Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-05-25
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Inou;rer Where is the best place to
learn to sing? The DESERT Boston Post.
81 occasionally drop into poetry, as
the man said when he fell into the edltorlai
waste basket.
If "Ignorance is bliss" there are a
great many happy people IN the "orio'-
Bonneville Journal.
Why is it that we hear SO much ABOUT
the Cochin China but nothing ABOUT tne
horse up Philadelphia Chronicle Herald.
Patti SAYS it is her ambition to ''live quiet.
ly ard sing for the poor. That's why she
charges S. a seat at her concert. boston
Post.
An exchange tells me that women have
got big hats ON the brain. They don
wear them there when at the opera
[Chicago Boz.
1t is well that we cannot see INTO tne
future. Fancy the disgust OF Pizarro IL ne
could have foreseen Shipherd and his guano
claim.-[Syracuse Herald.
When a man is about to be told secret
he shuts the door. When it is woman
she opens the door to be sure no one ID
listening outside.-[ French Fun.
DR.. Mary Walker has called upon
Guiteau, and the assassin declares himself
ready to depart. He has nothing more TO
live for.-INew York Commercial AdVer'
tiser
''Is life worth living for ?" asks an ex:
change 1t depends on what's trumps' II
you hold four aces and a jack, life IS pretty
liable to be worth living for.-l Williams
port Breakfast Table.
pretty Woonsocket girl OF sixteen, VINO
wouldn't have her name mentioned ior
anything" has cut and sold her luxurlant
brown hair to lady in Providence ior
5000, to procure comforts fer her SICK
mother.
"What is junction, nurse p asked
7-year-old fairy the other day at railway
platform. "a junction, my dear, an
swered the nurse, with the air OF very
superior person indeed, "why, it's place
where two road separate.
Our navy is the boss of all that sweeps
the seas. 1t has not lost single naval
battle in many years. The American nag
has been frequently trailed in tie dust by
cranky foreigners, but what's the odds, go
long as our navy has never been licked
Bloomington Eye.
Washington's birthday was enthusiast
cally celebrated by Americans this year IN
Cairo, Egypt. A man visiting Egypt ana
having experience with the Egyptians ls
pretty likely to have an enthusiastic ad-
miration for anybody who ever told the
truth. Boston Post.
The Christian Aduocdte, mentioning the
case of an Irish girl who said she joined
the Methodist Church "on suspicion for
six months, says ave don't know about
the propriety of taking people into the
church on suspicion, but we think con-
siderable number might be let out on that
ground.
"No, indeed, I'm not going to learn
how to make bread" said New Haven
belle. "Girls who know how to make
bread generally marry men who can't afford
to buy flour to make it with, and they have
to work in a milliners shop to help pay the
board bill. I'll stick to my fancy work.
New Haven Register.
This is Point. 1t is not Sharp like q
Pencil Point. 1t is as Broad as 1t is Long.
Where did we get the Point? 1t came
from Mining Brokers' Office. If we take
the Point what will it do2 1t will go
through us like bad Story through
Boarding house. What shall we do with
the Point Let US Copper it.-[Denver
Tribune Primer
W. E., Rockdale, Tex. "W What author
ity has the Legislature of Arkansas for
deciding the difference of pronunciation in
the name of that State, Arkansdl0 or Ar
kansas If sal0 is right for SdS, why not
say Kansaw for Kansas, Texaw for Texas "
As the people of New York are called New
Workers, and the inhabitants of Michigan are
called Michiganders, possibly the Arkansas
legislators were afraid they might be called
Arkansasses, and SO changed the pronun-
ciatlon of the name OF the State to Arkan.
saw.-[Texss Siftings.
Mayor Harrison, of Chicago, is said to
have notion that faro banks ought to OBJ
serve the same hours of business as other
banks, and he has accordingly ordered
them not to keep their doors open in the
evening. He hopes to convince the sports
that by attending strictly to their affairs
they can accomplish just as much in eight
hours as they can in fifteen or twenty, and
that the gambler Of the future will only
keep his place open between the hours of
10 and 8. Mayor Harrison has some ex-
cellent ideas on the subject of gambling
detroit Post and Tribune.