The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-04-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

North Carolina is to have colony of 1000
WaldensiaEs.
Showers of fish have repeatedly fallen in
various PARTS of the world.
The number of elective courses in the
academic department of Yale College has
increased during the last year from 121 10
147.
Raising crows by incubation in order to
obtain the bounty of 10 cents offered for
their heads is an industrial enterprise re-
Gently reported in one of the enterprising
States of this Union.
The fastest locomotive was built some
years ago for the New York, Providence
and Boston road. The driving wheels were
six feet in diameter, the cylinder eighteen
inches, with twenty-four inch stroke.
man weighing 400 pounds fell down
stairway at Muncie, Ind, last week and his
enormous weight is said to have shook the
building, causing panic in the restaurant
and drugstore below.
The River Aide in Suffolk runs parallel
with the coast for some miles, only sepa-
rated from the sea by a narrow single
bank, which, when the tide is exceptionally
high, is covered by the waves.
The region between the first and second
eataracts of the Nile is the hottest on the
globe. 1t never rains there and the natives
do not believe foreigners who tell them that
water can descend from the sky.
One of the largest forests in the world
stands on ice. 1t is situated between the
Ural and the Okho.sk Sea. When a we'll
was recently dug in this region. at depth
OF 100 yards the GROUND WAS still frozen.
The marine lamprey's adhesive power is
such that twelve pounds may be raised
without forcing it to loose its hold. II is so
tenacious of life that its head remains for
hours attached to stone when Its body is
severed.
The tube-shaped polyp can be turned in
side out without impairing its vitality.
Sometimes II will succeed 10 reversing the
process, butif not. il resigns itself to its in
verted state aad lives happily as il nothing
had happened.
George NJ. Pullman will entertain King
Humbert if ltaly's ruler should Wis Chi
cagO, and thus do something to Tequite
HumOert Tor his patent of nobility by
which the title of Marquis was conferred
upon Mr.. Pullman.
In The manufacture Of beer last wear in
the United Kingdom 80, So. go bushels of
malt and corn and zoos, 720 cwt. OF sugar
were used. The duties paid amounted TO
&lO,079,6iS. London is the largest brewing
center. having 139 breweries. Burton comes
next.
Thirty-one million four hundred and
seventy-iye thousand FIVE hundred and
nineteen barrels of domestic beer were con-
suned In the United States last year-about
half barrel Tor each inhabtant If il had
been equally divided and all had drunk
fair"
Jeweled swords, costing from 500 to
5000, are now worn as pins by women who
can uford such luXuries, and a new device
is to provide the sword with a short jaweled
scabbard. When the ornament is pro perly
adjusted one sees only the hit and the
! glittering scab bard, which is made TO re-
| semble a blade.
In the United States there are So, GOO 600
| men and 3l,0 eco women. Men are in the
majority in all the States and Territories
| except in the District of Columbia. Massa-
| chusetts, Rhode Island, North Carolina,
! Maryland, Connecticut. New Hampshire
| New York, South Carolina, Virginia and
| New Jersey, in which there are more
! women than men. The District OF Colum-
| bia has the largest propnrtiouate excess of
! female population, and Montana contains
| the largest percentage OF men. In New
| Jersey the two sexes are most nearly
| equally represented.
The largest turret ship in the world. the
| Hood of The British navy, success fully
passed the official trial of her machinery
! Two weeks ago. She has a displacement Of
! IA, 100 tons, and under forced draught she
| made an average speed of II knots The
| trial of her 67-ion tnrret guns were exceed
| ingly satisfactory. The total cost of the
Hood when fully equipped will amount to
| nearly S950,000 She is a sister ship 10 the
Royal Sovereign, except that her guns are
mounted in turrets instead of barbettes.