The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-01-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

! 5000.
There is a village called A b in New
York State.
Nearly 800 vessels pass through the Suez
| Canal yearly.
| a man Of 80 has spent over COCO days OF
There are 1886 parish churches in York
! shire, England.
One Of the best telegraph operators in
! Boston is totally blind.
An herb is said 20 have been discovered
in lucatan which is a SPECIFIC for insanity.
| Miss Ethel Parton. daughter of the late
! James Parton, Will be her fathers biogra-
| pher,
Several Chicago preachers are advocating
covering the puipitS with the stars ana
| stripes
A sign of politeness in Thibet on meeting
person is to hold up the claspcd hands and
| stick out the tongue.
| Nearly an average Of 5000 patent medi-
cineS are put on tie market every year, but
lass than 100 survive.
ST. PauPs Cathedral. London. will hold
| 26,000 people and st. Peters in Rome has
accommodation for $4,000,
In the dead-letter office at Washington
| are more than a. 100 photographs which
found their way there the past year.
II Is estimated that the elevated railroads.
| bridges and ferries Of New \ Ork and Brook
| The most powerful electric lighthouse in
| Europe is the one at HanStholm on the
! Sc0w- 1t has a strength OF 100000 candles
A dentist IN AiX-la-Chapele has been
| sentenced TO nine months Imprisonment for
| pulling all wOman's teeth while she was
under anasJhesia. She wanted only one
! pulled
a doctor recommends menth0l as pre-
! ventlYe OF the grip, aud the drug. 1t may be
| observed, Is greatly in vogue nowadays for
| many Kinds of ailments. 1t is the concen-
| tTated essence OF peppermint.
Rabbits. snakes, birds and fishes never
/ close their eyes because unprOyided with
/ eyelIds The rabbit and the common barn
! yard fowl are provided with a thin mem
! braue which Is let down over the eye when
/ asleep or at rest.
4 great obstacle to the manufacture of
| lead-penclls will soon arise IN the scarcity
! Of soft cedar wood. At present the wood
used in al the ead-pencils in the world
comes from Florida, and that supply is ex-
! pected 10 be exhausted within five years.
Young MetIin and Viola BeachmaH two
! Cherokee children, eiOped, and they had to
] go to Wisconsin before they could be mar
rled. a short time ago the girls mother
! tried to have her sent to the reform school,
| because she received Metlin's attentions.
| A gold watch was recently dug up near
! Atlanta, Ga, on the old breastwOTks in
/ COke'5 district, COBB County. The case
! was IN good condition, but the works were
! entirely eaten up by rust The owner is
! supposed 10 have Been killed during the
war.
4 Washington Gowa) barber woke up q
| few nights ago, 10 find GemoBiacal face
! grinning at him. His teeth chartered, but
! he boldly struck out with a John l.. Sulli-
! van blow, and smashed an innocent alarm
| clock, the cause OF his woe, into smith
Greens.
Charles Morsey has been an engineer on
| the Wabash road for thirty-six years. but
| has resigned because his locomotive killed
| man few weeks ago. LII all railroad en-
! ployes and owners were as conscientious as
| MI Morsey we should have fewer accidents
! and deaths in railroad wrecks.
All groceries and household supplies
! should DO put away in their own proper
! Teceptacles and not leit standing around in
paper bags. Keep rice, oatmeal. cracked
wheOt tapiOca. ETC., in clOse-cOvered glass
/ jars, tea and coffee in tin canlsters, meal
aud -four IN covered wooden buckets.
News from Baracoa. Cuba, is to the effect
| that the c0coanut crop Is failure A plague
| has attacked the palm trees and they are
| dying. To the natives of many tropical
| islands the cocoa palm is as necessary as
| the camel to the Arabs the whale to the
| ESquimauX, or wheat to the United States.
One OF the incidents of the Whittier cele-
| bratiOn was the gift Ivy Mrs. D. NJ. Nichols
| of HaverhIll, Mass, to the poet Of a copy OF
! "Mogg MagOne," which Mr. Whittier had
| given to her mother, Eliza Brooks in 1885,
the year of its publication. 1t IS little
book, no larger than an envelope, and quite
| a curiosity in boOK-maklng.
Ezekiel Eads, who died IN Greene County.
\. Y, in the spring Of 1885, was surely fit
| subject for dime museum, even though he
never descended to that level Strictly
speaking, Eads was in several respects a
most remarkable creature. He was born
without ears, not even having apertures
where his ears should nave been.
10 the Ioruba country, West Africa. the
| natives send messages by means of shells.
feathers, peppers. corn, stones, coal, raz0rs
powder and shot and many other things.
The meaning of each object is known and
| all of them together make up sort of
| code" by which intelligence relating 10
anything whatsoever may be transmitted.
The surface ofany given quantity of gold
according to the best authorities may be
| extended by the hammer 80, 9l4 times. The
| thickness of the metal thus extended an
pears to be no more than the 566 O20th part
| Of an inch. Eight ounces of this wonderful
metal would gid silver wire of sufficient
length to extend entirely around the globe
A minister arrived at the savings bank in
| SkOwhegan, Me-, a few minutes late to have
a check cashed. and be explained TO the
! Sunday-Sch0ol children. for whose use The
| money was intended, that the bank cOuId
not furnish the cash. The children. OF
course, told their parents, who told everv-
| body elSe and there was a run on the bank
the next day.
Charles A. Tawney, 4 well-known vounp
| man residing at McKeespOrt, Pa. had y
| very unpleasant experience recently. He
started for Greensburg, where be was to he
married at Oclock in the afternoon. He
| was so much excited that be left his vaIiea
containing his wedding suit, on the Penn
| sylvanla Railroad platform at Braddoek
| The yalise was forwarded on a later train
In Nicaragua the statues of the gods were
| generally placed at the foot of the pyra-
| mids, while the natives farther north placed
| theirs at the summit or in TEMPLES WhIla
| hieroglyphies are common on idols. walls
and pottery, yet the patient researches nf
] our psychologists have recovered but liftIa
of the manners and habits of these abor-
| igines.
In the course of the last fifty years a con-
| siderable number of European song binds
have been turned loose in the woods and
| gardens of the New World, but. with rare
| exceptions, they all disappeared before the
end OF the second winter. Only four tut Of
80 English larks brought to MaryIapd in
! 1879 were seen the next spring, and mn
nightingale has as yet managed to survive
an American blizzard.
Nj. Oovaroff. Moscow scientist has dis
| covered that when lightning strikes in a
forest the white poplar (populus alba9 is
the first to attract It, He came to the con-
| ciuslon thdt tue tree can De used as a
natural llghtning-rod and he submitted n
memorial to the Minister of the Interior adj
| VOcating that the planting Of n white
| popular before every house in village he
made obligatory upon the peasants to pre.
vent fire by lightning.
missionary on the Middle Zambesf WIN
has travelled over all that region. saws the
best maps OF the country are very mae
/ curate; that rivers are laid down where
! they DO not exist and that numerous
| villages appear where there is not n trace
OF human habltatiOn. He says the mans
are simply an aggTavatiOn to travellers. who
are often put to Inconvenience by relying
on information which they find later to be
| inaccurate.