The morning call., 1892-05-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

g00d camel Will lfaVel lCU niles Il Jay
for 10 days.
There are 300. coo commercial travellers in
the United States.
A grain Of sand will cover from 800 to 500
pores in the human skin.
The value OF the oysters consumed in Lon
don yearly is about 100000.
a summer school for female students is to
be established in the Eiffel tower.
1t is said that three-fOurths of the entire
manufacturing capital OF the United States
Is based On patents.
1t if estimated that it would take upward
Of 40 years for the water in the great lakes
TO pour over Niagara at the rate Of 100000
cubic feet second.
A merchant of Yaz0o City, Miss, has
young turtle with two distinct heads and
necks. 1t is covered by one she'll and has
only one set of legs
A Brooklyn girl who was supposed to
have died of broken heart was found, on
a poStmortem examination, to have been
victim Of stomash trouble.
Owing TO the fact that counterfeit coins
are bad conductors, Professor Eiihu ThOm-
son suggests the electric current as means
Of detecting spurious money.
The schooner Edna and Emma arrived
from the Bahamas in Baltimore this week
with 14.o00 dozen pineappes, the largest
cargo ever brought to this port.
floating upon their backs in the sea. This
habit they mostly indulge ia when the
weather is fine and the sea calm
The last census returns showed 70, 600
coaehmen and gro0ms, $1,000 male domestic
servants Indoors and 900 female do
mestic servants. or l,359.000 in all.
In Burmah it is rather suspicious thing
to give money for a charitable object. 1t is
supposed to mean that the dGner has been
very wicked and is DESTROYS to make amends.
The Oldest pair of matched horses in Con-
necticut belong to Ell Wakelee of Ansinia.
They are 80 and 80 years old. and have been
owned and used by him almost daily for II
years.
Recent experiments made In Germany
tend to show that asbestos paper is not only
Of no advantage in floor as protection
against fire, but it probably aids in the con-
migration.
A Georgia man has in his possession
palm-oil lamp made in Madrid, Spain, in
1904. 1t was dug up in the woods some time
ago, ana is supposed to have been lost by
Ponce de Leon.
1t is not uncommon in Northumberland
for farmer to allow any of his labOrers
VINO wish it the keep of cow as part
payment for wages, greatly to the benefit
Of their families.
The directory of 1892 of the Ancient
Order Of Foresterslshows.t the society to have
over 100000 members and owning lands val
ued at over $50, coo, COO The average num-
Der Of sick on the books is $4,000.
SO great has been the development of tile
petroleum fields in Peru that pipe lines have
been run from the main wells to the coast.
The opinion is expressed that the Peruvian
field Will soon be able to supply The demand
of all tine west coast of South America.
Bargain day at the large shops in Harlem,
especially on One hundred and twenty-fifth
brings a al me MI
who set up stands on the sidewalk and sell
oYerblown roses to the bargain seekers at
about half market rates for fresh flowers.
1t is said that some of the VenetianS-
those who have never been to the mainland
have never seen a horse In all their lives.
A Snowman once brought one to fair and
called 1t monster, and the factory hands
paid 10 cents each TO see the marvellous -.
A French savant likens the Quickness of
volltIon In an animal to the telegraph.
When whale is barpo0ned, he says, the
nerve telegraphs to the creatures brain,
"HarpUon In tails" upon which the brain
telegraphs back, Jerk tail and upset boat"
Between the ages OF 20 and 40 prisoners
die OF consumption much more rapidly than
people outside of confinement, but whether
this is owing to the confinement or TO the
previous lives of the c0nycts is not clear.
Few criminals OF any kind live to be old
men.
Frenchman has invented new ribbon
loom which works automatically and needs
no surveillance Ii thread or warp breaks
the shuttle is stopped instantly and the at
tenti0n Of the weaver, who could by this
system attend to many looms, is called to
the defect.
1t is now admitted that the inherent hue
of water is blue. Even distilled water has
been proved to be almost exactly of the
same tint as solution of PrusSian Blue.
This ia corroborated by the fact that the
purer the water is ID nature the buer is Its
hue.
The Chinese are ahead of the world in
the preparation OF roast pork for the table.
After it has come out of the oven it is hung
in the smoke OF various aromatic herbs,
which gives it delicious favor and rObs it
of the porky taste which is offensive to
some palates.
This country was known 800 or 1000 years
before Christopher, the navigator, was born.
Chinese Buddhist monks are known to have
settled in Mexico in the fifth century of our
era, and st. BrendaD, the ITisnman, visited
some identified spot on our continent about
100 years later.
A new storage battery Is being employed
on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad for use
in connection with the electric lighting of its
cars. Twenty-four bells are placed under
each car, and they supply eight 16-candle
power lamps on the round trip from Cincln-
natl to Washington.
The length of the ancient enbit, so often
referred TO in sacred and other writings of
early date, varied according TO the race.
Strictly, it was the distance from the elbow
to the tip of the middle finger. Recent in
yestiqatlon proves that the Roman cubit
was 1S.47 inches in length.