The morning call., 1892-08-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
New York has 1000 Indians.

| new L Utk mas 4UJU 1uuiaUS.
Coal sold for So ton in Hartford in 1925
Six million dollars are invested in the
manufacture eff dynamite IN the United
| States
! A man in Indiana has a plan for revol1l-
| tionizing naval warfare by building India
| rubber ships.
! Kentucky's name is derived from Ken
tuckee. an Indian name, meaning the
! head of a river"
| OF 100000 women working at 100 different
trades in New York City 127 900 support
! their husbands.
| The "Marco Bozzaris." the poem by which
/ HaiIeck Is best known, appeared when ho
/ was 81.
Mississippi is from the Indian Meesyee-
| dee, meaning not the father of waters" +"
/ but 1.-The great water"
The tallest chimney in the world is at
| Fort Dundas, Scotland. II Is asa feet to It's
copestone from the ground.
| A Paris physician is authority for the
| statement that 40 people are annually pre-
| pared for burial while still alive.
| The latest true story" is that a bolt Of
/ lightning drew all the nails from mans
| shoes III Connecticut town without hurt
| ing him.
| The Greek Government has voted the sum
| OF 100000 drachms to be expended on the
reproduction OF antique works OF art for the
| Worlds Fair.
| A letter addressed "Charles Smith. K.
| Pan" didn't bother the Boston postmaster
| little bit He sent it right on to It's desti-
| nation, Cape Ann.
| Rose L. Clemens OF FL Reno, o. T.. though
] only Is years of age, is slowly dying of ossi-
| fcation. There Is now scarcely any flesh on
| her bones and she weighs only % pounds
| During a review of several regiments in
! France, whltner he was sent. Hugo GrotIna,
| one OF the famous men of the seventeenth
| century. retained in his mind the names of
| all the soldiers that were named and passed
| before him.
a report on italian trade issned by the
| British Embassy gives go, 000, coo as the
amount annually spent in Italy by tourists
and visitors from foreign countries. or
| this large amount almost one-third is con-
tributed by Americans.
The Territory Of New Jersey was given
by royal charter TO Sir George Carteret and
Lord Berkely. Carteret, in England's great
civil war, had bravely defended the Isle of
Jersey, IN the British Channel. and his pew
possessions in America were named in com
| memoration of this fact
The telephone has lately been arranged
for use of divers A sheet of copper is used
in place of one OF the glasses in the helmet
and TO this telephone is fixed, so that the
diver when at the bottom of the sea, has
only TO slightly turn his head In order to re-
port what he sees or TO receive Instructions
from above.
Dr. Dareste has demonstrated that mon
sterS anG m0nstroSitieS during animal de-
velopment are not the results Of paIholOgi-
| cal changes In the embryo. as hitherto
| supposed. but notifications of the processes
OF organic evolution, such as bring about
| the difference between individuals and races
! in mankind.
Attention is called to the fact that tho
present Is the first time for half a century
| that New England has n0t had a repreSen-
| tatve in the Cabinet excepting only about
| five weeks under President Polk ana during
the summer of 1874 between the resignation
| of Secretary Richardson and theappoiut
ment OF PoStmasteT-GeDera Jewell by Gen
erai Grant,
Among the other great things in this
country the number of lis high maintains
is a remarkable feature. There are 9e0
mountains In the United States. each ex-
ceeding 10000 feet IN height. The Creates
number are found in Colorado and ITtab
In Alaska there are five which exceed II OO0
Ieet: ana Me0nt Elias, 19,jo0 feet high is
the ioftiest peak in the United States ter
ritOry.
Among marine architects it is beginnipr
to be serious question if iron il moi hct,aT
than steel for ship-building purpoSes ond
me eases or the old Sarah Sands Graat
britain and Great Eastern are oaated ns
proving that iron-plated ships, With their
ninn ,Gieassu thickness ana better riveting, ar
| much stronger and more lasting than onS-
steel-constructed vessel yet put to break
ing-up test
"Who built Castle William ?t asked =
passenger on steamer in New York Bay.
Nobody could answer, but the statems1t
was volunteered that the architect killed
himself In disgust on learning that he had
| Violated rule OF ort-building by planning
the portfolios one above another in a risht
llne. To the casual glance The old circular
fortress on Governors Island appears to
pe oullt OF brick. but the material used is