Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-11-18
GENERAL NOTES.

The New Haven Register declares that
John Bright has received great many let
tiers asking him with regard to mis- famous
disease.
Mountstuart. the new palace of the Mar.
quis OF Butte, which will cost at least ST.
$50 coo, is to be ready for habitation next
summer.
The Gar drives about openly with his
wife and children, and has given up his
quandsm precautions, which looked like
cowardice.
A rumor comes from across the water
that Robert Browning, the distinguished
poet, is about to marry an American lady
of wealth and position.
One of the recently discovered comets
has crooked tail. This makes the sprink-
ling of salt on it much easier of accomplish
ment.-[New Haven Register.
An English lady writer is delighted with
the arrangement Of Miss Fanny Daven-
ports hair, wound round and round in
Hat, shiny folds, neither coiled nor plated. 5"
Cetewayo has taken some English bull
dogs home with him. The dark courtiers
who wear limited style of breaches are
not likely to get enthusiastic over the new
immigrants.
The third and last niece of Daniel Web
ster, Mrs. Emily Webster, widow of the
late DR.. E. X. Webster, and daughter Of
Sarah, sister of Daniel Webster, died IL
Ptttsfeld, Mass, Thursday October l9sh,
aged 70.
Lord Chelmsford was walking down 81.
James street, when a stranger accosted
him, saying, Mr.. Birch, [ believe :"
"If you believe that, sir, you'll believe
anything, the ex-Chanceilor replied as he
passed on,
Ninety death sentences have been passed
in France since 1879, but only ten of them
have been carried out. 1t Is in such facts,
common to almost al countries where the
death penalty exists, that the oppooents
OF capital punishment find one of their
strongest arguments.
There is an active immigration of labor
ing people into Mexico. The Italian colon.
lists are represented as well satisfied with
the Governments provision for their com.
fort. and 500 more families are expected
to arrive shortly. Arrangements have been
completed by parties in Oaxaca TO bring
GOO families from the Canary Islands TO
settle on State lands.
The latest official statistics of the Japa.
nese Statistical Bureau show that the total
number of porcelain and pottery factories
in Japan is 322, and that they give employ
msnt to 1904 persons, of whom $50 are
women. The single province of Dwarf con.
tain DO fewer than 26I of these factories.
leaving only 81 to be divided among the
other . provinces in which such work is
carried on.
Rheumatism IS so rare in earlier years of
life as to be hardly ever mentioned by such
writer's as West and Vogel. DR.. Garden, in
the London Practitioner, gives the case Of
an infant OF nine months who caught cold
from bathing in cold water. Rheumatism
followed, affecting the knee and ankle
joints. These were wrapped in cotton, and
three grains OF salicin thrice daily were
prescribed. The patient recovered in q
fortnight, without showing any signs Of
heart complication.
The coolest pace on earth is not, as has
hitherto been believed by meteorologists,
Yakutsk, in Siberia, but Verkoyansk, in
the same region. Lying in G71 degrees
north latitude, on the river Yana. It's
lowest mean winter temperature ia IS {. 10
degrees below zero centigrade. This is the
cold pole of the earth in Asia, the corre-
spending pole in America being TO the
northward of Perry island, and the line
joining these two places does not pass
through the north pole itself which is thus,
in all probability, outside the line of the
greatest cold. On the other hand, the
greatest heat in the tropics is not at the
equator, bat some distance north and south.