The morning call., 1893-04-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Young women at East Lake, Ala, have
formed two baseball mines.
Chicago will have $4,000 rooms near the
grounds for Worlds Fair visitors.
The Great Northern tunnel TO be built In
Oregon will be when completed 13. 16S feet
long.
The Chinese Government eontemplates a
| considerable extension of railroads this
spring.
The Mayor and Aldermen of Chicago
have already granted COCO licenses for new
drinking bars to be opened during the ex-
position.
In Durham, England. ou Easter Monday,
the men claim the privilege to take off the
women's shoes, and the next day the women
retaliate.
1t has been estimated that bell Of
common size, whose sound would penetrate
distance of three to five miles on shore,
could. II submerged in the sea, be heard
over sixty miles
Our lack Of knowledge of the arch itect-
ure OF the Ph9nicians, Hebrews and other
oriental nations is due partly to the fact
tnat they used wood and other perishable
materials in buildings.
The Life Tree" of Jamaica will continue
to grow for years after it has been dug up
and Its roots exposed to the sun. Leaves
severed from the limbs will remain green
for weeks. The tree can only be destroyed
by fire.
rain tree" grows. This species can con-
dense what little moisture there is in the
atmosphere. so as TO cause continual mist
TO exude Seemingly from the leaves and
branches.
One of the latest c0ntrivances that the ko-
OAK mend has invented is the Photographic
gun, which. it is claimed, will secure pic
lures at the rate of dozen second of auy
OBJECT aimed at, no matter what its position
or how rapid its motion.
There is a tea produced in Japan and
China which sells for SIS aud $50 a pound.
which is probably the highest priced. None
Is exported to this country for sale, and
only little has been brought here, ana
that by Americans, who took some as a
curiosity.
In France. exclusive of Paris. there are
500 papers. In Paris the number published
is 1898. OF these III are devotedto politics,
103 are illustrated, go are religious periodI-
Gals (67 Catholic, % Protestant and Israel
llel while the rest deal with science and art,
finance, trade, etc.
In the Austrian army there have been on
the average 131 suicides per 100, 900 men
during The last five years. The suicides
| were equal to fifth of the total mortality
OF the army during this period. and more
deaths were due to this than to typhoid
fever, pneumonia or consumption.
The japanese have remark able pound
net arrangement that scoops up vast uuanti-
| Ties oil hsh In an enormous bag of netting
hanging beneath the bottom of a vessel.
| In this receptacle something like thirty
times the cargo can be conveyed to market
than could be carried by the ship in the
| ordinary way.
1t is stated on the authority of the d.
| rector OF the Kew Gardens that in no other
country are pains and money SO lavishly
| expended upon the cultivation of orchids as
| In England, and that nowhere else is so
large capital invested in the commerce of
these costly plants or SO many species found
| In living state in private collections.
Inc snail's shell is horny covering,
which serves TO protect him from his
numerous Toes. Slngs. are simply snails
which live retired life. and consequently
need no covering at all. The shell of the
| snail IS built up from lime in the plants
| upon which 1t feeds. and the creatures are
never found on soil which produces no
| lime.
Silk worms are not the sole scource of
the production of silk; it is also obtained
from several vegetable substances, but of
an inferior and less durable description,
Excellent coiored silk is obtained from the
| prepared and finer fibers of the bamboo,
which is much in demand for clothing in
tropical countries from its lightness and
porosity.
The State Capitol of Texas is the largest
State building in the United States, and the
seventh in size among the buildings Of the
world. 1t is a-vast Greek cross of red Texas
granite, with a central rotunda covered by
dome 81 feet high. 1t was begun in 1881
and finished in 1888, having cost about
S3500,000. 1t was paid for with 1900. 600
acres OF public land, decided to the capitalists
who executed the work.
A 'photo-eorrector" has been invented
and is in practical use by an English artist.
by which the dimensions of any part of a
Photograph can be altered "and the whole
made harmonious" A person five feet and
a half in height can be made TO look five
feet high or six feet high as desired, and
hands, feet, or any other part can be SINH
larry corrected. The Society Of Arts Is to
be told all about the invention by the in
ventOr next month.
There are now blooming in ST. Augustine
sixteen plants of the agaye Victoria regina
species. or what is commonly called the
century plant A towering column rises
out of the center of the plant to the height
OF sixty feet. but it is often relocated to the
rubbish heap as worthless after Towering,
Tor the reason that as thing of beauty it
mas no further charms for the eye. Yet
many thousands OF the shaving people of
the world utilize this shaft of the plant
They make use of it as razor strop.