The San Francisco call., 1895-12-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| Strawberries in marketable quantities
were gathered in Greenville, Or, last week.
A skilled workman on the docks of Hol-
land makes from 81 to $4 80 week the
| year round.
| Tea-rollers, who. with their fingers, roll
the tea leaves into pellets, earn from
cents to 10 cents day.
| A farm laborer in India is fortunate if
| he receives 10 cents, day laboring from
| dawn until dark.
| Laborers in the shipyards OF North Ire
| land realize no more than So " for weeks
| hard work.
! In Berlin a skillful machine maker, with
! constant work, earns no more than $3.50 90
| per annum.
Cigar makers in Spain receive 81 80
week; in France, $4 65; in Germany, So 63;
and in Italy, So.
An Irish plumber makes, in his native
country about SO 75 week, and pays his
assistants 81 81.
Printers in New South Wales receive
| $14 10 week; in England, 81 II; in Italy,
| "a 60; in Spain, $4 80.
| An expert tea mixer in China COM
mands high wages, being paid from 60
cents to 81 day for his work.
| Skilled female labor in Munich, in what
ever calling, is rarely paid at higher rate
| than Y cents day.
| In Holland the average rate of wages for
| skilled laborers of every description is
from cents to 10 cents an hour.
Carriage drivers in France received 81 80
| a week, in England IS Is, in Germany
So u, and in Italy 81 60.
| To circumvent an overpowering desire to
kill himself, Albert Mavo, destitute scene
| painter, applied to the Denver police to be
| locked up.
| About 1000 dozen crawfish are being
shipped every week from the five-mie
| slough Just above Westport, Oregon, to the
markets of Portland, San Francisco and
| Chicago.
| Attempts are now being made to accli-
mate Scotch grouse in Denmark. The birds
thrive we'll on the extensive moorland of
| Jutlano. They are fenced until the end of
next year.
The American Girls Club of Berlin held
a bazaar in the Kurfurtenstrasse last week.
which was conspicuous pecuniary and
social success, as anything which Ameri-
can girls take hold of is apt to be.
Amherst College is preparing to send out
| its first eclipse expedition. 1t will be un-
der the direction of Professor David p
| Todd and will fix station on the island
of Gezo, Japan, to observe the eclipse of
| 1896.
One of the chief physical elements in
the phenomenal racing power of the BIZ
|
normally large heart, which is declared by
the doctors to be two inches longer than
the average.
| Notwithstanding their reputation for
| speed. the Indian racers of the Northwest
and Canada have repeatedly been beaten
| by white men, while in wrestling they
never attain the skill of the whites, and do
not seem to learn boxing at all.
Frederick William. the father of Fred
erick the Great, was slightly deaf, and gem
erarly conversed in yell. Although pro-
/ Tossing to be pious, he often lapsed into
profanity in conversation, and commonly
ended an argument by cursing his oppo-
nent.
The Indian pharmacopoeia comprised
thoroughwort, spurge and Indian hemp,
used as emetics; tEe bark of the horse
chestnut and eutternut, used as cathartics.
They were also acquainted with many
pcisons, most of which were used on their
| weapons.
Edward Simmons, the artist who de-
signed the decorations for the new Crlmi-
nal Court building in New York, rejects
the idea of blind Justice, and has depicted
that deity with both eyes open, holding
| her scales in one hand and the American
| flag in the other
| The steamer w. o. Hughart, which re-
Gently passed through the Portage canal
en- route to Cincinnati via the Wisconsin,
Mississippi and Ohio rivers, was tied up at
| Dekorra, Wis, on account OF the low stage
of the Wisconsin. 1t will proceed on the
trip when navigation reopens in the
| spring.
| An Iowa audience last Saturday night
made pleasing departure from the hack.
| neyed practice of saluting an obnoxious
performer with ancient eggs. Four women,
sisters, who attempted to give an enter
ment at Cedar Rapids, were pelted off the
stage with shower of apples, oranges and
| lemons.
E. H. Thompson, Government entomol-
ogist of Tasmania, has discovered that
plants make IS per cent of their growth
| between midnight and A. NJ, while be-
tween noon and 6 P. NJ. they do not grow
at all. Now will some scientific observer
ascertain whether the same rule holds
good on this side of the worldt