The morning call., 1893-09-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The Western Eskimos tattoo themselves
extensively.
Silk-making was taken to Japan from
China b. &. 700.
A gum tree recently discovered in Aus
tralia is 4l5 feet high.
Beef is much supplemented in the Celes-
tial Empire by horse flesh.
The heaviest anchors weigh about sew
enty-seven hundredweight.
Sea Island cotton was first grown in
America about the year 1856.
The total area of land and water in the
United Kingdom is 1879. 1913 acres.
Red-hot shot were fyst employed at the
last siege of Gibraltar by the English artil-
lery.
The total length of track existing IN the
United States at the close of 1892 was 49,
223 miles.
Wakes were religious institutions. even
earlier than the love- feasts of the first
Christians.
No days of grace are allowed in Paris on
bills payable at sight, as is the custom n
this country.
For 200 years the paper from which
Bank of England notes are made has been
manufactured at Laverstoke in Hamp-
shire.
But one-third of the bodies cremated by
a New York company last year were ma
tiyes of America. Half of the number
were Germans.
The city of London drinks every year
As. 900. 600 gallons of malt liquor. 5000, 600
gallons of wine and 100000 gallons of
| spirits.
The ancient Anglo-Saxon ladies per-
formed many household off ces, and we're
expert at spinning, weaving, neediework
aud embroidery.
! France was very much disturbed by
| strikes last year. An official return shows
/ h0$ in " m hc hnrn nln
upon 800 trade disputes, affecting los. 600
| WOrkmen.
| Though Western Australia is nearly
nine times the slZs of the United King
dom, it's population was estimated in March
last at but 81. 10, with 10000 more males
than females.
/ The original commission. which made
! Christopher Columbus an admiral is now
exhibited in separate glass case on 1sa,
altar in the chapel of the convent La
Rabida, at the Worlds Columbian Exposi-
| ton.
The city of Dunkirk, France. intends
! celebrating next year the century of the
siege of that city by the Duke of York. A
statue of Victory, by Lorimer. will be un-
yelled during the fete, which is to last two
days
A curious growth is noted ON DR.. Hugo
Ludwig's place at Hartford. Conn. A Gu
mber vine has wound itself around the
stalk of a large sunflower plant and a GU
cumber has grown under the leaves of the
sunfiower.
1t is said that female Goldfish will lay
100000 eggs during a single season.
Piscatorial authorities say that. were 1t
OF for the work of the natural enemies of
fish. they would fill all the available space
in the seas, rivers and oceans.
TIE vine at Hampton Court is believed
to be the largest in Europe, its branches
exten ling over space of 2300 feet. 1t was
planted from slip in the year 1868, and
generally bears upward OF 1000 punches of
grapes of the black Hambro' kind.
The green ants Of Australia make nests
by bending leaves together and uniting
them with kind of natural glue Cook
saw hundreds at a time on one leaf draw
ing it to the ground, while an equal num-
ber waited to receive, hold and fasten it.
Baron Edmond de Rothschild's COLONY in
Palestine shows such promise of success
that he has purchased more land. In ac-
cordaDce with the Baron's request the
eolonists have all abandoned the use of
Yiddish, and now speak nothing but He
brew.
When an Armenian maiden attains her
seventeenth year and is not engaged to be
| married she must undergo strange pun
ishment. She is forced To fast three days,
then for twenty-four hours her food is
| salt fish and she is no t permitted to Quench
| her thirst.
Az beIIast tne Alexandra CRAVING or dry
dock. completed in 1885, has floor length
of 800 ieet, while from outer sail 10 back of
wall the distance is $50 feet. The in
side width st the top is 90 feet and the
bottom 80 feet. This dock can be divided
into three separate docks or used as one
large dock.
| By piece of ingeniousness on the part
| of an English couple living at South
| Brooklyn Uncle Sam was cheated of a
| prospective cltiZeness the other day. In
| the household child was born to English
| parents, and the mother took the precau-
tion to spread the Union Jack over the
top of the bed. so that the child was born
nnder the English flag.