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

/ One of the richest heiresses in Germany
is Countess Solms, baby only year old.
She has lately inherited the vast estates OF
her grandfather, Count Arnim. Zichow.
Field. Marshal Count Won Moltkeis eighty.
first birthday was honored the other day
by the unvailing of fine bronze statue
to the great strategist on one of the public
squares of Cologne.
Hortense Schneider, Grande Duchesse de
Gerolstein, has become possessed of a real
title. She was lately married in the quiet
parish church of Vanves to the Comte de
Blonne, andis now spending her honey
moon in Italy.
The tow.boat George Washington, said
to be the Oldest one on the Hudson river,
has Just been examined and licensed for
another year. 1t was built in 1880, of live
oak and cedar. and has been subjected to
very few repairs.
r Europe is beginning to realize that the
New World does contain few things
worth investigating and perhaps initiating.
A correspondent writes from Paris Z" I see
American drinks advertised everywhere.
An Englishman greatly amused me the
other day by inquiring innocently what an
American gum-tickler was" A spirit Of
laudable research, truly.
Fifty.eight thousand pieces of stone, laid
in an ancient Roman pattern, form the mo-
sale pavement of the apse in the new
Church of st. Stephen, Lynn, Mass, and
the entire edifice, which was presented to
the parish by the Hon. E. r. Nudge,
and was consecrated recently, is de-
sigued and constructed in style that
makes it the peer, perhaps, of aay church
building in this country.
The Marquis of Lorne in little speech
made on the eve of his departure from
Canada said that his wife was now told by
her medical advisers that she could not re.
turn to Canada until next spring. He will
return about fortnight after New Years.
DIR. Erasmus Wilson, the eminent English
surgeon, is quoted as saying that the
Princess was seriously injured by her acct
dent last winter.
The Count de Bardi, nephew of the
Duchesse de Parme and of the Comte de
Chambord, has taken an odd fancy into
his head. He has made up his mind to
live at sea, and has built and fitted up the
most convenient of yachts. He means to
spend his winters in the Mediterranean and
his summers in the North. The Comtesse,
who suffers greatly from sea sickness, re-
fuses to share this wandering life, and in
tends to remain in Paris.
A cavern, similar in character to the
famous Luray caves of Virginia, has been
discovered between Marcellus and syria.
cuse, N. Y. 1t is situated in the limestone
formation 80 common in that part of the
State, and had its original opening in the
bank of the Nine Mile creek. A newspaper
reporter has explored it to depth of more
than 100 feet, and found it Astounding in
stalactites. stalagmites and other incrusta-
tions and petrifactions.
Impelled either by compunctions of con-
science, tardily awakened, against the
wretched business, or by disgust with in
vestments that yield only heavy assess
ments, the people of Douglasville, Pa,
who have dabbled in graveyard in
surance" resolved to wash their hands
of the disgraceful traffic. Accordingly,
they recently marched in solemn array,
led by dirge- breathing band, to the
public square and there committed their
policies to the destroying flames of a gigan.
tic funeral pyre.
Now that every available rock and tree
| and fence has been made to blossom as the
rose with advertisements of pills, plasters,
powders, and what not, new device
of the patent-medicine man has been
sprung upon the long-sufering public.
Silver coins are being stamped by the
thousand with these advertisements, in
deep black letters that cannot be effaced.
This stamping does not remove any of the
bullion, and therefore does not decrease
the value of the coin. But it reminds the
public, at sight of every "quarter," that
''this coin will buy one box of Puffs pills; :
while the half dollar announces itself as
the pecuniary equivalent of bottle Of
"quack's quick collie cure" The Govern.
ment will confer boon by declaring this
new notoriety dodge illegal.