The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-10-21
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The $500 sword presented to General II.
NJ. Prentiss, the hero of Shiloh, was re-
Gently discovered In New ork paWhshop
and purchased for 500.
Lord Marlborough calculates that the cost
of keeping the $50 packs or hounds in the
United Kingdom and maintaining the hunts
amounts to over 1000, OCO.
There are eight soldiers located in Ire
land to one in Scotland, and over twenty
boys in the British army under Is years oil
age have won the Victoria cross.
A new scheme for supplying London with
water depends upon system of wells in the
chalk belt in the Colne Valley, from when
it is said "a, 100000 gallons day could be
furnished.
There are two distinct places OF the earth
lying under the equinoctial line whose dill
ference of longitude is exactly S6b deg. and
vet the true distance between the two places
is not sc miles.
The American President receives his sal
| airy In monthly installments. On the 10Th
| day of every month the Treasurer OF the
| United States sends to the White House
| check for S4166.
Raw onions contain an acrid volatile oil.
sulphur, phosphorus, alkaline, earthly salts,
starch and free uncrystallZed sugar. The
fresh juice is colorless. but by exposure to
tue air becomes red.
A glass factory at Liverpool now has
glass journal boxes in all IF its machinery,
a smokeStaek 105 feet high built wholly OF
glass bricks, each foot square
1t has been found by actual calculation
that If Aphldes were left unchecked to only
the tenth generation the descendants of a
single pair would be equivalent in point of
| actual weight to 500. 100000 heavy men.
As proof of the manner in which the
civilization OF the West is seizing mold On
Japan ana all that is japanese it is stated
that in private mission school In the town
of Kota there were 400 japanese woman.
If you could cut sections out Of the side
of the soap-bnbbles and then had some
delicate contrvance with which You could
handle the pieces. you would find that It
would take 100000 films laid one upon
another to make pile one inch In height
The new cOl0rs have odd names. but little
suggestive of the tints they represent
Three of the new reds are "Roi, "Prim-
rose and Francis L" "AngeIiaue" is
''Pygmalion" and ''Diayola" are both
browns.
1t is an odd coincidence that the birthday
| of the youngest British Home Secretary
| and the Oldest fall on the same day. Mr..
| Asquith, the present OCCUPANT of the post.
| has just reached DO, while Spencer Wal
| pole. who was in Lord Derby's first admin
| istration forty years ago, is So.
A portable boat has been devised by
| Colonel Apostolotf Of the Russian army
| which may be constructed instantly by
making framework with the lances of the
| Cossacks and covering with a tarred cloth,
| Two boats are capable of carrying thirty-six
men with their baggage and arms.
| In ancient times Greece possessed some
| thing like 100000 acres of dense forest,
| and she was comparatively rich In timber
| until half century ago. Many forests
| have now disappeared, and the result is
| seen both in the scarcity Of the water sup
| ply and in various injurious climatic effects.
| A giant sunshade, which is intended as a
| present for the Sultan of Morocco. has lust
| been completed at Berlin. The stick, which
| is over three ard quarter yards long, is
| gilded and richly ornamented The outside
| of the parasol is of bright green silk with a
| heavy gold fringe round it, while the inside
| is lined with pale straw color.
| The Eskimo traditions are told over and
| over again. Every one knows them word
| for word, and should the relater omit or add
a single syllable he would be corrected in
| stantly by some one of the audience The
| relater of the story sits at one side of the
room, and, covering bis head, turns his face
toward the wall, away from the audience,
| before he begins.
The record of the Norre mine, In the Co.
| gebic range along Lake Michigan, entities
| it to rank among the superlatives OF the
| world. The output of this mine is LOCO. 600
| tons Of hish-grade Bessemer ore every year.
| Some OF the shafts in the Gogebic mines are
| 600 feet deep. The nearest competitor of the
! Norrie mine Is the Chaplin pit, In the Me-
| nominee range, Michigan, which In 1890 pro-
| duced 669, 1872 tons.