The morning call., 1892-07-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

In China cats meat is remedy. for lung
diseases.
Cosmetics cost American omen SCI, 0oO,-
! 000 year.
There are 10000 parishes in England with
| only church schools.
A 110-ton gun can fire two shots minute,
| each discharge costing $3.50.
Salmon. pike and goldfish are said to be
| the only fish that never sleep.
Ten thousand lead and toy soldiers are
turned out iG Nuremberg every day.
Waterproof umbrellas made OF paper are
coming into very general use in Paris.
Last year 100000 books were issued to
the people of London from free libraries.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New
York has treasures 10 the value of 81 000.-
| 600.
The cemeteries of London cover 1000 acres,
and the land they occupy represents CAPT
tai of 100000.
Sweden is the most Protestant country.
| for out OF population of 4.774, 400 only $40
are Roman Catholics.
One of the attractions of tie forthcoming
| Chicago exhibition is to be a pyramid of 400
pianos connected by electricity and manipu-
| lated by one woman.
In Switzerland the walters not only do
lot receive any wages, but must pay the
| hotelkeepers Tor permission to work.
Ihey make their living exclusively from the
A resident OF Columbus. Ind. has a game
cock which was recently attacked by a bull.
but IN very few minutes the bull was
minus an eye. About a year ago he killed
, In one day seven geese, IL turkeys and three
roos tiers.
London has the distinction of being the
first city to use coal This was in the latter
part OF the twelfth century. Its use was
prohibited shortly after its introduction.
ana one man was actually executed for vio-
iating this law.
A PottStown lady is in search of an
owner for silver thimble which she de-
clares she found imbedded in the center of
a ham which she was slicing. She would
also Ike to have some explanation of how
the thimble got there.
According Ito telephone authority 1.-The
easiest language for telephoning is Chinese
1t Is principally monosyllables, and is made
up OF simple rising and falling infections
Herman, 1t seems, Is not as bad language
Tor teiephonlng as might be thought French
IS not bad, but it is almost a S sibilant as
English.
PeargrOwers are complaining of the dep
relations OF small suetorIal insect some
what resembling In size and in its transpar.
emf, steep-sloDing wings the typical plant
louise, but it is readily distinguished from
that In Its being jumping insect, whence it
mas received the name Pystla, meaning in
Greek flea.
AT Cahoes. France, the workmen on the
foundations Tor convent unearthed a large
house OF the GallO-RDman period, the ma
safe floors OF which are in place and enough
OF the walls to reveal freScoes in a fair state
OF preservation. Ii is supposed To have
been DESTROYED in the sixth century, when
Iheodebert sacked the town. Pottery frag-
meuts, brOnzes and coins are found on the
site.
In the middle ages every family who
could afford the luxury kept dwarf whose
principal duties were to look as ugly as pos
sibe and TO receive with equal manifesto
tons of gratitude the chidings of his mis-
tress and the kicks of her guests No royal
court WAS considered complete without a
Dwarf, who. as a court jester amused by
wit, or, more commonly, served as butt for
the wit of others.
ing IN various forms upon the sculptured
monuments OF Egyyt, Assyrin, Greece and
Rome, and In hot countries it has been used
since the dawn of history as a sunshade-a
use slgnlhed by its name derived from the
Latin umbra, meaning shade In the
Orient the umbrella has been q symbol of
power and royalty, and in many countries
IL has become part of a religious as we'll as
royal symbolism.
In one respect at least, Quito. the capita
oil Eueador, rs the most UNIQUE city in the
world III Is situated in both the northern
ana southern memispheres, a distinction
claimed by no other place of Importance on
the globe. In one part of the city the sum-
mer season does battle with old winter, W no
is just across thu street. The seasons, as
lar as names are concerned, change almost
instantly, hut, as the temperature is re-
markably even, these curious points ara sell
dom thought OF by the $4,000 people who
make Quitofheir home