Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-04-16


boot. Moral-No letter is complete with
out foot-note.-[ Chicago Times.
1t has been discovered that the primary
cause of the break in the canal at Windsol
Locks, Conn, by which break mills were
shut down, l, 900 men thrown out of EN-.
pIoyment and 500, 600 lost, was the worl
of a muskrat that burrowed through the
embankment.
In an important criminal case in Louis
vile, the Court Judge Jackson) said
"The mere fact that man has read news
paper accounts of this matter and received
certain impressions does not render him in
competent to sit as a juror. | do not in.
tend to exclude intelligence from the jury
box.
SCI notice" said one Austin lady to
another, that at our social gatherings
you are always the last one to leave" 81
know it, was the reply, "but 1 have an
object in view" "What is it?' SCI
want to prevent the rest of you from
slandering me-" go, you mean thing
you never like to see your friends enjoy
themselves. "-[Texas Siftings.
A scheme has been proposed for lighting
the entire Swiss Canton of Vaud by cleo.
tricity. The motive force would be derived
from turbines of 5000 horse power and,
the water supply being constant and abun.
dant, the projectors have good reason for
believing that gas, which is very expensive
in Switzerland may be almost entirely su-
perseded throughout the district.
A young man sat down the other day and
wrote on the back of a couple of postal
cards. Then he turned them over and di.
rected them, but by some mistake placed
the address on the wrong cards. The re.
suit was shirt factory got polite invita-.
ton to go sleigh riding, while the young
mans girl was made frantic by the follow
ing "Please send me a sample of the stuff
your shirts are made Of
1t was not many years ago that the best
American dictionary defined the familiar
word "boil as "a circumscribed subcu.
taneous Inflammation characterized by a
pointed pustular tumor and suppurating in
central core; a perunctus. What was
simple and familiar was made ludicrously
complex. In the Imperial +" the same
word is disposed of satisfactorily as " an
inaamed and painful suppurating tumor."
An old man in Milwaukee wishing to in.
duce young married woman to elope with
him, made use of the following arguments
"My dear child" said he to her, +" If you
90 with me you and your children shall
have plenty while I live, and when I get
too old will get You young man. We
will start store, and l will get you sew.
ing-machine. During the summer I can
earn eighteen shillings a day as mason.
and when get too old I'll be father to
you. y Chicago Herald.
An ancient brick building on Inglis
street, Philadelphia, which has enjoyed for
nobody knows just how long the distine.
ton of being the first brewery built in this
country, is coming down to make room for
modern warehouse. 1t was formerly
known as "Billy PENIS Brewery" but of
late years has been called "Cobweb
Hail." 1t was built by Pemberton Nor.
ris, leading member of the Society of
Friends. and occupied by him certainly as
early as l75S and probably before that
date. The original watts and hogsheads
were in use by firm of bottlers until a
fortnight ago.
Before General Mcclellan left Fortress
Monroe, where he had been spending some
time recently, the veterans OF I Hamp-
ton Home presented him with large BAN
ner of royal-purple satin, edged with gold
fringe, 1t bore on one side the national
arms and the inscription "The National
Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.
March 3, 1865. The Nation to her De.
tenders" The reverse bore these words ::
" Presented to General George B. Nc
Clellsn, Local Manager, by Veterans of
h.
were wrought in silk and gold thread en-
broidery, the work Of the inmates of the
Home.
Eternal vigilance is the prize of prevent
ing an elopement when the young people
are in dead earnest. An elderly uncle was
lately observed in an alteration with a
young man and younger woman on the
railroad station at Bodmin, England. He
succeeded in OBTAINING them until the train
had gone, and then persuaded his niece to
return with him to her home in Lostwith.
lei. The next train for that place was not
due for three hours, and uncle and niece
went out for a walk. On their return to
the station the old gentleman was SO ia.
tigued with the arduous labors Of the day
that he dropped sound asleep, and when
he awoke the lovers were beyond hope of
recall.
On the ascent of the Mount of Olives
adjoining the Jewish Cemetery is plot of
ground which has been preserved to the
Jews from time immemorial as the burial
place of the Prophets Haggai, Zschariah
and Malachi. Hebrews the world over
have been distressed by the report that this
sacred spot was about to be sold by the
Turkish authorities TO Christian sect
which intended to build church upon it.
At last accounts the completion of the sale
had been deferred by Raouf Pacha, at the
urgent solicitation of the spiritual heads of
the Jewish community. The intending
purchaser is said TO be the Russian Archi-
nandrite in Jerusalem, and the price agreed
Upon is ESQ.