The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-03-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Women work on French railroads.
Egypt uses American cotton goods.
New York demands lower telephone rates.
New Orleans has business woman's ex-
change.
There are between 16OO and 100 lawyers
in Boston.
Some of the South American tribes act
ualy eat tobacco cut into small pieces.
A hive of 5000 bees produces fifty pounds
of honey yearly, and multiplies tenfold in
five years.
There are about 6OOO varieties of postage
stamps now used by the different nations OF
the world
Horses are so plentiful in Queensland
Australia, that they can be bought as low
az 81 Is each.
For the unemployed at Erfurt, Germany,
the municipal council of that city has APP
proprlated $1,000
a Senator has introduced at Albany bill
to prohibit all disposition of human bodies
except by burial.
OF the total working expenses of the rail
ways over go per cent goes IN various ways
10 the wage-earneTS.
Various ST. Louis labor unions estimate
that there are IN that city over 20, 600 unem-
plnyed workingmen.
The electric street railway in Kearney
Nebr., sells monthly tickets for 81, good for
any number of rides.
Berlin University is the third largest 10
the world Paris with 9215 students anu
Vienna with 6220. are larger.
There is now gambling nckel-in-the-
slot machine. Sometimes three nfekeis
drop out and sometimes none.
The smallest newspaper in the world is
the Ell Telegram, published in Guadalaiara
Mex, which IS four inches square.
The New York Central will build some
mammoth car-shops just out of Buffalo, and
the name of the place will be Depew.
In japan. it is said. there are apple tree.
growing four inches III height, which bear
fruit freely about the size of currants.
Most of the men in the islands of South
western Japan lead lives OF ideness, and
are cheerfully supported by the women.
The Shah OF Persia is the owner of
Shetland pony which is but 1917 inches
high. This pet of royalty wears gold shoes
All the chickens in the western part OF
French Guinea are perfectly white. It is
Impossible to find one with a colored feather
In cave in the Pantheon the guide, by
striking the flaps OF his coat, makes a noise
equal to that produced by firing a 12-pound
cannon.
1t is strange, though true, that in Asia
and Africa, where grass will not grow, the
most beautiful flowers and shrubs flourish
to perfection.
Grsssboppers attain their greatest size in
Il
length of five inches and their wings spread
out ten inches.
A peculiar freak of nature on the farm of
E. a. Grove of Kings Park. l.. l., attracts
much attention. 1t is lamb that was born
without lower jaw.
In one of the great Paris hospitals. out of
elgnty-tnree patients who suffered from
epilepsy, sixty were found to be the chill
dren OF drunken parents.
An insulated holder for fire hose has beer
invented to oDyiate any danger that might
arise TO hremen in case a stream of water
struck heavily charged wire.
In the cave of Smelin, near Viborg. Fin
land, stone thrown down certain abyss
makes reverberating echo which sounds
like the dying wall of some wild animal
In Paris, as elsewhere, the libraries show
that fully 90 per cent of the books ioape
out are novels. Dumas leads the list I,
popular authors, with Eugene Sue second.
Since 1885 the course of the Voga River.
Russia. has rapidly been changing, unit
the city of Saratoy. once called the Golden
Port OF the Voga," is left three miles away
from its banks.
The hydraulic railroad now daily operated
in Paris consists of four carriages, or cars.
each having capacity of twenty-five pas-
sengers. The train runs as smoothly as a
boat on water.
C0roner's verdict worthy of the immar-
tai Dogberry was lately rendered by inrv
in Peoria, Ill. Ii was to this effect: s.W.
fnd that the deceased came to her death by
being found dead in her bed"
Experiments in instantaneous photogra
ply have proved 10 US that tie shots nor
only spread out, comet-liee, as they fly, but
they string out one behind the other TO
much greater distance than they spread.
The Harvard observatory has the best
collection OF Photographic plates of the
heavens that exists. There are more than
SO, 900 plates altogether, and they COMPRISE 4
record OF nearly every part of the sky.
On recent evening, at the Theater Scribe
In Turin, white ball was given, when the
whole house was decorated with winter
scenery-ice. snow, glaciers and all the
picturesque Accomplishments of the season
If one potato would produce, when plant
ed, only crop OF ten potatoes. ia ten year.
the total product of this one potato wouIa
be equal to 10000 000, 600, which would b..
sufficient to restock the whole world with
the seed.
A Detroit man has novel valking-cane.
1t is made Of old p0stage-stamps of various
denominations and six NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
States. Canadian. English, French. German
and Italian. 1t took SOFA stamps to make
the cane.
The island on which is built the Eddy
stone lighthouse is supposed 10 be the small
est Inhabited island in the world. At low
water it is so feet in diameter, while at high
water the base of the light completely
covers it.