Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-04-01
GENERAL NOTES.

The Japanese Government has decided
that all criminals condemned to death dur
ing the latter days of 1881 shall be respited,
in order that their trials may be reviewed
by the Judges, in accordance with the new
penal code which came into force on Janu-
ary lst.
The death of famous cockatoo is re-
ported in Philadelphia. His name was
| Tommy Prescott, and he had for twenty
five years been before the public as per.
former in circus sideshows. He was re-
markable speaker, for bird, and earned a
salary for his owner of $50 week.
Jenny-The fact that your Charles Au-
| gustus has never been seen at any per.
formance containing ballet proves moth.
ing. 1t may be that he has conscientious
scruples on the subject it may be that he
is too weak to trust himself it may be
that he really prefers other and more in.
tellectual modes of recreation, or-perhaps
it would be just as well to watch the stage
door.
| Fashion is often the result of accident.
A woman's hat blew off the other day and
was run over by horse car, a hack and q
wheelbarrow, besides being stepped upon
four times, before she recovered it. She
had to wear it home, though, and seven
milliners who saw it thought it was new
style and went to making hats with just
such jams in them, and they went off like
hot cakes.
A band of twenty bold brigands overran
the little city of Bassudo, IN Sardinia, a
few weeks ago, murdered the burgomas .er
and robbed the treasury, in which they
4 l. j IL
ed in perfect peace, not person venturing
so much as remonstrance. The inhabit-
ants evidently thought that it was not for
them to complain If the scoundrels were
satisfied with an insignificant burgomasteI
as vicarious sacrifice.
A collection which it might be worth
while. to preserve is that which Nine.
Betsey Patterson Bonaparte made of he
bonnets. She kept every bonnet she evel
had in her life, and, as most of these were
remarkable in their way, the charm of the
collection is easily imagined. The old lady
used to rather enjoy talking about hel
Jerome, and always expressed herself with
a tart frankness. She once electrified the
company at a Baltimore dinner party by
announcing that jerome, you know, was
the most Indifferent of the family"
The London Shipping Gazette, in re.
cent article, cites the evidence of the Cap.
tain at an inquiry concerning the loss of
the Loch Awe as powerful testimony of the
value of oil in quieting the sea,
and refers to the similar expe-
rience of the Montrose e.boat
crew. who made two careful experiments.
The Gazette says: "In the case of fishing
boats attached to nets on the setting in Of
stormy weather, gallon or two of oil
might prove the means of saving boats,
gear and crews"
| Among the wealthy and fashionable
audience that graced the occasion of the
opening of Wallack's s theater was Geraldine
de We're Percival. the highly cultivated
daughter of millionaire Cincinnati pork
packer, who had expended. it is said, some
| S., 600 year on her education abroad. She
had heard of the "School for Scandal, !"
but had never seen it performed. After
Mr.. Wallack's remarks she noticed, with
surprise, that the play was resumed, and
asked. sis nobody else going to speak p
Net that know Of, responded her es-
cort. "How strange !" continued the fair
Cincinaatian. ~ think they might at
least have called out MIR. Sheridan. Didn't
he write the play f"-tBrooklyn Eagle.