Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-07-22
ODDS AND ENDS.

Beans are exceedingly healthful and nu-
tritious, but bad for dyspeptics.
Sparks from an unoiled reaping machine
set fire to field of wheat In Illinois.
To smooth rough or clean soiled fiat
irons rub them in salt on fat surface.
Rhubarb, stewed and strained, with
water and sugar, makes pleasant. drink.
A cat in Alabama fought two-foot
snake, killed and ate part of it with some
herbs.
Charcoal laid in the folds of clothes
which have been laid away a long time
will remove the odor.
Paris fashion journals notice the revival
of the cuirass IN somewhat modified
form. 1t is very long and clinging
basque, covered with silk tulle or grena-
dine, entirely hidden under an embroidery
of long beads Of Jet, steel or iridescent,
composed in style to resemble the coat
of mail worn by knights in ancient times.
The beauty thus arrayed is ready for either
attack or defense.
An Irishman entered the Newark I'D
reTtiser Office and asked the clerk to write
an advertisement for him. lost my
dog" he said. He gave general descrip-
ton of the animal sWhat name does he
answer to p "Och, thin dye think it's
parrot | lost, and that hould a converse
ton with him. But, what do you say
when you call your dog?" :. Faith, say,
come here, y black thafe O the wurld."
Mrs. James Beard of Rock Island, Ill.,,
got a divorce from her husband, not be-
cause she hated him particularly for his
shiftlessness, but she was tired of being
the wife of man whom she could not re-
spect. Soon afterward he went to her to
find out whether she would take any legal
proceedings against him if he married
again. She not only gave her consent, but
went to the wedding, and gave the couple
present of $50.
The st. Petersburg GoIos states that in
village in the Sklomin district, Govern
ment of Grodno, peasant was perpetua'ly
quarreling with his wife because, as he de-
cIared, he 81 had ceased to love her." The
Village Council took the matter into con-
sideration, and adiudged the peasant to
receive twenty blows with rods g to COM
pei him to love his wife again" The
remedy was administered, but report does
not say whether it has proved etficacious.
AS ice was scarce in New Brunswick,
Canada, far-seeing man filed three ice
houses with snow. 1t was firmly packed
in, and none of it has been lost since the
hot weather set in. The snow is now used
for packing fresh fish. The cost is con-
siderably less than by the ice method, and
is thought preferable in many ways. 1t is
to be hoped that this will open new way
of making the usual winter snow block
AIDES useful hereafter.
Among the middle or professional classes
great many girls now earn in one way or
another the income which either supports
them or furnishes their clothing or spend
ing money. The new developments Of art
decorative work have helped greatly to-
ward this end, and in kindergartens young
girls are now doing for the little ones too
young for regular school what venerable
old ladies did for the young children of the
last century in the "infant schools
Malibras was only Is years old when
her father obliged her to learn, in New
York, the role of Desdemona in Rossinnis
"Othello." The role was not yet learned
when Garcia said to his daughter: "You
will debut with me, on Saturday, in
'Othello. Saturday-wh that is
only six days from now" 81 know it,"
Only six days to rehearse role like
Desdemona, to accustom myself to the
play" "Make no objections You will
debut on Saturday, and you will DO your
part well-otherwise, in the last scene,
where I smother you, it will be a real
corpse that will be left in your place"
How resist an argument like this Z? She
played and had an immense success.