Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-05-08
ALL TOPICS FROM ALL CHIMES.
Love Is a Legal Tender.

Love Is q Legal Tender.
What has my darling been doing to-day,
To pay for her washing and mending7
How can she manage 10 keep out Of debt
For 80 much caressing and tendingf
How can wait till the years have flown
And the hands have grown larger and stronger
Who will be able the interest to pay
Ii the debt runs many years longer?
Dear little feet How they fly to my sidel
While arms my neck are caressing,
Sweetest Of kisses are laid on my cheek,
Fair head my shoulder is pressing.
Nothing at all from my darling is due
From evil may angels defend her
The debt is discharged as fast as it's made,
For love is legal tender.
Seventy evangelistic meetings are held
weekly in Paris.
We are no longer happy SO soen as we
wish to be happier.-[La Motto.
It is estimated that the increase in Texas
sheep farms this spring will net the State
Sl3. 10000
President James Buchanan's brother is
an Episcopal minister, now living quietly
in Philadelphia.
Silk culture Is to be carried on by a
large number of boys and girls at Nash.
vile this spring.
At the last day it will not be asked what
we did, or what we believed, but what we
loved. Bernard.
1t is said Quartermaster General Ingalls,
will go op the retired list of the United
States Army August 23d next.
What disease is most frequently trans
mitted by kissing f-[Clara. Palpitation
of the heart, we believe. Philadelphia
Press.
The diamond mines of Brazil were first
opened in 1927. It is estimated that since
that time they bave produced at least two
tons of diamonds.
No man can possibly improve in any
company for which he has not respect
enough to be under come degree of re-
straint- Chesterfield.
| We hear good deal about the rage
for speculation" but Fogg, who speaks
from experience, says the rage generally
comes after the speculation.
Since 1862 there have been produced in
| whisky, as shown by the records of the In
ternal Revenue Department.
Inasmuch as an elephant has no children
until she is thirty, and never more than
six, it is marvellous where all the ivory,
now SO scarce, has come from.
| AT Grace Lutheran church, Lancaster,
Pa, on recent Sunday, was rededicated
an historic church.bell cast in England in
l745 for the Ephrata Dunkers.
Rev. DR.. Newman says Voting is Just
as sacred duty as prayer. You say the
politician is dirty then clean him up. II
the caucus is low, elevate it, purify it.
On the fence of an old graveyard in Penn
sylvania appears the following inscription
| in large white letters 'Use Smiths bot.
tied ale if you would keep out of here"
The Princess Louise finding some chill
dren playing marbles in the hallway of the
Brunswick, at Boston, the other day,
stopped down and taught them new
game.
There are only two Irish Dukes, but the
race will not probably soon become ex.
| tinct, for one Of them, Abercorn, has fifty
seven grandchildren and five great.grand.
children.
Mr.. Blaine expects to leave Washington
for his home at Augusta, Me-, about June
| lst There he will continue work upon his
book from the notes he is now busily en-.
gagged in taking.
"Don't you think 1 have good face for the.
stage?" asked lady with histrionic aspi-
rations. 81 don't know about the STAGE"
replied her gallant companion, "but you
have lovely face for a buss.
The RailWay Passenger agent is the
name of new weekly Journal published in
Chicago, and devoted principally to the
field OF railway news. 1t is presented in
similar form to that of the Rail,0ay Re-
Uiew. The new paper is published at Chi
cage by Frank E. Morse and Charles D.
Relyea, with w. V. Smith and L. I. Stan.
ley as editors.
A Coptic church of the fifth century has
recently been discovered among the ruins
of Thebes. The way down to it is five
brick steps, the floor is tiled and the walks
are of rough bricks, bearing inscriptions.
| On stella, covered with hard white sub
stance, are 300 lines written in red ink In
Theban, forming part of a sermon directed
against heretics.
A fire balloon has been made in which
the lower part is constructed of asbestos
cloth, while the upper part is covered by a
fire,proof solution. A spirit lamp is used
to supply the hot air for initiating it, and,
being fire-proof, there is no risk, as with
ordinary hot air balloons. The system is
said to be specially valuable for war bal
looms, as supply of spirits can be easily
carried where 1t would be difficult to take
the appliances for preparing gas.
Babies are at present decidedly
drug in the English market. A short time
ago one was advertised for sale for 81 los.
Again, it came out in evidence, on a school
board summons, that child had been
bought for shilling and last week the
mother of wo-months-old infant put her
baby into bag of rags which she was
about to sell to rag dealer, with the view,
apparently, of at once getting rid OF the
child and of making the bag heavier.
An enormous quantity of water passes
through the roots of plants. An English
experimenter has ascertained that for every
pound of mineral matter assimilated by a
plant, an average of 1000 pounds of water
is absorbed. At the French Agricultural
Observatory of Montsouris it was found
that in rich soil, 727 pounds of water
passed through the roots of wheat plants
for every pound of grain produced; while
in a very poor soil, 1903 pounds passed
through the wheat roots for each pound of
grain.
The daughter of an English Baronet fell
in love with poor lawyer nearly one hun
dred years ago. She challenged him to
fight duel, which he was forced to accept.
She appeared masked, and gave him the
choice of either fighting her or marrying
her. His second, who was also unaware of
the womsn's identity or the cause of her
strange conduct, advised his principal to
marry her. After the ceremony, during
which she still wore the mask, they drove
to her rich home, and after withdrawing