Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-04-10

How calm thy lot forever best;
How exquisite Thy happy rest
How ehangeless, Joyous and serene,
Compared with what thy lot had been
With us-whose feetiug, cleuded joys
Are at their best but broken toys.
chambers Journal.
There are 81, 600 monks and nuns in
Italy.
It is easier to suppress the first desire
than to satisfy all that follow it.-[ Frank
lin.
An Iowa town of /, 300 inhabitants is en-.
deavoring to maintain twelve church or.
carnations.
Slumber not in the tents of your col.
umns. The world is advancing, advance
with it.-[Mazzina.
In Kentucky no clergyman or preacher
of any denomination can become member
of the Legislature.
John Sims, of Candor, n. Y, died o.
apoplexy, superinduced BY overlooking his
stomach with Easter eggs.
Henry Irving, the eminent English
actor. has one Thousand wigs, 10 two o.
which are exactly the same shade.
On the lst of next August an Interna
tional Electric Exhibition will be opened
at Vienna, and fine display is antici
pated.
Texas has 81, 500, 600 net balance in hel
treasury. Mammon makes hell glitter
hence the annual exodus to Texas Chi
cago Times.
Some of the Jews in Roumania ar
making up colonies for Palestine. More
than fifty colonies have gone within the
last six months.
Al apparatus for recording the exac
speed of train during its entire run, in
Guiding stoppages and startings, has beer
invented by NJ. Pouzet.
know not whether the dictionary de
fines gossip better than he that said, gossip
is putting two and two together, and max
ing it fve.-[Ivan Panin.
The Rev. Phillips Brooks, who is in In
dia, writes to friend in Boston that thu
sun never warmed dearer part OF the
earth's crust than America"
An organist in a church at Providence
r. l., relieved the monotony of waiting
for belated bridal party by playing "Oh
Dear What Can the Matter Be-"
The italian Government has begun tt
substitute bronze for the steel guns now
used for field artillery, mainly because
bronze can be more easily worked.
In the United States last year the Bss
semer steel ingot product reached 1886,
$50 tons, or an increase of 10 per cent
over the year Immediately preceding.
An old lady from one OF the rural dis
tricts astonished clerk in one of the
stores by inquiring if he had any "yallel
developments SIGH as they did up letters
in"
One of the best farmers in Maine is Miss
Sarah L. Martin, of South Auburn. This
lady carries on farm successfully, and
pays much attention to the raising of fine
stock.
Il is said that the Rev. James Freeman
Clarke has prepared condensed Bible fol
use in the home, the school and the church,
and that it will soon be issued by New
York publisher.
Patti says that while in. bed at her hoteI
she was bitten by mouse. Perhaps il
was not mouse, Patti. Try rubbing the
wood work of your couch with kerosene
Philadelphia News.
The Magnolia (lliss.) Gazette says: S
NJ. Simmons, OF that county, has son IL
years of age, who raised last year eight
bales OF cotton from eight acres Of plnt
land without any fertilizers.
c. r. Gregory, of Leipsic, who has beer
several months in England for the purpose
of examining the Greek manuscripts of the
New Testament, will soon be ready to bring
out his long expected prolegomena tt
Tischendorf's eighth edition.
"At a fashionable wedding in Boston
the floral piece suspended over the brids
couple was an ox-yoke." This, we sup
pose, was the Boston way of intimatins
that after they were hitched each EoulC
want to be bos.-[Philadelphia News.
The colored School Commissioner, who's,
visit to one Of the white schools in Chat
tanooga, Tenn, created such furore, ha
resigned. He explains that his object il
visiting the school was to get information
that would be useful to his own people.
The proposal to forbid by law the ring
ing of "rousing bells in the morning, IL
New England manufacturing towns, is op
posed by the mill hands, who argue tina
the alarm is great convenience to the ma
iority, and not much of nuisance to tn
minority.
A female chattel of Wing Lee, Chimes
with Billy McQuillen, a white. skinned
sport. The woman cost 81, 500 IN China
and Wing offered 81, 900 for her return
An officer captured the clippers, but tn
woman refused to go back to her owner.
Among the best gifts of Providence, say
Barnes Sears, to nation are great ant
good men, who act as leaders and guidess
who leave their mark upon their age VIII
give a new direction to affairs who intro
duce a course of events which go dow
from generation to generation, pouring
their blessings on mankind.
In many parts Of Spain farming opera
tions have made little or no progress sine
the expulsion Of the Moors. The sam
sort of plow is used now as then, oxel
tread out the corn after the ancient Orien
tai fashion. and women separate the chat
from the corn by tossing the grain up il
the air during breeze Of wind.
Miss Kate Sanborn, OF the senior class O
the Boston University Sehool of Medicine
succeeds Maria NJ. Dean as Resident PLY
stefan in the Massachusetts, Homeopathic
Hospital. DR.. Dean was the first woman
ever appointed as Resident Physician il
the hospital, and has we'll discharged tn
duties incumbent upon the position.
A chap in Harrisburg is getting ready t
feht q duel whenever ne is insulted. I'll
can splis bullets on the edge of hatche
sixty feet away. Ii a member Of the Lowell
press were going to fight duel with thi
fellow, discretion would lead him to appea
on the ground armed with Ratchet in
stead of a tirearm. Newspaper duelist'
ere always anxious to avoid bloodshed. i
Lowell Citizen.
Lumber is now being manufactured from
straw, the standard size being 30 inches IL
width, u feet in length aud the thickness
the same as the average of surfaced boards
One ton of any kind of straw will yielt
L, 900 feet of boards that may be handled