Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-03-10
GENERAL NOTES.

A friend Of Annie Louise Cafy says
that when the singer was girl she VIZ 8 the
champion of all her playmates in jumping
fences and such sport. Luckily for the
fences, Annie has sworn off.
A Louisville dispatch says eth 1t great
excitement and alarm exist here ever the
sudden and unprecedented rise in the
river" 1t seems almost impossih for a
Ksntuckian to retain his composurt in the
presence OF water.
"Rossi The lines in "Othelo" be.
ginning, :" l will not call thee back" were
undoubtedly written by Shakespeare under
misapprehension, and should read "I will
not raise thee back" There is lao such
thing as calling man back.
1t was originally intended to make the
dome of the new Palais de Justice in Brus-
sells OF copper, but it has now been decided
to use papier- r-mache as the material of its
construction. When completed it will not
weigh more than sixteen tons.
Piloty has Just finished large picture of
"The Wise and Foolish Virgins" and
Hans Makart is working on q series of large
pictures intended to decorate the dining
room OF millionaire at Munich. He has
also painted the Bernhardt at full length.
Judge Davis boards at the National
Hotel in Washington, where his sitting
room reminds one of an Illinois law Office.
There is no carpet on the floor, large
wood fire crackles and blazes on the
hearth, the chairs are capaeious, with rush
seats, and at night candles supply the
light.
LIE Dantes Louis Marie Toussaint, of st.
Louis, advertises in st. Louis paper to
learn of come charitable person willing to
pay his debts-S5 S5S-and his fare from New
Y,.Sk to Paris, France. A more enterpris-
ing community would promptly furnish the
fellow transportation On rail at least be-
yond the corporate limits Of the city, and
give him boost in the direction of the sea-
board. .-[Chicago Tribpne.
Sir Charles Trevelyan has recently pub
lished lecture on Christianity and Hin
dooism Contrasted," in which he expresses
his conviction that the conversion of India
to Christianity will take place in differ
ent way from that generally anticipated.
When the absorption of Christian truth
has gone far enough, he says, native opin-
ion will declare Itself, and "a nation will
be born in a day."
Emigration to Cape Colony from Great
Britain is fast increasing. For 1879 the
returns show only 332 emigrants for
| 1880 the number was 2,607 for 1881 it
was 4, l63. These 4,l63 consisted of 324
men of the Government railways. 2,6l3
| artisans and domestic servants, 75S agri-
culturists, and 47S recruits for the Cape
Mounted Rifemen. The agriculturists
took out with them in money alone an ag-
gregate of S77, ,325 or little over 500 for
each man, woman, or child.
It will be news to most people that
ostrich farming is attended with dangers
to human life, although men engaged in the
business are not always free from assault
from some vicious bird. Inthe districtof Vic
toria West, Cape Colony, some weeks ago,
man was actually kicked to death by an
ostrich on the public highway. Some dis
pute arose between them as to the right of
way, and before they had settled it the
bird had kicked and trampled on him until
he was dead.