Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-12-13
GENERAL NOTES.

ard Golden Is TO be erected IN London.
Lady Brassey has been formerly deco
rated by an emissary of King kalakaua
with the order of +" Kapiolani."
Queen Elizabeth of Roumania still clings
to the literary career. She has just pub
lished another volume-a collection of
novels in verse called "Sturmc"
According to the most recent statistics,
the Roman Catholics have in China forty
one Bishops, 664 European and $50 native
priests, thirty-four colleges, thirty-four
converts. and ]. 092, ,SlS worshipers.
"George Eliot's life" Professor F. w.
Mayer says in paper in the Century,
was long tragedy, in which there was
no postponement of principle to passion
no personal happiness based upon others
pain"
The Princess of Wales, while at Single
ton Abbey the other day, planted linden
as memorial of her visit. She was re.
quested to place her hand on the tree while
the earth was being filed in around It:
but instead of being content with SO pas.
sive part, she seized heavy garden
spade and shoveled in the earth with skill
and vigor, laughing heartily the while.
President Arthur, it is said, has formally
taken possession Of the pew in st. Johns
Church, Washington, which was occupied
by President Madison and the other Presi.
dents who followed him. The pew was set
apart in 1916 for the Presidents use free of
charge. The Treasurer's books, however.
show that its occupants, without exception,
insisted upon paying the annual rental.
A Methodist paper says: The clumsy
old lines, Begin low, proceed slow, take
fire, rise higher, be self possessed when
most impressed, which are still good ad-
vice to preachers, were once repeated in
the presence of company consisting of
ministers and their wives, a4sfhe close of
witch sensible woman remarked to her
husband SEC, what is the trouble
with you. You rise higher before you
take fire.
Oace, when somewhat under the infu-
ence of drink, certain citizen of Wind
ham, Conn, wandered off into the fields
and went to sleep. On rising he forgot to
put on his old cooked hat Some boys
found it and took it to him, thinking to
cover him with confusion. sc In which lot
did you find it ?" he inquired blandly.
g In Mr.. Whites pasture. near the barn.
90 Well, boys, 90 take it right back, that is
my place to keep it.
When Mr.. and Mrs. J. w. Mackay were
staying at hotel at The Hanne not long
ago. the landlord asked Mr.. Mackay's SER
want if Mr.. Mackay was not king in his
own country. He was assured that kings
and queens were not known in America,
but he was not convinced Exulting over
his wealthy guests, he next day sent to
one of the city journals an account of the
arrival at his hotel of ''the King and
Queen of the Bonanza Mountains of Cali
fornia."
Some of the hitherto dark places in the
British Museum building, such as narrow
passages, cloak rooms, lavatories, ETC., are
now illuminated by electric lamps 1t is
believed, and certainly hoped, that this
principle will be extended to the depart
ment of MSS, and eventually to the rooms
adjoining the reading room and to the gal
leriss, thus enabling the attendants to sup
ply books to readers in the evening instead
of limiting the time, in fall and winter, to
$3.50 P. M, as at present.
The late eccentric writer, George Bor-
row, suffered from what he called "the
horrors, which was nothing more than the.
nervousness which accompanies an over.
wrought mind brought on by too much
metaphysics, that led him into the origin
of nature and of his own being, but when
he found himself approaching the vanishing
point of reason his remedy was &C hand.
What do you think [ do?' he said,
when get bewildered after this fashion I?
go out TO the sty and listen TO the gruut-
ing of the pigs till get back to myself u
a scholar in one of the Binghamton's
public schools who had "been over the
map of Asia, was reviewed By his teacher,
with the following result: Teacher
{. What is geography" Scholar" Mud.
Teacher-"No; land and water" Scholar
=" Well, that makes mud. don't it %
Teacher" What Is the shape of the
earth p Scholar" Flat" Teacher
g You know better; if / should dig hole
through the earth, where would l come
out?" Scholar "Out of the hole.-[Bur.
ington Hawkeye.
a happy hunting ground for the MINI
rods of France has been established in
Southern Algeria by an enterprising French
man. Leasing large tract of land, use-
less for agricultural purposes, he has trans
formed it into lion preserve, by turning
loose upon it, as lure, drove of SUPER
animated mules. A luxurious hotel, with
a Partisan cook, will afford shelter and
entertain to the sportsmen, and portable
fortreeses will be placed about the grounds
for the convenience of those who fear to
meet the "king of beasts" in the open
field
The Rev. Daniel Curry, D. D., says in
the Methodist. 1.-THE Methodist pulpit of
the present day, while it does not directly
antagonize its teachings of half century
ago, certainly is not idei tieal in its utter
ances as to either the form or the substance
with its own former self. Its friends, how
ever, claim for it that all its changes have
been wholly in respect to things incidental,
and that in all points OF real Christian
theology the whole body, in all its multi
form divisions, adheres almost absolutely
its founder, John Wesley.
Many French ladies are exceedingly
fond of the hunt. The Duchesse Dues
keeps up pack of hounds and follows
them fearlessly. The Comtesse de rAigle
is an intrepid horsewoman, and has not
missed, save on rare occasions, being in at
the death of the stag and Madame Benolt
Champy one day, i'll the absence
of her husband from their chateau,
mounted on horseback and conducted
TO PACK OF DOaI nOuOuS 10 tDe meet. one gave
the huntsman orders to lay the hounds on,
and followed the hunt from start to flush,
being present when the wild boar was
brought to bay and killed by bullet by
the head keeper.
Is there an affinity between guardian
spirits and sole leather? Or lapstones and
g palmystery ?" whatever that may be.
Is there more than a rhyming relation be-
tween "past" and "last ," And is a
waxed end symbolical of the end of mortal
existence? A man in Omaha advertises
himself as "Magister in Palmystery and
Conditionalist, which means that he
will, with the aid of guardian spirits,
obtain for anyone glance at the past and
present, and on certain conditions in the
future - also, BOOTS and shoes made to
order" 1t does look ss if there were
things in Omaha not yet dreamed of in
other mems philosophy.
The Hon. George b. Loripg, in his speech
at &c the Lodge of Sorrow" held in memory
of Garfield at Washington, short time
ago, said that the companions of the
dead Presidents days of toll and trial
were never forgotten. ''That habit of
simplicity added Mr.. Loripg, (which