The morning call., 1892-12-18
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The unexplored area of Canada is 1,O00-
| eco square miles.
There are now 10000 600 copies CT the
| Bible in circulation.
The population of America increases by
1000 persons day.
KruDp's great gun works at Essen con-
| sumo 1866 IONS of coal and coke day.
Daring the short Italian War Of 1889
63,O0O men fell on the field of battle or died
! in the hospitals.
An electric plant has been discovered In
India which will influence magnetic needle
twenty five feet distant.
The Romans were so benefited by the first
oaroer that came 10 their city that they
erected statue to his memory.
Horses are so plentiful in Buenos Ayres
that everybody has at least one. 1t is said
that even the bsggars beg on horseback.
The scientific commission. appointed for
the purpose OF selecting a site FOR new
capital for Brazil includes five civil engi-
neers, two astronomers, a naturalist and an
| expert In hygiene.
| A miner, who long ago studied shorthand
| by tracing the characters with pin in
! stone b.ackened by the smoke Of a lamp, is
| now member OF the British Parliament.
| His name is Keir HaTdie.
A daughter of aresident OF Coos Bay. Or.
| Is said 10 have been born on the day Cleye-
| land was elected in 1884, and she is rerorted
to have died on November S, the day Cleye-
lanu was erected THIS year
An old landmark recently disappeared at
Neosho, Mo-, by the tearing down of the
| old Masonic building in which the ordinance
| OF secession was passed intended TO take
| Missouri out of the Union.
A portable sundial is not an uncommon
object In spanish shops, and 1t is still in
/ current use in Spain. At Burgos no less
| than three different kinds are offered for
sale at prices varying from to IL cents
Zinc miners at Webb City, Wis have no.
| ticed lately that shaft they were digging
| has been growing hotter. At a depth OF
| 1853 feet the other day they had TO stop
work, as flames burst through into the
| shaft.
Burial at sea is to be abolished for those
who have money TO pay for the transporta-
| ton Of their remains in case of death on
| board ship. Air-tight steel caskets for
| part OF the equipment OF all the best
| steamers.
The basis OF Dickens "Jarndyce Versus
| JarDdyce," the famous Jennens case, in
which claim is laid to half the ground
Birmingham, has been reopened The
| property was valued at nearly $4,000 600
thirty years ago, and is immensely M ore
valuable now.
| A valuable collection OF fossils, minerals
| aud shells, comprising several thousand
| specimens, and particularly rich In speci-
| mems from the carboniferous formation, has
| just been presented TO the University Col
iege of North Wales by Mr.. Evan Roberts
| of Manchester.
| On the bank OF the River Naha, between
Bingen and Coblentz, there is an echo cap
| able OF representing a sentence seventeen
| different times. A popularity of this echo
| is that, although the original word or SEN
| tence be uttered in a whisper. yet the VOL
| ume OF the sound increases many folds IN
| the echo.
Probably the smallest electric-!ight install
n a IN I'm In
| little village OF Bremen, near Dormbach, in
| Thuringia. 1t comprises single arc lamp
| installed in the church, the lamp being
| operated when required by small dynamo
| arranged 10 the village mill and driven by
| the mill wheel
Bartel Careful. woman OF Copenhagen.
| had beard reaching to her waist Charles
| XII OF Sweden had a female grenadier in
his army who possessed the beard as we'll
| as the courage OF a man. Margaret. Ouch
| ess OF Austria and Governess of tic Meth
erlands. had large. wiry, stiff beard, OF
which she was very proud.
Asa proof of the manner In which the
| civilization of the West is Selling hold on
Japan ana all that is Japanese IL is stated
| that In private mission school in the town
| of Kioto there are 400 Japanese women.
| Ten years ago the fathers of these girls
| looked upon them as slaves, or at best
upper servants. Now they strain every
| nerve TO give them a liberal education.
f! The inhabitants Of the Marian Islands.
| which were discovered as late as 1851, had
| no idea OF FIRE or its uses. Their astonish-
| ment knew no bounds when they saw ii
applied to wood, most OF them snpposing 1t
| to be some kind of an animal which the
| sailors had brought with them and which
must be fed on wood. To this day they
designate 1t by a term which signifies
| "wood-eaier."
| A fossil elephant has been discovered ten
| kilometers from Brionde, in France. on the
slope OF On old volcano, the Seneze, which
| rises from the central plain. 1t is the
skeleton OF an Eephas merldionalis, and is
| nearly entire. Active volcanoes, so destruc-
NAL remains. as, for example, at Pompeii,
| where tile 6ne ash kept the object from be.
ing washed away.
1 The Turkish Sultan has granted conces-
| si0ns for the construction Of long railways
| which will open up his territory to the east,
the north and the south, all having their
termini at Constantinople. One road Is to
| run TO Damascus and another-the Tigris
| and Enphrates Railway-to the Persian
| Gulf. The concessions have been granted
to German and Belgium firms. English firms
being entirely left out.
| Out Of a population Of 100000 600 In Prus-
sla only q 49,. S58 persons possess an income
| OF over 300 marks year, which Is equal to
about S225. This fact IL shown by the first
years results Of the income tax in Prussia.
Two million one hundred and eighteen thou
| sand nine hundred and sixty-nine pay in
| GENE tax on the lowest scale-that Is. on in
| comes Of between 900 and 5000 marks. Only
l0.69S persons have incomes Of over $4,000