Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-11-06
ODDS AND ENDS.

Horse Bergh Stables" is sign on Thir-
tieth street, New York.
Chestnuts don't have wings, but are sort
of burred-ike.- Boston Post.
Time is money--if it is fast and on
race track. L New Orleans Picayuue.
Professor Mommsen has recovered his
equanimity, and is going soon to Italy to
scriptions.
The difference between a goat and a
Scotchman is thistle one delights IN cold
oat meal and the other delights IN an old
coat meal.
Camille Flammarion, the astronomer.
has been making balloon journey with
his wife. They started from Paris, trav-
eled all night, and came down near Rheims.
a young lady surprised the gentlemanly
clerk by offering him fifty cents in pay
ment for dollar purchase. 1t amounts
to dollar, If you please" said the gentle
manly clerk. 81 know it does" was the
answer; "but papa is only paying fifty
cents on the dollar now.
Postmaster General Maynard has issued
an order directing that all magazines,
pAIilH eiuu OItlGI int IGduiu9 uldILCt
received at the Dead Letter Office shall
hereafter, instead of being sold for waste
paper be distributed to charitable and re-
formatorY institutions IL and around the
national capital.
The French Minister of Public Instruc
ton has ordered a special edition OF Mr.
Herbert Spencers work on education to be
published, and ali scholastic Libraries and
associations in France are TO receive copy
of it free on application. Disparaging re-
marks on classical learning have been
omitted from this edition with the authors
sanction.
The women students have done well in
the first B. A. and B. Sc. examinations of
London University In French two of
them stand alone in the first class, none of
their male rivals having got beyond the
second. In German there is a lady in the
first class, while one has obtained honors
in Latin, two in English, and two in
mathematics.
In Hungary it is said fully 600, coo chill
dren OF school age do not 60 to school at
all, while those who do go frequently stay
only three or four years. There are 2l2
large parishes, each having population
exceeding 5000, wholly without element
airy schools. At least 1000 new schools
are needed. Worse than all, one-third of
the teachers in the existing schools are not
qualified for their office.
Because William r. Balch obliged lady
friend by continuing hairpin that would
not drop to the floor at every movement of
her head, the envious Norristown Herald
growls and says that it is getting to be so
now that man can't be successful editor
unless he can turn his hand to almost any
thing. The Herald should recognize the
fact that in this world hairpinness is most
unequally distributed.
The funny man, of the New York Com
merciaL AdcertiSer, who talks as if he had
been there. says: 60 When divorced man
beholds his ex.wife at the theater with an
old ante-nuptial sweetheart, he must feel
like verb that doesn't agree with its
nominative in number and person-an
irregular passive verb, so to speak, past
participle, =. Well, he must feel Just
the faintest kind of desire to take the case
into chancery."
HAMMERS GLYCERoLE OF TAR has been
before the public for the past six years, and
its constantly increasing demand is the best