Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-05-06
GENERAL NOTES.

Parson Newman, General Grants pastor
in Washington, as well as his great ad.
nirer, is said to have so far departed from
the Methodist faith as to desire to occupy
the Universalist pulpit in New York lately
filed by the Rev. L. H. Chaplin.
The new public building now going up
on the Government Square at Denver.
Col, is to be one Of the finest structures in
the West. One wing is designed for high
school, the other for a free public library.
There will also be lecture hall, with a
seating capacity of 1000.
DR.. James Alternately and John L. Aber.
nathy, although not related, were born on
the same day, married twin sisters on the
same day, and, alter living to be three
score and ten years of age, died recently,
at their homes in CASTOR, n c., Oh the
same day, but their residences were five
miles apart.
A Brooklyn man found dangerous
hand grenade in the vestibule of his house
the other day, which seems to have been
thrown IN there with the intention of
blowing up his house. As he does not
pretend to be a King or a Gar, and has
no enemies that he is aware of, the narrow
escape makes him somewhat nervous
A plea advanced by the late Prince
Pierre Bonaparte in palliation of his muir
der OF the journalist Victor Noir, was that
the latter, when he called upon him, put
his hat down on the furniture sur les
meubles instead of retaining it in his
hand, which the imperial assassin consid-
cred to be an insult requiring prompt
avenging.
Wife, given to literature and the drama,
to her husband George, what is the
meaning of the expression Go to- you
meet with so frequently in Shakespeare
and the old dramatists p Husband mot q
reading man): 81 don't know, I'm sure,
my dear, well-perhaps he was
going to say-but thought it wouldn't
sound proper D London Punch
We can all appreciate the feelings of
Sidney Smith in the following story
When he called ON a certain great
parsonage he was ushered into
room which had mirrors on all
sides. Wherever he looked he saw him
self reflected, and when he came away he
said he had spent an hour in the company
of about dozen of the best looking clergy
men of the Church of England.
Clarence King, who has just resigned the
Dictatorship of the Government Geological
Survey, as described by lady correspond
ent, is a rich travelled, handsome bach
elor, with a taste for fine arts,
genial, comrade-Gke manner, that
makes him favorite in an hour aud
remembered friend always. He
is ruddy, blonde, light-hearted, with indie
scribably winning ways, and his mother,
Mrs. Rowland, is one OF the sweetest
women that ever lived.
4 bell-hanger, interviewed by the De-
troit Pest and Tribune, says that ladies
seldom break bell-wires attached to door.
knobs. The breakers are postmen, store
boys, sewing -machine agents and canvass.
ers. Bells get to be in tone with
the people of the house. There
are sulky bells, musical bells, easy
ringing bells, and bells that seem to ring
all by themselves, causing superstitious
feelings about death, but which must be
rung by mice which try to gnaw the COM
position of the wires.
Notwithstanding the restrictions adopted
by the School Committee, there is still.
occasionally, corporal punishment in the
Boston schools, but it is not inflicted bv
the teachers. a vicious boy recently
kicked female teacher in one of the
schools at the Highlands. The kick would
have been attended with serious results
had it not been for the lady's watch, the
crystal of which was smashed by the op-
Grafton. The teacher sent for the boys
mother she came inquired into the cir
cumstances of the offense took the boy
by the. collar aud sent him spinning down
stairs. The teacher rushed forward, ex-
pecting to find that the young culprit had
been severely injured. The mother mo.
toned to her to stop. and said she was
going TO the bottom of the stairs to kick
ths boy out, he was of such an ugly tenn
per. The Transcript does not know
whether or not this mother was one of the
of corporal punishment in the
schools.