Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-10-15
GENERAL NOTES.

Thirty thousand shop girls are trying to
i've in Boston.
Chicago paid Sl42, $50 for the improve
ment of its streets the past year.
India has population of go, 63l, 2l0,
nearly 100000 more than she had in
1871.
Ten of the men confined in Moyamensing
prison, Philadelphia, are awaiting trial for
murder.
In the past year 1861 hogs, llS,47O
cattle and go, $50 sheep were slaughtered
in Cincinnati.
Dropsy of the heart has carried off Mrs
Jacob Powers, Barnum's fat woman. She
weighed 600 pounds.
Another Catholic colony is to start from
Boston next spring to JOIN that which went
thence to Cedar Valley, Nebraska, year
ago.
The eighth annual meeting of the
Womans National Christian Temperance
Union will be held at Washington, D. c.,
on October 18th, 26th, 9th and 2Sth.
It is presumed that Macbeth was about
to boil lobster when he remarked that
certain act of his ''would the multitudin-
tous sea incarnadine and make the green
one red"
Twenty-six out of fifty-four young men
failed in English and twenty. three out of
fifty -four failed in mathematics at the re-
cent examination for cadetships at the
Annapolis naval academy.
Oculists will be interested in the Cincin-
natl Gazette's statement that the eyes of
Lillian Cleeves, actress, are like woodland
shaded pools. 1t is presumed that that
kind lays over the Paris and the mutual
variety.
Mr.. Kimball is still putting his shoulder
under the burden of church debts and lift.
ing them out of sight. He laid violent
hands on the S33, 900 incumbrance on the
Maverick, East Boston, church, recently,
and raised S20 500 in an afternoon and
evening "talk."
It is calculated that the world contains
! ,455, 923, 900 inhabitants, or 1918, 600
more than it did twenty-five years ago,
divided as follows S34, 707. 900 in Asia,
3l5, 929. coo in Europe, 205. 679 600 in
Africa, 81, 405 900 in America, 4. III 600 in
Australia, and 49, 600 in the polar regions.
They are trying TO substitute 'soluble
chocolate and sugar" for grog in the British
navy, notion which will not favorably
impress those who take too literally DIR.
Johnson's dictum that brandy is the proper
drink for heroes, aud who believe that
naval victories cannot be won by sailors
who stick to thin rotations.
General J. B. Gordon, OF Georgia, has
become wealthy since he left the United
States Senate. His good fortune came
through the sale of coal lands in Alabama,
for which he and his two brothers and
Governor Colquitt received $1,000, 600,
together with 81 GOO, GOO in stock of the
Richmond and Danville Extension Com
psny.
Colonel A. F. Rockwell was, some twen-
ty years ago, student in the Office of DR..
D. f. Bishop, of Lockport, n. Y, and while
there those VINO knew Nm best remarked
net only his commendable and studious re-
serve, but ability and intelligence in all d.
reetions Subsequently he graduated at
Williams College in General Garfeld's class.
individuals may wear for time the
glory of our institutions, but they carry it
not to the grave with them. Like rain
drops from Heaven, they may pass through
the circle of the. shining bow and add to
its luster, but when they have sunk in the
earth again, the proud arch still spans the
sky and shines gloriously on. flames A.
Garfield.
The chair which the Liberals at Green
wich have presented to Mr.. Gladstone is
carved out of brown oak, and has moroc-
co covering edged with blue and silvered
nails. a plaque of silver bears a compli.
mentary inscription the chair runs on sill.
yer castors, and accompanying it is foot
stool of the same materials and style of
| workmanship.
Old Lady Ito grandson" Alb, Johnnie,
there's three things I'd ike We to remem-
Der. First, never climb up trees after ap-
pies, because if We wait long enough they
| will come down to ye. Second, never run
after young women, because if We wait
long enough they will run after ye Third,
never -ah, well, Johnnie. I'll tell ye that
20 morrow-TLondon Judy.