Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-12-27
NEWSPAPER eLEAN1Nas.

The editor OF the Mexia Ledger is color.
blind. He thinks his paper is read. when
everybody else knows it is not Texas
Sftings.
The Rev. Henry James Coleridge, brother
of the Lord Chief Justice, will succeed
Father Gallwey as tie head of the Jesuit
Oder in England
In New York there are about 500 vendors
of sawdust, having capital of S200. coo
invested, and doing business amounting
to $500, 900 annually.
A farm of 200 acres at Bemis Heights.
the scene Of the battle of Saratoga, which
assured the independence of America, was
sold recently for $4,000.
This safe is empty-call at the house, :"
was the card which burglars found on the
safe in Green Bay office. They called at
the house and robbed it of 5000, and the
smart Office clerk hasn't got the big-head
any more.-[Free Press.
The London Times says that sit will
take six months to remove the timber
blown down by the late hurricane on the
estates of the Duke Of Northumberland.
It is very evident that the Times liar is
heading for the first prize this season.
Scene in one of our metropolitan churches
last Sunday morning Clergy man (who has
a slight hesitation of manner and yoice)
beginning the prayer Oh Lord, we've
come to Thee in our too-too utter help.
lesaness. etc" The audience catch on
Boston Post.
A Boston man at theater asked a
Gainesborough hat with girl in it whether
/ ho - J. u,
tary view of the stage. The girl replied
lantly offered to contribute half dollar
toward new one.
Ex.Speaker Randall is az active on the
floor of the House as he was courageous in
the chair. AT the same time he will lose
none of his popularity if he has few con.
tests with the Chair. and if he does not too
openly show to the House that he was once
in the chair himself.
This is the Man who had Notice in the
Paper. How Proud he is. He is Step
ping Higher than Blind Horse. If he
had Wings he would Fly. Next week the
Paper will gay the Man is Measly Old
| Fraud, and the Man will not Step SO High
I-[Denyer Tribune Primer.
Said Mrs. Smith, who had come to spend
the day, to little Edith: tAra you glad
to see me again, Edith" Edith" Yes,
MN, and mammals glad, too - Mrs.
Smith Is she?" Edith Yes, MN
she said she hoped you'd cSne to-day. and
have it over with. u Detroit Free Press.
Dutch fishermen kill their fish as soon as
they take them from the water, preventing
them from dying slowly and having their
tissues softened. The superiority of Tie i
flavor of the fish killed by Dutchmen when
compared with those which die slowly in
French markets is, says M. Baule, very
great.
A boat, eighteen feet long and five feet
wide, is in course of construction in Paris
ship-yard. the popularity of which is, that
it is to be propelled entirely by electric
motive power. It's proprietor intends, as
soon as it is completed, to essay trial trip
across the British Channel, from Boulogne
to Folkestone.
The new car shop of the Union Pacific
| Railroad, at Omaha, Neb., will, when COM
pleted, be the largest building in that city,
and one OF the largest car shops in America
1t rests upon piles, and its main floor is,
! strange to say, six inches below the high.
water mark of last spring; but the builders
| hope the river will never rise SO high again.
What is that which has three feet but no
legs, is all body but no limbs, has no toes
on the feet, no head, moves great deal
but never uses it's feet for that purpose, has
one foot at each end aud one in the center
of its body? It never walks out. but goes
with one foot where the head might 70,
dragging the other foot behind it. An
swer-A yardstick. Detroit Free Press.
The Philadelphia Nears says a pound of
feathers is as heavy as a pound of lead.
That depends. Ii pound of feathers were
to fall from third-story window and alght |
upon mans head, and five minutes after
ward pound of lead were to fall the same
distance from above and strike BIN on the
same spot, he would be willing to swear
that the lead weighed ton more than the |
feathers. II Norristown Herald.
In recent English work on 'tGreat
Movements and Those Who Achieved
Them, detailing facts connected with the
Introduction of gas, the use of telegraphs,
the reform Of prison and sanitary customs,
and SO forth, the writer undertakes to show
that the House of Lords has frequently
been in strong opposition, the will of the
ion being emphatically declared long
before the Lords gave their slow sanction.
How lightly said, how careless spoken,
When friends depart with joy unbrokeD
And hand meets hand with this last token
Good night good night
How slowly said, with sweet delaying
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