Sacramento daily record-union., 1881-02-14
PERSONAL AND SOCIAL.

President Hayes has on hand 600 un-
answered requests for his autograph.
DR.. Mary Walkers brother believes her
to be insane His views are in accord
with people in general.
1t has Just been made known that Bret
Harte was shot in the hand while hunting
in England last autumn.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court has de-
cided that money lent on Sunday cannot
be recovered, not even if there is subse-
quent promise to pay 1t.
Don j.. Robinson, Secretary of the Great
Western Trotting Circuit, one of the best
known horsemen in the country, died at
jackson, Mich, recently, aged forty
The late E. A. Sothern is said to have
earned an annual income of ffty-seven
thousand dollars, and it is added that he
spent his money almost as rapidly as he
made it.
The Legislature of Nebraska is spoken
of as the Boy Legislature. Only eleven
members of the body are more than fifty
years old, and forty are less that thirty
five years old.
Pelatiah Dwight, groomsman at the
marriage OF President Hayes father, has
just celebrated his 9th birthday at
Adams, n. \. He still keeps about,
though his sight and hearing are impaired
by age.
Col. Fair, the new Nevada Senator, has
the pleasant habit of addressing every
man and boy he meets as "my son, no
matter what the age of the person. To
women he invariably says, My dear
child
The Nevada girl who, under the name
of Miss Emma Nevada, has been singing
in opera at Florence, is reported to have
had a wonderful success. At one per
formance she was called out fifteen times,
and some of the critics place her above
Patti.
Bernard Pratte Taylor, who married
Miss Julia Darby at ST. Louis few days
ago, when little boy sent valentine to
his bride, then an infant and the two,
when a few Years older, walked hand in
and hand as best man and bridesmaid at
wedding. The dress and shoes of the lit
tie bridesmaid and also the valentine were
fortunately kept and figured at the late
ceremony.
Though there are runors that pretty
little Stephanie is not after all to marry
her Rudolph, it is stated that at the New
Years reception at her papa's court the
young Princess wore diadem presented
to her by the Prince. The ornament was
set with magnificent brilliants and rose
pearls, which formerly belonged to Isabella
of Spain, and which were sold not long
ago in Paris.
Several would-be jurors were very much
disappointed at not getting on the jury
at So a day, and left the Courtroom.
They met several others outside who
also wanted to get on the Jury. One of the
disappointed applicants said to those who
were about to enter the Court q" It's
no use for you to 60 IN unless you own
property. Own property Why, you
darned fool, do you think l would want to
be juryman if l had any property -
lGalveston News.
Eleven years ago a Miss Harvey, of
Ithaca, N. Y, then young girl, while
making preparations to attend a party,
had pin between her lips, which passed
into her mouth and was supposed to be
swallowed. A physician assumed such to
be the fact, but the girl insisted that it
was under her tongue. The doctor
searched for it without success. Recently
hlsS harvey Had large sWelllhB COue Ou
one side OF her tongue, and upon its being
opened by a doctor the lost pin was dis
covered there. 1t was two-thirds covered
with a lime formation and much corroded.
A conspicuous act of gallantry was per-
formed during the battle of Maiward, be-
tween the British and Afghans, by the
trumpeter Of the E B Battery, mere boy
of fifteen years of age, who, on seeing
things come to a crisis and the guns in i'm
minent danger of being captured by the
enemy's cavalry, gallantly rode up of his
own accord to General Nuttall and be-
sought that officer to do something with
the native cavalry to save the guns. The
General, it is stated, replied, "My lad,
I'll do my best. " The boy thereupon,
placing himself at the head of the cavalry,
charged the enemy, and came out Of the
fight with his sword covered with blood.