The morning call., 1894-05-29
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

China has an academy of manners that
prescTibes etiquette for the whole empire.
A club in Berlin, called the Giants. adj
mlts 10 membership only men who are
over feet in height.
The Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadel-
phia is the oldest hospital in the United
States. 1t was built in 1855.
Vassar College at Poughkeepsie, n. Y,
is about TO collect on large scale the
nests and eggs of birds native of that
section.
AThe earliest coins were formed by i'm
pressing seals on one side of disks Of the
metal as q certifcatlon of weight and
fineness.
The brides veil is a relic of the "care
CLOTH" canopy held over a virgin bride
by our Saxon forefathers to conceal her
embarrassment.
The shark manifests distinct liking for
certain races and will eat an Asiatic in
preference 10 a negro and a European
rather than either
Gold, silver and copper were known to
the Greeks in the time of Homer. but oxen
were still the standard by which other
things were estimated.
According TO French divorce statistics
the most unhappy period of marriage is
from the fifth to the tenth year. After
that figures drop rapidly.
A number of shopkeepers in various
parts OF England have lately been heavily
fined for marketing and selling American
beef and bacon as English products.
A phosphate deposit has been discovered
in Bradley County, Tenn, about twenty
miles from Chattanooga. The vein, so far
as known, is sixteen feet wide and about
nine miles long.
an earthquake shock is, we are informed.
made to light an electric lamp for quar-
ter OF q second, causing the face of a
chTonometer 10 be photographed and thus
registering the precise time.
The light from the sun reaches the earth
In seven and a half minutes, though the
distance is such that a cannon-ball fired
from the sun and continuing its velocity
uabaled would require more than seven
teen years 10 reach the earth.
In 1745 DR.. Watson stretched a wire
across The Thames, and sent an electric
shock through 1t from one observer to an
other. He was accused of witchcraft, and
had much trouble in proving his inno-
cenee.
If three or five or more men are asleep
IN room and one of them is drunk, the
lies will gather on the tipsy man and avoid
the others. The reason is that insects
revel in the odor of alcohol and sometime S
get drunk on it.
The first aerial voyage was made Sep
TENDER Is. 1888, by a sheep. cock and a
duck TO a height of 1900 feet. The first
human traveller through the air was Nj.
Francois Pilatre de Rozier, who mounted
the following month in a balloon.
Mrs. Jennie p. Lane of Smethp0rt, Pa.
has big Newfoundland dog which is a
hrst-ciass substitute for a nurse. 1t takes
the baby riding in the carriage every day.
The dog holds the handle with its teeth
and wheels the coach as carefully as the
infants mother could.
AT Castle Eden, England. last month,
$40 miners were fined shillings each for
absenting themselves from the mines
without giving notice. They left to at
tend the funeral of a workman who died
from injuries received in the pit the pre-
viOus dav.
According to a decree issued by the
French Minister Of war. the following de-
1ects. among others, Will no longer exempt
man from the obligation of military ser
vice TOOthessness. dwarfish stature, hair-
lip, squint eyes. superfluous or deficit fin
gers or toes, varicose veins, hernia, slut
terlOg and badness.
A collection of bird bones recently re-
celVed by the Paris Academy of Science
indicates that at period contemporary