Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-09-14
PERSONAL.

The new Premier of Nova Scotia is 26
years old.
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher will lecture
In London next season.
The late Senator Ben Hill was of Irish
descent on his fathers side.
Archibald Forbes, the famous CORE.
spondent, is lecturing to crowded audiences
in Australia.
The present ambition of the Ford broth
err, who killed Jesse James, is to become
actors and star +" through the country.
Christine Nilsson will he accompanied on
her American tour by an Iowa girl, Mics
Hope Glenn. 1t is reported that she has
fine contralto voice.
The Prince of Wales desired to accom-
pany the British army now in Egypt, but
in Difference to the wishes of the Queen
abandoned the project.
Somebody describes the Senators wait
ing idly for the moment OF final adj
iournment the other day david Da-
Wis inscribing his name in some auto.
graph albums, taking care. as he
always does, to write his name clo,e
against the top of the pages, SO that no
unprincipled adventurer can ever write
check or patent medicine recommendation
above it. +"
Once, when President Arthur's father
presided over Baptist church at West
Troy, his choir drawled out the hymn with
variations, which did not please him, 30 he
took his text and preached two hours and
forty minutes. His head deacon grew i'm.
patient and consulted his watch. keep
your watch IN your pocket, Deacon JONES'"
said he. You had long sing, and now
| am goin to preach till l get through"
F. B. Sanborn says that when the
mother OF Thoreau was about 20 years of
age she paid visit to her friend Miss
Emerson, aged 81, wearing bright-colored
bonnet ribbons. During the call, in which
Henry Thoreau was the subject of CONVEX.
sation, Miss Emerson kept her eyes shut.
As Mrs. Thoreau and her daughter rose to
go, the little old lady said ; Perhaps you
noticed, Mrs. Thereau, that l closed my
eyes during your call. did SO because l
did not want to look upon the ribbons you
are wearing, go unsuitable for child OF
God and person of your years"
Cetewayo is famous trencherman. His
| chief diet Is roast beef, of which he con.
sumes several pounds daily. 1t is said that
on the voyage between Cape Town and
Madeira he and his chiefs managed to dis
pose of eight hundred pounds of solid meat.
He is not averse to other kinds of food,
though he despises all condiments, even
mustard and salt. He objects to the bar.
barism Of taking different kinds of food on
the same plate, and has vegetables served
separately. He commences breakfast with
pOrridge, which during the voyage he was
wont occasionally to wash down with whis-
ky.
On large rancho in Nevada lives one
Widow Loveless. Less than the medium
| hight of her sex, but muscular as man,
she carries on the business of hay and cat.
tie raising She dresses in mans attire,
and there is nothing to denote her sex save
her auburn hair, which hangs in wavy ring.
lets over her shoulders. She rides and uses
the lasso as skillfully as a vaquero, and lives
alone since her husband, loveless scape.
grace, left her bed and board year and
half ago, taking several of her best horses.
She has no false delicacy about her attire,
but gives as reason for wearing the
breeches that she has to do mans work
and finds it more convenient to dress like
one than to wear the usual garb of her sex.
She objects to paying poll taA, though the
assessor insists that she must do it il she
! continues to dress like man.