The morning call., 1893-03-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Forty thousand tons of coal ara burned
daily in London.
1t has been colder in Virginia this year
than any year since 1872.
Elongated earlobes are considered a mark
of beauty In Borneo.
Fewer than 1, 600 Prussians have Incomes
of more than 5000 a year.
With 4 vocabulary of 1000 words a man
can transact ali the ordinary business mat
terS OF life.
Sixty-four OF the United States Senators
are lawyers, one a preacher, one doctor
and one Journalist.
Newark, Del, has a Postmaster and
Deputy Postmaster, and these two have
administered the Office through the political
changes of the past eight years. When the
administration is Democratic so is the Post
master, and the deputy is Republican.
When the administration is Republican the
Democratic Postmaster and his deputy
simply change places.
London policemen, or at least not in
considerable number OF them, are trying TO
form labor union. About twenty police
men, said to already be members of a
union" were present at Il meeting of trade
uniuristS in that CITY lately and told Of the
grievances of the police and their desire TO
band themselves in union for the protec-
ton of their interests.
Public fountains of hot water are being
established in Paris on the automatic sys-
tenn BY putting a halfpenny in The slot
anyone can obtain nearly two gallons of
thoroughly hot water heated by the public
gas service. The first fountain put up as
an experiment proved a great success, as In
summer lew housewives in the poorer quar-
ters care to keep a fire.
According to the last report of the Science
and Art Department of the British Gov
ernment there were under its auspices in
1891 207 art schools, with 47, $40 students :;
1868 art classes, with -, 715 students. and
62l2 elementary schools, at which 1,I7O. $40
children and pupil teachers are taught
drawing The direct payments on results
during the year was 9l3l.393.
A curious discovery was some years ago
made, among the archives of Southampton,
OF box containing the original naval laws
OF that pOrtaS early as tha fourteenth cen
tury One of them was that il the majority
OF the sailors of a vessel On the point Of sail
ing were of opinion that the wind was un-
fayOra bic, and the vessel was wrecked after
ward, the captain was responsible for the
value OF the goods lost.
Negro graves in the far South are some
times curiOusly garnished with the bottles
Of medicine used by the departed in their
final Illness, and the duration of the malady
Is easily guessed by the number Of bottles
Often these are the only things to mark the
mound, and everything about the grave
yard bears the mnrks of the haste charac-
terstic OF supersttious people in all mat
ters concerning the dead.
Two of the first locomotives constructed
IN Europe are en- route for the Worlds
Fair. Tney were built at Durham, Eng
land. IN 1887 and 1888. They are queer
pieces OF mechanism as COMPARED with
those at present IN USE having vertical CYL
inders and connecting rods, with fire boxes
and smoke boxes in front The locomotives
are accompanied by tender and an old
fashioned passenger-cOach upholstered in
satin.
if six men were to start on sucressiva
days from six American cities and travel in
a straight line around the world 10 the
point of starting the Chicago man would
probably claim TO have made the quickest
time, While Ire OHIO man, If there was one.
would be the first to arrive home Blu. the
distances Travelled by all six, if added To-
gether, would fall l., 600 miles short of the
railroad mileage of the United States, dou-
bic tracks not counted.
The women OF Judah, it seems, were the
first wearers or garments in blfurcated form,
aud man, percelying the convenience and
comfort Of this article OF dress, evolved by
the superior intelligence of woman, ap-
propriated II 20 his use, aud doomed his
wOmankind to cucumber their limbs with
flowing robes, which render 1t impossible
for them 10 cope with man in the useful
avncations.
Connected with the United States light
house equipment are 254 fog signals. 372 day
beacOns, 90 whistling bUOys, 20 bell buoys
and 4l43 other buOys. or these last there
are several kinds, the princ pal ones being
known as Spars whistllng, nun, can ana
bell buOyS. The spgrS buuys are generally
made of wood, the others of iron There
are also a number of bells and whistles used
as fog signals 10 indicate the proximity of