Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-05-28
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A BATCH OF ITEMS.

1t is cold spring when frog lamps
into well.
President Arthur has a'son l6 years
old who is over six feet tall.
The corkscrew finds the longest way
round the safest way through the cork
"There was miller his name was Sam,
Who owned mill by the site Of thedan.
The waters rose one stormy night,
Then Sam had no mill by dam site
It's good thing for Philadelphis that
the census was taken before election. All
the repeaters in that city are being sent to
Jail.
Even the most gifted people have their
faults Mrs. Francis Hodgson Burnett
reads original poems before literary So
cieties.
Perhaps this won't be such pleasant
summer after ALL Sena tor Hill mas dis
tributed $4,000 copies of his Malone
speech.
President Garfield calls people by their
baptismal names as soon as he iinds out
what they are. He likes "Tom and
s'Bill."
Large wreaths of shaded rcsss, carna-
tions, peach blossoms, clusters OF fruit and
cascades of lace adorn spring bonnets and
round hats.
The large g Ro de Rome" collars will
be worn the coming season. They are
made of white batiste and edged with
Iuffies of lace.
A beautiful evening dress represents
pansy the foundation is of purple yell
low silk apron and black medallions COM
plete the costume.
The amount of capital invested in the
iron and steel industries of the United
States in 1850 was $3.50, 97l, SS4, against
Sl2l, 10, 074 in 1870.
Professor Yes, procrastination is the
thief of time but for the last year or so
Maud S. and st. Julien have divided the
honors with Procrastination.
Discomfort seems to be general and pro-
found in Canada, and most of it arises FROM
a feeling of Government oppression. ''We
are governed too much, is phrase of
common use now by Canadian newspapers
and speakers.
Wendell Phillips and W. J. Bowditch
are the executors of the will of the late
Mrs. Theodore Parker. 1t gives to Boston
some of Mr.. Parker's valuable books, and
the bust of him made in Rome shortly be-
fore his death.
In the past sixteen years the British
Indian budget has shown q deficit sixteen
times, and the sum total of the deficits in
the past four financial years reached over
$780, 600, coo. Military expenditures have
absorbed 40 per cent. of the revenue.
The death rate of New Zealand for the
past eleven years has been only I2.l3 per
1000. Daring the last six years the popu.
latioa has increased 80 per cent. The
death rate of Victoria last year was 1918
per LEGO. There is high mortality
among infants.
Letter paper Of a different color for every
day in the week is now in vogue in the
fashionable society of Paris. For Monday
pale green is the proper thing for Tuesday
red, Wednesday demands dark gray, Thurs
day blue, Friday white, Saturday straw
color and Sunday delicate mauys.
The Aldermen of Toronto are audacious
in their knavery. They have appropriated
S23, coo out of the city treasury for the
purpose of providing specimen blocks
Of pavement, and the sites designated for
this paving are all in front Of property
owned by Aldermen or other Ring officials.
Her neighbors are delighted that Con-
gress has granted a pension to Mrs. Up
right OF Butler county, Iowa,.th mother
of eleven soldiers in the war for the Union.
She is old and feeble, her husband is sick,
and her farm, which did not meet ex-
penses, has passed into the hands Of mort.
gage holders.
The Rev. Dr.. James Freeman Clarke, of
Boston, says +" l discredit the extraya-.
CANT statements which give intemperance
as the root of all crime in this country.
and maintain that there is steady growth
of temperate habits among the people as
compared with the customs of few gen
erasions ago"
The Princess Dolgorouki, besides in.
Vulnerable jewels and other souvenirs, has
received from the late Gar . larscy of
about SO, 000, ,00o, which at her death
will go to her children. Most of the money
came from the gold mines of the Oural and
of Siberia, which belong to the reigninp
Gar of Russia.
A Hebrew citizen OF Indianapolis. Ind,
sent an elaborate basket of flowers 20 the
Second Presbyterian Church in that city.
bearing card declaring that it was ia
token OF respect for the liberal sentiment
that characterized the discourse delivered
by the Rev. William y. Bartlett upon the
Jewish question on previous day. -
The charlie Ross inc lstry, which has
been languishing for year or so, is look
ing up. Charlie was discovered twice last
month, once in Loughton, near London,
Eng, and once in Detroit, Mich. In the
latter case he could talk French only The
finder IL the former case, although he
claims to have recently been in this coun-
try and to know several persons in Phila-
delphia, says that he thought until lately
that Charlie was restored to his parents
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