Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-08-05
ALL AROUND THE WORLD.

Mrs. Emily Crawford, the most famous
Of women journalists, has lived in Paris for
more than thirty years.
Sylvanus Jones' of Richmond, Va, is
reported to have written 36,764 words in
shorthand on postal card.
Brooklyn can boast of having the largest
bread bakery in the world. 1t turns out
10000 loaves of bread a day on an aver
age.
Jean Ingelow has the poets love of flow
ers, and her low, rambling, cream-colored
stone house at Kensington stands in 4 mass
of bloom.
The expectation of petroleum last year
was the largest ever known, amounting TO
6l2,000,000 gallons. 1t was worth $49,-
42OSI7.
The man who invented the locomotive
cow-catcher never got a cent Tor it. And
yet it has given lots Of men lift.-Ioa-
kerS Statesman.
After hundred years in Edinburg, the
famous publishing firm of Messrs. A. & c.
Black are about to move their headquar-
ters to London.
A male partridge Matched ont nest of
hens eggs on a plantation at Irwinton, GA.
Biddy had laid the eggs in the woods and
abandoned them.
Rhoda Broughton, the English novelist,
is forty-eight and 4 highly intelligent
looking woman, with features hard and
rather masculine.
4 buried city in Honduras, containing
relics in profusion, has been unearthed $50
miles from the mouth of the Partook river,
among the Peyas Indians.
A new varnish has Just been brought
out in England. 1t is called ardenbrits,n -
and is said to be proof against water,
steam, smoke, sea air and sea water.
Prohibition is no worse Il failure any
where than in Maine. 1t is said that no
town of its size does more drinking than
Bangor, and Bar Harbor is so called for its
bars.
Archdeacon LEROY, the new Dean of
Norwich, in England, started life as COM
positor in a Dublin printing-house, and
was subsequently sub-editor of the Irish
Times
A sea turtle ten feet long, five feet widS
and weighing 1000 pounds, was caught re-
Gently in trap off South Harwich, Cape
Cod. This monster is estimated to be
fully 200 years old.
In the Paris circus trained lion is al
present being exhibited who rides on
horseback, jumps through hoops and over
bars, fires off pistols and performs num-
ber of similar tricks.
! Griffith Williams and family of eight
have left for Wa es. They are survivors
of the Johnstown flood. One of the chill
dren, who was born in the attic of a house
that was floating along the stream, has
been christened Moses.
Buffalo Bill is living in style IN Paris.
He has fitted up suit of handsome apart
ments in which he entertains in regal lux
uriance. He is making vast deal OF
money, but his social success pleases him
more than his financial.
W H. Putnam, great-grandson of Gen
eral Israel Putnam, died at Brooklyn,
Conn, the other day, of pa alysis, aged
/ seventy-seven. He was the most promi-
nent figure at the recent dedication of
| General Putnam's monument at Brooklyn.
The tallest chimney in this country is
! the new stack of the Clark Thread Com
pany, at Kearney, near Newark, n. j. 1t
is circular shaft 335 feet high and 2S3
| feet in diameter at the base. This CHM
ney cost $4,000 and contains 1867, 600
| bricks.
/ The monument to Miles Standish, at
| Duxbury, Mass, is nearly completed. 1t
is to be 116 feet high, and stands on an
eminence 800 feet above the level of the
sea. Navigators will note it as the first
prominent object as they enter Massachu-
setts Bay. 1t can be distinctly seen fifteen
miles outside of Cape Cod.
Henry Sturdivant is negro farmer,
who works on the farm of K w. Berry
hill, three miles out from Rome, Ga, on
the Alabama road Sturdivant has always
been accustomed to having his shoes made
to order One of his feet is larger than
the other. 1t takes No 20 shoe to in.
close his right foot and No. ii to house
the other. The largest shoe in the world
is worn by young lady in Kentucky, who
sports No. "a.