The morning call., 1893-08-13
ITEMS OE INTEREST.

Nearly 100000 people still speak Welsh.
Germany has wagon propelled by
benzine
All the Greek philosophers, sages and
seers. ate no flesh.
English speaking people have the best
foreheads and eyebrows.
By the Emancipation Proclamation
1896, 172 slaves were freed.
Roman women were admitted to TRACE
dies. but not to comedies.
In Shakespeare's time the prices OF ad-
mission varied from penny to shilling.
A shoemaker at Lynn. Mass, repairs
free every eleventh pair of shoes left to be
fixed
The Australian gold is finer than that of
California. having quality 20 to 523.
carat
Most OF the fine coral known to COM
merce is obtained by divers along the coast
! of Italy.
watch is said to tick 1880, 900 times
In year. and the wheels travel 555S%
miles per annum.
The suns rays shining through a sky
light in Milwaukee the other afternoon
| set fire to a store.
About 60 per cent of the copper produced
| in this country comes from the Lake Supe-
rior region.
| In Moscow the winter cold is so intense
! that il freezes quicksilver. while the sum-
mer temperature is as high as that Of
Naples.
Baron Hirsch gave $500 for a room to
view the royal wedding procession in Lon
don; and prices somewhat similar were
offered by others.
The photographic office at Washing ton
is disposed to attribute the heat and
drought in Europe this season to the scare
ity of icebergs in the North Atlantic.
A Topeka man. whom a friend asked
one day last week why he had such a blank
look, replied that it was too warm to wear
anything he was not compelled TO, even an
expression.
An elderly man arrived in Washington
a few days ago, where he had walked
from York, Pa, on the advice Of doc
tor, who said that the walk would cure
his rheumatism.
Parents Of three children In Ware County,
Ga, have not as yet named their offspring,
as they intend allowing them TO maize their
own selection when they become old
enough to choose,
At recent auction sale of orchids in
London one rare example OF these high
priced parasites brought the extraordinary
sum of 1925 This was the specimen OF
the fine Cattleya Mendelii Bluntii.
Soil is titled in Egypt by exactly the
same kind of plow that was used there
5000 years ago. The burrows made are
extremely shallow. and the clods are
further broken up with big wooden
cudgel.
In the manufactures of Great Britain
alone the power which steam eXprts is es-
timated 10 be equal to the manual labor of
| 1900. 000, 600 of men, or more than double
| the number Of males supposed to inhabit
| the globe.
| Three brothers kOwn in Maine ran six
teen incubators. and this season have
| toI,o cd I oh inf har, Hhaxy
a capital stock of $4,000. all paid in. and
next season will increase their plant TO
twenty-five incubators
A Troy preacher is accused of ANNOUNCE
ing from his pulpit last Sunday that, ow-
ing to the absence OF the int lligent por-
and mountains, there would be no more
preaching in his church Until the first Sum
day in September.
| In both France and Germany nne-fOurth
| (Al reduced to a decimal is written as %;
IN England it is written 025 always with
the period at the top Of the line), and in
| the United States in this way, O.25 In
England period at the bottom of the line
is a sign of multiplication.
The discovery of the process of tintng
white paper was the result If sheer care
lessness. The wife of an English paper
maker named East accidentally dropped
the blue bag" into vat of pulp, where it
|
blush tngue before she could recover it.
The Caroline Islanders. who are pas
sionately fond of liquor. but who are in
mortal dread of breaking their necks by
falling from one of the million OF cliffs
| with which their islands abound. believe
| that paradise will be a land as level as a
| floor. where they can get drunk in perfect
| safety.
The Italians derived "starboard" from
uuesta borda, "this side." and liar board"
| from quella borda, which means 'that
| side" Abbreviated. these two phrases
appear as sta borda and la borda. Their
close resem blance caused so many mis-
| takes that the admiralty ordered the ''lar-
board to be discontinued and port" sub
stituled.
AT the National Rose Society's first show
| in London frozen flowers from Auckland.
| New Zealand, excited great amount OF
| curiosity. about half a dozen different
| species of plants in fnll flower and several
| ferns were Operated" on with remarkable
| success, possessing in their frozen state all
tho coloring of the normal condition.
The rate of multiplication o. which germs
| of contagious diseases are capable is sur
| nrisinr. single germ placed in favora-
HE Surroundings for growth quickly d.
u;d.s into two: each OF these divides into
two these four into eight, and so on, the
number reaching into the thousands. and
hv the end of twenty-iOur hours to more
than 100000.