The morning call., 1893-05-21
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Russia produces 111.640 barrels Of pc
trolelm daily.
Condors have been killed t. Peru with
wings OF 40 feet spread.
In one summer the descendants of fly
will number 2. 2.0S0,320. c
1t is said that Nine. Pompadour used to
spend 100000 year in perfumes.
People never think of whistling in Ice
land. 1t is violation of the divine law.
A skirt dance was one of the features of
a church social at Evanston, Ind. the other
day. b.
speck of gold Weighing the milIionth
part of a grain may be easily seen by the
naked eye.
Among stevedores cotton Is regarded as
the hardest to stow and railway iron as the
easiest.
The German Emperor recently issued an
order against officers in the army using
single eyeglasses.
There is a church at Kirkwood, Ca,
owned by Pres byterians. with Methodist
pas stor, and the seats were originally
owned by Baptists and donated by Epis-
copalians.
Baron Liebig. the German chemist, says
that a IS much -four as will lie on the point
of a. .tabte-knitenc contains as much uutri.
tive constituents as eight pints of the best
beer made.
An ACT paSSeQ Dy Tie ALABAMA LeglS Ia
ture prohibits the killing of ring-necked
Mongolian pheasants In that State for
period OF eight years, beginning June l of
the present year. r s"t' ';'.
The Cockerill works in Belgium boast OF
a 100-ton hammer, but Krupp's gun works
in Essen, Germany, goes them one bet
ter" with one weighing 80 tons. This last
hammer is the largest now in use.
A pair of kid button shoes were made
a6 m foa
the other day iG 10 minutes and As seGonds
The previous record was "a minutes. OF
course they will be shown at the Worlds
Fair.
Near Portrush. in the north of Ireland.
the Atlantic waves have carved a gigantic
face on the cliff, called the Giants Head
rock. The features are most prominently
marked and are OF huge proportions.
Alabama once more comes to The front
This time her "boast is woman who
was struck by lightning seven years ago.
has never spoken since and whose eyes
grow "luridly brilliant" at the approach
OF thunderstorm.
A Wilkesharre Pa.) woman went to the
naval parade lately to see her son, who
was attached to one of the ships. She not
only saw her son, but found her husband.
who had deserted her twenty years ago.
and had him arrested.
A peculiar example of newspaper enter
prise under difficulties is offered by the
Rhoddesia Chronicle and Advertiser. a
Mashonaland paper, which is foolscap
sheet OF sixteen pages, not printed in tyre,
but written by hand and duplicated by an
Office stylogra phi process.
1t used to be popular fashion in the
British House of Commons for Censerva-
tive members to wear a primrose In the
coat lapel on the anniversary of Lord
Beac onsfield's death. The custom an
y,aa t0 hau n alx Il I'D
this year not one member In twenty wore
the flower.
The Pasteur Institute in Paris is still as
popular resort for hydrophobic patients
as it was VIII n the fame of the scientists
cures by incubation was at the fiood-tide.
The other day ten persons, who had been
bitten by mad dog, presented themselves
In body TO receive treatment.
A large python from West Africa, in the
geological gardens at Breslau, Germ any, is
said to have recently swallowed a boa
which me sured nearly seven feet in
length and correspondingly thick. The
circumference OF the boa throughout its
length was from % to 2S inches. and its
skin was expanded to double its usual
size.
a coatimondi, q species of anteater,
which is owned by Joseph Wallace of
Brunswick, Ga, does not confine itself to
destroying ants. but has committed sew
eral roDberies OF Jewery, money and other
articles of value. All the articles, how
ever, have been recovered in out-of-the-
way places where the animal had hidden
them.
A curious state of affairs prevails in
France in relation to women. A French
woman may become a doctor, lawyer, a
member of the Board of Education, ana
may even be decorated with the cross of
the Legion of Honor; but she may not wit
ness a legal document. She occupies an
important place in art, business and COM
merce; but she cannot possess ner own.
earnings II she is married, and she can
neither buy nor sell properly without her
husbands consent.
A curious box was recently found amid
the ruins of Pom peii. TIE box was mar.
Bile or alabaster, about two inches square
and closely sealed. When opened il was
found 10 be full of apomatum of grease.
hard, but very fragrant. The smell some,
what resent bled that of roses. but was
much more fragrant. What the perfume
was made OF cannot be copiec,ured now.
but 1t is singular that men in the nine
teenth century should be able to regaie
their noses with perfumes prepared in the
first.
Woman's Judgment.
Truth.
Mr. Perte-I can't see how it is that |
always lose at the races, while you win.