Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-06-13
ALL AROUND THE WORLD.

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stroke that has lost it previous races with
Yale, and the students generally feel that
New London races this year will be nc
procession. The old stroke was all arm
and no back. Another change is the re.
moval of the graduate advisory committee
from the control in athletics.
One of the most remarkable phases Of
college student life in this country, says the
New York Tribune, is the fondness fol
amateur acting, which has been developed
in nearly all the large colleges during the
last few years. A still more remarkable
phase of college student life would be q
| tondness for classical learning.
Captain Smith of the American linel
Princess, who has Just arrived in Philadel.
| phia, claims to have seen the genuine
article Of sea serpeut, with head the size
of beef barrel, in latitude 40 and long.
itude 42o. Evidently, from the location
the reptile proposes to be promptly on
hand for the opening of the seaside resorts
| Inter- Ocean,
Virginia still has a good lead as mother
of Presidents. The seven in her list are
Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe
Harrison, Tyler and Taylor. If General
George II. Thomas had lived he would
have been the eighth. Ohio is second to
! Virginia, her four being Grant, Hayes
Garfield and Ben Harrison. Kentucky
has one, and great one-Lincoln.
The census of 1890 will furnish informa.
| tion which no other Federal census has
yielded relating 10 the recorded indebted.
ness of the people. The idea is to present
statistics showing the extent of this pri.
| vate Indebtedness OF record and the form
in which it exists-namely, whether in
real estate or mortgages, debts otherwise
secured, or in general Indebtedness through
notes and bills payable.
The Rev. Walter Clark. NJ. A.. late
Head Master of Derby School, England,
claimed to be the last lineal descendant in
the male line of the Great Protector.
When Richard Cromwell laid down the
burden of Il rule to which he was not
equal, he retired to the suburbs of Lon
don and took the name of Clark. The
Rev. Mr.. Clark died unmarried, so that
the line is now extinct.
A few days ago, when Secretary of War
Proctor was returning from a visit to his
home in Vermont on the Bennington and
Rutland Railroad, he found he had neither
ticket nor pass. He assured the conductor
that he might be relied upon to make il
all right with the corporation. The con-
ductor, however, enforced the rules, which
will not recognize a deadhead, even in a
Secretary of War; he demanded fare, and
it was paid.
A recent French tale has the following
grewsome plot: "a lover who has lost
his mistress by death passes a night in a
cemetery where she Is buried, and wit
nesses general resurrection, in which all
the dead rectify their own epitaphs, can
didly telling the truth about themselves,
however uncomplimentary it may be- The
spectator of this scene has the happiness
Of seeing his dead love inscribe upon her
own tombstone the confession that the cold
of which she died was taken while deceiv-
ing her lover"
France and Germany raise more beet
sugar than they can consume The United
States spend nearly Sl00,000,000 year for
sugar. 1t is therefore interesting to read
that an American and English company,
with capital stock of Sl,000,000, is about
to establish a beet sugar refinery, near
Welltieet, Lincoln county, Neb., a region
where the sugar beet thrives exceedingly
well and developes ) per cent. more
sugar than in Europe. The beet sugar
industry and silk production are both hard
to start, but perseverance will win. The
first steps here are the difficult ones.