The morning call., 1892-09-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Bishop Berkeley wrote the "PTineiDles of
Human knowledge" when he was 26 years
OLD.
The largest pyramid in Egypt has by late
measurement been proven to be 43S feet
high.
By virtue of his Office the Lord Chief
Justice is the principal Coroner of Eng
land.
Superstition has it that the milk of red
COWS is better than that given by any other
| color.
William Tyndale began his translation
of the Bible into English when he was 43
years old.
Women of to-day are ON an average two
inches taller than they were twenty-five
years ago.
On Bali, an island in the Indian Archi-
pelago, east Of Java, the burning o. widows
| still goes ON.
There is village on the Northern Pacific
| Railroad which has fifty-four inhabitants
and two churches, both Presbyterian.
The Roumanian crown is made of metal
| from the cannon that were captured from
the Turks by the Roumanians at Pleyna in
1867.
! Ducks fly at speed of fifty miles an
| hour, and with the wind, when it is brisk.
| they have been known to attain velocity
| of 2b miles a minute.
One of the men who rode through the ter.
rible charge at Balakava without his life
| as the forfeit is Thomas Morley. who is en-
pIoyed in the War Department at Washing
| ton.
An Indiana stone quarry company is
| having a life-siZed figure of an elephant
chiseled out of solid block of stone. 1t
| will be eleven feet high and weigh over
thirty tons and is intended for the Worlds
Fair
Japan is appearing In new character, as,
according TO the MaiDicbi, the Japanese
Government recently accepted an order
from the Australian Government for the
manufacture of a quantity of swords and
rifles.
Eight thousand five hundred red, 5000
white, 4200 blue, 1900 green and 500 yellow
iDcandescent electric lights we're used for
street displays along the line OF march of
the Knights Iemplar parade in Denver re-
Gently.
The bugle horn was once called as
buffalo horn, and it apparently derives 4
name from the bugle, or extinct aurOeh. the
wild OK of great Britain. IL the Isle Of
Wight the bulls head on the iEr sisas IS
often accompanied by the WORT bugle. and
the French term for the lowing OF cattle is
still beugler.
An Abilene (Kans.) man recently adyer-
tised that he would like to buy second
hand mower, and to address TX. L." post
Office. He received one answer that struck
him fayOrably and after corresponding some
time hunted the party up and found it to be
his wife. who was trying to sell him their
| old one.
Twice year jumping procession is held
| in honor of Saint Willebrod. the apostle of
the Frisians. The fashion OF the process
sion, which goes around the towns and 10
the chapel, is this: The worshippers sing
prayers in an antiphonal manuer and jump
two steps forward and one back, thus pro-
crossing one step to every three.
Progress in the manufacture OF matches is
noted by a German authority. Sodium
| chlorate is now usea instead of potassium
| salt for "headeSs Matches" which ignite
| throughout their length aud may be used
repeatedly. The growing scarcity of suit
| able wood has led to the use of match sticks
reported to be excellent-molded from
peat.
The origin of the name America has been
| disputed, though the weight of testimony
| leaves ne doubt that it comes from the
| Christian name of Amerigo Vespucci. Some
| early authorities contended that the name
came from the Peruvian word ''amaru,"
| meaning the sacred symbol of the cross.
made of serpent and a stick. and the suf-
| fix 'ea." meaning country. Thus derived,
| America means the land Of the holy animal.