Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-02-11
BAY GOSSIP.
THE wEArHER-rHE JAIL WEDDING
JAIL SERVICES.
At the Theater-Measlyc Children, Husbands
and Wives-The Story Of a
Night-shirt.
SAN FRANCISCO, February s, 1885,

search of our beautiful climate SILVER and
turn blue, having left their wraps behind
them, expecting to bask in that sunshine
which even in the face of things we in
sist upon as perpetual. Is it to be won
dered at, that others not indigenous to the
soil can realize that we may have cold
weather? Why, no for with the pro-
verbal generosity of Californian for Cali.
fornia, even now l catch myself writing
boastingly to that Boston which even zero
rises above, that have had patch of pan,
sizes blooming out doors the season through
without shelter, as If it were quite COM
mon thing and only to be noticed by con-
trast. Yet have said hundred times to
those pansies, wondered how they kept
alive, and as people pass they look over the
fence and say, "Bless me, pansies p A
friend writes
FROM THE EAST
That the houses are kept SO warm she feels
as if she should stife sometimes. Also that
diamonds are worn by everybody, and are
SO common abe wonders if they can all be
real. Also that sealskin sacks are SO COM
mon she has lost all desire for one. From
the same source learn that it is fashion
able to drink hot water. What for? In
digestion and your maid brings it in to
Won before you are out of bed in the morn
ing. It is also recorded that one Califor-
MAN had nothing left on her stomach
wherewith to begin the days digestion
after swallowing the commended cupful.
The chief fashion among children with us
lust now is measles and chicken.pox.
read in a daily newspaper that of q class of
seventy school children twenty have
measles. But that is not so bad, for these
twenty represent many different families.
At the asy lum OF the Ladies Protection
and Relief Society, usually called the
"Honie," there are forty little ones down
with the same disease. That, should say.
is measles by the Quantity. Fancy forty
children all sick at once IN the same house !
Every one to be amused, taken care of,
given hot drinks, scolded and petted. And
if any children read this let them think
how it must seem when it isn't your own
dear mother that scolds you and pets you.
There's great deal, you know, in its being
mother that does these things. All our
world to-day wags its tongue about the
strangely
INFATUATED YOUNG LADY,
Miss Mary Willis, who was married in the
Jail to Gottung, who murdered his wife. and
married, too, directly after his sentence OF
ten years imprisonment in San Quentin
had been pronounced. It is dreadful
thing, and surely she will see her mistake
before his sentence is completed. Yet she
is "a years old now, and one would think
ought to be in possession Of all the sense and
discretion that ever will come natural to
her. / went to the Jail one Saturday after
noon, and | came away oppressed. The
was Sunday ell were cleanly shaved, their
clothing was fresh and they were generally
smartened up" Their long confinement
had made their faces pale and thin /; it had
bleached out the boldness, the roughness,
the wickedness, till not one among them
looked like a murderer or thief. BY and
by other visitors came in with Bibles and
singing books, and the prisoners were all
attention to the services. Never had the
precious texts seemed SO full of meaning {;
never had the old hymns seemed SO sacred
as when 1 heard them sung among the
cells of the common jail but oh what a
gulf seemed to separate that little singing,
praying.band from those pale men Gagged
behind the bars The pity one could feel
was as separate from sympathy as the
prisoned is from the free, and in the services
I witnessed there was none of the
MISPLACED sENTIMENTALITY,
Which finds expression in flowers and in
general personal conversation. Perhaps
the one woman, of all who strove to do
good in the jails, who would consent to be
Influenced instead of to influence, has just
now fallen victim to her own susceptibility.
l remember hearing an old woman remark
grimly, /" If man wants a second wife
he can get one though he carries his first
wife's head round under his arm, and this
is certainly case in hand. But it is
equally true that second husbands are easy
to get, and some women could change hus-
bands if they chose with their gloves. One
fascinating creature III San Francisco, still in
her tweuties, scarcely month ago mar
ried her third husband, and all three men
were and are residents here and thoroughly
acquainted with her history. To be
sure she murdered none OF them, but she
made the name Of each q by.word and a
jest in other mems mouths, and to take
woman in the face of such fatal ridcute is
like looking upon death. II is safs to say
she will yet have fourth husband, and
perhaps fifth. A cynic has said, "No
woman marries the man she loves" mean
ing. perhaps, the first love- No doubt the
majority Of husbands and wives might con.
TESS to what seemed attachments ia earlier
life, but after the deeper romance of mar.
riage, they pale into fancies merely.
Several of US went to the California The
alter, the other evening, to see Michael
Strogoff" in its last nights-one of the
finest plays. as regards purity Of plot and
scenic effect we have ever had here. 1t .
RUSSIAN PLAY,
Ard takes the audience to Siberia, the seat
of war between Tartars and Russians. This
gives fine opportunity for view of the
field of battle, and afterward OF conha.
grafton. The fun OF the piece is carried
by two rival Especial correspondents, the
one an American, the other English. In a
gorgeous cavalcade ten horses came pranc-
ing in, and the wonder is that amidst wav-
ing banners, beating drums and the people
that crowd the stage, the horses were not
so terrified as to leap the footlights and
prance about among the orchestra. They
were not even trained as accessories of the
company, but are simply hired of livery
stable, though the same animals did duty
each evening. There was also, as one sen.
timental young lady remarked, +" the dear
est little donkey / ever saw" used as an
adjunct to the fun. presume, however,
that the donkey reckons himself in as one
of the company. Two or three days after
we had been to SEQ Michael Strogsff. u
one of our number came to call and "talk
it over" Half of our enjoyment, you
know, is anticipation and "reminiscences.
Suddenly she laughed and said {: Well,
must tell you what happened to Ned. y
{" Ned " is her husband, and prominent
business man of this city,
THE TALE OF A SHIRT.
"He had telegram to go to Stockton on
business, and, expecting to return next
day, took only little satchel, containing
his night-shirt, clean handkerchief,
comb and brush, and tooth brush. Direct.
ly he arrived at Stockton, he received =