The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-06-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

London has over 100000 houses inside
its city limits.
The diamond in a sufficient heat will
buru like charcoal.
In all countries more marriages take
place in June than in any other month.
After every financial crash there is
marked increase in the number of Insane.
Engel considers that child of 10 years
representa- an outlay Of $500; youth of
Is. $780,
There have been twenty-seven cases Of
insanity in the Bavarian royal family
during the last 100 years.
A 10-year-old Texas boy is said to be
confirmed inebriate and has been drink
ing ever since he was years old.
The petitions already presented to the
House of Common against the home-rule
| bill contain over 100000 signatures.
A single was removed last October from
| the roof Of the Congregational church in
Pennington, Conn.,, where 1T had been
! since III.
Lace-making was first done by Barbara
| Uttman about 1850. though the invention
is claimed for an earlier date by France
! and Italy.
! A colored boy at Maccleny, Fla, was
chased up a tree by an alligator the other
| day, where he was kept prisoner until
help arrived.
Three miles per hour is about the aver
age speed of the gulf stream; at certain
places, however, this speed is increased to
ffty-four miles an hour.
Japanese doctors never present bills tn
their patients. They await the patients
| inclination to pay, and then thankfully
accept whatever sum is offered.
Ar electrically driven rotary planer that
is operated IKE lawn mower is used In
some of the shipYards in Glasgow for
smoothing the decks of vessels.
After many years of INDIGESTION thelhvdo-
graphers have arrived at the conclusion
that the hottest region on the earth's sur
face is in the immediate vicinity of the
Dead Sea.
Many of the South Sea Islanders believe
that paradise can be inherited only by
persons of perfect physical forms. Where
this belief prevails man will die rather
than submit to amputation.
The attachment of dog to children was
well illustrated at Corpus Christi, Tex,
one day lately, where dog deliberately
committed suicide by drowning after the
death OF his masters children.
The natural contlguraton of manv moun-
tains suggests the human face, and sucn
physlognomles cut out OF the rocks on
gigantic scale are commonly regarded By
savages as objects of worship.
Some one of a curiousiy mathematical
turn has calculated that pound of spiders
webbing unwound would be long enough
to reach all around the world with enough
left over to reach from New York to San
Francisco.
One OF the oldest railway guards in the
United Kingdom is servant of the Great
Western COMPANY. His name is Jeans
and he lives at Ealing Mr.. Jeans, now
II years of age, has in his lifetime travelled
over 1000, coo miles.
The Imperial Canal of China is the
longest in the world and greatest in point
of traffic. Its length is 21OO miles. and IL
connects ii cities situated on Ms banks.
LII was completed in 1850, after 600 years
spent on its construction.
Professor Barnard's recent photopranh
of toe Milky Way shows the existence of
DOC, 100000 suns. each supposed to be the
center OF system of planets where
hitherto it was thought to contain only
about 100000 such suns.
The origin of feather in his cap" il
thus explained: In Hungary, in 1899, it
was decreed that only he who had killed
Turk should wear feather. and he was
permitted to add fresh feather to his cap
for each Turk whom he had slain.
A legal controversy which has engaged
the attention of the courts in Ohio, In
diana and PENNSYLVANIA, and which is to
be taken up with renewed vigor, has on
the opposing sides two factions of the
church known as the United Brethren.
The British securities, at first called ex-
chequer bills. were invented by Montague
atterward Earl of Halifax, and first issued
in 1897. The1 were really the Govern
ments accommodation notes, issued in an
ticipation of taxes and being receivable for
taxes.
Age at which marriage may be legally
committed: Austria. IA; Germany, France
aud Belgium, IS and Is; Spain and Portu-
gal, II; Hungary, for Catholics IA and -,
Tor Protestants Is and IS; Greece and
M o.
ony, Is and 16.
The inhabitants of the Malmyshk dis
trict in the Government of Vyatka. in
Russia. are still hopeless pagans. and
quite recently offered up human sacri-
fee to their gods. They are the only peo.
pie whose religion is paganism REMAINING
in any part of Europe.
AT recent meeting of the British Royal
Society one of the members exhibited
some curious Photographs produced by
rlacing coins or medals upon sensitiZed
plate. An electrical current was turned
through the object and developer applied
to the film, when perfect images of the OBJ
Jets were obtained.
An enterprising individual who lives In
Downing street, back of the residence of
Mr.. Gladstone. says that it is the joy of
his life to see Mr.. and Mrs. Gladstone at
tea together. He AYERS that they are as
sociable as two lovers, but he asserts in
unqualified terms that Mr.. Gladstone an
pears to be the home ruler.
When the survivors Of the steamboat
Sultana, which blew up in the Miss
issippi in 1868 with the loss of over 1900
lives, held their annual reunion at Mary-
Vile, Tenn. few days ago, James Law
ION. who was supposed to have been
drowned in the disaster, appeared. much
to the surprise of everybody
Some of the French soldiers wounded in
Dahomey, who have been sent home TO
nnfNrv nlD-1
interviewed by French journalists They
speak OF the intense heat of Dahomev and
say that they fought under great difficulties
9Y reason OF the nature of the country.
doubtable than the men.
:, In 1891 1t is said the heat throughout the
United States was the greatest on record,
lug 1O5 deg. in the shade. In England the
mercury ranged from 80 to 101 deg, and in
Asia 90 deg. In London it was the hottest
director of the Paris OhsarvotoTIy daoIorod