The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-12-10
TEnS OF INTEREST.

Germany makes paper stockings.
Both the Gar and the King of Siam ride
bicycles.
America mines 10000, eco barrels OF salt
year.
There are supposed to be about 40, COO 600
Christians in the world.
Opossums are the only animals that IN axe
more elaborate toilet than cats.
About twenty letters go asfray out of every
100000 sent through the postoffice.
A Brunswick. Me-. man recently paid for
suit OF clothes with 1000 coppers which he
had been accumulating for years. Tue lot
weighed twenty-one pounds.
The Chinese have a kitchen god, which
is supposed to go 10 the Chinese heaven at
the beginning of each year to report upon
the private LIE OF the families under his
care.
At the table of the Regent Duke Of Or
leans II was the custom for a guest to drop
piece Of gold in the plate from which he
had Just eaten dish whose taste he fam
eied.
AS the oyster grows older its proportion
of flesh and juices increase more rapidly
than its shell. as well as the relative amount
OF the natural nutrients in Its edible poi
tions.
In the Austrian army suicides average
10000 year. This does not include fOiled
attempts. and il represents 20 per cent of
soldiers.
There is at present on exhibition In the
window of n well-known New Y ork jeweier
the tusk Of a sacred elephant from the East.
The tusk Is said 10 be one OF the finest ever
seen in the United States.
Sufferers should read aloud from book
aud pronounce each word distinctly, re peat
Ing II as often as necessary, aud Ii will be
found that in time the habit Of suffering
will have entirely disappeared.
Everything in nature INDUCES in amuse-
ment The lightning plays, the wind
whistles. the thunder rolls. the snow flies.
the waves leap and the fields smile. Even
the buds shoot and the rivers run.
The petrfed BODY of a man has bean
found, IT Is said, in cave In the foothills
OF the Guadaloupe Mountains. n. NJ. Ac-
cordiDg to the report. II is difficult to detsr-
mine whether IL is the body of a white man
or an Indian, or whether IL is ancient or
modern.
Both the Kurds and TIE Ccssacks believe
that Ararat is guarded by an uDearthly
being, and that no man can ascend the peak
aDd live. They have somewhat contrary
opinion, however, as TO what kind of spirits
are on guard, the former claiming that the
devil is guard supreme. the latter that angels
are on the watch.
The general manager of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad SAYS that they can move
from the Interior of the country TO the sea-
niles 350, 600 troops in thirty hours together
with their necessary equipment. This could
be done without serious Interruption To
regular CONNER ial traffic.
Emperor Alexander has freed the Kali
mncks of Astrakhan from serfdom. These
rowing peoplesre Buddhists and they num-
Der 10000 souls. When the other Russian
serfs were freed In 1861 the Kalmucks
were not permitted to enjoy the results
of that reformation. for il was Thought
that so wild people would abuse their
privileges.
There. used to be clause in the consti-
tuition OF Massachusetts declaring that no
man should be elected for Governor unless
he shall declare himself to be of the
Christian religion" But the people voted
that out years ago, and now there is nothing
10 the constitution to prevent a Moham
medan or Confucian or an infde from be-
ing elected Governor.
One-fifth OF the married women OF Mass
aehuselrs are ebildless. 1t is said that in no
country save France can similar condition
of affairs be found. On the other hand.
instead OF over 20 per cent only 1927 per
cent OF the foreipn-b born women of
Massachusetts are childleSs. What ia
trne OF this State is undoubtedly in a
greater or less degree true Throughout the
country.
The highest average speed attained nv
railway trains in England IS fifty-one miles
an hour. The Board OF Trade has officially
ascertained the average attained ON tbe
various principal roads and tabulates them
thus: Midland 81 miles an hour. Great
Northern 81, London and Northwestern AZ.
Great Western As. London, Brighton and
South Coast 43. Great Eastern 80. and Lon
don and Southwestern 81.
Calculations based on the observation Of
the refraction OF light have caused IL to be
supposed that the air becomes SO rare MT the
height OF about sixty miles that the dis
lance may be regarded as the limit 10 lis
sensible extent, but other calculations
made during the present century, of the dis.
lance from the earth at which meteors
ignite. indicate that the atmosphere ar
tends TO upward of a hundred miles.