The morning call., 1892-02-12
ITEMS OLE INTEREST.
Arabs never eat fish.


land.
The Swiss fine voters who remain away
from the polls on election day.
Lake Baikal, in Siberia, has the enor-
nous depth OF nearly 5000 feet.
a genius proposes to transmit power from
Niagara 10 run tho Worlds Fair machinery.
1t is reported that there lives near Macon,
Ga, a man 81 years old who was never in
debt
The military coats worn by ladies have to
be padded on the shoulders to look properly
fierce.
Chinese is said to be the ideal language
for the telephone on account of its regular
rising and falling infections.
When meat is brOiing it will cook more
quickly il a fTyiug-p2n is turned over it.
Frying may be FASTENED in the same way.
Let rat come near clam she'll and II the
clam is alive II Viii seize the animal by the
tail and never let 20 til the tail comes off.
A new use has been found for ths waters
Of the Dead Sea. IL has been discovered
that they will kill microbes, and they Will
be used Il French hospitals.
Committees are being formed in Rome to
encourage public amusementS Tor the
people, who, in imitation of their ancestors,
still cry for bread and recreation.
plant is to be erected in Philadelphia
for the manufacture Of cellulose. material
to be used for a lining for ships. CellulOse
Will absorb eight times its weight OF water.
1t is very wrong Of course. to be inqusi-
i've but If there were;not some inquisltiVe
people IN the world, what a lot Of interest
ing gossip other people would have 10
miss.
The public schools of Dundee, Scotland,
have decided TO make the highland fling
ana the stTathspey of TullOchgOrum and
other forms OF dancing "a part of tho cur
rICuum.
The enormous growth of the city of Lon
don is shown by the fact that its population
is gwen as 5,679,0OO, or considerably greater
than that OF Paris, Berlin, Vienna and Rome
combined.
In Persia, where the Government has
monopoly OF tobacco, the chief authorities
at huhela proclaimed an edict against
smoking, and ordered the people 10 break
their pipes.
A German journalist has invented an
electric whip for the purpose of training
wild animals. The sting Of the new whip
Is said to be more effective than the old
fashioned lash.
Alfred Cole died at his home in Spring
dale, Ky, recently, Of the grip. aged 1l5.
He distinctly remembered the Inauguration
Of President Washington in 1889. Mr.. Coles
mother was 1l3.
John Davis. The last survivor OF the crew
| Of the United States steamer jamestown,
that carried the relief supplies to Ireland
during the famine forty-three years ago,
lives, at Deer Isle, Ne.
In Toronto at the meeting of the Literary
Society there was a debate whether women
should be admittst to the legal profession.
The votes for all against we're equal, but
the President decided in the negative.
The British cuckoo and the American
cOW-b laCkbiTd never build nests If their
own, but content themselves with deposit
ing their eggs In the nests Of other ana
a Cf
tribe.
In order TO prevent the accidents that so
often occur when life boats are lowered
from the side of a ship there has been in
vented raft that supports the boat, and
from which 1t Is launched in reaching the
water.
Yeast, it is said, has been successfully tried
for typhoid fever, and in cases where II has
been used no relaDses have followed. 1t is
supposed that the yeast destroys the ba-
cllli in the inteStines and so prevents rein
lection.
Berlin police authorities are trying to de-
wise method Tor the more thorough cleans
ing Of beer glasses in restaurants The city
health physicians say that disease is spread
by the glasses washed as they are at
present.
The aboriginal Australian adopts a bru-
tally forcibe mode of woong. When he
wants a wife he looks about for likely
ltlpiHdbts anu hHuluS one TO his liking
knocks her down with his club and carries
her home.
In some Of the rugssfrom the Orient the
knots OF the threads are so fine that thew
cannot be seen by the eve. No machinery
has been introduced there yet for making
rugs or carpets each tuft and knot being
tied by deft fingers.
The death-rate in Marseilles, France. has
gradually grown TO such an extent that il
now exceeds the number of births. The
city has adopted plan for a new system of
sewerage 10 overcome this mortality The
cost Will be about S7,000,000
By a great many people Arabia is SIM
posed to be the home Of the horse. From
ancient Roman, Grecian and Jewish history
we readily learn that the horse was unknown
in Arabia long after he was q common factor
in the life of Southern Europe.
An engine and tender. weighing sIxtv-
eight tons was begun to be put together at
O'Clock on a Thursday morning al the
Great Eastern Railway Works in Stratford
and was run out Of the shop Completes at
7:15 O'Clock the following morning.
Deseebo an island adjoining Porto Rico.
is infested with rats. There are millions ~
them there, and it is unsafe for man to act
foot on the island. They have DESTROYED Eli
the goats which were formerly bred thara
and are now eating the shTubbery.
George Thompson and his wife Elizabeth NJ
| GAINESVILLE. Pa, recently celebrated their
sixtieth wedding anniversary in the nres-
ence of large number of children. grand
children, great-grandchildren and other
relatives. Each is over 80 years of age and
| hale aud hearty.
The ManX cat is not the only tailIess va
riety. In the Crimea is found another kind
| Of cat which has no tail. The domestieated
Malay cat has tail that is only about one
half the usual length, and very often If il
tied by nature in a sort Of knot which can
not be Strengthened out
Tie substitution of camePs hair. cotton
paint and chemicals for leather in machin.
cry betting is said TO be meeting with some
| success in this country. 1t was first in.
vented in England. and it is claimed for the
new material that it is stronger than other
betting, more durable, more efficient and as
low priced.
1t is a remarkable fact that in cemeteries
which have an eastern and western slupe
the eastern slope graves are considered
preferable Tue bodies are usually buried
with feet toward the east; therefore. while
all the graves are level, it seems that on the
western slopes the bodies rest with the feet
higher than the head.
a big red-wssskered lrishmsn pre-empted