Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-07-30
GENERAL NOTES.

GENERAL NOTES.
"The Gun as an Argument, F." is Phila-
delphia headline. We may now look for
some exploded theories. = louisville
Courier Journal.
| Nobody ever yet knew newspaper man
to get ready to go fishing until two
weeks after the last old sucker had pegged
out for deep water,
A Chicago editor gave his daughter
5000, 600 check on her wedding day. 1t
afterward made an excellent lamphghter.
L Elmira Advertiser.
The new version of the Bible will not
meet very large sale among those who
Boston Transcript.
The motto of NJ Drouyn de Lhuys, the
late French statesman and philanthropist,
was, Z" To ameGorate man by agriculture,
and agriculture by man"
Little Tom Ma, give me some bwead
and but" Officer ION the alert" Don't
say butter There's law agin calling that
stuff anything but oilymargarine. II Puck.
An old angler says that fish does not
suffer much pain from being hooked. OF
course not. 1t is the thought OF how his
| weight will be lied about which causes him
anguish.
How could you think of calling auntie
stupid? Go to her Immediately and tell
her you are sorry" Freddy goes to auntie
and says, Auntie, l am sorry you are so
stupid
An attempt is being made to introduce
English pheasants among the Rocky
Mountains, and Lord Morley has lately
dispatched a number of fine healthy birds
to a friend who is settled in that quarter.
" The Germans are frugal people,
says an American writer, after visiting the
Berlin opera house. "As soon as the
opera was over, the man in front took wads
of cotton from his pocket and stopped up
his ears TO save the music he had paid for.
A gentleman under the influence of a
spring evening" moonshine and other ro-
mantle surroundings, was led to ask a
pretty but somewhat strongminded young
lady to row in the same boat with him
for Efe son one condition" she an
swered promptly, and that isl steer
Young man, in the bright Revised Yer.
sion of whose youth there is no such thing
as first commandment with promise
| g Mamma, do you know I'm real glad
you're my mother" Mother, equally sur
prised and touched Why, my dear SOM"
Young man Because you can't ever be
my mother-in-law I"
In 1850 Louis Napoleon wrote on the al
bum of fair Parisienne March at the
head of the ideas of your age, they follow
and support you /; march behind them and
they drag you ON march against them and
they overthrow YOU" Beneath thess words
Girardin wrote Truthful words
| Greatness for him who remembers them
evil to him that forgets p
From Henri Buguet's Handbook for
Masters and Servants :" So many ser
wants, so many enemies" 1.-THE best
| farm hand is the OK" 81 have one servant
who is as useless as if | had twenty of
| him. y 'Good masters make good servants;
one is never SO well served as when one
serves ones SELF" "That man." said
servant of his master, is so cold and re-
served that I would never learn anything
about his private affairs if didn't open his
| letters"
There is no work done in the world
| which expends vitality SO fast as writing
for the public 1t is a work which is never
| done. 1t accompanies a man upon his
| walks, goes with him to the theater. gets
into bed with him, and possesses him in
his dreams. If he stoops to kiss the baby,
before he reaches the requisite angle a
point occurs to him, and he hangs in mid
air, with vacant face and mind distraught.
sWhat's the matter % says Mrs. Emer-
son, in the middle of the night, hearing
her husband cropping about the room.
Nothing, my dear = only an idea !"
| flames Parton.
In drawing-room they are talking over
a gentleman who is assent What, he p
says one of the company, "didn't you
know there was terrible scandal about
him only couple of years ago." Every
body-"No no What was it p Lady
swell, you see, I've forgotten all the par
ticulars, but know it was at Monaco the
summer before last, and he was caught
cheating at cards, or caught somebody
cheating him at cards, and he was kicked
out, or the other man was-I have such a
| poor memory for circumstances-but |
| know it made terrible scandal, and he
| was the very man p
DIR. Uellner, one of the trainers of the
present system of German education, says; :
ssWe have no hesitation in Germany IN
saying that it is quite impossible for men
to teach the modern languages or the
stories of history with anything like the
success which women have. In the lam
guages they do the work SO beautifully,
they hit upon the accent so precisely, and
have such faculty for imparting it to
scholars, that it is great misfortune that
our customs forbid the employment of
lady teachers for our boys as well as girls.
They show the same aptitude for impart-
| ing their knowledge in the middle history
classes. They cannot be equaled in that
delicate manner and feeling and beauty
with which they tell the stories of his
tory"
| The picture of "Christ in the Preto-
rum, Just completed by Munkaczy, is in
] teresting all the art-lovers in Paris. The
head of the Saviour is intensely beautiful
and melancholy, and the general concep-
ton is one of the loftiest expressions of
ideal beauty. That Munkaczy has not at
tempted to paint what is called a divine
| figure has given rise to discussion.
should never have ventured to paint a
divine figure" he says, 'for what is
divine cannot be painted if it could it
would cease to be divine. | wished to
paint God who has assumed human form
and who could only assume it in its most
perfect aspect" This is the best reply to
those who reproach Munkaczy with having
/ tried to modernize the physiognomy of
| Christ.
HAMMERS Cascara Sagrada Bitters is an