Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-10-27
ALL AROUND THE WORLD.

Steel is being turned out of Reading
mill which is said to be superior to the
Sheffield product.
Newtown, Pa, hes Presbyterian church
erected in 1869. 1t is a quaint, old
fashioned stone edifce.
The mother of Bayard Taylor celebrated
her eightieth birthday recently. She lives
at Kenneth Square, Pa.
The late King of Bavaria left debts
which will be paid off at the rate Of $780,
600 year. The last payment will be made
in 1905.
At Cory, Pa, when the free delivery of
applications for the four positions of letter
carriers.
A Greensburg, Pa, man who made APP
plication for married license stated on
oath that hunting for money" was his
occupation, and that his prospective wife
was "home adornment"
A farmer in Brooke county, West Vir-
ginia, has an old-fashioned pocket-book
that his father and grandfather used to
carry. He estimates that more than $780,
900 has been in it since it was in use.
The Philadelphia statue of General
Mcclellan is to be placed in the middle of
Bread street, just south Of the City Hall.
The design represents the General on
horseback, surveying line of battle.
While hunting back Of Dunmore, near
Pittston, Pa, several days ago, a man came
upon a rattlesnake, and as he shot it
wildcat made jump for him. His dog
grabbed the wildcat by the hind legs, and
the wildcat whirled and sent the dog away
yelping. Then the sportsman made
fierce kick, which sent the cat out of sight
down deep mine hole.
There are between five hundred and six
hundred Cinnamon in Sunday schools and
missions in New York. They are there
chiefly to learn to talk English, for there
are only fifty-three of the number who are
out-and-out Christians; that is, members
of the churches. A religious worker among
the Mongolians says the church people
have got to realize that the Chinaman is
pretty hard subject to Christianize.
Farmers living in the vicinity of corn
cob pipe factory are exceptionally fortu-
nate. Although many millions of cobs
are burned or allowed to rot every year,
the price for pipe-making purposes keeps
up. A farmer living near Washington,
Mo, recently sold 100 bushels of corn for
$50 and got S27 for the cobs. This is at
sufficient Missouri meerschaums we're
smoked to make the demand larger farmers
would soon be rich. Corncob pipes are
manufactured by very simple process,
and are in fair demand all over the coun-
try. Some were recently shipped to Eu-
rope, and more were ordered soon after
their arrival.
Mahlon D. De Turk, of Obey, six miles
from Reading, Pa, is the owner Of five
large fsh-dams. Of late he has been
greatly troubled by the depredations of
fish hawks, which have made frequent
descents on his fish preserves where swim
some 5000 or 1000 German carp of va
rious sizes. The other day, intending to
abate the nuisance somewhat, if possible,
he took down his shotgun, and with a
supply of buckshot secreted himself in
the bushes beside one Of the dams. Pres
emily an enormous bird sailed overhead,
and, after circling around slowly three
times, mace rapid descent into the pond.
Just as it emerged from the water with
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it with lead of buckshot and killed it
instantly. Instead of being a fish hawk,
as he supposed, it proved to be bald
eagle, and measured five feet six inches
from tip to tip of its wings.
In the western part of North Carolina,
about seven miles west of Hot Springs,
there lives a family by the name of Brooks.
1t is a very interesting one, and many 4
visitor to the quiet little town of Hot
Springs has had his curiosity so aroused by
stories of this family that he has hired a
team and driven seven miles to the Brooks
residence. This consists of little, low
log cabin in an unsettled district. and is
occupied by father, mother and twenty ex-
ceptionally handsome children. Every
one is blonde, with yellow-goIden hair
and peachy complexion, and all as ignor-
ant, wild and untutored as they are beauti-
full In addition to the above family proper
the two oldest girls are married one is
widow with two children, and the other
has three children and husband. Both
these little families are living with the old
folks at home, making in all family of
twenty-eight, when none are missing. The
home or log cabin consists of but one
room, and that a very small one. The
family sleeps in berths, arranged like those
on ship.