Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-04-06

A USEFUL INvENTIoN.-W. G. Fitch, of
this city, has invented and been granted a
patent for g Fitch's folding newspaper-file -
1t is unique and admirable device for filing
newspapers in such manner that they can
be held and read in the file with quite as
much ease as out of it. It's an arrangement
much like the ordinary hand paper-fle, but
is fitted with flexible section in the middle
which permits the paper to be folded to half
or quarter SIZE in which form it can be held
and turned with as much facility as when free
from the file. The file is very light, and,
while securing the papers desirable to pre-
serve, it entirely does away with the cum
brous and unwieldy pair of sticks which all
men who have sought to read paper filed
upon them have had good reason to anath-
ematize. 1t is an invention which should
find place in every household where
paper is taken, for by its use the morning
journal can be secured in binder, and the
head of the household will be more likely to
find it in place, and unmutilated, for perusal
after his return from his daily labor For
hotels and reading rooms it will prove an in
dispensable adjunct. The price of the fex-
ible or folding binder is a strong recommends
ton for it, as it is sold at the low figure of 30
cents. VIM. Bliss is agent for the new in
vention, and will offer it for sale in Sacra-
mento.
"BLAcK SHEEP. ~ esterday as two mem
bers of the police force were sauntering down
the wharf on Front street. with an eye to
business, one of them detected suspicious
looking article wedged in between the timbers
underneath. A hurried investigation con-
WINGED them that the object was nothing less
than human body, which might have been
in the water for week. Visions of reward
fitted through their minds accompanied by
exciting thoughts of some mysterious ira
gedy, which would call for the exercise of all
their detective ability. They concluded to
keep the matter secret until it was fully in
vestigated, and while one agreed to Wing his
way up the street for pole and hook, the
other agreed that he Wood watch the sup
posed corpse to see that no one else secured it.
The hook and pole were brought, and after
some diligent exercise the officers drew the
body out of the water, only to discover that
it was the skinless carcass of sheep. The
officers quietly dropped the article and
moved on down the wharf, agreeing also to
drop the subject. Half an hour afterwards,
however, when they reported at the police
Office, the entire force greeted them with
cries of bah black eheep!' And now
they are trying to detect the manner in which
the facts leaked out.
A BANoUET.-Sunday last Philip A. Bell
editor and proprietor of the EleUator, San
Francisco, an organ of the colored people,
gave a complimentary dinner to several of his
friends, including the colored employees at the
Legislature, where Mr. Bell also has a posi-
ton. He was aided in the capacity of host
by William Ecter, his associate editor. The
supper took place at the residence of Moses
A. jackson. who was the caterer of the occa.
sion. The spread was ample, choice, and
embraced most OF the delicacies in season.
The supper proved very enjoyable affair.
Toasts were offered and speeches made on
social, State and national topics by Messrs.
Bell and Ecter, George B. johnson, Stockton /;
r. A. Hall, San Francisco; David Thompson,
Frank ?. Bowers, Henry Jones, Charles
Halsey, Albert Grubbs, NJ. A. jackson and
Daniel S. Blue.
CARD SHARPs.-Last night as gentleman
and lady were walking down Third street
they were accosted by three small boys, who
told pitiful tale of hunger. The leader of
the trio begged pathetically, "Please, sir,
give me two bits to git sufin to eat amt
had nuthin' in three days" ''Nor l nuther. !"
chimed in the other two. The gentleman's
hand went to his pocket and brought forth a
small coin, which he delivered to the leader
with an admonition to get OUT The boys
scampered down the street, and ten minutes
afterwards were observed sitting on three nail
kegs half block away from a street lamp,
busily engaged in game of pedro to decide
the final ownership of the coin.
IMPRovEsIENTs.-F. w. Fratt is about to
erect on K street, between Second and Front
streets, a three-story addition, 70 feet in
width, to the Union Hotel, thus giving the
frontage of the house on that street % feet
The building will add eS rooms to the hotel
and the front will be made uniform with the
20 feet it now has. Mr.. Frat is also reft-
ting the store and changing the front of the
lower story of the building at the northeast
corner Of ] and Third streets, formerly occu-
pied by the Boston drug store. When the
front is in and the store largely rebuilt, the
place will be occupied by Adolphe Walther
as drug store.
ARREsTs.-The only arrests made yester-
day were: s.. Saloven, for petit larceny, by
local officer Martin, and David Smith, by
officer Rider, for being drunk.