Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-09-17
FACTS AND NEWS.
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A man up in Oxford coanty, Me-, has
l,500 pounds of spruce gum in his house
and hopes to be able to get through the
winter.
The national debt of Great Britain is
about S3,6Sl .5e3, ,t40; of France about ST.
100000, ,0GG; of the United States about
81, ,16l, Al, ,S5s,
The use OF 1--WE" instead of 'T' by soy
ereigns began in England with King John,
1899. Tae German Emperors and French
Kings esed the plural about 1900.
The editor of Die Beyolkerang (German)
estimates the population of the world to
be i,434, 100000. NJ. Lavasseur (French)
pats it at l ,4S3, ,000, 900, difference of 49,
0N0 900.
The violence of the expansion of water
when freezing is sufficient to eleave globe
of copper of such thickness as to require
force of y 900 pounds to produce the same
effect.
1t is estimated that $4,000 mocking-
birds are caught monthly in the immedi-
ate vicinity of New Orleans. There are so
many OF these birds caught in Louisiana
that it is thought they will become ex-
tinct
| What is claimed TO be the longest chain
ever made is in the Imperial Arsenal at
Vienna. 1t has 5000 links, and was used
by the Turks to obstruct the passage Of
the Danube i'll 1929.
English bees have suffered from cold
season, and one swarm made descent on
confectionery stalls, literally taking posses
sion of them. All business was stopped
while the bees satisfied their hunger.
1t is said that Canon Siddon, one of the
ablest men in the Church of England, has
never been made bishop because on oRe
occasion, when he preached before the
| Queen, he addressed her Majesty as plain
madam"
Says the New York Tribune: Notwith-
standing the interest Americans take in
politics, the country is so vast that not one
man in hundred, perhaps, can name
twenty United States Senator'S or even the
Justices of the Supreme Court.
Paul Kotchalski, aged years, is aston
ishing Russia with his musical perform
anoes. He is said to have displayed ex-
traordinary genius for music in his second
year. He has already appeared in several
concerts, and it is expected that an ex-
l
ranged for him.
English business men who have to send
| large quantities of mail matter to differ
ent parts of the world, find that they can
save a great deal of monney by sending
their mail in bulk to Belgium and posting
it there, the rates being so much cheaper
1t is said that the saving to one firm alone
by this course amounts to $4,000 a year,
and there is a loud demand for reform in
the British rates.
Gaspadin Ashinoff' has, at his own ex-
pense, conquered twenty miles of territory
on the east coast of Africa along the In
dian Ocean, and has named it Moscow and
set up there an independent government,
of which he is the head. He keeps an
army of ], 600 men, 130 of them Russians
and the rest Abyssinians, and after hard
fight has secured from the native king,
from whom he seized the territory, treaty
recognizing him as sovereign.
The inhabitants of the Oule-Aroun dis
trict of Algeria recently discovered a treas
ure of half million francs concealed in a
issure in q rock. They quietly divided it
up among themselves and said nothing
about it; but the authorities noticed that
many Heretofore poyerty-stricken Arabs
were investing in camels and other valu-
able property, and started an investigation,
Now the officials are at their wits end to
get the treasure away from the natives.
A curious smoking pine tree on the
Vaughn estate in Hallowell is again the
topic of discussion in that city A gentle
man the other day said the last time he
saw it smoke was on June 9th. The vapor
comes from the extreme top or apex and
extends several feet into the air, waving to
and fro. The column is about the diane
into two columns. 1t smokes periodically
land is really phenomenon.-lfuine Gro
Ger