Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-12-31
ODDS AND ENDS.

ODDS AND ENDS.
The world has waited with impatient
curiosity for the correspondence of George
Sand. Word comes from Paris that a col
lection of her letters will be published
soon, but that part of her correspond
ence will not be made public for many
years to come.
We have received poem entitled,
"What Makes Baby Cry might :" but, as
neither colicnortheold lady sslipper is given
as an answer, we cannot publish it. Poems
ought to teach a useful lesson, and one that
only gives people one more thing to hunt
for and worry about every time the baby
initiates Arbuckle is a positive injury to
humanity.
Two gentlemen of Charleston, $. O.,
shot an eagle near Mount Pleasant day
or two ago which measured seven feet from
tip to tip of its wings. The bird belongs
to the species known as the Washington
eagle, and is extremely rare In that sec
ton, and this extreme rarity has caused
these two amateur sportsmen to rejoice
greatly that they were able to kill it. But
why?
George d. Lord has offered to withdraw
his suit for 100000 against the city OF
Rochester if the city will pay him SS3,.
635, which amount he claims he is entitled
to receive under decisions already made.
He saws that he does not doubt that he
could press the suit to a successful termlna-
ton. but he is not inclined to continue iti-
CATION which must be very burdensome.
A Michigan boy ate a bar of soap on
i IL l. 1NNn do 70,
take the taste out of mis- mouth, and the
way he spouted suds and soap bubbles for
the next half hour baaied the skill of four
teen doctors, who madly performed about
him, not having been informed of the cause
of the lads suffering. They are all at log
gerheads now about what to call the case.
Boston Post.
The official canvass of the votes cast
in Minnesota upon the proposition to con.
tinue the school text book acts In force
shows A, 739 in their favor and 45, 465
against them. This gives small majority
against the acts, but it is held that they
will continue in force because there was
not a negative majority of all the votes
cast at the election. The whole number
of votes for President was 100, $50.
Jim Webster's observation-disclosures is al
ways getting him into trouble. He forgets
what he has said one minute after he has
said it. Yesterday he was charged with
stealing chickens from the Gilhooly man.
sion, which he stoutly denied, and the evil
dence was not sufficient to convict. The
Recorder, summing up the case, said
.Jim Webster, know you to be such an
Internal scoundrel that, if you had stolen
~ ~, rr-auld heva hack
and carried off the COOP" 81 would hab
tuck it along too, replied the forgetful
culprit," but It faint fit for kindlin' de fire
wild, hits so rickety and no account. Be
sides, Use got my yard full OF klndln
wood, so didn't have no use foah it"
Italian tenors are proverbially trouble
some. The other night, at Milan, Aram
buro threw up his part in the midst of an
opera-an old trick of his. He did it
once at the italian Opera House, Paris.
He was singing in Lucia di Lammer-
moor" Half way through the opera he
came into the green.room. flung his hat
and sword on q table, and announced that
he should not finish the part, though in
fine health and voice. But NJ. Escudier,
the sharp French manager, was more than
match for the Italian tenor. He sent for
two armed police officers and posted them
at the door of the green-room. As Aram-
buro was striding toward his dressing room
he was halted. ''You cannot pass" $50
non canto" Il don't sing.) Yes you do,
or else you 90 to prison" The last word
had wonderful effect on the reeusant
tenor. "PrigiOne, prigioae!" he repeat
cd, III dismay, and, snarching up his hat
and sword, hurried on to the stage and
finished his part Aramburo is the same
man who last year left Her Majesty's OPP
era Company in the midst OF the season in
New York, and returned to Europe.
Not the least welcome evidence of the
growing liberality of the age is to be found
in the increased federation of and enlarged
views regarding theatrical representations
as means of amusement. And this as
cendancy of the rational over the IRA
tional, the liberal over the illiberal, is not
synonymous with decentralization, immedi
ate and irretrievable. On the contrary, it
is the most convincing proof of the rapid
advance OF national civilization and en-
Iightenment. We know that this is rank
heresy, viewed theologically, but common
sense is a more faithful and reliable mon
itor than any of the so-called professors OF
religion, whose narrow sectarlanlsm blinds
them to everything beyond the contracted
confines of their church, and this tells us
that the spreading realization of the
stage as great moral agent is something
to be gladly welcomed, rather than mourn
fully deplored. Indeed, We feel the true
and noble mission of the drama is just
dawning upon the minds of thousands of
good people who have heretofore regarded
it, in all sincerity, as device and snare
of his satanic majesty. And this is, and
should be, source of general satisfaction,
for the power of the drama as means of
moral culture and mental improvement be-
ing once realized, it will be speedily puri-
| fed and utilized to the utmost limit in adj
vancing and encouraging the good and
| rendering disgusting and repulsive the evil
in human nature Turf, Field and Farm.