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

Philadelphia Hibernia Fire Engine
Company, still in existence, was organized
in 1852.
At ball in Paris recently lady wore
shoes each of which had a watch inserted
IN the leather near the toe.
British soldiers not in possession of
swimming certificates are forbidden to
enter boats for purposes of recreation.
Weber's opera, "Sylvana," has been
successfully revived in Berlin. 1t was
first produced as The Dumb Girl of the
Forest"
The American whitefish promises to be
firmly established in English waters. The
United States Fish Commissioners sent
some over last year to the fish Matching
establishment of Malvern Wells, and the
young fish are doing splendidly.
Every scrap of iron or wood within
reach of the Eifel tower is completely
covered with names and dates. The in
terlors OF the lifts are covered, and the
glass wind protectors of the elevators and
on the various floors are being rapidly
filled up.
For twenty-eight years Joe McKinsey,
of Silver Creek, Mich, has owned two
mares which were half-sisters and were
marked just alike. Last Thursday they
were both killed by the same stroke of
lightning, and after their twenty-eight
years OF service together rested in the
same grave.
Within the last few weeks more than
fifty thousand acres have been bought in
the Bahamas by British and American
capitalists, to be devoted to raising sisal
hemp. The Bahamas had for some time
lost all their commercial life, but the dis
covery that hemp would flourish there has
wholly changed their prospects.
Who ever heard of cheese mine? Yet
one has been discovered at Palmyra, Wis.
1t isn't precisely mine; in fact being a
large quantity of cheese which was buried
many years ago beneath a factory and
there IN some manner forgotten. 1t has
inst been discovered and the valuable pro-
duct is being quarried out by the present
owners of the factory.
In lecture at New York Young con-
vert from Brahminism, Mr.. Vishun, gave
the number of Christians now in India,
including Protestants and Catholics, as
about three millions, and said if the in
crease in the number of conversions should
continue as In the last ten years the whole
of India, with its population of over two
hundred and and fifty millions, would be
Christianized within century.
An anecdote about Dickens: An old
servant entrusted with SO stole it and
made up story to account for its loss.
With the aid of a detective confession
was extracted. Dickens discharged him
and settled upon him an annuity
of sixty pounds, in consideration
OF his previous good conduct and in fear
that he might, resort to some dishonest
measures for getting livelihood.
Classic Cambridge has been invaded by
an army of sand feas. which has estab-
lished Its headquarters near fair Harvard.
The lives of residents of Main street, near
Harvard square, are made miserable by the
little pests. The stories of the way the
people have to fight the enemy are very
amusing. One man says he has to stand
on the bed mornings to dress himself, be-
cause if he steps out upon the floor a score
OF feas begin at once to bite his feet.
The fashion of men locking their own
arm behind woman's elbow and clutch
ing fast to her forearm is not peculiar to
America. An English woman writes to
London journal: "Man is rapidly ceasing
to be the gallant defender of our sex. Once
upon a time we looked up to him and
rested upon his arm. Now, alas! the ta-
bles are turned. In the present day he
idly takes our arm, while we are obliged
to take his part and our own as we'll"
Elmira, N. Y, has peculiar case of
love and marriage between a school prin-
cipal and one OF her former pupils Miss
Hannah Rhodes was forty-five years old
when she approached the matrimonial
altar. She had been teacher in the
public schools of that city before her hus-
band, Thomas F! Connolly, was born. He
is about twenty-five years old, and when a
youngster he not infrequently felt the eff
fects of vigorous punishment at the hands
of his present spouse.
The largest brook trout ever caught ON
this continent was landed the other day at
Spring Creek, New York. The fish
weighs six pounds and two ounces, and lis
proportions are perfect. This is one of the
species of brown trout, the spawn of which
was imported from Germany and received
at the New York State hatchery on Feb
ruary l3, 1884, so that its age cannot be
more than between five and six years.
The largest ever caught previously
weighed trifie over five pounds.