Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-07-10
GENERAL NOTES.

The German army has now war strength
of 1000, 0G0 of men.
The Pope has sent a valuable work of art
to Constantinople as a gift to the Sultan.
Senator Edmnnds and joaquin Miller
have gone a-fishing together somewhere VI
in Canada.
Miss Annie Arthur, sister of the Vice.
Presidential nominee, is the teacher of 8
district school few miles from LIE Sueur,
MINI.
Hiram College, Ohio-the college Of
which General Garfield was once President,
and of which he is now Trustee has 20C
students.
w. J. Florence, the actor, and the Duke
of Beaufort are fishing for salmon in the
Ressigouche river, Canada, and are having
much piscatorial sport.
During the past winter there were at
the twenty German universities 90, l72
students. The University of Berlin had
the largest number-3. SOS. The philo-
sophical departments attracted the largest
numbers, 624.
Monsignor Capel has been made bank
rupt. He is described as of Cedar Villas,
now OF Scarsdale Lodge KeDsington, clerk
in holy orders. At the first meeting a
statement of affairs was produced showing
the total debts unsecured, f7, 295; debts
fully secured, els. $50 and assets nil.
Three hundred and eighty.tive girls ap.
piled for the Oxford senior examination
this season, and 353 for the junior exami-
nations. In addition to the ordinary ex-
Is II.
ination for young ladies over eighteen
years old began at the same time, thirty
five offering themselves for the preliminary
examination.
There was an elephant that had been
trained to play the piano with its trunk in
show. One day new piano was brought
for it, but no sooner had the elephant
touched the keys than it burst into food
of tears. g What ails you, Kiouni /" asked
its keeper. The poor beast could only
point to the ivory keys. Alas they were
made of the tusks of his mother.
The Governor of the remote Russian
province of Orenburg reports that the cold
of last winter has caused such frightful
havoc among focks and herds that fam.
inc is imminent The crops, too, have
SuHSEcU, anu COIu ilfto IiStA OOO 1iIQ HdN
400 per cent. In the district of Parlograd
/ 600 camels, 81, 900 cows and oxen, 26, 00C
horses, and 81 900 sheep persisted. 1t has
been the same throughout Turkestan.
The New York San beats the Sweet
Singer of Michigan all to pieces in poetry.
Here is one of its verses on the obelisk
From sands Egyptian the Obeliscus,
Through waves promiscus, is on heI way.
What pious rapture and exutation,
Likewise elation, in my bosom play.
The building of the Eddystone lighthouse
is now making rapid progress, and the
work achieved this year already exceeds
that done last year. Two-thirds of the
solid base of the structure is now brought
up to within three feet of high-water mark
during the spring tides, and the work will
shortly be less dependent ON tides and
weather.
1t seems almost incredible that an ele-
plant has 40, 600 muscles in his trunk, but
after a man has experienced an elephant 8
gentle twist about his system and been
thrown the whole length of a menagerie
tent through the candy-stand into the
lemonade-tub will be willing to take oath
that there are at least one million and half
muscles in that interesting animals front
tail.
Purchasers have at last been found for
the large house built by Albert Grant in
the Kensington road, London. A commit
tee, acting for an intended new club,
which is to consist chiefly of subscribers
to Nottingham, the Orleans and other ex-
isting bodies, have agreed to give fl95, 900
for the property. The sum of fl00, 600 Is
to be paid at once, as caution money, and
this is already in hand
The preliminary workings for the tunnel
uniting England and France have had the
most satisfactory results. The promoters
have sunk their shaft to the stratum in
which they propose to bore the tunnel, and
are now going to sink another shaft and
lower all the machinery for the bore. In
eighteen months they expect to have reached
two kilometers, about two and quarter
miles, under the channel, and in three or
four years to have completed the task.