The morning call., 1893-03-24
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Ths German Empress is said to owe
single Berlin store $4,000.
The first idea Of a pneumatic tube was
due to Denis Papin in 1867.
There are in British India 10,147 shops
licensed for the sale of opium.
In garden at Lexington, Fla, there are
said to be 122 different varieties of roses.
A chestnut tree, said TO be 1000 years old,
still fiourishes at the foot of Mount Etna.
1t is 2l3 feet in circumference.
In the cellars Of the Hotel de Vile in
Bremen there are some cases of wine that
have been preserved for 200 years.
Twenty-siX murders were committed in
Ebert County, Georgia. during the last TWO
years without single conviction.
An ounce of pure gold is worth $50 CA !;
therefore. ton of pure gold, which con-
tains 24,OOO ounces, is worth S495, 800.
Australia has just completed the first loco
motive ever built on the island continent
1t was constructed at Melbourne.
Seven hundred tons of butter arrived In
London in one shipment from Australia
two weeks ago. Its total value was about
S340000.
A newspaper has Just been started in
London which is printed on a postal-card
The first number has four Illustrations a
comic tragedy, few jokes and puzzIer and
some advertisements.
In some parts of the West the Democrats
who become Populists are called Demopops
and POpoerats, while the Republicans who
have deserted to the POpulists 90 by the
name of Poplicans.
young woman who resides on Staten
Island Is said 10 have kept a hive of bees in
her bedroom during the winter. She claims
that the bees knew her and they make the
most unobjectiOnable of companions
The silver mine at PrZibram, in Bohemia
is more than $500 feet deep, and the temper
ature at that great depth was found to be
oh Eah Ea,t l..kl-
than the temperature at the surface.
An interesting discovery was lately made
at Giaston burg S0mersetshire England. of
the remains OF an ancient lake village.
From sixty to seventy low mounds rising
from one to two feet above the surrounding z
soil, and from twenty to thirty feet across,
were found on the level moor which
stretches to the British Channel. Many
curious objects were found.
The blue color of the sky is probably
merely the color Of the air seen through the
length of 45 miles. II has been observed by
those who have assembled about five miles
above the earth's surface that the skv ap-
pears Of dark, inky hue, owing to the very
small reflection and dispersion of light.
while the blue color no longer appears
above but below them.
Nearly 100 years ago the Jesuits were
banished from Mexico. 1t was known that
they had immense boards of god but feared
to tempt cupidity by taking it with them.
What they did with the bulk of their saw
ings has just been revealed by Pierre Guirre.
who says that e5. 600 was buried beneath
the old Cathedral in the4ttle town OF Typo
zottan, and is believed to he there yet
Captain Bower, after crossing the plateau
OF Thlbet at its widest part by route new
10 geography, has returned to Simla He
says he has discovered the highest lake in
the -HOr-pa-chu-i79 $50 feet above
the sea. He has explored 1000 miles of new
ground, at an average elevation of $4,000
feet, tramping or riding over a frost-bit
and almost uninhabited land OF successive
mountain ranges and deep valleys.
It is said that the wedding ring of the wife
of Luther has been found at Alma. near
Coburg. Germany. The relic has been, it is
stated in the possession of a family for
many years, who were ignorant as to its
value. An Inscription upou it has been de-
ctphered to mean de Martino Luthero-
Catarina Won Boren, 10 Juni, 1925. The ring
Is 0rnamented with religious embIems. and
is said to resemble Luthet's engagement
ring, which is in the museum at Leipsic,
Italia is Peruvian drink widely known
in civilized South America and sold to some
extent in Europe, but seldom seen In the
United States 1t is a coloress and very
strong brandy distilled from white grape.
1t has decidedly fruity taste, and is so hot
that persons unaceustomed to 1t mix IL half
and half with cream of cocoa and drink the
compound as liqueur alter coffee. The
Peruvians. however, drink italia with no
drop Of allaying water or aught else to take
off its edge.