Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-06-05
ALL SORTS.
New York seedsuen are ove-run with
applications for sunfower seeds.

New ork seedsmen are ove-run Will
| applications for sunfiower seeds.
A hackman in Constantinople is required
to show certificate that he is good drive
and man of good character.
Joseph Whitwell Pease, one of Eng
lands six new baronets, is said to be thu
first Quaker who ever accepted such &
| title.
The first publication of the papers left
| by Ralph Waldo Emerson will be the Car.
lyle correspondence, covering nearly &C
years. 1t is complete, and in the hands OF
Miss Ellen Emerson.
Captain Costentenus, the tatooed Greek,
having amassed a fortune by exhibiting
himself, is soon to become Mason, acquire
the rights of voter, and become resi-.
dent of New York city.
Now is the time of the annual "round.
up" of cattle on the plains of Nebraska.
The beasts are driven into one fold, and
each man selects his own property, the
calves following their branded mothers
instinctively.
NJ. Damala, the attenuated tragedienne's
husband, is said to be sharp business
man, Hebrew by race, although Greek by
religion, who will serve her more faithfully
than anyone else could as manager, adver.
tising agent and inancier.
Henry Willard, President of the North
Pacific Railroad Company, has filed plan
for the erection of $500, 600 dwelling at
Madison avenue and Fiftieth street, New
York. This cheap cabin will do until he
has time to build good house.
A German paper says that cheese is made
in Thuringia and Saxony from the pulp oi
potatoes mixed with sour milk These
cheeses have these advantages over other
kinds, that they do not engender worms,
and keep sweet for number of years, pro.
vided they are placed in dry situation,
and in we'll. closed vessels.
A Philadelphia young man committed
suicide after trying in vain to win the love
of the young woman of his choice, and left
a note saying: 81 have been refused by
twelve women" This is in full accord with
the eternal fitness of things. Any man SO
internally ugly that not one woman ia
twelve will have him ought to die. The
young man showed excellent discrimina.
tion.
That Plattsville (Wisconsin) man who
coughed up piece OF iron weighing an
ounce and half, the which was shot into
his eye during the German revolution Of
lS4S, reminds US of the Chicago police
lieutenant, who was so frequently per.
forated by the enemy during the late un-
pleasantness that, even to this day, the
buckshot roll from his boots when he re-
tires at night. Fact
A law Court in Rome has tried Nine
Bernhardt for two offenses-frst for having
issued more tickets for representation
than the theater would hold, and next for
having, in derogation of precautions against
fire, closed several doors for the conven-
ienoe of her controllers. The Public Pros
ecutor called for five days imprisonment
and so francs fine, but the Court inflicted a
fine of 40 francs only.
MIR. and Mrs. Lord sat up one night at
Mount Ida, Ark, to watch for panther
that had killed some hens. They loaded a
gun and waited at an open window for the
beast to come into the yard. Toward
morning they fell asleep. Soon Mrs.
Lord awoke and went into the yard. That
aroused Mr.. Lord. Seeing her head NOV
ing along the line of the fence, and mis-.
taking it in the dim light for the panther,
he fired and killed her.
An ignorant Yorkshire man having occa-
sion to go to France was surprised on his
arrival to hear the men speaking French,
and the children jabbering away in the
same tongue. In the hight of the perplex-
ity which this occasioned he retired to his
hotel, and was awakened in the morning
by the cock Growing, whereupon he burst
into wild exclamation of astonishment
and delight, crying, "Thank goodness,
there's English at last y
The simple-minded Egyptians round
about Cairo, ILL.,, are said to have heard
voice from the other world, and to have
been thrown into state of the widest ex-
citement, because upon hens egg laid
in their midst, appeared the words
Judgment Day: August, 1882" This
singular phenomenon is merely another ar
gument in support of the doctrine of pre-.
natal impressions and should occasion no
terror. The hen probably had an alarm
ing dream.
The arrest of four Toronto reporters is, in
Canada, considered of telegraphic news
Importance. A Montreal paper, in COM
menting thereupon, says that the boys were
going home together, and one of them, an
amateur ventriloquist, was amusing his fell
lows with limitations OF barn-yard fowls,
and that the consequent assault of two po-
licemen has created a general feeling Of in-
dignation among the members of the fourth
estate. Now, in California, for instance,
when reporters 90 home initiating barn.
yard fowls the only notice taken of them is
the comment, "Too much cocktail.