Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-05-18
ALL AROUND THE WORLD.

The Repablique Franchise gives long ac-
count of learned seal, that comes when
called, gives his paw or rather his fipper
to anyone when properly introduced, walks
from his boarding. house to the circus
where he is exhibited, but strangely
enough insists on riding in carriage when
it rains.
Few people know how the great Chan
cellor Bismarck and his ancestors got their
name. Bismarck is the name of one of
those ancient castles short distance from
Stendal. The castle had this name be-
cause it defended the "Marca," or the line
where the river Biese formed a boundary
in former times or mark of defense against
intruders.
There are extensive deposits of petro-
leum in northern Peru, and an American
gentleman has purchased a tract of land
twelve miles wide and twenty miles long,
covering the site of ancient oil works and
will develop the property as an oil region.
He was formerly an operator in the Penn
sylvania oil fields. He already has half a
dozen flowing wells.
The Brunswick (Me.) Telegraph IN
stances as case OF the ruling passion
strong in death the falling of the spire of
the Main-street Baptist Church, Bruins
wick, which was torn down recently In
stead of falling on the ground, as was ex-
pected, the spire went plump into the cis-
tern beneath the sidewalk-"Baptist to the
last as bystander remarked.
A cure for stammering has been discov-
ared. 1t consists in keeping silent for ten
days. Then speaking in whispers for ten
days more ana finally returning to the Or
dinary voice gradually. The expert who
advances this theory has not as yet been
able to obtain disciple of the fairer sex
to experiment on. At the first step in his
treatment there was general mutiny.
Artificial coffee is manufactured on an
| extensive scale in Germany. 1t is made
from linseed meal, roasted to a dark color,
and mixed with some glutinous substance
before being passed through machines,
! which turn out the compound in the shape
of real coffee bean. When the false
bean is well mixed with the genuine pro-
duct only an expert can detect the diiler-
| ence.
A Frenchman named Henri Dubuisson
has Just been awarded gold medal under
rather curious circumstances. He is. il
appears, the senior undertakers man in
Europe, and for the last sixty-seven years
he has exercised his calling of crogue-s,ort
in Paris. This interesting individual is
now in his eighty-second year, and taste
for the profession he has so long followed
may be said to have been hereditary. his
father and grandfather having been in the
same line.
To lovers of genuine Mocha the follow
ing from the Journal Of Commerce may prove
great disenchantment: "The real article
comes only from Yemen, an Arabian prov
ince. The greater part of the exported
Mocha never sees Yemen, but is brought
! from the East Indies to Mocha and from
there shipped further. Not bean of
| the best Mocha passes out of Constantino-
Pile. The better kinds are used for home
consumption and only the pale, shrunken
ana broken beans are sent to distant
countries"
An intelligent dog in West Chester
plays hide-and-seek with his owner, little
girl named Amy. She taught it the game,
and they both, it is said, find much fun ia
playing it Amy will tell the dog to re-
main in certain place until she hides.
She then calls and the dog starts on the
search, finding Amy every time, no matter
where she hides. Then the dog will wag
his tail, show his teeth as though laugh
ing. and HE away to the place originally
designated for him by Amy, while Amy
hides again, only to be found in an instant
afterward by the dog.