The morning call., 1893-06-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Georgia has 100x250 foot tombstone.
The United States had in 1892 81, l19 post
offices.
The two bridges Of XeIxes contained
1850 boats.
The best examples of Christian art dur
ing the first three centuries are in the ca a.
combs of Rome.
Greek architecture was based on tie
bower of trees which formed the origina
shelter of that people.
There were over 100 colossal statues in
the city of Rhodes, besides the great bronze
image that beStrode the harbor.
In Oidtown. Me-. every dog condemned
10 death has two days respite, is killed by
chloroform and has decent burial.
The first discovery of land in tho limits
OF the United States was on April ., 1912,
by DE Leon. and the iand was Florida.
A new cigarette machine has been ln-
vented that will feed, roll, paste aud make
10000 perfect cigarettes in ten hours.
"Chump" is not new word, as Sir Philip
Sidney is reported to have used "cnump-
ish" in the sense OF "sullen" over 300years
ago.
A toad is no fonder of dirt than any one
else, and before be sucks an angleworm
down his throat scrapes the dirt off with
his paws
The title of nabob belongs to the admin
separate provinces into which the district
OF suDahdar WAS divided.
Last year seventeen sunken rocks, NTH
ert0 uncharted, were discovered in vari-
Gus parts OF the globe In the most convinc-
ing manner possible-by ships running on
them.
There are more acres of wooded land in
Massachusetts, now than thirty years ago.
The decreasing of the Eastern States has
been more than balanced by the abandon
ment Of the poor land to trees.
Manifestations Of nervousness are queer
sometimes. One man mas kinks in his right
leg, another wrinkles his nose spasmodi-
cally, another pulls the corners of his
mouth into fierce grin, and another winks
rapidly.
The exact date of St. Paups birth is not
known to the Bible students, but he is be-
lieved to have been between five and ten
years the senior of our Savior. He was
born at Tarsus, Asia Minor, died at Rome
(he was beheaded) in the year 81 or IS A. ID.
The English Black Friday was May II.
1866, the height OF the commercial panic of
that year; the American Black Friday
was september "A. 1853, when A group of
Spectators in New York suddenly ad-
vauced the price Of gold and produced a
disastrous panic.
A barber in Auburn. Me-, has per-
fected device for the use OF upstairs
shops 10 Indicate to would-be patrons on
the sidewalk just how many chairs are
running, how many customers are wait
Ing, ETC., thus saving the information
seekers trip upstairs.
4 fire occurred recently in a show-win-
dow at Boston, caused by the sun, which
focused through a mammoth magnifving
glass and set fire 10 n photograph. a few
years ago bright tin dish concentrated
me rays OF the sun In a store window at
Lynn aGd caused sufficient fire TO call
out the fire department.
some men who were digging well at
Live Oak, Fla, found about ten feet be-
low the surface of the ground a tree that
WAS petrlhed only on the outside. The
trunk was split opeu and the inside was
found 10 be filled with honey. which had
oeen SMUT up in the tree for many years.
4 French vegetarian society, like ancient
Gaui. has become divided into three parts.
one wing calls itself cerealite. to indicate
that 1t believes only in eating cereals.
another will be known AZ fruitarian. be-
cause 1t thinks fruit the only proper food.
and another has been dubbed tuberile. he.
cause 1t believes in eating roots.
A technical paper gives the following
rule for determining the number of tons of
rails required to lay a mile of track.
Multiply the weight per yard by II and
diVlcs me product by Z. For example:
Take 70-pound rail; 70 multiD,ied bv II
equals no, which divided by gives 10.
the number of tons (of 224o pounds EACH
required to the mile.