The morning call., 1893-04-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Germany has an aerial navigation society.
Standard time has gone into effect in Ohio
! by act of Legislature.
Tidal waves will often acquire velocity
| OF loco miles minute.
| Surveys are being made for three new
railroads in the Transvaal, South Africa
1t is said that there are over 10000 appli-
! cations for postmastershps in the State of
! Georgia.
DR.. Scoresly calculated the velocity of the
| average wave in a storm at 2875 feet in each
! minute.
twenty-five ships Of war of various kinds
| are now IN course Of construction for the
| French Government
a room in the house Of L. W. Palmer of
! London Is entirely papered with about TO-
! 900 Cancelled postage stamps.
So dense is the water in the deepest parts
! OF the ocean that an lronclad, If it were TO
! sink. would never reach the bottom.
At Plymouth a vessel weighing 200 tons
was lifted clean out Of the broad seawall at
the breakwater by the force Of the waves.
No fewer than 25,000 peach-shaped Jelly
| fish were counted in cubic foot of phOs-
| phorescent water taken from the sea on the
| English coast
There IS at least one Brooklyn man who
| sends MS laundry to be done up in Lon
don. Strange to say, he is not dude, but
| a prosperous merchant
Carlsbad, where many Americans have
| literally drank themselves to death while
| taking their care, ;" Is to have a new $780,
! 600 bathhouse with all the modern impove-
ments.
An iron meteorite weighing glnearly a ton,
| and measuring 4 feet . inches in length, 2
| feet inches in width and 20 Inches thick,
was recently found at Youndegin, Western
| Australia. and has been forwarded TO Lon
| don.
| The method of treating snake bite by in
0f I'M ie Pol ha 81 tht,,ft tFad
! exhaustive trial in India under the sanction
| and supervision of the Government. The
method has proved highly effectual in many
! cases reported in Australia.
During the last century the shipworm
| caused such devas tations in the dykes guard
| Ing great part of Holland against the en-
| croachments Of an overwhelming ocean
| that the Dutch trembled for their safety
! Thus worm filed nation with terror.
The Irish spend s11 per capita, the Scotch
| Sl5 II per capita and the English SIG l6 per
| capita for liquors annually. These statIs-
| tics are given by Rev. DR.. Dawson Burns of
! London, who is standard authority on
! temperance questions.
japanese books begin at what we call the
| end. The lines are vertical instead of hori.
| zontal, the first being on the right hand
! edge OF the page, and are read downward
! from the top The place for the loot
! notes" il at the top Of the page, and that
| for the readers marker at the bottom.
The c0ored men of Kansas City have or
| ganized an Afro-American Industrial
League, the object of which is to send a
| colony OF cOlOred people to Brazil. Ali
transportation charges are to be paid by the
| Brazilian Cove rnment to those who desire
TO take up land there.
The Blue Gr0ttO. on the Island of Capri,
| in the Bay of Naples, is absolutely un-
rivaled for the vivid splendor of its colors.
OWING to the peculiar nature of the refrac-
| tiOn OF the sunlight on its waters. the walls,
roof and sea are tinged a beautiful ultra
marine, which shades into a deep violet in
the furtherest recesses OF the cavern.
The old question how to pronounce the
name Of the city is still unsettled in St.
Louis. Most Western people pronounce it
/ ST. Lewis, but the Dnrists insist that it
should be St. Louie. Their opponents.
however, retort that if the French pronun.
citation of Louis" is to be adopted the
French pronunciation of Saint should
| also be used.
The Mammoth Cave of Kentucky is one
of the greatest wonders of the world Huge
| galleries and iDnumera bic vaulted cham
bers, through which flow black sluggish
rivers, inha bted by eyeless fish, extend for
| miles, and stalactites Of weird and fantastic
| shapes adorn the tortuOus passages, forming
a scene of unparalleled magnifeence.
In Germany every servant girl is obliged
| to own a little bank book for stamps. Once
a week the mistress pastes in the book a
| twOpenny-halfpennv stamp, which is pur-
| chased from the Government. When the
girl gets DID, or should she fall i'll, the STAMPS
| are redeemed by the Government, so that
the girl has a small sickness OF old age fund.
| This custom was ordered by the Emperor
| two years ago.
A scientific study of dusty has proved
| that the atmosphere of New York improves
! with every story Of ascent. Tie intended
window sills on the ground fioor OF dwell
iDgs subjected 10 examination were found
deeply covered with dust containing all
sorts of unwholesone particles. The dnst
was less, and not so unwh0lesome on the
next floor, and this Improvement was con-
tinued until only thin layer OF light and
comparatively harmless particles were
| found.