Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-01-18
ALL AROUND THE WORLD.

The papal stables, which used to have
forty horses in Plus IX.'s day, have been
cut down to eight horses, and instead of
dozen carriages they have four.
Two hundred day was the average
number of tourists who ascended last
month the Vesuvius railway to look down
into the mouth of the volcano.
The will of the Indiana man who left
S35 900 TO found home for old maids has
been declared invalid by the Court, the
testator having been of unsound mind.
Frank Erb, of Cunningham, Mo-, 90
years old, recently won a prize at shoot
ing match, some of the best marksmen in
the State being among the contestants.
A museum of religion, the Guimet Mu-
scum. was inaugurated in Paris two weeks
ago. 1t is intended to facilitate the study
of ancient religions by means of a collec-
ton of pictures, objects of worship and
books.
The Bishop of Chester recently confessed
before gathering Of working people that
his two greatest ambitions in life have al
ways been to write a good novel and to
run a public house Son the best princi-
pies"
The 'Pigs in Clover puzzle, which both
amused and tormented the American pub
lie. has turned up in London, and is all the
rage. 1t has changed its name to The
Shamrock and is taxing John Bulls In
genuity to the utmost.
Mrs. Elizabeth Webb, who died at Kal-
amazoo last week, aged ninety-one, is be-
lieved to have been the Oldest member Of
the Methodist Church in point of years Of
membership in the country. She had
been a COMMUNICATE for eighty-two years
The new Mayor at Birmingham at 8
meeting of the Diocesan Church of En-
gland Temperance Society, said that from
inouiries he had made at Somerset House
he found that out of 6SS shareholders II
local breweries 115 Tor more than one
sixth were clergymen and women.
The audit Of the London dock strike ac
counts is at last complete. The tota
: amount of money received from all source
was in round numbers e4o,O00, OF which
e30,s00, or nearly tyo-thirds, came iron
Australia. Tie various British trades un
7 ions subscribed $4,000.
A new sort of boot sole has been intro
dueed in Neuremburg, consisting of a sor
of trellis of spiral metal wire, the inters
,, tices being filed with gutta percha an
+ rosin. They can be fitted with nails, lik
: ordinary soles, are so per cent cheape
than leather, and vastly more durable.
/ Partisan dandies are seeking for sub
!, stltute for the word chic. The word
8 pschatt and rgdn have been employed in Ii
place. and Tres sreH. tres sport and tetdr
are being heard now, but none is though
to be so comprehensively or UNIVERSAL
e expressive as chic. So chic shows signs
Z coming back to stay.
During the Paris exhibition the con
s mittee of the English Peace Society dll
tributed 70 the visitors 100000 tracts beal
!. ing on the yexed questions OF peace an
# international arbitration. The Secretar
d has also held great number of interview
e with leading French politicians, write
IS and thinkers.
On the Kanawha and Ohio Railroad
n quail flew against the headlight of loc
Z motive the oA1er evening, breaking L
:, = glass and extinguishing the light. III
= quail was picked up for dead and given
:. the baggage-master, who revived it. So'
IS it was as clipper as ever, and was turn.
loose to 20 on its way rejoicing, while t
#. train ran the remainder OF the way
is darkness.