The morning call., 1893-06-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

HENS OF INTEREST.
The Lunatic oil spring of Wheeler Cam
yon, Cal, at the time of a new moon be.
gins to flow oil. When the moon is at its
fun the spring yields three barrels of oil a
day. The quantity decreases with the
waning OF the moon, and ceases when the
moons last quarter is past.
The rate schedule Of one of the trans
Atlantic steamship companies sets forth
that the price OF passage for dogs. cats
and monkeys Is SO each. and that those
animals must be Gagged before being
brought on the steamer, and will then be
placed in charge of the butcher"
Lace is mentioned by ancient Spanish
authors under the following names:
Punta, randi, eadenta entredos. red.
deshiIado, franja, blonda and eucaja.
which may be translated as edging or
points, resenil, chain stitch, insertion net
ting, raveling, fringe, blonde and point.
There are at present something like
10000 public gas Jets in London; their
average power is that of 16 caudles-that
is to say, the total is equal to i, 400 COO
Were these all clustered together and
placed at height of 1000 feet the result
ing light could be seen for distance of
more than 100 miles.
Patriotic fenuesseeans. inspired by Gen.
eral Tom Cleburne OF Nashville are en-
deavoring to raise a fund OF $1,000 to can
tFl Il ilOI tSHSS vi jIldI diuUuul Oh Tue ldlO
General kirby Smiths homestead at Swa-
nee. General Smith was not even well-to-
do financially, and his estate is barely Suf-
hcent to support his family.
Nero was no monster. His mother,
Agrippiana, was not put to death by his
order, n or did he play upon his harp and
sing The Burning of Troy" while Rome
was on fire. Our knowledge of him is
gained mostly from Tacitus, who hated
him, and from Fatronius Arhiter, who was
put to death for cOnspring against him.
The most northern newspaper is the
NOrdlap. published in Hammerstein. The
editor and his staff work in Il small turf
rooted wooden house. News comes by
mail boat, and the Hammersteiners are
made aware of the worlds events generally
eight days late, and, as the paper is a
weekly. its news is often fortnight old.
According to last years census, there are
twelve cities in France with population
of over 100000 inhabitants. namely: Paris,
with 9, Az, COO; Lyons, 43S 600; MarSeiIles,
403 600; Bordeaux. 252. .000; Lille, POI O00;
Toulouse. 10000; SAINT Etienue, 133 COO:
Nantes, 122, coo; Havre 10000; RouDaIx,
10000; Rouen, 112,0G0. and Il eimS, with
1O4, ,000.
All over the world some fifty-nine lam
guages are represented by newspapers.
Many 7re printed in two or three lam
guageS, English in such cases being gener-
ally one. The newspapers Of Austria
show greater variety In this respect than
those of any country, including in the list
German, Italian. French, Magyar or Hun
garian, Creek, Latin, Polish, Scrvian.
Slavic and Hebrew.
One of the cur Gus features of the New
York Sub-tI eaSurY count is the number Of
bags which nave never been emptied since
they left the mint. Most of the silver
dollars now being handled have upon their
coverings the dust which has accumUl ated
since the last count, four years ago. There
mas been no call for them, and they have
remained in the sub-treasury vaults like
ore in mine.
In the year 1862 the value of the salmon
fisheries of England and Wales was esti-
ti;nated to have been eiS coo. In 1868 it
was said to have reache1 e3o.OoO In 1870
its value was fixed at 0,0O0, and TWO
wears later the value was placed at
100000. This Increase is the direct result
of the salmon fishery act Of 1861 of which
the three fundamental principles were:
The preservation OF the salmon during
fixed time; the opening up OF rivers TO the
free ascent of salmon to the upper waters,
and the prevention of pollution.
The map of New jersey is polvglot
spelIing-book, for the local names are
Indian, Dutch, English. French and even
Hebraic. The Indian names survive in
great natural features and the "cOngs" of
various kinds are scattered all over the
northern half of the State. The Dutch
WY for meadow, sometimes corrupted
into "ay," is of frequent occurrence.
Scriptural names are scattered far and
wide and "vilIes" in all sorts OF iucOngru-
Gus syllable combinations are found ev.rv-
where few gems of the map are Tran
quiility, Success and COmical Corners.
There was never a more perfect eXetn-
pllfication Of The saying: "A prophet is
nOt without honor save in his own coun-
try" than the way in which the Span
iards regard the achievement vi CO.
lumbus in discovering America.
Columbus sailed, a sailor was asked
if he did not regard Columbus as a bold
navigator and a daring adventurer. lie
replied with a SnrHg Of his shoulders:
No, for If you dIOp a chip into the water
a this very point IL will float to Cuba.
The currents are such that it cannot go
anywhere else