Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-08-01
GENERAL NOTES.

The House of Commons contains four
members of the age of so and upward, two
aged 70, six aged rs, one aged II, two aged
76, two aged IS, two aged "a. two aged 10,
four aged -, two aged II, and three
aged 20.
One OF the sensational pictures in the
Salon is Heil's 3" I'm Suicide par Amour"
in which Partisan girl in pink silk. pro-
fusion of lace, fesh.colored stockings, and
satin slippers, has placed herself across the
track of an approaching locomotive. Her
head rests on the rail. A red umbrella and
pair of gloves are thrown aside.
The notorious author, Emil lola, mas
been the death of one young woman. His
play of L'Assomoir," known to Ameri-
cans as Drink, requires that the principal
actress shall be drenched with water in
laundry. a few weeks since, in a Park
theater, the pail of water was not, as
usual, warm ON the contrary, it was ice
cold. She was SO chilled that fever en-
sued, Of which she died.
The vicinity OF the Canadian capital,
Ottawa, must be "a FOOLS paradise"
Some farmers there neglected TO SOW their
spring crops, believing that the world was
coming to an end, aud recently a man
built an ark in anticipation of another
Noah's food, which he predicted would
come on Sunday. But the flood came
not, and the man had of all his labor for
nothing.
" saw more intoxicated women at the
Derby than on any former occasion" said
Edmund Yates in the London Wortd,
+" and not merely the females with whom
inebriety is normal, but decent looking
women, apparently the wives and sweet
hearts of artisans and small shopkeepers.
Perhaps the heat of the weather upset
their calculations as to the amount of
liquor they could take with IMMUNITY"
A manufacturer of ice cream in New
York told San reporter what it costs
"A quart of cream costs twenty cents. |
can buy cream for fifteen cents, but it isn't
pure. Four fresh eggs cost eight cents
half pound white standard sugar, five
cents favoring, three cents ice and salt,
This will give little over quart, and l
generally put the actual price of quart at
about thirty cents, or 81 20 per gallon, leav-
| fact is. no Wholesale manufacturer can pro-
q
| therefore, they have to put glue in it in
order TO make big profit on their sales. T."
Governor Cornell of New York vetoed
the bill providing for the retirement and
pensioning of public.scbool teachers in New
| York and Brooklyn. He thinks those
teachers do nothing imperiling their lives
which might entitle them to pensions,
while the effect OF the law upon the teach
ers themselves would be demoralizing.
| The New York correspondent of the Phil.
| adelphla Ledger writes " Even as it is,
the public schools are, to a scandalous ex-
tent, the merest roosting places for politi-
cal favorites, and if pension list were to
be added to their list of attractions, no
argument is needed to prove that existing
abuses would be UNNECESSARILY aggra.
waited"
Rev. H. w. Beecher says al recollect
| that when during the war the internal
revenue taxed incomes, and had written
| little book called Norwood which.
through the generosity of the publishers of
the New York Ledger, had brought me in
| a larger cum than l ever expected to make,
my income in a certain year was a very
considerable one. There were several men
in my neighborhood who could have bought
me out ten times over; and l took notice
that there was not one OF them paid as
much tax as I did. think paid larger
tax that year than did any of eight or ten
millionaires. What had become of their
property? never inquired; but think
there will be an inquiry about it in the
Judgment day.
The House of Lords, in England, is
giving attention to the exits from theaters
in London which we might initiate with
advantage. There are thirty-six London
theaters, including Hengler's Grand Cirque
Theater, in Argyll street. The Royal
Italian Opera, Covent Garden, seems the
best provided aud registers twenty stair
cases and sixty doors. Drury Lane and
several other theaters have fireproof cor.
| ridors and stone staircases. The Gaiety,
in the Strand, has sixteen exits. Her
Majesty's Theater has twenty three exits.
| The Haymarket has fifteen doors. Heng-
ler's has ten exits with doors opening out
ward, and the Lyceum has exits OF all four
sides OF the block on which it stands.
Boys are the greatest philosophers in the
world. They don't argue-one wouldn't
stand an arguing boy-they act. Action
to them is second nature, and they love it,
|
it. There are really few lazy boys in the
world, and if ever a sculptor wished to
represent the God Of Activity, he should
be given very youthful, as true :" street
| boy" What, however, does the world do
to keep up all this steam, all this wonder
| full movement of keen intellect and quick
muscle Does it look after its boys and
treat them we'll? Does it think of the
young bodies and help to build them UP
| for good future work ? No such thing. The
world is callous dame, as long as she gets
what she wants. She wants quick young
folks, and she cares little how she gets
them and what becomes of them. There
| is one thing certain-those active boys do
not get half enough to eat, and that half
concerned in the employment of boys
should consider it duty to look after their
midday meal, for on that the boy vitality
has to depend. The man may wait, the
| boy cannot he must have food in between
his constant exertions.
| Lawyer G. was an old friend of the
editor, who met with the misfortune in
early youth of a wound in the knee joint,
which, from malpractice, resulted in ossif-
cation of the joint and in the drawing of
the lower nmo square Dack. U. was SIX
footer, a handsome fellow on his sound
leg, but only four-footer on his short leg.
He had been out one night, and arose
next morning with head on him )"
while he was arranging his toilet he felt in
his pockets and found only cash enough to
pay for one cocktail. Soliloquizing, he
said &c can't eat any breakfast on one
cocktail can't do any work on less than
two cocktails" Completing his toilet he
went forth on his short leg. and entered
bar.room, advanced to the counter, and
raising his chin above the same said, in a
voice " childlike and bland" ga cock
tail, sir. While placing himself outside
of the concoction the attending physicians
attention was demanded by other patients
In the interim our lame friend raised him
self upon his sound leg and in deep bass
voice ordered "a cocktail" which he
drank and paid for. The barkeeper