Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-08-16
GENERAL NOTES.

During the year 1850 there were ,039
representations of plays by Shakespeare in
German theaters.
The Boston Post says that marriage is
game at which only two can take hand. :"
Our esteemed contemporary has evidently
bestowed himself on an orphan.
The once notorious Belle Boyd is now
living a quiet domestic life as Mrs. Ham
mond. She has been greatly annoyed by
persons pretending to personate her turn
ing up from time to time.
A Richmond physician says that if peo-
pie will take bath in hot whisky twice a
year they will escape rheumatism and colds,
1t is hardly necessary to say that rheuma-
tism is unknown in Kentucky.
A constable volunteered to watch store
which was to be robbed at New Sharon,
Iowa. He slept at his post, and the bur-
glars took away his money, pistol and
clothes, leaving him covered with mo-
lasses.
a young man of 10 and a girl of Is,
arm arm, jumped from the seventh story
OF an old palace IN Naples to commit sui
eide. The young man was killed and the
young girl lit upon her feet. They were
lovers.
Mr.. Gladstone's clothes, like those of
the storied young person from Troy, do not
fit him. His butterfly suit hangs on him
like sack His claw hammer coat is said
to fit around the shoulders like a horse
collar.
A robber walked up to the open window
of house at Franklin, Ind, and said to
the woman inside, "Your money or your
life !" She fired a pistol without waiting
to take aim, and by chance killed him on
the spot.
The recent Windsor review in England
is regarded as the most memorable event
in the history of the volunteer movement,
which dates back some thirty years ago,
and mainly owed its existence to the Lon
don Times.
Ashmead Bartlett bought at the Bea-
| consfield sale the other day silver-mount-
ed sword, paying for it S73. Ash
mead is evidently going to tame the old
lady if he has to buy couple of howitzers
and siege gun.
In Ireland trade is still considered gener.
ally by the gentry an occupation beneath
them, and the lawyers, doctors and clergy
in Dublin regard themselves as immensely
superior to merchants. This folly is largely
kept up by the women.
| While several Italian emigrants, return
| ing homeward from America, were passing
| through the Mont Gents tunnel, one of the
number was missed on issuing from the
mouth of the tunnel he had been assassin.
ated and thrown out of the car window.
When Sarah Bernhardt entered on her
London engagement she reserved the right
of selecting one member of the company,
| and every one supposed this would be her
sister Jeanne. But it proved to be one M.
Angelo, who played with her In this coun-
try.
a Philadelphia divine was lately cheated
| out of his fee by mean fellow who prom
| ised to call next day, but the reverend man
got even with the defaulter by advertising
| the wedding, adding to the announcement,
s.No cards, no cake, no cash, no certiti-
cate"
According to one of the philosophers at
| Concord, the only trouble is that on ac-
count of intuisicnalism we have relapsed
| into utilitarianism, or universalistic hedon-
ism. It is gratifying to have this matter
| elrcidated IN such a simple but conclusive
manner.
| A vengeful Illinois farmer has COM
menced 5000 suits against railroad COM
pany for falling to keep axes and saws, as
ordered by law, in that number of cars
The aggregate penalty would be 81, SOC, 600
| if the prosecution proved successful, and
| the complainant would receive half.