Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-08-17
GENERAL NOTES.

Mark Twain is supporting coiored stu.
dent at Lincoln University.
The latest charity in New York ia the
distribution of free ice to the poor.
To make a canal between Duluth and
Grand Forks, D. T., thus connecting Lake
Superior with the Mississippi, is Cana.
dian enterprise.
There is only one Waterloo man now
among the inn pensioners at Chelsea Hos.
pital He is 81. The Prince and Prin.
cess of Wales lately visited him.
The Selm, tAla.) Times urges that some
plan should be devised by which the negro
women who are brought before the Police
Court and fined can be made to work on
the streets in payment of the fines, Just as
men are compelled to.
Victor Hugo seems to be in good health,
though somewhat feeble. His mental fac.
ulties have for some time shown a certain
decline. He has frequent absences of mind,
and his growing deafness prevents his
taking much part in conversation.
The London Spectator thinks that, as.
Stunning the statement in 'sAuthors and
Authorship" published by the Putnam's,
that Mark Twain received $500, 600 for his
"Innocents Abroad" is correct. the price
is the best ever fetched by book-the in.
trinsic value being considered.
John Wanamaker, the Philadelphia
merchant and philanthropist, seems to be
partial to his namesakes, for the four
stained glass windows in the library of
his stately new mansion at Chelten Hills,
Pa, bear portraits of four famous Johns
Knox, Calvin, Bunyan and Wesley.
The English did not build up their
Eastern trade until comparatively late in
the day. Even after the defeat of the
Armada nothing was done until the wreck
of great Portuguese Indiaman, with
cargo valued at $750,0OO. on the Devon
shire coast, awoke the ambition of Bris.
tolls merchant venturers."
Juries give heavy damages in England.
Mrs. Mulch, the wife of Leicester doc.
tor, has recovered G., 500 damages from
the owner of colliery. Because of a
collision between her pony-csrriage and
the defendants tram-cars she was Obliged
to have her right leg amputated above the
knee, and her left above the ankle.
Justice William Ramsey, of the Supreme
Court OF New York, who lately sentenced
man to be hanged on Thursday, said to
an inquiring reporter of the Rochester Post.
Express that he had never been able to as.
certain the particular time when Judges
commenced to order the execution of cap.
ital sentences on Friday; that for MANY
years hangings were fixed upon any day of
the week except Sunday, and that he was
convinced that the custom of selecting
Friday is of comparatively recent origin.
A gardener at Stamford, Conn.,, has
captured a curious little creature, which
deserves the attention of naturalists. 1t is
about four inches long, with feet like
caterpillar, and brown mottled BODY
about the diameter of ones little finger.
1t has one large, brilliant, and prominent
eye situated on the top of its head. 1t
does it's fighting with the eve end, but
when it travels the head becomes the tail.
In other words, it travels with the blind
end foremost, but the opposite extremity
is curled up SO that the eye can look ahead.
General F. C. Latrobe, who has in years
past tasted the sweets of political position
and official life as Mayor Of Baltimore, has
announced that next year he will again as.
pire to the Positions the regular Demo.
cratic nominee, if he can compass it. and
if not, as an independent candidate. But
he says he wants the Mayoralty and that
only-not a seat in the Maryland Senate
or in Congress, as has been reported.
Meanwhile, it is currently believed that
Mayor William Pinkney Whyte wants to
be his own successor, 80 there is prospect
OF very lively and animated contest in
store for the Baltimoreans.