Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-10-16
GENERAL NOTES.

"Give America the Partisan Sunday
from sea to sea, says Joseph Cook. +" and
In 200 years feather heads aud roughs
would be in the ascendency."
An agitation against shrili railway
whistling is on foot in England. 1t is
stated on good authority that notes of low
pitch would be quite as effective as the
shrill, ear.piercing shrieks now used.
In gentlemen's fashions trousers ara NOT
cut as tight as they were, the waistcoat is
longer, and the cutsway coat not so "pro.
nounced." All of which is yery respect.
fully submitted by the fashionable tailor.
Half q ton of silver three.cent pieces,
winch originated under Buchanan's admin
lstration, started Saturday from Boston for
the Philadelphia Mint, where they will be
remodeled and take any shape but that.
Mr. Burne Jones visited Cetewayo, and
IL rs maliciously suggested that he did 30
with view to painting third version of
his Tree of Forgiveness, with the sable
chieftain as Phyllis and MIR. Gladstone as
the hesitating Demophoon.
a young man in a train making fun of
young lady's hat to an elderly gentleman
IN the seat with him: yes" said his
seat mate, that's my wife, and 1 told her
she wore that bonnet some fool would
make fun of it. "-[Hawkeye.
l met lovely woman from Rome, Ca,
yesterday, and she said: "Tve been at
summer resorts for a month, and all /
want now Is to be in my back porch at
nome In loose wrapper and my face
buried in Georgia watermelon. u Atlanta
Constitution.
An angry cook at Newport, the other
day, is said to have served SOUP of mu-
cilage, OF which the entire family partook
IN blissful ignorance of its composition.
This is seaside romance that ought to
stick.-[N New 1or Nail.
At the marriage of colored couple at
brunswick, Ca, the other day, the bride
was asked "to love, honor, obey, etc., the
man whom she held by the right hand
She quickly replied II will just as long
as he treats me right, and den after dat I'll
quit him"
An old lady in Maine who cried at her
wedding because she was going to live on
the banks of the Kennebeck river, where
her children would fall in and be drowned,
has lived there fifty years now and never
had child. But she has not yet returned
the trouble she borrowed.
A st. Louis young woman has lived three
months without tasting solid food, and still
has no desire forit, subsisting entirely upon
water with an occasional cup of coffee She
is described as quite thin in flesh, but not
so emaciated as might be supposed. The
doctors are unable to account for her case.
Edward King writes from Paris to the
Boston Journal The school books are filled
with hate of the German. The songs of
the people-and we know that they are
more powerful than the laws-are filled
with hate of the German. Toe drama
would express tremendous hate if it were
not impolitic to do SO.
A wealthy bachelor of Oregon, whose
death lately occurred in the East while on
a visit, has given the most valua ussSm
in the cove to school for yoynn 80.
The buildings for thescbeS viii bs e ,@ci
soon. The farm contains "a 600 nrnne anJ
plum trees, and the 5roceeds from the saIa
Of fiat are SONG sl6, 900 a year. ''lo
Hamlin>Ifsha is said to have lived
great portion of his life in Paris, and hav.
ing great fortune, he would, among ether
extravagances, take the whole of the boxes
at the theater when faVorite piece was Oh
the boards, and send his Friends tickets.
be is the one whom the French az GRx-
ious to make Khedive in Tew1k's place.
Frau Materra has seE5 to Chief Bunker.
of the Cincinnati Fire Department, hand.
some souvenir of her visit To one of tns
erglne-ho1ses under his charge. It con-
sists OF fine engraving of various fire.
escapes, showing their manner of use, set
in a frame of white oak and gilt, and bear
ing suitable inscription in the giver's own
handwriting
Captain Burton, the African exp,orer.
reports that almost illimitahle gold can,
obtained by the adventurous on the &c
coast of Africa. He says the region /.
equal to half dozen CALIFORNIA;. It is
found in the sea sand, the dust in the roads
aid IL the mud walls OF the native huts. It
is said that numerous explorers have gone
thither to verify the truth Of the report. N
During the year 1880, 10. S29 couples
were married in Berlin. Among them
were 702 widows, and 224 divorced wives.
The age OF the majority of the women was
from 20 to 25; of the men, from % to 80.
One widower took his fifth wife, one widow
her fourth husband 524 Catholic women
married Professionals, Sl3 Protestant women
Catholics; forty Jewesses took Christian
husbands, fifty. nine Christian women Jews.
The first marriage under the new law of
Canada, permitting marriage with adecsased
wite's sister, has taken place at Capa Bre.
ton, n. s. The couple married were New
foundlanders who had crossed to Canada to
be united, as their marriage would be lie
gal If performed in the colony 10 which
they live. In Newfoundland, as in Eng,
land, man cannot marry his wife's sister.
however willing the sister nay be.
The African expedition undo Ssz1lgv
sent out by the Wing % Belgium. re- E,5
to have established I'll Tour ". g ma
of stations which, 81. lGag from tAa Congo.
will for commercial purposes tap the most
populous districts of Central Africa. These
four stations are described as cities in EN-.
bryo. They possess houses and gardens;
they are connected by well constructed
roads, and at each European acts as Chief
OF the community, having another Eu-
ropean as sub-chief.
Hay fever, like malar as gr7aas,.T
tending its habitat, and diving It's VIC
tins out OF some of their most trusted
refugees. During the last two years scores
of sufferers whom the White Mountains
had ceased to relieve, have found their way
up Mount Killington, the highest peak OF
the Green Mountains, $50 feet above the
sea, and there bid defiance to sneezes and
snuthes. That retreat possesses q further
advantage in the fact that it ia a capital
place for a balloon ascension, if, in TIE
course of time, still greater elevation
should prove necessary.
Ths success OF the new cheap editions OF
standard authors in London has been mar
velous. Tom Browns School Days " has
reached sale of 200, 600; Mark Twain's
1nnocents Abroad" 1000. and the
Voyage of the Sunbeam" 200, 900. Car
lyle's works are newly printed at nine
cents, Uncle Toms Cabin !" is or sale
everywhere for penny, and one publisher
sold 200, 900 OF a cheap picture book con-
tanning various illustrations Ct Jumbo, one
OF which was an interior view Of the yes.
sci which took him to America, Jumbo
boing represented in the acs of bailing out
the water from the hold with his trunk and
squirting it into the sea-
- By asking too much we NAV lose tie
little that we had bafore," Kidney Wort aka
nothing but fair trial. This given, il fears
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