The morning call., 1893-11-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A Barcelona SPAIN bank was founded
in 1401.
European railroads have no grade cross
ings.
Canterbury Cathedral in England was
founded A. d. 602.
Fine hair generally betokens native good
taste and intelligence.
Great Britain has 1851, 900 domestic SER
wants earning S342, 100000.
The Postoffice Department costs $780,
100000 a year, and has revenue Vi
SCI. 0G0. 000
The ratio of insanity is greatest IN Ire
land-37 to 10000; the United States
comes next with 33.
Buckle brought out the first volume OF
the History of Civilization" at SO. He
was not college graduate:
According to the best estimates Great
Britain has at present e102OO0,0 600 gold,
e22. 0O0. 900 silver, e39, 100000 paper. total
of 9163. 100000.
The Normans who conquered England
shaued the face and the back of the head
so that Harold's spies declared they were
an army of priests.
The Bridge of Sighs at Venice has no
romance worthy the name. Most OF the
fortunates who cross it are petty thieves
who are sent to the workhouse.
The maelstrom is not whirlpool which
sucks ships down into the depths of the
ocean. 1t is an eddy, which in fair weather
can be crossed in safety by any vessel.
The great panic of 1857. accompanied by
a general suspension of specie payments,
was precipitated by the bankruptcy of the
Ohio Life and Mutual Insurance Company.
The first horsecars in New York were
run along the Bowery in 1888. Now there
are nineteen street railroads in that city,
using 1000 ears and 10000 horses, and car
rying 225, 100000 passengers yearly.
Kant, the German PHILOSOPHER. was fond
of walking, but was so fearful of contract
ing some infectious disease that he always
walked with his lips closed and handker-
chief over his nose
Madden says that in the British West
Indies two centuries ago pins. slices OF
bread, pinches of snuff, drains of whisky,
soap. cocOanuts, eggs ana other common
articles were all used as money.
A female Goldfish will lay $4,000, coo eggs
authorities say that were it not for the
work Of the natural enemies of fish they
would fill all the available space in the
seas, rivers and oceans.
Some time ago an Iowa cyclone followed
the route of a railroad for several miles,
and now there is a theorist on deck who
proposes TO steer these storms by means of
in to open sections of country where they
can spend their force without damage.
The nineteenth century will not end till
midnight Monday, Decem Der 81, 1900, al
though the old quarrel will probably again
be renewed as TO what constitutes a GEN.
tury when it winds up, and thousands will
insist on premature burial Of the old
century at midnight on December 81. 1899.
A bouquet of red or pink roses, if placed
in strong light, even when they ara first
cut. will in few hours have a bleach he'd
and lifeess look, while If they are not so
exposed they will retain their color and
freshness for several days. The water in
which flowers are TO be placed should be
slightly salted and the ends Of the flowers
stems clipped before they are placed in it.
A surprising number of new restaurants
OF the cheaper sort are painted white.
Probably their proprietors are following a
fashion set by New Yorker, whose bill
of fare consisted largely Of milk, who in
tended to imply as much by the cream
cOored front of his place. The so-caled
dairy" restaurants and coffee-houses that
are scattered about the land and that
are painted white are umbered by
hundreds.
In the Horticultural building at Chicago
there Is a solid silver filgree model of that
structure which cost $685. 900. or about one
ScVtutD VI tnt COsI vi tDc lax ScI
itself. 1t weighs 110 pounds. is II feet
long, feet inches wiue and feet 9
inches in height. To build It required the
services of twelve men working eighteen
hours a day thirteen months. The work
was done by the Mexicans. who are the
most adept In the filigree art.
Professor Bell thinks the time occupied
by inventors in working Cut the problem
of aerial navigation by the usual inflated
gasbags ana methods of steering them is
wasted. He thinks feasible means of
propelling and directing an airship would
be by kind of trolley system, where the
rod would hang down from the car to the
stretched wire instead of extending up
ward. He recommends the idea to in
ventors.