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

Henry Watterson is compiling book of
side-splitting Southern jokes.
At Goodwood the Duke of Norfolk came
over with his Duchess and large party
from Arundle Castle in the old-fashioned
ducal style. The Dukes ccrtege consisted
of four carriages, each drawn by four splen-
did grays, with outriders on stesds OF the
same color.
One of the finest native gems thus far
discovered in this country is on exhibition
at Bangor. IL Is green tourmaline of rare
beauty and perfection. It was found few
days ago at Mount Mica, and has just been
cut by veteran lapidary of Boston. An
emerald of its size and perfection is ex.
tremely rare, if not unknown.
The Indians never cook within their
houses, believing that should they do so
the steam would collect on their clothing
and draw the lightning. a recent lecturer
on their customs, while declining to in.
dorse this belief, says II know that an
Indian wIgwam Is never struck by light
ming, and that no Indian has been killed by
lightning in hundred years.
A pretty story about the Princess Eu.
genie, sister of the King of Sweden She
recently sold her diamonds to raise funds
to complete hospital in which she is in.
terested. When visiting this hospital, after
its completion, a suffering inmate wept
tears of gratitude as she stood by his side,
and the Princess exclaimed, "Ah now l
see my diamonds again"
What is said to be the largest flagstone
in America is soon to be laid in front of +.
L. Stuart's house in New York city. The
stone measures &c feet 6 inches BY Is feet
9 inches, is 9 inches thick, and weighs
nearly GO, 900 pounds. 1t was cut in Sulli.
van county, at the same quarry from which
came Mr.. Vanderbilt's great fiagstone. 1t
was drawn by eighteen horses to ita desti-
nation.
Acting on the theory that in every house
there Is a skeleton in the closet, Paris
swindler sent out number of duplicate
notes to this effect 81 will reveal all
unless you send 100 francs to ]. L., Poste
Restante, Paris" 1t was evidently good
day for skeletons. At least ten persons
promptly sent the sum demanded, and the
swindler was congratulating himself upon
having secured temporary atiluence and
prospective fortune when the police
swooped down upon him.
The evening before the first performance
OF Parsifal," supper was given in Bay
reuth to Wagner by his friends. The com.
poser took advantage OF the occasion TO
express his deep thanks for the unselfsh
assistance rendered him throughout his life
by his friends. Franz Liszt, who sat by
his side at the banquet table, he said, had
called him back from solitude in former
years, and had reconciled him with the
world when he was quite respondent and
abandoning himself to melancholy and
despair.
Your French actress always leads off in
Sensational performances outside of the
theater. Oae of the race lately entered a
train on which some fourteen Caribbeans
were being transported to Paris. She had
them all personally introduced to her,
loaded them with sweetmeats, and made
herself so particularly agreeable to her
dusSzy friends that they one and all refused
to part from her when the party arrived at
the terminus i'll Paris, and she was obliged
to accompany them to their encampment at
the Jardin 'd'Acclimatation.
Prince Roland Bonaparte, son of Pierre
Bonaparte, gets several millions by the
death of his wife, she being one of the three
heirs of the estate of $40, 1000, 900 or S25,-
900, 600 left by her father, Blanc, the pro.
prietor Of the Monte Carlo gambling hell.
Roland hadn't franc when he married.
and was only the second choice of Miss
Marie, who had tried in vain to capsure an
Italian Duke of older and better pedigree.
To reconcile the girl to the match, Roland's
cousin, Prince Napoleon, brother-in.la law of
King Humbert, induced his Majesty to
confer on the bridegroom the title of an
Italian prince.
Several sons of famous fathers are living
, on their parentsge in London. Al the Year
Round is still Conducted by Charles
Dickens" This magazine was the dead
Dickens personal property, and was left to
the present Charles Dickens with the pro.
yiso that the name should be placed at the
head of its pages. Douglas Jerrold was
the editor of Lloyds Weetiy Ne,rs, and
| when he died the proprietors continued the
family name by putting in the line 90 Edited
| by Blanchard Jerrold." The editing is
said to consist in the drawing of salary.
Fun is nominally edited by Tom Hood, a
son of Thomas Hood, the famous humorist
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