The morning call., 1893-11-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
A Texas family owns 500. acres.
New York City has 1876 newspapers.

A Texas family owns 100000 acres.
New York City has 1876 newspapers.
A mine ia Bohemia is $3.50 feet deep.
Berlin University has 800 professors.
Uncle Sam has 1922 railroad CORPORA
tons.
Paris is to have Worlds Cook Con-
gress.
The tea plant needs a moist heat for
growth.
Noah's Ark was larger than the Great
Eastern.
The Hebrew title rabbi means master or
teacher.
The Princess of Wales has $3.50, 600 worth
of laces.
The Bible has an annual circulation of
10, 10000
Horses succumb to cold quicker than
any other animal.
Vermont is French (verd mont, signify
ing green mountain.
Delaware derives it's name from Thomas
West, Lord de la Ware.
Centuriops were the commanders of 100
men in the Roman army.
Virginia got its name from Queen Eliza
beth, the virgin Queen"
Hand constables In the Irish constabu
larry receive about $40 per week.
The word accident" is a source of end
less differences of opinion in courts of law.
1t is claimed that an albIno buzzard was
killed by hunter near Tampa, Fla, re-
Gently.
Chile has placed contracts with American
builders for twelve locomotives. to cost
100000.
King is the most ancient of titles, II or
its equivalent is found in every known
language.
The ABBOT Volcano. in the southeast OF
Luzon. Philppian Islands. has broken
out in new place.
Fresh blood will freeze wher cooled to
temperature of Is degrees below zero
upona complete elimination of gases and
salts.
Next to the Bible Moody and Sankey's
Hymns" have had a larger circulation
than any other work in the past twenty.
five years.
The Sultan of Johare wears the grand
cross of ST. Michael and St. George, the
star OF India and several Germ an and Chi
nese orders.
The Chinese have sausage of their own
which they make at this time of the year
and season by laying it out on a roof
to dry.
Ohio is first in sheep and wool, second
In petroleum and steel. fourth in wheat.
sheep, coal and liquors, fifth in cows, hay
and tobacco.
A cat belonging to Mrs. Mary Brown
we'll OF Wilmington. DEL, has a habit of
ringing the bell whenever it wants to be
let out OF the cellar.
The Paris Exposition of 1900 will be in a
more central site even than the last one.
1t will extend from the Trocadero TO the
Tuileries Garden.
A suitable programme is being arranged
for the unwilling of the statue Of General
Shields in Memorial Hall, Washington. on
December 6.
Iceland is one of the few countries that
has a smaller population now than it had
twenty years ago. This summer about 600
persons emigrated to this country.
Knox County. ILL.,. is probably the d.
voTce center of the United States In the
last five years the number of divorces
have averaged one 10 every seven mar
riages.
The finest opal of modern times be-
longed to Empress Josephine. 1t was
called THE Burning Of Troy" It's fate Is
unknown, as it disappeared when the allies
entered Paris.
The diamond is not among the earliest
gems known to man. 1thas not been found
In the ruins of Nineveh. in the Etruscan
sepulchers nor in the t0mbs Of the Pl9ni-
clans.
A few DAYS ago, for the first time in
many JSoASs WIG WdtVA VA iIcio"uhO LAY
was nearly as fresh as the water of
mountain stream. This condition of af-
fairs was brought about by a strong ORTIZ
east wind that blew continuously for
week.
In Austria and Russia the duel is far
moro dangerous affair than in France. In
the former country pistols are used at
close range, OR furious and prolonged
struggles with swords have almost equally
serious effect DueliDg 10 the army is
rife. and among civilians it is carried on
with no less bitterness of feeling. Never
theiess. some men are often engaged with
but slight i'll effects.