Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-07-13
ALL AROUND THE WORLD.

English capitalists are purchasing MIN
ing property in Cirrilios district, of New
Mexico.
A petrifed turtle weighing $4,000
pounds has been found near Brazil, Ind,
and shipped to Cincinnati.
A cat at Port Jeryis digs angle worms,
and after biting them into small pieces
feeds them to young canary birds.
More coal was mined in 1888, both an
thracite and bituminous, than was needed
| for consumption in the United States. Yet
outrageous prices are maintained by combi-
nations.
PIT Barnun will take his big show to
London this fall. With Barnum in Eng
land and Buffalo Bill in France this
country is liable to attract the attention of
the old world.
The British Nurses Association has
been formed, where trained nurses shall be
registered. OF the $4,000 now estimated to
be in England, nearly $500 have joined
| the Association.
There are so many learned female gradu-
afes nowadays thrown upon society, there
will be no need of fellow buying encyclG-
pedias or dictionaries. He can marry one,
all bound in silk
A goat at Dallas which came upon a
rattlesnake walked back few yards, and
taking a running start, made long jump,
alighting with his legs punched, and cut
ting the snake in pieces.
Peter Anderson, a Wisconsin man, has
hair that fufs out from his head like
wool ten inches thick, so that he has to
wear in lieu of hat a silken turban, with
an elastic band at the mouth.
A Charleston druggist advertised that
the milk of a cocoanut would remove
freckles, and 1000 of the nuts were sold
at retail in two days to women folks. He
got a commission on all sales. The freckles
still remain.
A man with an artificial face has been
attracting much attention at an English
watering place. He had an artificial
cheek, eye and palate, fitted by surgeon
of Bristol. He eats without the slightest
difficulty and speaks distinctly.
During his recent visit to Paris the
Prince of Wales was frequently seen at the
race-tracks. The jockey club fitted up a
box for him in elegant style, but it re-
NAMED untenanted, the Prince preferring
to mingle with the crowds, and bet on the
horses like an ordinary mortal.
DR.. Franklin is credited with introduce
ing broom corn into the United States, he
finding a single seed in a lady's brush
said to have been imported from India
which he planted. There are now 10000
acres of this plant cultivated here, with an
annual crop valued at 81, 100000
Joseph Conkling, aged SO, and Miss
Maria Edwards, aged 10, were married at
Port Jervis, u. y, the other day. Fifty
years ago they wanted to wed, bat the
parents of the girl" interfered because
Mr. Conkling was not we'll off in worldly
goods Mr. Conkling is now well fixed"
and there is no doubt of has ability to pro-
vide home for his bride
The spectacle of septuagenarian suing
for divorce from his aged wife, who is only
ten years younger than he, is among the
curiosities of social life in Kansas City.
He asserts that he wants to spend his few
remaining years in peace, while she SAYS
that her life has been embittered by fear
that this whiteheaded patriarch will be-
come again the gay deceiver that he was
in the early years of her married life. Both
charge cruelty.