The morning call., 1893-03-12

,Oniy one lul-rlegeu snip was built in
Maine last year.
The Paris sewers are the largest and most
complete in the world.
The turtle can live for nearly a century
and the pike for about 175 years.
Genuine volcanic dust has been found in
Kansas and the Indian Territory.
The famous church OF ST. Sophia in Com
stantlEople. now mosque. was begun a. ID.
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Ftsiting-caIds Of sheetron, with inscrip-
ton In silver letters, are produced in Eng
land.
II you were on the moon the earth would
appear to you sixty-four times larger than
the sun.
Visiting cards OF sheet-irun, with In
Scrlption IN silver letters, are produced in
England.
Cargoes of horsehesh are being shipped
from New Hork to Belgium as food for the
poorer classes.
While James Parler of Moravian Falls,
\. u, was cutting down large oak tree
last week he claims TO have found two
rocks imbedded in the tree, which had evil
IDENTITY been placed there when the tree was
young.
A woman went to police station 1 in
Toronto, Canada. one morning last week,
and announced that she was going ON a
teal" and would be in the statiOn-house
that night She kept her word, anc spent
The Mormon Tabernacle In Salt Lake
Clty Is the most perfect whispering gallery
IN the world. 1t beats the domes of ST.
PauPs and tue Washington Capitol. The
Dropping OF a pin into plug hat at one end
OF the huge structure is distinctly heard by
persons at the other end.
One Of the greatest curiosites in the Mis-
slsSlppl valley Is natural ice cave in the
bluffs OF the Iowa River, within less than
mile OF Decorah. This unique curiosity s
Haturai lcehouse-a cavern in which great
lclcles may be found at any season Of tie
year. being especially fine in summer.
When General CORVALLIS surrendered in
0rktOwn his army Of Englishmen con-
sisted, according to military reports, Of
72H soldiers aud $40 sailors-S0S7 in all.
Inc number OF locomotives now in use on
American railways is 80 1893 or four times
as many as CORVALLIS soldiers and sailors.
The number of cars is 100000.
a compilation of the merchant shipping
statistics of New Brunswick shows thai
tnere are now registered in that province
$40 vessels, with an aggregate tonnage of
loO,955-a great falling off from previous
years. More than twO-thlrds OF the tonnage
is in sQuare-rigged sailing vessels, and over
hYe-slXths OF the total is owned in st. John.
Snuff appears to be once more taking an
upward turn; the domestic production in
our own country steadily increases A
LARGE silver house is manufacturing silver
snuffboXes and exporting them to England
and France, and just as the old year closed
a firm in Toledo, Ohio received an order
for 100000 snuffboxes to be delivered early
IN the new year.
Where Broadway (New York; leases ara
expiring this year rents have been markedly
advanced. This is especially true of tile
retail district, and every available square
inch of space between Fourteenth and
Ihlrtielh streets is more valuable Even
roofs on Broadway so situated that they are
available for advertising bring in large
sums a single advertiser paws for the usa
OF Broadway roof, near Twenty-third
street. $4,000 year.
Queen Margarita's collection of laces for
the Worlds Fair will come through the
Italian legation at Washington, accom-
panied by the Queens own guard. The
collection includes laces more than 1000
years Old One treasure is a coYerlet under
which all the Princes of Savoy were born.
Others are bridal wells of BuraDo, which
are to be inclosed in heavy plate-glass
cases, guarded by gate Of modern Vene-
tian ironwork.
1t is possible to float house like ship
on sea OF mud, if only enough concrete be
spread around to keep the moist foundation
from rising around the walls; or whole
cities may be built on piles In peat bog,
ike Venice or Amsterdam. A foundation
OF slipping clay can be kept in place on the
side Of Il hill by running drain above the
clay bed and so keeping it dry and station
nrm as another on rock.
There has been great yearly elimination
during the last ten years in the number of
soldiers in military or civil prisons in Eng
land and Wales. In 1884 there were 1Il7
soldiers IN English prisons; in 1891 there
were 433, and or the 31st of last December
there were but Al. Last year not one SOL
der was sentenced TO penal seTvitude. Tie
eXpulsiOns for misconduct have decreased
since 1888 from 2020 to 1890.
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his house filled with pictures by many New
York artists of reputation. He had been
the successful counsel for an association of
artists. and after one of the sOciety's annual
dinners each artist gave him picture. 1t
was explained to him that more would have
been given had not the members of the
association realized that the gifts would
entail considerable expense upon the re-
cipient for the item of framing
The wardrOOm boy" on board mau-of-
war Is often as old as many of those whom
he serves, but the old-fashiOned title and
form of address stick tG him. Wardroum
boys usually are cOlOred men or foreigners
When Haitian or Jamaican negro is OBJ
tainable he is regarded as a catch. This is
truer still OF the Jap. The latter seem to
understand by instinct, to remember null
titude of details without effort, and obey
promptly and without question.
An interesting variety of the widely dif-
fused ''lOi mine" mysteries is engaging the
attention OF pr0spectors in the region
around Pueblo NuevO, Durango Mexicn
a burro donkey loaded with 5000 worth
of bar silver started as one of a train from
mine near Pueblo Neuvo for Durango.
Somehow 1t became detached from the
train among the mountains and, unob-
served, wandered away. All the efforts Of
the drivers and guards to find the burro
and the silver have so far failed. although
their vigorous search for it has been Joined
by the prospectors and the people generally
in the vicinity.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.