Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-01-19
NOTES OF THE DAY.

The Queen of SPANS rooms at Madrid
have been exquisitely appointed. In the
first of the suite, hung with Beauvais
choicest tapestry, stand two Sevres cabi.
nets valued at $40,G This opens on
what is known as the Imperial saloon, fur,
nished in what is known as the style OF the
first empire. The MUSHROOM is hung
with pink silk, and adjolns the Queens
study, furnished in the Louis XIV. style,
and ceiled in wood and bronze. From this
room the Queen can step ont on the ter
race, which commands charming pros
pect. The sleeping adjoining is a
spacious chamber, the bed in Louis Atl.
style, the canopy supported by female tig-
ures in gilt bronze. A large Louis XIV.
wardrobe, of marvelously beautiful design.
occupies nearly the whole of one side OF
the room. The walls are covered with $50
yards of tapestry. work from Liege, costing
sS, 600. Adjoining is lovely dressing
room, communicating with the servants
rooms. Ali is so arranged that the King
and Queen can be together in perfect
privacy, as her dressing-roo communi-
Gates with the Kings apartments.
An official of the Philadelphia Mint says
that the demand for cents is so great that
the orders cannot be promptly filled.
There are parts of the country" he adds,
"where they are as rare as gold dollars are
here. In the South the cent is almost un-
known, the smallest coin being tive.cent
piece. Recently, however, there has been
some demand for them from merchants in
Georgia and Alabama. In the far West
there has been but little call for them, but
when one goes to st. Louis, or east of that
point, then the cent becomes familiar.
Wherever there are six-cent fares on the
street cars there is demand from that
city. Now, Louisville seldom, if ever,
calls upon us, while Cincinnati is contin-
ually crying for the one-cent piece. New
York consumes big lot, and SO do the
Eastern States. The two-cent piece was a
good help to us for time, but none of
them have been coined for ten years, and
all that are redeemed are reduced into
one-cent pieces. Competition in travel in
creases the demand for cents. Whenever
retail trade il the briskest, then the cent is
needed most.
Mr.. Gladstone, previous to starting for
Scotland, made direct overtures of recon-
Citation to Cardinal Manning. The ancient
friendship of these eminent personages,
dating from Oxford, and cordially main.
tanned up to decade ago in spite of the
has been frequently alluded to by each.
The publication of the Vatican pamphlet,
in which the ex.Premier sought to avenge
his overthrow by the influence of the Irish
hierarchy, produced an immediate es-
arrangement between the churchman and
the statesman. Mr.. Gladstone's further
philippines against Rome, its rulers and its
religious system, of course widened the
breach Mr.. Gladstone is now anxious to
repair.
Judge Billings, of the United States
Court at New Orleans, decides that harsh,
forcible, aud even profane language on the
part of Captains and mates of river boats
is necessary at times to get the men to do
their duty that such language is custom
airy and to be expected that when peo-
pie are hurried up In this way, roustabouts
must keep their eyes open, else they will
get run over. The case in point was
brought by colored roustabout for dam
ages, because, when the Captain swore, the
gang of laborers hustled themselves and
this darkey got hurt.
The Pope has sent instructions to the
Bishops and other collectors of Peters
pence to forward what they may have in
hand, as the large calls upon his resources,
arising from the hardness of the times,
have left him without the means of satis-
flying further demands. Unlike his prede-
cessOr, Leo XIII. puts by nothing. All
the receipts of 1879 have already been
spent in assisting schools, poor churches,
aims, and the restoration of ecclesiastical
works of art.