Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-10-22
GENERAL NOTES.

Iowa had thirteen lady candidates for
superintendents of schools at the late elec-
tion.
Edison is reported by the Rubber Era
to hold So 900, 600 worth of stocks in the
various companies formed to introduce his
incandescent light.
DR.. E L. Howard, who was drowned at
Baltimore few days ago, was a grandson
of Francis Barton Key, author of the
Star-Spangled Banner"
The Graphic publishes picture of King
Kalskaua's daughter. It is a very good
likeness, but it has since been ascertained
that the King has no daughter.-[ New
| Orleans Picayune.
The London HorM thinks that pretty
woman who smokes looks well, and pre-
diets that Worth will some day add to his
dresses dainty little tobacco pouch or ci-
garette pocket.
II is gravely announced in an English
newspaper that an Irish agent has been
sent TO America to lay in a stock OF Colo
RADIO beetles, which are to be secretly let
loose in the fields of fair England.
Grant Allen writes that it is pretty GER
Ldtn Il!t1 EGkWSSI wv GIl1 bHItC
years Of age seldom recognise even the
most Familiarity known persons. places or
objects after about six months interval.
The French Government have resolved
to grant subvention for erecting statue
in Franche Comte to Claude de Joaffroy as
the inventor of steam vessels. The French
Academic des Sciences, at its last sitting,
adopted report of NJ. de Lesseps in favor
of Jouffroy'S claim TO that distinction and
to public gratitude.
The latest fight of Talmage is that Gui-
teau is Mormon avenger. Says the SEN
sational divine Il suppose Guiteau's
crime originally started from revenge be-
cause he did not get Consulship; but 1
should not wonder it in the great day when
all secret things are revealed it shall be
found that he was the paid agent of that
old hsg of hell which sits making mouths
at high heaven between the Rocky mount
aims and the Sierra Nevadas'
J. Stanley Brown, in an interview, esti-
mates the estate of Garfield as follows
ssThe I.strees house, upon which there was
mortgage, now paid of, | believe the
| Mentor property a half interest in some
| Virginia land (the whole of which he and
! bUQEC 11AhCh OOOrN q ACt AO1iIlf per
haps, 81, 500; little real estate, Of small
value, in Chicago, aud some mining stock.
And then there is the life insurance
1t is said the private fortune of Queen
Victoria amounts to $50, 000 coo, and she
possesses an annual income of S. 250, 000
Before her birth her parents were so poor
that they had to borrow the money to pay
their passage to England, that the ex-
pected Princess might be born on British
soil, and she remained in comparative pow
erty until she ascended the throne.
Burned up to-day, chilled to the marrow
lto-morrow-this is the sort Of physical en-
vironment out of which it is expected will
come race of Americans who shall master
this imperial continent. Can men get
strong on alternate lunches Of cayenne and
ice? The dominant races of the world
have been the inhabitants of more equahle
climes, which made slight demands ON the
nervous system. .-ISt. Louis Globe.
The telephone ambition Of the opera at
the Paris Electrical Exhibition is very pop
ular. No less than l,500 people are adj
mitted by relays of twenty four, during
two minutes at q time, to enjoy it every
opera night. It was contemplated to trans
nit the performances from the Theatre
Francois on the came principle. but it has
not been successful. The receipts Of the
Exhibition exceed $40 COO daily.
W. A. Skidmore, agent Of the Miners
Association w. J. Lewis, civil engineer,
and P. NJ Randall, hydraulic eneiceer,
who are making tour of the gold-produc-
ing section tributary to the American
river, have made this city their headquar-
tera for explorations the past few days.
Their object is to ascertain the gold pro-
duct of the section mentioned, and Incl.
dentally measure the volume and velocity
of the streams emptying into the Ameri-
can river. Their Investigations are in the
nature OF a general reconnaissance to ascer-
tain facts bearing upon the debris litiea-
tion.-lEl Dorado Republican, Oct. 18Th.