Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-05-09
laura G. Carr in Boston Journl

LaIIa u. Carf Boston JOur0dl
A drum fish has been caught at st. Au-
gustine, Fla, which weighed over forty-six
pounds.
"How sensibly your little boy talks p
exclaimed Mrs. Smith. Yes" replied
Mrs. Brown; she hasn't been among COM
pany yet"
1t is said to be very difficult thing to
throw stone in Salt Lake City without
hitting Brigham Young's widow.-[Roch-
ester Post-Express.
They arrested man in Brooklyn IN.
Y the other day for pretending to be
policeman" He was found guilty on the
ground that he was asleep.
An Owen county (Ky.) hen sat on fif-
teen eggs and brought out nineteen chick
ems, says an exchange. The hen must be a
shrewd one, or else there's a newly matched
lie out.
General Ross, of Baltimore, has como
into possession of very curious war relic,
it being nothing more than common fence.
rail, with twenty bullet holes in ia
souUenir' of Antietam.
The Rev. DR.. Dix bowls because Ameri-
can women do not bear larger families, but
it isn't likely that all his bowling will &C.
complish much in the way of remedying
the evil.-[Lowell Citizen.
Lambrequins for parlor mantels are of
the fashionable terra.cotta shade of plush,
embroidered in geometrical designs those
of bedrooms are of raw silk, with inser-
ton of colored satin and fringe to match
the insertion.
A few drops of hartshorn put into q little
water will clean a hair-brush nicely. If
very dirty use little soap also. After
cleaning, rinse in clear water, lie string
around the handle and hang it up to dry.
[Chicago News.
Statistics reported in the Union Meclicale
give the number of deaths in the French
army from small. pox at l,037. In the
German army during the same period there
was not single death from that cause.
Vaccination and revaccination upon enter
ing another army corps are compulsory in
Germany.
It is said that the whip is never used for
horses on Governor Stanford's stock. farm
at Palo Alto, CAL, and not only is this for
hidden, but an angry word by any of the
men is followed by instant dismissal.
There are on this farm 537 head of horses,
nearly all yearlings and two-year.olds.
Eastern Exchange.
The Studio, weekly started recently by
artists in the interests of the profession,
advocates specific duty of 500 on all
paintings and sculptures. The argument
is that the dearer the imported picture or
statue the less will be the proportional
duty, while cheap articles will be saddled
with duty thoroughly prohibitory.
As illustrating the lazy climate OF Flor.
ida, correspondent tells how on two occa-
sions he has witnessed brakes whistled
down and train.load of passengers stopped
in the pine woods while the conductor
slowly ambled off to neat cottage in a
little orange grove and kissed his wife and
large family of children ranged along on
top Of the fence.
The Olney (Ill.) Republican says: De-
catur charges $500 a year for license, and
has twenty .one saloons; Bloomington 5000,
and thirty-three saloons Rockford $500.
and twenty-five saloons Paris $500, and
six saloons Eigin $500, and fifteen sa.
looms Danville 5000, and forty saloons
Nation $500, and eight saloons Olney
$500, and nine saloons.
1t is alleged that careful statistical in
vestigation among the Good Templars of
county in England has proved the smok-
ing teetotalsrs to be over five times more
liable to break their pledges than those who
abstain from tobacco. Consequently, the
newest craze in the ranks of the hydropads
is thorough going" badge of blue, with
white stripe down the middle, the mean
ing of which is that the wearer has taken a
pledge not to use tobacco.
The substitution of steam for sails in the
grain export trade is going on with great
rapidity. No longer ago than 1880, sailing
vessels took out from the port of New York
over 63. 600, 600 bushels, and steam vessels
only $4,000, 600; but the following year
the exports by sail fell off to 9, 600, 600, and
those by steam increased to 81, 600, 900.
Last year the shipments by sail even
dropped to about 5000, 900, while those
by steam reached about 40, 900, 600.
The irrepressible Mr.. Wheeler has started
London gossip afresh by opening collec-
ton of his etchings in an apartment in
Bond street, which is gotten up in the most
eccentric fashion ever seen. The walls are
lined with white felt, and the chairs,
benches and curtains are covered with vel.
low hangings. The attendants are also
rugged out in yellow. The catalogue, to be
thoroughly in keeping, is made up of mock
notices from the Times and the other Lon
don papers, intended to ridicule the critics.
Poor Yawcob You say your wife is
trying to get DIVORCE" said the lawyer.
Yaw," answered Hans Spreckendeutch.
q Yaw, dat is SO" "And now you want
to sue Jacob Schneider for damages for
alternating her affections ?" Yaw." ''Was
she good wife % No, she vas bad
vomans. "Did you love her very much %
No, I'm PETER midout her." Well IF
she was q BAD woman and you are better
without her, you are not much damaged if
Jacob Schneider takes her off your hands. :"
Yaw. it looks like dot, amt it? Mebbe
its peter l don'd say nuttings about it.
But, Ply shiminies, I pities dot Yawcob
Schneider u The Bookkeeper.
Shortly after the passage of the Four
tenth Amendment large darkey entered
Greeley's private room, while he was busily
engaged in writing at the Tribune Office.
The colored gentleman, with large gold
haadad napa ,1ndar his arm and n fine