Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-07-08

tell you that this old man, whose name n.
Spaulding, has made over three thou
sand attempts to solve the problem of the
perpetual motion, and has the designs to
show for it. In the meantime he has
patented quantities of boot-j Jacks, stove
litters, folding chairs. bed.bug exterminat-
ors and the like, and inside of two years
asserts that he will cleave the upper air on
his flying machine. His model, as far as
built, certainly looks formidable, and some
day we may be treated to a race in the
clouds between Marriott of the Ne,cs Let
ter and the Colorado genius.
POLITICAL.
The Colorado campaign is livening up
beautifully. This year will witness
Senatorial fight, and there are at least
twenty "leading candidates in the ring
For long time Lieutenant Governor Tabor
was considered by politicians to be the
"most available" because he had n
fortune inventoried at 50, 500, 900, but
few weeks ago he mortgaged his big opera
house for 5000, 600, and a panicky feeling
ran along the line. When the matter Of
the mortgage was ascertained to be correct
the politicians suddenly reached the con-
clusion that the Senatorial baubla was not
for sale in Colorado, and that brains was
the only qualification. That Tabor was
an ignorant boor, who, without money
was q nobody, and all that. In the turn
ing of the tide Tabor has chance to re-
fleet what man of his stamp amounts to,
when people have an idea that he will not
enter the political arena with ready cash.
He stands like the King in Thackeray's
cartoon, who was nothing until he got his
royal togs on. Tsbor's friends, however,
claim that he will be in good fighting trim
when the Legislature meets, and the know
ing ones assert that the Colorado Legisla-
ture does not come much higher than the.
California or Nevada commodity.
CLOSE FIsTED TOURISTS.
This is the season for Eastern tourists.
and the cars are full of them. They look
like capitalists and act like misers. On
the Union Pacific train w. I. Deal, an at
torney of Virginia City, showed me the
stump of lead-pencil, and assured me
that he had paid an Eastern man 10 cents
for it, the man refusing to lend it. l heard
a Philadelphia tourist ask Boston man if
he would give him drink of whisky for n
sedlitz-powder, and the trade was consum-
mated with great formality, the latter re-
marking that he could get rid of the sedlitz-
powder in the next car. The porter
of the car told me that he often got
as low as copper cent from Eastern men
whose coats he brushed, and on one oc-
casion the whole crowd only panned out n
cent apiece. 1t is relief to know that
somebody has the nerve to pay sleeping
car porter in proportion to the service hs
pretends to render.
A CHAPTER on NATURAL HISTORY.
Your correspondent never yet travelled by
rail that his good nature was not imposed
upon. 1 had my usual luck this time. A
portly old English gentleman had the
same section as myself, and his three.
daughters occupied the opposite one Sec
ing that had the lower berth, he re-
marked
' Hi say, young man, would you mind.
ye know, a givin' me hup the hupper
berth. / bein' too hold to climb, you
know"
Out OF respect to his years 1 consented,
and he continued
'When hi was your hage hi used to
jump hon 'orse heigteen 'ands Ugh has
spry has kangaroo"
"Oh, father" interrupted one of the
daughters in voice of alarm, don't talk
that way to the man. Perhaps he doesn't
know what kangaroo is"
l told the lady with some warmth that /
knew all about kangaroos, having caught
them with hook and line in Lake Tahoe, at
which they looked out of the window and
worked their shoulders convulsively. The
old man drew kangaroo on piece of
paper, but l declined to believe that such
an odd animal existed, and the old English
man closed the dispute by taking my ad
dress and promising to send me book on
natural history, which would further en-
tighten me ON the subject. l agreed to re-
ciprocate, and send HIM "The Game Fis,s
of Nevada and Sage.brush Ornithology,
by Jewett Adams, a book which l assured
him would give him new ideas On the kan
CARGO. He carefully took down the title,
saying that he was able to buy one himself,
and would secure it at some San Francisco
book store. We parted company next
morning without so much as an au resoir.
ID.