Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-07-15
ALL AROUND TEE WORLD.

Artificial ice Is cheaper in southern
cities than the natural article is in the
North.
Boston has dedicated thirty acres of
playground for the children. The Boston
idea is good one.
Arrangements have been completed for
building 900 miles of railroad in Siberia,
and work is to be commenced at once.
Isaac H. Wright, of Dorchester county,
Maryland, has an orchard of $4,000 peach
trees. This year he expects to raise only
moderate crop.
Cows hair is now used in making car
pets. The process is described as cheap
one, and the product as an improvement
on the woolen article.
A lumber dealer of indianapolis says
that the inhalation of the odor of pine
lumber is the reason why lumber-yard
horses are so healthy.
The South Australian Government has
made arrangements by which an engine
driver who has run his trains for two years
without accident shall be presented with
$50
Although there are seventy-three DIFF
ferent languages and about eight hundred
dialects spoken by the American Indians,
the sign language is equally understood by
all the tribes.
Reduce your gas bills IS per cent.
Secret for 81" read an advertisement
which Brooklyn man answered. He re-
ceived this terse reply by return mail:
Burn kerosene"
The greatest snuff-taking country in the
world is France, though It shows decline
in the habit. In 1869 the consumption
was 100000 pounds, or seven ounces per
head. Now it is five ounces.
John Williams, a bachelor of Augusta.
Me-. was told that a certain widow had set
her cap for him, and John was so afraid
that he might be roped into marriage that
he went to the barn and hanged himself
The Bishop of Durham threw the park
OF his palace open so the general public
on recent Sunday afternoon, and per-
mitted a military band to give concert of
sacred and secular music, chiefly secular.
A yacht has recently been launched on
the Thames by electrical appliances, which
enabled all the supports to be removed on
the pressing of a button, and the vessel
glided into the water without the slightest
hitch.
The two hundred and fiftieth anniver-
sary of the establishment of the first pub
lie school in the United States sustained
by direct tax on the people" was held at
Meeting House Hill, Dorchester, Mass, on
Saturday.
An American was arrested on the Aus
trian frontier for having in his luggage
unmistakable dynamite bombs On further
investigation they proved to be cocoanuts,
something that the Austrian authorities
had never seen.
The Cherokee Indians support over one
hundred common schools, with an aggre-
gate of 1859 pupils, and a high school for
boys with 2l1 students. They are Just
completing seminary that will accommo-
date 165 students.
A Kentucky editor married pretty
bluegrass belle 'for fun" the other
day and now finds that the actual knot has
been legally tied. He is satisfied, but the
girl is not as with her marriage is mat
ter O. money.
A cat in Falkirk, Scotland, is bringing
up a brood of chickens But the prize cat
is to be found in the hamlet of Trinity
Gask, Perthshire, Scotland. 1t is seriously
related of her that, having been deprived
of her kittens, she caught mouse, which
she adopted, and is now mothering with
great tenderness.
Orfila, the celebrated doctor, being ex-
anined as an ''expert" on capital trial,
was asked whether he could tell what
quantity of arsenic was requisite to kill
fly. He replied, Certainly, but l must
know beforehand the age of the fly, its sex,
its temperament, its condition and habits
of body, whether married or single, widow
or maiden, widower or bachelor. When
satisfied on these points | can answer your
question"
The latest scheme of w. W. Kelly and
Miss Grace Hawthore is an attempt to
form joint-stock company in London to
purchase Miss Hawthorne's lease of the |
PrinceSs's Theater, and her interest in GER
tain plays produced there. 1t is proposed
to issue 10000 shares at five shillings each.
The opportunity to be part lessee of a
theater for the triAing sum of 81 % may
be embraced by some people who like to
have even remote association with actors
and managers