The morning call., 1893-09-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

About $50 languages are spoken on this
continent
Shaving pots are electrically heated
nowadays.
Water lilies are used for food in India,
China and Japan.
Belgium is the first country TO make
hypnOtlsm crime.
The tallest tree on earth is gum tree In
Aus,ralia-4l5 feet.
The latest ocean steamship suggestion Is
a submarine trolley.
The searchlight at the Worlds Fair is
The largest In existence.
a Philadelphia medical paper says city
noises produce disease.
Paris fruit-dealers cover their green
wares 10 make them appear ripe.
The Dead Sea loses every day by eVapO-
ration several million tons of water.
Church pastOrates are still sold to the
highest bidders in some parts Of England.
The longest animal known to exist is
the rorQual, which averages 100 feet in
length.
Men with gray and blue eyes are usually
better markSmen than those with dark
eyes.
Rothschild's colony in Palestine is -four
ishing so well that he has purchased more
land for il.
The United States has lower percent
age OF blind people than any other coun-
try in the world.
Three letters are written in the United
States to one in the United Kingdom.
where the next largest number are.
If one holds his breath he becomes for
the moment sting proof, and can handle
bees and hornets with implnlty.
The climate of the Southern Polar re-
gion IS much more severe than that of cor
responding regions TO the north.
Medieval doctors considered chips from
the gallOws on which somebody had been
hanged good remedy for the ague.
Dew has preference for some cOlors.
While yellow board attracts dew, red
or black one beside it will be perfectly dry.
1t was the vogue ut one time in Venice
the supper-table. The candles were also
coated with gold.
Palindromes. words or sentences which
read or spell the same backward as for
ward, in superstitiOus ages were supposed
to possess magical virtues.
An English lady cured herself OF SOM
nam bulism, after trying every known rem
edy in vain. by sewing I'D her night dress
at the bottom and at the sleeves.
Very few of the Dawara race of Africa
die natural death. A sick person is
pushed out of the hut by his relatives, who
do their utmost to hasten his death
Twenty millions of articles of mail mat
ter pass through the United States post
offices each day. and 500, 600 letters are re-
ceived annually at the Dead Letter Office
Every year since Victor Hugo died.
poems has appeared. Victor Hugo wrote
an enormous amount of poetry which be
never published.
The largest family in the world Ia that
of the King of Siam. he has two official
wives. IS Of the second class and y chill
dren. He has so brothers and sisters and
226 uncles and aunts.
On clear day an object raised one foot
above level plain can be seen l 81 miles:
one 10 feet high, 4.15 miles; one 20 feet
high, 5.S6 miles; one 100 feet high, ISL
miles, and one a mile high las the top of
mountainl almost 96 miles.
According to the Talmudists. Satan.
whose real name is Sammael, or EbIis
was originally an angel with six wings. He
is also known as the Old Serpent. the
Devil. BeelZebub, the Unclean Spirit, Lee
viathan and Asael.
The male wasps and hornets are the
scavengers OF The community, being re-
Quired to keep the nest clean. They re-
move the bodies of the dead, and when
these are too heavy they bite off the head
and divide the body again at the waist.
Fish are being killed in large numbers in
Boone County, Iowa, by novel process
The river is low and the fish are in the
few deep places. Their slaughter is effect
ed by placing unslacked lime in an or
dina-y fruit jar putting in a quantity Of
water with 1t and screwng on the top.
There is a common belief that alcohol
gives new strength and energy after
fatigue sets in. The sensation of fatigue
is one of the safety valves of the human
machine; to stife the feeling OF fatigue, in
order to do more work, is like closing the
safety valve so that the boiler NAV be
overheated and explosion result.
The Bank of Venice was opened in 1857.
of Geneva in 1916. of Genoa 14O7. of Am
sterdam 1907, OF Hamburg 1919. of Rotter-
dam 1855, Of Stockholm 1858, of Scotland
1855. OF Copenhagen 1876, of Berlin 1895.
Caisse d'Escompte of France 1776, of Ire.
land 1883, of ST. Petersburg 1856. of France
1903. the Imperial Bank Germany 1876
The Russian soldier is more heavily
burdened tnan any other. The foot soldier
IN the army of the Gar carries over sixty
eight pounds. The weights borne by the
foot soldiers of the other principal Euro
pean nations are as follows: French, 81
pounds; British, 62 pounds; Germans, 81
pounds; Swiss, 80 pounds; Italian, 43
pounds; Austrian, AZ pounds.
Roots draw enormous quantities of
moisture from the soil and by this means
~ 10 aASCHdlScu lntO tH6 dlmOSplero. For
example, the common sunflower was
found to eXhale twelve ounces of water in
twelve hours. and an oak tree with an es-
tImated number of 100000 leaves would
In the same way give off something like
ZOO tons of water during the five mouths it
carries its foliage.
AT Dauphine, on January IL, 1913, at a
place known as the Giants Field
brick tomb 80 feet long, II feet wide and s
feet high was discovered When opeued
1t was found to contain skeleton entire,
25A feet long, 10 feet wide across the
shoulders, and feet thick from the breast
bone to the back. His feet were each
about the size Of an ox's foot, aud his shin
bones each measured fee. in length.