The morning call., 1894-06-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
lee surrendered on Friday.

Lee surrendered on Friday.
Moscow was burned On Friday.
Washington was born on Friday.
Queen Victoria was married on Friday.
Photographs have been taken 500 feet
under water.
There are less than 800 pure-blooded
GreenlandeTS.
Tue charitable institutions of France
give away in aims over S25, 0O0 O00 each
year
The greatest price paid for modern
painting was for Millat's "Angelus,"
which brought S11C600, bought by an
American.
There is an old French couple in New
York, neither of whom, after residence
of forty years in America. can speak
English.
Sir Isaac Newton's treatise on Optics"
attracted no attention in his own country
until after it had made a profound i'm
preston in France.
AS showing the Importance of South
African trade it may be stated that Eng
land has forty ships. Germany eight and
the United States two engaged in this
traffic
The largest mammoth found in Siberia
measured IL feet long and 10 feet in
height. The tusks weighed $50 pounds.
The head without the tusks weighed Ala
pounds.
No receptacle has ever been made strong
enough to resist the bursting power of
freezing water. Twenty-pOund shells have
been burst asunder as though made Of
pottery.
The ''Vinegar Bible" is so called from
| an error in Luke 20. Parable OF the Vine
! yard" appeared as Parable of the Vine
gar" 1t was printed by the Clarendon
| Press in 1717.
Piron, the French poet and satirist,
q " n IF aFsod iTof
! Des Fontaines, because the latter multi
| ated a complimentary mention of him
made by Russeau.
The pOwer-generating capacity of Mag
| ara Falls and of the rapids near the falls
| is said to represent some thing like c, COO, goo
| horsepower, as much almost as the water,
steam aud electric power now made use OF
on this continent.
The herbarium of the late Isaac c. Mar
! tindale of Philadelphia, comprising more
than 100000 different plants aud ferns
gathered from every country in the world.
| has lately been presented to the Phlladel-
phia College of Pharmacy.
According to the British and Foreign
| Bible Society there is little chance for cir
culation of the Bible in Japan. The
society says OF Japan: The progress of
Christianity seems to pause before the
absorption OF the people in. their new
| political passions"
During the last two weeks of April 85S
| inspections were made in Glasgow under
! the shop hours act, and in forty-two cases
| 1t was found that Young persons were be-
| ing overworked. Grocers, BARRIERS, saloon
| keepers, dairymen and confectioners were
the principal delinquents.
AT the arsenal of Rockfort 63-inch gun
was made up to the extraordinary length
| OF 52.5 feet by sore wing additional tubes to
the muZZle so as to make it up to 90 ealbers
In length. With projectIe of 1872 pounds
weight the unprecedented muzze velocity
| OF 1888 foot per second was obtained.
a French electrician. NJ. Trouve, catches
! fish by sinking in the water net with an
| incandescent lamp attached. The curious
fiSh collect around the light, when pneu-
! matte tire around the edge of the net is
/ silently inflated and rises to the surface.
entrapping them without frightening them.
and. hence, without destroying the spawn
Since the dismem berment of the famous
! Splitter collection of antiquities, which was
sold at auction in Paris last summer an
American collector. Mr.. Riggs, now living
III Paris, is considered 90 have the finest
| private collection of ancient armoI. Mr.
! Riggs is a native of Washington and very
wealthy His collection is estimated to be
worth nearly S1,000.000.