Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-10-13
ALL AROUND THE WORLD.

If there be any good horses in the world,
America Is now getting them. We pro-
pose to have the best of everything.
There are four statues to Christopher
Columbus in the United States-one in
Baltimore, one in New York, one in Bos-
ton and one in Paramount Park, Philadel-
phia.
A Georgia planter has curious variety
of potatoes. The vine or bush grows four
feet high and is a beautiful plant, and has
potatoes twelve or fourteen inches long
and six inches in diameter. The seed
came from Louisiana.
Anept the village of Y in France cor
respondent writes: "There is village in
Iippecanoe county, Indiana, that reioices
in the name OF B. This is the shortest
name in the United States, and, of course,
as short as any in the world"
The Queen of Sweden, who suffers from
nervousness, is said to be curing herself by
what she terms the chambermaid treat
ment. In other words, she makes her own
bed, dusts her own room and makes herself
generally useful about the house.
People who visit both the new and the
old ships in the American navy observe
that the new ones are manned so far as
possible by Yankee sailors graduated from
the naval training ships, while the foreign
seaman, who are still numerous, are sent
to the antiquated vessels.
Very few people know how many differ
ent ways there are of changing a quarter
of a dollar. According to a Philadelphia
man, who had more leisure than business
on his hands, there are 315 ways of chang
ing that piece of money. The pieces used
are the 20-cent piece, 10-cent piece, scent
piece, Scent piece, 2-cent piece and the
| 1-cent piece. To make all the changes
without using the same coin twice would
require l,233 l-cent pieces, GA twos, 37S
threes, Isl ives, 50 tens and 9 TWEEN
ties, making 1854 pieces, worth $53 rs.
In the old mythology of England, horses
| were and are to this day looked upon as
| luck bringers. In some parts of England
it is still thought that many forms of dis
ease may be cured by burning horse alive.
A horses hoof placed under an invalid's
bed is specific for many complaints in the
north of Scotland. Many years ago in
Ireland, it is said, upon the death of a
horse its feet and legs were hung up in
| the house, and even the hoofs are sacred.
vention of ill-luck or disease.
Amy Levy, the young English girl who
| had become famous in literature at a bound,
died few days ago suddenlysat the age of
twenty-three. She was a graduate of
Newman College, Cambridge, and her
first work was volume of poems. She
! then wrote and published two novels of re-
markable power. Her latest book. "Reuben
Sachs" made sensation and received high
praise from London critics At her own
| request she was cremated at Working. A
| small oak chest, containing her ashes, was
then buried in cemetery Her premature
death Is one of the saddest that has oc-
Cured in the literary world since poor
Chatterton persisted in his pride.
A discovery referring to the iron age
has been made at Gloppen, on the coast of
Norway. A burial chamber, twelve feet
IN length and formed of stone Slabs has
been uncovered, containing the re-
mains of a man. Around the neck of the
body was a cloak in perfect state
OF preservation, which revealed Won
deffully rich embroidery of images of ami
mails. In the hands had been placed three
interlaced wooden rings, resembling the
well-known puzzle rings, an object never
before discovered in ancient graves. The
discovery has given Norwegian archRolo-
gists much food for speculation.
Pigeon flying is growing to be an alb
sorbing amusement in England, particu-
larly among the Birmingham laborers
The spread Of the sport has developed
quite new branch of railway traffic. Ii
is the practice of flyers to send their
birds in baskets addressed to the
stationmaster at a particular station,
with request that he release them,
mark on the label the time that they we're
released, and return the basket This re-
quest is regularly granted. The officials
rather like the work In clouly weather
porters have been known to feed birds for
three days before setting them free.