The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-01-07
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

arts and sciences
There are said to be sixteen men TO Que
woman in BuenOs Ayres.
Yale College received S343, 1876 in gifts
ranging from 500 to $4,000 last year.
In 1890, q, 4l2 people were killed in India
by snakes and 510,659 snakes were killed by
people.
Out of population of about 900 there has
been but one death in WadSborO, n. c., thus
FAR this year.
In the Dorrot's beak both mandibles are
moYaole-a popularity unknown IN other
species of birds.
Grayson (Ky.) farmers wife wears a
No IA shoe. This leaves The proyerbial Chi
cage girl in the shade
In twelve years the city OF Paris has ex-
pended S270 600 on statues and SS5,00O on
ornamental fountains.
In West Southport, Me-. clam has re-
Gently been dug which measured OKLA inches
and weighed IA ounces.
In England and Scotland Saturday, Sun
day and Monday are considered lucky days
on which TO get married.
The horse has no eyebrows, and if much
white is visible in the eye itself it is a sure
sign OF a vicious nature.
The waters of the Indian Ocean now flow
over the site of old Calicut, the place from
which Calico takes its name.
William Jackson Of Ellsworth, Me-, has
lost six wives within the last fiity-fVe year,
the last having died a few weeks since.
Gypsies first appeared in Western Europe
in l447, when several hundred catered Ger
many and rapidly spread over the country.
The Dutch homesteads of Long Island
have yielded many cuTiOsitleS In the shape
of furniture, which have been preserved as
heTlOOms.
In England an American diploma of
medicine does not entltle its possessOr 10
call himself MD. Ii he does he may be
prosecuted.
The cargo ship of the future will be a five
mastPd vessel with auxiliary steam, such as
is now building on the Clyde. She will
carry 5000 tons.
Melbourne, Australia, which was founded
less than fifty years ago, has now a pUpU1a.
ton Of 100000, and Is the fifth city In size IL
the British Empire.
Peanuts are likely TO become 10 cents
bag. Virginia, Tennessee and Carolina have
this year produced but 2, 900 against tue
usual 5000, 600 bushels.
a Cape May man who last summer had
his hair cut in the barber-shOp of a leading
New York hotel and was charged 81 10 has
not yet recovered from the shock.
Vigorous efforts are making in Nice t.
break up the gambling houses The cafes
chantants are almost all attached TO gam
bling houses. and raids are frequent and
fruitful.
The new Lord Mayor of London has laid
down 600 dOZen OF wine in the Mansion
house cellars, so that his LOrdship'S cruise
Will be almost as ineXhauStible as the scrip
tural widows.
Two vessels from New York to Calcutta
nowadays follow very near the same course.
1t Is SAID that if their course was mapped
out il would be found that at no time were
they fifty miles apart
The Treasury silver stock weighs 1000
net tons, and to carry it would require 1893
fTeight-carS carrying II tons each, or 2200
cars carrying five tons each. OF 500 Two
horse wagons carrying two tons EACH
Rabbits, snakes. birds and fishes never
close their eyes because upprOvded with
eyelds. The rabbit and the common barn
yard fowl are each provided with thin
membrane which is let down over the eye
when asleep or at rest
The fox hound was so named because it
was originally kept as an addition TO every
pack OF fox hounds 1t was always noted
for being up within few minutes of run
ming to ground and aiding very materially
in the capture Of Reynard.
The term "tabby cat is derived from
Atab. a famous street III Bagdad, inhabited
by the manufacturers of Silken Stuffs called
atabi, or taffety. This stuff is woven with
waved markings of watered silk, resen-
bling ''tabby" eats coat
Bloodhounds derive their name from the
possession of peculiar power of seeming
the blood of wounded animal, so that If
once put on the trail they will hunt the
quarry through thick and thin and seldom,
II ever, deyiate from their course
A fair example of raee-trsek. humor was
the criticism Of bO0k-maker upon trainer
whom he considered incompetent: The
only way that fellow can tell cow from a
horse is to feel his head. If he has horns il
is a cow if he hasn't he's horse"
A copy of Jay Gould's maiden effort at
authorship, the History Of Delaware
County and Border Wars of New York."
was recently sold at auction in Boston.
Few copies of the works exist and the
average price for which it sells is SIS.
A handsome sarcOphaguS of Carrara mar
BILE is being constructed in Italy, in which
! the remains Of Sebastian LerdO de IeJada,
a former President of Mexico, are TO be
put and then placed in the rotunda for
| illustriOus men in the Dolores Cemetery.
The light of the sun will take the temper
out of steel and the edge disappears and Is
useless until the tool is resharpened. Moon
| light has the same effect An ordinary
cIOSscut saw is said to have been put out Of
shape in single night by the moon rays.
Slavery still exists In Portuguese India.
A Brahmin at Kalloua possesses a village of
thirty two huts, where every soul is as truly
his slave ana property as in the olden days:
aud recently Portuguese, travelling from
Goa, spoke openly of the slaves on his es-
tate.
In the southern portion of Formosa the
natives are of the Malay type fierce, war
like and cannihels in their habits. No
white man has ever been among them, and
no one knows their numbers. 1t would b.
as much as his life would be worth to go
| among them.
The Burmese natives delight in huge
| loosely rolled cheTOOtS, varying from six 10
| eighteen inches in length. Among the
| Ango-Indians the Trichnopoly cherooi.
| with straw down the middle. is great 1t
yorite. 1t is made in all sizes, from ten
| inches to two.
A skye terrier is so called because the
| breed was once chiefly raised on the Island
| If Skye. one of the HebIides. The cele-
| bratpd Dandy DnmOnt terrier obtained its
| distinctive title from the fact of its being
| depicted as the favorite of character bear
ing that name in Sir Walter SCOTS Guy
Mannering."
The British Museum has received as be-
quest the TAPPING collection OF stamps, con-
tanning about 100000 specimens, exclusive
of many cards and envelopes, and valued at
between $3.50, 900 aud 100000. Mr. Tap
ling was more than twenty years IN making
it. 1t is pronounced the hneSt collection oil
stamps existing.
A Maine man bought spring from B0s-
ton firm. The firm sent it to him, paying
| cents for postage. The bill was then for
warded for 2 eents-the cost of the spring
| and postage was paid on this. Then the
| Maine man sent the 2 cents to Boston and
| the postage was again cents, making
| total OF cents paid out to collect cents.
Gold is so very tenacious that a piece of it
| drawn into wire One-twentleth OF an inch
| in diameter will sustain weight OF 500
pounds without breaking, says an exchange
| Its malleability is so great that a single
| grain may be divided into 2 00, 600 parts ami
cubic inch into 1898. S09, 529 parts. each of