The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-03-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Is looked upon as BIRD CT Ill omen.
There are but three survivors of Dr.
kane's expedition to the Arctic sea.
a new series Of postage stamps has been
Issued by The republic Of San Salvador.
submarine cable TO connect Cuba and
some point in Yucatan is TO be laid soon.
The number of lighthouses in the world
has quadrupled during the last fifty years.
Nearsight is hereditary. but larger per-
centage prevails among blondes than bru-
netteS.
The entire Indian population of this coun
try is 100000, and they hold 10000, coo acres
of land.
An onyx mine of large dimensions Is re-
ported to have been discovered at HARRISON
burg, Va.
1t is estimated that there are $4,000
women IN America who possess medical
diplomas.
Physicians headed the list of suicides last
year. and they have headed it every year
IN the last ten.
The population of Bogota, the capital of
the United States of Colombia, decreased
e54 during 1891.
Mail matter is sent between Paris and
Berlin, distance of 7C0 miles, through
pneumatic tubes.
1t is estimated that at least $50, 0O0,oO0 of
the Governments paper money has been
lost or destroyed.
The theaters of London are now fumi-
gated after each performance to prevent
the spread of the grip.
Artificial teeth are so much in use now
adays that 1t took 10000, 600 of them to sup
ply the demand last year.
Biddeford, Me-, boasts of cat that drinks
coffee every morning with the family, pre-
ferrIng that beverage to milk.
The number of freightcars in the United
States Is placed at about 915, coo and the
number OF paSsenger-cars at 1900.
There are ninety licensed public gam
bling-h0uses in Caracas, the capital Of Ven
eZueIa, ali doing prosperous business.
The oldest liquor in any New York club
cellar is supposed to be some Sayillac brandy
OF the vintage of 1903 al the Union Club
A Sunderland firm, Messrs. Glaholm &
Robson, have completed a colliery wire rope
SIX miles long and twenty-four tons weight.
Twenty-one States and Territories have
made no appropriations for the Worlds
Fair, The greatest delinquency is In the
South.
A floor painted in various colors of geSso
has been unearthed at Teel Armama, in
the palace OF Amenophls ". the King of
Egypt.
1t is claimed that the pheasant of the
English preserves can trace its pedigree
directly to the brilliant bird of the same
species in Japan.
1t is claimed that If a steel rod be given a
number OF Taps on solid substance, while
held III more or less vertical position, ths
rod viii become magnetic.
girl in Norway must be able to bake
bread before she can have beau. The
one who takes the cake as cook is con-
sidered the flower of the family.
London pays its gas companies annually
"a, 400, coo for commodity which costs to
produce only IS, 100000, thus giving the
monopoiiSts clear profit of e., 500, coo.
The Royal Geographical Society OF Lon
IN q l,,ifdj
be far larger than any other building oe-
eupIed by geographical society Ia the
world.
The extent to which basebalIs are man
ufactured IN this country is indicated in the
information that two Philadelphia factories
use 100 hOrsehides week to make baseball
covers.
A fox pursued by hounds ran into door
yard In the town of Waldo, Pa, the other
day. and just as be was going over a wall a
man caught and killed the animal by chOk-
ing him To death.
controlled entirely by natives has been
sanctioned by the Indian Government. The
line will be about thirty miles long in the
HOoghly district.
live manatee or seaeow was caught in
BlscaYne Bay few days ago. reports the
EustiS Lake (fla.) Region. 1t gave its cap
tors lively time and some hard work to
get IL across the bay.
There is man living in Calhoun, Ga,
20 years old, who boasts that he never wore
pair OF boots. bought a suit of clothes,
white shirt or any store clothes in his life,
or wore collar or necktie
The single tribe of the Betsi Fangs. in the
Congo country. according 10 De Brazza
numbers over 100000 souls. Their most
important villages are from three to ten
miles back from the rivers.
American colleges are every year adding
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has $4,000 volumes; Yale. 200, Co., Cor
nell, 10000; Columbia, 10000; Syracuse,
$4,000; Dartmouth. $500; Princeton,
6S, Geo.
1t is estimated that the fifty long-disiance
lines which the American Bell Telephone
Company Is putting up between New York
and Chicago Will consume 1926 tons OF cop
per. while the total length OF the wire will
be 5000 miles.
Zadkiel, the English planet-reader, in his
sixty-second annual almanac just issued
has found a message somewhere in his stel-
lar readings to the effect that in November
of next year there will be "a death of an
empress or queen"
One of the horses belonging to the New
\ ork Fire Department got loose the other
night and assembled the stairs to the second
story, and nearly frightened the driver into
spasmS by playfully picking his cold nose
into the latter's face while asleep.
1t is q common belief at the present time
among the lower classes in South Germany
that If children play soldiers very often in
the street there is a war coming, aud If they
play 1uneraP an epidemic viii come over
the land and many deaths will result.
A South African mining Journal says the
surfaces of numerous boulders have been
polished by the constant rubbing of count
less herds Of large game, such as the wilde
beest These examples of the attritlon OF
rocks by animals are found IN good many
parts of the 1ransvaai.
Granville West, colored resident of New
York, is said to be the first of his race to
attain prominence as an electrician. His
new method of supplying electrical energy
to cars was tried recently at COney Island,
and the experiment was success. In his
system there are no exposed wires.
A stretch of track across the pampss on
the new Argentine Pacific Railroad from
Buenos Ayres to the foot of the Andes ia
211 miles long. without a curve, single
bridge, an opening larger than an ordinary
drain, a cut greater than one meter iG depth.
or an embankment more than one meter ia
height.
very romantic marriage lately took
place in Montgomery County. n. G. A
young man obtained the license, secured
the preacher and took him immediately 10
the presence Of bis intended. He found her
in the kitchen making up dough. The
young fellow did not give her time to clean
her hands and arms, but had the preacher
tie the knot at once
A Plain Precaurion.
Either TO adopt plain precsution one sane
toned by experience and approved by medical men,