The morning call., 1892-06-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The value of the words mot tTansfera bic" 3"
usually printed upon season tickets, has
has been tested in an English court, and II has
been decided to be unimpeaehable. A lady
loaned two of her servants couple Of sea-
son tickets to the Crystal Palace. They
were suspected ard questioned. and the fine
imposed by the court amounted in all to
about S15.
The buttresses of "Trajan's Bridge"
which are still TO be seen on the Danube, are
the remains Of what was, in some respects,
the most remarkable structure ever erected
by man. 1t was not a mere floating bridge
of large boats and massive timbers. but was
permanent structure carried on piers 100
feet high and 60 feet wide, comprising 20
arches, extending altogether, 4479 Roman
feet.
A Steubenvlle (Ohio) man had cat and
two kittens which he thought a great deal
of. The other day lie found the cat in
desperate battle with large blacksnake
which had killed the two kittens. The cat
was holding the snake at bay, and had in
ficted several scratches on the snake when
the man arrived. The snake sprang at him
and buried its fangs in his wrist before he
could kill it. The reptile was nearly feet
long.
There have been duriug the past years a
series Of fashionable crazes In Japan. The
year 1873 was the rabbit year. The japanese
went wild over the little quadrupeds AS
much as 8S00 was paid for a single speci-
men, and speculatiOns in 9l00 and 9200 rah-
bits were of daily occurrence Cock fight
ing, printing dictionaries by subscription,
boating, whist. Waiting, gigantic funerals
and table turning are among other recent
crazes.
A useful South American animal is the
kiDkaj0u, which, as the dictionary will tell
you, is procyOniiorm quadTuped, with q
prOtusile tongue and prehensile tail. The
chlet reason Tor asserting that the kinkaiou
Is useful is that, in addition to his fondness
for fruit, he has great liking for insects
for lunch, and when tanned is a valuable as
slstance in Southern homes, where fly
paper is unknown and where a mosquito
net is more expensive than silk dress.
At the last meeting of the Royal Society
there was shown an oyster shell from
Thursday Island. in the Torress Strait, upon
which bright and splendid pearl had been
produced by artificial process. The process
itself was not divulged Photographs of
flying bullets showed that pistol bullet
Travelled 750 feet second, Martini. Henry
bullet 1850 feet, new English magazine
rife bullet with smOkeless powder 1000 feet
and an aluminium bullet under similar con-
ditiOnS 5000 feet.
Honey bees from somewhere haunt the
flowers and Dlossoming trees of New York,
especially the horse chestnuts. The bios
SONS Oh this tree have a peculiar fascina-
tlon Tor bees OF all sorts, and In regions
where bees are plentiful there is a noise as
OF swarm about each horse chestnut 1t
Is an old tradition that the hOrse-chesnut
blossom contains an intoxicant which makes
the honey-seekers drunk, and causes them TO
drop senscleSs TO the ground, when they be-
come the prey of ants.
Two men we're heard talking about the
popularity of dreams the other day. One
asserted that he had gone 10 sleep when the
clock commenced to strike a eertlan hour.
and by the time II had finished had awak-
ened ana heard the last stroke In the mean
time be dreamed a dream that would take
several minutes to relate. The other COM
mented on the pecuiarity of dream where
the dreamer takes part in a conversation
and can hear the words of the man he is
taking TO, furnishing the ideas for both
sides OF the dialogue.