Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-09-23
ALL AROUND THE WORLD.

Miss Lincoln, daughter of Minister to
England Robert Lincoln, has become the
acknowledged belle in London.
Orange county, New York, claims to
produce not only the best milk, but the
best apple whisky in the country.
Upward of twenty-eight large bales of
human hair were brought to France in the
last steamer that arrived from the Orient.
An Altoona angler caught a bass weigh
ing five and one-half pounds in the Juni-
alta the other day. 1t was twenty-three
inches in length.
Johnstown is getting on its feet again.
The new city directory shows that there
are thirty-six groceries and ffty-one sa-
looms in the flooded district.
Portions of Java are being deserted
owing to the tiger plague. The total
population is about 100000, and in 1887
sixty-one were killed by tigers.
Eugene Bloodgood Beebe has written a
poem in honor of Patti, which was pub
ished in a newspaper of Swansea, Wales.
Mr.. Beebe knew Patti when she was
child
DR.. Waddington, the last dean of Dur
ham, was great epicure, and one of the
best judges of wine in Europe After his
death i'll 1869 his cellar realized very
large sum.
There are 100 acres of land in Carroll
county, Ca, for which no owner can be
found. Gold has been found on the tract,
and number of people are anxious to
secure title to it.
The Prince of Wales has settled an i'm
portant question of dress He wears three
studs with evening costume. He claims
that three studs make shirt set better
than two. Who says the Prince is not
great man?
This is probably Volante's last season on
the turf. When he returns to Los Angeles
it will be to enter the famous Santa Anita
stud. During his four years racing he
has won for Lucky Baldwin over 100000
in stakes and purses.
Emily Paxton, cf Pike county, Mo-, has
permission from the Governor of that
State to wear mans dress anywhere in
Missouri outside of cities of 10000 in.
habitants." She works on a farm, and her
favorite occupation is breaking horses to
harness.
The French Government, not content
with depriving BoUlanger of his .decora-
tions and honors, has removed his wax eff
figy from the Musee Grevin, where it
formerly occupied place of honor. 1t is
said that the General feels this last insult
very keenly,
1t is generally supposed that oak is
much stronger than fir, but series of tests
made recently at the car shops of the
Northern Pacific Railroad at Tacoma. w.
T., shows that the reverse is actually the
case. The tests were made by actual
breaking strain.
Mr.. George Macdonald, the novelist
has been lecturing in the south of Eng
land and on the Channel Islands. During
his earlier London season he was obliged
to deliver his talks from an arm chair.
This was due, however, not to any abate-
ment of physical yigor, but to a badly
sprained foot.
The King and Queen of Greece have
seven children, the youngest a year old.
The Princess Alexandria is very pretty
girl of nineteen. The Queen is fond of
American literature, takes all the maga-
zines and adores the works cf Hawthorne.
All the children speak French, English,
Greek and Russian
According to the Washington CORE
spondent of the Cincinnati Commercial
Gazette, an interesting, not to say valuable,
discovery has been made by Captain
Weedin, in charge of the animals at the
Zoo. The building is infested by rats, and
how to get rid of them has long been a
perplexing question. Traps were used,
but nothing would tempt the rodents to
enter. In a store-room drawer was placed
a quantity of sunfower seeds, used as food
for some Of the birds. Into this drawer
the rats gnawed their way, fact which
led the Captain to experiment with them
for bait in the traps. The result was that
the rats can't be kept out A trap which
appears crowded with six or eight rats is
found some mornings to hold fifteen.