The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-11-23
ITE1S OF INTEREST.

There are 800. coo commercial travellers In
the United States.
Lancashire has larger population thar
Mlduiesex or any other country In The
kingdom.
man who is perfectly proportional
weighs exactly 2C%4 pounds for every foot
of his height.
The Roumanian crown is made of metal
rom the cannon captured from the Turks
at Plevna in 1877.
Inc longest canal i'll the world is the one
winch extends from the frontier of China Ia
81, petersburg. 1t measures In all 4,472
Mrs Lewis Washington Of Charleston.
w. Va, owns the family Bible which for
merry belonged to General Washington 3
mother.
In Sitka, when an Indian wife has lost
ler husband by death, she gosS into mourn
ing oy painting the upper half of her face q
deep black.
Center County, Pa. has q natural curios-
lily In the shape of twenty-acre pond
which appeared in single night ON ground
never known to be covered with water be-
fore.
Drowning, as punishment for crime,
was legally enforced IN Scotland up to the
year l611. The same punishment prevailed
In England up to few years before this
date.
Contraction Of the iron used in construct
ing the great Eiffel Tower makes that
famous structure eight inches shorter in
winter than 1t is during the hot summer
mouths
The most powerful naphtha spring on
record was recently opened in Baku on the
Taggiell grant. If it continues at its or gil
nal force 1t will be the richest napLtha fouG-
tain In the world.
The statue of Liberty in New York har-
hfRH l. i
Tour electric lamps IN vari-colored globes,
and the radiance from it is equal t. that
from 10000 candles.
There has been but one total eclipse Of
the sun at London since the year 1140, that
OF l7l5, and, according to Professor Holden,
there will not be another until after the
opening OF the twenty-frst century.
The United States now holds twenty-one
law firms made up OF husband and wife.
In addition to these there are az least IOS
American women who practice law in the
courts or who publish legal publications
T. j. James, who lives in Boone County.
Iowa, five miles northeast of Perry. has
raised the largest squash ever known in
that part OF the country. 1t is feet II u
inches around in the middle and weighs I29
pounds.
England imports annually about 10000
tons Of palm oil; but it is considered that
this is very small amount compared with
nous supplies fully or even moderately
realized.
or American apples nearly 100000 bar
rels are imported to England every sea-
son. about fourth of theee finding their
way to Covent Garden. The barrels
welgh from 40 to 100 pounds, and are ex-
eellently packed.
Borneo. so far as Is now known, is the
only island or country on the globe that
produces species Of flying lizard. These
little flying saurians have all the grace of a
BIRD ana as great variety of colors as a
tropical butterfly.
Much research and investigation warrant
the assertion that man is not the only ami
nal subject to dreams. Horses neigh and
rear upon their hind feet while fast aslee o :
dogs bark and growl and Ia many other
ways exhibit all their characteristic pas
si0ns
The professors in charge of the commits
sion to determine the exact longitude of
Montreal found that j, took but a trifie over
a second to telegraph from that place to
London and get a reply. The distance
travelled by the electric current was 5000
miles.
The ''ilfe tree" Of Jamaica will continue
TO grow for months and years after it has
been dug up and its roots exposed to the
sun. Leaves severed from the limbs will
remain perfectly green for weeks. The ma
tives say that the tree can only be DESTROYED
by fire.
In the northern part of Peru, in what is
otherwise an arid desert, the celebrated
rain tree" grows. This species, Batas
vapero. though not large or Of much com
mercial value, is a yeritable South Ameri-
can wonder, having the extraordinary prop
erty of condensng what little moisture
there is in the atmosphere so as to cause q
continual mist to exude (seemDgly) from its
leaves and branches.
George Washington was commander-in-
chief OF the army at the age of As; Crom-
well entered on his remarkable career at 90 ;
Napoleon conquered Italy before he was 80 :
Gladstone was member of Parliament at
%; Macaulay began his literary career at 20
Columbus started on his voyage of discoy-
cry at So; Frederic the Great began the
Thirty Years war at the age of SO, and
Blackstone finished his commentaries before
he was So.