Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-12-05
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| Miss Ella Wheeler is not supposed to
know much about babies. But writing to
Horper's Young People she says:
| The cunniugest thing that baby do
| Is to play for the verJ first time, Peek-a-boo
tbs old as the world is, l believe
Cam WIS taught it by Mother Eve.
For Cam was an innocent babe once, too,
And am sure he played Peeka beo.
And the whole world full OF the children of men
Have all of Them played the game since then.
And while the sun shines and the skies are blue,
Babies will always play Peek-a-bOo.
-[Iuter-Ocean.
Years of regret cannot take back a sharp
word once spoken.
Columbia, one of the oldest towns in
| Mississippi, and formerly the State Capt.
tal has Just completed its first church.
| Memphis Az alanche.
| Words of double meaning are of doubt
full propriety for ladies. A pure minded
woman will shun the very appearance of
evil, even in the words she uses.
He who respects his work so highly, and
does it so reverently that he cares little
what the world thinks of it, is the man
about whom the world comes at last to
think great deal.
If the deposits in New England savings
banks were divided among the entire pop.
ulation, each person would receive Sll3 II.
In New York State the proportion would
be ISL 0S to each individual.
"How is Johnnie doing at school p
asked lady of Johnnie's mother, during a
call. Splendidly. He is just through
perdition and distraction, and next term
he intends to study compound fractures
and disciples. He's smart at tiggers p
Nothing is easier than fault-fnding. No
talent, no self-denial, no brains, no char
acter are required to set up in the grum-
bling business. But those who are moved
by genuine desire to DO good have little
time for murmuring or complaint.
SIS you gwine to get a new overcoat
this winter p asked a darkey of COM
panion. "Well, dunno how OATS gwine
to be- was the reply. Use done got my
eye on coat, but de fellah dat owns it
keeps his eye on it, too. - Newark Call.
A Bluegrass newspaper foreman got a
marriage notice among lot of items
headed "Horrors of 1888" and when the
editor learned that the groom's income
was only seven dollars a week, he said it
had better remain under that head
| [Philadelp hia Chronicle.
The city of Halle possesses one of the
most interesting relics of Luther-a cast of
his face taken after death, in the night be-
| tween the 20sh and Dist of February, 1916,
when his corpse, while on the way from
Eisleben to Wittemberg, lay in the city
church, now st. Mary's, in Halle.
The recent earthquake in Java destroyed
such vast area of the cubeb- producing
lands as to give the cubeb market boom
| which may continue two or three years
This suggests the question-can cubebs be
produced in America? If so, there's
millions in it. u Industrial Gazette.
Charles James Fox, on one of his coca
sions for borrowing money, met with a
good natured Jew, who told him he might
take his own time for paying it back.
"Then," said Charles, well make it the
Day of Judgment, or, as that will be a
busy day, suppose you say the day after. y
Vienna, exclusive of its suburbs, con-
sumes daily 800 tons of bread, making
nearly ITO, 900 tons per annum, which, a.
the wholesale price of Is kreuzers per kilo-
gramme, represents daily value of 81, 900
forms, and an annual consumption of
round $4,000, 900 of forms, which are
equal to IS, 500, 900.
81 love to tell lie, love to tell lie, "
sang little Dick, with all the strength of
his three-y ear-old lungs. "Why, Rich
ard, " said his mother reprovingly, "you
must not sing that" ave singed that in
Sunday. school, stoutly asserted the little
fellow: "we singed, 1 love to tell the
story, and a story is a lie."
William Y. Buttes, the cowboy poet, ia
80 years old, wholly without education,
and spends all his time on the plains.
Exchange. William Y. Buttes, the cow
boy poet" is clerk in the Department of
State. Washington, d. c.. and was never
on the plains in his life. His name is Adee,
and he is chief of the Diplomatic Bureau.
L Inter Ocean.
The danger of lead-poisoning to which
the use of glazed esrthenware may expose
people has been pointed out in communi.
cation to the French Academy of Sciences.
The glaze contains much lead, which is
readily extracted by any substance that is
allowed to ferment in the dishes. Free
dom from rick may be secured by varnish-
ing the glazed surface with borosilicate of
lime.
Two Young men commenced the sail
making business at Philadelphia. They
bought lot of duck from Stephen Girard
on credit, and a friend had engaged to in
dorse for them. Each caught roll and
was carrying it of, when Girsrd remarked,
4" Had you not better get dray ?" "No,
it is not far. and we can carry it our
selves" "Tell your friend, said Gerard,
"he needn't indorse your note. l will
take it without.
William Portion, who was born on the
English man.of-war Saturn, on August II,
1888, who Joined the navy as youth and
stood close TO Nelson when he received his
mortal wound in the battle of Trafalgar,
has Just died at Wolversmpton, where he
had earned a livelihood for more than sixty
years. The Globe adds that he died in the
work house, touching illustration of how
England delights in honoring her heroes,
especially her naval heroes, being mistress
of the sea.
DR.. Mary Walker astonished visitor to
| the Interior Department the other day by
striking the cigar which he was smoking
out of his mouth and delivering lecture
upon the enormity of the practice of using
tobacco. The gentleman assaulted, suppos-
ing the doctor, from her attire, to be a
man, addressed her in very vigorous Ian
guage, concluding with the intimation that
| If he did not believe the person who had
assaulted him to be half a woman, he
would administer sound thrashing.-
Exchange.
All Australia was amazed when, nine
| wears ago, a ram was sold at auction for
the then unheard-of price of ETA. Since
then figures exceeding this have not been
| rare, and the maximum price until the
sales OF the present year was 400 guineas,
which was paid by Philip Russell, of
Carngham, two or three seasons ago. But
this price wsnes into comparative paltri.
ness before the sensational sale this year
of John Cummings ram by Lustre, which
was knocked down to the Hon. Thomas F.
Canning at the stupendous figure of 3, $50
guineas