Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-07-23
ODDS AND ENDS.

Fine feathers make big millinery bills.
We seldom confide secret. 1t escapes
us.
Porous plasters are now called indicated
lace.
Woman conceals only what she does not
know.
England paid Germany $4,000, 600 for
potatoes last year.
Picking up information in dry goods
stores Is not shoplifting.
1t is not proper to call lovely but
erratic girl of the period peri odd.
The fruit vendors say there is always
room at the top for big Strawberries.
The japanese dispense with uudertakers,
burying their dead as quickly as possible,
and then formally mourn.
That competent authority, the Millinery
Trade Reriew, anticipates a demand for
rutfied hats the coming season.
The inventor of a new telephone, Just
tried at Mans, France, says that it will
convey sound across the Atlantic.
81 have great ear, wonderful ear"
said conceited musician, in the course of
conversation. So has jackass," replied
hystauder.
A man at Athens, Ga, seeing chtld
fall from a third-story window, pushed
barrel of water into the spot, and the little
one fell into it harmlessly.
| Count Taaffe, the Austrian Premier, has
been exasperating the Dalmatians, who
speak Italian almost exclusively, by pro-
hibiting that language in the schools.
81 didn't know" said an old lady, as
she laid down her newspaper, g that
| thieves were SO scarce that they had to ad-
vertise for EN-, and offer a reward for their
discovery"
The reduction of the incomes of the
landed gentry in England is sending many
TO economic abroad, where they can live
IN style in which they would not like to
live in England.
A laborious calculator of the London
Statistical Society has computed that the
population of that city three centuries
from this will, following the rate OF in
crease Of the past 80 years, be over 1884,
000,0 600.
A st. Louis man who sleeps with re-
volver under his pillow for the benefit of
burglars, slightly wounded his wife the
other morning, when she got up unusually
early and began to get her kitchen in cook
ing order.
a Pekin GIL woman was asked by the
preacher if her husband feared the Lord.
She replied a Fear him? Why, bless
you, he is SO feared of him that he never
goes out of the house on Sunday without
taking his gun along with him.
What are sanctuary shoes, adver-
tised in English ecclesiastical journals? If
one OF the qualities of such shoes is en-
aiding the wearer to walk without making
noise, it would be we'll TO buy pair for
the owners of some creaking boots.
Save mel save me throw me state
room door - cried passenger on the Mar
ragansett on the night of the disaster. He
was Bostonian, aged rs. He was saved,
but his hair has turned from black to
white, owing to his terrible fright.
A young pastor who has recently had a
son born to him notifies a brother pastor as
follows g Unto us a child is born; unto
us child is given-Is., tx. g." 1t was
written on postal card. The receiver
showed the message to sister in his
charge. All, yes" said the woman,
after reading IT" it weighed nine pound
SIX ounces.
An anecdote is related illustrative of the
slyness of the Bohemians compared with
the simple honesty of the Germans and the
candid unscrupulousness of the Hungari-
ans. In war times three soldiers, of each
of these three nations, meet III a parlor of
an inn, over the chimney-piece of which
hung a watch. When they had gone the
German said, sfThat is good watch
wish I had bought it." 81 am sorry I
did not take it, )" said. the Hungarian. 81
have it in roy pocket, said the Bohemian.