The morning call., 1892-07-05
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

In Michigan a double cedar ku0t is car
ried in the pocket to cure rheumatism and
in New Hampshire men carried gall from
the stems OF the golden rod for the same
disease.
Four different peaks in the mountains NJ
Idaho are from Is TO % feet lower by actual
measurement than they were Is years ago
GeoIogists do not attempt 30 explain the
''why" OF their settling.
In 13 years the manufacture of cigarettes
has increased from 23S, ,270,S17 TO 9, ,677, ,T99.-
4i0 Fully tW0-thlrds of this enormous
number Of cigarettes annually made and
sold are smoked by boys.
The greatest days run of an ocean team
ship was about 515 miles. The Steam er il
question was 562 feet long and had previ-
0uSly been known to make 500 miles pc
day for three days IN succession.
In an area of about Is miles square below
Trout Creek there is estimated to be u
band of at least 700 wild horses. which are
not only eating off the ranges, but becom-
ing more direct source OF loss TO stock
owners.
A Washington official believes there is a
vast ocean in Dakota. There are 1892
wells west of the ninety-seventh meridian.
More than 100000 acres of land are irri-
gated from these wells, 100000 gallons oil
water per DAY flowing from single well.
Four cities in Europe stand wholly or in
part on islands. Venice is best known on
account of its historical past; next comes
st. Peters Sburg, the capital of Russia, and
the two last are the cities of GheGt ana
Amsterdam, situated respectively in Bel
gium and Holland.
There is only one factory in Russia f3r
the manufacture of playing-cards 1t has n
monopoly of the business mud belongs to the
Founding Hospital. 1t is figured that there
ara so 100000 people in Russia who play
cards, and to supply the demand this fac
tory puts out 100000 packs Of cards annu-
ally.
From an ancient aecount-book found a.
Eastport, Me-, it appears that in 1877 To-
bacco was sold by the yard in that settle
Inent. The limited purchasing power of
days wages at the period is shown Uy the
price of nails-fs 21zd pound. A days or
dinary wages would pay for about foug
pounds of nails.
Another story, illustrating the tenacity
Of custom in European communities. is that
uf the sentinel at Il certain point in publir
garden in London. Nobody knew why h
was stationed at that particular point unui
some, delving IN old records. discovered
that generations before sentinel had been
stationed there TO warn people of a newly
painted bench.
The German Society for the Prevention
OF Wholesale Slaughter of Birds for the
Purposes OF Millinery is preparinga signed
petition to be presented to the Queen OF
Italy during her visit TO Berlin in June,
begging her to use her influence TO preven
the constant slaughter of small birds il,
Italy, where some of the most beautifu
species are becoming extinct.
A curious book, in which the text is
neither written nor printed, but woven, has
lately been published at Lyons. It is mad
Of silk, and was published in % parts.
Each part consists or two leaves. so that the
entire volume contains only 90 leaves, iu-
scribed with the service of the mass ana
several prayers. Both the letters and the
border are in black silk on a white back
ground.
Anaxagoras, the Athenian philosopher.
who fourished in the fifth century before
Christ, taught his scholars that wind was
air set in motion by rarefaetion; that the
moon owed her light-giving properties to
the sun; that the rainbow was the resulting
phenomena of reflection; that comets were
wandering stars. and that the fixed stars
were at an immensurable distance beyond
the sun. besides giving them many other
ideas thought to belong to more modern
times.