The morning call., 1892-09-18
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
MARION DOUGLAS.


Thiers finished the History of the
French Revolution" when he was 26 years
old.
The streets oil London, If put to an end.
would reach from that city 10 st. Peters
burg
The original Declaration of Independ-
ence" is in the State Department in Wash
ington.
India has one missionary to 275 900 people,
Persia one to 100000 and Thibet one TO
100000.
In England one person in every thirty
nine IS a psuper. In America the rate is one
person in every CSC.
Two thousand pounds was the fancy
price paid for Stradivarius violin, in eX-
cellent preservation recently at Stuttgart.
1t was not until the Council of Trent. in
1892, that the Intervention Of priest was
deemed. in Europe. Indispensable TO a mar
riage.
The smallest representatives of the sheep
species are the tiny "Bretons." natives of
Breton. France. When full grown they are
not much larger than a rabbit.
A lady writing from ST. Louis says that
her hair is "a inches in length, and there is
another lady in Chicago who can easily
stand on her hair, which is 8 feet inches
long.
A New York halter has just made hat
SIS in size. The length and width are 9A
by ~. This. lie says, is the size necessary
to the comfort Of the man with the biggest
head in town.
The first coins mnted in North America
were produced in Mexico in 1886. and the
coinage of the colonies that afterward be-
came the United States used the Mexican
dollar as the standard of value.
Anna Hallenbeck, an Albany widow,
aged 70, who was taken to the Utica Hos
n taf ha hoC raf nd ~ ,aVf. .l-o
of food for several days, because. she SAYS,
If she breaks her fast she will be stricken
blind.
During the last financial year profit was
made in the Scotch prisons of 24033 out of
the labor OF the prisoners. The expendi-
ture for implements ana material was
&T596. While the receipts amounted TO
4l1, $50
The following advertisement appeared in
Birmingham Daily Post: New Religion
Young gentleman is founding new reig-
ion, which is sure TO become popular. and
desires lady OF means TO assist him in the
work. Address"
a strange custom is followed by Mexican
farmers. They use oxen or one color In the
morning and another color in the afternoon.
They do not know why. but they know that
1t must be the right thing to do, because
their forefathers did it.
The hunger cure was at one time very
popular punishment in Siberia, but the lat
est punishment invented is the eating Of
sailed behring's. This is regarded as especi-
ally useful in the case OF prisoners who re-
fuse to disclose secrets.
a calf belonging to a Nazareth tPa.)
farmer. while drinking water from
stream swallowed trout about Ten inches
long. The fish ran down the calfs throat,
causing the animal so much pain that the
owner was obliged to kill it.
Ireland has now q DOpulafiOn Of 4 -01 750
and has lost since the famine 3,4l5.4o0 by
emigration alone in the same period An
other striking fact is that ive-sevenths OF
these emigrants have been young persons
between the ages OF 20 and 45.
The total work performed by the human
body during five hours Of mountain
climb bing is equal to 1926. 900 fo0t-pounds,
not counting ether forces exerted, which,
DR.. Bucheister says, will run the grand
total up TO l,3S0,0o0 foot-pounds.
Flies have long been accused of spread
ing disease, but it is asserted now from
Havana that mosquitoes have a use, for if
they inoculate any one after biting a yel-
low fever patient the disease which follows
is so mild that fatal results are rare.
Chickens have been acting as gold COL
lectors for j. A. McConvile OF Butte, Mont
In one chickens crop aud gizZard he found
some gold nuggets He therefore killed the
remainder Of his brood, thirty-One in rum
Of s337.
In Belavlsts. near Porlci, a small colony
includes more than twenty people who are
more than 90 years old. headed by farmer
aged 105, who still works in the fields. They
are all natives, and nave lived with hardly
any meat in their diet aud drinking only
rain water from cistern.
An serolte weighing 44pounds fell on the
farm Of Lawrence Freeman, near Bath
County, South Dakota, the other day. The
advent of the stone was heralded by several
sharp explosions, which were heard a dis
tauce of fifteen miles or more. and in some
instances created considerable alarm.
1t is proposed that one of Montana's con-
tributions to the Worlds Fair, to be made
by women of the State, shall De fountain
made Of natural ore. The design will be
selected by open competition. 1t Is sug-
gested that the base be made OF native
minerals, the bowl OF silver and tine cup of
gold.
In 1870 the proportion OF certifcated
women teachers was forty-eight to every
100, to-day IL is 66. Similarly, the num- ber
of women assistants has risen from sixty 10
seyenty-seyen per 100. In 1870 there were
1918 girls and 1863 boy teachers. There are
now q, III girls and only 6360 boys learning
the art OF teaching
Spain. as a country. Is still terribly back
ward in matters of sanitation, but 1t mas
progressed somewhat during the last CEN
tury and half. In the year 1860 the clean
ing of the streets OF Madrid was actually
forbidden, the physicians of the city being
OF the opinion that filth was wholesome and
the innovation unnecessary.
Fully 100000 men. il is believed, will par
ticipaIe in the parade on the occasion Of the
dedication OF the Worlds Fair buildings in
October. Such is the estimate of Secretary
CHIP OF the committee having the prepara-
tion for the ceremonies in charge The
ruifitfanaQn and rauulara xybn nj
pate will number about 10000.
a compass which once belonged to the
explorer, Jacques Cartier, will be exhibited
at the Chicago Exposition, The instrument
was found in the ship La Petite Hermine
nj the very spot where it was abandoned by
Jacques Cartier in 1886. 1t has the following
inscription: "Macauart. Paris, ST. MalO,
5th April, 1884. Jacques Cartier, Mariner"
The Parliament that met on August A
is the thirteenth of the present reign. The
reign of Queen Victoria stands unique in
the annals of Parliamentary history, having
broken all previous records. Since the
days of Henry VIII, when Pariaments of
more than one session began to be usual,
no sovereign has called into being thirteen
successive Parliaments.
The most active volcanoes known are
those on the Island of StrOmb0li, in the
Mediterranean, at Sanger, in Peru and
Mount Etua. For more than 1000 years the
Stromb0li Mountain has discharged lava
cOnstantly; the one In Peru has been throw
ing out masses OF cDders, attended by ter
rife explosions. for 80 years. and Etna has
record Of 81 eruptions since the sixth GEN.
tury b. G.
A florist says that the law governing the
coIoring OF flowers makes a blue rose inl-
possible According TO this law the three
colors, red, blue and yellow, never all ap-
pear in the same species of flowers; any
two may exist, but never the third. Thus
we have the red and yellow roses, but no
blue; red and blue verbenas. but no yellow;
yellow and blue in the various members of
the viola family las paDses, for instance),
but no red red and yellow gladiOii, but no