The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-01-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A mule-driver in Morocco earns 10 cents
day.
A thrasher in Turkey can make 40 cents
day.
In 1910 4O51 journals were published in
the United States.
Hoes American press was introduced
into London in 1858.
The Walter press was invented for the
Lond on Times in 1862.
In 1862 vulcaniZed rubber was used for
printing by John Leighton.
A confscated newspaper in the City of
Mexico has been donated to the local or
phan asylums.
Russia has been large importer of agri-
cultural imp lements from the United States
since 1876.
A club in Berlin called the Giants ad-
mits to membership only men who are
over six feet in height.
| The French system of weights is pretty
nigh universal in all countries other tha an
! Notwithstanding.
a Partisan is on trial for manslaugh ter,
because bis dog bit a pedestrian, causin z
the latter's death from hydrophobia.
The falling off in trade during the la t
six months OF 1898, as compared with the
same period Of 1892, is estimated at
$50. 900, 900.
A Buffalo burglar recently sent man
two theater tickets, and while the latter
was attending tue performance robbed his
house.
The Engineering and Mining journal
estimates the. silver produe ton of the
United States last year at &c. 00O, 600 ounces
as against 90, 000, 900 ounces in 1892.
gray fox on a West Chester (Pa) farm
Is on terms of friendship with a lot of
young beagle dogs. and frequently sleeps
| in the same pen with them.
The Bhatgur reservoir. great artificial
lake in India. said 10 hold about
| 4.64l. 600, 900 cubic feet of water, acts a. a
| feeder TO the Mira canal 1t is formed by
masonry dam 103 feet high and 1920 feet
| long.
Schumann's father was a bookseller.
who gave his son all the assistance he
| could in the musical studies the bow
adopted almost from infancy. At five
young Schumann began the piano: aLI2
| he was writing operas.
Judge Guttman of Albany, n. Y, in a
recent decision said that mans saloon is
! his castle, and while he must not sell
liquor on Sundays there is no law forbid
ding him from keeping his saloon open on
the Sabbath.
Cherubini copied all his own scores. and
that with such care that the manuscript
looks as though printed. He even copied
all the orchestral parts. for. as be said.
there Is always something to be learned
in copying music"
The old hall in Baltimore where the
Continental Congress met in Decem Der,
l716, was destroyed ia 1860, but the place
where it stood is to be marked by me-
mortal erected by the Maryland Society of
the Sons Of the Revolution.
Handel and Bach were contemporaries.
Born about the same time, in houses
almost in sight of each other, devoted to
the same branch of the same art and each
famous and Justly SO in his profession,
these TWO great men never met.
A millionaire of Vienna has left pro-
vision in his will for the con slant ilumna-
ton of the vault whel elm he now lies. An
electric light is to be kept burning for
year, and even the coffin is to be lighted In
the interior by electricity.
The heirs of Senator Jacob Moleschott
the explorer, teacher and physician, have
given his valuable library, obtaining over
10000 volumes Of medical, philos phical
and scientific works, to the Academy of
Turin, where the deceased began his
labOrs