The morning call., 1893-09-18
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Cremation is growing popular in Paris. |
Falcons make better and sWifter carriers |
than pige OnS.
When Columbus discovered America the |
ratio between silver and gold was eight to |
one.
A French gentleman living at Chalons-
sur-Marne was stunG to death by wasps in |
his garden.
A Corvallis physician removed from a
mans ear pencil eraser which had been |
there three years.
A family in Boston suburb. living in |
the upper part of tall apartment house, |
have cat elevator.
There are twenty-five known broods of |
17-year locusts this year. and they turn up
IN different parts of the country.
A railroad station at Point Pine, Me-.
has besn broken into and robbed every
summer for The past ten years.
A tele phone which will talk loud enough
for person in any part of large room to
hear and understand has been recently de-
vised.
The oldest dress in the world belonged
to an Empress of Japan who lived in the
thirteenth century and it has been kept
all these centuries in temple near Yoke
hama.
The shortest line that can be drawn
upon the earth's surface, one end being at
the mouth of the Mississippi River and the
other at Pekin. China, will cross the Ber-
ing Straits.
Mount Schafberg, in the Salzkammer
gut, Austria, which is celebrated for it's
magn ifieent view of ten lakes. can now be
assembled by railway which has just been
opened.
A boy has been born in Scotland from
a 17-yeaT-old mother of family of labor
ing people. His grandmother is "a, his
greatgrandmother 81, and his great-great-
grandmother So.
A church at Fostoria, Ohio, has decided
to purchase 400 little wine glasses that
each communicant may receive the wine
out Of glass no other person has used. in
order to avoid microbes.
The "Nonsleepers" is the name of a re.
ligiOus sect which fiourished A. d. 412.
They lived in communities of seventy
each, and at least seven in each were
always found awake, chanting the "sleep
song"
The remains of the old capital of Siam,
Ayuthia. which was taken and destroyed
by the Burmese in 1850, are on the banks
Of the MeDam, about 100 miles above
Bangkok. Not vestige of building re-
mains.
Heligoland has been ruined as a water
ing place by its cessiOn to Germany, and
the splendid Kurhaus and bathhouse
which have recently been built are quite
empty. Ali because of the immense forti-
ications.
There is a legend as old, if not much
Older, than the Christian religion, that
ocean waves break in regular series and
that the tenth is always tha most tre-
mendous, and consequently the one to be |
dreaded.
The gulf weed (fucus natans) which.
with its little round "berries," is not un. |
like the mistlet0e in form, but of a brown |
ish yellow color. has been thought to have |
IOc 90 ~ nf
to have acquired the power of living |
afieat.
A lock of hair from the head of Charles |
Thompson. the first secretary of the Con-
tiDental Congress, and pair of high |
heeled white slippers once worn by Martha /
Washington are claimed to be in the pos
session of Catherine Sheetz. an old resident
of Lower Merton Township, near Norris
town, Pa.
Thirty-two schemes for a site for the
proposed International exhibition in Paris
in 1900 nave been considered by the COM
mission having the matter in hand. 1t is
considered most likely that the site of The
exhibition of 1889 will again be selected,
although the available space will be
greatly enlarged.
During the past year astronomers have
discovered twenty new planets. OF this
number, two were found by Palise, the
veteran asteroid hunter of Vienna"
DO WCIC GppIdlSeu ny m6dDS
of photography. During the three open
ing months OF the present year thlrty-two
planets have been added to the list. The |
total number of asteroids known on April |
was 374.
Pirate Omnibuses are causing consterna-
tion among the bus riders of London. The |
pirates look just like the regular omni- |
buses. A passenger goes in expecting to |
pay fare OF twopence or threepenee, and |
cannot get out until he has paid shilling |
There is apparently no legal redress for |
the passengers. because the pirates carry |
inside sign reading. "a shilling any dis |
fnr,