Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-02-28
ALL AROUND THE WORLD.

Calico over one hundred years old was
recently used by Mrs. Spangler at Catasaa-
qua, Pa, to make bed quilt Of. The ma
terial had formerly done duty as bed
curtain.
Australian settlers complain that there
is a great increase in destructive insects
since the English sparrows arrived and
drove out the native birds. 1t is found by
examination that the sparrow is more of a
seavenger than an insect eater. The birds
will not touch insects if they can get grain
or other kinds of food.
Willis g. Tucker, in his report to the
New York State Board of Health on the
result Of his examination of various popu-
lar brands of cigarettes, says that careful
analysis Of tobacco and paper failed to re-
veal any poisonous ingredients other than
the tobacco itself, and that most cigarettes
contain pure tobacco and good paper. The
evils of cigarette smoking are due to the
fact that cigarettes are cheap, convenient
and can be used in large and excessive
quantities, that the smoke is usually in
haled, and that children and immature
persons freely use them.
1t is common thing for engineers to
use kerosene to remove the scales which
form on the inside of boilers. The oil is
poured into an empty boiler, and then the
water is turned on. The oil, floating on
| the water, comes in contact with the scales
| before the water does. The use of kero-
| sene for this purpose in one of Alilwau-
KEGS slaughtering establishments where
the steam is used in cooking ham, beef and
sausage produced unexpected results. The
kerosene mingled with the steam, and the
cooked meats smelled as though they had
been dipped into petroleum well. 1t was
some time before the cause of the seeming
phenomenon was discovered.
The National Zeitung of Berlin, in refer
ring to the proposed Worlds Fair in the
United States, eulogizes the universally
| of American genius, which, it asserts, has
| wrought the most prodigious achieve
ments in every field of human effort ::
s'The young republics unexampled pros
perity has enabled it to present to the
world the rare spectacle of rapid liquida-
| tion of the greatest state debt on record.
While European treasures are chronically
empty, American reserves and American
power may, within the next decade, seri-
J ously threaten Europe's peace, though
Americas evident mission is one of civil
ization.7
As. an illustration of the ludicrous re-
suits produced by bill-stickers pasting one
bill over another, c. Spurgeon, son of Rev.
G. H. Spurgeon, mentioned in lecture
that on one occasion in London, when he
and another gentleman were announced to
preach special sermons, he was astonished
to read the following announcement "e10
Reward Lost-Two Fat Heifers. Mr.. J.
]. Knight and Mr.. C. Spurgeon." An
other read as follows: "Pigs fattened in
six weeks on the Engtshmdn, edited by
DR.. Kennedy. Price, I'd weekly, and kills
feas, beetles, insects and all kinds of YER
min. Perry Davis Painkiller cures
smoky chimneys, and notice to mothers,
feed your infants on Bonds marking ink,
Cd per bottle"
There is a species of acacia which is
commonly called the angry tree. 1t
reaches the hight of eighty feet after a
rapid growth and somewhat resembles the
century plant. One of these curious
plants was brought from Australia and set
out at Virginia, New, where it has been
seen by many persons. When the sun
sets the leaves fold up and the tender
twigs coil tightly like little pigs tail.
If the shoots are handled the leaves rustic
and move uneasily for a time. If this
queer plant is removed from one pot to an
other it seems angry, and theleaves stand
out in all directions like quills- on porcu-
pine A most pungent and sickening odor,
said to resemble that given off by rattle
snakes when annoyed, fills the air, and it
| is only after an hour or so that the leaves
| fold in the natural way.
E. S. Wilson, blacksmith of Ozark
| Mo-, has relic of the Mhrshfield cyclone
which occurred on April Is, 1880, that is
a very remarkable curiosity. This witness
of one of the freaks of the great storm is,a
black quartz bottle, bent by some myster-
| ious force into an elliptic circle without a
crack or break in the glass that the closest
scrutiny can discover. The neck of, the
bottle actually touches-the edge of the bot
tom, and the fact that the glass was-not
| broken in any way by the force Of the
storm is shown by its holding water or
any other fluid. By gradually turning. the
bottle as the water is poured in it can be
nearly filled to its fell capacity, So. as, to
show the perfect soundness of the material
| This bottle was found by Mr.. Wilson the
day after the MarshSeld disaster and en-
amined by Professor Tice. The meteoro-
logist attributed the bending of the bottle
! to the force of electricity, and considered
this one of the most wonderful results Of
| the agency at work in the storm cloud.
! The bottle was found in the wreck Of ona
OF the Marshfold drug stores.