The morning call., 1893-08-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


acters.
Newspapers are printed In ffty-niHe
| languages.
In the five years before 1890 there were
1926 suicides.
| In 1890. during the French revolution.
! 400 new papers spraDg into existence in
Paris.
The consumption of bricks in the United
Kingdom amounts to about go, 000, 900 a
month.
1t has been estimated that Great Britain
has about 100000 absolutely homeless
wanderers.
A letter mailed in London April and
remailed in Hong-Kong made the circuit of
the world in the fast time of sixty-two
days.
Florida man has fondness for alli-
gators and is said TO have lived on nothing
but the meat of saurians for over three
years.
The city of London drinks every year
$1,000, 600 gallons of mali liquor, 8,C0O OU0
gallons of wine and 1.50O,O 600 gallons OF
spirits.
Fifty-six years ago the block on which
the Chicago pOstOffice now stands was sold
at auction for S505. 1t is now worth
So 100000.
During the present century the food
supply Of all the principal nations has in
creased in much greater ratio than the
population.
An English firm is using the silk of the
wild silk worm, from which is woven a soft
substantial fabric of a light tussore or
DOngee shade.
In England, France and Germany the
ratio of multiple births is Is twins per
1000, and 100 tripletS and quadruples per
100000 births.
1t is asserted that the best, strongest
and most fbrous material in the shape of
wood, now used as pulp for paper, is made
from spruce logs.
During severe storm in Schley
County. Ga. the other day, the house
of A. l.. Beckwith was struck by lightning
in five different places and at five different
times.
While negro was chopping down a tree
in Ware County. Ga, lately, he claims to
have found buried in the tree the remains
of a leather-bOund book, believed to be
either Bible or Testament.
The mountains of Guatemala (meaning
full OF trees) are covered with magnificent
forests, and the country takes its name
from them. One of its principal products
is gutta percha; dyewoOds and other trOpi-
cal trees abound.
Ben" the famous Irish setter dog, that
has for ten years past run to every fire with
the fire department of Maiden, Mass, lied
last week. His death has caused a feeling
of sadness among the members of the fire
department.
Careful inquiry into circumstances ante
cedent to collapse during torrid weather
shows that in rare cases only has actual
exposure to the sun been responsible for
the disaster, and 1t is a fact that nearly as
MANY cases occur after sunset as at mid
day.
Copies of the New York Gazette. re-
viewed in the Weekly Post Boy. dated
hoVy
with an issue of the New York Mercury of
February IA, 1857 are three interesting
papers in the possession,of Benjamin Titus
Of Trenton, n. j.
BY irrigation 25,000,00O acres are made
fruitful in India alone. In Egypt there
are about 100000 acres and In Europe
about 100000 The United States ghas
jus, begun the work of improving waste
area, and has already about 1900, 600
acres Of irrigated land.
A man living on Fishing Greek, Weizel
County. W. Va, has been deaf for five
years. The other day he went to q physi-
clan for examination. when a wad of cot
ton completely coated over was found in
each ear. The cotton wads were put in
five years ago to stop earache and had been
forgotten.
When horse is trotting 20 gait his
feet move a little faster than mile in
1:10. As his body is moving at 2:20, and
as each of his feet when IN contact with
the ground is stationary and then is picked
up and moved forward to take the next
step, the foot must move as much faster
than the body as to maks the step, which
is over twice as fast.
The sealskin overcoat for which Philip
Didesheimer paid $1,000 when he was
superintendent OF the Ophir mine shines
like glnw-w0rm of memory in the gloom,
now that financial darkness has fallen on
the Comstock. The overcOat and the
golden period that it denoted have gone,
"and the summit of Mount Davidson is
now occupied by the lean aud shrunken
spirit named Economy"
The Spanish game of quoits-rayeula-
is played with unpierced disks of iron
about three inches in diameter-teio. The
hubs consist of two curved pieces of
wrought iron of an oval shape terminal
ing in point which is stuck In the ground.
The larger of these pieces. the pala, is
placed in front of the other, the psletiu
To strike the pala with the QUOT counts
one. while TO strike the paletin, which is
more difficult, counts two.