The morning call., 1893-12-24
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


monthly in London.
| The most dign fed title among the Hol-
landers was Stad thoder.
The Shah of Persia pretends to date his
| title back for 1000 years.
At Roman marriages the wedding ring
was placed on the thumb
Geography as a science was introduced
MO Europe by the Moors about 1910.
The Feast of the Goddess of Reason
was lnaugurated at N0tre Dame 100 years
ago.
Antarctic explorers have been less sue
cessful than those searching for the North
Pole.
A woman in Tanner, w. Va, gave
birth to her twenty-ninth child few DAYS
ago.
The Eskimo Bulletin is the only journal
published within the Arctic circle
The houses of the leading mllionaires
OF New \ oTk are mostly guarded by secret
police.
Lady Vivian, wife of the late Embas-
sador TO Rome, Is clever writer of short
stories.
Bats fly very easily, but their move
ments Oh the ground are labored and
clumsy.
The superstition concerning the finding
OF a horseshoe dates back to tie thirteenth
century.
1t is said that there is no case on record
In Massachusetts where a verdict having
been SET aside in capital case and a sec
ond trial granted convection was secured.
Herat. in Atghanistan. is the city which
has been most often destroyed. Fifty-six
times have its walls been laid in ruins,
and the same number of times have they
| been erected again.
At Lambeth walk the Thames is 1901 feet
in width; near Whitehall gardens, 1900
feet; opposite Buck bingham terrace, 1880,
and opposite Somerset House and the Tenn
pie gardens. above 1900 feet.
One room in the Tenderloin Club of New
York is papered with 5000 playing cards.
while another is covered with theater
tickets and contains cornice of cham
payne corks right round it.
An animal recently killed at the West
Philadelphia abattoir had a mason ic
mark. door hinge and part of rat trap
in it's stomach. while another had a small
medicine bottle and part of croquet-
ball.
In the trial OF bigamy case in a court
at Toronto recently the Judge expressed a
i very pronounced opinion that an AmerI-
can divorce could not be accepted in Cana.
dian courts as binding or dissulying the
! marriage ties.
n The experience of hunting deer on q.
iiSicycle has probably been eniOyad nv hut
kll.
being among the list While riding rel
Gently he came upon deer, and, having
his rife with him, quickly dispatched it.
| Wellsville, Allegheny County, in West
ern New York, has forty women agricul-
| turists, and ell are successful One has a
/ stock farm. One was housemaid; her
! brother failed on the old homestead; she
! had saved money; she bought the farm a
| few years since, and all its belongings are
rejdvenated.
| In this country $500 women are practic-
| ing medicine. 275 preaching the gospel
! more than 6000 managing postoffices and
over 100000 earning independent in
| comes. Since 1880 the Patent Office has
granted over 2500 patents to women, and in
! New York City 27,050 women support their
! husbands.
Cairo, Egypt, is to have a new street.
railroad system, according to information
received at the State Department from the
! United States Consul-Generai there. and
! the Egyptian Government has invited bids
! for its construction. The matter is at
! tracing much attention among European
| capitalists, and there is likely to be active
competition.
Charles Hodge of New York when born.
/ thirteen years ago, had twelve fingers and
/ fourteen toes. On Wednesday an opera
| tiOn was performed removing the extra
members. Extra fingers and toes appear
TO have been the rule in his family. His
mother and grandmother were alike
afflicted in their infancy, as were all of his
maternal grandparents tor the last five or
six generations.
Among the rare eggs Of birds still living
that of the blue red winged grosbeak is
probably the most valuable, a well-marked
/ set being worth anywhere between $500
and $1,000. At a recent auction sale of
geological rarities in London a fine set of
golden eagle eggs, two in number. were
knocked down" at SIS and SIS was ex-
changed evenly for one egg Of the swallow
tailed kite.