The morning call., 1893-07-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The Tower of Babel was $50 feet high.
American newspapers employ 200. 600
New York storags-houses represent
$500, 900. 900. :. :. :.
A male adult has half an ounce of sugar
in his blood.
Edison is to exterminate the mosquitoes
in New Jersey.
The oldest newspaper in the world is the
Picking Gazette. which has been regularly
published since A. d. OIL. "
Brazil in 1890 carried 100000 letters
and 10. 0C0.000 packages of printed matter.
There were 2733 postofices.
Last year there were 100000 sheep
sheared in Montana. and increase Of IS per
cent over the previous year.
A small tallor-shop in New York has
this sign: English: tailor. Lei on Parle
Francois" The proprietor is a German. .
The name of "Milliner" really means
"Milaner." the first hat-trimmers in Eng
land, having been ladies from Milan, Italy.
DR.. Newcomb of Cornell University. it
is said, kept. snails shut up in pill box
for seven years, which were resuscitated
by a very little moisture.
One species of beetle is known as the
"sexton" or ''grave-digger," because they
bury or attempt TO bury all dead animals,
large or small. with which they come In
contact.
A radish about foot In length and with
complete knot tied in the center is q
vegetable monstrosity, il is claimed, grown
on the farm of Spencer Williams, near
Pawnee, Kans.
One hundred years ago grave robbers
got more for the teeth of cadaver than
they did for the subject itself. They
were disposed of to dentists. who used
them as s'artifcials."
| About 10000 couples have been divorced
in France during the last five years, aud a
law was recently read in the Chamber OF
| IDENTITIES designated to make severance
| of the matrimonial bonds much easier
| still.
The French are amazed that the English
should have built the Royal Sovereign.
| their biggest irOnclad, in three and half
wears, The Neptune and Magenta, two
| French ships. have been twelve years
| building.
| A portion of the bones of q mastodon
were recently unearthed on a ranch on
Snake River, in Idaho. The frame OF the
mastedon is said to cover. a surface of 100
feet. and some Of the bones measure three
feet square. -.
All the West Indih Islands down to
Trinidad, just off the coast of Venezuela.
are recognized by their flora and fauna as
being far more nearly related 90 the north
| o. Udib VI tuO- VOSsSAA
South America.
The materials of the sculptor comprise
almost every substance capable OF being
carved. cast or nodded For carving, mar
Bile. alabaster, bone, ivory, granite. basalt
and: porphyry have all been used from
| time immem0rlai.
/ A. w. Glover Of WMdsor Locks. Wis.,.
! claims to have discovered ID the founda-
lions of an old foundry stone covered
with hieroglyphics supposed 10 be of In
dian origin. though no one versed In In
dian lore can decipher them.
We have sixty divisions on the dials OF
| our clocks and watches because the old
Greek astronomer. Hipparchus. who lived
in the second century before Christ, USED
the Babylonian system OF dividing time.
that system being sexagesimal.
Experiments have been made by NJ NJ.
Goutes and Sibill0t with the view Of adopt
ing aluminium as the material for the gas
holders Of dIrieibe balloons instead OF Six
or other stuff, and the results of their exc
periments have been satisfactory.
Some interesting tests have been made
| to determine the rate OF fall or rise OF
curial thermometer under different condi-
tions, the result showing conciusiveiy that
the velocity of current has altogether too
great an influence to be neglected.