The morning call., 1893-04-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Lake Wrumia in Persia is said to contain
| y per cent Of salt.
! This country has more that 5000, 900 men
| nj Tor military duty.
Three thousand marriages are performed
| every day all over the world.
Chinese bank note 500 years old is pre-
| served in Chinese museum.
The OrIoff diamond is believed to be re.
| sponslOle Tor SiXty-seven murders.
Railway extensions are to be butt in
Upper aud Lower Egypt to a cost of about
| S6.250,000.
The population of Ireland in 1891, ac
cording to revised returns recently issued
| was 4,6S1, 2i6
Thirty two States and Territories in
America have given women some form Of
suffrage.
France had in operation on December
| 81, 1882, 80, 1873 kilometers of railway lines,
an increase of 724 kilOmeters over the mile
age at the end Of 1891.
certain biologists say that accumulatng
ice at the north pole will throw the earth
out OF balance aud cause the destruction of
jscis.
Suits for 100000 have been filed against
the city of Atlanta. Ga, by people who
ciaim that their health has been injured
through miasma from the city Dumping
grounds.
In 1894 the first turnpike road was made.
slXty-two miles long, brtween Lancaster
and Philadelphia, SO called because it was
required to be so hard that pike could not
be driven through it.
The King of Siam, at his own expense.
has decided 10 make an Interesting display
IN the manufactures, agricultural and for
estIy buildings at the Worlds Fair and
Will also erect royal pavilion OF elaborate
carved woods
The umbrella-shaped Medusa is a curious
Delng. IL is practically Ill water, and when
! le1t on the beach by the fall Of the tide is
! aee0mposed from huge lump Of Jelly into
Almost nothing III marvelously short
| space of time.
On the west coast Of Scotland there is n
famous whirlpool called COrryyreckham
| Nhen the tide IS low ana storm is raging
the scene IS one Of great grandeur, though
| Wheh the tide Is foil the whirlpool diSap-
pears altogether.
The Florida orange crop this season Will
| probably be tile largest ever known The
trees are now in blossom, aud are SO full Of
bloom that should only half of them mature
| the trees would not hold the fruit without
| considerable prOpping and bracing.
The crnelfX used by the Ahhe Edgewortb
at the execution of Louis XVI is reported
| to be at present in the possession Of the
parish priest of st. Medard de Guisicre to
whom 1t was presented by a dying parish
| Toner, who enloined him never 10 part with
| IL as II was sacred relic
For short period, under the West Saxon
| kings oil England, Croydon was the capital.
| ana London mere provincial town. Nor
| wood, II II were now named afresh, would
oe south Wood, since II IS south OF London :;
| nut, when 1t was chTistened, it lay to the
north of Croydon, which was the more i'm
| portant place of the two
In the sixteenth century there was OIL
| rious enactment in England whereby street
haWkers were forbidden TO sell plums and
! apples, lor the reason that servants and ap-
| prentlces were unable TO resiSJ the sight of
! them, and were consequently tempted to
steal their employers money in order tn
enjoy the costly delicacies.
There is lake in the State of MARYLAND.
near ChesterIown, that is known as Still
| Fond, because IL mas never been known to
| he ruffied by the most violent storms,
! Another popularity CT this lake is that
| even during the recent cold weather there
| was not skim Of ice on its surface, and IL
Is not known ever TO have been frozen.
| Something handsome awaits the man who
| shall contrive magazine, self-feediug cleo
| tTic arc lamp that shall work uneIringly
| and be cheaper than the wages of the men
now employed TO put in new Gardens, In
| ventlon has overcome one serious difficulty
after another In electric lighting, and the
| hopeful thing about the cOmme cial use of
! electricity is that every skilled man EN-
| pioyed in the business seems to aspire 10 be
| an inventor.
The tracks of the great Atlantic liners
| between the United States and Great Britain
are as accurately made out and followed as
| If they were built on land. the winter track
| being some distance south of tile summer
| track, because of lceberGS. Over these
| watery roads the ocean greyhOunds travel
| at the speed of moderately fast railway
| trains, the maximum attained by the Amer
| lean liner Paris being about lwenty-three
| miles an hour.
The supplies OF winter vegetables re-
| ceived in the East from Southern Califor-
| MIA are much larger this season than in
| previous years, and have assumed large
proportions. During January the Southern
| California Railway shipped to the East
| over 100000 pounds more of cabbages.
cauliflowars aud celery than in the same
| month last year. an increase of 100 per cent.
| These supplies came from California, where
| the Industry is growing in the ratio OF the
| increasing demand.
While hemlOck bark does not contain
more than per cent of fannie acid, and the
| best oak more than is per cent, it has been
| demonstrated that the palmetto yields from
| II TO - per cent Thus the forests of the
| South have an eXhaustless supply of tam
| ming material. While oak and hemlock
bark must be peeled in certain season, the
| palmetto can be orked all the year round
| Tanning. which has heretofore been n
| Northern industry, can thus become equally
native TO the South.