The morning call., 1892-10-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The Democratic wheelmep of Nashua, N.
H., have formed bicycle campaign COM
pany.
The British Government in 1880 ordered
10000 telephones for use in the postal ser
vice.
When Cortez invaded Mexico for the
second time he had eighty musketers aud
eighty cr0ssb0wmeD.
The last census shows that while 80, 165
lawyers received SIS, 000,0 600 every year in
lees, $1,000 ministers get only S6000,000
A trial of speed between English and
American locomotives will be an interest
ing and novel feature of the Worlds Fair.
Though the next total solar eclipse does
not take place until April Is, 1898, astronO-
mers are already astir making plans for OBJ
serving it.
The Danish Government has issued de-
cree forbdding the importation of dogs
from any foreign country except Sweden
and Norway.
Vulcan, the British ironclad, is provided
with rudder weighing twenty-five tons, or
something like six tons heavier than the
Great Eastern.
A black pearl necklace worn by Lady
Leicester at recent entertainment is said
to be worth S125, 600. There Is only q SIM
gle row OF the gems.
Mineralogists now exploring Northern
Thibet claim to have discovered valuable
richest precious stones.
The 470-carat diamond from the South
African mines, OF which go carats are
being taken off by the damond-cutters of
Antwerp, Is almost ready for sale.
-Four million five hundred thousand
pounds sterling are said to be annually
spent in hunting in the British Indies, ex-
elusive OF carrlage-horses and travelling ex-
penses.
Numerous experiments to determine the
best fre-resisting materials for the copstfuc-
tion of doors have proved that wood COW
cred with tin resisted the fire better than an
iron door.
There is still burning In India sacred
fire that was lighted by the Parsees twelve
centuries ago. The fire Is fed with sandal
and other fragrant woods and is replenished
five times day.
A portable sun dial is not an uncommon
object III Spanish shops and it is still In cur
rent use In Spaiu. At Burgos no less than
three different kinds are offered for sale at
prices varying from 8 to II cents.
There will be an unprecedented boom
in the shipbuilding yards on the shores of
the great lakes this winter. 1t is said that
the vessels under contract for the season of
1898 will aggregate $1,000 gross tons.
Anaxagoras Of Ionia, born 500 b. c., taught
the true cause of solar and lunar eelipses
and how to discriminate between planets
atheist for saying that the sun was net a
god.
Last year New York City expended
81, 0O0, 900 on its schools and "a, go 600 for
its police. In three years the Increase OF
the cost of the police has been 60 per cent
and the increased cost Of the schools II per
cent.
A clergyman In Oxford has invited the
men who frequent the river on Sundays to
come to church in their boating fiannels
Hitherto such costumes had been frowned
upon. and the boatmen had not gone to
church.
An inmate OF the Bates County (Mol
inches in circumference, and the weight OF
the brain found to be IA ounces, while tbs
normal weight of the average brain is but
45 ounces.
The sea water originally put in the great
aquariums at the Crystal Palace Syden-
ham, in 1854. is still used there, having been
used over and over since that time, a record
without parallel in the history OF sir::,-=-i;ss-
situations.
The railways of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain have 1850 locomotives, OF
which only 1S41 are in Scotland and 705 in
ireland. The London and North Western
has the most, 264S, followed by the Mid
land, with 2020.
A heavy plate glass shade, ornamented
with gold and securely locked to three
staples set in the marble top of pulpit in
church In Brussels, is said to cover one OF
the tb0rns which formed a part Of the
Savior's crown.
The largest and most powerful search
light In the world is destined for the statue
OF Liberty in New York harbor, and will be
visible for 100 miles and capable OF trans
hitting messages that distance. 1t will be a
50,OOo-candle power aud will cost about
$1,000.
Flies have long been accused of spread
ing disease. but it Is asserted now from
Havana that mosquitoes have use, for if
they inocuate auy one after biting a yell
low fever patient the disease which fol-
lows is SO mild that fatal results are rare
Every Roman had the use OF the public
baths on payment of about half farthing.
These were not such structures as we call
public baths, but superb buildings, lined
with Egyptian granite and Nnban marble.
Warm water was poured into the capaeious
basins through wide mouths of bright and
massive silver.