Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-11-02
ODDS AND ENDS.

Close, unventilated bed.rooms make
graves for thousands OF people yearly,
A male dove has just died in Norristown.
Pa, at the age of more than thirty five
years.
"Bob, what's steam Z" Boiling wa Ter" "
"Thats right-compare it. Positive
boil, comparative boiler, superlative bust"
1t was Windhan wife who, when her
husband was brought home intoxicated.
thanked God that he wss not blood re-
lation.
1t is censoling to know that the man
who whistles at his work frequently has to
whistle for his pay The world is CON-
paratively small, but full of eompensa-
tions. i Atlanta Constitution.
An exchange says that red ants may be-
kept out of closets and other places by i'm
pregnating the air with camphor, 1t don't
say what will keep the white aunts, who
come to spend the summer, out of the
house.
"So," said lady recently to mer-
chant, "your pretty daughter has married
a rich husband?" "Well," slowly replied
the father, II believe she has married
rich man, but l understand be is very
poor husband"
| Lady Burdett. Coutts is described ss be-
ing rather large and having white hair and
a slightly fiorld complexion. The exten-
sive gardens surrounding her residence at
| Highgate are always open to the children
of the charity schools.
| A poet asks: When l am dead and
| lowly laid, And clods fall heavy
from the spade, who'll think of me,''
Don't worry. Tailors and shoemakers have
retentiye memories and you'll not be for~
gotten. Norristown Herald.
An Irishman who was engaged to cue
ice from pond, when handed crces- cut
saw to commence operations with, pulled
out cent and turning to his comrade, ex-
claimed, "Now Pat, fair play head or
tail to see who goes below"
How different are the Aldermen OF
Cleveland from those Of any other city
In report in the Ploja Dealer we find
that Alderman Blank arose and made a
few sensible remarks" Can he be hired to
remove to Detroit. Detroit Free Press.
The Springfield Republican ventures the
assertion that Sir Henry Carr Glyn, G. B. +,
was not the affanced lover of Adelaide
Nelson, but her father 1t has long been
said that she was the illegitimate child Of
an officer of high rank in the British navy.
How are you coming on with sea bath
| ing" asked q gentleman of an invalid.
Splendid / bathe three times day"
"How Go you like it % "The doctor saws
/ must take toddy after each bath to re-
store the circulation-that's how like it I"
A manufacturer in Berlin, Germany. il
turning out novel horseshoe made of NAL
leable iron. 1t is not made solid, but mas
a deep and wide groove, into which tarred
hemp rope is SO firmly wedged that 1t can
not be withdrawn. 1t is so thick that It
protrudes considerably beyond the rim of
the malleable shoe. 1t is stated that the
| hghtness of this horseshoe has gained Tor
| it considerable favor in Berlin.
| At a billiard match a delicate posi.
tion presents itself, and the player essays
to bring the balls into position by a ire.
mendous six.cushion shot D., who is a
deeply interested spectator, leans forward
to see the play, and receives the butt Of
the cue with great force on the end of his
| nose. He makes horrible outcrv. but
the player turns to him and says, in re-
assuring tone Never mind. It made
no difference, counted"
Mr. Lawson, the artist, was in New
DuTyy poIG INC otner Gay, ana eatled on an
aged clergyman whose portrait he is to
paint. The artist met there another aged
d. D., who asked Lawson if he remembered
painting portrait of himself number of
years ago The divine further inquired if
the artist remembered the religions advice
given him during sitting. 1t was forgot
ten, but the minister remembered it, and
the reply of Mr.. Lawson, which was,
"Turn your head little further to the
side and shut your mouth