The morning call., 1892-10-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
ISL AJAX is Getting scarce.

English oak is getting scarce.
Quicksilver was first ured in the arts in
the year 1910.
The machine for pairing apples was de-
yised by Coulter in 1903.
Six million dollars are invested in the
manufacture OF dynamite in the United
States.
A Democratic nominee for Congress in
Tennessee has mustache that measures
sixteen inches from tip to tip.
For 500 years the Genoese were the best
cross bowmen. At Crecy there were To- 600
Of them as mercenareS.
There are reputed to be 119. 000.0OO of the
big old copper pennies lying unused some
where in this country.
The Haidah Indians of British Columbia
gamble with sticks of spruce wood, about
five inches in length, carved or stained with
totemic devices.
Paris viii shortly have a new theater
known as the fheater of Pen and
the language of the deaf and dumb, namely.
by signs.
The Chinese have a kitchen god, which
Is supposed TO 60 to the Chinese heaven at
the beginning of each year to renert up
on the private life of the families under his
care.
There are but 100 eolored voters in North
Dakota. There are $1,000 in the city of
Baltimore. Baltimore has an area Of thirty
two square miles; North Dakota has an
area OF $4,000 square miles.
Mining and counter-mining were extern
sively practiced during ancient sieges The
mine was made. the roof supported by tim
bers; when all was ready the beams were
set on fire and the wall caved In.
There are ex-military officers, ex-doctors.
ex-lawyers, ems lord by courtesy, one baro-
net several honorables, one ex-member of
Parliament and dozen bankrupt landed
proprletors among the London cab drivers
An Illinois banker put mark on the
money he paid cut on late Saturday to the
wage-workers of the town who patrnnszsa--
his bank. OF the 500 thus paid out nearly
half of ii came back to him on Monday from
saloons in the district
Shakespeare's house at Stratford, Mil
tons at ChalfoDt-St. Giles, Burns cottage
near Ayr and Wadsworth's Dove cottage
are reputed TO be the only houses of literary
Britons that have been preserved for the
sake of their associations.
The silky little King Charles spaniel is an
expensive luxury, because puppies month
old easily fetch $50 apiece, and when half
OF these dogs in New York, and nearly
every one is known to the dog fanciers.
Colonel r. T. Auehmutty. the founder of
the New York trade schools, has gathered
statistics to show that out of sac o.0o0
paid annually for mechanics in the build
S6.000.000 goes to men born in this country.
A Canadian electrician states that electrl-
city causes the tides and demonstrates it by
eleetrifying a rubber comb by rubbing it
through the hair and then drawing it over
the top OF glass filed with water, the re-
suit being that the tidal wave follows the
comb.
A device to be used in signaling along
length of fire hose s q recent invention
Wires are carried In the house and insulated
therefrom, so that by making battery con-
nections fireman from one end OF line
can send signal to the other without leay-
ing his post.
The latest development In gallantry is the
practice recently started BY the Michigan
Central Railroad, which presents to every
lady, travelling by certain trains, a bouquet
OF wild flowers and an artistically printed
timetable card inscribed, with the mana
gers compliments"
The hill near Jerusalem where the cruel
fixion of Jesus occurred is formed of lime
stone. The shores of the Dead Sea are
lined with pumice stone, showered out OF
some volcano that destroyed Sodom and
Gomorrah. which cities finally sank beneath
the waters of the Dead Sea.
BY saturating bullet with vaseline its
fight may be easily followed with the eye
from the time it leaves the muZzle until Ii
strikes the target. The course Of the fight
is marked by beautiful ring OF smoke.
caused Dy tDo yaS6iiub UtlDS iBuitSu Ou
leaving the muzzle of the rifle.
New York City boasts of a cat which
patronizes the saltwater fountain of q
drugstore on Sixth avenue. Some time ago
pussy" discovered that the cream of the
fountain suited her taste, and she has a
habit of going up to the counter and watt
ing until she Is served with her fayorte
flavor in her own particular SANGER.
Bombay, India, has opened magnificent
new water works, supplying the city by
gravity with 100000 gallons of water
daily. The water is brought from a great
artificial lake and passes through sixty-two
miles Of tunnels The water works, includ-
ing the dam and aqueducts, are among the
famous engineering works OF the time.
A novel spectacle OF steam vessel being
stocked with bank notes was witnessed re-
Gently at Mediterranean port Forty-five
sacks of the apparently valuable paper
were forced into the furnace OF the vessels
boiler under the eyes of the stokers. who
seemed to desire to possess themselves of
at least handful OF what they somewhat
inelegantly styled rum fuel. The notes
were cancelled documents OF the Bank of
Algiers, hose manager watched the CON-
busticn.