The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-05-29
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Glynn County. Ga, has woman hermit
who has only spoken 10 three persons in 10
years.
Three factories in the United States con-
sumo nearly 2, 600 600 eggs year in making
the peculiar KIND OF paper used by pho
tographers, known as albumen paper
While the Vast is suffering from the
floods the State OF Maine is suffering from
drouth. Lake Sebago is 8 feet and inches
below Its normal level at this season.
The locusts are reeppearing In Algeria in
greater numbers than ever in spite of the
efforts that were made by the French Rd-
minlstration last year TO annihilate the
pests.
There are in Great Britain and Ireland no
fewer than 2,7SS, 900 acres Of woodland
Notwithstanding this fact timber to the
value OF 9l6000,000 IS annually imported
into the country.
AleS and beers are clarified before being
sent to the shops by means of lsingass, a
kind OF glue made Of the sounds and air
badders OF certain fish. particularly OF the
sturgeon of Russian rivers.
Farmers in Mexico always use oxen of one
color 10 the morning aud of another color in
the afternoon. They do not know why:
but they know that is must be the right
thing to do, because their forefathers did il
A New York maker of travellers goods
imports great many elephants hides and
bundles OF them are usually TO be seen upon
tie sidewalk In front of his factory. de
says that elephant trunks are becoming
very popular.
OF the editors of the nine New York
morning papers published in the English
language, seven are American born. The
Pulitzer brothers came from the other side.
or the seven Americans but one, Mr. Ben
nett, was born in New York City.
The felt cloth which is made into hats is
composed chiefly OF the hair of rabbits,
hares or goats, mixed with much wool.
These substances are entangled together
and pressed and beaten until they adhere to
form compact but flexible material.
Antoine Nelson, Colorado cowboy, las
seed an eagle a few days ago. Nelson was
riding over the prairie on his little cow pony
with the lassO tied to his saddle, when he
saw the eagle flying ahead of him quite
close to the ground. He started his pony
on run toward the bird, and when a short
distance away threw his rope, which settled
over the eagles neck and under one wing,
and he succeeded in getting the bird to the
ranch house alive
One Of the oldest fishes that ever swan In
any sea Is that known to naturaists under
the unattracttve name OF ophiocephalus."
A species of il is found in the Sea of Galilee,
where it builds a nest which for beauty OF
design and elegance of workmanship excels
the efforts OF the majority of feathered nest
builders. Its tavorite spot for building is in
an old root or rock projecting under the
water, and the material consists of seaweed,
grass and leaves.
Sound travels by waves radating from
central point of disturbance, just as waves
radiate when stone is dropped into still
water. So far as the hearing of each indi-
vidual is concerned these waves move In a
direct line from the cause Of the sound to
his ear, the impact being the greatest in the
ear nearest to the source. This being the
cass a person VINO has totally lost the sense
OF hearing in one ear, although he may i'm
agine that the defect is of little conse-
quence, cannot locate the direction of
sound to save his life, even when the center
of disturbance is quite near him.
Though Longfelow wrote very beautl-
full poem about the Bermudas he never Wis
tied those islands. Not long before his
death he was called upon by the Misses
Trimmingham, who were among the wealth
lest people of Bermuda. They sought him
out in his Cambridge home. and though al
that time he denied himself to most callers
the poet welcomed the ladies most cordially.
As he conducted them to the door at the eud
of a pleasant chat he paused in saying
good-by and said, as il in reverie: Der
muda, Bermuda, how | have longed to 90
there. but now never shallP'