The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-12-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

old.
Fifty-three per cent of Iowa's farms are
morIgaged.
Fifty thousand Missouri mules are sold in
81. Louis every year.
Strawberries were picked at C9ur Alene,
Idaho. last week.
Kansas is the only State in the Union
which produces reeled silk.
If Arabian tradition amounts to anything
Eve was over 200 feet tall.
The gifts to Yale during the last year
have amounted to over S2,000.0O0.
The practice of shaving the head has
been in vogue in nearly all countries.
Among French dainties of the fifteenth
century were fried leeches and hashed por-
poise.
The product of American distilleries of
all kinds last year amounted to III 1856 ia
gallons.
Two Canadians made wager on the
chance that the comet would come In COLI
sion with the earth.
In little more than a year sixty-two
boys have committed suicide in Berlin.
Fiity-four OF them were less than 10 years
old.
General Sherman's old home in ST. Louis.
which was sold short time ago, is to be-
come G. A. K. headquarters and a war
museum.
1t is said that the people of Toxic recover
quickly from surgical operations because
they consume but little alcohol and eat but
little meat
A Kansas farmer who had had much
trouble In shipping eggs at last succeeded
IN getting consignment delivered in
good order by marking the box ''dyna-
mite"
A resident of a Missouri town lately I'M
dertook to carry hatful of blasting-powder
IN his hands and smoke pipe al the same
time. He will probably recover from his
injuries.
A rattlesnake will not cross a hair rope
Experienced campers, when they fear the
TattlesDakes are around, eneircle their
camp with hair lariat or two and feel Sc
cure.
A cable railway Is to be erected from
Saint Ergues TO the summit of the Voirons
Mountain i'll the Upper Savoy, a distance of
nearly TWO miles. The gauge of the line will
be one meter.
Byron Champlin OF Almota, WASH, has
succeeded in raising new variety of peach,
which he has named the November peach"
as II did not mature until the early part Of
this month.
Children's clothes can be made freproof
by adding to the last rinse water two ounces
OF pulveriZed alum. A prominent English
chemist says that all ehildren'S dresses
should be thus treated.
Stem biography was first used in the French
Parliament ab0utthe year 1880. and one of
the lew 5tlcial stenOgra piers of that period
VI. u
Senator of France.
The yearly waste in the United States
through drink is at least $500. 900. In
forty years at least SO, coo, 000, coo have been
thus wasted. This equivalent to the whole
savings OF the people from 1888 to 1857.
Cats are being extensively used in New
Zealand for the destruction OF abbits. The
owners OF one estate are so pleased with the
efficacy of the new "cure" that they have
just given an order for 500 cats.
Among the coachmen of Berlin are seven
retired army officers three ex-pastors and
slxten mobiles. London even beats this, for
her "cabbies" include marquis, baron
and cx-member OF Parliament.
The highest chimney in Germany, and
probably on the Continent, has just been
bulltat Stolberg, near AK la-Chapelle. 1t
Is 407 feet high, and it stands, moreover, on
an eminence which rises some 90 feet above
the surrounding plain.
We are told that NJ. Theirs died in little
iron bed scarcely larger than child's, which
he had used for nifty years. II was wheeled
into the small drawing-room where he had
breakfast. He took il with him on his tour
through Europe in 1870. 2
The frizzled glass threads from whic
ciolh Is woven are said 70 surpass In fine
ness not only the finest cotton, but even the
thread OF the stlkworm's cocoon, their soft
ness aud elasticity being even greater than
that OF manu- actured silk Tint"
Two hundred Dutch families from the
vicinity OF Rotterdam came over on the
Dubbledam and are now on their way to a
pant of Colorado here The dams are small
but numerous. They will settle In the San
Luis Valley. an irrigated district, and raise
wheat.
The Norman term ''maire." sfterward
Anglicized into mayor" was introduced in
the reign of Henry H.. ana il was King
John who first granted the citizens of Lon
don the right OF eiectng Mayor annually
The prefix lord" and the style of right
honorable" were granted by Edward III.
in 1854.
A down-east minister who is waging war
against amateur theatricals clinches his ar
gument against everything pertaining to the
stage by the statement that the loss of life
at Pompei would have been small but for
the fact that most of her people were in the
theater at the time Of Vesuvius' great erup-
ton.
An EnCishman has invented a rubber
stud for floor and stairs. Ii co lS's,s of a
small iron plate with nail projecting from
under the surface. around which rubber is
nodded. 1t is fixed in place by blow of
the hammer, the advantage being that
when worn il can be easily removed and
replaced by others.
The cruiser Rurik, recently launched on
the Neya in the presence of the Car and
CZarina. is the NEST formidable warship of
her kind in the world aud the largest Of any
kind ever built in Russia. Her dispiace-
nent Is 1923 tons, her maximum speed
is y knots per hour. and her coal capaeitv
1000 tons. She will be able to steam 90 600
knots at the rate OF 10 knots per hour with
out quitting into port for fuel or provisions