Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-12-04
ODDS AND ENDS.


to weigh it.
Do weddings come under the head of
marrytime rights
a new play is called Yankee idyl-but
who ever saw Yankee idle?
There is not much danger when it trains
cats and dogs, but when it Spitz dogs,
look out
The Philadelphia Chronicle. Herald re-
marks that divorce is the signal for cessation
OF hostilities.
We deny in advance the slanderous as
sertion that Vice-President-e Arthur
plays lawn-tennis.
81 wish | was a pudding, mamma -
"Why?" '''Cause should have lot of
sugar put into me"
| When man stands for office his oppo.
nents sit down on him at the same time
that they lie for him.
6 Down soothless insulter - as Kate
exclaimed when Theodore pressed his PEN
ciled lip to her rosy cheek.
A jolly Irishman being asked by
Frenehman how he could dance so lightly
in brogans, replied, "They have Cork
soles "
Fat Contributor Griswold thinks,
8 Not good if detached" may apply as
well to married people as to railroad
tickets.
Blondes, it seems, have gone out of
fashion, and many ladies will have to
switch off. New York Commercial Ad-
vertiser.
Lawn tennis is game that has been in
vented to take the curse off croquet; that
is the next result of it, 30 far-[New Ha-
ven Register.
A Nebraska theater audience recently
indulged in free fight, and the Worcester
Gazette speaks of their conduct as "un-
conventional.
The SO season at Jacksonville, Fla,
lasts from the middle of November to the
m die of May. There were 60.0O0 visit
o last winter.
Russell Hancock, son of General Ham
co k. who, with his family, has been spend
ing h summer on Governors Island, has
gone home to his plantation in Mississippi.
An ex-prize-fghter is Postmaster in an
Eastern town. His old fighting nature is
still in him, and hardly day passes that
he doesn't lick an innocent little postage
stamp.
The Boston Transcript knows man
who thinks that he never excels in any,
thing and that if he should kill man it
would be nothing but murder in the second
degree.
a gentleman writes to the London Stan
dard that cats can be trained to retrieve
game as well as dogs do. When he takes
his gun in hand his three cats are in ecsta-
cies in authorization of snort
g Is not winter the saddest season of the
year," asks lady correspondent in
Macoupin county Not in Chicago. The
most of our original poetry is recei7ed in
the spring -[Chicago Tribune.
We notice in Detroit paper an article
headed Volcanic Rumblings," but have
not had time to read it and ascertain what
prominent citizen it is, or why his mother
iu-law decided to spend the winter in
town.
Squeaking boots may be somewhat mol
lifted by driving two or three wooden pegs
into the middle of the soles. The man who
goes down the theater aisle in the midst of
an enhancing love scene usually has taught
his boots to sing falsetto.
Miss Dick of Chicago was poisoned by
green. striped stockings, and has had a
narrow escape from death. This kind of
stocking is very dangerous. Several men
have perisbed of it, and they didn't wear
them, either. Il Elmira Free Press.
Mr.. Pngsby TAT dinner, to fair Knicker-
booker on a visit to Boston for the third
or fourth time): "I've heard you are so
awfully, ah, clever, you know" Miss
Sharp: " Excuse me, Mr.. Prigsby, you
must have made a mistake, for assure you
I'm next to an idiot"
Henry Ward Beecher proposes to pay
john Zundel, the organist ederitus of the
church, 5000 per annum as long as he lives,
and has started fund for that purpose.
He calls him the founder of congrega-
tional singing in this country and the
:" father of psalmody."
Another astounding change has taken
place in the world of fashion. The Princess
of Wales, who since the retirement of
Empress Eugene rules the beau monde in
both London and Paris, has appeared at
the thester in brown gloves, which puts an
end to black gloves all over the world
We are glad to learn that new song,
entitled "When the Corn is Waving,
Annie, Dear" is becoming very popular.
If Annie would ring in few beans with
the corn, she would have fine article of
succotash, thereby combining something to
eat with her musical effort. Chicago Tri-
bune.
A seedy-looking man applied to Gal
weston candidate for $40. He said few
friends of the candidate wanted to make
preparation already to celebrate his elec-
ton. But suppose l am defeated ?"
Well, then, we can use the money in
celebrating your not being elected. We
are not particular as long as we celebrate"
Galveston News.
The american Register says that young
American lady who is to make her debut
on the stage as soon as Worth gets her
dresses done, recited "Mary had Little
Lamb" before the American colony in
Paris so pathetically as to drown the draw
ing-room in tears. In fact, they had to
take the carpets up next day and send
them to the steam drying. machine.
Mme Edmund Adam has caused it to be
announced in the newspapers that her sa-
lon will no longer be political. She will
continue to receive, but her guests will
only talk about literature and the fine arts.
The refreshments, as usual, will consist Of
tea and cakes, and the principal attraction
of the salon be ide the hostess herself will
be the old dervish, Emile Girardin.
The Emperor of Austria recently visited
Olmutz to witness some rifle shooting, and
inscribed his name in the visitors book,
which is ruled with the usual columns for
Name" Profession" Residence,
etc. The Secretary of the shooting club,
after the Emperor had written - Francis
Joseph at the head of the page, pro-
ceeded faithfully to fill out the line s' Pro-
fession, Emperor; : {" Residence, Vienna,
etc.
TAITLIN They were sitting together
in the horse car. g. do hate people that
are forever talking about their neighbors,"
said the woman with the peaked hat. $50
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