Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-06-17
GOSSIP OF THE AIR.

Emerson admired George Eliot's genius
and praised her industry, but never read
her novels.
The coffin used used at Pleasant Ridge,
Ohio, funeral was painted red, white and
blue, and draped with Union flags.
! Mancero, the famous Mexican brigand,
was found with twenty.six bullets in his
carcass. He probably Numbered upon
/ some Kentucky gentleman travelling in
Mexico.
"a Lady Subscriber asks why Paris
papers are SO wicked. We do not know,
but an exchange informs us that there are
| 100 women journalists in Paris. Does that
help you any?
At last the law has recognized that man
has some rights which woman must re-
spect. An Indiana woman has been SEN
fenced to life imprisonment for the murder
of her husband.
The total number of persons lately
evicted by Lord Cloncurry was 400. His
grandfather was almost the last political
prisoner confined in the Tower of London
as an Irish patriot.
DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes is said to
have received IS line from the Boston
Globe for his poem on Garfield's death.
This is not intended to encourage the new
crop of spring poets.
DR.. Euston Buckner, of Greenville,
Miss, was a slave to opium. While I'M
der the influence of the drug he wandered
into neighbours house, and was killed in
the dark as a burglar.
Just before Carlyle married he read
Rants works in order to quiet his nerves.
After he was married he nearly talked his
poor wife to death, and to quiet her nerves
she used to scrub the floor.
In Cincinnati the saloons get around a
strict Sunday law by charging five cents
for pretzel and throwing in a glass of
beer. When man wants whisky he asks
for a pretzel with snakes in it.
The will of an old lady recorded in New
York bequeathed her gold spectacles to the
highest bidder for them in her family-a
singular instance of maternal affection
combined with an eye to profit.
A French millionaire, in order to encour.
age population, has left annual prizes of
81, 200, $500 and 5000 to the members of
the largest families in Paris, with prefer
ence to the poorest in case of equality.
An Alabama man let a locomotive run
over his hand for the purpose of suing the
railroad company for damages; but his
scheme failed through his inability to show
negligence on the part of the company.
As Wilkesbarre man took his seat in
the BARRIERS chair, he asked the barber if
he had the same razor he had used two
days before. Being answered affirmative.
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Mrs. Ruth B. Thompson, daughter of
John Brown, of "crab-apple tree fame, is
about to write the life of her historic pere,
her main object being to prove the purity
of her fathers character and the upright.
ness of his motives.
Darwin was held in high honor in Ger
many and Austria. One of the Vienna
journals, which publishes the news of his
death, apologzsd for speaking of politics
at all "on day when humanity has suf-
fered SO great loss.
According to the Bath (Me.) Times cat
in that town went to window which was
covered with steam, and not being able to
see out, wiped the steam from the glass
with its paws aud then gazed intently
through ''just like grown person.
Cincinnati has its first four. in-hand drag,
and describes it, of course, as the finest in
the world. Even the whip cost $50, the
harness once took prize at fair, and the
monogram of the owner theater man
ager-is most gorgeously multiplied.
A very valuable collection of autograph
MSS. and letters were sold at Leipzig on
June 18th. Among the manuscripts are
original compositions by Beethoven, Mo-
cart. Haydn. Schubert, Chopin, list,
Weber, aud Mendeissohn-Bar 5aoldy.
Some charitable Harvard students went
and sawed up the wood-pile of a poor
widow while she was awsy, and when she
returned she discovered that they had de-
stroyed lot OF timber she had bought to
build an to her cottogs. The college
student can't keep from being nuisance,
even in his benevolence.