Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-29
rnr WEEKLY UEIoH
ODDS AND ENDS,


The Parisians have named their new
color g flubtered frog"
The way for bad boy to go on bender
is over his mothers knee.
Professor Baird will pay handsome
sum for good specimens OF catfish kittens.
Fine sleighiDg," remarked the young
man who paid $40 and costs for fast driv-
ing.
If you are troubled with sleeplessness
imagine you have got to get up, and of
you go.
AIMEE is said to be very fond of money:
She is not the only operate artistic gifted
with that desire.
81 am just throwing out feeler, re-
marked the saloon keeper as he put the
blind man into the street.
The minister who divides his discourses
into too many heads will find it difficult TO
procure attentive ears for all OF them.
Let young man once get on the trail of
a Young lady in a crowded ballroom and
he viii ind her very soon and find her
mad.
Somebody says that a fashionable Boston
banquet consists of two beans stuck on
hair pin, readings by Emerson and talks by
Acct.
General Grant is showing so many signs
of wit and brightness that we shouldn't be
surprised if he could get a place on some
well conducted paper.
The exquisite monument OF ancient Irish
art, the Tara brooch, more delicate than
the finest Etruscan work, was sold by the
finder to Drogheda goldsmith for 81 %.
It is announced in Paris that NJ. Theirs
correspondence with several of the crowned
heads of Europe is, for the present, with
held from publication at the request OF the
monarch of a neighboring State,
There are some very economical girls in
New Jersey. For social entertainment
the other evening young lady chose to be
shepherdess, because she said she could
afterw ard use the crook for cistern pole.
The National Academy Of New York has
two members who are octogenarians, AIr.
Prudhomme, the eminent engraver, who
resides al Georgetown, D. c., and A. B.
Durand, who lives at South Orange, n. J.
The latter gentleman Is IN his S5th year.
Lieutenant Commander Gorringe says
the obelisk will endure IN our climate for
S,640 years. That is satisfactory. Let
the old thing be put up. Before the expi-
ration of that time the inventive genius of
America will be equal to the task of manu-
featuring its own Egyptian obelisks.
A noted sharper, wishing to ingratiate
himself with a clergyman. said; 6 Par
son, should ike to hear you preach more
than | can tell you 4" Well, responded
the clergyman, ''if You had been where
you ought to have been last Sunday you
would have heard me. Where was
THAR" Is In the county Jail.
There are mean men in this world. A
while ago I" living skeleton in circus
the thinnest one ever known, he was-got
religion, and society educated him for the
ministry and sent HIM as missionary to
the Cannibal Islands. Imagine the disgust
of the Cannibals. Il Boston Post.
He stood with his back against the front
door of tbs street car. Everyone else had
seat, and he anxiOusly watched each face
for symptoms of getting out for over three
miles. 1t grew wearisome, and ne finally
shifted his weight from ore foot TO the
other, and exclaimed. ''By me soul have
none o. yees any homes to go to? I"
At a Canadian hotel lately terrible
screaming was heard to proceed from the
bathroom. A servant burst open the
6oor, and soon found that Sara Bernhardt
had pulled out the plug from the waste
water pipe, and had slipped in. With a
presence of mind known only in northern
countries, the man got button-hook and
pulled her out again, much to the JOY Of
her many ardent admirers
George W. Smalley is of the opinion
that Llewes' influence over George Eliot
was detrimental. Being a bookworm of
prodigious proportions and conceit, Lewes
cramped her powers and perverted her
genius by fostering her taste for profound
erudition. Smalley thinks he ought not
to have overburdened her with library
learning She wonld have been a far bet
ter novelist if her genius had been per.
mitted to follow It's natural bent.
A Boston correspondent of New
II .mpshire paper writes Do you in the
Granite State love to sheer at Boston
c1lture 2 Then your heart viii glow
when l tell you about sn irreverent New
Yorker condemned by business obligations
to spend Christmas week here. Thinking
to amuse himself by seeing the city. he
stepped on Beacon. street car and said to
the conductor Does this car pass the
new Art As-se-um? No, was the re-
ply, but it passes the new Art Muse
nm
1t costs but $40 now TO obtain complete
edition Of John Ruskins writings, cheap
ness which is in part owing to the authors
contempt for percentage of the profits of
the sale of his writings in this country.
John Wiley pressed this percentage upon
him years ago, but Mr.. Ruskin hated the
Americans so vigorously that he would not
let them approach him even when bearing
the gift of copyright. Had he accepted
it he would have been richer by many
thousand dollars.