The morning call., 1894-02-03
Ka SITS, ms %arRst ans So St.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The permanent army of Italy has
900 men.
boss mason in Ceylon can earn S3 20
per week
Cats. as rule. attain their full growth
in one year.
Music-teachers In Hamburg are paid 81
cents an hour.
A blacksmith in Jerusalem can make
ST 90 per week
The King of Bavaria has salary Of
81, 412. 600 a year.
Some writers claim that the tortoise
lives for 400 years.
A tailor in Turkey, If a skilled hand,
can command So 81 per week.
Teachers in the Mexican public schools
are paid $50 to $40 month.
A hide-splitter in Persia can make, in
busy seasons, 80 cents day.
The censorship of the press was first
established in England in 1866
Walters in Turkey, if they have good
places. can make S17 month.
Switchmen in Saxony consider them
selves we'll paid with S178 year.
A female tackmaker in France is fortu-
nate if she makes S1l6 per week.
A sturgeon weighing HOO pounds was
recently caught in the Columbia River.
eight-handlers on the Prussian rail-
roads make an average Of 50 cents day.
According TO Ayers catalogue for 1894
there are 20,774 newspapers and periodicals IS
published in this country.
The deaths OF Mr.. and Mrs. James ID.
Kendle Of Bridgeboro, n. j., both OF whom
were about 80 years old, occurred on Satur-
day within two hours Of each other.
One way of mending kid gloves is to
take piece of silk-backed courtplaster.
turn the glove wrong side out and apply
the plaster over the drawn-together edges
OF the tear.
The weight of million sovereigns.
newly minted, is 10 tons ID hundred.
weight Is pounds. A million pounds
worth of fresh-colDed silver pieres of Brit
ish money weighs over Isl tons 10 hun
dred weight.
In the districts Of Scotland under county
police jurisdiction there is one drink
license to every 415 of the population: in
city and burgh jurisdictions one license to
every 304 of the inhabitants.
The strength of ice Is we'll known to be
very great. a thickness of only u inches
will support mans weight. Cavalry are
safe on inches, an 84-pound cannon on 6
inches, and railway train on Is inches
thickness.
Modern opera was born at Florence in
1894, the first work of its kind being Peri's
Daphne. which was produced in that
year. The Italians accordin Rly purpose to
celebrate this year the tercentenary of the
opera.
The famous Khajah tunnel of India
pierces the Khwaja Amran Mountains
about sixty miles north of Inetta at an
elevation of 6400 feet. 1t is 1880 feet
long. and was constructed broad enough
to carry double line of rails.
M. A. Mercie, the celebrated French
sculptor who made the Lee equestrian
statue at Richmond. Va, has accepted the
commission to execute the statue TO Com
nod. for which a subscription is now be-
ing raised in France.
A novel advertisement has been hit
upon by French tea merchant. A reaI
live prince has been engaged at a good
salary 10 attend the counter and dispense
packages of pure tea at q high price to
people who worship any one who has
title. The thrifty tea-dealer has built mn
lucrative trade by this great stroke Of
enter prise.
One of the sights of China is the an
tique bridge or Suan.fchen-fow. $500 feet
long and 20 teet wide. 1t Las on each side
81 piers, upon which huge stones are laid.
some of them 20 feet long. Many thou.
sand tons of stone were used in The .rec-
ton of this wonderful bridge, which is re-
garded by engineers as Indicating con-
structve talents as wonderful as that
which raised the Egyptian pyramids.