Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-08-29
ALL AROUND THE WORLD.

AT JacHSOnVllle, ElorlGa, the other day,
Gilbert Montague and Joseph Gregg, two
Chicago men, landed a 200-pound shark
on the pier after tusSle of half an hour
on their end of the line.
The population of Norway exhibits a
higher percentage (97.25) of light eyes
than any other country in Europe Flaxen
hair OCCURS in 57.5 per cent, while abso-
luteiy black hair is only found in the ratio
of , per cent.
A committee in Leeds, England, having
given the matter of incandescent lighting
thorough investigation, have concluded
that great improvement in the flaments
is necessary, for, although made to burn
1000 hours, the average life of the carbon
is between 500 and 900 hours only.
A rare bird was shot at Dundee, Ind, by
Austin Dolla, farmer. The bird is snow
white and stands seven feet high The re-
markable fact that it weighs less than four
pounds has excited no little interest. For
want of the proper name the people have
appropriately dubbed it the phantom
heron"
An Arizona paper says that at Proctor
well, Santa Rosa, the shells of seventeen
year locusts were brought up from depth
of 763 feet, to which depth the piping ex-
tends. 1t says: "There was quite a
quantity of them; the entire she'll was per-
feet, also the limbs and hairy covering of
the back"
The French fishermen coasting off New
foundland catch large periwinkles, remove
the shells, and use the creatures for bait.
The cod, it is said, have bitten eagerly at
the new bait, and the owners of the French
vessels have caught fish so fast that they
were able to sail for France in the first
week of July, instead of in October, as
usual.
Beer-making is profitable, but not so
much so as in distilling corn. A bushel OF
corn, according to good authority, makes
four gallons of whisky, which retails for
Sl6. Out of it the farmer gets an average
of 40 cents, the railroads 81, the Govern
ment S3 go, the manufacturer S4, the re-
taller 81. What does the consumer get
Delirium tremens maybe Pit8burg Com
mercial- Gazette.
The new nicllel-in-the-slot machines,
which tell the weight of anybody for five
cents, are reaping more or less of a harvest.
1t is said that there are certain lot of
men over whom the machine exercises
more or less of an influence The bar
tender of a New York hotel recently re-
marked that at least half dozen patrons
of the house had weighed themselves
regularly on the nickel scales day after
day for many years although such thing
as a variation in their weight was not
known in any Of them.
The employment of dynamite for the
purpose of committing outrages has made
Its way to Japan. Quite recently the
Higashi Hongwanji, in Kito one of the
most famous temples in the country, was
restored, and amongst other presents sent
TO celebrate the restoration were 500 can
dies. Two days later one of these was
lighted, and almost Immediately exploded
with loud report, filling the building
with smoke and flame. On examination
it turned out that all the candles were
filled with dynamite The beautiful cell
ing of the temple was not injured.
Charles Bartlett, lad of Burlington, n.
j., saw bald eagle and fred at it. He
only succeeded in slightly wounding it, and
as soon as it dropped to the ground it arose
and went boldly toward the boy and began
an attack upon him. The bird fought vi
ciously with talons and beak, flying at him
and endeavoring to gouse out his eyes. In
the struggle, that lasted several minutes.
Bartlett could with difficulty free his
clothing from the long, sharp talons of the
bird Finally he released himself. and
ran sufficiently far away to shoot another
charge at it. This time he killed the aerial
monster, which measured six feet from tip
to tip of the wings.
Slowly the great falls of the Niagara
river are changing in shape, through the
| eating away Of the shale rock which un-
derlies the hard rock that forms the bed
Of the rapids 1t is also a misnomer now
to speak OF the Canadian portion of the
great cataract SIS the Horseshoe Falls
and within week this designation has
become more than ever misplaced in con-
sequence Of the fall of large section of
| the bed rock in the verv center OF
the falls. So much rock fell that an eddy
5elo" the falls near the Canadian side oI
| the river has been narrowed more than
half, and the little steamer Maid of the
Mist has less difficulty than before in run.
ming into the curve Of the falls.
Miss Anna Smyer, who tool, up a home.
stead claim in Dakota FIVE years ago, was
warned recently by county official to nay
her poll-tax, which drew forth this reply
81 have just found out that last year.
| Assessor has charged me with poll-tax.
| thirk it is fanny, and if you want to men.
.ion the fact that / object to working out
poli-tax unless have the privilege of yot
ing at the next election, you may. don't
know whether the man did ii through
, spite or through ignorance. II 1t Wa:
ignorance someone else NAV learn from it
I ! ana past twenty-one, ard don't deny 1t
bat | want the privilege of voting as vel