The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-03-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

1t is said that palm trees once grew where
Denver now stands.
Everything has to pay up sometimes; even
the little chickens have 10 shell out.
Recently 400 incandescent lamps were
shipped from Lynn, Mass. to Osaka,
Japan.
The medical department of the University
Of the City of New York received last year
1888, 900 in gifts.
The Hampton family of Roswell, Ga.
possess cows horn hat that mas been In
family since 1863.
Chicago has a wOmau's baking company
that has been incorporated with a capital
stock Of $4,000
Helen Watterson is preaching the doc
triHe OF eating five meals day." says the
New York World.
The Russian navy of the present time con-
sists OF 1872 vessels, OF which thirty-six are
first-class ships of war.
1t is calculated that every ten days of
London fog casts 5000 people on beds of
sickness, and kills 300.
The Georgia State pension list numbers
400 widows Of Confederate soldiers, and
means an annual tax of 100000
One woman in every sixty IN London is n
gin-drinker, and one in every twenty is a
pauper. Willie Que in every thirteen is Hit
crate.
Leading Republicans in West Virginia
say that Secretary Eikins viii be the next
Republican candidate for Governor OF that
STATE.
The lobster breads thunder, and when
the peals are very loud numbers OF them
drop their claws and swim away for deeper
water.
The undertaken charged the New York
Central Railroad Company $500 for bury
ing seven people killed by the Hastings
accident.
A velocity as high as 1887 feet per second
has been attained by projectile from a
rapid-fire gun. This is at the rate of 1865
miles an hour.
Gilbert Elliott Griffin, who introduced the
money order and railway mail service in
the United States, died recently in King
stOn, Ontario.
The past year has been one of the worst
business years ever known in SaxOny.
over 1000 distress warrants were issued
IN Dresden alone.
Mississippi man, who has counted the
number of seeds in a bushel of various
grains. found that corn went II. $780, wheat
$50, co., peas 10000. cotton seed 164 loo.
There are 100 Confederate battle-iags in
the collection OF war relies at Washing ton
or these. 25 separate regimental col0rs we're
captured after P!cketts charge at Gettys-
burg.
Many Eastern drugstores have adopted
the precautionary measure of having
two persons attend the preparation of
a"y PtSSOiiPtaoh cOutdluIDS poisonous
drugs.
The parents of Miss yacaresco have
caused TO be published in the Secolo notice
TO the effect that there is no foundation in
the reports of her engagement to Prince
CantacuZene.
The fitness of aluminium for use In gas
fixtures, electroliers and other forms of in
terror decoration where fine metal-work ia
needed has been pointed out by q leading
electrical journal.
Rapid travelling has been accomplished by
locomotive just com pleted for the London
and Northwestern Railway, England. 1t
made trial run OF ninety miles an hour
between Crewe and Chester.
A British Consul in China, DIR, James
Scott, who has written the first Corean
grammar, declares that the Corean language
is even more difficult than the Chinese fie
estimates its age at 1000 years.
Judging from the number of charters
taken out in the different States for the con-
struction OF railroads, II il estimated that
upward OF 1909 miles OF new track will be
added TO the total mileage OF the country
this year.
A remarkable piece of engineering work
is the tunnel OF the Parana Oroya Railroad
through an Andean mountain peak at
Galera, Peru. Ii Is at an elevation OF 600
feet above the perpetual snow line, and is to
be 3S47 feet long.
In Ashantee no man is ever allowed to see
any Of the Kings wives, and should he
even accidentally see one his punishment
Is death. These wives during the work.
ing season attend TO the Kings plapta-
tiOns. but the rest of the time they live at
COomasie.