Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-11-18
ALL AROUND THE WORLD.

During the last eighteen ronths the
Russian Government has expelled $4,000
Jews from the empire.
The fastest recorded time made by an
electric railway is about twenty miles an
hour on a street-car system.
Four telegraphic messages can now be
transmitted over one wire at one time By
using the quadruplex system.
Over 100000 miles of telegraph wire
are in operation in the United States
enough to encirele the globe forty times.
More than 10000 miles of telephone
wire are in operation in the United St,tes;
over these 1,025,000 messages are sent
daily.
A curly walnut log was sold by a Burcll,
Logan county, W. Va, man for $4,000, D.
Williamson, of indianapolis, being the pur-
chaser.
There are 2,340 Catholic priests with
1858, 400 Catholic population in England,
and 329 priests with 33S, 643 Catholic pop-
ulation IN Scotland. Ireland has 3,25f
and 1892, ,357 Catholic population.-Igde-
pendent
Kansas claims TO have the finest colec-
tion OF North American birds on exhibi-
tion in this country. In a room at the
State Capitol building are 1928 birds
handsomely mounted and placed in glass
showcases The collection is due 70 the
labors Of Colonel \. 5. Goss.
In a weIl-known gambling house in New
York two hands are nailed up over the
mantels. They are six. seven, eight, nine
and ten Of diamonds and the same II
spades. These two hands came together
and caused the division of a small fortune
| between the holders.
In instructing her.how to handle the
weekly wash, a Germantown lady told her
servant, fresh from Castle Garden, TO take
| the horse to the kitchen and haug the
clothes on it 20 dry. The following
morning the household were aroused
| by the noise, ard investigation showed
| that Bridget had hacked the family horse
into the kitchen and had tried to cover il
with wet clothes, but the animal Objected
| to the treatment.
The African Methodist Episcopal Church
which has not q white man among it,
members. reports q membership Of 10000
1t has I2000 places OF worship. numbers
10000 ministers has $1,000 Sabbath
Schools supports It's own denomiuationai
papers, has missions in the West Indies,
Mexico and Africa, and its reported con
tributions foot up more than $4,000, ,000
annually for the support Of church work.
Miss Clara Barton SAYS that since June
10th twenty thousand persons at Johns
town have received aid at the hands Of
the Red Cross representatives. Three thou
and families have been supplied with tbs
articles necessary for re-esta5lishment OF
home life. Six houses have been furnished,
/ warmed, and lighted and passed into the
hands of local physicians for the use OF
homeless sick needing shelter and care.
Probably thc Smallest republic in the
world is The one which declared It's inde-
pendencc on August 9th, at Frapceyille,
one Of the islands Of the New Hebrides,
and elected NJ Cheviliiard its President
| The inhabitants consist OF forty Europeans
(including solitary Englishman, mis-
sionary), and five hundred black Ecramen
employed by a French company. Tho new
flag of the Repu!ic having been duly
hoisted, the French gunhoat Saone landed
detachment and saiuted the flag.
Some people are too superstitious for
anything. There are men right here in
the STIR Office who consider it the worst
kind of a hoodoo TO nave heavy ladder
fall on them on Tuesday. There is an
other man who invariably turns around
and goes around the corner if he sees an
old friend approaching. He owes him
S25 and it Is one Of his pet superstitious
that it would kill his lack forever to meet
| him on this EARTH And there's g. Smith,
he never lends an umbrella on Monday,
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,
Saturday or Sunday. This superstition
has taken entire possession Of him. W,asi,-
ington Star.
Can any monument be more eloquent
than that which the Society Of the Sons Of
the Revolution are about to erect to
Nathan Hale in City Hall Park, New
York? Hale was the Connecticut boy,
destined for the ministry, who, upon
Washington call, went into the British
| lines as a spy. lie was taken and hanged
near the spot where this memorial is to be
erected. The statue, to be Of bronze,
modelled by Frederick MacMormies,
pupil of st. GaudeDs, represents the glori-
Gus young patriot with elbows and feet
tied, and just before the rope was fastened
about his neck and he mad uttered these
words: 81 only regret that | have but one
life to lose for my country"