Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-04-05

-[Wheeling Journal.
Thinking is the talking'of the soul within
ITSELF Plato.
We are shaped and fashioned by what
we ove.-[Goethe.
At the last Queens drawing room the
Princess Of Wales wore two shades Of
green.
There is new French saying, "a woman
is like an army-sbe is lost if she has no
reserve"
An Ashland (O.) wife recently became
the mother of perfectly healthy babe
weighing less than one pound.
Sophronia-" What is philosophy" 1t
is something which enables a rich man to
say there is no disgrace in being poor.
It is the favor Of man which gives the
beauty of comeliness to woman, as the
stream gGtters no longer when the sun
cesseth to shine.-[ Talisman.
An examination shows that 459 cut OF
every 1000 postal orders are for SIS or less.
This indicates that the new postal order for
any amount under S. will be very much
used.
Young ladies who are pining to paint
flower pieces" are reminded that the
flower pieces that are the most attractive to
the marrying man is batch of good bread.
Il Boston Commercial Bulletin.
The Omaha Bee says: On account Of
sanitary reasons the people of Cheyenne
| urge the erection of new jail. A large
portion of the citizens frequent il, hence
}ba tv 70 hava ~ hJa
The engagement is announced of O. H.
Northcote. son of Sir Stafford Northcots
and partner in the banking. house of J.
S. Kennedy & Co., New York, to Miss
Edith Fish, daughter of ex. Secretary Fish.
Lolita, the actress. is reported as favor.
ably inclined to the matrimonial stage in
company with a ''blarsted Britisher u
named Cecil Payne. No American would
marry her after having once seen her kick.
[Salt Lake Tribune.
A man at hotel fell the whole length
of a fight of stairs. Servants rushed to
pick him up. They asked him if he was
hurt. ''No," he replied, mot at all. I'm
used to coming down that way. I'm a
life insurance agent. "-[Boston Post
According to the Cincinnati Enquirer a
tramp refused to saw wood for his dinner,
giving as a reason that he was bitterly op-
posed TO the destruction of our forests, and
would do nothing TO encourage that kind OF
business. And he walked off picking his
teeth.
There is a story sfoat of wild woman
in North Carolina who skips among the
mountains and skins over the swamps
where nobody can follow her. She wears
nothing but robe Of skins, and when the
weather is warm she neglects dressing al
together.
Wong Ching Foo, the editor of the
Chinese american, is about to begin the
translation into English of the ''Fan
Yong, or the Royal Slave, the most popu.
lar of Chinese historical novels. The ro-
nance was written 300 years ago, by
Kong Ming.
A kite was recently made at Rochester,
N. Y, which contained nearly $50 square
feet of surface. 1t was flown with a
three.eighth inch rope 5000 feet long,
and shot into the air like balloon. After
floating a mile high for two hours it was
brought down only by means of pulley
and team.
Miss Ottalie ]. Klauczek, a pianist of
national reputation, who for several years
past has figured extensively in concerts
and recitals in New York, has become
violently insane within the past few days,
and is now an inmate of the Insane Asy-
Inn at indianapolis. Ind. Her condition
is such as to excite grave apprehension of a
fatal termination.
A Chicago paper says that a printer has
been cured by prayer, which leads Texas
paper to say that, IF he was cured of ex.
tracing the word in paragraph on which
joke hinges and substituting word OF
his own to make sense, as he puts it, we
will indorse the prayer cure and give it a
five-inch electro ad. free, one year, top col.
umn, next to reading matter"
In response to a request from the Rev.
DR.. Henry Alloies, Union Chapel, Canon
bury, London, the Pilgrim Society oil
Plymouth have sent small block of "Fore
fathers Rock, inches by 4, for inser.
ton in front of the pulpit of that splendid
edifce Relics of the "rock" are now
scarce. This is the first time London has
come to Plymouth on such an errand.
The London Daily News, in an article
on dresses at the court drawing room,
says: Brocade remains in the ascend.
ant as a favorite material for the
linked sweetness, long drawn out, OF
trains for court dresses. Shot satins come
pext in order of favor, though they stand
first in order of merit, by reason of the
artistic softness of their changing hues."
One of the results of the late Commits.
sioner LIE Dues experiment in tea raising
at the South has been the adoption of the
tea plant in some localities as hedge
plant, for which it is admirably adapted
when soil and climate are congenisl to its
growth. 1t grows low, bushy and well
branched, with dark, glossy evergreen
leaves, and in autumn is decorated with
large. pure white flowers.
The Philadelphia Progress says of Easter
cards: (" Fer the girl who serves in an or
binary Irritation card worth ct the most
SO is sufficient. Cards for husbands to give
to their wives may be had from few PEN
MES up. To present to other gentlemen
wives the $50 variety is recommended.
These latter must not be delivered by post
man, but By private messenger at tine
lady'a residence, during business hours"
The large mosaic portrait of Garfield,
executed by Salviati of Venice, and pre-.
sented by him to this country as com.
panion to his portrait of Lincoln, has
reached London, and is attracting admir-.
ing attention. It is composed Of 5000
minute pieces of enamel, and at a little
distance it is said can hardly be diatin-
guished from an oil painting, and besides
y hich it has great advantage as to durabil-
ity Of color.
George Bancroft's hyacintha are in their
glory, and the little squares of ground on
either side of his front door are q wealth of
gorgeous color and sweet perfume. They
will be followed by tulips, and the early
roses in the garden at the back of the
house. Then he goes to Newport for later
and more abundant roses, that are sue
ceeded by autumn flowers, which last till
cold weather sends him back here for the
winter. II Albany Journal.
A new invention iz reported from Turin.
1t consists in the application of light