The morning call., 1892-03-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

RaZorville is the unique name of a town in
/ Maine.
Mr.. Gladstone's library contains 10000
| volumes.
To every 1000 men in London there are
! 1923 women.
Spiders are seven times stronger in pre-
/ portion than lions.
Nearly 100000 grown English people can
neither read nor write.
| Three hundred and thirteen places are
| licensed for stage plays 10 the United King
| dom.
Major and Mrs. Tuttle have lived in the
| same house at Stratham, n. H., for seventy
| years.
| There are 1900 Band of Hope unions.
| having gross membership of more than
| 100000
An Augusta (Me) dentist is credited with
| having taken gas and extracted one of his
| own teeth.
a London money-lender recently sued for
| repayment of a loan ON which he received
| 600 per cent interest.
The first matches were pieces of wood
about inches long, tipped with sulphur.
| They caught fire easily from piece of flint
| Economy, Pa. boasts of a pigpen which
| cost $1,000. It IS heated and kept scrupu-
| lousy clean for the 800 porkers whose home
| 1t Is.
| In almost every school of the Mikado's
| empire it is the custom one day in the
| hunting.
Washing the face with white flannel
| washrag thoroughly removes dnst and CRIME,
and aids materially in keeping the skin soft
| and velyety.
1t Is said thatif the "voice" of an ephant
| were as loud In proportion as that of q
nightingale his trumpeting could be heard
around the world.
| The Turks believe amber an infallible
| guard against the injurious effects of nico-
| tlne; hence Its extensive use for the mouth
| pieces OF, pipes.
become that the human body easily floats
| on the surface without the slightest exer-
| ton OF hands Or feet.
| Farmer Hardin and Lawyer Mckinney.
Oh Moberly, Mo-. went to law over a ten
| cent dog. The farmer lost the suit and also
lost over 500 in costs.
| French Guiana is said to have the most
violent thnnderstorms in the world The
thunder is almost deafening and the peals
come In quick succession.
During the exhibition in Edinburgh, Scot
land, there We're over 100000 persons carried
IA electric launches along the canal from
| the city to the exhibition.
Mrs. Robert Garrett gave a reception in
baltimore recently at which birds were seen
hitting about among the palms and other
| plants used III decoration.
! Fifteen per cent Of the students attending
i III.
whose advancement there is keeping step
| with their progress in America
Inc oldest Unitarian minister living ia
probably Rev. Thomas Treadwel Stone,
DID, OF Providence, r. l., who completed
MS uinety-flrst year not long ago.
Glycerine has been found to relieve pain
from burns and to forward the healing
process. It smarts on the first application.
put THIS effect soon wears away
Ferdinand Ward, the ex-Napoleon of
| nnance, who wrecked the firm of Grant and
| Ward, Will be free man in a short time
his term 10 Sing Sing will soon expire.
Rev. Richard Schofield, who was received
/ into the Catholic Church by Cardinal New
man In 1850 at the age of %, is enjoying good
| health In his one hundred and first year
| An Illinois man travelled over 1000 miles
recently 10 recover an old family horse that
mad been stolen from him two years ago
| lie recovered the animal finally in Georgia
An essential difference between tho
matches made in Akron, Ohio, and those
manufactured at summer resorts lies in the
| iaet that no divorces accompany the former.
DIR. Gatiing, the gunmaker OF Americas
Moscow. which is to say Hartford, Conn,
is " years of age, but, like Ericsson, the
| older he grows the more interest he takes in
| inventions.
The voyage to Liberia takes thirty-fve
oays by sailing vessel. In seventy years,
during which there have been nearly 200
emigratonS. there has not been a case Of
| loss OK disaster.
The First Congregational Church of
Northampton. Mass, recently installed its
| fifteenth pastor in its fifth meeting house ON
the same spot on which. log church was
| built in April, 1856
Green rests the eye, and resting the eve
| often means to rests the nerves. and the
refreshment OF the eye is as necessary to
| comfortable life as the renewal of the other
bodily forces by food.
There are 421S teachers in the public
SCHOOLS OF New York. When a normal
graduate gets her appointment she does sub
shutting Tor the munlfcent sum of 81 25
day-less that day laborer's pay.
An engineer on the Missouri Pacific
| railway mas invented coat of mail so con-
rived that when man is held up by rob-
bers he can discharge revolver while both
hands are confined above his head.
:, A pigs tail is said to unerringly indicate
the condition OF the animal If it hangs
| loose IL SHOWS that the Dig is not we'll and
| that its food should be changed. If il ~
eolled tightly the pig is healthy and happy.
One OF the most interesting exhibits at
the Worlds Fair will be the models new
| being made by the Smithsonian Institution
showing the various phases in seal and
/ Walrus catching ana killing in Alaskan
! waters.
Ii may be true, as the scientists are MAIN
! tanning, that monkeys have language of
| their own, but after the memorable meeting
UetWeeu tue parrot ana the monkey the
Iurmer Is alone on record as having made a
| remark.
/ Paraffine which is largely used in tbe
| manulacture OF candles is a pure hydro
! carbon. containing nothing else than carbon
ana hydrogen, being precisely the same in
| gradients as IN ordinary coal gas, though in
| another form.
The difference in length of the cables in
the East River bridge, Brooklyn, when the
| thermometer registers zero aud when il
registers 1902 above is 2 feet inches. The
difference in the rope which hauls the ears
| is feet inches.
Do you know what "pea-pod" is, in
| marine parlanee? lit Is boat much in
demand among the Maine lobster fisher
men, being alike at both ends aud abons
fourteen feet long on top. built OF cedar
| with oak timber.
A French Journalist says that in Paris no
| fewer than 400 women are caught every
year stealing before the counter. The
| number of titled ladies seized with klepto-
| mania while examining the fashions is
almost incredible.
Anteope-skin. which has been extern
| siyeiy used for pocket books, photograph
| frames, ETC., Is now being employed for
gloves. 1t is very soft aud pliable, resen-
bling the finest suede, and comes in all the
tan and light shades.
The custom of saying "God bless youi'
| when person SneezsS dates from the time
or the Patriarch Jacob. The rabbis say that
prior TO the time when Jacob lived man
never sneezed but once-the shock conse-
| Quent was certain death.
The students at Eton College at length
number 1000. 1t has long been the amhItian
of the head masters TO see thus nnnhar
| reached. but il was only iaSr month tha. -