The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-01-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

! A number OF New \ OTk Cinnamon ride
| the bicycle.
A Maine hunter claims to have a cat that
! Will stalk grouse.
Artificial ice ponds are now being intro
! duced into England.
/ The total Income Of the Church of England
/ IS about Sl0J00OJ a week.
The Italian Government raises So, 0lQCOJ
/ yearly by holding lotteries.
Two and a half million parcels are sent
monthly by British parcel post.
Seventy women have licenses for selling
/ beer ana liquor in New 1UTk City.
Massachusetts has lower birth rate than
! any country OF Europe except France.
Atlanta souvenir spoons bear the head Of
! Henry ". & ady etched IN the bowl
/ Miss Harriet H0smeT's statue, Queen
/ Isabella of CASTLE VIII bring her $4,000
/ Tie Street-car conductors of Berlin get
/ = cents Der day for eighteen hours work.
a London cabman was recently fined for
! carrying fourteen persons IN his cab at one
/ time.
/ The Mormons are building a church in
/ Copenhagen for the members Of The faith
there.
The fashionable point for graspiDg sticks
and umbrellas in London is about SIX inches
from the end.
lis estimated that 1900 electric lamps,
aggregating 100000 c4uuie-poweT, will be
required for the Chicago Fair
Madagascar people work twenty-five days
IN year and make enough then to support
them in ldieuess the rest Of the time.
30 grea. was the Christmas demand for
flowers IN some Of the large cities that
roses sold from four t. nine dollars dozen
Sappy, the learned psychologist. says that
the human stomach contains 5000, JO0g glands,
which are constantly secTetIng gastric juice.
President Hyde, Of Buwdon College, has
started a crusade against the obnoxious
cigarette, giving daily lectures on the sub
ject
Business is interrupted at Bloomington,
H., 10y the war being waged on the English
sparrow. Tile season Is one OF festYIty Tor
the small boy.
1t is an outrage and shame that 80 per
cent OF the competent men in the iIfe-say-
Ing service resigned last year on account of
lnsuth lent pay.
Chinese annals as remote as 20g0 B. c.
speak of the cultivation Of te a, ana CLASH
neI II almost as perfectly as IS done to-day.
lis virtues were discovered by accident.
A movement is being organized ia Ge0rg
for the erection Of statue 10 Eli Whitney,
tie inventor u the cotton gin. The cen
tennlal OF his Invention comes this year.
4 New Haven young lady is dying Of
typhoid fever, which her physician at
tributes 10 tle eating of raw clans, infected
as he believes, with germs OF the maIady.
II IS the intention OF European engineers
TO store The waters Of tie Nile to sucu an
extent as 60 enable greater extension OF
/ tie cotton and susar-caae crops IN that re-
gOn.
Alexandra Dumas proposes a tax upon
diners cut fyT he benefit OF the poor. A box
should be passed around at every dinner,
pubic or private, with slot wherein 10 drop
money.
-
Board OF Medical Examiners Is authority
for the statement that fully 10 per cent Of
the 800 Licensed physicians in that common
veal have bogus diplomas.
The story was told at The Whittier cole
brau,n that the poet asked farmer, 10
whom he had lent Il volume OF Plato, how
he liked il. First rate" sad the farmer,
Il see he's 60. some OF nay IDEAS"
Experiments made to determine the
strength OF bricks demonstrate that they
have a crushing resistance varying from
5000 10 y, coo pounds per square inc1, de-
pending on the quality Of the brick.
TIanby Croft. where the baccarat scandal
that resulted So disastrous y TO SIT William
Gordon Canning originated, is again full
OF merTy-makers. The Wilson's are going
in for amateur theatricais this winter.
A compromise has been reached in the
onion war In the Chicago schools. Tn
pupils may eat all the onions they like on
Saturday and Sunday, but must abstain
from the objectionable diet the remainder
Of the week.
One Of tbs largest casks in this country
| has been constructed At TOled., Ohio. 1t
! is az oak, Weighing 10000 pounds, holds
66, 600 galous Of vine, and rests On a mas
sive oak cradle which raises it about three
feet from the floor.
John Fitzgerald has secured a judgment
for S475,O00 In the District Court Of Lincoln,
Neb., against the Missouri Pacific Railway.
He sued for 81 800 600 due for constructing
the Denver, Memphis & Atlantic from
CbetOpa, Kan, TO Pueblo, Col
Among the professors Of the University
Of Basic, IN Switzerland, none occupied d
higher place than DR.. Ignaz Hoppe, who
died not long ago. Among the various be-
quests made by him WAS one OF $500 900 fer
tue investigation Of the nature OF tie soul
a farmer invented a scarecrow recently
which seems TO have worked with wonder
full effect 1t not only scared off every crow
that saw 1t, but one crow Wa3 50 frightened
by the invention that be brought back the
corn which he had stolen three days before.
A French pharmacist recently put out
fire IN his shop caused by spontaneous gni-
ton Of gasoline by throwing on the flames a
glass carb0y OF ammonia. The fire was I'M
medately eXtinguished, although there
were many highly cOmbustlble compounds
near at hand.
Mile. Elise St Omer has begun a journey
around the world in the interest of The
Geographical Society Of Paris. The Jour
ney Is to last three years, and the traveller
Is to devote special attention to the lives
and customs Of women in the various coun-
tries which she visits.
No col0rs can be mailed to the masthead"
Of new steel warshlp. Doubtless Secre-
tary Tracy and Clark Russell and the gal
lant jack tars Of naval tradition may feel
one pang Of regret at this impenetrability
OF metallic mast Fortunately the metal
lie Oulwarks are equally impenetrable.
girl In Dexter, Ne, possesses faculty
which mystIhes her friends When blind
folded and provided with Photograph She
can describe the person or Object portrayed
IN the picture, and she will also describe the
objects In any picture or print after merely
running her finger tips over the surface.
In round figures the building done in Chi
eago during the past year amounts to SOD
OlO,5OO, as compared with S47,373 20g during
1890 and S3l,5l6,000 during 1889 This
cunt represents II, 476 permits aud 28O.6l4
feet Of frontage. This, in turn, represents
solid frontage of "a miles, or over four
miles In excess Of last year.
strange figure on the streets Of Wash
lngtOn is that Of Josephine J. JarOcki.
Polish Countess and gTandnieCe OF Count
Pulaski OF Revolutionary fame She is de-
scriDed as human dried apple" poor to
IiuSehCe duu sHduolly dressed, and she IS
about 30 years old. For twenty years sho
has been fighting for fortune left by Count
Pulaski.
The Island Of Formosa is about two hun
dred and seventy miles long and one hum
dred and forty wide. Ranges Of mountains ex-
tend from the center to the southern portion.
Some Of the peaks are quite lofty, Mount
Morrison being Y. 600 feet high, and all are
volcanic. Every little while there il a rum
bic In the center Of one Of the peaks and the
whole island is convulsed The climate is
favorable to sue disturbances, the Their
mOmeter rarely getting below 40 degrees.
There Was No Fire.
A false alarm Of fire was sent I'm fr ON BOX ri