Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-11-24
ALL AROUND THE WORLD.

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are consumed in this country annually.
Two mammoth wild turkeys were re-
Gently shot in Greenbrier county, West
Virginia. One weighed twenty y-four pounds
and the other twenty.
John Hawthorn Lott, who lives near
Glenmore Lake in the Warwick valley,
New York, is ninety-six years of age, and
thinks nothing of walking ten to fifteen
miles in day.
A live lobster, half red and half green,
the dividing color line running lengthwise
his whole body, is now on exhibition in
Portland, Me. Fishermen says that speci-
mems like this are very rare.
There have been two springs discovered
in Bramwell, w. Va, which are only
about fifteen feet apart, the water of one of
which is colder than ice, if possible, while
the other almost reaches boiling temper
ature.
At the Exposition Universelle of 1889,
held at Paris, the highest award to any
author of juvenile books was given to
Thomas w. Knox, author of the "Boy
Traveller" series and other works for young
people.
Peter Skif, veteran hunter of North
Kent, Conn.,, recently shot a wildcat five
feet long that weighed forty pounds. 1t
was the biggest wildcat that has been shot
IN that State. Skiff killed the animal in
the air as it was springing at him.
In the Italian army the system of siesta
prevails, under which all troops on the
field lie down to sleep for a couple of
hours during the heat Of the day. The
practice is so universally accepted that the
hour is fixed in general orders.
Hon. Ralph Abercromby supports Ad-
miral Fitzroy in the conclusion that waves
occasionally reach an altitude of sixty
feet. The highest wave measured by Mr..
Abercromby was forty-six feet high, 765
feet from crest to crest, and had velocity
of forty-seven miles per hour.-,St. Stephens
Review.
The Alton railroad has funny case on
its hands. A carload of mules was shipped
from Bloomington last week. Three men
counted the mules and swore there were
fifteen in the car, and the door was sealed
by an agent. When the car arrived at St.
Louis the seal was found intact, and only
fourteen mules we're to be found IN the
car.
A Pennsylvania, John Hinton, who
forty years ago was friendless orphan boy
in Westmoreland county, is now one of the
most trusted officers in the army of the
Ameer of Afghanistan. Having learned
the arts of war as a soldier and Indian
fighter in this country, and then under the
British flag in India, he drifted to Afghan
istan and became successful merchant.
Then he helped to suppress local re-
bellion which the Ameer had found danger
Gus, and that gave him his present pres
tige.
Last week, to improve the water, E.
Kaiser, of Brownsville, had the well in his
yard drilled deeper. An obstruction was
encountered at the depth of forty-ive feet,
and on drawing the casing piece of
gas pipe eight feet long was found. The
pipe, which stood exactly on end, was re-
moved, and another attempt to put down
the casing was made, but few feet deeper
an iron chain was struck This could not
be got out and new hole had to be
started. The puzzling question is how did
the chain and pipe get there.-CaieagO
Herald.
In walking ceiling, DR.. Rombert says
the flies adhere by the help of capillary
adhesion-the molecular attraction be-
tween solid and liquid bodies. By serie:
of nice calculations, such as weighing hair:
and measuring their diameters, and stick
ing the ends Of the hairs in oil or water te
make them adhere when touched to glass
this fine calculator proves that capillary
attraction would uphold fly were it four
ninths as heavy as it is at present. 1t i
true that the foot hairs are very minute
but as each fly is provided with from
10000 to $4,000 Of them, we need not b
surprised at what they do.