Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-08-04
CURRENT NEWS NOTES.

Apache county, in Arizona, is larger
than the State of Massachusetts, yet it has
not single doctor within its borders
AT Lexington, KY, lawsuit that was
begun IN 1911 has just been settled 1t
related to a land claim, and the sum in
dispute was originally about $4,000
\ Montreal collection plate revealed the
! fact that 209 ofthe congregation had con.
tributed cent apiece to the church funds,
while ,S79 had given cents apiece, and
S6S 10 cents apiece.
Mrs. Ole Olsen, of Detroit, a Swedish
woman, is the proud mother of bouncing
| boy only one year old who weighs $50
pounds. A dime museum manager offered
500 per week for the privilege
of exhibiting the child, but the mother
refused to listen to him.
A farmer near Parkersburs, w. Va.
claims that one OF his mules was scared to
death by lightning. The lightning
Knocked down a shed under which the
mule was standing, and the animal started
to run and kept it up until it dropped
down dead
A French coin of the time of Louis
NV. was found in cornfeld at Marengo,
Ind, few days ago. 1t is supposed TO
have been there since the days when the
French traded with the Indians.
The widow of n. P. Willis, the poet, is
living in Washington. She is a pleasant,
attractive woman of sixty, and is occa-
sionally seen in society. Her son is 4
member of the corps of geological survey.
The Prince of Wales receives from the
British excheQuer more than S2S7, 900 a
year, the Duke of Edinburg more than
Sl42O00, and the Duke Of Connaught
Sl25,O0O. The Duke of Cambridge gets
$4,000.
A hen owned by John Seal, of Swarth-
more, Pa, which has supplied his family
with spring chickens and eggs for nearly
fourteen years, was recently tied to a tres
tie to prevent her from setting, when she
committed suicide by hanging herself
The income of professional rat-catcher
averages 81 500 per year, and there are
only ten of them in the United States.
The average income of lawyers is only
500 per year, and the ranks are over
crowded.
General Neal Dow has an invalid
daughter who has been confined to her
chair for years. She has devoted herself
to the study of languages and is now per-
fectly couversant with Latin, Greek, Ger
man, Spanish, French and Russian.
- A woman of Athens, Ga, who is 81
years old, it is said does not remember to
have ever taken drink of water and can
not bear the fluid. Her eyesight has re-
turned to her, and she can now do the
finest needlework without the use of
glasses. She is in fine health and bids fair
to live century.
Anartesian we'll in North City, suburb
of st. Augustine, Fla, is said 20 have the
largest flow Of any artesian well in the
world. 1t is an eight-inch well, and its
flow exceeds the highest expectations.
From 4 measurement made by J. X.
Rainey, the flow exceeds 5000 gallons
per minute, or over Il, 100000 gallons
every twenty-four hours.
Elizabeth Akers Allen, the author of
the famous poem, Rock Me to Sleep,
Mother" is living quietly at Ridgewood
n. j. She is an interesting woman of 81,
retaining her beauty of face and sparkle of
conversation. She began writing poetry
at the age of Is. Besides an occasional
poem, Mrs. Allen does but little literary
work nowadays.
The recipe for making farm life pleas
ant for the boys-by supplying the farm
with race track, billiard-room, bowl
ing alley and well-equipped bar-room-
has never been followed out, but church
at Northampton, England, with much the
same idea in mind, has established
billiard and smoking-room and bar for
the sale of temperance drinks behind the
chapel.
A little darky boy was recently brought
before the Police Court of Richmond, Va,
charged with some trifing offense. He
asked to have his case postponed for one
day so that he might bring as witness
another darky boy who would exonerate
HIM. The next morning his friend was
in Court, but to the surprise
of everybody, his testimony was en-
tirely against the accused boy and resulted
in his conviction. When the prisoner was
asked to explain this fact he remarked,
philosophieally, "Oh, he done been seen
since / sawp him."