The morning call., 1893-12-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The Prince Of Wales has 1one living son.
The opal is no longer considered un-
lucky.
June is the favorits month for mar
riages.
Butterflies are found in almost all
countries.
The golden-crested wren is the smallest
bird in the world.
Secret marriages in every country In Eu-
rope are Illegal.
In Alabama all school and church prop
erty is exempt from taxation.
The tides of the North American Pacific
Coast are reflex rather than direct.
Gold is washed in Africa by the same
means employed by the California '49ers
The Bermuda Islands were named fer
Bermudez, aSpaniard, who sighted them
in 1927.
Each pupil in the public schools of the
United States costs an average Of SIT %
a year.
sessions of Congress during his term of
office.
The basin of the Great Lakes was rroba-
bly, formed by contraction of the earth's
crust.
1t is claimed that pumice stone and
cream will remove superfiuous hair from
the chin.
Two thousand new books will be put on
the market by London publishers alone
this winter.
The combined length of the worlds
telegraph lines would encircle the globe
about thirty-three times.
The meanest man yet was an Ohio youth
who got married and left an envelope con-
tanning 2-cent ferry ticket in the parsons
hand.
There are entire apartment-houses in
New York monopolized by self-supporting
bachelor girls, and they are the happiest of
their sex.
Ear-lopping was of three degrees: For
minor offenseS, the lower lobe was taken
off for graver, the upper half; for Offenses
still more serious, the whole ear was
shorn away.
Gold leaf, when beaten into sheet Of
the thickness of but 1.250000 OF an inch.
appears to be Of a beautiful green when
held up to the light Such sheets are really
semi-taansparent.
The number of suicides throughout the
| world is 10000 yearly. and on the ID
crease. The greatest number happen in
June, the fewest in September. and nearly
one-half between A. N. ana noon.
The navigation Of the Dead Sea is the
| latest step in Oriental progress. The Sui
| tan has sent two sailing boats there, one
| for freight and one for passengers. Abdnl
Hamid is going to try to make money out
| of the salt bltumen and sulphur or the
| lake.
| Samuel Jeffries and wife. each aged rs
| reside at Hustonville, Ky. They nad no
! children In the first seven years OF their
| married life. but In the eleven months
| fter that four were born, and in the next
fourteen years fifteen more were born.
There were seven sets of twins among
the nineteen children.
The flavor of eggs depends yery much on
the kind OF food given 10. the poultry,
When hens are fed largely or almost ex-
clusively on milk the yolk ia lighter in
color. the white has q milky look. and the
whole egg is watery and less firm in tex
ture than those laid by grain.fed hens.
The City Marshal of Boston more thau
sixty years ago arrested one William
Doyle and found in his possession de-
posit book on the Proyidencs Institution
Tor Savings showing that the prisoner had
deposited $50 there. The City Marshal
| LOOK possession of the book; Doyle served
| his term after sentence and was then lost
TO sight. Long after it was learned that
ne died in Charlestown. Mass. leaving no
known heir. Five years ago legal proceed
ings were instituted. publications we're
mace aud no claimant appeared. Last
week the sum on deposit, which has in
creased to about S2100, was turned over to
the commonwealth of Massachusetts.