The morning call., 1894-04-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


A French saYant declares that fishes can
talk
1t takes Danish express train day to
travel 100 miles.
Emperor William has all his plain
clothes made in London.
Jacksonville has two hotels which TO-
gether cost over So ,000,0 coo.
Germany has on an average 437 doctors
for every 10000 inhabitants.
Effervescng waters were first de on
large scale by j. Schweppe of Geneva in
1889.
One of the curious things about tie
Gulf Stream is that no whales are found
in ii.
The wine of Shiraz in Persia is said to
be equal 10 the best Burgundy and cham
payne.
Curacao takes its name from the West
India group where the Du tch first made
this drink.
American locomotive builders turned out
1858 locomotives last year, decrease over
previous years.
The Schiedam gin is made of rye, buck
wheat, damaged rice. potato spirit or any
other handy material.
About the thinnest thing in the world is
the film OF a soapbuDble. Of which it would
take 50,000,0C0 10 measure an inch.
Work on the new Atlantic cable be- ween
Nova Scotia and the Irish coast will be
commenced on May l. The cable will be
2200 miles long.
Lowell, Mass, the Sninde City. uses the
water power of the Pawtucket Falls on
the Merrimac, and makes 5000 miles of
cotton cloth every year.
For 107 years the Philadelphia Dispen-
sary has been quietly performing its work.
During the last fiscal year 2O,642 patients
were treated by the institution.
Eggs of the Algerian locust have been
found 10 yiel0 thick oil resembling honey
in appearance. 1t burns we'll. and mixed
with alksli makes good soap.
Wilmington. Del, has the Old Swedes
Church founded in 1893. Il has a Bible
given by Queen Ann and a communion
service contributed by Swedish miners.
The longe,t continued cataleptic sleep
known to science was reported from Ger
many in 1892, The patient having remained
absolutely Unconscious for four and half
months.
An exhibition of gold ores and of pre-
cious metals and stones is being organized
at st. Petersburg by the Russian Techni-
cal Society. The date Of opening has not
yet been arranged.
a set of iron letters was exhumed in the
churchyard of st. Andrews. Newcastle
up0n-Tyne, recently. 1t is supposed mat
maefactor had been buried with the
letters attached to his ankles.
Queen Elizabeth used to carry about
with her, suspended TO chain of pure
gold. book called THE Golden Manual
of Prayer" dainty volume of 800 pages
bound in hammered virgin gold"
The gold product of West Australia last
year was double that of the previous
twelve months. The total export for the
year was 110.391 ounces. The PROSPECTS
for the present year are most promising
Among the decisions handed down in the
Court of Appeals in Missouri recently was
one declaring that debt contracted in an
option deal cannot be collected by law, As
such speculative dealing is gambling and
Illegal.
Atole. which Mexican physician pre-
scrbed for William l.. Wilson. is said to be
very nutritious. Corn is ground by hand,
the meal is then parched ana sifted into
boiling water or milk, as mush is prepared
in the United States.
A collection of tools. said TO be used by
workmen in building tho Pyramids of
Egypt, are on exhibition by famous
Egyptologist. These indicate that many
use when Moses was troubling the
Phar0ahs.
One of the most striking phenomena Of
the Adirondack region is the carrying
power of the human voice In still weat her
upon the lakes great and small. Persons
ashore easily bear the ordinary converse
ton OF others who are so far cut upon the
lake as to be stinguishable.
One Of the surgeons sent abroad by the
United States to inspect intending emf
grants at European ports says that the
knowledge Of such inspection by the
United States made the steamship CON-
anies extremely careful as to the sort of
Storage passengers they accepted.
A lunar rainbow was seen recently al
Durham, n G. While a slight shower
was falling the moon shone brightly in the
east, and, outlined against a dark western
cloud. was seen a slvery bow, very bright
and clear, for some minutes. 1T gradually
faded with the disappearance of the cloud.
The original concession for the Jaffa
Jerusalem Railway was obtained by a
native OF Jerusalem. 1t was built by
French company, the engines and carriages
manufactured IN the United States, run
over rails made in Belgium, and the most
remunerative part of The passenger traffic
is drawn from the British tourists.
1t is said that a red parasol destroys in
great measure the actnIc power Of the
sun and must therefore keep the skin from
freckles. Photographers long ago availed
themselves Of this peculiarly of light
transmitted through red medium. aud il
SetulS IeaSoUaDle III ouppUso Ibdb q leu
shade might protect the complexion.
The most widely separated points be-
tween which telegram can be sent are
British Columbia and New Zealand. The
telegram would cross North America, New
foundland. the Atlantic, England, Ger
MANY, Russia european and Asiatlc).
China, Japan, Java and Australia. 1t
would make nearly circuit of the globe
and would traverse over $4,000 miles Ia
d0in