The morning call., 1894-02-04
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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! Native painters in India earn 40 cents
day.
| Belgium farm laborers earn 46 cents a
| day.
Italian printing was first prac!iced at
| lablaco in 1865.
| Printing in different colors was first done
| by Faust in 1855.
Epileptics gain and lose flesh with re-
markable rapidity.
Until 1865 all the types made were black
etter or old English.
Naturalists assert that healthy swallow
devOurs 5000 flies day.
In 1859 printing is said by Collier to have
been introduced in Oxford.
The Greek characters were first cast in
types by Faust at MentZ in 1865.
In 1880 female laborers in Italy received
cents day and portion OF food.
The Durandi Rationale. the first book
from cast types, was printed in 1459.
The King of Saxony has $3.50. 900 year,
but is very rich man in his own right.
Mantuamakers with skill and expert
ence can make So per week in Bavaria.
Several Maine editors received as Christ
mas gifts glass violins filled with whisky.
The first English gold coins were minted
in 1857, in the forty-second year Of Henry
Ill
The total value of the war material Of
the French army amounts to nearly $500,
100000
A 17-year-old giant in Australia meas
ures feet 3A inches and weighs 800
pounds.
In 1851 the Invention or milling the
edges of COINS to prevent clipping was in
troduced.
There are eight edible and twelve poi
sonous varieties of mushrooms in the
United States.
American locomotive-bu builders turned
out 1858 locomotives last year, decrease
over previous years.
A notable increase in the practice OF
carrying firearms is reported from West
ern cities this winter
A man at Jonesboro, Ind, has a cat
that not only associates with chickens, but
roosts with them at night.
The hottest day in the Middle and East
ern States during 1898. as recorded by the
weather bureau, was June 20.
An Eastport (Me.) barber throws in a vio-
lin solo with every shave and wonders why
his customers don't come back.
The Kansas University is excavatag
tunnel under its various buildings through
which all of them will be heated.
A Passaic (N. j. man is at work on the
model of an electric fire engine which will
Dropel itself and work the pumps.
being formerly so prepared to enable them
&c remain eatable during long voyage.
Stocks are go called because the stock
market in London, where securities were
first handled, had a pair of stocks in front.
Rivals were oncs the men who lived on
opposite sides of brook or stream and
qCarFeled with each other about the water.
Punch is the Hindoo word for five, be-
cause five ingredients-arrack. sugar, tea,
lemons and water-enter into its compost
tiOn.
Mrs. Wilbur Bloodgood, a New York
fencing expert, declares that fencing is un-
rivaled in calisthenics as means of phys
lcal culture.
Morning is the proper time to wind a
watch, as this will keep the handspring
close ana the movement steady during the
hustle of the day.
Spohr always declared that be owed bis
knowledge OF composition and harmony to
the study Of Mozart's scores. vino, in turn,
admitted his obligations TO Bach.
Mozart was small and slight. His face
was very thin and pale, and his nose. al
ways promnent became much more so
| from the extreme emaciation Of his later
years.
The longest continuous cataleptic sleep
| known to science was reported from Ger
many in 1892, the patient having remained
absolutely unconscious for four and half
months
Haydn was fond of initiating animal
sounds in his symphonies. In these COM
positions will be found limitations of the
cat, horse. cow, cuckoo, grasshopper and
donkey.
The Government pays a man $3.50 a
year to watch Casa Grande ruin in Ari-
zona and see that some Chicago arcbaolo-
gist doesn't carry it away for exhibition
purposes.
The way to find the gold value of the
silver dollar when the price of silver per
ounce is given is to multiply the market
value of silver by .77b this gives the gold
value of the silver dollar.
Additions to rented premises, when
made by the tenant. should never be fast
ened by nails, but with screws. Should he
wish to move away and take with him the
lumber composing the improvements he
has made be can simply draw out the
screws and take the pianks. If be fastens
them with nails the improvements become
the landlords property.
The great collection of Latin Bibles,
which friends of the General Theological
Seminary in New York City have COM
Dined to present to its library, was made
by W. A. Copinger of Middle Temple.
London, president of the Bibliographical
Society. 1t is believed to be the largest
such collection in the world, containing
543 editions In 1864 volumes.