Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-12-26
ALL AROUND THE WORLD.

A Mexican giant feet inches in hight
is employed as a special officer at Scranton,
Pa.
Sophia Bennington, of Xenia, Ohio, has
given birth to her twenty-hfth child
Her husband claims this beats all known
records.
A large tract of tea land in the neigh
5orhood of Canton this year yielded per
acre $1,000 in tea leaves of the finest
quality.
The Florida orange crop will be smaller
than usual this year, owing to the drought
that prevailed in the orange-growing re-
gion last spring.
A Westchester (Pa.) paper refused to
take church fair advertisement for fear
it would come under the law prohibiting
lottery advertising.
The deal in regard to the lands of the
Canadian Anthracite Coal Company, which
were to have been sold to an English syn
dictate, is said to be off.
The bastinado is still in use in Hungary
to make refractory peasants testify about
accomplices or as to their own misdeeds,
and the Hungarian press has recently en-
gagged in campaign against this relic of
barbarism.
The latest recensement figures set down
the population of Berlin at !, 173, S53, and
of Vienna at 1,11O,164, steady advance
being made by both capitals through adj
ditions from small towns throughout the
two Empires.
An express train in Alabama going at
full speed struck woman and threw her
twenty feet in the air. landing her outside
the right of way. When picked up she
was dead. but there was not bruise any
where on her body, but the soles of her
shoes had been cut off as smooth as if done
by cobbler
According to the american AgricuIturia
the milk supply of New York city affords
S10,000,000, at q cents quart. Over
100000 cows are MIXED to obtain this sup
ply, and S60,000,000 of capital is invested,
exclusive of the railroads and dealers.
Milk is drawn from five States, and some
of it is hauled 800 miles by the railroads
With vigilant Milk Inspectors and an &C
tive Dairy Commissioner, with his depu-
ties, New York is getting supply of fairly
good milk and honest butter.
A "coal palace" $50 by 800 feet and
three stories high, is to be erected in East
St. Louis. This palace will be decid-
eddy novel structure. The coal companies
will furnish the material for the super
structure-black coal of every kind, and
wrought out by saw, by mason's hammer,
and into artistic forms by the carver's
chisel. The first floor will be polished
coal, and pillars of coal will support the
foor-coal, coal everywhere. The purpose
of the building will be to continually ex-
hibit the agricultural and mineral prod
ucts of Southern Illinois.
A novel cure was effected by the use of
the dynamo recently at Westgate-on-Sea,
England. A Mr.. Brown was fitting false
bottom to CRATE, and, while chipping it
to make it fit, very small splinter of iron
flew off and struck him in the eye. An
electrical engineer who met him shortly
after, seeing his plight, took him to
dynamo that was working near by. Brown
placed his eye as close as possible to the
machine, and the magnetic attraction was
sufficiently intense to withdraw the splin-
ter of iron from the eye, which was in
stantly relieved and which gave no further
trouble.