Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-04-24
FACTS AND FANOIES.

sort of Jokes have the sidewalks been tell
ing your boots They're ON the broad
grin.
A physician named Parsons lectured in
down East town the other night, and was
introduced to the audience as one of the
few Parsons who preach little and practice
much.
England will have to pay over Ell, 500,-
600 sterling year simply for She water
used by its Abyssinian army. Ut has to
be distilled at cost of two shillings a
gallon.
Juan Vale. a noted Mexican bandit, was
caught and shot the other day. He met
death willingly, saying that the business
was so crowded he could no longer make a
respectable living
General Chambers of Louisville had a
daughter born to him on his seventy fourth
birthday, and the members of the bar ex-
pressed their admiration by presenting the
young lady with silver cup.
At a recent execution in Switzerland the
executioner turned an honest penny by ex-
hibting his sword in the taverns, and the
relatives of the criminal solaced their grief
by selling photographs OF the unfortunate
fellow.
A prominent dry goods merchant of this
city worked half an hour on tie following
proposition, and failed to give the answer
If four men build a stone wall in nine days,
how long will it take five men to build a
like wall in six days?
The Paris managers put new play upon
the stage with wonderfully short dresses.
The papers notice the indelicacy, the piece
is made an immediate success, and then
the dresses are heightened to avoid the in
reference of the police.
Among the recently announced patents
is one of a watch case that is dust-proof
and waterproof. The inventor washes the
outside of the watches having the improve
ment and leaves them in pail OF water
over night without injuring them.
Horses in Australia are drug in the mar
ket and cannot be got rid of at any price
Two hundred were bought at IS shillings
apiece to feed pigs with, and company
purchased one thousand noble steeds for
the purpose of boiling down their car
casses.
u correspondent VI bLC COuitfY OCftCtc-
man asserts that his corn has been earlier
and the yield larger since he abandoned
the practice of planting pumpkins with the
corn. He thinks the increase in the corn
crop has more than compensated for the
loss of the pumpkins.
Some manuscripts recently discovered in
Italy by Benedictine monk have been de-
clared by Roman paleographists to be un-
published compositions of st. Thomas
Aquinas The handwriting quite agrees
with existing examples of his. For the
most part these papers consist of contro-
versial tracts and sermons
A divine in Georgetown, D. c., in one
of his sermons, lately used as quotation
the scriptural query, "Where are the
nine ?" On a repetition of the question, a
demure-looking young gentleman, who had
been nodding, suddenly reused up, and in
an audible tone innocently responded,
" They are playing Washington club"
A fellow in the Hartford Police Court
last week, accused of stealing clothing, was
blessed with a lawyer dealing in pathos,
who appealed for mild judgment ON a
misled youth, "who would have been an
ornament to society" but for this offense.
At this point the Chief of Police asked the
ornament" '' How long is it since you
got out of State Prison ~ about four
months, was the prompt reply.
When we say of shiftless fellow that
he does not earn his salt" we uncon-
sciously allude to an ancient custom among
the Romans. Among them man was said
to be in possession of salary" who
earned his salarium," his allowance of
salt-money, or of salt, wherewith to SAVIOR
the food by which he lived. Thus, salary
word how many there are who do not
"earn their salt -
At club where the players are believed
to be in the habit of correcting the errors
of fortune by the exercise of skill, gentle
man forgets his diamond ring in the wash
room and sends waiter for it. The waiter
goes with mental protest against being
compelled to waste his time, but returns
in few moments in stupefed surprise
" L wouldn't go just yet, he whispers to
the gentleman, "stay and play. You're in
luck. Here's your ring! J"
Some idea may be formed of the extra
ordinary amount of money which changes
hands in England, at the race-course, from
the fact that by an actual estimate it is
found that between three and four hun
dred thousand pounds are given away ev-
cry year as prize money at the various race
meetings in the United Kingdom. OF
course this bears only small proportion
to the bets which at the great races reach
most incredible sums. Certainly the i'm,
provement of the breed of horses is an ex-
pensive process.
Miss Anna FL. Brewster writes as follows
concerning the Queen of Italy 1t is now
admitted that her majesty has had slight
fssazione DE- mente, partial arrangement,
which it is believed is gradually passing
away. Her health is certainly better, but
she has most assuredly very strange, I'M
natural expression of countenance, and
looks apathetic and Indifferent. The vio-
lent attacks of hysteria are over, but Ter
spirits and cheerfulness have not returned.
Life, that imperious MISTRESS, has not
been gentle to the poor Queen of Italy,
Marguerite of Savoy"
One of the theatrical managers of Paris
always receives an author who brings him
a new play in a cold room, and when the
young man unrolls his manuscript and be-
gins to read, rings for the servant and
says, Justine, put a couple of dramas ON
the CRATE" Nestor Roqueplan, when he
had the Varieties, was more considerate,
though he was not distinguished for taking
religious care of manuscripts intrusted to
him. One day an author came in an triste
saln,is (Anglice-a sad stew complaining
that his piece had been mislaid and lost.
"Calm yourself, my dear boy" said
Roqueplan, benevolently; "open that
cupboard yonder You will see heap OF
plays. Take any three you like"
JUVENILE PRIZE FIGHTERS. The follow.
ing is from the Nevada Transcript OF
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