The morning call., 1893-09-24
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Children. as well as plants. grow mostly
at night.
Four false Messiahs appeared between
1914 and 1858.
Typewriter letters are valueless as evil
dence IN courts.
The while of the Hebrew alphabet is
plainly marked by groups of stars.
There are fifty abandoned ships floating
about in the Atlantic, which are dangerous.
One-tbird OF the California fruit ranches
are either owned OF managed by women.
One species of perch crawls from one
stream to another over dry land, aud is
known TO climb trees.
Lightning recently struck the British
ship Oxford off Cape Hatteras and ruined
every compass on board.
st Dauphine. France, an ancient tomb
has been uneartbed which contained a
human skeleton 251a feet long.
Wurkmen near Laredo, Tex, exhumed
an old fipt-loek musket. full cooked. loaded
and prlmed. Tne stock was partially pet
rI6ed.
One of thes East Ind Sultans is dwarf
only feet 10 inches, but his name is one
giant word of fifty-nine letters. Space is
too valuable to print it.
Government check for l cent, given
during the war to correct an error, is still
in the possession of a New York man. II
so desired.
All the standing timber in Michigan and
Wisconsin does not amount to n quarter as
much as in the State of Washington. No
one need worry about timber failing in
this country.
The jelly-fish lays thousands of tiny
eggs which. being covered with natural
oars in the shape of numerous hairs, row
themselves into some quiet place and await
development.
Modern hygiene is upsetting all our old
fashioned dietary notions. Dry toast aud
oatmeal are cried down as deadly, while
fried bacon is lauded as ideal food, suita bic
for babies and sucklings.
Natives of Darkest Africa, ignorant of
the firewater OF the whites. make their own
beer out OF bananas and wine out of
palms. They manage to extract iags of the
civilized sort out of these beverages.
The seaport of Esbjerg, on the North Sea
coast OF Jntland, is called the Danish Chi
cago. 1t was literally decreed into exist
ence by the King as late as 1868, yet 1t is
already great commercial mart.
There is one place is France in which
gravestoDes and funeral epitaphs are un-
known. This is the village OF B0uzelas in
the Maritime Alps. The dead are not
buried but thrown into bonehouse.
In the Natural History Museum at Paris
there is snake that climbs up the pol
ished glass walls of its cage. The snake
first disgorges from its glands an adhesive
fluid. by the aid of which it draws its
whole body up the cage.
The blood of RiZziO, Mary Stuart's favor
ite, cannot be seen Oh the floor where he
was murdered by DarHiey and the other
consprators. WHAT'S seen there is a daub
of red paint. annually renewed for the
benefit of gaping tourists.
a reunion of the Peabody family Is to
be held at Boxford, Mass, next Wednes
day, on an estate which was owned bv
Captain John Peabody in 1865. All per
sons bearing the family name or connected
with the family by marriage, have been in
vited 10 be present.
The destruction of human life by wild
animals and snakes 10 India varies from
| year 20 wear. In 1891 moro human beings
were killed by wild beasts and snakes than
IN 1890, the deaths being respectively
800 ard 23, sol. Of which by far the larg-
est proportlon-more than 2l,000 in each
case-were due to sHakes