Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-08-11
GENERAL NOTES,

When a Buddhist woman wants d.
yorce she simply says GIT" and the
Buddy gifts up and puts on his hat.
A Norristown man, the father of large
family, calls his flour barrel "Maud s."
1t goes SO fast.-[Norristown Herald.
'sDon't cut" murmured sleep customer
in the BARRIERS chair, fresh from all ali.
night poker party, don't cut let 'em
run. II Burlington Hawkeye.
A New York girl has case in which
she displays rings received from her cap
tiyes in matrimonial engagements. Sort
of war hoops, as it were.-[ Detroit Free
Press.
The London Times evidently does not
appreciate American genius when it says
William PENIS remains cannot be removed
to America because it is not known where
his remains are. This is no obstacle to a
Yankee.
An Erie young man has been turned out
of church for dancing. He now wishes
that he had gone to Sunday school pic
mic and Rugged and kissed the girls in the
religious game of copenhagen, and thus
retained his good standing in church.
In some of our best medical colleges it
is seriously debated whether or no it would
be best to discard ether as an anasthetic,
and substitute College Commandments in
its place. The only objection to the latter
is that it is too powerful an opiate.-[ Bos-
ton Transcript.
Recent experiments tried at Niagara
Falls prove that a dog can smell bone
exactly twenty-five feet from his nose,
How far Niagara Falls hackman can
smell victim has not been determined,
but the distance can safely be set down at
mile. 4 Detroit Free Press.
The much abused dragon flies are per.
fectly harmless to human beings; they
neither bite nor sting, but destroy vast
quantities OF mosquitoes, flies and other
insects. They can be brought into the
house TO catch flies and mosquitoes, which
duty they perform if unmolested. While
in the larve state they perform the same
good work.
Forward !" cried the Captain. "For-
ward there, Dennis Mccarthy" "Be
aisy, Captain Soolivan," said Dennis "Oi
alwiz was bashful from me youth, and
shure, though Oh m iist shpoiling to 60
into this fought, Oh wud not be thought
forward, don't you see. Oh think it's your
rear Oh d be guarreding while you go an. -
Boston Transcript.
We are accustomed to associate the idea
of combustibility with paper. If it be
wrapped tightly around metallic rod it
can be held in gas flame without burning.
The metal carries the heat away from it as
fast as applied, becoming hot itself. After
x,-kila will n
vided the flame is large enough, at which
the paper will burn.
"Your mind is in twilight state" OBJ
served Joseph Cook to Hindoo. g You
cannot differentiate the grains of mistrust
from the molecules of reasonable conf
dence. You are travelling the border land,
the frontier between the paradise OF faith
and the Arctic regions of incredulity.
You are an agnostic." And then he ex-
planned to friend that he had to clothe
his thoughts in language of the utmost
simplicity in order to make the Hindoo
understand.
According to the English Mechanic, NJ.
de Gasparin has rejected the theory that
the fertility of volcanic soil is due to gu.
perabundance of phosphoric acid. NJ. de
Gasparin has discovered that the luxuriant
garden between Catania and Nicolori, as
well as fertile lands in Mines and Caen,
contain very small proportions of phos.
phoric acid. The richness of the soil
about ftna may be traced, he thinks, to
the concordance of muddy formations and
the climate.
Dean Stanley's death.bed was quiet
and peaceful one. In the morning the
sacrament was administered by Canon
Farrar, the Dean himself pronouncing the
blessing in full, Ineligible voice, aud
taking leave of every one individually, in.
GLIDING the servants. The day passed
quietly, and as evening came on his breath.
ing grew difficult, but there wac no sign
of pain. He often spoke at length and
with earnestness, but only a word here
and there could be made out. Death came
calmly, without even the motion of limb.
John Maioney, the soldier who in Au-
gust, 1922, saved the life of the little
Princess Victoria, has issued pamphlet
complaining that one who saved the life of
the Queen ought not at the age of 81 to be
dependent for support on military pen.
sion OF sixpence day. The young Prin-
cess was driving in Kensington Garden
when the pony ran away and turned over
the carriage, and the Princess would prob.
ably have been killed had not Maloney
rushed forward and grasped her. He at
tended the child to the palace, where he
received guinea and the thanks Of the
Duchess of Kent.