Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-04-11
GENERAL NOTES

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his house in Chelsea.
A baby in Dalston, Eng, has been chris
tened Jumbo, after the famous elephant,
A Utica clergyman had occasion to refer
in a sermon to the prophet Jonah, and the
report says that he delicately spoke of him
as having passed three days and three
nights in the whale s-ahem-society."
Prince Leopold is to be married in tar
tan. and the English papers suggest that
the Princess Helene should wear bridal
dress OF cotton, in order to show her appre-
citation of that branch of English manx-
facture.
Montsgu Williams. of the English bar,
is versatile man. Before becoming bar
rister he was a tutor, an officer in the
army, an actor, dramatic critic, and a
dramatic author. He was successful in
all, but most in the last capacity.
The Conservatives in Fiintshire, Wales,
are making great ado about that county
having to pay the extra police required to
guard Hawarden Castle They claim that
the Treasury ought to defray the cost, bus
the Home Secretary does not see it.
The emigration from Germany this year
| promises to be very much greater even than
last. From Hamburg alone about IL, 655
persons set sail for America during Janu-
ary and February, as against only Sl2
| and 3 757 in the corresponding periods of
| 1881 and 1882 respectively.
| The population of Italy, according to
the census returns now being collected, is
| expected to be somewhet under 20, 600,
! 600. The towns in the last ten years have
increased far more rapidly than the rural
| districts. The annual normal increase ap.
pears to be fraction over seven per thou
sand.
Louis Bosch, aged l3, rose in Taunton,
| Mass, Court, while George Whitwell was
on trial for assault on woman, and, with
| tears streaming down his cheeks, de.
clared himself the real criminal. He had
| been hired to knock the woman down in
the dark, and did il brutally but his
| conscience would not let him see an inn O.
cent man convicted.
When falls the soulful moonbeana
Upon the back yard fence,
And tuneful feline cboristers
Their serenade commence,
The suffering esthetic,
His bitterness forgot,
Hurls madly through the midnight air
His too sunhower pot
The London Telegraph says that school
of fine arts is about to be established at
Constantjnople, that lectures are to be
given there on esthetics, and that the pro-
tessorship is to be rendered to Oscar Wilde
on his return from America. He would
help, it is believed, to kindle some intens-
ity in the dull souls of the Mussulmans by
teaching them to be utterly utter
The architectural arrangements of Lon
don theaters appear to have been affected
by the esthetic movement. Mr.. Irving has
given an esthetic front to the Lyceum, and
the Vaudeville has stained glass entrance.
Even the theater where Mr.. Toole delight
ed the cockneys rejoices in some of the
develo pments of decorative art. After this
it must be admitted that Oscar Wilde's
! efforts have not been in vain.
When using New Orleans molasses for
| making caramels or for chocolate icing or
for putting popcorn balls together, bear
this in mind-that there is great danger of
cooking it too much before you realize it.
1t is safe to take it off tie fire and set it on
the hearth even while trying it in cold
water, the short time required for that
being long enough to spoil the effect you
wish, by the molasses being too hard
Here is record of recent days work
| by Mr.. Gladstone In the early morning
| there was the usual business with his pri-
| vate Observation-Disclosures of Itself suf-
fcient to exhaust the energies of most men
then followed a journey to Windsor, the
Council, the private interview with the
Queen, and the return to London. I'm.
mediately afterward came the great gath
ering at Downing street, and the speech
from the Prime Minister then followed
the sitting of the House of Commons,
where questions had to be answered and
two speeches made; while the day was
wound up by the long and remarkable ad-
dress on the main question of the procedure
of the Lords.