The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-01-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

SILK worms were brought from China to
Europe AID. 400.
The surveys OF our coast lines are now
practically complete.
Fish are in the best condition for eating
Just before spawning.
Obljque nails are said to be an indication
of deceit and cOwardice.
Baking bread, cakes and pies became q
profession in Greece, b. c. 14S.
Sir Walter Raleigh had court suit Of
armOr of solid gold inlaid with jewels.
The shipping Of elk to Eastern States is
reported to be a new industry Of Southern
Idaho.
The cost Of maintaining the fam Gus
Girard College IN Philadelphia last year
was SAL 652
1t costs the United States Government
$1,000 a day for firing morning and evening
salutes.
So many Spanish coins are being un-
earthed IN Georgia fields that il would prob
ably prove a good investment for somebody
to purchase lot OF ground and go into the
business.
Four thousand new postoffices were estab-
llshed during the past year, 557. 90 uumaii-
able letters poured into the boxes, B. CD OF
them wholly without any outside sign, SYM
Dol or address.
The first almanac printed IN Europe Is
believed to have been tue "kalendarinm
-NofAitls ~ 1hC%lltiUAt tdACilAttU lUI
the three years, 1875. 1894 and 1913. It was
published in BOda, Hungary.
A tableau curtain Of crystal prisms."
| held together by nearly twenty-five miles
OF wire, and Illuminated by electric lights,
Is SAID 10 have been iDarVel0uSly effective
scene novelty In recent London panto-
mime.
Noses turned uD attne point and sinking 10
at the top are inclined to ease and pleasure.
though az the same time they may be gifted
with eloqueDce and imagination, and are
almost always benevolent.
a religious census OF Australia, Just COM
pleied, shows 1,485.C66 mem bers of the
Church Of England, S0,llS Catholics, 493 800
PresbFterians and 364 81 Methodists
These are the four most numerous denOmi-
nations.
OF American apples nearly SEQ, GOO bar
Tels are imported 10 England every season,
about fourth OF these finding their way
to Covent Garden. The barrels weigh
from 40 to $50 pounds, ana are exeelienily
packed.
Japanese women put M their hair with
wooden, ivory or tortoiSe-shell haiCpins
seven or eight inches in length ami fully
half an inch wide. The pins are usually
carved and are often capped with plyoted
figures, which dance with every motion OF
tie weareT.
A gigantic gorilla. measuring seventy
Inches across its chest and with shoulders
as wide as those Of three men united, was
shot by Lieutenant M0rgen'S party recently
at pls CO twenty-five days march from the
coast of CAMERON. The creature was so
heavy and unWieldy that il required the
efforts Of sixteen men to drag il to tue
station.
The girls OF Vassar College intend to
present ''Soph0cles AnIigone" in April or
May at the Opera-hOuse IN Poughkeepse
\. Y. They viii make use of the very
f-.as~ Htasa~l- sr.-s al.
and drama and reproduce the q Id costumes
and stage pictures. The most interesting
| feature OF the play will be that girls will
represent male characters.
Peter DimitrefT Salomme, recently de-
ceased. was assistant cook and afterward
chef IN the imperial household of the late
Gar, but was con sldeFed too unprOgres
for the position, so he was taken into the
Department of Education, and for twenty
years discharged the duties Of INSPECTOR
General Of Schools at Warsaw, with no little
credit TO himself.
The Indians have not the sound OF 81 3"
All their SIS are sibilant The French mis-
siOnarieS and writer's were all strictly pho
netIc in their transcription of words. Note
the mistake in the word Missouri" the
name OF large State, a great river and a
famous Indian tribe. Always and invaria-
bly, Americans pronounce IL as MiZzouri
while he natives OF tile State do likewise
hflpR EuH-mnEiuS tstduAlSfliDFni anu
tlfe GTus0n gun mandatory, near Madge-
burg, have been amalgamated. Krupp pos
sesses the secret of the manufacture of the
best steel for heavy guns and the Gruson
works have hitherto produced the best
aTmor-plating in Germany aud the most
effective armor-piercing prOjectiles in tie
world.
Statistics of the cost of the late general
election Ia Italy show the amounts spent on
Treating" 10 aggregate a total of 10, 0G0, 600
lire, about S2000,000. In some districts the
peasants had meat and wine, all they cared
for, a. The candidates expense, for a whole
week before the election, and one eandi-
date is said to have spent 100000 lire for
electoral purposes.
Wolves that stray into town and wander
about the streets in leisurely way, seeing
the sights. but usually very few people, are
among the features that add TO the cheer
and variety Of life in the dreary winter sea-
son out in the Great West. Accounts of
cOyoJes being seen and occasionally killed
on the streets are not infrequent items in
Western papers just now.
Successful experiments for the use OF the
telephone in warfare have been made in
France. Teleph0nists have been organized
in sets Of two men. each set bsng provided
with equipment for a mile OF telephone
communication. The receiving and trans
hitting apparatus is very simple, aud is at
tached 10 the cap the wire is Oh reels, In the
form OF breaStpiate, and the whole equip
ment for each man weighs less than 6
pounds.
An International long-distance drive of
one and two horse vehicles. from Berlin to
Vienna, is being arranged by the trotting
clubs OF the two capitals. Il Is to take place
next May. The object is to test the quail
ties of the different breeds of trotting
horses, especially the merlcan and Rus
sian" Horses Of all countries may be en-
tered, but only amateur whips may take
part.
At period after the Moorish Invasion,
when the Christian and Moslem population
became so mixed that it was hard to say
which were Moors and which SpaniaTds,
the pious Spanards hit upon the mustache
as a means Of Identification. They per-
mitted the hair on the upper lip to grow,
aud also tuft on the under lip an outline
Of the cross being thus formed. Thus, say
the PaUisiaus, the mustache becomes a
symbol OF liberty, equality and fraternity.
At the last meeting of the editorial COM
mlltee Of the British and Foreign Bible
Society questions affecting between thirty
and forty versions and editions of the Scrip
lures were discussed. These included sew
eral for use 10 the Congo regions, ar edition
of the GaDda New Testament Tor Uganda,
q version for the Kabyles of Algeria, one
fer the Wagogo tribe in Eastern Equatorial
Africa, an edition of the Ibo Gospels for
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