The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-08-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Sixty THOUSAND people in Ireland speak
Irish only.
The Nile has fall of only six inches in
1000 miles.
A sea turtle weighing 1000 pounds was
captured near Portland, Me-, the other
day.
About S25. 600, 900 are spent every year in
connection with the last obSeQuies 10 the
dead.
The church in the monastery of st. Ber-
nard is the highest place of worship in the
world.
The catalogue of the books in the
library Of the British Museum occupies
1000 volumes.
In Great Britain the actual number of
persons engaged in agriculture is 9. sol, 600;
IN manufacture, 5,1S9,000; in commerce,
1885, 600.
A Buffalo man in writing to friend in
that city Of the wonders of the Worlds
Fair. filled sheet Of paper with exclama-
ton marks only.
The greatest travellers in Switzerland are
the English; then come the Germans, the
Americans. the French and the Italians,
in the order given.
Situated near Lewisville, Ark, is an old
fort reported TO be haunted. Some per-
sons claim to have seen in the fort a man
walking about carrying his head in his
hands
Butter oil is made by pressing the oil
from American cottonseed. 1t is pure.
nutritious vegetable oil, which is used In
small quantities to soften the texture of
oleomargaTine.
A monument 10 the Scottish American
soldiers of the Civil War. the money for
which was given by Americans, is to be
shortly unveiled at Edinburgh. The de-
sign is figure of Lincoln.
Officers and soldiers OF the French army
will henceiorth have metallic plate
fastened to their collars for Identification.
A similar scheme is being considered for
the benefit of miners.
is one of the duties of the Prime Min
lister of Madagascar to marry the Queen of
the country for the time being. The pres
ent Premier has been married to three
queens, one after another.
A decree has been issued in Belgium, for
bidding any Belgian to capture OF destroy
frogs, to consgn them to any conveyance.
to expose them for sale or to buy or sell
them. either whole or in part.
The Australian aborigines appear to be
dying out Last year the number of them
in Victoria was under 500. In tho twelve
months there were Is births, 90 deaths an d
one marriage Of abOriginals in the colony
A button which. 1t is asserted, was cut
from the coat OF General Stonewall JACK
son when that brave soldier fell mortally
sion of Miss Bockius of Richmond. Va.
Professor Denton thinks express trains
will never 60 very much faster than they
do now. He bases this opinion on the
fact that the resistance increases more
rapidly than the speed. so that at least
limit must be reached.
The ruby in the center OF the Maltese
Cross on the top of the British crown is
the stone that was given to the Black
Prince by King Pedro of CASTLE. after the
battle OF MALARIA. Henry V OF England
woie it in his helmet at the battle of Agin-
court.
A constant and large increase is noted
in the output or the oil wells of the Cas-
plan region. About 5000 tons are exported
every working day OF the year from Ba-
toum alone, and the exports of last year
year were SO, 6S3 tons in excess of those of
the previous year.
In the West Indies the firefies are very
large and are frequently caught and con-
fined in netting for personal ornaments.
A lady will sometimes appear in & ball
room with red, green, yellow and blue
Examinations being caused by captured
Insects.
Huber says that during the course of a
battle he observed between nests of red
and black ants, the latter were being
w0rsied, when he saw courier black ants
running OH III various ulTccllOuS, VINO soon
returned with a host Of blacks from vari-
GUS nests, and the reds were soon routed
with great slaughter.
The brazilian Department of Agricul-
ture depores the rapid destruction of what
were at one time looked upon as an mex
baustible forest of India-rubber trees. A
recent report Of the departments suggests
as a remedy that plantations for the cult
uatiOn of the tree be established, and
shows by statistics that large profits would
accrue to the planter.