Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-06-01
ALL AROUND THE WORLD.

The telegraph lines at work in India
now extend over $4,000 miles, representing
no less than 100000 miles of wire. Last
year the net profit was nearly Al per cent.
A needle one and half inches long was
recently removed from the side of Mrs.
Counselor Cole of Fredericksburg, Va.
Mrs. Cole says that she swallowed the
needle forty years ago and has never felt
any inconvenience from it.
An anti-gambling league is announced
as forming in England, the Earl of Aber-
deem to be first President. The qualitca-
tions for membership will be an agreement
for the annual payment of shilling and
the signing of pledge to abstain from
betting.
There is an old lady living in Polk
county, Fla, who is quite genius. She
can write poetry and set it to music and
has written two books. She hunts phos-
phate, plants trees, clears land, works in
an orange grove, can knit dresses, make
neat shoes, plat hats of palmetto and
make flowers out of shucks.
NJ. Jablockoff, of electric candle fame,
makes strong argument in favor of going
back to chemical reactions for the rroduc-
ton of electricity as motive power. The
dynamo machine does not utilize more
than 10 per cent. of the fuel, while more
than 80 per cent. can be obtained under
favorable circumstances in electro-chemical
combinations.
George P. Craig of Gwinnett, Ca, has
two hogs that perform the office of calf to
perfection. Mr.. Craig had been complain
ing that his cows were falling short of
milk for several weeks, and upon close ex-
animation, to his establishment, he found
these roguish hogs had been imbibing the
milk of the cows, both remaining in the
same lot together at night.
Window plants may be grown any sea-
son of the year in the following manner !:
Soak large piece of coarse sponge in
water, squeeze half dry and sprinkle in
the openings red clover seed, millet, bar
ley, grass, rice and oats. Hang it in the
window where the sun shines portion of
the day and sprinkle daily with water.
1t will soon form mass of living green,
where even the clover will bloom.
The other day North Carolina woman
started for the hay NOW to see how hen
was getting along that was sitting on some
eggs. On entering the barn the woman
was surprised to see the old hen taking
her babies down herself. She would pick
one up in her mouth and fly down with
it, lay it down and continue the process
until she carried them all down, thirteen,
safe and went on about her duty.
A few days ago three families of Fin
landers settled on farms in the northern
part of Beadle county, South Dakota. In
one of the families there are nineteen
children, in another seventeen and in the
third nine, the parents of the last family
having been married but ten years. These
families will soon be joined by four others,
all relatives, numbering forty-six persons,
making total of ninety seven persons in
nine families.
4 depression has been discovered in the
Egyptian Desert which is all that remains
ofa reservoir constructed by the patriarch
Joseph for irrigation purposes when he
was Pharoah's Prime Minister. 1t is pro-
posed to reopen it, and it has been esti-
mated that this would add 100000
acres to the 100000 acres now under
cultivation in Egypt. The reservoir
originally covered $50 square miles, and
was $50 feet deep.