Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-09-20
ALL AROUND THE WORLD.

A public school at Delmar is partly sit
uated in Delaware and Maryland. Each
State furnishes teachers for its pupils.
The largest ak factory in the world is
in Pittsburg, and il is capable of turning
out 5000 or more axes a day. Two crews
of men make 1900 axes each.
A projected canal across the upper part
of Italy, connecting from the Adriatic to
the Mediterranean, would take six years
to build and cost Sl25, 100000.
North Dakota will be the first State, as
State, to make provision for system of
manual training. Forty thousand acres of
land are set apart for that purpose.
For transparent paste to fix transpar-
ent advertisements on glass, use rs parts
India-rubber dissolved in 60 parts chloro-
form, then add Is parts gum mastic.
For walnut stain for deal-One quart of
water, II ozs. common soda, D ozs. Van
dyke brown, } OF. bichromate of potassium.
Boil ten minutes, and apply hot or cold.
During the past year the value of the
imports of wire fencing into the Argentine
Republic was about S2000,000 Most of
the supply went from Belgium, Great
Britain and France.
G. J. Symons, F. R. s., English meteor
ologist, shows that if man is thoroughly
wet it is impossible for lightning to kill
him. Persons exposed to thunder-storms
should 'get rained on" soon as possible
House boats are becoming so common in
England that there is talk about taxing
them. There are nearly twelve thousand
pleasure boats, including house boats,
used on the upper reaches of the Thames.
DIR. Sheppard argues, In recent issue of
the Lancet, that phthsis is the result of
constantly recurring irritation of the air
passages, and that the cold air breathed at
night is at least one efficient cause of this
irritation.
The cotton-growers of the South have
resolved to sell no more cotton until
the 2Sth of the present month, except
what may be necessary to meet obligations.
That will doubtless be quantum sg6icit for
all purposes.
Russian manufacturers and railways are
adopting naphtha dregs in place of wood
and coal for fuel, and the same substance
is largely utilized for domestic purposes.
Less space is occupied and the price is
much cheaper.
For steam engines in Europe about 200
pounds pressure is about what they favor
for large or small. American types of
sectional boilers are very extensively used
and at the Paris Exposition a variety of
such boilers is shown.
The cigarette habit is increasing faster
than the cigar habit. Last year taxes on
2,151, ,515, 300 were collected, an increase
of 2S9, ,7S9, 260 over the year before. For
the same period 1867 1856 cigars were
taxed, an increase of 22,65S,990.
Enterprise and capital are about to
change the great Dismal Swamp of North
Carolina into hundred farms. A railroad
has been run across its entire width, an
immense saw-mill has been set to work
and quite a town is springing up. This
wilderness will soon blossom as the rose.
The Kansas man who made thousand
barrels of vinegar from twenty acres of
watermelons and sold the vinegar for ten
dollars barrel has founded new and
valuable industry He has also shown
that the best way to avoid cramps from
watermelons is to convert the melons into
vinegar.
In comparing the literary merits of
Dickens and Thackeray, an after-dinner
orator in London said "It's the wonder
ful insight inter 'uman nature that Dick
ems gets the pull over Thackeray but on
t'other hand, it's the brilliant shafts of
satire, tgether with keen sense O. humor,
that Dicllery gets the pull over Thackens
It's just like this: Thickery is humorist
and Dackens is a satirist. But, after all
it's 'bsurd to instood any comparison be-
tween Dackery and Thickens." Literary
World.
A buttonwood tree, an old landmark of
Castleton, VT, standing in the midst of the
! village, near the old Moulton mansion,
has been cut down. 1t was planted in
1898 by Hon. Samuel Shaw, member of
Congress during the war of 1912, and the
grandfather Of Josh Billings The old
town whipping post stood about twelve
feet from this venerable tree up to 1910,
/ when it was demolished. Many have esti-
mated the age of the tree much greater
| than it was, but memorandum made by
DR.. Shaw Of the exact date of the planting
is still extant.
A curious scene was witnessed in Palace
Yard, Westminster, England. sparrow
was picking up the corn which had fallen
from the horses nosebags, when mouse
appeared and proceeded to dispute with
the sparrow his right to the dainty NOR
sells. A fight ensued, which lasted for
some minutes, and then the sparrow beat a
retreat. The sparrow had evidently been
Injured in the tussel, and for a time he
was unable to fly. At last the sparrow
flew up, and cabman finished the incl
dent by killing the mouse with whip.
A policeman in certain town in North
ern New Hampshire, recently attempted
to separate two men who were engaged in
a row, when one of them picked up a club
and struck the officer on the head, laying
his scalp open. The latter pluckily stuck
to his man, and finally landed his assail.
ant in the lookup. The next morning
the prisoner was arraigned before Jus
tice, who fined the policeman 81 and costs
Of prosecution. On being demonstrated
with, the Court said that the prisoner mad
no money 10 pay him for his trouble, and
he didn't propose to work for nothing
Concord (N. H. Monitor
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