Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-09-19
FREE9AED NOTES.

Contributed b. San Francisco Correspondent
And now 1t appears that there will be no
authors carnival, as the high.reaching Ne.
chanics' Institute will not "lend the loan :"
OF their building unless the Carnival Com.
mittee will regard the Institute as
seventh charity to receive a seventh of
the proceeds. The committee will not 30
regard the Mechanics Institute, and indeed
SUCH position would be revolution of
ideas. We always knew it was charity
to go TO the fair, but for the fair to turn
around and call itself a charity is the one
presumption an oppressed community will
not endure.
There is another of De Haas virile can
vases at Morris 4 Kennedy's-" On Lee
Shore, frowning sky and an angry surf.
The sea has had many lovers, and they
have all been indiscreet, but De Haas has
the gift of making Us feel rs if he were tell
ing the truth about her.
Two shocks of earthquake in Panama,
and all the inhabitants sleeping out of
doors, away from the houses Ii It had
chsncsd TO break the slender little isthrus
In two, there would have been De Lessons
work all done for him in two shakes, as it
were.
An embryo artist in love with the Bern
hardt ideal, raves about young lady of
that build. and wishes that she would pose
Tor him. " My dear fellow" expostula tea
friend, Its all waste time, those studies
from the flas."
A lady enters ballroom gotten up a la
San Francisco, canary. colored hair. black
eyebrows, and a suddenly. If sting dress.
A smitten adolescent swears she looks
like an angel" "Yes," assents his
friend more seasoned adn!escent-" if
by an angel you mean being from another
world"
A gentleman gets an invitation to sup
with all actress, and declines it. His wife
learns these facts and saws, rapturously.
How good you are r. To which he re.
plies, g Not good, my dear; only tired"
1t would be hard to tell which is the
more exasperating, the soulless clod or the
emotional gusher. At concert, for exam.
| pie, the running rapturous comment from
the latter is simply dstracting to nsighbor
ing auditors with more self. control Be.
sides, there is always feeling that so much
enthusiasm could not be spontaneous. but
is expressed with a view to dazzle tine sur
rounding multitude. Ii such be indeed
the case, these poseTs are the more de.
ceived. They are NOT admired but deeply
cursed. 1t is popularity of dear human
nature that as soon as it suspects that it is
being acted at it becomes as sulky as a
crane and as impassive as putty.
In some Trademarks window on Post
street, in San Francisco. there are four
capital old etchings of 1885 by Crowquiu,
one of Dickens numerous illustrators.
| These pictures are called Indigestion,
jealousy, Blue Devils and Headache-a
nice, cheerful array. Indigestion y
gives all the true inwardness of the sub.
ject. Jealousy we are lot Judge of :;
1t is only an unseen seraph in which we be-
! lieve. But Blue Devils strikes us as a
good sketch of bad quarter of an hour.
A razor and a rope dapgle suggestively
about, dun taps the victim on the shout
der, work on Ennui is hung up on the
floor, and everything is as natural and life.
like as it can be. The hero of Head
ache " seems to have all the varieties of
that disorder ''to once't" from the {" elori.
ous.night" splitting sort, down the gamut
| OF the "fge-cents. out.somewhere &C.
countant's pang, and the "beastiy- bore u
throe-appropriately symbolized by devil
twisting an augur-to the Is, IA, Is puzzle
agony. Crowquill clearly learned in suffer.
| ing what he teaches in sepia