Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-08-17

Moore.
French scientists have Just discovered a
new fish. They instantly and with great
presence of mind called il the Eurypharynx
pelecanoides.
A fashion writer says the "leg. of.mutton
sleeves have not proved successful" An
opinion got started that they looked sheep.
| Burlington Hawkeye.
A certain lady has changed her religion,
being determined, she says, to avoid her
husbands company in the next world
Atlantic IN. " Herald,
Ii you really dislike man it ia well to
remember that nothing will mad him more
than 10 catch him near hand.organ, and
go up and offer him come coppers.
We hear good deal about the "rage
for speculation, " but Fogg, who speaks
from experience, says the rage generally
comes after the speculation. Il Boston
Transcript.
Mile. Theo, in an interview with one of
the Paris reporters, said THE journalists
and critics of New York cisy are, very
joyial, very bright and very chic, but they
all seem very fond of Weska."
The crier in village announced to the
inhabitants by proclamation that the dirt
must be immediately removed from the
streets, OF otherwise tae parish authorities
would take it into their olCR hands -TC1i-
oago Tribune.
Maine and Missouri were both admitted
| into the Union the same year, 1920 TIE
| former at that time YVES entitled to seven
representatives TO Congress, and the latter
one. Now Maine hiss four members and
Missouri fourteen.
One of the ice factories at New Orleans
turns out one hundred tons daily in the
winter, and about half that amount in
summer. 1t is in Jumps four feet long by
one in thickness, as clear as glass, and sells
az forty cents hundred. Il Exchange.
MathiIde Blind says that Mr.. Lewss was
more than husband to George Eliot he
was like q mother, watching over her
health, cheering her dependency with his
own buoyancy, and creating the spiritual
atmosphere in which her genius ripened.
The gross weight of diamonds which
passed through the Postoffice of Kimber.
ley, South Africa, in 1850, was Laos
pounds ayoirdupois, valued at e3, 367, S97.
At the end of last year $4,000 black men
and LOO white men were employed at
the mines in that region.
"Woman's rights p exclaimed Phila.
delphis man, when the subject was
broached "What more rights do they
want? My wife bosses me, our daughters
boss both, aud the servant girl bosses the
whole family. It's time the men were al.
lowed some rights. = Philadelphia News.
In the Episcopal Convention of the Dio.
cese of Illinois, recently, q resolution was
introduced asking the General Convention
to change the name of the Church from
Protestant Episcopal to Holy Catho-
lie" So much opposition was manifested
to the proposition that it WAS hastily with.
drawn.
A patent recently granted in Vienna and
Berlin is for using bands of steel, tempered
and hardened, to transmit motion from ore
pulley to the other, in betting. The faces
Of the puueys, according to the arrange.
ment, are turned perfectly fat and then
covered with varnish of rosin, shellac,
and asphalt.
a New York editor recently sold some
of his oil paintings and brio brac, the sale
aggregating about 500, 900. An editors
art treasures accumulate SO rapidly that he
is obliged to have 9 clearance sale now and
specially il he wants TO spend a
month or two at Newport or Long Branch.
-[Norristown Herald.
A few nights ago O'Raferty said to
Teddy: " What is it, me bye, that you
have to do first thing in the morning?' 81
know well enough, fayther, what have to
do first thing in the morning." replied
Teddy, laughing. "What is it, ye spal-
peen?" "The first thing l have to do in
the morning is to get the kindling wood
ready the night before. "-[Texas Siftings.
On railway line passenger stopped
the guard and asked "Why don't
the trains go faster ?" "They run
fast enough to suit US. If you don't like
the rate of speed, get cut and walk, )" was
the rejoinder II would" replied the
passenger 'but that my friends won't
come for me until the train comes in, and
don't want TO be waiting about the sta.
ton for two or three hours. ~ London
Punch.
A Hungerford, Ia, couple went to LIE
Mars on the l9sh of July, to be married
but it seems that they had not settled their
UNCONVENTIONAL preferences, for at the hotel
employed, the swain wanting a Methodist,
while the lady would have none but Con-
gregationalist divine. The upshot of the
matter was that the lady walked back to
Hungerford Township, and the man, after
waiting day for her to relent, also went
home.
Laboratory utensils-funnels, capsules,
etc.-are now made in Leipsic from papier-
mache, and covered with protecting var
nish. They are unaffected by strong acids,
including sulphuric acid of &C degrees B.,
or by strong alkalies and alcohol, ether,
benzole, carbon disulphide, and other solv-
ents do not attack the varnish. It is
thought they viii prove very servicesble,
as they do not break like glass nor melt
like gutta-perchs, nor oxidize like the
common metals.
Crackers, says the Nature, play large
part in the supsrstitious observanees of the
ordinary Chinese. II is a popular belief
that the evil spirits everywhere inhabiting
the air are dispersed by cracking noises
attended by fire and smoke. Accordingly
crackers are used on all special occasions to
brighten away the demons who are tor
menting a sick person, or who crowd
pSoptS al Vic VI tHc
new year. Bamboo, which emits, when
burning, cracking sound, is also used
for the same purpose.
It costs the Government about one cent
to coin silver dollar. The trade dollars
could be exchanged for Bland dollars and
recoined at profit. The trade dollar never
would have circulated if the legal-tender
dollar had been honestly made with a dol.
lars worth of silver in it. The whole re-
sponsibility for the needless loss which is
now inflicted upon people who are not able
to stand it is due to Government misman-
agement. The fact that trade dollars are
only "pieces of silver" does not alter the
situation nor shift the blame from where
Improperly belongs. Philadelphia Record,
July I'd.
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