Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-04-03
SENSE AND NONSENSE.
where Pals the Oak,

SENSE AND NONSENSE,
Where Fails the Oak,
Where falls the oak, never again, It's said,
Another grows Where great poet climbed
Never another dares such eminenee
But who can count the blasts Of winter wind
The suns Of summer, tender breaths of spring.
Needed to give the oak its towering pride2
Less can we guess the pangs of human grief,
Or honeyed words Of loves sweet eloquence,
That nursed the poet into magnitude.
All are not oaks, yet the game sun warns ALL
And the same human passions sway US all,
And he who sings song to touch the heart
May strike the harp Of the yet unborn great
And echo thence to all eternity.
missouri Republican
A fashional journal says, flight trous-
era viii have to CO." Well, let 'em rip.
Max Freeman has been added to the
Madison Square Theater Company for next
season.
Flora Temple, the once famous trotter,
died February 18th at Cassidy farm, aged
IS yeare.
The National Baptist, referring to the
"rare wines" now offered to guests at the
White House, says they were much rarer
in the days of Mr.. Hayes.
One of the checklist things heard of
lately is the act of man who stole boot
from dealer and returned the next day
and made an offer for its mate.
A young man rarely gets better vision
of himself than that which is reflected
| from true woman's eyes, for God himself
sits behind them.-[J. G. Holland.
Nothing SO increases reverence for others
as great sorrow to ones self. 1t teaches
one the depths of human nature. In hap
piness we are shallow and deem others so.
| A snake was found frozen in solid block
of ice that was cut recently from a mill.
pond in Roslyn,. Long Island. On being
thawed out and warmed it was found to be
alive.
The parties who purchased the Centen-
NAL building, in Philadelphia, for S97, 900,
have already realized S405, 900 from the
iron in it, and have sold the debris for
| 500, 200.
An English lady residing in Greece gave
number of soldiers in the Greek army
copies of the New Testament, and the
Greek Government has compelled the
soldiers to return them.
A. King, of San Francisco, who is now
in San Diego, says that halibut are begin.
ming to run a month earlier than usual this
year. Large strings of these fish are being
taken from the wharyes.
Forty-nine one-legged soldiers were at
the G. A. r. encampment at Youpgs.
wn.-[Exchange. Ii would have been
difficult for that encampment to have ar
rived at very much understanding.
At Summons Gap, Georgia, there is a
man of so years who is now living with
his ninth wife. He has So children, and
at recent reunion of his family more than
800 of his descendants were present.
a housemaid in the country, Boosting of
her industrious habits, said that on particu-
lar occasions she rose at 4, put on the tea
kettle, prepared breakfast, and made up
the beds before single soul in the house
was up.
A little girl in Hartford Sunday-school
unused to diplomatic ways, sailed up to
her teacher and naively as could be said
"Mother wanted me TO find out in a
roundabout way whether you are Mrs. or
Miss"
Nature is one vast mirror in which we
may see the dim reflection of nobler field
of thought than the conflict of Earring
atoms or integrals of atomic force can ever
supply. We need first to gauge down.
wards that.
The late Ex-Governor Jewell, of Con-
necticut, made provision that fresh flowers
be sent to his youngest daughter, Mrs.
Strong, in her Western home, every Satur.
day as long as she lives, and set aside a
sum of money for that purpose.
A Georgia couple waited over four hours
for a good opportunity to elope. and just
| as it came the girls father took the young
man by the hand and said "Speak up to
her, Thomas l know she loves you, and
I'd be tickled to death to have you for a
son-in. law p
The widow of Alexander H. Tiltou, of
Tilton, Mass, was of a practical turn of
mind. She died recently, and when her
will was opened, it was found that she had
left legacy for the purpose of fire. en-
CINE for the village and for the completion
Of the steeple of the Episcopal Church.
| An industrious tradesman having taken
a new apprentice, awoke him at very
early hour the first morning by calling out
thas the family were sitting down to the
table. "Thank you" said the boy, as he
turned over in bed to adjust himself for q
new nap, "thank you, never eat any
thing during the night"
The late Rev. Richard O'Connor, Rector
of S.. Bridget's Church, Falls of Schuyl.
kill, Pa, by his will provided that $40 per
week should be paid for the care of his
faithful dog Spot, the balance of mis- estate
to go to the German Catholic Society of St.
Joseph for educating and maintaining poor
orphan children.-[ American Field.
John B. Cough lectured in Baltimore re-
Gently, and was disguised to find the print
ed bill referred to the event as the "last
appearance" Mr.. Cough declared his de-
tsstation of such clap-t trap and dishonest
advertising. He said " have been work.
ing forty-one years, delivering over 5000
speeches, and am not worn out yet.
A Georgia paper states as a singular in.
cident that at the outbreak of the war two
companies from Georgia, the Cobb infantry
and the Gilmore Blues, started out with
the same number of men, had the same
number killed, the same number wounded,
the same number dead from natural causes
and the same number dead from wounds
There is said to be marked preference
shown by various royal ladies in Europe
for particular kinds of fur. The Empress
OF Russia wears sable by choice, the EN-
press of Austria patronizes Astrachan
fur, the Archduchess Stephania of
Austria prefers otter, the Queen of Rou-
mania likes gray fur, marten is specially
favored by the Queen of Holland, while
the Queen Of Spain chooses beaver as her
favorite wear.
The Savage Club, of London, was pre-
scented with the club of Cetewayo by that
delighted chief, and it is now the cherished
baton of the London tribe. It's utility may
be guessed at, its beauty can hardly be too
much extolled it is, as explained, regu.
| lar masher-in the sense in which the Afri-
can chiefs use this article. namely, for
dealing out justice on the heads of men who
have deserved what they get, one blow
ending their career. The instrument is
! the insignia OF Office of the Chairman, and
was presented to the Prince of Wales for
evening service Of the tribe when he hon.
ored the club with visit.
Pope Leo XIII. recently gave audience
to Commission charged by the Archbishop
of Mexico, two other Archbishops and a
Bishop of that country, to present to his
Holiness a large sum of money, collected in
| their dioceses for Peters pence. In thank