Sacramento daily record-union., 1891-01-09
ALL AROUND THE WORLD

A ton of gold is worth s602, ,799 20,
1t is said the tourist season brings "a 000,-
coo yearly into Switzerland.
On the dried skins of serpents were once
written the Iliad and Odyssey.
There ara now II 600 600 men il Europe
ready to be called into the field.
The bachelor glrl is now the term ap.
piled TO the young woman who leaves the
paternai home and strikes out for herself.
Miss Mansfield is the private secretary of
her father, Sir Charles Mansfield, British
Minister TO Peru. She speaks six lam
guages fiaently.
All of the postoffices in Italy receive
money on deposit, allowing interest at the
rate of 81 per cent per annum and divi-
dend paid every five years.
Reading cars, fitted out with the most
popular periodicals and books, will be at
tached to the passenger trains of the St.
Petersburg end Warsaw Railroad.
Great Britain, Austria, Spain and Italy
require property qualification, or what is
virtually equivalent thereto, for voting for
members OF their national Legislature.
The Trinity Church estate in New York
is worth S150,000 600, and is rapidly in
creasing in value. The reason is that it
lies on the west side of the town, which
has become vast trade center.
A couple were married at Atlanta, Ca,
who were first betrothed thirty-fve years
ago. That engagement wss broken off,
and since then the man has buried two
wives and the woman one husband.
Remark by the Kansas City Star: "a
Green county farmer, who decided all his
property to his children, is hauling rails
for living. A farmer can support twelve
children, but twelve children sometimes
ind it quite difficult to support one
father"
The Detroit Free Press SAYS If boy 15
years of age should be left ten acres of land
in Michigan, and his guardian should cover
it with hickory trees, the income of the boy
when he came to be 80 years old would be
from $4,000 to S11 900 clean cash off his lit
tie farm.
A very extensive domestic industry in
Russia consists in the manufacture of
wooden spoons. which are made to the ex-
tent of 100000 annually, mostly of
birch. The poor of that land are happy if
they can get something to eat even in
wooden spoons.
Since the 1st of September, 13S new
camps of the Sors of Veterans have been
established. This order is a popular and
useful one, and its rapid growth signifies
that the spirit of loyalty which put down
the rebellion. is stIll living aud potent
force in the country.
The idea of sending train of cars
through the North loaded with an exhibit
of Southern products for advertising pur.
poses, is good one. Such display would
be sure 10 excite general interest and to
promote the sort of immigration that the
South needs to insure her substantial and
permanent prosperity.
A new female device for earning live
iihood is that of going around to the
houses of society people and cleaning and
repairing fine dresses that have been scci-
dentally soiled or otherwise injured. The
scheme was developed in Buffalo. There
are some women who have all they can
attend TO in this line.
Mrs. NJ. S. Norman, of Decatur, ILL.,. was
visiting in Terra Haute, Ind, and while
there was informed that letter was adver-
tised for her at the Postoffice. Calling at
the Postoffice she was told that the letter
had short time before been delivered to
another lady of the same name. Curious
to see the other Mrs. Norman, she called
on her, and to the CONSERVATION of both
ladies they found they had married the
same man. There was an interesting fam
lily reunion when Mr.. Norman came home,
which wound up with his arrest on
charge of bigamy.
Henry NJ. Stanley, in his article on the
African Pygmies" in the January .Scrib-
ner's says: You must relieve your mind of
the Darwinian theory. avoiding coupling
man with the ape, and Danish all thoughts
of the fictitious small Drained progenitor
supposed to be existing somewhere on land
unsubmerged since the eocene periad. =
Intellectually, the pygmies of the African
forest are the equals of about 90 per cent.
of the modern inhabitants of any great
American city of TO day. And yet there
has been no change or progress of any kind
among the pigmies of the forest since the
time of Herodotus"