The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Ten editors are members of the English
Parliament.
The estimated population of the world on
January l, 1895, was l SOC, 0O0,OOO.
There are twenty-five women running
country papers In Kansas.
Twenty lives lie between the Emperor of
Germany and the British throne.
The White House of the confederacy is
now used for a colored schoolhouse.
All officers in the Austro-Hungarian cav
airy must hereafter learn biography.
A man named Damet has just passed an
examination in theology at Troy, Kans.
Two thousand patents have been taken
out in this country on the manufacture of
paper alone.
The lapidary who cut the famous dia-
mond Rose of Belgium is now worth
$50, 900.
There are springs of fresh water in the
Persian Gulf that furnish supplies to YES
sells.
A German statistician has figured ont
that Monday, and not Friday, is the real
unlucky day.
In India, it is said, the native barber
will shave you while you sleep, SO light is
his touch.
With population of hardly $500,
Greece has debt of $160,000,000, or about
SIS per capita.
The ancients knew how to cheat. Loaded
dice have been found in the ruins of Her
culaneum.
robbers are convicted on a majority vote of
the community.
Two cergymen in Nebraska are attribut-
ing the hard times to the Sunday opening
of the Chicago Worlds Fair.
Up to the present time the Metropolis
Company, the biggest undertakers in Eng
land, have buried 126, 900 bodies.
Endeavors are being made in England to
establish the Sabbatica year, one years
rest in seven, for school teachers.
The long distance telephone between
Paris and London has over 200 calls day.
At the rate of 81 for each call it pays.
The British empire and its dependencies
and colonies embrace II 200, 900 square
miles, or about the size of all Africa.
Venezuela means Little Venice The
early explorers found the natives living in
houses placed on piles in the marshes.
The new photograph of the heavens
which is being prepared by London, Berlin
and Partisan astronomers shows 68, 900 600
stars.
The first of the ''canals of Mars was
discovered in 1877 by Professor Schiapa-
relli, astronomer of the Royal Observatory
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Japanese workmen wear both on their
caps and on their backs, an inscription
stating their business and the name of their
employer.
The nearest approach to the north pole
was on May IL, 1892, when Lieutenant
Lockwood stood within 1896 miles of that
coveted spot.
In the British Isles during the present
century seven instances have been recorded
in which the bride has married the best
man by mistake.
! The largest woodenware works in the
world are located in Bay City, Mich. The
present output every ten hours is 1900
tubs and $500 pals.
Placed end to end in a continuous line
the streets of London would extend from
the Mansion House across the entire con-
tincnt of Europe and beyond the Ural
Mountains into Asia.
A North Sea Goldman carries an outfit OF
| lines which extends eight miles in length,
! and has usually fixed upon it the amazing
number of 1850 hooks, every one of which
must be baited.
In Asolo, southwest of Treviso, opposite
the house where Robert Browning wrote
! "Asolando," Barrett Browning has estab-
lished. in memory of his father q lace
school, where young girls are taught to
weave the old patterns of Venetian lace.
! Sergeant 'Keefe. who spent five years