The morning call., 1893-02-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

woman has invented glass doors for
barns.
Japanese dentists pull teeth with their
fingers.
Chinese botanists can grow oaks in
thlmbles.
A school for spinning has been opened
in London.
AndersonvlIe prison is now owned by
the q. 4. X.
Patagonia was so named because its In
habltants have big feet.
Consumption is said to be unknown where
cows milk Is not used.
A patent has been granted for device for
tapering fingers and reducing joints.
The common water pump Of to-day is but
ali Improvement on Gree an invention.
Kangerous are such pest in Australia
that the Colonial Governments offer large
bounties for their skins.
Oriental gardeners produce "changeable
roses" hich are white in the shade ana
blood red in the sunlight.
The kraken, a sea monster of old, was
half mile long. 1t could cause tidal waves
by swallowing water and belchiBg it up
again.
Very few years ago nothing would please
but glass blown to its utmost thiuness.
Now We have returned to heavy faced de-
canters and g0blets, which we were brought
up to desplse.
More trees were blown down in the late
storm which wrecked the telegraph system
through Southern Oregon than during all
other storms in the history Of the State
since 1t was discovered.
With nothing but jackknife Adolph
SjohTm. Marquette Swede, has COD
structed the frame OF clock representing
an ancient castle. He used various kinds
Of wood and worked on the job for two
years.
the fact that all the elementary colors OF
light are blended together in the radiance
that Is thrown of from the surface of the
thousand aud more distinct and perfect
crystals.
All the important restaurateurs in Paris
now employ an artist whose sole occupation
Is TO paint beelsteak. chops and Joints. A
meat artist just now is very important
individual in the culinary department
Were mans muscles and limbs as we'll
set for jumping and springing as those of
flea. he could stand on the dome Of the Cap
itol at Washington and make one swoop
that would send him three and half times
around the earth.
4 MUSICIAN named Saroni of Parkersburg.
Va, has just perfected and patented a
novel musical instrument, which ne calls
key either" 1t is, in its simplicity, a
either played with keys. and 1t is said TO be
"a revelation" III the way of musical in
In Ireland there is a remarkable natural
hole in the rocks of The sea coast, known all
over Britain as "McSwiney's Gun" 1t is
believed 10 be connected with sea cavern.
When the sea runs fnlr' the gun" sends
up jets of water 10 the height of more than
100 feet, each spoutng being followed and
preceded by loud explosions.
The birth notice Of what is said to be the
first Dutch badly born in the San Luis Val
ley recently appeared in a paper published
at Alamosa, Colo. The notice was written
by Dane. ''set up" by Mormon printer,
the proof was read by an American, the
tyre was placed in the form" by German.
and a Mexican printed the paper
A Philadelphia architect contemplates the
erection of building which Will be COM
plete village in itself. 1t will include stores.
telegraph and telephone Offices, a cafe.
reading and consultation rooms, wine
cellar, Turkish bath, gymnasium, swim
ming pool. billiard hall. bly-room.
public and private parlers. kitchen, laun-
dry and Offices.
The three Oldest known pieces of wrought
iron In existence are the sickle blade that
was found by Belzoni under the base of
sphinx in karnac, near Thebes; the blade
found by Colonel Vyse imbedded in the
mortar Of one of the pyramids. and por-
ton of a crosscut saw which Mr. Layard
exhumed at Nimrud-ail of which are now
in the British Museum.