The morning call., 1893-09-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Many Roman tin coins are known to 1,
in existence.
Emerson declared that he composed bes
when walking.
Soft hands indicate character lacking
energy and force.
In 1887 Paris had 50. 500 houses containing
2,261.0 population.
The supply of petroleum in Wyoming
said to be inexhastible.
Nero was fond of music and attained
great proficiency in the ait.
The Colossus of Rhodes was cast in oy
100 pieces and fitted together.
A thermometer has been invented
London for giving the warning OF fire.
Owing to a severe headache New
Yorker committed suicide the other day
a Moldavian lady is at her own expense
constructing a railway from one OF her
estates to the nearest town.
In Great Britain the annual sick rate
for each inhabitant is ten days to the year;
in the United States eight days.
Tables show that per / 200. 900 Professionals
in Bavaria there are 640 insane, per 1.000,-
600 Catholics $40, and per !, 100000 Hebrews
11SO.
Descartes says he was followed by an
invisible person whose voice he heard urC-
ing him to continue his research af
truth.
tique and medieval carvings were ohk
cedar, cypress, sycamore, pine, box, fig a. ii
ebony.
Egyptian statues of all kinds were gen
orally painted, AID the granite of which
they were made was always beautifully
polished.
Greek paintings were executed in dis
temper with glue. milk or white of eggs,
and on wood. clay, plaster. stone, parcti-
ment and canvas.
The oil deposits of Pennsylvania wei
discovered in 1S45 by two men boring f.
salt. They struck an oil spring wLc
gave forty gallons day.
A new loud-talking telephone has been
invented in England The receiving III
strnment is said 10 speak loud enough 10
be heard all over the room.
knotty fingers with square phalanges
are peculiar 10 theorists on practical mat
tiers. such as affairs Of government and adj
ministration. Pascal and Descartes had
such fingers.
method of hardening terra Gotta. the
secret of which died with him. His famous
groups were all executed in terra Gotta,
which he made as hard stone.
The Stag that accumulates about iron
furnaces, and that heretofore has been a
| great nuisance, has been discovered 10 con-
tain valuable fertllZne qualities. ana the
German farmers are using 1t freely.
Suwarrow. the Russian general, wass
fond OF 1eweIry and always carried about
with him bag of unset diamonds. AT
night, when seated by his camp fre. he
would take them out and enjoy their bR-
liancy.
Pitt did not use the expression, 'the
atrOcious crime of being a young man"
The words were written by DR.. johnson
who was not present. but wrote a report
OF the speech from an abstract given him
| by bearer
The first savings bank in the Unite
States was the PHILADELPHIA Saving FnaG
Society. organized in 1916, and still Goi
| business. The second was established
| Boston in the same year, the third in \
! York in 1919.
| In the reign of Elizabeth forgery OF anv
kind was punished by fine, by the pllor
by having both ears cut off and the NJ s.
trls slit and scared with hot iron, bv thu.
| forfeiture OF all property and by perpetual
! imprisonment
Everybody remembers the invention q
the telephone. In 1892 there were i'm thi>
| country 512,407 instruments il use. tie
capital of the Bell Telephone Compans
was $50. OOO,OO0 and its rentals in that yea
were 81, 1918
LansQuenet. piQuet, vingt-et-un, ecarte,
triumph, prime, f1ux. matrm0ny. basSet
boston, spadille, MANTLE and basto, to-
gether with 0mbre, which was only an an
Gent form OF whist, with many more gImt s
then even the voumiuous Hovle dreamed
| or. succeeded one another in society, and
| by turns enjoyed their epoch of patronage
| but the cards themselves have scarcely
changed pictoraIly for more than 200 years
| 1t is believed that lightning is vlsib
| at distance of $50 miles, but it is still in
controversy how far away thunder can
! heard. A French astronomer has man
| observations on the subject and he d
| clares it impossible Tor thunder to D.,
heard at greater distance than ten mile
| An English meteorological has counted UP
10 100 seconds between the flash and the
thunder. which would give a distance %
| twenty-seyen miles.