The record-union., 1892-06-27
ALL AROUND THE WORLD.

The savings bank was invented by a
clergyman.
The mines of the world produce twenty
five tons OF gold every week, but the
precious metal remains as rare as ever.
Mariners report that the fastest ship
afloat is the City of Pekin, owned by the
Pacific Mail Company. She cost 81 ZOO, :
0G0.
In the Samaritan Hospital at Belfast,
Ireland, chloroform has been given in
over three thousand cases of operations.
without single fatal result.
1t has been noticed that when woman
asks to be taken to the silk counter she
speaks in a much louder tone than when
she asks to look at the calico remnants.
The law of evolution works in Ian
guage as well as in other things. Twenty
thousand words have been added to the
English language in the department of
biology alone since Darwin's discoveries.
DR.. Julian Chisholm says there are en-
graved stones in the British Museum
showing that the fashions in garments
and headgear of the women of Babylon
at the time of the deluge were about the
same as those now prevailing.
So great has been the DEVELOPMENT of
the petroleum fields in Peru that pine
lines have been run from the main wells
to the coast. The opinion is expressed
that the Peruvian field will soon be able
to supply the demand of all the west
coast Of South America.
A costly wardrobe is owned by one of
the Chinse ministers, whose magnificent
and varied toilets have driven the society
bodies wild with envy. The celestial
dlgnitary never appears at public enter
tainments twice in the same costume
and his silk and satin garments are val
ued at ESQ, 0G0.
Paris anarchists are now diligently Gull
tivating the art of dining for nothing.
Bands of them, it is said, now enter eat
ing houses, call for substantial repasts.
dispatch them and then refuse to paw the
bill. When the landlord demonstrates
they threaten to blow up his establish
ment with dynamite.
At Greencastle, Ind, there are twin
maple trees of equal size but curiously
grated At the hight of fifty feet one
makes sharp angle, growing solidly
into the body of the other, forming a nat
ural arch. The trees at the base are
about fifteen feet apart and their identity
cannot be distinguished at the point Of
confluence.
Roswell G. Hoar has not said ANYTHING
in politics that is likely to remain, but he
has coined in another way an expression
that is likely to stick. At recent meet
ing of the New England Society at
Brooklyn he spoke OF Massachusetts as
that Unitarian State where they allow a
a person to go to heaven without any
competitive examination"
The habit of pouring few drops of
wine from freshly opened bottle into the
hosts glass before the guests are served
is popularity supposed to be for the pur-
pose of getting rid OF the small bits of
cork that may adhere to the mouth of the
bottle, but in reality it is relic of those
uncomfortable days when host first
tasted wine as guarantee to his guests
that ii was not poisoned.
The Oldest paper in the world. of
course, Is in China. 1t is the K4nq Pan.
is the official journal Of the empire. and
was founded in Oil. Originally il WAS
published internationally, but alter l3GI
it appeared every week. In 1904 it was
converted into a daily, and now issues
three editions day and sells at about a
cent a copy. The morning sheet, printed
on yellow paper, is devoted to CONNER
cial news. Ii has circulation of about
5000 copies. The midday issue contains
official documents and general news
The evening edition, printed on red
paper, gives the latest intelligence and
extracts from the two previous editions
The paper is conducted by six literal;
appointed by the state.