The morning call., 1893-02-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

L IDS are lOuEQ dI1OuA the VI
Egypt and in prehistoric caves.
A Salisbury, n c., woman Is reported to
be cutting her third set OF teeth
Russians are worse afflicted with blindness
than any other nationality.
There is a danger of rabbit plague in
Kansas similar TO that Of Australia.
1t is calculated that in the entire world
sixty-seyen people die every minute.
The amount of tobacco chewed in the
United States last year was eighty-fiv tons.
The Mexican State of TabascO shipped
100000 lizard skins TO the United States last
year
An Illinois company is erecting works
for the manufacture OF aluminium cooking
utensils.
Roseburg, s. c., has a three week-old
baby whose right hand bears the imprint of
a human face.
a canary bird which died at Huntsville,
Ga. last week was reputed 10 be over 10
years Of age.
A large sewing machine. weighing three
and quarter tons, is In use in Leeds. 1t
sews cotton betting.
TIE average Weight of the Chinese brain
is said to be heavier than the average weight
Of the brain in any other race.
OF the 1927 female depositors In the
savings banks of Philadelphia 1926 are de-
scrbed as clearinghouse keepers.
New Orleans believes she has shipped the
largest cargo or record, 10000 bales of cot
ton on board the British ship Samoa.
There are more swallow-tail coats to the
square inch in Europe than there are TO the
square acre in the rest Of the world.
The proportion Of Hebrews in the popu-
lation Of England has more than doubled
in twenty years, without counting immigra-
ton.
A single mahogany tree in Honduras was
4Ir.a int arAo ,f1h Ii
10 the European market, realized over S10.-
000
A larger proportion of children survive
their first year 81 existence in Dublin than
in the twenty large towns OF England and
Wales.
Tie fleece of ten goats and the work of
seven men for hall year are required to
make genuine cashmere shawl a yard and
half wide.
Gerson Ride of New York City was fiued
s. last week for annoying the police by
blowing a whistle which sounded like
police whistle.
New York City is to have one of the
largest public schools ever erected. About
2400 pupils will be accommodated in the
mammoth structure.
A native of Calcutta intends establishing
a snake laboratory for the study. under
strictly scientific conditions, of snake poi
sons and cures for snake bites.
An Adrian (Mich) man gu it smoking on
the 18th Of January this year, and in just
one weeks time he asserts that he had
gained four pounds of flesh.
A vegetable curiosity is owned by resi-
dent OF Wenatehee, Wash. 1t consists, it is
claimed, ''of a network Of large potatoes
grown one upon another"
Maxine Lisbonne, a Frenchman, drives
through the streets of Paris in a conveyance
propelled by electricity. selling "reyolu-
tiOnary fried potatoes" to the Parisians
Several years ago small colony of Ital-
ians settled in New South Wales, and they
have tbriyen SO well that they are now
among the most prosperous OF their COM
patriots in that country.
Three quarters of second is the time
occupied by the fall of the knife in the
gnillOtine. The knife Is weighted by 100
pounds of lead. falls nine feet and cuts
through flesh and bone as easily as through
bar Of soap.
The oldest armchair in the world is the
throne once used by QUEEN Hatafu, who
honrished in Egypt 1000 b. c.. 1t is made of
ebony, beautifully carved. and is so hardened
with age as TO appear to be carved from
black marble.
Divers in the clear waters of the tropical
seas find that fish Of different colors. when
frightened, do not dait in the same direc-
rion. but that each different kind takes
sheter in that portion of the submarine
growth nearest to its color.