The morning call., 1892-10-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The new British coinage will bear the
Queens head without her crown.
In Samar beehives hang in the form OF
obong gourds from the branches of trees.
Thirteen tons of postage-stamps are said
to have been sod in New York City last
year.
In 1911 each individual consumed thirteen
ounces of tobacco; in 1891 he consumed
twenty-six ounces.
Some people have taken to putting crane
on the waiking-sticks as well as on their
arms.
Bismarck's tenants present him every year
with 101 plovers' eggs on the anniversary OK
his birthday.
II a well could be dug to depth of forty
six miles the air at the bottom would be as
dense as quicksilver.
Artificial teeth are so much 10 use nova
days that it took 100000 to supply the
demand last year.
considered undignifed to ride a horse
going faster than walk.
In China wealthy people buy their cof-
fihs long before they need them, and exhibit
them as ornamental pieces OF furniture.
In the twenty-fifth Of Henry VIII it was
enacted that no person should keep above
2000 sheep nor hold more than two farms.
Vidal. one of the most famous last-decade
sculptors of France, was stone blind at the
time when he executed some of his most
famous works.
A dishwashing machine has been for
some time in use in London hotel. With
two persons TO attend 1t, it washes 1000
dishes an hour.
Cranes, storks and wild geese fiv fast
enough to make trip from Northern
Europe to Africa in week, but most of
them rest north of the Mediterranean.
At Baku. Russia. there is an immense oil
well that 'ebbs and flows" with the same
regularity as do the ocean tides. 1t is be-
leved 10 have some mysterious connection
with the sea.
The Brazil nut contains from fifteen to
TWEEN ty-four seeds. which all terminate at
one time. The most vigorous one gets first
through small hole at the top to the open
air and thereupon 1t strangles and feeds
upon the rest.
The leading theologians of the world, who
have been figuring from Scrlptural and other
data from some time. have come to the con-
elution that Christ was crncifed shortly
after o'clock on the morning of Friday.
April 10, A. ID. 3d.
The streets of London are cleaned be-
tween o'clock in the evening and in the
morning Many OF the carriageways are
washed daily by the use of hose. and the
courts and alleys Inhabited by the poorer
classes are cleaned once a day.
The term 'tabby cat'' is derived from
Atab, famous street in Bagdad inhabited
by the manufacturers Of silken stuff called
atibi or tafety. This stuff is woven with
waved markings of watered silk resembling
a ''tabbY" cats coat
The Brazilian pottery tree contains such
large percentage OF siliela as to make its
ashes valuable Ingredient in pottery
making. When green its wood cuts like
soft sandstone. To the botanists it is known
as Moquiled utilis.
Lepers In India were treated with shock
ing nhumanity before Christianity entered
that country. Many of them were buried
alive. The English rulers have put a stop
to this custom, aud for fourteen years there
has been special Christian mission to the
$4,000 lepers III India
One OF the most curious stones in the
world is found in Finland, where it occurs
in many places. 1t Is natural barometer.
and actually foretells probable changes in
the weather. 1t is called semakuir. and
turns black shortly before an approaching
rain, while In tine weather 1t is notified
with spots of white.
men enter their horses aud deposit the en-
trance fees with the Shah. The race is then
run, after which the Shah takes possession
of the winner, and sticks to all the entrance
money. There is business-like simplicity
about sport in Persia which speaks for
itself.
curious book, in which the text ia
neither printed or written, but woven, has
lately been published in Lyons. 1t is made
Of silk and was published in Twenty-Five
parts. Each part consists of two leaves. so
the entire volume only contains fifty leaves,
Inscribed with the service of the mass and
several prayers. Both the letters and the
borders are In black silk on white back
ground.
One OF the latest methods of loosening
the earth to a depth of two or three feet.
and allowing the absorption of considerable
t.t.t In iAfto
use Of dynamite electrically fired. The In
yentor of this ingenious tillng of the soil
drills holes two or three feet deep and five
feet arart, making 1000 10 the acre. In
each hole Is placed sufficient quantity of
the explosive connected with a wire lead
ing TO The battery, and after the earth ia
tranped down the whole is discharged by
spark.