The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-05-28
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cartridges year.
England's first daily paper was the
COurant, March II, 1902.
About 200, 900 articles are pledged with
London paWnbrOkers each week.
In Maine it is illegal for farmer to pay
his taxes with promissOry note.
There are more Southerners in New
York than in any city in the South.
The leading professors in the new
Chicago University gets $1,000 year.
In Massachusetts independent military
companies are not allowed to bear arms.
Paper spindles for yarn-spinning are
now used as a substitute for those of steel
The Belgian Government recently paid
100000 francs for a picture by Van Dyke.
Helena, Mont. is 1900 feet above the sea
and has an average of go sunshiny days
every year.
The British laborer spends more for
food than the worker elsewhere except Ill
the United States.
Milwaukee is one of the leading points
In this country for the manufacture of
beer and leather.
No country contributes so many immi-
grants to the United States in proportion
to its population as Norway.
Three-ffths of the pneumonia and pleu-
riSy eases among males are duo to the
wearing of iOw-cut waistcoats.
In an old Indian burying ground in st.
Simon, Ga, the remains of a warrior over
eight feet long were excaVated recently.
Georgia IS second in rice and sweet pota-
toes, third In cotton, fourth in sugar,
seventh in horses and mules and tenth in
hogs.
Bolata, new discovery in the forests of
Surnam, is substitute for the rapidly
disappearing india rubber and gutta-
percha.
Ohio is first in sheep and wool. second in
petroleum and steel, fourth in wheat, sheep,
coal and liquors, fifth in cows, hay and
tobacco.
Things made wholly or in part of clay
and baked, which are Opaque, are called
pottery; those which are semi-transparent
are porcelain.
In England. France and Germany the
ratio OF multiple births is Is twins per
1000; 100 tripiets and 8 bankruptcies per
1000, 900 births.
Wisconsin is second In hops. third in
potatoes, fourth in rye and buck W heat,
fifth in oats, seventh in iron and sheep
eighth in hay, ninth in copper.
Montana has produced nearly one-third
of the gold. silver. copper and lead in the
United States. The mines of this State
have yielded over $500, 100000.
Southwestern North Carolina has band
of 1900 Cherokee Indians They constitute
an Incorporated company, live in The
mountains, but follow the pursuits Of
| white men.
| LabOuchere says that f0gging still -four
| ishes IN the native regiments of the Angle
! Indian army, and that the emit regiment
| is paraded 10 witness the infection of the
! punishment.
The French Academy, after fifty years,
| has just completed the letter ''A' in its
Historical Dictionary of the French
| To- hIS IN Nis,1 q
| appear somewhere about the year 5000.
The Governments great history of the
| Civil war, which was begun twenty-five
! wears age, will be finished IN another wear.
There will be 120 big royal octave vol
umes OF 1000 pages each and great atlas
! The avidity with which cut flowers OF
! all kinds are purchased may be Judged
when it is stated that the value of the pro-
! auctions of the growers for the last year
in the United States is estimated at about
$50, 100000.
A French physician has constructed an
acting model of the human heart. Ii Is OF
| the same hue, size and consistency of the
natural organ, with every detail, and red
! fluid courses through it and through arti-
| fetal arteries.
| WOrkmen on cutting through a teak log
in the sawmill of dockyard at Sheerness,
| England. recently, found a birds nest con-
tanning four eggs in a hollow spot The
log had been shipped some months priyi.
Gus from India.
The discovery has been made by a Ger
man Psychologist that the milk Of inebriaie
mothers contains small amount of alec
| hol, and it is his belief that such mothers
communicate to their offspring a desire
for stimulants.
Alumioum is now to Big used for en-
craving in place of stone and steel. 1t Is
claimed that, besides the advantage oil
lightness, an aluminium plate will furnish
5000 Impressions. against eighty to loo
from steel one.