Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-08-11

Ex-Governor Brown draws S25, 900 a
year as President of the Florida Ship
Canal.
A new horseshoe has been devised which
is composed of three thicknesses of cow
hide compressed into steel mold and sub.
iecsed to chemical preparation. Is is
said to last longer than the common shoe,
weighs only one-fourth as much, requires
no corks, and is very elastic.
Grocer Peterson, in Stockholm, has got
an outdoor man from Smoland. One day
ions complained of the terrible heat. 81
got up last night to look at the thermome-
ter" said ne, "and it showed twenty eight
degrees" (Celliusl. Was it in the
shsde?" mo; had light.
The portraits on the new postage stamps
that come into effect October lst are 0ae.
cent, Franklin cent, Jackson; 3 cent,
Washington Scent, Garfield; 6 cent,
Lincoln 7-cent, Stanton 10 cent, Jeffer-
son; II cent, Clay l5.cent, Scott 80
cent, Hamilton 90-cent, Perry.
The Indisna Supreme Court has decided
that telegraph company cannot, by the
use of blanks containing q contract that
the company will net be liable for mistakes
or delays in sending an unrepeated mes
sage, defeat the object of statute giving
damages for failure to transmit messages.
Seated once with the driver of stage.
coach, Phil. Sheridan, in replacing his cl-
gar, put the lighted end in his mouth. lie
WINGED, and shook his head. The Jehu
managed to get his head turned from the
wheeler and said From the fuss that
they was maxim about We l never thought
yees gas afraid of little foire like that. :"
George H COrliss, at whose works in
Rhode Island the big Centennial engine
was built, is building the engine for the
first cotton mills to be erected in China.
The Chinese are becoming so civilized that
they will soon be able to compete with the
rest of the world in making silks and
satins, nine.tenths cotton and one-tenth
shine.
Aecustom yourself to submit on all and
every occasion, and on the most minute,
no less than on the most important cir
cumstances in life, TO q small present evil,
to obtain greater distant good. This will
give decision, tone and energy to the miRd,
which, thus disciplined, will often reap
victory from defeat, and honor from re-
pulse. -[Colton.
The cheapest postal service in the world
is that of Japan, where letters areconyeyed
all over the Empire for two sen-about
seven-tenths of penny. This is the more
wonderful, considering the difficulties Of
transit over mountainous and irregular
country, that has less than 100 miles of
railway, while wagons can only pass over a
few of the chief roads, and the steamers
connect but small number of coast sta
tions.
The printing of the new English die
tionary, which is in preparation in London,
has proceeded to the end of the article
alternate" and at that point there
are over 5000 entries, as COM
pared with under 5000 in Webster, The
statisticians connected with the project
have calculated that the work will contain
nearly $50, 600 entries, aud that the quota
tions will reach more than LOCO, 900 in
number.
Many common proverbs to which we have
given local habitation and name are, in
fact, borrowed from other countries. "You
carry Goals to Newcastle might seem to
claim Englasd for father, but the senti-
ment had existed for eyes before John Bull
himself was born. "You carry oil to
city of olives" is Hebrew proverb that
has been in use for 5000 years, and "You
carry pepper to Hindostan is an Eastern
adage Of perhaps as great antiquity.
CONVERSATION ON DOORSTEP.
&C. d. What does it meanl
/ know nooe by that name.
o yes, | see, It's Charles, Old Dear
From him the package came"
&c You are wrong, dear Miss" the driver said,
" You do not understand,
1t means Cash On Delivery,
Currency On Demand"
&" Catch On, Driver, now" said she,
50 It's Coin Or Death. Too bad
Well wait moment till run
Upstairs aud Call On Dad"
-GExpress Gazette.