The morning call., 1892-03-07
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Georgia raises red cotton.

London has 1000 letter-earriers.
Ammonia now runs stTeet-cars.
France sends the best false hair.
Great Britain has 10000 landlords.
MINNEAPOLIS made 7.S77, 9a7 barrels of flour
III f faat worIGs passenger cars can seat
100000 people.
A shoemaker's ''sizs" is just one-.hird of
an inch in length.
The total income of the Church Of Eng
land is about 1000, go q week
Two centuries and seven different men
claim the invention of gunpewder.
More butter per head is used In England
than III any other country in Europe
girl burglar 6 wears cid was eanturea
at work the other night at Milford, Mass.
A Philadelphia ragman found Greek
grammar 2e5 years cid III an ash barrel re-
Gently.
The entire empire of Persia has but one
vessel. small steamer that was built some
years ago.
Lead-pencT woed-sof. cedar-aH comes
from Florida, and will be exhausted in
few years.
The world consumes 5000, 600, 600 pounds
of paper year. and it is supplied by 400
paper mills.
1t takes an expenditure of nearly $4,000
to carry vessel like the Majestic across
the Atlantic.
1t is estimated that Europe is s1,Goo. Geo.
coo poorer every year by her system c.
armed peace
The tallest and the shortest people in
Europe, the Norwegans and the Laps, live
side by side.
A Chicago man recently had printed 63I,
words on q postal card and had an inch oil
space to spare.
A national association has been organized
in New York to extend the industrial scheme
of profit sharing.
From the American afoa tree is male
thread, ropes, cables, paper, cietning, seas,
sugar and brandy.
A little boy was choked to death in
Springfield, Ohio, few days ago by piece
OF bread and brtter.
A cremated badly leaves a residuum OF
only eight ounces; all besides is restored 10
the gaseous elements.
The New York elevated roads have or
dered that all employees shall cease chewing
tobacco while on daty.
A five-year-old child has been foanf In
Plainfeld. Ind, who is said to be a con-
firmed morphiHe-eater.
The French, by system of driven wells
have reclaimed 1000, 600 acres of barreY,
land from the Sahara Desert.
A tenor at the opera in Geneva, Swtzer-
Land. who was Kissed, prompts went Ionip.
thus stopping the performances.
A ramei of the largest size has hsea klswn
to drink from thirty to fifty gallons Of water
and then travel without any more for twenty
DAYS.
To show the growth made In the industr
of furnishing kindling weed, a single iaetnit
in Pennsylvania turns eat 5.oo0a9o buncls
month
Jules Verne predicts the invention of >
''telephote.' which will enable people al
the distance of thousands Of mites tn Sc
one another.
Kalamazoo, in Michigan. il called tls,
"eelery city from the fact that on the out
skirts of the city are the greatest celery
gardens in the world.
The Edgar Thomson Steel Works claim
10 have broken the record for making steel
rail- In "a hours they succeeded in turning
out 1897 American TONS
A recent English invention is screw
propeller. in which the blades can b. ad-
lusted for maneuvering, or can BE- feathersd
for running under sail.
Very acceptable mirrors are now made Of
wood in Germany. Fhe weed is treated g.
chemical bath. after which 1t may be pol
iShed to shine like silver
1t is proposed to employ aluminium for the
manufacture Of the metal parts of photo
graphic cameras and plate-holderS. owing
to its extreme Hghtness.
1t has been decided in BROOKLYN that not
more than two of the four corners formed
by the Intersections Of streets shall b.
occupied as liquor saloons.
1t Is stated that there are In France
AZ, O00, 600 hens. which. at an average prize
OF francs so centimes per head, represen;
value Of liz. 050. 600 francs.
There will probably be another Bovdoia
College expedition to Labrador next sum
mer, when moro extensive explorations Wi;
be made than en- the first trip.
A mysterious ringing of electric bells ina
Swiss house was traced to large spider
which had one foot ON the bell wire and an
other on an electric-light wire.
Four Boston men, who were dining to-
gether, consulted their watches and faund
that every one Of them had stopped. They
are now trying to account for 1t.
Within sixty-two years Mexico had fifty
four Presidents, one regency, and one EN-
pire, and nearly every change Of Govern
ment has been effected by violence.
Ii is matter of record that 1850 dollars
were coined in 1904. yet only eight samples
are known to exist and those that are In
good condition are valued at S1000 each.
At Trenton, No., a man over 80 years old
has achieved local fame by letting the
dentist pull twenty-one OF his teeth at a
single sitting, without taking xas or chlor0-