The morning call., 1893-04-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

In 1645 the first public schools were estab-
lished by Massachusetts.
The Oldest coin in the world is an Egean
piece of the year 700 3. G.
London's latest census showed the pOpu-
lati0n 10 be Az .056 people.
The island of Ceylon is the most remark
able gem deposit in the world.
1t is stated that 20 per cent Of the people
OF Ceylon live by agriculture.
There is long Persian poem extant which
does not contain the letter A.
There are $4,000 species of fishes, one
tenth OF which inhRbit fresh water.
The Chinese wall is more than 1900 miles
long: generally over 30 feet high and "a feet
thick.
A woman at Hiawatha. Kans., who is "a
rare skill.
All the glaciers in the Alps would not
equal one of the largest in our Territory OF
Alaska.
Queen Victoria has taken 447 prizes at
English cattle shows for products at her
stock farm.
Sl.OOO,O0O, and saved 800 lives and 50, 900
of property.
Seventy per cent OF the people of Ceylon
live by agriculture. The percentage in
Britain is 1874.
The United States has 1S.812.776 persons
n
rolled in school.
Leeds, England, finds employment for 500
women and girls as rag sorters. They earn
s shillings a week.
The price of private telephones in Lon
dor Is very soon to be reduced from 500 a
year to $50 year.
Out of 5000 Cinnamon in the State of
Washington less than ten are understood TO
have availed themselves of the provisions
of the Geary act.
1t takes light eight minutes to travel from
the sun 10 the earth. Sound, travelling in
AR, would require about fourteen years to
accomplish the same journey.
Among the new diseases are listed type-
writer's backache, telephone earache, gum
chewers' lOekjaw and cigarette-smokers'
insanity. a crlnolue craze is threatened
also.
Sturgeon for their size are the weakest of
all fish; they are found in some parts
weighing over a ton, but are perfectly help
less when attacked by a swork-fish the sizs
of herring.
A 1T" will work wonders If properly ap-
piled. 1t makes bough bought. turns here
TO there, makes tone out of one and trans
forms the phrase 'allow his own" into "tal-
low this town"
About 100000 worth of pearls have been
taken from the waters of Wisconsin streams
during the last few years. Some single
pearls obtained there have been estimated
10 be worth $1,000.
The Temple OF Ypsambul, in Nubia, is
cut from solid rock, and its entrance is
guarded by four statues. each 65 feet high.
% feet across the shoulders, the face 7 feet
long, the ear over 8 feet.
Ine first cOmotive ever seen in Bang
koE. Siam, was recently started on the
Korat Railway. The native population
took immense interest in the trial run over
the half mile of railway now laid.
A woman in New Hampshire is street.
railway magnate, good hOusekeeper and
cook, fine shot with the revolver, a first
class swimmer, an excellent business woman
and worker in the church. She cannot.
however, throw stone or strike a nail on
the head
During the last twenty years the area Of
land in England under the plow has dtmin-
ished by nearly 100000 acres, or over II
per cent. The amount of arabic land in
Wales has diminished 81 per cent in the
same period. In Scotland. on the contrary,
it has increased by rs. 900 acres
An ingot of gold weighing two and a
quarter ounces and worth about $50 Is made
by the gold beaters into sheets so fine that
in would take As, COO TO measure an inch in
height. By the labor OF beating the gold
acquires value of S400. making over 26.OcO
sheets OF goldfoil, or goldleaf as it is usu-
ally called.
The effects of ammonia upon the COM
plexion are directly opposite to that Of
arsenic. The first symptom of Ammonia
poisoning Wnlcn appears among those who
work in ammonia factories is discolora-
ton of the skin of the nose and forehead.
This gradually extends over the face until
the complexion has stained, blotched and
uDsightly appearance.
The gorgeous brilliance of n phosphor-
escent sea is produced by countless millions
OF globular creatures, some of which are as
much as SIX inches long, and are apparently
formed of gelatinous and translucent mat
ter. In the Indian Ocean they often cover
surface OF many hundred square miles,
and during the night the appearance is that
of one vast field of snow.
A fly will lay four times during the sum-
mer. about so eggs each time, and careful
calculations have demonstrated that the
defendants of single insect may from June
to the end of September exceed 100000
Were it not for bats, insect-eating birds,
and the innumerable miscroscopic parasites
with which the fly is particularly afflicted,
there would be no worse pest in the world
than the fly.
Most of US know that the French Govern
ment reserves TO Itself the right of using
white paper for posters; The powers that be
on the othe. side of the Rhine have gone
one better" In future no advertisement.
circular or poster must lead off with the
word, "Rekanutmachung" /. e., "Procla-
nation" Henceforth this word is sacred
to the German Government. and its use will
cost the private individual very heavily.