Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-04-22
PERSONAL NOTES.

The ex-Empress Carlotta of Mexico is
said, poor woman, to be showing some
signs of returning reason.
If any man attempts to haul down the
Monroe doctrine, read my message to him
ON the spot. ~ President Hayes.
Mr.. Bertha Won Hillern, husband OF the
female pedestrian, has brought suit for d.
vorce. his maiden name was Bartell.
Dora DIstria, princess and author, has
written to Miss Kate Sanborn to say that
she Is coming to visit America next sum-
mer.
1t is said that a coon can be caught by
leaving whisky in its vicinity, but big
enough idiot to try the experiment has
never been found
The Empress OF Austria rises at o'clock
every morning, and we begin to understand
why the Emperor is willing to have her
spend several months every year hunting
in Ireland.
Senator Hamlin says he warned Chris
fancy not to marry that girl, but the old
man only got mad at him. Mr.. Hamlin is
giddy young thing of so or so, and knew
what he was talking about.
title of a new opera, composed by Victor
Ernest Nessler, musician from Alsace,
now of Leipsic. We suppose the choruses
will be sung by "tarriers."
A bright little girl, who had successfully
spelled the word " that, "was asked by her
teacher what would remain after the ct"
had been taken away. "The dirty cups
and saucers, was the reply.
The young man who wrote to his mother
announcing his engagement, and that he
had kissed her under the silent stars,
was informed by return mail that under
her silent nose would have been better
place.
General Henry Peasants, who planned
the Petersburg mine, the explosion of
which was so successful, died recently at
his residence, Pottsville, N Y. For sew
eral years he had been afflicted with mental
alteration.
A wealthy Frenchman offers $1,000 to
any doctor or surgeon who will make a
hunchback of him, as he pities the class
and wants to be one of them Suitable
arrangements can be made with mule for
less money.
1t is related by the Washington CORE
spondent of tie C0urier-Journdt that
gentleman who saw copy of Voltaire ly-
ing on Colonel Robert Ingersoll's table, in
quired Chow much did this book cost
you ;" and the Colonel answered "The
Governorship of Illinois"
f. r. Bridgeman sends two pictures to
the Paris Salon this spring. Ore is an
Arab interior, the other an encampment in
+bn
ing some attention to portraiture, and has
painted picture of his baby daughter
which is described as admirable.
Matthew Arnold is now ifty-seven years
old. He lives most of the time in London,
has been married for many years, and has
several grown-up children. He has never
tried to make money by his pen; and he
has small independence inherited from
his father, the admirable Master of Rugby
We are glad to learn from special dis
patch from Clyde, O., to the Cleveland
Herald, that the Mcpherson Guards have
been inspected and found to be all right
The etfete monarchies of Europe would do
well to make a note of this fact before in
dulging in any more talk about that canal.
An honest farmers idea of Communism
ing the subject to him, if ali the money
owned in France were to be put together
and equally divided your share would be
only sos francs 80 confines" "Well, l."
says the honest farmer, "that, with what
[ already have, wouldn't be SO bad p
French paper.
Herr Lubke. the distinguished art critic
of Germany, and the author of the book
recently introduced here by Mr.. Clarence
Cook, lives very pleasantly in Stuttgart,
with his accomplished and refined wife,
He is man of about sixty-fve, with
courtly manners, a handsome person, fine
broad forehead, and genial, attractive
face, framed in white hair and beard.
Fond parents who give their children
tafy about being good and becoming great
men, and cite the case OF General Garfield,
who began life as driver of canal mule,
should pe careful not to let the innocent
little things see the item now in circula-
ton to the effect that the General is the
best billiard-player in the Senate Folks
don't learn to play billiards on the tow
path of a canal.
A little girl in Oil City, just recovering
from scarlet fever, is greatly petted by her
indulgent parents, who buy her any num-
Der of toys and nice things. A few days
ago she said mamma, | believe I'll ask
papa to buy me a baby carriage for my
doll" The brother, a precocious young
ster of only six years of age, spoke up at
once and said 81 would advise you to
strike him for it right away, then you
won't get it when you get well. !"