Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-04-02
DAsg~ RECoGD.UyION SERIES.
tCLUssE Il-NUMBER 35.

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tion to the atlantic, years ago, was a story
entitled % In Cellar" James Russell
| Lowell, who was then editor of the month
] ly, read it and found it so admirable that
| he could not believe it original. Imagin-
ing it to be translation from the French,
he held it over two numbers to learn
whether his suspicioE was correct. When
published it attracted wide attention and
made her known. Shech literature as
means OF earning money, for she then had
her fathers, family dependent ON her, and
she has worked most Faithfully in their be-
half In person she is as attractive as in
manner. She has a very fine, delicate,
spiritual face; !; slight, tall figure is
graceful In movement, quick to appreciate
augat worth appreciation, and has no OBJ
lection to telling that she is "A years old.
VERY CHEAP wTFE.
Many men say, with great deal Of
truth, that they cannot afford to marry,
But for all their saying largs proportion
OF them do marry on slight provocation--
perhaps to prove that their words are wiser
than their acts. Wives are cheap enough.
but matrlmony is very apt to be DEAR It
IS remarkable, and unfortunate, too, that.
1t IS so easy to get married. Men and
women are connubially given away, and
yet they are often found very expensive.
An instance of this was furnished here the
other day, in the Market Police Court,
where it was shown that John Bumberhad
offered to sell his wife to another German,
Frederic Benyer, for five cents, cash down.
The money was paid in beer shop, and
they ratified the trade over glass of lager,
each settling for his own. In less than a
week Benyer sought out Bumber, and, de-
claring that he had given an extravagant
price, asked for the return of the FIVE
cents, and wanted TO give back the uxorial
property. The husband refused peremp-
torily to undo what had been done. He
would neither surrender the nickel nor
receive his spouse again.
She has since caused his arrest for aban-
donment, and he charges her as set-oH
with abandoning him. The Justice refused
to interfere with this domestic complication,
and so the matter stands. We hope, for
the sake of the sex, that this latest QUOTA
ton will not be accepted as a ruling one..
1t seems to be mean attempt to bear the
conlugal market. There are good many
women, we fear, who have not much value:
but we decline to believe that any one of
the number is not worth five cents. If
that be an eXtravagant estimate for Mrs..
Bumber as a wife, she would certainly
command more as woman. She is repre-
sented as healthy and able bodied, and
could no doubt earn dollar day by
washing. Bumber evidently depreciates
her, and Benyer depreciates her still more.
The women's s-rights women should look
after that couple. There is no reason why
women should rule so low. When an or
dinary man is computed at $1,000, why
should an ordinary woman go for five cents,
and be reckoned dear at that?
RUSSIA AND AMERICA.
Most of us like to know how foreigners
live, and wherein their habits differ from
our own. An educated Russian 1--WE are
much interested just now in Russia), who
has just come to these shores and this city,
describes the ways of his compatriots in
clear, succinct manner. He says that chill
dren are not always sent to school there as
soon as they are old enough to go, as is the
custom here. They often stay at home
and study something, especially languages.
In most families, not peasants, boys and
girls learn to read one or two foreign
tongues, and frequently to speak English,
French and German. Nobody is considered
educated there who is not acquainted with
at least one foreign language, commonly
French. English is studied more every
year. Twenty Russians speak it now
where only one could speak it thirty years
ago. The upper classes pass their time
very much as they do here, except that
they are less occupied and they seldom
Il - 4l,aa
land and such property as cannot readily
slams have very little. Their houses are
generally large, and made to resist the
cold are much palmer, less convenient,
less expensive than American houses. Be-
fore the serfs had been emancipated,
landed proprietors looked closely after
their affairs, but now they intrust
these to their steward or manager,
which leads to financial looseness and
loads the farms with mortgages. The
steward steals from the proprietor,
and by connivance with the peasant fails
to collect rents. Tillers of the soil live in
villages made up of long rows of huts,
almost the only other structures being
churches, built in style nearly as old as the
Renaissance. The peasants are extremely
pA4OopS CAOlS-SO SiO'e
power over them, making them do what
ever they choose. Women work as hard
as the men, carrying heavy burdens and
toiling equally in the fields The regular
life Of IS, GOO, 900 Russians is the life of
simple, industrious farmers, contending
against very rigorous climate. The boys
begin when very young to work with their
fathers The people believe that the land
nd foraS+c balon,r 70 tbap, common, and
though they do not possess these, their
conviction remains unchanged The Rus
sian roads, albeit much improved of late,
are still very poor. The general condition
of the country is the reverse of favorable.
Most of the people are very poor; discon-
tent is steadily increasing, along with Of
fetal corruption, and everything portends
marked and speedy change Nearly all
thoughtful Russians, whether in or out of
office, believe that the present form of gov
rapidly growing opposition.
VARIETIES.
Private letters from Rome say that Miss
Julia Fletcher, the novelist, who was re-
Gently Tilted by Lord Wentworth, Byron's
grandson, has been SO much affected by
the broken engagement tnat sne is stiil con-
fined to her room, and that her physicians
fear she may not recover. When she re-
ceived the intelligence of her desertion, she
fell to the floor in a swoon, and has not
risen since from the bed to which she was
carried. She is brilliant American
woman, and he is spoken of as an English
brute.
Now that DR.. John Halls salary has
been raised from $4,000 to SIS, 900 by his
Fifth avenue congregation against his will,
other fashionable clergymen do not see
why their salaries should not be advanced
in compliance with their will. No doubt
5000 will now be the modish clerical
fgure-the eminently proper thing, IN
short.
Robert C. Ingersoll is, it is rumored,
coming to New York to.abide, as its broad
social and spiritual tone is better adapted
to his liberal views than any other city can
be. Anybody who thinks New York very
wicked will be saying .Ingersoll pre-
tends not to believe in hell, yet he is 60
ing directly to it. But, then, New York
is not very bad rival of hell, after all.
Edwin Booth is TO appear at what was