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

in Ashantee grows tree which furnishes
excellent butter.
a cubic inch of soil contains from &C, 900 to
2, ,250,0 GOO minute organisms.
Bank holidays were first established by a
statute passed in the year 1871.
The people of Bengal recently shot leop-
ard that had killed 154 persons.
In the United States there are 673, ,643 Free
masons and Gar. All Odd Fellows.
Hyphenated names are increasing anon e
New York fashionable people at rate tha I
suggests fad.
An ancient copper mine. which was first
discovered 11S3 years ago. is about TO be re-
opened in Japan.
The testing of big guns at the Ksupp works
makes cracked walls and broken windows
the fashion at Essen.
The Guadaloupe bees lay their honey in
bladders OF wax about as large as pigeons
egg, and not in combs
a cactus plant in house at Newportyille.
Pa, last winter grew so fast that 1t is too tall
TO be taken out Uf doors.
Tho prefix ''O'' before so many names of
Irishmen is an abbreviation OF the word
ogha, meaning grandchild.
The public libraries of all Europe put
together contain about 21,000, coo volumes
those OF America 50,000,000.
The serpents have their hearts Situated in
the head. hence they are always very care
ful in protecting that region.
Goats In Kaiahari frequently pass months
without water, and there are also certain
anteiOpes which never visit drinking places
There's an American girl in London who
can lick on postage stamps faster than Maud
can trot. She has record OF 5000 an
hour.
Mexican bricklayers 1t is said. can only
lay 500 bricks in a day of IL hours. While
an American can lay 2500 in day Of nine
hours.
a spiders web is so light that pound of
il will reach around the world and then
leave enough to reach from New York TO
San Francisco.
The inhabitants of Cochin China have q
peculiar preference for rotten eggs instead
OF fresh ones They also are very fond of
stuffed dogmeat.
Over 100000 sewing needles are made
weekly In the town Of Redditch, in Worces-
tershire, where the most extensive need Ie
manufactures in the world are situated.
japanese jugglers are deft smokers. Sew
eral OF them will sit before curtain. and
from the tobacco smoke which issues from
their mouths will form q succession of read
able letters.
Few relies of antiquity are so curiously
interesting as the chart employed by an
cIent mariners, which have portrayed upon
them ever so many extraordinary monsters
horrible dragons and terrific giantsscattered
here and there.
What is now North Berwick. Me. was
known as Doughtys Falls so years ago. A
postal clerk SAYS that occasionally letters
are even now addressed to Doughtys Falls
and that lie has had one such in his hands
within the last month.
1t is a curious coincidence that the presept
Mayor Huelva, Spain, where Columbus first
met Queen Isabella, Is of the same name a
and liDea descendant of the man who
was Mayor OF the place when Columns
sailed TO discover the New World.
Even European birds seem tenacious of
precedent Migratory birds do not cross
the Mediterranean at its narrowest point.
but an examination has proved that the
point at which many do cross was at one
time the narrowest part OF the sea-
A Harrisburg, Pa. boy sent mn in n
balloon on the Fourth OF July last year
bottle with his name and address in il. re-
questing the finder to return it to him.
About 10 days ago the bottle was picken mn
by a gentleman on the shore of IaSe
Superior, near Duluth, Mimi. who imme-
diately forwarded 1t to the lad.
Shoplliting by women Is said to be alarm
lngiy on the increase in Paris, SO much
so that the justices have been instructed to
be less ienient in future with rich woman
and to punish so-called kleptcmania as
simple theft. OF 1S arrests made recentiv
in single day II were women: four wers
wealthy, aid all were In comfortable cir
cumstances.
inere Is now on exhibition In Philadel-
phia gigantic tarpon and splendid speci-
men OF the silver king, about six feet in
length and weighing 125 pounds. 1t was
taken at Fort Meyers, Fla, on fine No. 10
Russian bempiine with No. 10 ringed
O'Shanghnessy hook and with a single
Jointed bamboo rod. The fish jumped clean
out OF the water six different times. and
took an hour and 25 minutes to bring him TO
gaif.
The automatic fortune-tellipg machines
IN railway stations and at street corners of
New York and London have been turned
into new form Of gambling. II will be re-
membered that the faces OF these machines
They are. In brief, handy roulette tables.