The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-05-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
plttsbnrg has $500 Welshmen.


Pittsburg has $500 Welshmen.
Moonstnn IS a variety of feldspar.
Great Britain has eighty miles of tun-
nels.
China has many stone bridges 5000 years
old.
Ont of every 100 Pittsburgers thirty are
foreign born.
The 81. Louis wafer tower is the highest
in the world.
The coast survey of the United States
was begun in 1917.
The diamond, in a sufficient heat, will
The black diamond is so hard that it
cannot be polished.
Military engineers were formerly called
trench masters.
Every gem known to jewellers has been
found in the United States.
The play OF color in the opal is due to
minute ti-sures in the stone.
Four Nienese have been fined for iaering
at lady for wearing crinOliue in a public
garden.
A Galveston artesien we'll was sunk 1000
feet without encOuntering either rock or
water.
The tomb of Mahommed is covered with
diamonds, sapphireS ana rubies valued at
$10,000,000
Mary Burton, coy maid of 1O1 summers.
was married in the Grimsby (Euglandj
parish church a few weeks ago.
Some of the COmstock mines are so deep
that no means have yet been devised to
overcome the excessive heat.
OF the whole length of the Suez canal
sixty-nine miles are cuttings, fourteen
were made by dredging through lakes,
and eight miles required no labor
The largest monolth ever cut in this
country was Quarried of granite in Mis-
souri, and transported to the East on a
specially prepared train.
One of the first tunnels in the United
States was on the Allegheny 7 ortage Rail-
road, in Pennsylvania 1t was 800 feet
long ami finished in 1881.
a new postage stamp was issued hv the
Italian postollice on the silver wedding
day OF the King and Queen, bearing por-
traits OF the King and Queen.
A curious animal captured on the Atri-
can coast in 1854 was called the talking
fish," though it WAS really a species OF
seal. Among other iunumerable tricks it
was taught TO articuate the words
mamma. papa" and John"
The salaries of the British Ambassadors
are: To this country $50, 600 year. France
S45.000 to Austria $4,000, to Turkey
$4,000, to Russia $4,000, 20 Germany
$1,000, to Italy S35. 600. TO Spain S27. 800.
IHt Dllllsu II III OdSSduOTS nave also Ofilclal
residence.
Ninety-t@o thousand electric lamps will
be needed TO illuminate the Chicago ex-
hibition. The contractors expect that
something like 1900. 600 feet OF insulated
wire will be needed to effect the distribu-
tton OF the current. This will keep the
manufacturers busy.
Decatur's birthplace Is still pointed out
to visitors in the little village of Berlin.
QTppStpT tOnptE Mi
ago there were some remains OF the house.
n rude cabin, that sheltered the future
commodore at his birth. The DecAturs
were decent poor folk amid a slave holding
arstocracy.
The young woman telephone school has
been established by the Government in the
city of San Salvador for the purpose of
training young senoritas for service in the
American Telephone Company. This is a
decided innovation, for work Is not con-
sdered at all good form in the southern
republics.
man in Waupaca, Wis. has found in
sand pit she'll that may prove of i'm
! portance to naturalists, as it belongs to
| species found In the warm seas of Snuth
| America known as Busycon Pervetsum.
| They were used all over the South by the
mouId-builders for material 10 manufac
! ture great variety of articles.
The Michigan Central Railroad has intro
| uuCeu Il uUftIty HiSHiy esteemed among
| the women passengers who are presented
with handsome rosebud or other flower
| while jOurneylng In its cars. The cOmpany
| has now 1000 Towering plants in it's con-
seTvatorles ut Niles, Mich, and the ca
pacity of these greenhouses is being
| doubled TO supply the new demand.
Tee Ben Marche in Paris is said 20 en-
| piuy 100 men VINO do nothing but watch
| for shoplif'ers. This one establishment
alone arrests from 1900 to $1,000 people
| annually WHO have been caught stealing
| Probably if 10000 or 10000 more who do
! not get caught are added. an idea can he
formed Of the way kleptomania flourishes
| In France.
What is believed to be the largest sh ad
| ever taken IN the waters near the head (
| Delaware Bay was caught opposite Della
| ware City few days ago. 1t measured
! q inches in length. 4 inches in thickness
| and 10 Inches at It's grea test circumfere
| Its weight was 10 pounds. The fish was
/ bought for 81 and sent as present to Mr..
| Cleveland
1t is stated that the collection of postage
| stamps has brought into existence n pro-
| fesslonai stamp repairer, who for a small
| Zee, never exceeding % cents" will dex-
| trously repair torn or mutllated stamps.
| His speciality Is restoring the margin to
| envelope stamps that have been cut to
| shape and have thus lost much of their
Among the Indians of Washington, Ore
gon aud British Columbia all white men are
known as Boston men," and even tie
wagon road is called boston hoolhut. I"
The Hub Is naturally proud of this. 1t is
| supposed that the celebration of Boston
in the veTnacular of Indian tribes on the
other side of tile continent came from the
fact that many of the early traders hailed
from Boston.
Fuiler's earth is mostly found in the
vicinity of Relgate, Dorkng and Leith
Hill. three OF tue many charming dis
Iricts IN which the county of Surrey
abonnds. 1t is extracted in the form
| OF very soft stone. which crum-
bles at the touch, and it has to
go through process of manufacture be-
fore it is sold in the acceptable form in
which chemists dispense it. Last year the
| quantity stated in the Blue Book as hay-
| Ing been extracted was $500 tons, and its
value was estimated at el0,500
Tourists visiting the Indian and Banana
| rivers in Florida are astonished and
amused at the antics of the mullets of
those Streams. These fish grow to be five
or six pounds in weight and are famous
jumpers. They leap from the water, shoot
three or four feet through the air, come
up again and leap twice as far, and keep
on for half dozen of leaps, each longer
than the other. Now and thsn muiet
takes leap of fifteen or twenty feet and
disappears. 1t happens not infrequently
that leaping mullet falls into q passing
boat.
Thousands of Voices.