Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-06-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The income of the average weaver in
Massachusetts factories is less than 90
cents day.
Sioux City has a curiosity in girl who
goes boldly to the barber. shop to be shaved
every few days, drinks beer and chews to.
bacco
Ex-Secretary Blaine and Senator Davis
are said to be about to form railroad com.
pany to construct line between Baltimore
and Cincinnati.
The daughter Of Robert Bonner was mar.
rled last week, and her bridal costume
almost equaled in magnifcerce those worn
by the high-born heroine in her fathers
paper.
When it was proposed to introduce glad.
iators into Athens citizen from the crowd
cried out j: " First throw down the altar
erected above thousand years ago, by our
ancestors. to Mercy!'
Ex-Governor A. c.. Hunt, of Laredo,
Texas, bought some mining property on
the Rio Grande last year for 500, 600; the
other day he sold it to the Rio Grande
and Pecos Railway for $1,000. 600.
The richest and most perfect varieties of
oats are raised in Scotland. The weight
of bushel of American oats varies be-
tween 30 and 35 pounds; that of a bushel
of Scotch oats between 40 and so pounds.
st. Swithin's day is July 18th. He lived
in England in the ninth century, Tradi.
tion states that it rained forty days in con-
sequence of the proposed removal Of his
remains to the cathedral from the church.
yard.
A partition sale OF the Bennett property
in New York realized 81, 3ol, 900, each par
eel being knocked down to ]. G. Bennett,
although there was lively bidding. The
old Herald building on Nassau street sold
for $3.50, 900.
During storm at Cuthbert, Ca, bar
rel containing hen setting on nest of
eggs was picked up, whirled round, and
blown over the house. 1t dropped right
side up in the front yard. The hen re-
mained undisturbed, and the chickens were
hatched soon after the aerial journey.
President Barrios, of Guatemala, who
will soon visit this country, is reported to
be worth about SS.000,000. He has been
President since 1874, and is said to be
very wise, businesslike and popular magis-
trate. The area of Guatemala is about the
same as that of Louisiana, and its popula.
ton trifle more.
Jumbo was startled in Jersey City by a
railroad whistle, and, turning suddenly, he
pressed his keeper, Scott, against wall,
bruising him SO severely that he did not
appear in public for some days. Perhaps
we didn't get the best of the Englishers
after all. Ne telling what that brute will
do yet !; he is chained now.
Congress has accepted the gift of more
than 20, 600 volumes from gentleman in
Washington. It now finds that owing to
the scant accommodations in the Con-
gressional Library there is no room in
which to place this valuable collection of
books. Congress has neglected library ac-
commodatioEs entirely too long.
Keely, of motor fame, acknowledges that
his motor is failure. In his answer to
the action recently brought against him by
the stockholders of his company, he says
that owing to certain abtruse difficulties by
reason of the nature and qualities of the
force, he has thus far failed in his efforts to
bring the inventions and discoveries into
any practical use.
A father and son, living in Waterbury,
Conn.,, joint owners of sick dog, deter.
mined, after some discussion in the poor
beasts presence, to put him out of his
misery. Have you a pistol with you ?"
asked the father but before the son had
time to answer, the dog staggered to his
feet, limped out of the barn as fast as he
could, and disappeared.
The late John Weist, of Schuylkill
county, Pennsylvania, left real estate
valued at S400, 900, personal property sufi-
cient to bring it up to round million,
forty heirs, and no will. During his life
he was very careless about his clothes and
his personal appearance, so much SO that,
on one occasion, being detained in Reading,
he applied for room at hotel and was
refused, the clerk very frankly telling him
that he didn't like his appearance and
wouldn't admit him. He left without a
word.
The German wife of the Grand Duke
Vladimir of Russia does not take kindly to
espionage. Finding that letter home, in
which she bewailed the dullness and danger
of Russian royal life, had been actually
opened on its way to the mail by gentle
man of her suite, she complained directly
to the Czar, but met with scant sympathy.
H. /. Fl. thereupon flew into passion, and
vowed that she would make public scan-
dal and go back to Germany. The official
was then dismissed, and rewarded with a
much better place.
When the Duke and Duchess of Albany
left Windsor, while they were still within
the private grounds, the bridegroom's three
brothers and Princess Louise and Princess
Beatrice ran across part of the lawn in
closed within a bend of the drive, each
armed with a number of old shoes. with
which they pelted the happy pair" The
Duke of Albany returned the fire from the
carriage with the ammunition supplied him
by his friendly assaiiants, causing the
heartiest laughter by well.directed shot
at the Duke or Edinburgh.
1t is said Congressman John G. Carlisle
of Kentucky, has been presented with an
illuminated card by lady for bringing
about reconciliation between the two
gore-seeking members of his States Con-
gressional delegation who threatened to
fight duel. The card bears the Greek
version of the text blessed are the peace.
makers, for they shall be called the chill
dren of Cod" with crossed "pistols for
two" beneath small pedestal on which is
a cup of "coffee for one," while above
hovers a snowy dove with an olive-leaf in
its mouth