Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-02-16
ALL AROUND THE WORLD.

A teacher near Allentown suspended q
scholar for swearing in Pennsylvania
Dutch, and the affair has caused division
in the local school board.
There are $500 practicing physicians in
Illinois, as is shown by the revised list Just
prepared by the State Board of Health,
and yet the State is gaining in population.
The Russian Government will begin
next spring to build its 4,500-mile rail-
road across Siberia. This is big under
taking, and its estimated cost is S220,000,-
600.
Two Russian climbers of Mount Ararat
found in perfect preservation minimum
thermometer, which was left there last
year. 1t registered fifty degrees below
zero.
Captain Cook, the recently elected
Doorkeeper of the Kentucky House of
Representatives, is SO years old, 7 feet in
hight, weighs 260 pounds, and wears No.
Is shoes.
T. Bailey Aldrich, who is recent vic
tim of the grippe, compares that sensation
to that of "a misfit skull, that is too tight
across the forehead, and that pinches be-
hind the ears"
Joseph Wetzeler, a prominent cleo
trician, predicts that the time will soon
come when we shall have light without
heat "as in the sac of the lightning bug
and the glow worm"
In publishing card of thanks for the
kindness of friends during recent be-
reavement in her family, in a Kansas
paper, writer said: ~ hope | will soon
be able to return the compliment"
Sharks fins form a Chinese delicacy.
They are as regularly quoted in the market
price varying from SIS to SIS per hundred.
At Canton alone the importation is valued
at 81, 100000.
Dion Boucicault has written, translated,
or adopted 400 plays "London Assur-
ance," his first, has been also his best play;
it was written when he was only eighteen
years old. "Colleen Bawn," the most
popular of his later plays, was written in
nine days, but the plot was taken from
Gerald Griffin's novel, ''The Collegians,"
it is said. Boucicault is now seventy years
old.
1t is a fact not generally known that it
requires from ten to fifteen years for an
orange tree to develop. A grove does not
attain perfection in less time than that,
the land SPECTATORS to the contrary not
withstanding. 1t is true that an orange
tree will bear few oranges within few
years after planting, but tree has to bear
not only few, but great many oranges
to make the industry pay.
Jay Van Vranken, Schenectady mer-
chant, has in his possession a curious old
Dutch Bible which was published in the
year 1857. The volume is bound in thick
slabs of black oak, covered with calf-skin.
About forty years ago the book mysteri-
ously disappeared from among the family
relics, but some months ago Van Vranken
got track of it, and to-day the old curio is
once more in the proper hands.
Miss Matoika Gay, the famous wit and
belle of Richmond, Va, is one of the most
brilliant women in Washington this win
ter. Miss Gay is a genuine F. F. ", COM
ing, as she does, in direct line from Po-
cahontas, Matoika being the English of
Pocahontas. Her eyes are dark and glori-
Gus in size and color, her figure tall and
stately, her manners fascinating and her
conversation lrresistibly bright and win
ming.
In the annual report of the New York
Board of Charities, just made to the Legis-
lature, the alarming statement is made
that the number of insane persons in the
State has increased 81 per cent. during the
past nine years; that there are now about
10000 insane persons, or one to every 800
inhabitants. All the lunatic asylums in
the State are full, and there is an urgent
necessity for building several more during
the present year.
"There is something curious about the
American silver dollar and halfdollar of
1904" says a numismatist. "There were
about 10000 of the dollars coined, but not
one of them got into circulation. Two of
them are in coin collections to-day, how
ever, and they are the most valuable of all
American coins. Why the dollar of 1904
was never in circulation after leaving the
mint is one of the unsolyed Government
mysteries. The half-dollar of 1904 is sur
rounded by mystery equally profound
There were 10000 of these coined, but
not one was ever known to be in circula-
ton"
The largest piece of gold ever taken from
the earth was discovered May 10, 1872, at
Hill End, New South Wales, on the claim
of Boyer q Huffman. 1t was an Irregular
shaped slab four feet nine inches in
length and three feet three inches in
width, with an average thickness of about
three inches. 1t weighed something over
six hundred pounds and, although not
virgin pure, assayed S14S,000. The most
remarkable part of the story is that the
men who found it did not have money
enough to pay their board bills the week
before.