Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-08-20
ODDS AND ENDS.


Four or five months from to-day you will
be saying; Gadsnookers what cold
day this is l must say that | like hot
weather better"
London Tratb says the American hotel
system is perfect. We are mighty glad TO
know it is all right to cover pretzel with
soap and call it an orange fritter.
In the great procession of life, how many
men there are who keep too close to the
base drum This is because they like
their music with stick in it.-[Whitehall
Times.
Cleveland boasts of a baby which AZ
birth weighed but three-quarters OF
pound, and measured but six inches in
length. 1t is perfect in form and sound in
health
At the great charity fair in London re.
Gently, where the Princess of Wales sold
flowers, they actually gave back the right
change. The prices were pretty high,
however.
A deaf mute was killed by dumb
waiter the other day, and yet the latter,
though having nothing to say in the way
of excuse, did not fall into the clutches of
the law.
little girl was disappointed because
her name was not in the Bible. Never
mind, said she, "I'll be snch a good girl
that if another Bible n ever written my
name will be pat N it."
Prince Ronald Bonaparte will soon mar
ry Mile. Marie Blanc, the daughter of
Monaco Blanc. Her income annually is
Sl60, 600. His property consists of his
name and an old sword
AWestchester county boy caught king
fisher which was prevented from flying by
the weight of mussel which, while the
bird was engaged in its predatory opera
tions, had become fastened to its bill.
Ice drops, of curious form, fell in a
shower iu Massachusetts, recently, and
were used by lady to cool lemonade. A
child, looking up into the sky, exclaimed
Send them down. sir send them down,
sir."
There are some things cheaper than talk.
A New York correspondent tells an inter-
esting story about four women who get S25
an hour for going to receptions and dinners
to talk and to help the hostess entertain
the guests.
Guibollard caused well to be dug On
his property. After half hour of labor,
the diggers said, 1--WE do not know what
to do with the dirt we dig out. make
the hole large enough to hold it, said
Guibollard.
After ali, some of our old proverbs are
pretty correct 1t is better to make hay
while the sun Shines" 1t would be very
awkward going out after dark and irving
to hold a lantern and swing a scythss -.
Boston Post.
A lawyer once rushed up to Jerrold in
the street and said, with flushed face,
"Mr. Jerrold, have just met a scoun-
drelly barrister." Jerrold looked at him
with bland smile, and simply answered,
What coincidence
Detaille and De Neuville, the French
artists, will 60 to Metz on the 18th OF Au-
gust and study the ground where the ac-
took place They will open the panorama
to the public next May.
The new oath for the French soldiers
contains no reference to the Deity or the
Republic 1t is as follows I'm the name
of the regiment, sW ear on my honor to
remain faithful to the Constitution, and to
defend this flag until death. F"
At grand banquet two physicians talk
of their patients and their cases in very
loud tone of voice until they almost become
bore. "Oh,' says Augustus, "you use
such and such remedies for inflammation Of
the throat 90 Yes" siWell, you will
| soon have occasion to use them or your
selves"
81 have little about me- but that little
We will share" said Dublin Queens
Counsel to an ugly customer who with a
| menacing air, asked for aims at night in
lonely suburb. "This revolver" said the
Q. c., as he drew it from his poket, "has
six chambers. L will give you three
Just then the Q. C. found himself alone.
A lady taking tea at Z small company
being very fond of hot rolls, was asked to
have another. Really, l cannot she
moiestly replied 81 don't know how
many have eaten already" 81 do, un-
expectedly cried juvenile upstart, whose
mother had allowed him seat at tins
table. you've eaten eight I've been
countin' !''
A strange and ludicrous thing occurred
at a small party lately. A cat rushed in
amongst the assembled guests, ran round
the room several times, notwithstanding
the attempts to catch it, and finally took
refuge unuer large SOFA. Inc servants
being called to get rid of the intruder.
found not only the unbidden guest, but
several additions to the family party in
the shape of some kittens.
A small, ragged boy entered an oyster
house in Salem, Mass, and asked "Will
you sell me an oyster for cent? Z? Iwant it
for my sick mother" "What is the mat
ter with your mother? 2" asked the man, as
he proceeded to fill can with oysters,
thinking he would help to relieve a case of
suffering ''Shes get black eye, was
the reply. The benevolence rapidly faded
from the eye of the oyster man as he put
one oyster in a paper bag