Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-05-03
CURRENT NOTES.

! The Kentucky river at Frankfort IS lined
with sawlogs for five miles.
Eight hundred and twelve convicts in
the Penitentiary of Kentucky.
Counterfeits of the standard silver dollar
are out. Look out for them. They are of
brass, heavily plated with silver.
Rev. Charles Fletcher, Presiding Elder
of the New York East M. E. Conference
for eight years past, is dead, aged SO.
The cigar makers at the East are on a
general strike. and employers are yielding
to their demands. They ask 81 more per
1000 than they formerly got.
Colonel Bob Ingersoll offers 500 to any
Boston clergyman who will read to his con-
gregation such chapter in the Old Testa-
ment as Ingersoll may pick out.
A Canadian missionary has begged his
much-used tomahawk from Sitting Bull,
and it has been placed among the treasures
of the museum of the college at Ottawa.
Anna Dickinson is reported as saying
that she will never marry until she can
bake loaf of bread, and that she viii
never bake bread while she has her senses.
The Erie and Champlain canals opened
| for navigation April Goth, two weeks
earlier than last year. The canals had to
close again, however, for over two weeks.
lola and his naturalistic friends, accord
ing to one of them, spend most of their
days in eating and of their nights in tell
| ing prurient tales. They vary these
pleasures by spasmodic literary compost
tion and floating on the Seine in boat
called the Mana.
The dome of the Troy Polytechnic In
stitute's Observatory is 29 feet in diameter,
and made of paper, reduced by pressure to
the hardness of wood, and one-sixth of an
inch in thickness. Its weight is only one
tenth of the usual material, and it is so
nicely adjusted that child can turn it.
1t is expected that the immigration to
this country will reach, the present year,
the unprecedented figure of 100000.
These immigrants not only bring their
labor but they bring, ON an average, $50
head, which will make this year clean
addition of about S25, 100000 of ready
hard cash.
1t is said that recently Ernest Renan had
occasion to telegraph across the channel
the subject of lecture to be delivered by
him at Westminster Abbey. As written
by him it was, "The Influence of Rome,
on the Formation of Christianity y as
Transcribed by the operator it read "The
Influence of Rum ON the Digestion of
| Humanity"
Senator Edmunds is very exacting
man, but he is held in great esteem by
most of his associates. 1t has long been
the practice of some Senators to take their
bills to him for approval before introducing
them. Sometimes he will change comma,
a word, or sentence, but when the bill he
has seen comes up for action, he is pretty
sure to favor it.
The French Communists are growing
bolder every day. One of their organs, the
Egalite, publishes the following paragraph,
cat the request of number of our read
ers, and in commemoration of the work.
mems blood which was shed like water in
April and May, 1871, the Egalite will con-
tinue to appear in red during the two
months that the red flag of the Commune
foated at the Hotel de Vile of Paris.
London music halls are rapidly becoming
political arenas. So-called patriotic songs
are sung, and the audience is invited to
applaud and hiss in turns, according to
their sentiments A decision is then given
as to whether the "ayes have it or not.
Lord Headley and Mr.. Hunt were lately in
a box at the Metropolitan, and, being recog-
nized, were obliged to address the audi
ence, and the acrobats and comi9ues were
nowhere.
A charity has recently been organized by
benevolent ladies in Brooklyn under the
name of "The Wayside Home. Its de-
sign is to furnish occupation and the COM
forts and influence of Christian home to
homeless women, especially those who
have been discharged from prison. 1t is
not an almsgiving institution, but to poor,
uneducated, friendless and erring women
who have self-respect enough left to want
to earn an honest living, cordial aid is
| offered.