Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-12-21
ODDS AND ENDS.

The actor who cannot draw is worse than
blister.
Puck says the Iron-Hand Company is
likely to be followed by the linear Com
blnatlon.
a cruel critic states that certain actor
never made point except when he sharp
ened his lead pencil.
The play that Lydia Maria Childs wrote
was never produced. 1t was merely re-
garded as Childs' play.
Bernhardt keeps diary, noting down
her 90 impressions" of men and things and
commenting upon the way people behave
to her.
The upshot of game of poker between
Pepper and Muse, at Mendoza, Va, was
that the former leveled his gun at the lat
ter. Muse begged piteously for his life,
but Pepper was so murderous that, when
the gun would not stay cooked, he tipped
the hammer with his thumb, and sent a
bullet through his victims heart.
"What do you mean playing marbles on
the Sabbath, you young rascal?' exclaimed
father. "Oh, this is a sacred game of
marbles, pa" The boy rendered that the
old "rascal attended sacred concert !"
the previous Sunday, whereat the s. Fati-
nitza March" and the Turkish Patrol !"
were the sacredest hymns. Boston Tran
script.
Darkly the humorist
MUSES. on fate;
CHASTITY experiment
Life seems to him.
Subject for merriment
Somber and grim;
Is it his doom or is't
Something he ate?
The recent marriage of an aged conserv-
alive statesman in England is a curious
story. He fell in love with the daughter
of country gentleman. The lady was a
| widow. The relatives of the statesman
declared that they would not receive her,
so she wrote one day to tell him that she
had married a gentleman whose age was
more suited to her. Nothing daunted, the
statesman has now married the sister
An industry of considerable value and
| interest has just been lost to France by
the action of the authorities in expelling
the religious bodies. The manufacture OF
the well-known Chartreuse hquer, which
has been for such a long time carried on in
the monastery of that name, is now to be
transferred to the town of Romont, in the
| CdutOn vi mdClC q
piece of land has been purchased near the
railway.
| Illinois has school population of l,0l0,-
S5l, an enrolment of 704. 04l, and ii, 500
school districts, supporting ii. 954 schools
The State has, moreover, 66l private
schools, instructing 60.440 pupils. There
are only 4, 0i5 illIterates in Illinois. During
the last school year the public school ex-
penditures of the State amounted 81, 53I, :.
| al 70. The average amount paid monthly
to the male teachers was s44 "a; to the
| female teachers, S35 %.
The Guelph journals in Germany exhibit
no little irritation In consequence of its
having become known that in the inscrip-
ton upon the monument raised by Queen
| Victoria in memory of the late King
| George the latter is referred to as 1.-THE
Last King of Hanover" The Guelphs re-
gard this as prejudging history. So far
| from looking upon Guelph rule as extinct
in Hanover, they are at present promising
| regal dignity to the little son recently born
to the Duke of Cumberland.
A Montpelier balloon was recently ad-
vertised to make an ascent from Paris with
lady hanging en- trapezes attached to it.
She did not appear, but a youth named
Navarro offered to supply her place for f2.
He was urged to get himself tied to the
trapeze, bat he refused, saying he knew his
business. The upshot was what might
have been expected. He was seen hanging
by his hands apparently inert for long
time, and ultimately, when near Courne-
vote, he fell, turning over and over, to the
horror of the spectators, from hight of
700 yards, and buried himself waist deep
in the earth.