Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-08-13
GENERAL NOTES.

Queen Victoria has been presented by
the Ashantees with golden ak, as COM
| panion piece to King kotfee umbrella sent
to her at the close of the last Ashantee
| war.
Canadians are commenting upon the fact
that the late dispatch sent by the Princess
Louise to the Marquis OF Lorne was signed
Princess Lonise instead of g Louise"
according to her former custom.
People dread lightning much more than
shey do intensely hot weather, yet in ne
United States, on Saturday and on Sun.
dsSs .pore people were fatally affected by
sunrtroke than have been killed in this
courSry In tive years by lightning.
The Norristown H,rdR rays: "The
noble ssd men who sell Indian curiosities
at Niagara Falls may he seen every day
perusiug 5he news from Ireland in the daily
papers. Although far from home they feel
deep interest in their distracted and CO..
creed county,"
The Duke of Cambridss's complacent
view of the lyldershot fatalities did not
meet with thcsQueen's appreciation, aud |
have reason to believe that ker Maiesty,
besides sharply rensuring her coasin, has
expressed her ssrong disappreqal of the
cruel and irratio.sal arrangements a. the
late field day london Truth.
Young Lady-eAnd you really mean to
say that at times sou do not have' enough
20 eat. Why, always thought that poor
people in the countr2 could get eggs, bacon,
milk and vegetables 6r nothing" Country
Woman" Only three things as we gifts
fur muffin, Miss-a;s, water, and' the
paarson's advice. - endon Fun.
A writer in London life says: ~ anw a
me as at once pretty ana sensible. Reand
the neck it had little cork apparatus, not
unlike a small bolster, eleverly concealed
in one Of the rufis so much worn, and quite
sufficient to keep the head out of water in
case an inexperienced swimmer should lose
her balance"
The presence OF one.twentieth of ! per
cent. of lead or certain other metals In
standard gold will render bar an inch
thick so brittle that it may readily bs
broken by a slight rap with hammer. Less
than one. half of per cent. of iron in
metallic copper will reduce the electrical
oonduetivisy by about 80 per cent, while
q far smaller quantity will render it quite
unfit for manufacture into telegraph cables
or other electrical purposes.
A learned Arabian scholar, Count Re-
chaid Dahdad, writes to the Paris Figar9~
that 90 Bou means father and Amena
is simply the name of favorite daughter
Amena was the name of Mohammed's
mother It is very usual among Arabs for
a chieftain to style himself the father of
son. Bou Amena, the insurgent Arab
chief, takes pride in announcing himself to
the world as the father of his daughter.
In France the culture of corn is pr;nci-
pally in, drills for fodder, and in limited
areas. In northern Italy the fields of corn
are very extensive, and stretch for miles
alongside the railway from Padua to Milan.
of acres of tall corn between
the rows of mulberry trees give the land
scape an appearance pleasing to Westeris
man. The absence of hedges or fences
making the fields of adjacent farms appear
continuons, adds to the illusion.
As beaded bonnet crowns are now very
and the handsomest of them
are rather expensive, many ladies who have
time prefer working their own. Tulle or
silk net ia used for the foundation. The
design to be used must first be traced on
transparent paper or linen, and the net
tackled over it, the pattern being worked
in fine cut beads of either jet, gold, amber,
emerald green, or in the delicate shades Of
heliotrope, china blue, or wholly OF pearl
and crystal beads.
A correspondent of London paper
warns people against throwing broken
bottles among sun-dried grass or heath at
this time of the year, as the bottoms OF
such bottles frequently act as burning
glasses. The Australians know that extern
sive and damaging bush fires have taken
place in Australia in consequence of broken
bottles having been carelessly thrown down.
among the dried scrub. &c. too, camp fires
at Aldershot and bush fires on English
commons may have their origin in parts of
broken bottles acting as burning glasses.