The morning call., 1892-08-21
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N/ MURPHY BUILDING,
Market and Jones Streets.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| Parchment used for banios, ETC., is made
| from the skin of asses, calves or wolves,
those of wolves being considered the best.
The United States has more than 500, COO
bearing banana plants, 100000 bearing
| lemon trees. 100000 orange trees and
| 21,000,000 pineapple trees.
From $500, 100000 to SEQ, 00O, 900 is lost
| yearly in the world on the turf of which
| from S35, 100000 to $4,000, 900 is squandered
| in the United Kingdom. Australia is re-
| sponsible for $50. 100000 of the amount
The statement that until this year no
| February has had five Mondays for 200years
| was referred to the universal knowledge
| and information bureau, New York, whence
| comes the reply that there were FIVE Mon
| days In February of the years 1916, 1914,
1872, 1500. ZIP. 174o. 1!6S, 1885, 1903, 1886.
| 1864, 1892. The like will occur in 1904.
| II y persons were TO agree to dine to-
| gether every day, but never sit exactly in
| the same order round the table, it would
| take them 100000 years at the rate of one
! dinner a day, and they would have 10 eat
more than 479.000,000 dinners before they
could get through all the possible arrange
ments in which they could place themselves.
This story of an Americans wit was told
at recent banquet In London: a certain
American, who had great horror of being
| called on for an after-din speech, de-
scrlbed himself as being in worse case
| than Daniel when asked to make one For
| when Daniel saw the lions in the den open
ing their Jaws preparatory to the satisfying
| OF their hunger, he said: well, if there's
any after-dinner speaking to be done on
this occasion it wont be done by me-"
At the costermongers' donkey and pony
show III the Peoples palace, London, II. NJ
Stanley said that he had been enabled to
pass through savage district In Africa half
as large as-England by means of a donkey
named Mrambo, that used To bray in q
most stentorian manner at the word of COM
nd
when the expedition left Africa, homeward
bound, the last thing they saw was the
donkey perched on a clin brayiug a sad
| farewell.
What an awful fate is that of Senior Don
Ialca OF Valparaiso. who kissed young
| lady on the plaza in January and was still
| in Jail for 1t in july The senorita whose
| lips he had sought by surprise prosecuted
| him, aud he was condemned to 50 days im-
| prisonment. He appealed aud there being
| no pettifogging lawyers eagued 10 cheat
| justice down there the laws sentence was
| in effect enforced pending appeal, and the
decision of the supreme tribunal finally
added 80 days more to his sentence.
Though the late DR.. Francis B. Brewer
| of Westfield, n j., was known as the
pioneer of petroleum." because he first
| conceived the idea of using it for commer-
cial purposes, the original oil refinery was
| established by Samuel NJ. Kies, who sat no
small refinery in Pittsburg in 1853. At
| small beginning of what is now one Of the
greatest of Industries, but this was after
| ward enlarged to a Capacity OF five barrels.
| aud it is said to be still in existence.
Swedish iron, which is soft, yet strong and
| ductile, Is almost free from phosphorus and
| sulphur 1t is held to be practically mex
| haustible. though taken out at the rate Of
| about a million tons year. II Is found all
| through the country, though mined chiefly
In Central Sweden. in the Dannemora dis
| trict. Several of the heights as truly de-
| serve to be called iron mountains as those
| In Missouri, and there IS one in Geili-
| ware, in Swedish Lapland, beyond the
| Arctic circle, where the ore occurs in four
| gigantic strata, that would supply nearly
| all the iron the country would require In Il
| century
| England taken alone gave majority OF
| II members against Mr.. GLADSTONE -26S
| unionists against 1877 home-rulers. Great
| Britain alone gave a majority Of 10 against
| home ruie-29l against 216 Wales was
| almost solid for Mr.. Gladstone. unionists
/ out of so being returned. Calculation of
the popular majorities is interesting. In
| England alone the unionists' popular ma
| jority was 10, COO; in Great Britain it was
| $4,000 In the United Kingdom, with the
| Irish vote included, the net home-rule ma
| jority was 203. 000.,
| Travellers say that the most costly rail-
| way station In the world will be the
| Waverly station, which is the Edin burga
/ terminus of the North British Company, FOR
| in the companys negotiations with the
| municipal authorities it was stated that the
i cost of the immediate approaches, station,
| ETC., would by at least 91,o0o,000. The
| finest station in the world at present Is that
/ of the Indian Peninsular Railroad in Bonn
| bay, which cost in our money 81, DOC, 900 and
took 10 years to build. The finest in Europe
is to be the new central station at Frank
fort-on-t the Main in SaXony.