The morning call., 1893-12-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| The Prince of Wales has10ne living son.
| Inc opal is no longer considered un-
| lucky.
| June is the favorite month for mar
| riages.
Butterflies are found in almost all
| countries.
The golden-crested wren is the smallest
bird in the world.
Secret marriages in every country in Eu-
| rope are illegal.
In Alabama all school and church prop
erty is exempt from taxation.
The tides of the North American Pacific
Coast are reflex rather than direct
Gold is washed in Africa by the same
means employed by the California '49ers.
The Bermuda Islands were named for
Bermudez, aSpaniard. who sighted them
in 1927.
Each pupil in the public schools of the
United States costs an average Of SIT %
year.
Ex-President Hayes called two extra
sessions of Congress during his term of
office.
The basin of the Great Lakes was rroba-
bly, formed by contraction of the earth's
crust
1t is claimed that pumice stone and
cream will remove superfiuous hair from
the chin.
Two thousand new books will be put on
the market by London publishers alone
this winter.
The combined length of the worlds
telegraph lines would encircle the globe
about thirty-three times.
The meanest man yet was an Ohio youth
who got married and left an envelope con-
tanning 2cent ferry ticket in the parsons
hand.
There are entire apartment-houses in
New York uionopolized by self-snpporting
bachelor girls, and they are the happiestof
their sex.
Ear-lopping was of three degrees: For
minor offenses, the lower lobe was taken
off; for graver, the upper half; for offensss
still more serious, the whole ear was
shorn away.
Gold leaf, when beaten into sheet of
the thickness of but 100000 OF an inch.
appears to be of beautiful green when
semi-taaDsparent.
The number of suicides throughout the
world is 10000 yearly, and ou the In
crease. The greatest number happen in
June, the fewest in September. and nearly
one-half between A. NJ ana noon.
The navigation Of the Dead Sea is the
latest step in Oriental progress. The Sui
tan has sent two sailing boats there, one
for freight and one for passengers. Abdul
Hamid is going to try to make money out
of the salt, bltumen and sulphur OF the
lake.
Samuel Jeffries and wife, each aged rs.
reside at Hustonville, Ky. They had no
children In the first seven years OF their
married life, but In the eleven months
after that four were born, and in the next
fourteen years fifteen more were born.
There were seven sets of twins among
the nineteen children.
The flavor Of eggs depends very much on
the kind of food given TO the poultry.
When hens are fed largely or almost ex-
clusively on milk the yolk ia lighter in
color. the white has milky look, and the
whole egg is watery and less firm in tex
ture than those laid by grain. fed hens.
The City Marshal of Boston more thau
sixty years ago arrested one William
Doyle and found in his possession de-
post book on the Providence Institution
Tor Savings showing that the prisoner had
deposited $50 there. The City Marshal
took possession of the book. Doyle served
his term after sentence and was then lost
to sight. Long after it was learned that
he died in Charlestown, Mass, leaving no
known heir. Five years ago legal proceed
lngss were instituted. publications we're
made aud no claimant appeared. Last
week the sum on deposit, which has In
creased to about S2100, was turned over to
the commonwealth of Massachusetts.