The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-07-09
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The crow flies at the rate Of but twenty
nve miles an hour.
| Iron Steamships were first built In Great
| Britain in 1S43
Women have abandoned spoon collect
| ing fer silver hatpins.
One-half the worlds tin is mined In the
Straits Settlement.
France is believed to be the best-cult-
waited country in EnroDe.
The latest man ever known was Daniel
Lambert. who weighed 739 pounds.
The first illustrated BibIs ever published
was the Nuremburg ibls printed In 1916.
Rice paper is made from a filthy plant
called tung-tsua, found in China, Corea
and Japan.
DR.. Farr estimated the annual value OF q
25-year-old farm laborer 10 the community
as $3.50.
A guide at the Worlds Fair has been
discharged for calling Columbus guard
tin soldier.
The total loss incurred through the
Panama Canal swindles Is estimated at
S200.000,000.
1t Is estimated that there are 62.o5o.ooo
horses in he world, 1875. 10000 attic and
434. 100000 sheep.
suspend publication on account OF the III
ness Of its only compositor
Gutta percha was introduced ilto Europe
from Malaga in 1852. The annual con-
sumption now is 1000, 900 pounds.
Baby" cat belonging TO Hrs. Crsgin
of Worcester. Mass. IS belieseii to be the
giant Of the domesticated feline race. It
is 21a feet long. 16 inches high and weighs
30 pounds
Spanish Hebrews always pi ur out all
the water contained III the Iessels OF
house wherein person has died. fearing
that the angel of death may nave washed
his sword in some of it.
Statistics of the Wesleyan Methodist
church in Great Britain show member
ship last year of 427.7S9. an increase of 27S0
over the previous year. and $40 is members
on trial, an increase OF 4476
Some faint idea of the dis lance OF 3
fixed star" may be had from this calcium
ton: Light passes from the sun 20 the
earth in minutes and 13 e(nnds; from
the earth to the star in three years.
The materials of the sculptt.r comprise
almost every substance CAPABLE Of being
carved. cast or molded. For calsie9.
marble, aabaster, bone, iy1y granite.
basalt and porphyry have ali been USED
from time immemorial.
Although whales grow to enormous size,
so and even 80 feet long, the throat OF tho
common whale is so small thai 1t cannot
swallow bite as large as tea scuit. The
spermaceti has mouth largt enough TO
swallow man.
Many good book has been written in
prison. Socrates, Cervantes Bunyan.
Defoe, Lovelace, Tasso, Berang5sr, Raleigh.
George Wther and James Mon gomery all
continued their literary labors lille suffer
ing from curtailment of iibsrty.
Russia has still many old d ad curious
marriage customs. One is fa the bride
and bridegroom to race % adlJ down the
aisle as soon as the proees5io1 enters the
church, because of the baiief uiat whoever
places foot first on the CLOTH in front of
the altar will be master Ok II household.
A story has been circISlati@g thar. the
Gar or Russia recentiy SUI % sfs <ulst1s
of Turkey as a present an alyum of paint
ings by the tirst-rate ARTISTS h allsthe var
ships of the Russian BLACK Sea fleet Ia
some quarters the reported bct is thought
piece Of fine hum0r, whlei IN Others it Is
con ldered an insult, tp wheh repartee
in kind would not be diJfcult.
In the middle ages pepuer was by no
means thing to be sneezeI at, althougn,
doubtless, people were sometimes taken
that way on making too closd an acque 1T
ance with what was therl very costly
condiment IDdeed, go greatly was il val
ued, that small PACKET was considered q
suita BILE present for noted person on his
marriage or some other great occasion.
In Spain. once upon a time. no man
might rue morse winch the King mad
mounted. One day when Philip Nv was
going to church 10 process sion. the Duke
of Modena offered to prese ut him with a
beautiful sleed belonging 20 him, ard ac-
counted the finest in Madrid. The King
declined the gift, saying he should regret
to render so noble an animal ever after
useless.
In the human body there is said to be
more than 100000 perspration glands
communicating with the surface by ducts,
having a total length of some ten miles.
The blood contains millions and millions
of corpuscles, each a structure Ii itself.
The number of rods In the retina, sup
posed 70 be the ultimate recipient # light.
is estimated at 30,00000O. a German sell
enlist has calculated that the gray matter
of the brain is built Of at least 600, 0OO, 600
cells.
Canal-boats made of iron or steel are
coming into favor in England. The
principal center of their manufacture is
Upton Green, the point where the canals
of the black country converge. The iron
and steel boats usually built average rom
nine to ten tons in weight. This average
length is 60 feet, by Z feet wide and or 10
in ches in draught, and they are capable of
carrying 80 tons. In the district named
they have almost entirely superseded
wooden boats.