Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-02-28
SOME GENERAL NOTES.

SOME GENERAL NOTES.
| The net cost of the war in Afghanistan,
including that of the frontier railways,
was about twenty.one crores of rupees, OF
Ell, 800. 900.
Louisiana has S., 45l white and IS, O24
colored voters officially registered. Of the
whites, 49, cannot write of the me-
groes, ii ,503 can write.
The owners of the Nathan Paul farm, at
Eliot, N. H., where gold has recently been
| found, have been offered $4,000 for three
acres of the land.
George w. Humphreys, of Camden, a
few days since skated ON the Delaware
from Camden to Trenton, distance of
thirty nine miles, in three hours and forty
minutes. This is the best time ever made
on skates on the Delaware.
The Nordenskjold, the largest torpedo
boat in existence, was recently launched at
Copenhagen. She measures 2l5 feet in
length and AZ feet in breadth. She can
make fifteen miles an hour. Her steel
armor is four inches thick, and she carries
an unusually large breech- loading Krupp
gun.
The Rev. DR.. Cuyler in recent reminis.
cences as to Carlyle mentioned that he
heard him say: 81 wad like to see
America. Ye may talk about your Dim
ocracy or any other 'cracy, or any kind of
poleetical rubbish, but the secret of happi-
ness in America is that We have gat vast
deal of land for very few people"
There were some GOO cords of wood on
the Marias river, Montana, washed away
by the flood. Benton was mainly aud al
most wholly dependent for fuel between
now and spring on the supply to be OBJ
tanned from the Marias, and persons hav-
ing over half cord of wood are regarded
by the ordinary Bentonite as soulless auto
Gratis.
Lord Rosebery intends to build one of
the most magnificent houses in London on
the site which he purchased near Albert
Gate. The mansion will front the park,
and command splendid view of Rotten
Row and the Ladies' Mile. There are to
be five suites of reception rooms, and it
probably will be one of the most princely
houses in the metropolis.
A singular accident occurred in Carriers
vile (Ga.) the other day. A gentleman
walking on the street and smoking a cigar
cite was the victim. A gust of wind blew
spark into his whiskers, which, by some
unknown cause, but supposed to be dan
gerous hair-dye, were ignited. The flame
communicated to his hair and burned it all
off, leaving him as bald as an eagle and
badly blistered.
New York alleges that it is to have a
geological garden similar to those of Lon
don, Paris and Philadelphia. 1t will be
owned by private company, which will
start out with capital of So, 100000, and
which promises something like a real ZOO
logical collection. One of the New York
papers says the company with $4,000, 900
in capital is myth. 1t will probably go
to meet the worlds fair humbug.
A number of valuable letters, written by
George Eliot at the age of 20, have just
been brought to light at Sheffield. They
are in the possession of grandson of
"Dinah Bede, now resident in that town,
and were written to Mrs. Elizabeth Evans
and Mr.. Samuel Evans, aunt and uncle of
the novelist, and the ''Dinah Morris and
"Seth Bede" of her novel, 'Adam Bede. u
They are pervaded by deep religious SEN
tllilCHt. iHu bCtidy q hCOA duAlCI1 dDOuG
her spiritual condition.
A most violent case of mother in
law" occurred at Thames Police Court,
London, recently, when Arthur Steel was
charged on his own confession with being
deserter. a police constable deposed
that the prisoner had given himself up,
saying he had deserted in August, 1879,
from Woolwich; that he had been married
the day previous to his arrest, and on 90.
ing home to his brides house, had a row
with his mother. in-law. He then made up
his mind to give himself up at once. The
| prisoner was remanded for a week. The
wife, a good looking girl of 10, was in
Court, and appeared much affected at the
turn affairs had taken.
A young and beautiful Ohio lady named
Jennie Leib, who aspires to enter the lect.
ure field as social reformer, has been in
Pittsburg for several days getting data re.
garding Maynard women. The other night
she visited several of the most notorious
-and-easy establishments. At these
dives young girls are employed as CONVEX.
sationalists, and Miss Leib took them all
in. When she observed the gyrations Of
the wicked girls in undress costumes. and
the evident zest with which gray.haired
and bald headed old men guzzled beer and
Rugged the girls at one of the most noto
rious places, the scenes were so hilarious
that Miss Leib threw up her hands, ex-
claiming, "Oh, dear me. 1t is just awful
Look at those bald-headed men swilline
beer and kissing those girls" She beat a
hasty retreat, and has evidently obtained
! sufficient data.
Paul Kruger, who was elected by the
revolving Beers to preside over the
destinies of their present venture, has long
been noted leader of expeditions in the
Transvaal andiha twice been in England as
spokesman for his countrymen. He first
went in the broad felt hat, the short jacket
and "veldt schoon" shoes of Unframed
leather) which form the usual and recog
nized costume of a Dopper. On his return
he met the astonished gaze of his friends
clad in high hat, long black cloth coat
and the boots worn by ordinary civilized
men. England was well enough" he
said, "and there were fine houses, but il
man wanted to go and smoke by himself
even away from London, every piece of the
veldt seemed to be owned by some one OIL
another, and if you sat down to smoke
under a tree you hadn't taken two Whit:
before man would come up and say the
land was his and he didn't want you
there"
SHIPPING LIVE Hoes TO EUROPE. "A
curious experiment has been tried in Ger.
many for some months past with success.
1t is the importation of live hogs from the
United States at the port of Bremerhaven,
from whence they are shipped to Hanover,
| finding a ready market at Brunswick