The morning call., 1892-08-13
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


The average man has 2.3C4.00 pores in
his skin.
Circassia is said TO be infested with huge
Swarms of lOeusts.
Ten pairs OF twins are said to have been
born to a woman in TompSins, New York
State.
a small vase of Seyres ware. only eight
inctes high. was recently sold in London
for S7205.
The postoffice in Chicago does a larger
regisiered-ietter business than any other in
the country.
California is about to order 20 carloads of
special glass jars To hold her Worlds Fair
fruit display
Foreign physicians are now experiment
ing with frog lymph as preventive Of n.y.
drophG bia.
Chicago claims to have the only band in
the United States composed entirely of let
ter Ca rriers.
The new railroad in :helHoly Land is to be
equipped with American locomotives made
in Philad elphia.
The little moons of Mars ara only from
five to ten miles in diameter. The smaller
OF the two is the brighter.
Chinese paper currency is IN red, white
aud yellow. with gilt lettering and gorgeous
little nand-drawn devices
Ii requires upward of las, 600 acres of rich
land to produce the sugar yearly consumed
in the British Islands.
The most important Japanese holiday is
the Feast OF the Lanterns from July Is to
10 IL is the japanese Decoration day.
Three factories i'll this country that make
the albnmen paper used in photography Use
over 100000 eggs every year.
While some choice fruit and other prod
nets are canned In France, the bulk of the
worlds supply comes from this country.
The first volume OF poems by Alfred Ten
nyson came out when he was "A. He was
al when In Memoriam" came from the
press.
Louisiana was named in honor of Louis
XIV OF France, and was formerly applied
TO the French possessions in the Mississippi
Valley.
The first electric light was the invention
OF Static u Petrie. in 1916. but scores of men
nave since made improvements and adapted
1t to popular use.
A recent novelty is a composite metal
wheel made up of a skeleton of wire for the
spokes hub and rim, the whole being i'm
bedded in cast iron.
The Romans used the first shaving brush
and razor 800 b. c., and Plnius tells us that
Scipio Africanus was the first individual
Raman TO shave daily.
Defoe was So when he began bis "RObn-
son CruSoe." His literary career began at
20. and his best political works were written
before the "Crusoe."
Glass type is now used for printing. The
glass Is OF the maleable kind, aud the type
Is SAID 10 make clearer work and last longer
than that made from metal.
There are 10 national banks in New York
CITY which have deposits exceeding SIS
000,0o0 each. the largest amount being $50
OO0,00O IN the National Park
Indinn newspapers tell of sehooiteaeber
In Lackhara0ad who was attacked by a
lion ana kept the animal at bay with a CON-
mon broom until assistance arrived.
fS~t,
Surrey canal, caught with his hook and
line handbag containing 50 gold rings and
gold aud silver coins worth more than S1O0
1t Is estimated by the leading railroads
that they will need 40 per cent more trains
and equipment TO carry the expected tray-
elers TO and from the Columbian Exhibit
tion.
John McDarby of Salmon Falls. Mass
has double teeth all around and stomach
which does not rebel when he chews and
swallows glass, stones and other indigesti-
bles.
Alferi wrote CLEOPATRA his first
tragedy, at 20. 1t was undertaken to relieve
the tedium Of self-imposed confinement to
cure himself OF passion Tor au unworthy
woman.
AT the foot of Mount Tacoma there are
trees that by actual measurement by one of
the best surveyors on the coast, Professor
Fred G. Piummer, have been found 20 be
$50 feet high.
The French flag was adopted during the
revolution. The republic first took green.
but gave it up, and blended the Bourbon
white with the red and blue. the colors OF
the city of Paris.
As an indication of the thrift among the
working classes of France, 1t is stated that
there are now 100000 depositors in the
French savings banks, with accumulated
capital of not less than aII2. 100000.
The Cabokia mound. near ST. Louis, is
probably the largest artificial mound in The
country, if not in the world IL is over 500
feet long by 500 feet wide at the base. 90
feet high and covers over eight acres of
ground.
In liza Maskelyne. the astronomer royal
of England. first calculated the weight of
the ea-th. The weight. as estimated in
Encyclopedia Britannica ninth edition). VOL
ume II, page 7S3. is 6,000, coo, 600, COO oo0.-
000, 600 tons.
Envelopes were first used in Franco in the
time OF Louis XIV. In the Egerton collec-
ton OF manuscripts at the British Museum
there Is an envelope, something like those
OF the present day, which contains letter
written by Madame Pompadour in 1860.
At the funeral feast If Ya-ten-e-ouitz. in
Oregon, the widow of the dead Umatilla
chief distributed SO ponies, 30 shirts, 100
blankets and number of pipes and beaded
articles among the Indians and others who
attended. Fully 600 Indians were given a
free dinner.
Miss Ella Ewing OF Scotland County, No..
is n coy damsel of is summers who meas
ares eight feet two inches in height and Is
still growing. She Is said to be retiring in
disposition. but exhibits quite an amount OF
exnberant girlishness among her intimate
friends.
About seven miles from Ash Grove. Mo-.
IS natural phenomenon known as Doggy
Mound" 1t is 80 feet in circumference and
10 or IL feet In the center. 1t seems TO be
saturated with water. ana the whole mound
may be shaken as IL il were constructed Of
jelly or indisrubber.
An enterprising English firm desires to
put boardings along the banks of the Suez
canal and lease these accommodations for
advertising purposes. They have an idea
that considerable revenue can be derived
from this novel source. The Egyptian Gov
eminent is now considering the proposition.
THERE are many limitations of Whites Yucatan
Gum on the market When purchasing be sure and
see that the package Is sealed with yellow band
and marked with the name of tha m, nh Il