Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-08-19
ALL AROUND THE WORLD.

A writer in BlackzrooFs Mdqa1;ne figures
that ancient Rome had probably 4, 000, 900
inhabitants.
The number of British subjects who en-
igrated from Great Britain during the first
SIX months of this year was 136, 525, which
is reduction of Is, 225 as compared with
the same period last year.
According to Mr.. Ruskin's recent criti-
cism, there is no genius about the English
language. He defines the Welsh language
as the language of music, the Scotch of
poetry and the Irish of wit.
An eleyen-inch steel shell costs the Navy
Department S135, making full-sized
eieven-inch bombardment an expensive
matter Modern diplomacy is by several
per cent. cheaper than is modern warfare.
Prince Bismarck has at varzin $4,000
acres, of which $4,000 are covered with
glorious forests of oak and beech. His
home farm comprises 400 acres, and the
remainder of the cleared land is let in
farms of about 400 acres each.
Henry Irving is the most scholarly look
ing of all living actors. He is as much in
ferior to Booth as an actor as he is superior
to him as manager and master of stage
craft. The chief fault of Irvings acting is
too little nature and too much art.
The wooden shoeSee naently seen in
has not only found heway into this coun-
try, but its manufacture requires even
steam power to supply the demand. But
ternut furnishes a desirable materinl.
An authority upon provisions estimates
that half pound of butter week is good
allowance for each person half pound of
coffee week and pound and a quarter of
sugar for each person make liberal allow
ances. Families are apt to differ in these
respects.
A remarkable instance of losg-continued
service in the employ of single concern is
furnished in the case of Smith B. Freeman,
who died recently at Staten Island at the
age of 81 years, after having been contin-
uously employed by the Staten Island dye
ing establishment since its organization in
1919, period of seventy years.
Dexter trotted mile over tho Buffalo
track twenty-five years ago in 2174. The
great gelding was 8 years old at that time,
and his performance excited the whole
trotting world. Rarus trotted in 2:l34 on
the same track eleven years ago. AT the
! meeting when Dexter reduced the worlds
record Sl4,0 600 was hung up on the differ
ent races.
| The street cars at Lyons, in France. are
| hereafter to be opened by system of COM
pressed air, which has been found to work
| satisfactorily in Nantes and other French
cities. The cars are said to run smoothly
and with but little noise, while the ma
| chinery is simple and does not require a
| skilled mechanic to superintend it. The
cost is less than with horses, steam or cleo
tricity.
Canada has 124,5S9 Indians, of whom
-, 944 are in British Columbia, 26, 1868 in
Manitoba and the Northwestern Territory,
1900 in Ontario, II, 465 in Quebec, 5000
in Athabaska, 1000 in the Mackenzie dis
trict, 4,016 in Eastern Rupert's Land, a 900
on the Arctic coasts, 2,145 in New Scot
land, 2,03S in the Peace River District,
1884 in New Brunswick, 1000 in the inte-
rior of Labrador and 3l9 in Prince Ed
ward Island.
There is in Ozark, Mo-, remarkable
relic of the tornado that devastated Marsh
field in 1880. The day after the disaster
E. S. Wilson, a blacksmith of Ozark, found
black quart bottle which had been bent
so that the neck of the bottle touched the
edge of the bottom, and yet the glass was
not cracked. Professor Tice, who visited
the scene of the tornado, attributed the
bending of the bottle to electricity. 1t
was found in the wreck of one of the Marsh
field drug stores.
Leather collars and cuffs are sold by the
swell London ladies' tailors. The colors
are in varying shades of brown, green, red,
and in black, and they are ornamented
with fancy stitching. The cuffs are about
three inches deep. From Paris, mean
while, are coming dress trimmings, cut out
in arabesque designs. Travelling dresses
are to be ornamented round the edge of
the skirt with broad strips of black, gray
and brown leather.
The Gardeners Chronicle says the iinkgo
tree of Japan is proving one of the best
trees for planting in smoky cities, thriving
in the most impure atmosphere, and hav-
ing as yet been attacked By no insect or
fungus disease. There are some specimens
of this tree on Boston Common which were
set out quite number of years ago and
excited much curiosity by their rarity.
They are Of fine shape and dark color.
The jinkgo. is quite extensively used IN
Washington.