Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-12-27
ODDS AND ENDS.

the South Carolina House has reported in
favor of the appropriation of g, 600 for the
Cowpens centennial.
The Matrimonial Benefit Association is
Cincinnati institution. There are 20l men,
bers, and each gets 1000 at marriage, all
the rest being assessed So.
The death was lately announced of Gen.
eral Low, son of Sir Hudson, Napoleon's
custodian at st. Helena, whose wife was
one of the New York De Lancys.
When l die" said married man,
want to go where there is no snow to
shovel" His wife said she presumed he
Notwithstanding (Mass.l Tribune.
It's hope that keeps us up
It's hope that keeps our memories green,
It's hope that makes our lives sublime,
ltssoap that keeps us clean.
-lYonkers Gazette
A Pennsylvania man has just ended a
lawsuit OF forty-two years standing and
recovered cents damages. He may con-
slider that he got out of going to law mighty
well.
A soubrette at one of the theaters was
heard to remark the other day: Bern
hardt and Clara Morris faint upon the
stage every little while, and really think
| must"
Queen Victoria has given Lady Biddulph
widow of the late Sir Thomas, an officer
of her household) small house within the
precincts of Windsor Castle, for life or
widowhood."
The Gaulois announces that ssthe pre-
scriptions of supreme chic formally pro-
hibits giving an arm to a lady under any
othor cirnu,prfop than Ou tho
dining-room."
You can excuse a man for taking a
gloomy view OF life when he names his
child for rich uncle and the uncle allows
it, and then the day after baptism the
uncle goes into bankruptcy.
Pere Hyacinthe has begun series of
lectures on "God and France" His OBJ.
ject is to establish that without godliness
there will be neither political, moral nor
material greatness, nor liberty.
81 didn't like our minister's sermon last
Sunday" said deacon who had slept all
seitnon time to brother deacon. Didn't
like it, Brother A? Why 1 saw you nod
ding assent to ever proposition of the par
son."
Those who admire Mrs. Rose Terry
Cookies charming stories will be pleased to
read Mr.. Whittier's description of their
author. "She is tall and slim, dark-eyed
and pretty" said the poet to an acquaint-
ance.
The late engineer of the Austrian arms
factory has invented repeating rife of
novel construction, and the German in
fantry rifles will be converted on this
model. 1t greatly increases the firing ca
pacity.
Now that the small boys are going to
school again, and there is nothing left to
chase them but the New York Fox
Hunters Club, the foxes on Long Isla..d
will have soft time during the winter
months.
Two cannons have been brought to
Charleston which had evidently been used
in the revolutionary war. Divers and
wreckers operating in Town creek found
them. They are ten feet in hight and six
inch bore.
eyes, every trial and every hardship
has its compensations, as the milkman re-
marked, looking into his ice-lined quart
measure that now accommodated but three
half. pints. "Why should poor worm
like me repine ?"
Some tar is kept hot in a kettle on the
Common at Meeker, Mimi, the residents
taking turns at watching the fire. The
tar is to be used on man who is off on
wedding tour with his niece, if he proves
bold enough to return.
GA Gigantic Enterprise is the heading
Of an article in last Sundays st. Louis
Republican, but with strange disregard
of journalistic rules, the name of the young
lady for whom the shoes are being made is
not given Chicago Tribune.
John Hayes, farmer, was killed by
Lightning while riding on horseback to his
home at Pilot Point, Texas. His clothes
were entirely consumed and his body
frightfully burned. The horse was also
killed and the saddle torn to pieces.
Daniel OLeary declined to match him.
self against Vaughan, of Chester, for the
seventy -ive-hour walking championship of
England, but match of ESQ a side and the
championship has been arranged between
Vaughan and George Guyon, of Chicago.
A Worcester correspondent relates an
anecdote of the late Father Taylor, who,
not liking certain Mayors administra.
tion, prayed with his usual directness 80
Lord, give us better city government.
Yes, Lord, give us considerably better
one"
plague take these rails - calculated an
old gentleman, as his carriage wheels slid
along and finally bounced over the slippery
iron of railroad track. " Yes, yer
honor" responded his coachman, "but
sometimes they're rail convenience, you
know p
"'Tis said that absence conquers love-
quoted husband in writing home to his
wife, from whom he had been some time
away. 81 hope, dear, it won't be so in
your case" ''Oh, no" she replied, in her
next letter, the longer you stay away the
better shall like you.
Thieves now invade church fairs and
steal watches in care of young ladies' Of
course this is reprehensible to the last de-
gree, but at the same time it is not
altogether unpleasant to know that the fair
are not permitted to entirely
the robbery inseparable from
such instrumentalities.
Two of the field officers of the Eighth
Regiment of the Iowa National Guard are
x.Confederate soldiers, and recent let
ter from that State says there are many
ex-Confederate soldiers there who vote as
they wish and have their votes honestly
and none Of them is ostracized by
reason Of his political faith or former resi-
dence.
Say, Sue, see how l sue and sigh
And on the lea lay low
For upon this day do die
IL you, o Sue say so p
No tell-taie sign does she shy show
Where he his mad pleas plies
The tearirops that do downward flow
ooze as ease from his eyes.
Ah, woe upon the way we war
Do you not, Sue, say so p
He fingered on his knee nigh, nor
For answer know nay.
A PENSION Casa case of pension
has been discovered at Somers, Conn. Mrs.
Nancy McCanp. widow of George Nc