Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-04-02


That they should give the sacred sod ny last my
farewell kiss
It's there the airest scenes of earth my fancy fondy
paints
The land love beatifed. the Island Of the Saints
May heavens lightning blast the arm OF him that
would Cypress her;
May heavens sunburst cheer the heart Of him that
prays, God bless her
Don't you think the bride is foolish That
she never marries the best man?
Shelbyville and Murfrsesboro, Tenn,
are now connected By telephons.
Henry G. Margaund has contributed
S., 900 for public library, at Little Rock,
Ark.
Since the advent Of the telephone it is
more than ever true that walls have ears.
[Dstroit Post.
Envy and jealousy make The cushion of
your chair pin. cushion, with the points
of the pins all turned upward.
The ceiling in the Opera House at Rou-
en-, France, is decorated with the likeness
es of popular and prominent townspeople.
-[Exchange.
One hundred and sixty active and two
hundred associate members belong to the
Mozart Society and Conservatory of Music
Of Memphis, Tenn.
Dagnan. Bouveret, of Paris. is at work on
picture of the waiting. room of hospital
to which women have brought their chill
dren to be vaccinated.
At the end of April the crown jewels of
France will be sold at public auction, with
the exception of few of rare artistic value,
which will be held as national property.
Frank HattoD, son of Joseph Hatton,
the London journalist and novelist, who
has achieved reputation as a traveller in
savage countries, was shot recently during
an elephant hunt in Borneo.
A Philadelphia man who visited the
Signal Service Department while in Wash
ington, says it reminded him of social
party. All the people were talking about
the weather. Il Philadelphia News.
A Cincinnati paper calls for State por-
trait gallery at Columbus containing the
pictures OF Grant, the two Shermans,
Sheridan. Gilmore, Rosecrsns, Mcdowell
and Pope, Chase, Stanton, Hayes and Gar
field.
A man in st. Tammany, La, freed a
wildcat and set fire TO the bushes to smoke
him out. The flames soon got beyond his
control, and burned forty panels of fence
for neighbor. OF course the wildcat es-
capped.
The rate of vibration of the rattlesnake's
tail has been determined by DR.. OFT to be
sixty per second. The method of expert.
ment was to attach pen to the snake g
rattles, the record being received on q re-
velving drum.
The Louisville Courier-Journcl says the
farmers in the vicinity of Charleston, S. c.,
have been picking strawberries several
days. The crop promises good result.
Some sales have been made of choice kinds
as high as SO so per quart.
The Literary Club of Manchester, Eng.
land, has begun subscription to buy from
the daughters of the late John Leech zoe
drawings by that talented draughtsmsn, tc
be placed in the Permanent Art Gallery
The sum wanted is Sc. go.
A drunken engineer on the Western and
Atlantic Railroad few nights ago ran his
train from Chattanooga to Boyee station, 6
distance of FIVE miles, in six minutes. He
arrived there just in season to be dis
charged for his "good time.
a negro in Mobile, Ala, created sen.
sation and caused himself to be suspected
of murder by making a false grave and
putting near it corn sack saturated with
blood. His object was to "hoodo" ths
witches who protected supposed buried
treasure of which the negro was in search
A grand duck hunt was INDUCED in las
week by James 3. Brown and wife, J.
Henry Halle, Miss Emma Hall, E. J.
Okell and Miss Jennie Brown, a short dis
tance from Maine Prairie. The laurell
were about evenly divided between the
female nimrods and their escorts, all tire,
of the ladies being good shots.-[Solant
Republican.
A mystery explained: "Strange," re
marked Mrs. Brown; 81 have rung a
Mrs. Smiths door three times this week
and / didn't succeed in raising anyone.
bly," replied Mrs. Jones; "but Mrs
Smith was telling me just now that she
could tell your ring among thousand. -
Boston Transcript.
G.. A. Pike, Secretary of the Historical
Society of Louisiana, states that at tbs
next meeting, which is subject to call BY
the Hon. Charles Gayarre, a proposition
will be made to excavate some prominent
Indian mound in that State, for the pur
pose of aseertaining if the relics will com
pare with those from similar places in Mis-
souri, and elsewhere.
The Partisan chemists are making arsi
fetal turquoise from phosphate of alumins
and phosphate Of copper combined, and
subject to high pressure. 1t is an excel.
lent imitation, and indeed ought to be,
siuce the chemical composition is very
nearly the same, the real stone being by.
drafted phosphate of alumina, with two pei
cent. of oxide of copper.
The result of a recent election for county
officers in Falls county, Texas, was de
termined by the votes of seventeen natural
lied Cinnamon; and the defeated candi
dates are testing the election upon the
ground that State law, passed in 1875
limited the issuance of naturalization
papers to white foreigners, and, it i
claimed, disfrspchised Cinnamon who hat
already taken ont naturalization papers.
A poor debtor 81 He has paid the deb
of nature" said minister to q man WHIT
inquired after one of his parishioners
fare you sure of that ?" asked the man
ooh, yes; for l was at the funeral.
"Well, I'm glad that he paid it, for he hat
been owing me seven dollars for barrel o
-four SO long that had begun to think HI
wouldn't pay anything Nature wa.
mighty darn lucky, that's all I've got t
say. THE Drummer.
Within the past two weeks. says tbs
Wooster (0) Democrat, dangerous coun
terfeit silver dollars have been in circula
ton. They have de6ed detection at th'
hanks. and are taken in and paid out as i
they were genuine. They are compounded
of zinc ard glass and heavily plated Will
silver. The die, with the exception of az
"m on the base CT the neck of the God
dess of Liberty, is perfect. It is the mos
dangerous counterfsit yet made, and bust
ness men should carefully examine theil
silver dollars.
In REGARD to the changes in color which
leaves undergo in the fall, it is stated by
those who know that the coloring of thu
leaves of the maple, oak and other trees oil
the American continent is not due to tht
action of frost, but to certain chemica
changes which accompany the ripening o
the leaves. American naples taken ovel
to Europe will perfect their foliage for |
Fau vears-that is. the brilliant colorins