Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-10-28
GENERAL NOTES.

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lege at Grinnell, which will more than re
tornado, will appropriately contain Q ter.
curious relics of the late disaster.
At the fifth general assembly of the Ger.
man Architects and Engineers Union,
recently held at Hanover, resolution was
unanimously passed recommending to the
German people as sacred obligation the
preservation and partial restoration of
Heidelberg Castle.
The Swedish Government has decided
that from the beginning of next year no in
dividual shall be employed on railways or
on board ship in that country till his sight
has previously been tested as to color.
blindness, by a method devised by Prof.
Holmgren, Of Upsala.
A Detroit dealer is responsible for the
statement that an oyster taken without
mutilation from the shell will live for a
week or ten days. The same authority
states that an oyster to be fit to eat must
be alive when eaten. Think on these things
when next you call for ga half dozen on the
shell raw"
Mrs. Garfield, who has been spending
the summer months at her farm in Mentor,
is making preparations to spend the coming
winter in Cleveland. James and Harry
have returned to Williams College, and
Miss Mollie and the younger children will
return to the tuition under which they
were last year.
f. D. Sturtevant, a florist of Borden.
town, N. j., has accomplished feat hith.
erto unknown in the annals of Horticulture
in this COUNTRY, that of growing to perfec.
lion in the open air plant of the famous
Victoria regia, the giant water lily of South
America. The plant now has leaves six
feet in diameter, and is in bloom.
1t is said that the disastrous results Of
the attacks of phylloxera in France, and
the inelficiency of all processes hitherto
employed to combat this pest, have caused
serious anxiety to the Government for the
safety of the Spanish vines. The council
of ministers is seriously considering how
best to apply vigorously to all points affected
in Spain the powers given by the phyl.
loxera law to uproot and burn vines
wherever the disease shows itself.
The veteran actor, James E. Murdoch,
recently gave reading to the fishermen at
| GAINESVILLE, Mass. He erected hut and
pavilion at his own expense, and then in
vited about five hundred srnbrowned old
salts from Gloucester and Lsnesville to
hear Enoch Arden read. The occasion
is said by those who were present to have
been most remarkable and interesting
| one, the audience being the most attentive
and sympathetic, probably, that ever heard
Tenoysons poem read.
There is trouble in the Damala family,
OF which Sarah Bsrnhardt is the head,
caused by suit which is TO be brought
against NJ Danala by pretty opera. bouffe
pritna donna named Mile. Minelli She
claims that she furnished Damala with
money, paid his bills, including those of
professor of acting, for giving him lessons,
! and, in fact, placed her purse entirely at
his disposal. In return, NJ. Damala vowed
eternal constancy and a speedy marriage.
| But he welded Sarah. Hence the lawsuit.
Many old Continental towns still sup.
port, at longer intervals and in less gran.
deur than of old, the industrial pageants
of the ancient guilds. The only town in
England where such sight may now be
seen is Preston, in South Lancashire, and
it can be seen there only once in twenty
years. A fortnight ago Preston was given
up to that periodical display, and one of
the most noticeable and suggestive features
| of the show was a hand.ioom worked in
the procession by an old lady who was en-,
gagged in the same work sixty years ago.
Speaking broadly, says the Saturday Re.
| rte,C, there ere three classes OF inhabitants
| at hotel !; the lowest, those who dine az
the long table of the tabled 'hote, say at
6 o'clock the middle, those who dine at
the same hour. but at a little separate table
in the window, pay franc a head extra
| and have all the dishes handed to them
last; the highest, those who dine two hours
later on the half remains of the 6
o'clock dinner, at three francs head extra
1t is characteristic of our new democracy
that rank varies inversely with the good
ness Of tine dinner.
Archbishop Wood, of the Catholic
Archdiocese of Philadelphia, has made
proclamation against Sunday excursions.
He instructed his priests to forbid the laity
aking any part in monster excursion"
which was to have gone on Sabbath from
Philadelphia to Atlantic City. This he
did, as he Gays, because he regarded it
as violation of the Lords day, and of the
religious quiet and repose appropriate to
that hottest of the holy days of the year.
Remember the Lords day to keep it holy"
And the excursion did not take place,