S0-foOt streets
even then.
An old lady of StOnington. Conn, is said
to have slept 21,O00 consecutive nights in
one house.
London has gone stark mad over the re-
fraIn Of music-hall song called "Te-re-re-
Doom-day."
l, is said that the VanderbiIts own 10000
shares Of Erie and the Mills party over
100000 shares.
take no account OF the extra day in Febru-
airy in leap year.
The largest electrical plant in the West Is
al the Poorman mines. Idaho, which saves
its company $4,000 year.
Meet and Chandon were recently offered
34,UoO,OJO for their vineyards In Epernay.
This large offer was refused.
Low IL gold TO he Al
where 1t thuuders Oftenest. having thuader-
storm on 81 days in the year.
Two hundred women are employed by
EdiSon In working at the more delicate
details of bis electrical inventions.
Riyermen of the Missouri say that rivers
banks are moving westward. No scientific
explanation Of the fact can be given.
In proportion to its population New
Hampshire stands first among ali the States
in the amount OF its savings-bank deposits
The ten lines of railroad eentering in
London send out 221O suburban tains a
day, carrying 100000 passengers a year.
The Russian Iolstois have now in opera
ton - relief kitchens, which are located
IN - different villages and feed 1000 people
daily.
In the Samaritan Hospital at Belfast. Ire
lahd, chloroiorm has been given in over
5000 eases OF operations, without a single
fatal result.
Some painters in Geneva are painting
panorama Of the BeTnese Alps, which will
have height of 81 feet and width of 3I5
feet, to 20 10 China.
n dust OF blearbonate Of soda (baking
Soda not only will relieve a burn, but it is
said viii soothe a toOthache. Oil of cloves
will surely do this.
A foreign matchmaker has patented de-
vice by which an hour or two before "a clock
runs Gown the word wind" will appear at
the opening Of the dial
81 the twenty major generals of the war
Of the rebellion credited to Ohio seven only
survive. OF the twenty-seven brevet
maJor-generals twelve are living.
From report recently Issued it Is learned
that the number OF women pursuing studies
at the varions colleges in Paris has in
creased from 152 in 1890 TO 2J2 at the present
time.
The Algerians know what a real plague
OF grasshoppers Is. In one district Of that
country alone over $1,000 gallons of the
eggs of the pest were gathered and burned
last year.
The manufacture OF bay rum is carried
on al the northern end Of Dominica. and
proves very lucrative business to those
engaged in II, as the plants are plentiful in
this district.
A remarkable death occurred near Sayan-
nah. Mo-. last week Mrs. Riggin, the wife
of well-known farmer residing near that
place. bied to death through the cavity of
defective tooth.
General Isaac J. Wistar of PennsyIyania
has glyen the University Of Pennsylvania
$4,000 tor biological and anatomical
museum, ana yearly endowment of $4,000
for maintenance.
Large families are very common among
the factory popuiation Of Lewistowu. Me
Henry McCraw has raised 10 children. of
whom Is are now living. The mother is a
healthy woman OF 4S.
Mrs. Louis Martin. full-blooded Chip
pewa Indian, who died at her home in AL
ioueZ. Brown County. Wis, recently, made
q sworn statement to priest before her
death that she was los years old.
The 'rhinoceros beetle" is about inches
long and is plentifully found in many parts
Of the South. 1t is chiefly celebrated for its
offensive smell, which has at times rendered
Raleigh. n. C., and other towns almost un-
inhabtabe.
Dutch military cycling volunteers have to
pass a real examination before they are
accepted for the maneuvers. but when
passed they get forms a day, frstclass
fare travelling. and are lodged as officers ar
the expense ST the State.
A prophet in Athens, Ca, predicts that
the crop Yield this year throughout this
country will be the largest ever known. but
that beginning with 1888. and for two wears
thereafter, there Will be the greatest famine
the world has ever known.
There has been discovered I'm PompeIi n
small domestic chapel of graceful archi-
tectural PROPORTIONS, and adorned with
still vivid and unspoied frescoes. At the
end of the chamber there was well-pre-
served painting of Hercules
The irreguIarty of Names coast line il
indicated by the fact that a Lubbock man
who bought horse in Eastport was obliged
10 drive the animal more than forty miles
TO reach his home, although the two towns
are only three miles apart in straight line.
There is 10 St Louis a firm of rope
makers and dealers that has side line that
Ii does not advertise. 1t Is the manufacture
and preparation of hangman's ropes. The
firm sells as many as 100 of these ropes an
nually. Their price of the rope, with the
moose ready for use. Is IS.
1t is proposed to cast glass, not necessarily
transparent, into large blocks foe buildings
This material Is practically indestruetibie.
perfect by nop-absorbent and, therefore.
damp-proof in manner which few bricks
are, and in this way coarse glass of this
kind could be made nearly as cheap as con-
crete stone or baked clay.
When Herbert Sprague of Bangor went
to bed the other night be carried to his
room bull terrier pup. At midnight
SpTague snored, and the dog scratched his
face TO awake him. Sprague cuffed the
dog whereupou the animal, with true ter
Tier instinct, seized his master by the nose
and shook him as he would rat The dog
is dead now. and SpTague's nose has lost
much of its beauty