The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-01-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Whittier wrote his first published poem
when he was II years old.

whittier wrote MS hrst puDNShed poem
when he was II years old
Billiards were invented in the reign of
King Charles TX in France.
Michigan minister has recently mar
Tied a negress whom he converted
The coal taken to London by rail and
canal exceeds 100000 tons per annum.
There are about two and quarter mill
Ions of acres in Scotland occupied by deer
forests.
A Harvard 219 courses are offered in the
liberal arts ard sciences IL would take a
student forty-four years to pursue all these
courses.
The musk antelope can send forth such
powerful olOr Of musk that even az the dis
lance Of 100 yards he can smother his enemy
to death.
The engines in the water works OF Chicago
have pumping capacity OF 260,0 600. 900 gal
Ions day, Of which quantity about 70 per
cent IS consumed.
The Philippine islanders smoke cigars a
foot in length. The Burmese natives de-
light in loose rotten cigars from six to
eighteen inches long.
The priests Of P'tah at Memphis were
great glaSs-maRers. They not only had
factories for common glass but they imi-
tated precious stones.
The American people are subject In their
domestic relations to forty odd codes of law,
any other civilized country.
1t Is expected that an electric railway
twenty-three miles long, connecting In
dianola with Des Moines, ia., will be built
in the near future, at cost of $4,000
In the Austrian Army suicides average
10000 year. This does not include folled
attempts, and II represents 20 per cent OF
the general mortality among Austrian sol
diers.
In Europe red-har IS associated with de-
ceitlnlnesS. German proverb printed in
1912 says The short In statue are natur-
ally proud; the Ted-hared are untrust-
worthy
Hsop's Fables were not written by their
alleged author. They were related and
banded down until the fourteenth century,
when they were collected and published by
a monk.
The Guanches, the inhabitants OF the
Canary Islands, are said TO he the remnants
of the ancient lace, who, 10000 years ago,
pe0pled the drowned continent of Atlantis.
The plaintiff in a Connecticut lawsuit got
up the other morning at $3.50 o'clock TO
drive fourteen miles TO court, and got there
In time to learn that he was nOnsulted for
failing o appear when his case was called.
Kate Field knows a thing or two and
proves il when she declares that a woman to
be agreeable must listen. Keep a man
wound up" she says, look as though you
were hanging on his lips, ana he'll think you
charming"
In recent years n number OF expeditions.
scientific and commercial, have touched at
Nova Z2mbla but the island is still little
known, and even the greater part of its
coast line is not yet accurately laid down
on the maps.
Many old bachelors remain In single
state because they hear so much complaint
about babies The fact Is that a baby is not
One-quarter the trouble it is charged with
being. Any young couple can get along
with one if they try.
According to this theory of Mr.. Thomp-
son, the end Of the world (Which is 10000
600 years i'm the future) will not be
brought about by excessive heat, as limited
in the Bible, but by the remnant of human
It's being frozen 10 death.
Uncle Sam has an army of 10000 people
In his employ. More tnan 80 per cent of
these have been added to the service during
the last decade. Their salaries range from
$4,000 paid the President 10 81 90 a year
some PostmaSters receive.
The travel by water I'm Maine for the year
1891 amounted to over 1000, 900 persons. OF
this the Casc0 Bay Steamboat Company
carried 4O6,5 07, or about one-htth OF all.
This shows the extent of pleasure travel in
and about Portland harbOr.
Alter cutting through nearly 200 feet of
snow and ice the Swiss engineer, Imfeld,
fails to find rock foundation for the great
observatory projected on Mount Blanc
There are everlasting SHOWS, it seems, as
well as Everlasting hills"
The Indian Government has to deplore
the loss of the VicerOy's two state ele-
plants, both of these renowned creatures
having died OF anthrax at Meerut. They
were magnificent pair and remarkable for
their gentleness and sagaclty.
In Waterbury. Conn, an engine which
stands on Il space of ZIG of an inch square
and reaches a height of e of an inch has
been made. 1t has 14S parts, held together
by 80 screws. The diameter of the cylinder
is 1-26 Of an inch, and the whole weighs
grains.
Alfred Cole. aged 49, is dead at Spring
dale, ky, OF Ia grippe; MI E, Cole was per
Kentucky's noted pioneer, and distinctly re-
members the Inauguration of President
Washington in 1889. His mother died at the
age Of 113.