The morning call., 1892-01-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

tliico ~ ID compromise WIFI one cTeul-
tors.
Texas learning has been made the target
Tor many shaft, yet the State has school
fund Of $1,000, 600.
a pretty young woman cannot throw a
stone, but she can shoot glance that hits
the mark every time.
Bank-nOtes in AustrO- Hungary are printed
on one side in German and on the other i'll
Magyar for the benefit of the Hungaraus.
Constable Tadder of Bradford. Pa, wears
a watch chain made of the sixteen rattles
and backbone Of snake he killed at Pit
hole.
A company OF women is running two can
ming and preserving factories in Michigan
Not man is allowed to work in either
place.
The Italian army contains nearly 2,00O,-
O0o men, or, to give the exact figures, 1,92S,-
U72. Among them are 5000 Alpine soldiers.
trained aud Injured TO the haIdships of
mountain warfare.
Connecticut is such pious State that it
refuses to permit Sunday night exhibition
Of stereupllcOn views of the Holy Land or
to allow the grating Of wooden nutmeg
for hospital Cruel
1t is told on high authority that Queen
IctOria'S faYOrite scents are patchOull and
maTechale Those famous Indian shawfs
which she gives as wedding presents are
perfumed with marechae.
Many a clergyman who will preach Sun
dav evening on art literature or politics
viii violently accuse any of his pariShiOners
who attend lecture upon like topics in a
secular hall on the same night Of Sabbath
breaking.
Forty dollars yard would seem to be
rather stiff price for a broeade, but that is
the amount demanded. even in Paris, for
the exquisite material which shows flowers
woven to look like Gobelin tapestry IN
miniature.
The Duke of Devonshre has seven resi-
denees, including that palatial structure,
ChatswOTth, controls the patronage Of Iwen-
ty-three yicarageS and nineteen other church
llylngs, and has roli-rent ownership Of
l9j, 322 acres.
At the recent maneuvers of the French
army IN Champagne the Service de Sante
employed n portable hospital invented by
vi. EspitalleT, cOmmandant of engineers.
i be barraek IN question measured rs meters
by meters inside, and could receive twenty
beds
Among tie periodicals published by the
Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore are
the American Chemical Journal, the Ameri-
can Journal Of Mathematics and the Ameri-
can Journal of PhiolOcy. A large number
OF the professors of the university are con-
trlbutOTs to these periodicals.
There are this year 2750 students in the
various departments OF the University OF
Michigan at Ann ArbOr There is no other
institution Of learning in the United States
that has as large a number Of students en-
rolled on its books, and the University Of
Michigan is very proud Of the fact
The new hospital at Antananarivo. the
ca ital OF Madagascar, was opened by the
Gu en- of that island recently. 1t is Sus-
tanned by the Society of Friends Of Great
Britain, under the superintendent of DIR.
Samuel Fem and several trained women
FRO \ -
tendance.
There are naturalists in this day and age
who believe that horse hairs will turn TO
living suakes; that toadS will live for thou
sands of years in the cavity of a rock with
out food or water; that the barnaele goose
was deVeOped from the shelltish of that
name, and that the bird called sora is a
species Of winged frog.
The curious complication of a divorced
woman suing lover for breach of promise
made While she was still wife was lately
submitted TO court IN Manchester, En-
gland. The defendant bad been the CO.
respondent TIE jury decided that there
had been a promise II marriage, and gave
the plaintiff 500 damages.
The city of London is put down by geo
graphers as the center Of the landed hem
isphere. In other words, a radius Of about
COCO miles on the curved surface OF the
earth with London as the eeater, would de-
q
than any Coco mile circle that could be drawn
from any other city in the world.
At a recent house wedding, where the
precantiOD had been taken Of locking up all
the rice, the young people formed them
selves into an investigating committee, and
in lieu of that time-honored article possessed
themselves 0f bag OF taploca and q box oil
oatmeal, with which they literally show
cred the fleeing bride and bridegroom.
Steel caSkels fOI the bodies Of those who
die Suddenly on shpb1ard are being carried
on many of the transatlantic liners. The
remains are placed 10 them and hermeti-
caliy sealed. The heartless practice of
the remains overheard is conSid-
cred worse than barbarOus, especially when
q vessel is within few miles Of land.
In the Yorubl country, West Africa, the
natives send messages by means OF shells,
feathers, peppers, corn, stones, coal, r2ZOrs,
powder and shot and many other things.
The meaning OF each object Is known, and
all OF them together make up a sort Of
code" by which intelligence relating TO
anything whatsoever may be transmitted.
In China they make no fuss about murder
trials. If the prisoner Is charged and found
if not c0nclusively, guilty,
they give him the benefit OF the doubt by
buTying him deeenty. Anyhow, off comes
his head aud the lawyer who would say,
a object!" would be bastinadoed into re-
srectlul silence and admiration Of the law.
Though deer are not abundant in the
markets deerskins may be bought at from
81 IS TO 81 80 each An unusually hand
some skin may cost s.. Taxidermists charge
from SO g. So for curing them, and iurriers
charge as high as SO for the cured hides.
The hides Of deer shot by pOt-hunters are
often damaged by bullet holes, and are,
therefore cheap.
II has been judicially determined that a
servant girl does no: lose the right to collect
her wages because She whistles while at her
work. A girl, discharged for that cause,
recovered her back pay by a suit at law be-
fore Justice Lyon of Chicago. Girls may
hereafter whistle as much as they choose,
with a certainty of collecting their wages,
for ''the law allows it and the court awards
it."
An innocent trader in Madagascar writes
to a newspaper of the island to ask 'how a
trader should act when his house has been
broken into and he surprises the thief in
the house" He says he is not we'll ac-
quaintcd with the laws of the country, and
he would feel grateful If the editor would
tell him what 90 do in such a case. The
editor advises him to make things warm for
the burglar