The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-01-12
WORK or THE B ATIWORE.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The gold plate at Windsor is valued at
&, 900, coo.
Paris has 100 public schools for boys and
III for girls.
America turned out 100000 artificial
tech in 1890.
The latest calculation makes the worlds
age ], $50, 100 600.
a man breathes about eighteen pints Of
air per minute, or upward Ct seven hogs
heads in a day.
The Sultan has prohibited Turkish women
from wearing French costumes IN the streets
Of COnstautiuOple.
An Island comprised Of about fifty acres
Of rice land has broken loose in 3 river near
DepeTe, Wis, and is floating down the
stream.
The St. Lawrence is the only absolutely
fOndless river in the world Its greatest
variation, caused be- drought or rain, never
exceeds a foot.
The mother of a Kansas City (MO.) baby
is 10 year old, its grandmother 30 and its
gTeat-grandmOtheT is but D. years Old, All
reside in the same house.
The mud is so deep at Topeka, Ksns., that
it became necessary to detail an ELEPHANT to
lift one Of the circus wagons out Of the Mrs
at that place the other day.
Archdeacon Farrar Of London offers $500
for the proof Of any oas case, either in the
church or out Of il, where drunkenness has
been cured without total abstinence.
Ia the manufacture Of carriages it used to
take one man thiIty-tiye DAYS to make one
1t is now made by the aid OF machinery with
the work Of one man in twelve days.
Cigar ashes are used for medical purposes
as a cure for riDgworm, epidemic scarlatIna
etc They are useful on account of the lime
and alcoholic properties they contain.
To procure rain the Peruyians used to set
black sheep IN field, pour chcha IA beY-
eTage made Of sugar and mOlaSseS) over il
and give II nothing to cal till rain fell
A fuII-blooded Indian of the Omaha tribe,
Martin Chase, has been admitted to practice
IN the Federal Court at Omaha. This is
Nebraska S first and only Indian lawyer.
1t is a remarkable fact in natural history
that every race, whether Of man OF beast.
and every thing that has life which grows
in or from the ground, is distinguished by
its own peculiar and individual odOT.
Recently two cases OF idiocy in Cincin-
| natl, resulting from retarded skull growth,
were cured by a surgical operation, fol-
lowed by tfephlning. CSUable surgeons be-
leYe that all similar cases can now be cured.
The Speaker of the House of Commons
draws a salary Of 5000 q year while in
Office, and when he TetiTes he Is raised to
the peerage, and receive d pension of $4,000
The Deputy Speaker receives a salary Of
$500
There are ten main lines Of railway CEN
tering IN IL ndGn. Of these 22l0 suburban
trains run in and out daily, while the main
line trains are only about 4l0. The ten lines
carry 4Oo,0OQO00 suburban passengers per
annum.
When the town Of Cicero was annexed to
Chicago tile city agreed to assume a bonded
indie DIedness Of $4,000 contracted by the
town. The city is ready TO pay the in
debtedness, but the town wants the privi-
lege Of paying its own debts and wants the
! money turned over to it. This the city re-
fuses to do, and the town has accordingly
commenced suit for $4,000
Evidently the island Of Madagascar has
not been civilized enough by the white
immigrants as yet. At any rate a native
merchant recently wrote to a newspaper
| published at the capital of the kingdom
| asking how trader should act when his
house has been broken into and he sur
prises the thief" He was advised 10 make
things lively for the burglar.
Among the curious taxes levied on trades
people in Corea, according to Colonel Rock
hill, was one on sOTceTeSsos arriving at the
capital, where they had to pay the Board OF
Revenue certain number of logs or sticks
Of wood for what purpose it is not said, bat
certainly not to burn them with later on, for
they are an influential class in the COM
munily. The tax is no longer levied.
A Yorkshire vicar once received the fol-
lpNiHb iOeiNO II aANiiS 4lUl q
parish house: ''Fhis is to give you motifs
that and Miss Jemima Arabela Brearly Is
comm to your church Oh Saturday after
noon mex, TO undergo the operation of mat
Timouy at your hands. Please be promp',
as the cab is hired by the hour" The
operation" was performed in due course
An excellent idea has been recently put
| into practice by drug firm in Birmingham,
| England. On every bottle or package of
| poison sold by the firm a liable is pasted, on
which are printed directions as to the anti
dote which should be employed in case the
| poison is taken by human beings, accident
| ally or Intentionally. This is perhaps an
even better plan than that said to have been
| adopted in a newly opened western drug
store Of giving dog with each prescription
! filled.