The morning call., 1892-01-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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many risks a railroad man will take to
please the travellers
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Tomatoes were not cultivated 100 years
| ago.
The cod-banks of Newfoundland are 100
miles long
Constautinope has been besieged twenty
eight times
Asphalt pavement costs half as much
again as wood.
The population Of America Increases by
! T0u0 persons q day.
Over 10000 patients are treated weekly in
England hospitals.
Only one couple In II. 800 live to celebrate
their diamond wedding.
London horse-cars and omnibuses repre-
sent capital Of S2j,0J0O00
The household maintained by the Queen
Of England consists Of nearly 1000 persons.
Cricket was PLAYED under the name of
club BALI as early as the fourteenth CEN
fury.
The standard gold coin of England con-
siStS Of - parts pure gold and parts Of
copper.
Jonathan Kriss Of Allentown, Pa. has
box of cigars that was presented to him AZ
years ago.
India has a priest who is drawing a pen
sion and is in his one hundred and fifty
second year.
John Schneider Of Middle Village, L. l.,
has been taken to task for raising potatoes
in a cemetery.
Contributions amounting to Sc, 100000 for
missionary purposes were made In Great
Britain last year.
The greatest plague ever known visited
Naples IN 1906 and carried off $50, coo people
in twenty-eght weeks.
h. Hartman relates a case in which
lead pipe was cut through by an insect that
was actually found with its head in the hole
pierced by 1t.
There are about 100 men employed in the
Bank of England, and their united salaries,
including pensions, amount to about ST.
100000 per anHum.
Queen Victoria. having completed her
seyeniy-second year, has exceeded in age all
other English SOvereigns except two
Georges II and III.
The Chicago authorities have decided that
license cannot be issued 10 . saloon on
wheels, as was proposed by an enterprising
caterer TO gang Of seweT-builders.
1t would keep a man busy for eleven
wears, counting eight hours per day ami two
hundred pieces minute to count the silver
money IN the United states Treasury
A Maine man has invented device for
preventing electrlc-cars that have stopped
z H.
ntu5 down gra,ie bafore tbe hr9l,as ara an
Moi "'O "l-
Picking, the present, and Nankin. the an
Client capital Cf China, are scarcely half as
large as they We're a hundred years ago
They display all the symptoms Of decay and
death.
wood 5ooror r., T<rrli,,,+,,, Toro on,
ploys an evtanDor4naons u,@rb0d If n,tos,,r
inc his wood liz Sos nm n cord Lv standir1,
TO a pile the nrjgbt Of his serond fr1ntsbirf
button.
q-ba KIM IF Ash,,+ao = o,ou-ol oa9o
yyiye- Nanvof rtIani are tho dsn,I,fors ~
the chiefs of trihutary tribes over which the
King has Jurisdiction ami are sent IN him as
HOSTAGES
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pnt a SION 70 iyncbi1g iS hat Stata ana bo
has Cffsrsd - rayyard FOR tba orreSf and
yIction Of auy or alIoi fiifv meInbar. If a
life-takirg tnoh
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wales States tIot'tbe GoIiia P,veT "coI- add
i'm western Australia covars an oraa If f1Iiv
10 O00 acres and flat tha danosit iS v-itbnrt
d0ubt GOOD coal,
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tho a,rI, ,,,l ~ I,i 49,, 20 ,,I, 4 -
of ARMS was abducted Inv a Pboniclan
and the Greeks carried off Europa from Tyre
ana Nrdea from ColcbiS.
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il. and the bed of the stream becomes stable
enough for foundation purposes.
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oe ,,ant ne n Goo in ono sa5eI To-
- he fatal mnntb lvhicb GilIs ,b,,, al IF
a,ce,t t,,o or tiraa fanIas 80 a. a.
pends the perpetuation Of the race.
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y,ooreb,t when MS tin,a hos 80, ~ ~ %
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rra,.arstinn sals clrrIo,e ond ~ S Cri'utr,
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cosod y,ithaut Ibeir ','0t TIU III
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,nG h "a low ,s cQas. lahds IN the
roIoni1ed in v6icb Furnno 49, P"I' VI ~ See
cennot ,yorr '''N' u amer ic"HS
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voars oIS u htei,HE 9Htlu2yS IS many
S"'9 ~ =. 10 lgC'lueu III tHe lOIuetn
GHaPteL o! GENESIS lWehilet6 verse: And
u oSiL5 70 pass the inltu day, which was
l dIa9 ji . o'IInuay' that he made least
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