Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-11-30
ODDS AND ENDS.

What's the odds if we did get ever.
| New York News.
The sun travels lively on its own rays
course. Il Whitehall Times.
Many man is willing to hold the stakes
when the bet is bottle of wine.
AS with a woman, SO with the horse.
His back hair is his name trouble.
The little princess cannot yet walk
Spanish. New Orleans Picayune.
A sick man is considered out of danger
when the doctor discontinues his visits.
A fac smile of the first edition of Rob-
inson Crusoe is to be issued in London.
Many man slips three cent piece into
the contribution box with ten. cent air.
The bicycle man has not yet gone to
Wheeling Virginia. Orleans Plea
yune.
The paper known as the Harvard Grim
son ought to be red.-[New Orleans Plea
yune,
The bobtailed horse spends his whole
existence in lamenting his lack of terminal
facilities.
American hams are sent to England re-
covered, branded with new names and sold
as English meat.
Why is the discovery of the North Pole
like an illicit whisky mandatory? Be-
cause it is secret still.
The rich colors OF American autumnal
leaves are described by an English visitor
as Z" a little bit tawdry."
Texas has 1000 miles more railroad now
than she had in 1870 The taxable prop.
erty is forty per cent greater.
Henry Wallace and Jane Wallace his
wife, have entered college at the Wesleyan
University, Conn, as s. freshmen"
A Massachusetts husband and wife were
one day recently travelling on the Colony
Line with their twentyone children.
The Custom-house officers in New York
carefully inspect the inside of fishing rods
Sarah Bernhardt can't slip into the country
in that fashion.
A "Gems of Thought" writer says
"No star ever rose and set without intlu-
ence somewhere" 1t is the same way with
hen. New Orleans Picayune.
A South End man asked a one-armed or
gan. grinder if he was survivor of the
late war, and the orgaDist replied "Hang
it, do | act as thong h | was killed in it p
A young lawyer in Arkansas, having
case decided against him by the Court,
said {: "Well, now, I'll just take this case
before another Judge, and let him make
guess what the law is, too"
A man at Binghamton, N Y, wanted
to have some fun with an old lady by
playing ghost The only mistake he made
was in not finding out beforehand that she
kept shotgun in the house.
"There is great deal in having a win.
ming way" remarked Jimmy Turf boy, as
he surveyed both pockets of his panta
looms, which were as full of marbles as
Thanksgiving turkey is of stuffing.
An American lawyer is now Attorney
General of the Sandwich Islands. II in
two years he doesn't own the entire coun-
try and hold the Kings note for large
sum he is no credit to the American bar.
An advertisement in an English society
journal is accompanied by cut of a mus.
tached man who wears a corset. The
motto of the merchants is, 'tWhen natures
fails then art steps in The dramatic
profession is mentioned as among the wear
ers of the article.
A lady wants to know why the railroad
companies do not provide special cars for
tobacco-chewers as well as for smokers.
Bless your innocent heart Tobacco chew
ers are not so particular as that. An
ordinary passenger car is good enough for
them Boston Transcript.
He was the only son of his own mother,
the pride, the hope, the apple of her eye.
Ger his fair head scarce three summers
had passed. "Au be sure, Peter, and re-
collect this, said his fond and only mother,
as she shut up the good book, "never put
off till tomorrow what you can do to-day"
"A-hi'' said Peter, with glistening eyes,
then let's finish up the pudding to-
night"
In an action that was recently tried in
an English Court, when the question in
dispute was as to the quality and condition
of a gas-pipe that had been laid down many
years before, witness stated that it was
an old pipe, and therefore out of condition.
The Judge remarked that people do not
DID," the witness promptly answered,
"They do, my lord, if buried in the
ground"
The estate of VIM Birks Rhodes, called
the Hounslow miser who died in 1878, has
lately been wound up. 1t realized the
sum of f7S,0 600 from Investments, chiefly
in gas shares, and was bequeathed in equal
parts to the Lifeboat Institution and the
Royal Hospital, Gray's-Inn road. The sale
of the effects in the residence of the de-
ceased realized f5 lis, and the sum of
fl00 has been received by each of the five
next of kin from the above-named institu-
lions in full of all demands
A motor yacht without steam now makes
her way about Boston harbor. 1t illus
trates the working of compressed.air Pc
troleum engine. No smoked pipe is visible,
Tor there Is none, nor any need of any, for
there is no smoke and not so much fire as
the fame of on ordinary kerosene lamp.
The whole engine and running machinery
are contained in long, low box in the bot
tom of the boat, occupying scarcely more
room than would be required for the bal.
last of a sailboat of its size. The peculi-
arlty of this engine is that common
match brings it instantly into full working
power.
A cave in eastern Tennessee is two miles
In length, and has openings at both ends
The owners of the ground around each en-
trance charged for admission and acted as
guides for visitors. Their rivalry led to
serious fights in the cave, for each held the
other to be a trespasser. Then one of the
contestants hit upon a novel and effective
means of running the others business He
sunk shaft so as to admit a large stream
into the cave at. about the center, and, as
there was an incline in favorable direc-
ton, the water poured out at the enemy's
portal, while his own was unobstructed.
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