Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-07-14
GENERAL NOTES.

ingtou is three stories in hight, and will
cost $50, 900.
The grave Of Emerson, at Concord,
Mass, is kept covered with flowers by the
young people of the town.
One OF Kant's successors in the Chair Of
Philosophy at Konigsberg, DR.. Qusbiker,
recently committed suicide by means Of
morphia.
The venerable Jonathan Blanchard has
resigned the Presidency of Wheaton Col
lege, Illinois, after holding 1t % years, and
Is to be succeeded by his son.
A spsotroscope has been constructed in
England, the special purpose OF which is to
predict the state OF the weather, as to
whether there will be rain or not,
A French chemist is reported to have
discovered method OF Transforming the
wool on sheepskins into velvet, and it is
likely to become an important article OF
manufacture.
A series of hitherto nnedited letters be.
tween Goethe and Carlyle have been dis-
covered, and will shortly appear IN the
German magazine ttty die LHeratur des M
and-A uSJdades.
A cargo OF $3.50 600 pounds raw sugar is
on It's way from Honolulu to New York to
eoncillate rehuers who were opposing re-
newal OF the free.trade treaty with the
Sandwich Islands.
A small child fell out Of a second story
window in South Hadley Falls, Mass, and
struck on its head and was knocked in
sensible, but it sustained no injury, and
quickly was again engaged in its childish
rf ,,.J II k,A ha
fallen it.
A Partisan did not propose to have his
will contested, so he said in it :" believe
my heirs to be honest folks and good rela.
tlves. II they happen to wrangle after me
overmy property, l disinherit them and
leave 1t to the poor of my parish, The
will was not contested.
A London magistrate in open Court has
just pronounced mother.in law living in
the house to be nothing, in fact, but
lodger, which decision contradicts the
principles enumerated by Mr.. Bernand's
comedy that "an Englishman's house is
his mother. in-laws CASTLE
Sir Isaac Newton wrote to a medical
friend, who inquired how he managed TO
retain health, in these words All, my
dear doctor, you have better opinion Of
your lazy friend than he had OF himself
Morpheus is my best companion. With.
out eight or nine hours sleep your corTe-
spondent is not worth agcavenger's purse.
DIR. Mcclellan, the famous rihe.shot
gave an old colored man the other day
dollar to hold target in the shape Of the
ashes at the end of a freshly lighted cigar
The darkey took the dollar in his hand and
the cigar in his mouth. Mcclellan walked
back, raised his rifle and shot the ashes
from the end. The exploit was repeated
successfully, but the old man objected TO
the third attempt, saying " De third
time am eder lucky or it am onlusly."
For epsia-One-half pound carbon.
ate soda, one ounce bismuth, one ounce
pepsin, one-half ounce Jamaica ginger.
Add one quart of water, cork tight. Shake
well before using. Dose: one tablespoon.
full after eating. Be careful about diet.
eating no grease or rich sauce till tho
stomach regains its strength. An exchange
says lady who had suffered many year5
was given up to die, by what three phys
clans pronounced cancer of the stomach,
and this prescription cured her.
In his report Of the system of art in-
struction in the United States, Felix Rega-
may comments fayorabiy on the entire
freedom from legislative restraint which
allows independent improvement. And in
the schools the individual pupils are al
lowed further independence. The System
is not yet perfected in many OF the States,
but NJ. Regamay thinks that there is every
likelihood that every portion of the coun.
try will soon be provided with an organ
izal avstptu nf art adncatiop
A French photographer residing at Tan
eiers has Just received from the Sultan OF
Morocco most interesting order to pho
tograph-the 1854 wives Of this modern Sol
omon. The portraits will be contained in
an album Of which the Sultan himself alons
will have the key. Without suggesting
the acquisition of two more wives to provide
for leap year tendencies, we would remark
that il this photographer could manage to
strike of duplicates from the negatives he
could realize handsome profit from their
sale
President Grevy, who comes from fam.
lily belonging to the lowest grade Of French
society, has not the personal bearing of
great ruler He is short, dapper undigui. .
fed, ard mas little magnetism or enthusiasm
in his disposition. The secret Of his suo.
cess lies in his coolness and courage, his
habit Of working while his rivals are talk.
ing and his clean, honest record. Hia
wife was. some years before he married
her, employed by him as cook and
laundress. She has never yet been recog-
nized by society is, by the society
OF nobility in Paris.
Brooklyn has a Dogberry who outdoes
the most brilliant exploits of even Chicago's
eminent justices of the Peace. Recently
u respectable lady Of that city requested
twice to be excused from testifying in
case before him, ON the ground that she
knew nothing of the circumstances. He
swore her, swore at her and committed her
to jail for thirty days for contempt OF
Court, and she was released from the iaii
only after two days of incarceration. When
she did get out sentence for life would
not express the amount of contempt she
felt for that Court.
DR.. Hugo Philler, an aged, trusted and
experienced physician of Waukesha, Via,
administered dose Of morphine TO Mrs.
Magdalena Hille by mistake for quinine,
and caused her death. DR.. Philier had
been out all night and was exhausted for
want Of sleep. He discovered his mistake.
and hurriedly ordered his team, procured
a stomach pump and antidotes, and drove
as fast as he could to the Hille residence.
The time Of his arrival was about fftv
minutes after the morphine had been adj
ministered Heused the stomach. pump and
applied his bee. art, but Mrs. Hille was be.
yond all help and died soon after