Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-02-22
ALL AROUND THE WORLD.

Roumania has 100000 gypsies, and Hun
gary $4,000.
A planter in Monticello, Fla, has al
ready shipped this season 10000 pound of
watermelon seed.
The development of Texas has but just
begun, yet there are 2, 106 postofices in the
State, the receipts are more than million
of dollars annually, and the length of the
mail routes is more than $4,000 miles.
Never buy diamonds except on a clear
day. The least mist or fog in the atmos-
phere will prevent you from discovering
the flaws in them. Damp, murky weather
practically kills the diamond business.
A leading Chinaman in New York, be-
ing chaffed on his custom of spreading a
splendid feast for joss, replied with a
broad Celestial grin: "Chinaman feedee his
god lazy Christian man waitee for his
God to feedee him.
At present 5SS periodicals appear in
Berlin. Thirty-six of them belong to the
political daily press, 491 are the organs of
special, social, educational and industrial
interests, and fourteen are devoted ex-
clusiyely to military matters.
The recommendation of the President
of the Merchant Tailors' Association that
style of garments based upon tastes
thoroughly American be adopted, will be
hailed with Joy by all who are tired of the
copying Of English styles.
A petrifed tree was found recently in a
coal mine at Osnabruck, Germany. The
| trunk is almost four feet through, and the
roots cover a surface of about fifteen feet
square. The tree has been set up in a
special room in the Berlin School of
Mines.
The authorities at Nordhausen, in Sax
ony. at the suggestion of the district medi-
cal officer, have issued an order to BARRIERS
| to disinfeet their brushes and other imple-
ments Immediately after use, and before
they are applied to the hair or beard of
another customer.
Here is a unique specimen of a medical
certificate of death. 1t was rendered by a
native apothecary at a recent inquest in
| India: q think she died or lost her life
for want of food or on account Of starva-
ton. and perhaps for other things Of her
comfortables, and most probably she died
by drowning
A great discovery of zinc ore has been
made near Field, in Manitoba. A Can
adian Pacific Railway tunnel is driven
right through the lode, which is simply
one solid body of ore. The ore has always
been mistaken for red granite, bat it turns
out to be very rich body of zinc. 1t is
at least 100 feet wide. The ore ASSAYS Is
per cent. zinc, 10 per cent. iron, $3.50 in
gold and $50 in silver to the ton.
When Richard Mansfield was perform
ing the part of Richard III. in an Eastern
CITY short time ago, and the stage bust.
! ness required that he should siI down on
| his throne to rest, he sat down but did not
rest on the contrary he instantly per
I formed the great Hellenic feat Of a swift
vertical spring of fully his own hight intC
i the air. After which he-as Richard
| Mansfield, not as King Riehard-ofered 9
reward OF SO for the arrest and conviction
of the 1nisereant who dumped those tack
upon his throne.
| Speaking of the long distances in thii
couatry an Englishman says: The long
est railroad trip you can make In th'
United Kingdom Is about 500 miles, ane
they cannot realize that there is a lanC
where one can ride continuously in ont
direction for q week or more. When I
local Liverpool man starts up to London
FIVE hours ride, his friends come to th
depot to see him off, and make great ad,
about his journey. He is provided witt
baskets of lunch and all that sort Of thing
while an American in the next compart
ment has only had a comfortable smok
! and read his paper when he reaches hi
t destination.