Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-05-01
all impel the husbands to exhibit them.

ness undraped statues would lose then
interest the era of dandyism would be
come extinct. If we are to believe vulgar
report, a large proportion of the mseries o
marriage come from the extravaganza o
wives in dress. This must be the thing
which drives their husbands mad, and IL
their madness they try to equalize matters
by themselves adopting a simplicity OF at
tire which may be denominated as certainly
severe This must be the diagnosis of the
disease Philosophersand physicians SHOULD
unite in trying to give new direction t.
the minds of husbands connubially un
settled. Unless they do Manhattan may
become, in superb disdain of raiment, ;
counterpart OF some of the islands of the
South Sea.
A FAMOUS CHOP HOUSE.
The other day friend of mine came
from New England, to whom l wished t.
show some of the old places in the city
One of these, where l had often been, i:
cod Toms" as it is named, situated in q
narrow street or lane in the vicinity OF
Wall street. 1t is an ancient English
chop-house, as unlike anything you usually
see in this country as you can imagine. II
contains not the least suggestion of modern
ism. The walls are old the floors are de,
cayed cobwebs hang from the ceiling
moldy play -bills peer at you; wood-cuts OF
once notorious prize-fighters blink at you
from worm eaten frames. 1t is a bit of old
England reproduced. 1t has been in exist
ence for sixty or seventy years. The nota-
of4 Ia1, ohn
and drank ale there. Dickens, Thackeray,
Edmund Kean, Washington Irving, Fitz
Greene Halleck, Andrew Jackson, Martin
Van Buren,, John Quincy Adams, Millard
Fillmore, Edgar A. Poe, Nathaniel Haw-
thorne, Cornelius c. FELTON,, General
Scott, Abraham Lincoln, Tom Hamblin,
Bennett, Greeley, Bryant, Raymond,
Charles Fenno Hoffman, Willis Gaylord
Clark, n. P Willis, Gilmore Simms, Cap.
tain Marryatt and whole herd of authors,
players, statesmen, journalists, scholars,
have been there again and again. 1t is one
of the lions of Manhattan, curious den,
pleasant to visit at luncheon time, and
feeling while there as if you had stepped
into another generation. But, alas, [ can
not say that it is any longer. 1t was it
has been. | went with my friend where it
had been. 1t is no more it has disap-
peared forever, nor left vestige behind.
Old Toms is obliterated. | mention this
for the benefit of those who may be hence
forth seeking it in vain.
VARIETIES.
Charles Joseph Bonaparte, of Baltimore,
just now sojourning here, is the grandson
of Jerome Bonaparte (brother of the first
Napoleon) and Elizabeth Patterson Bona
parte, whose career was so eventful, and
whose efforts to obtain recognition of her
marriage from the Emperor were so per-
sistent, though unavailing. He is quite
young, barely IS, and, like his father, has
had no ambition pointing toward the i'm
perial succession. He is content to be an
American citizen he lives quietly in Bal
timore has pleasant home and is very
rich. He bears striking resemblance to
the great Captain.
You have probably observed that the
Herdlds last Sunday issue was a sextuple
sheet, the first of the sort it has had, and,
| think, the first "a page daily of the
Herald size published in the world. 1t
exempliies the prosperity of the time for
by far the greater portion is occupied with
advertisements.
Although Manhattan has near 500
churches, with accommodation fer some
$50, 600 persons, this would not give room
for much more than one-quarter of the
provided everybody should
want to 90 to church. But everybody
does not want to. Indeed, not half, barely
a third of the seats in the churches are
ever occupied at any one time. The
Roman Catholic churches alone are full I;
the members are more jealous because
they are more ignorant and more supersti-
tious. The number of church goers in
New York, it is said, steadily diminishes,
taking into account the rapid increase of
The number of suicides here without
any apparent reason for suicide continues
extraordinarily large. Every day or two
men in easy circumstances, in good health
bodily and mental, with harmonious do
nestle relations, end their days deliber-
ately. The cause must be merely disgust
of life. Is not life itself often deep dis
ease?
The new steamer Columbia, 5000 tons
and 334 feet long, built by Roach d Son,
and belonging to the Oregon Railway and
Navigation Company, is now lying in East
river She is to sail for San Francisco
next week, to ply between that city and
Portland. She is a magnificent vessel,
the very finest, hear, yet built in the
country.
Wallack's Theater will, | understand,
produce several American plays next sea-
son, because Wallack has discovered that
the public have grown tired of the old
English comedies which he has presented
for years.
The prospects of Grant and the third
term are believed to be rapidly diminish
ing in this section. Intelligent Republican
opinion seems to be setting more and more
against Grant. CHAUBERT,