Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-09-25
GENERAL NOTES

The theaters are apening and before long
the watering place bellies, who have been
running around beaches barelegged in the
presence of thousands, will be sitting in
the parquet and blushing because ballet
girls make similar displayin the presence
of hundreds.
The Chief Justice of one of the West
India islands, of good name and family.
highly connected at home, and well known
in London society, has Just married his
black cook. The alliance has caused much
surprise in the colony, and SOME admira.
ton among the Judges friends, who vaunt
his courage.
Somebody shook a log. cabin bed, Quilt
at Oscar Wilde when he was in this coun-
try, and it knocked him so crazy for two
days that man had to lead him around
town by BEDFORD to keep him from but
ting his head against lump of oatmeal
mush and scattering his brains all over the
Union. bill Nye.
Hearts grow by exercise Just as arms
and muscles do. The boy who is doing
kind acts forty times day to dependent
creatures about him is growing not only
happier but better. "Of about seven
| sASeSAN carefully Taught nd
ness to animals in one English school not
one has ever been charged with a criminal
offense in any Court"
A policeman in Utica, n. Y. escorted
from the railroad station to the hotel an
old gentleman and his wife and daughter
de was astonished to learn that the man
was l05 years of age, the wife lO4 and the
daughter SO. They had returned from
Texas to their native place where they in
tended to remain for the rest of their lives
which, from appearances, babe fair to be
several years longer.
w. s. Gilbert, the composer of "Pins.
tore, was overwhelmingly blackballed
when recently proposed as a member of tbs
Royal Yacht Club, though his sponsors
were the Duke of Edinburgh and the Mar.
quis of Londonderry. The members could
not forgive his cruel satire of the First
Lord of the Admiralty, or were, perhaps,
fearful he might give the world an operate
picture of the Royal Yacht Club.
Five years ago WiIhelmina Rousseau ar.
rived IN this country from the little Bel.
glan town OF Roubais. A bright face, a
pair OF crutches and blasphemous parrot
constituted the sole capital with which she
began business IN a strange land. She is
about returning to her parents and her old
home with $40, 900 which the mute appeals
OF her winning countenance have extract.
ed from the pockets of the benevolent peo
pie OF New York and Philadelphia.
Ever after l introduced the teaching
OF kindness to animals into my school, "
Gays NJ. De Sally, an eminent French
school master, g found the children not
only more kind to animals. but also more
kind to each other" al am sure children
cannot be taught humanity to animals
without at the same time being taught
higher humanity" says the Superin-
tendent of the Boston public schools.
The great need of our country said
hiram Powers, sis more education of
the heart"
AT the funeral of Mrs. George C. Leidy
in Philadelphia on last Friday, the coffin
was borne by the six adult sons of the dead
woman. The youngest of the cons is %
and the eldest SO years old. Mrs. Lsidy's
age was 90 years. The undertaken said he
had been in business forty.two years and
TINS Was the first time in his experience
that he had witnessed or known OF euch an
occurrence. The spectacle of the six
brothers bearing the body Of their mother
to the grave profoundly touched those who
witnessed it.
France Is still unrivaled in two things.
ootn highly essential to the perfection OF
toilet. One is the trimming of bonnet,
the other the draping of a mantle or of a
SKIRT. Recalling the well-known recipe for
perfect salad, which requires q miser to
dole out the vinegar, spendthrift to pour
IN the oil, and mailman to stir in the
whole, one might say that to secure perfec.
ton IN costume it should be cut by an
English tailor, draped by Frenchman,
colored by an Italian, and the details sup.
piled by Spanish woman.
A Nashville woman attacked a Young
man IN the street, and hacked him with a
butcher knife until he ran. A local paper
says she conducted herself like perfect
lady throughout the whole affair" This
must be great consolation to the Young
man whom she attacked. II she had con.
Quoted herself in an unladyIike manner,
while carving him, he would have died Of
modification. When woman, armed with
butcher knife, gets after Young man on
the street, she should remember to conduct
herself like perfect lady.
The memorial to the late Lord Beacous.
field IN Hughenden Church has been COM
pleted. 1t consists of a window in the
western side of the church, an organ and
some decorations in the chancel. In add.
ton numerous other tributes to the dead
statesman's memory have been placed
there, prominent among which are: the
monument presented by the Queen; the
east window, by Lord Rowton, Sir Ma.
thaniel de Rothschild and Sir Philip Rose ;
the south window and brass, by the under.
graduates at Oxford two bells, completing
the peal, by Robert Warner, and pair Of
brass candeiabra, by two members Of Lord
Peaconstield's household.