The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-01-09
ITEnS OF INTEREST.

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No Vassar graduate has ever been in a
False teeth are coming into wide use for
horses in France.
Many prominent scientists have held that
hades is located on a comet.
The battering-ram was beam suspended
in the middle, drawn back and thrown for
ward.
A case OF bleeding through the sound
SKIN Is the subject OF European medical
report.
The Chinese postal service, which is slow
and crude. is controlled by many private
companies.
Thorgatten. the famous Norwegian noun
tain. has hole extending entirely through
it from one side to another.
a blast fired in quarry at Granitevlle,
Mo, recently. dislodged 100000 cubic feet
OF stone, all in one solid mass.
The LaDguedoc ship canal 10 France,
by short passage of 14S miles. saves sea
voyage Of 1000 miles by the Straits OF Glib
raltar.
Paper quilts are becoming popular in
Europe. They are cheap and warm. and
composed of sheets of perforated white
paper sewn together.
A species OF eyeess fish has been found
IN subterranean boiling spring found in q
Nevada mine. The fish would perish in
The cellular prison system in Holland.
where the offenders are completely isolated,
Is asserted 70 be most effectual in REFRESHING
crime aud reforming the criminals.
81. Chad's Church clock at Shrewsbury,
England, which was made about century
ago, has longer pendulum. it is claimed,
than any other clock in Great Britain.
Canadian schoolteaehers and some Cana.
dian editors are still writing OF COLOUR"
ia bonr" and 'candour." and If an offender
IS locked up they say he has gone TO "gaol"
Lowry City, Mo-, claims to have the big
gest steer in The country. 1t weighs $40
pounds, stands over feet high, is 10 feet
inches long ana measures yard through
the hips.
Petersburg. where fallen animals and flesh
prescribed by the Health Commissioners
will be burned. Previously all such earrion
had been thrown into the wafer.
1t is said that really indelible ink and
kind OF vinegar can be produced from the
Juices contained IN the banana peel The
hber or the peel, 1t Is said, can also be util-
lied In making cloth of great strength and
remarkable beauty.
small seal bearing the efigy of the
Duke OF Cumberland was recently found be-
tween Fontenoy and Rameerois, on the
scene of battle in which the English
troops were engaged In I745. 1t has been
The frizzled glass threads from which
cloth is woven are said to surpass in fne-
ness not only the finest cotton bat even
the thread of the silkworm's cocoon. their
softness and elasticity being even greater
than that of manufactured silk lint.
All the motions and sensations of the
various parts of the body are represented
in the surface OF the brain as on map
Thus there Is separate brain area neces-
sary for sight, another for hearing. another
for the motions OF the fingers, aud so on.
Several accomplished young women are
earning good salaries in New York for
coaching society women on the topics of the
day, the new bDoks that are being talked Of.
new works OF art that are attracting atten-
ton and interesting novelties in other
lines.
The new S00-foot lock in the SauIt Ste.
Marie canal will. it Is estimated, take 1900
barrels OF cement, $4,000 feet of white
pine timber. $1,000 feet of white oak timber
and 1.150000 pounds of iron. The work is
to be completed by December Is. 1894.
Hannibal (Mo.) man has had an iron
box made all In one piece, with slit in the
top. When he feels like taking drink he
drops a dime into the box and swallows a
glass Of hot tea. The box holds half a
Dushel. and he expects to fill 1t by spring.
yew tree. almost destitute of branches
or DARK, grows abnndaDtly in the Caucasus
TO height OF from 80 to GO feet, and diam
eter OF little over feet. 1t grows slowly.
but It's timber is almost indestruetibe, ex.
cept by fire. 1t is considered superior to
mahogany.
An ancient record was found some years
ago at Alton, in the valley of Pewsey, Eng
land. oil which the following is copy: I'm
nine years together, from the years Of our
LORD 1892 unto the years 1901. there was
(G0d be thanked netaer man. woman or
child buried In this parysh."
The city OF Avignon, France, inherited al
most half million francs recently from
man named Marcelin, who had lived in the
place as beggar for decades. In prepar-
lug his body for burial the bonds and money
were found in his clothes. The "beggarn
allowed his sister to starve to death year
ago.
Italy's annual production in round num-
bers is 691,000000 gallons of wine, while
France and Spain yield each COS. OO0 600 GAL
Ions. Spain IS the chief exporter, getting
about 9l2, 100000 for the 200. 600 900 gallons
which she sells abroad. France gets about
the same sum for her $4,000 900 gallons
while Italy gets only e., 100000 for the
45,0OO,000 gallons annually exported.
1t Is often remarked that public petition
is no index of public sentiment, because al
most ybody will sign any kind of a Pc
tltion, and another Illustration of the fact
seems to be afforded in a recent election In
Seward County, Kans., for the purpose of
settling controversy about the county seat.
NOT nearly so many votes were cast at the
election as there were names signed to the
petition praying that an election to settle
the point IN alleged dispute be held. The