The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-04-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

a Russian immigrant arrived the other
day clad in long coat made from the skins
OF more than 1000 Russian mice.
About 500 coo worth of pearls have been
taken from the waters of Wisconsin
streams during the last few years.
A writer calculates that it takes eight
times the strength 10 90 upstairs that is
required for the same distance on the level.
a large piece of crysfalized soda, weigh
ing 2S4O pounds, from the soda lake near
Laramie, Nebr.. will be exhibited at the
Worlds FAIR.
A flea is provided with genuine lancet,
the knife iuclosed in a case in the head of
the insect, the case opening sideways, like
that of a razor.
The largest cut stones in the world are in
the Temple of the Sun at Baalbec. Many
are more than 60 feet long, 20 feet broad and
OF unknown depth.
Near Tranquebar, on the southeastern
coast OF India. there is q species of fish
which not only is able to walk on level
ground. but can climb trees.
1t has been estimated that bell of COM
mon size, whose sound would penetrate n
distance of three TO five miles on shore.
could, II submerged in the sea, be heard
over 80 miles.
The Domesday Book, written on vellum
and preserved IN the British Museum, is one
OF the oldest ard most curious books pos
SesStd Dy any nation. 1t IS 4 complete record
OF English landowners and of their estates,
stocks and other property.
The Adersbach rocks. iu Bohemia, cover
some fifteen square miles. They are formed
oil sandstone and are interspersed with a
perfect mas Of passages, shut in by smooth
walls OF such similarity that to keep ones
bearings Is no easy matter.
There are actually horse marines in the
service of the United States, but these are
merely those officers who are entitled by
rank to ride. If they 90 on shipboard they
a o IOrsas VIII Z Moi
observation-disclosures and colonies in the CORDS
have horses.
The cOuntry'S money circulation has in
creased from S726,000.CO0 in 1873 to over
Sl,Goo, 00O,0e0 at the present time. The coin
age OF silver has increased from 81, coo 600 ia
1878 10 nearly $40. 600 0O0 in 1890. There was
no silver in the treasury or in circulation in
1873. and to-day there is $3.50 900 900.
When there is tea on the table In some Of
the hospitabie homes of Barbour County.
w. va, the traveller is sometimes asked
viii Won take wet sweetenin' or dry sweet
enin' p Ii he elects the former. sorghum
molasses Is handed to him, while If he takes
the latter, lie gets maple sugar in little
Jumps.
Nut culture is attracting attention on the
Delaware peninsula. An experimeater in
the lower part of the State has been success
full with English walnuts. Another has 100
Japanese chestnuts that have just come
into bearing, and has recently set out 500
sian, japanese ard English walnuts and
with pecan and nazel nuts. In all he has
SIX acres in nut-bearIGg trees.
One Of the most striking social results
that must follow the annexation of British
America to the United States wonld be the
disappearance of militarism from the social
life of many Canadian cities Wherever
there is post of the British army there a
tiny social arstacracy is set up with The
army officers and the local officials as lead
ers, and there is pitful exhibition of the
thirst for recognition at the hands Of this
petty ariStocraCy.
The material composing the strong and
beautiful blankets woven by the Navajo
indians are now cOlOTed with auilne dyes
as the Turks now color their rugs. 1t costs
years of patient work to weave one of these
blankets on their rude looms and they
command high prices among the red men as
well as among the white ones A whit.
man will have 10 pay 500 for good
specimen, but an Indian must pay for one
two or three ponies, which comes to tie
same thing.
Christian Heinecker, at Lubbock, when
only 10 months old, could repeat every
word spoken TO him; at 10 months of age
he had memorized all the principal events
mentioned in the Pentateuch. Before he had
finished his second year he had learned all
the historical parts of both the Old and the
New Testament. At the age ef he could
reply correctly TO all questions put to him
ItSdIulHR uulNtISdi tlSItIN duu geography,
and In the same year he learned 10 speak
both Latin and French.
The strength of the linguistic instinct in
children IS shown by the remarkable shifts
they will make to find forms Of expression
for their perceptions or feelings. An ex-
animation OF these shifts VIII show that
the energy of the child manifrst> itself
along precisely :he same lines as have been
taken by the languages of the races of
mankind toward their ultimate forms.
Thus, lacking the wOrd wide" a little one
said Open the door loud, ~ extending the
meaning OF the word loud" precisely as
we do when we apply it colloquially to
cOlOrs.
There was widow (Anne) and her
daughter Jane, and n man (Gaorge) and
his son Henry. The widow married the
son and the daughter married the father
The widow therefore mother-in-law
to her husbands father and grandmother
TO her own husband By this husband She
had SON DAVID, to whom she was, of
course great-grandmother. Now, the son
of great-grandmother must be grandfather
or granduncle to the person to whom his
mother was or is grandmother, but la
this instance Anne was great-grandmother
to him (David), therefore David could not
be other ;nan his own grandfather.