Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-08-12
ALL AROUND THE WORLD.

For 100 years miniature painting has
been peculiar distinction of Charleston,
5. c., and it is said to lead all other cities
of the country in this branch of art.
Secretary Tracy has promised to send
eight naval vessels to Baltimore to take
part in the exercises incident to the Mary
land exposition and 18th of September
celebration.
A Maine judge has held that priest has
a right to exclude from church any one
who refuses to pay a fee of ten cents Or
dered by the bishop. The free list was in
this case entirely suspended.
The largest ship in the British navy,
the Trafalgar, launched two years ago, has
at last tried her engines with success. She
is 345 feet long, 73 feet beam, and 12S1S
horsepower drove her 1928 knots.
Thomas A. Edison, the inventor, rarely
sleeps more than four hours a day. He
says that when he sleeps eight hours a
day, as most men do, he feels badly when
he wakes up. He eats the simplest food.
Mrs. Mary E. Hanchett, who died re-
Gently at Chittenango, New York, was the
| second woman graduate of an America
medical college. She received the degree
of doctor of medicine from the Albany
Medical College in 1s4S. She was a
woman of great intelligence and force of
character.
1t is said there are fully 5000 steno-
graphers in New York city. In 1910 there
were not more than a dozen competent
stenographers in the United States; now
there are 10000 who claim to be compe-
tent, but not one-quarter of that number
can write at the rate of $50 words per
minute.
Hiram Case of Three Rivers, Mich, is a
tough old case. This year he went twice
around ten-acre field, and after raking
and binding the two swaths he put the
bundles up in shocks. He is ninety-two
years old, and has cut wheat with a cradle
and bound it for seventy years past. He
is exceedingly proud of his record.
Governor Beaver of Pennsylvania deter
mined when he assumed his present office
to visit every county in the Keystone
State. He has just completed his task by
his visit to Pike county. As there are
more than sixty counties in Pennsylvania
he has been Obliged to do vast amount
of travelling to effect his purpose.
At recent royal ball in London the
young Duchess of Portland wore beauti-
ful white and silver brocade gown, trim
med with silver thistles a, necklace of
pearls and sapphires, and diamond and
sapphires tiara. 1t was really amusing
to see the Duke watch her dance with
Prince Albert Victor, SO proud was he of
the admiration she commanded.
While tearing down an old chimney in
Nyack, New York, last week, the work
men were astonished to find imbedded in
the mortar toad in a somewhat. inactive
condition, but still alive. 1t had been
confined in that spot, hidden from light
and air, for fully forty years. Half an
hour after he had been brought out he
hoped around in as lively manner as if
he had been born the present year.
The richest woman in America is resi-
dent of South America. She is not only
the richest woman in the Americas, but
she is the richest woman in the world.
She has one of the largest fortunes held
by either sex. This woman is Dona Isa-
dora Consino of Chile. She is the biggest
real estate owner in Santiago and Val
paraiso. South American fortunes are
hard to estimate, but many people put
hers above $200,000000. Money multi
plies fast in her hands, and her eye is
everywhere.
Ceylon cats are a curious instance of what
evolution has accomplished in the way of
adapting creatures to environments. They
have no tails and are able, by lack of that
apPendage, to initiate rabbits and SO get
them into their clutches. They are great
rabbit catchers, and as such are valuable
beyond all other cats in Australia.
They have been introduced into this
country, but whether for their hunting
propensities or not is not stated The cat
family has never been utilized by man as
it might be. Rat and mice catchers can
also be developed into good hunters in
| many other directions.