Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-07-21
ALL AROUND THE WORLD.

Thomas n. Page, the Virginia author, is
now making a tour through Ireland.
The Empress of Austria is living in ex-
IRENE solitude at the Chateau de Linz.
The wedding presents received by the
new Duchess of Portland were no less than
5000 in number.
The oriental gifts sent by the Sultan of
Morocco to Kaiser William II. turn out to
have been manufactured in Germany.
Bishop Ryan, of Buffalo, says that the
talk about the possibility of Cardinal
Gibbons being elected Pope is "mere non
sense"
The will of John Gilbert, the actor has
been filed in the Suffolk county, Mass, Pro-
bate Office. He leaves all his property to
his WIFE
Cassius NJ. Clay vouches for the always
well-fed sparrow as delicious bird for the
table, and advises all restaurant-keepers to
aid in killing them.
The Russian army will soon be provided
with breech-loading rifles which will carry
a distance of 5000 feet. Noiseless powder
will also be used in future by the army
The watchmakers of Prescott, England.
who have long been famous, finding that
their trade is declining, have decided to
build factory and work on the American
plan.
Look out for your rubber boots. A
Yale sophomore is very seriously i'll in
New Haven, his blood having been poi
soned by the aniline dyes of the lining of
his rubber boots.
Nicholas of Montenegro, who governs
his subjects in the old-fashioned paternal
way, holds Court every week, where he
dispenses justice, and offenders are then
and there birched in the presence of his
Highness.
English curates have been the successful
lovers in romatic tales since the institu-
ton of the church, but since three out OF
four of Archdeacon Farrar's daughters
have married curates the character passes
from the realm of fancy into that of fact.
Ex-Governor Crawford of Kansas is one
man who appears to have come out of the
Oklahoma boom with flying celors. He
received 10 per cent. of the amount paid
to the Creek Indians for the lands on
account of his services as an attorney in
negotiating the sale.
The Empress of China has been pre-
sented by her husband with an immense
tiara of gold, having very lofty cap OF
Siberian sable, embroidered with rows of
pearls and the feathers of the golden pleas
ant. Twenty skilled workmen were two
months in making it.
A century ago only 800 species of or
chids were known, and those very imper-
fectly. Now the latest authority gives the
extreme number of known species as TO-
600. This may be an excessive estimate,
but it shows the immense advances which
have been made i'll our knowledge of those
interesting plants, for which collectors now
ransack the most remote quarters of the
globe.
A lens for seeing when under the water
is described by its discoverer as producing
an effect which is both astonishing and de-
lightful. 1t gives distinct vision of objects
twenty or thirty feet off. the eyes loss of
extended sight when under watar being
because an entirely different focus is re-
CURED. The spectacle which provides
this can be made by putting two watch
glasses of three-quarters of an inch in d.
ameter and an inch radius back to back, or
with the concavities outward.