The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-01-29
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

/ ne revised 0bIulah DlUle DaS just DetU
completed.
The French still fight an average of 1000
| duelS a year.
Every State In Mexico will be represented
at the Worlds Fair.
The Vienna Fire Department was called
out twenty-five times in one day recently
64-year-old citizen of Deering, Me-, is
suffering from his first attack Of toothache.
Some of Kansas empty jails are at pres
ent being using to store the surplus wheat.
Lean, bony fingers ara a sign of search
ing, inqulfng and often parsimOnious tenn
permanent.
TIE quail and grouse shooting in tie
Northern and Western States, save a very
few favored localities was failure this
season.
Monaco, with its territory Of eight square
miles and its standing army of l26 men,
proposes to have universal exposition next
year
The largest locomotive in the world has
been built at Providence. r. l., for the Mex
lean Central Railroad Il looks ike Two en-
giues placed back to back.
Many thousands of feet of cedar timber
are now being shipped from Washington
State to what a few years ago was the heart
of the Wisconsin pine region.
A seat in the parQuet of London theater
costs 50 6312 aud one in the first balcony
81 70. Then IA programme costs from TO g
cents, and the fees OF the attendants count
up anywhere from dime to fifty cents.
At Mnorca the fisherman simply dives to
a depth of 20 feet with a weight in one hand
TO carry him down. With the other hand
he picks up as many pearl oysters as he
can carry and brings them up TO the boat
All of the relics of Columbus that can
be secured in Europe will be brought
to the Worlds Fair early this spring on the
United States man-0f-war Newark. These
relics are scattered through museums in
England. France. Spain and Italy.
There is Horse Accident Prevention
Society in London, to which nearly all herse-
owners belong. Its aim is to keep all slip
perry payements sanded or graveled and il
strives constantly toward the desired end of
uniform pavements in the driving districts.
The Scotch, long ago. had some terms of
an original and poetic nature for certain
periods of the day. Besides the DOWN
for tile dawn, they spoke of the skreigh o.
day. q. d., the cry Of the coming day. Their
term for the dusk the cleaning, is making
its way into use in England.
S,ockmen in Wyoming report that so far
this winter has been very favorable for
cattle. More cattle are being fed this winter
than in the past. range cattle everywhere
are reported in excellent condition. land bar
ring blZZaFds TIE less will be much less this
year than in any former winter.
In the issue Of one Of the prominent mag
aZInes for the current month is printed a
story which was accepted twenty years ago
Ta-day it sees the light and its author is
dead. There is material here for ''pas-
TEL" which is respectfully submitted. The
refrain could run: 1T was paid for"
Paper tough as wood is said to be made
by mixing chloride Of zinc with the pulp
in the course Of manufacture. 1t has been
found that tue greater tie degree of con-
eentration Of the zinc solution the greater
Will be the toughness of the paper. 1t can
be used for making gas pipes. boxes, combs.
for roofing, and even, it is added, for max
ing boats.
Squirrels are very plentiful and destruc-
tive in some parts of the State of Washing
ton. Lincoln County paid out $40, 600 in
bounties on squirrel scalps Lastly get but
little good effect was produced Ii is pro-
posed TO tax all the lands in the county to
raise funds TO fight the pest, and so make
railroads and NONRESIDENT owners help In
the WORK.
The most famous of ancient houses was
the Golden House. erected by Nero It's
whole interior is said to have been covered
with gold and gems; it was adorned with
the finest paintings and statues that the
world could furnish; it had triple porticOes
mile In length, and circular banquet hall
which perpetually reyolVed in imitation of
the motion of the sun.
Bananas are reported as becoming use
lul dIllCIc W manufacturers. Bread, hour,
sausage and beer can be made out of the
fruit, while the juice OF the peel is said TO
contain really indelible ink and a superior
article of vinegar. The fiber OF the peel. it
is further stated, Is TO be utilized ia making
cloth which is said to have great strength
and remarkable beauty.
The Government employs numerous
women TO make the Increased number of
flags required by our enlarged navy. All
the work Is hand sewed, to insure strength
of seams After leaving the hands of the
needlewomen each fiug is tested by being
soaked alternately in fresh and salt water,
and is also submitted TO a strain OF seventy
pounds ON the wool and fifty pounds on the
warp.
Paper, as we learn from recent diseov
cries, was in use in Egypt as far back as
2300 b. c., and net merely, as old Pliny
thought. from the tine Of Alexander the
Great. The aneients, il appears, knew more
about pens and inks than they usually have
credit for. The Greeks made silver and
other metallic pens. and Latin manuscripts
show great variety Of inks-red, purple,
green, blue, silver and gold.
The year 1898 came in on Sunday; Lent
begins February Is and ends with Easter
Sunday. April 2; Washington's birthday.
February %. is on Wednesday; ST. Pat
riek's day. March II, on Friday: Fourth of
July. on Tuesday; Labor day, Monday.
September 4, Christmas, December %. on
MoHudys iHtIt are out TWO ecliDSeS OF the
sun-one April Is and the other October o.
neither visible to this portion of the earth.
India is growing nearer to England every
year. The new steamer Himaaya, of the
famous Peninsnar and Oriental line. has
just beaten all records in her maiden trim
from Bombay to Brindisi, having completed
the distance in eleven days and nine hours.
The passengers who left her at that point
and travelled overland with the mails
reached London in thirteen DAYS from thn
time OF starting. Plenty of persons now
living remember when yoyace rou,d tina