Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-04
ODDS AND ENDS.

There is rumor that another important
factor is about to be imported into the
affairs of the Scottish peerage, by the mar.
riage of the Dowager Duchess of Roxburghe
with commoner.
A chemists assistant, named Leopold
Massett, has been arrested in Paris on sus-
picion of being Valdez, murder of his mas
ter, M. Lagrange, in the Faubourg st.
Honore, some months back.
The Bernhardt elbow angle is to be the
next feminine eccentricity. When sue
cessfully performed it gives to the female
form the divine appearance of trussed
fowl. Society fellows should attach little
ribbon to their buttonholes with the motto,
IS No trust !" New York Commercial
Advertiser.
A finely dressed young woman was the
complainant in Washington Police Court,
and the prisoner an old woman in tatters.
'What charge do you make ?" asked the
Judge. "Vagrancy, was the reply. " DO
you know her ?" "She is my mother, 1 am
sorry to say" The spectators Kissed, and
the magistrate declined to commit the
mother.
Sir Walter Scott mentions in "Paufs
Letters to His Kinsfolk that years be-
fore Josephine became Empress lady told
him how it had been predicted that she
would rise to the highest pitch of human
grandeur, and yet never be queen !;
further, that she would die in a hospital.
She never was a queen, and died at Nal
naison, which had once been hospital.
A German named Rubner has been
making some interesting experiments to
determine what proportion of the several
ingredients of various foods are absorbed
in the body. 1t was found that with
carrots and potatoes no less than 80
per cent passed through the body, leaving
81 per cent. to be retained. 1t was proved
that far more of flesh is retained than any
other food.
German tramps so greatly abound in
Switzerland, and have lately become such
an intolerable nuisance, and the vexatious
requirements of the German authorities
render their eXtradition so difficult, that
the Federal Council have been constrained
to apply to Prince Bismarck for modifca-
ton of the treaty which requires the re.
turn of the necessitous citizens Of the two
countries to their respective domiciles.
Miss E. A Starr, of New York, whose
Patron Saints i" appeared in 1871, has
now ready for publication q second series
of lives of the Saints, for the illustration of
which she has with her own hand prepared
twelve etchings which deserve to rank with
the best-if, indeed, they are not them
selves the very best-that have been pro-
duced in this country They are copied
from paintings, mostly old and we'll known,
| illustrative of scenes in the lives of the
personages treated of in the text, and in
addition to their great TECHNICAL excellence
they have that idefnable charm which, in
original work, reveals the tender and de-
votinal feeling and treatment of the artist.
Miss Isidor, new prima donna, has
made a successful debut as Lucia at Her
Majesty's, London. Louis Engel says: She
is very young. That she is a thoroughly
artistic organization, gifted beyond COM
mon degree with voice full, resonant, of
a purity exceptionally to be met with, and
most intelligent conception, cannot be
denied. Her execution is clear, neat, yet
not always perfect, but can, with little
more care, become so. Miss Isidor de.
| serves as much commentator for what she
does not as for what she does. Her voice
is not very powerful; yet she never forces
| or strains 1t. and its great travelling quality
enables her to be heard, even in her pianis-
simos, all over the house. She is hand
some girl, and displayed a wealth of hair
in the mad scene, which lost nothing by
evidently being neither false nor dyed. II
she would kneel little less, and take care
of her fortunes, no fault could be found
with her. As it is, she had well deserved
genuine success. Miss Isidor is an English
girl, taught by an English master Mr.
Allen; and although she went to Italy to
perfect herself, it is gratifying to find that,
after the failure of the foreigners, Her
Majestys flag was saved by an English
girl. America has sent England many
prime dome = cannot London spare us
Miss Isidor IN. Y. Spirit.