Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-10-28
ALL AROUND THE WORLD.

Atlantic City saloons are called "cabi-
nets" because of the spirits therein.
A stone at Woodville, New Hampshire
is said to mark the boundary line between
two States, three counties and four towns.
De Voltolini, the most noted ear and
throat specialist, died recently in Germany
He was professor in the University Of
Bresleau.
For the past few days John Clute, the
ten-year-old son of Mrs. Marcellus Clute
of Schenectady, has been complaining of
pains in his left foot. DR.. Duryea removed
one-half of a needle from the instep. 1t is
supposed that the needle penetrated the
sole of the foot and worked its way up.
A mountain farmer of Vert county,
West Virginia, wandered into a country
store the other day and inquired who was
successful at the Presidential election last
November. He had voted for Harrison on
that day and then retired to his mountain
haunts, and until Tuesday of this week
did not know that his candidate had been
elected.
George Vanderbilt has recently bought
more land in famous old Buncombe
county. North Carolina. He has Just paid
$10,5 800 for one tract and taken a $4,000
option on another. Altogether he has in-
vested S750,000 in lands down there. The
natives have not yet settled in their minds
what he wants with so much of their real
estate.
Florida contributes snake story little
different from the common variety. A
large rattlesnake lying at the mouth of
gopher hole was shot by passing sports
man. The smoke from his gun had no
more than cleared away when fifteen to
twenty small snakes, anywhere from twelve
to twenty inches long, came out of the
gopher hole and grabbed hold of the old
snake and dragged her back into the hole.
Chambers Journal notes terrible cir
cumstance in connection with the Vene-
tian glass industry, and that is that after
many years OF work, when the workmen
are between forty and fifty years Of age,
they begin to lose their sight, and after
short while are wholly blind. There
seems to be no remedy for this state of
things, for many protective devices have
been tried without success. The blindness
is caused by the excessive heat and also by
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the glass furnaces.
A clock that has been in the coach
house at EIlerslie, n. Y, for more than
twenty-five years is remarkable. 1t was
made in Rondout by German long since
dead. 1t was put in the coach-house dur
ing the ownership of William Kelly, and
was used to regulate all the farm hands as
well as the movements of everybody on
the place. Its striking could be heard for
three miles around. Thomas ColIyer, of
Rhineclih, who was in Mr.. Kelly's en-
ployment for thirty years, invented an
apparatus to make a strike on the bell in
the tower that stands hundred yards
away. Mr.. Collyer owns the clock and
the apparatus. The two weights weigh
forty pounds. The clock is as bright now
as when new.
Shaky Hill, two and half miles from
Cambridge City, Ind, is one of the natural
curiosities of that region. 1t received its
name over seventy years ago, when a
pioneer erected a cabin on the hill and
began clearing. The settler was SO dis
turbed by the frequent and often violent
shaking Of the earth that he decided it
was unsafe TO live there and removed to
another spot. He often stated that the
shocks were so strong that the dishes in
the cupboard ratified. The rocking lar or
shaking of the bill would only occur at
inteEvals-sometimes several months be-
tween spells, and always the worst and
most violent in damp, heavy, wet weather
The hid is still uninhabited, and all at
tempts to solve the mystery have failed.