Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-07-20
FEoAgIse wlsDom AID FACES.

"Whas county do you represent, sir ??
asked one individual of another in front OF
saloon enc day last week. . So L am not a
member Of the Legislature was the re.
ply; I'm only q private citizen on a
drunk.
Il is during these days of business that
a clergyman, on selecting chapter of the
Bible TO preach from in church, first looks
at the end Of the last verse to make sure
that no patent medicine advertisement is
| hitched on.
Is Miss Blank at home 2" asked 8 fault.
lessly attired bore of the new girl. The
girl took from her pocket Photograph,
carefully scanned it, and after another look
at the features of the visitor, answered
''No sir che has gone to Europe" He
left.
"When 1 grow up III be man, Won't
?" asked a little boy Of his mother.
g Yes, my sou if you want to be man
| you must be industrious at school, and
learn how to behave yourself why,
mamma, DO lazy boys turn out to be women
when they grow up?'
Fiity-four years gives the world $50, 0OC
miles of railway, exclusive of street roads,
requiring capital OF $50. $50 000, 600. Al
thi5 ratio, snd the same ratio of ircresse
Of population, the next ffty.four years
should give us an increase of at least one
million miles, requiring a capital of $50,
076, 600. Geo.
Stained window glass can now be made
at home by attaching 10 the plain window,
in artistic combinations, the clippings and
waste from the bench of the glass-cutser.
There is little wheel sold for something
less than dollar which will cut the glass,
and with this the amateur can shape the
pieces to suit himself.
TIE London Times considers intemper.
ance Che problem of the age 1t remarks
Drinking battles US, confounda us, shames
us and mocks us at every point 1t out
wits alike the teacher, the man CT bust
ness, the patriotand the legislator. Every
other institution may founder in hopeless
difficulties, but the public house holda on
It's triumphal course"
"Ssy, pop" eaid John Henry's hopeful,
the other day, wasn't it the prince Of
whales that swallowed Jonah" And John
patled his head, and gave him . nickel,
and told him he might some day be an al.
| dermsn and then rs be put on his slip.
pers, and found small chestnut bur in
each zoe, he took that boy over his knee
and wrestled with BIN. -[CIncinnatiT imes,
a number of New York spcrtsmen have
had several fox ohases in Nav Jersey re-.
Gently, and each time the fox escaped, AID
a number Of hounds were Loaf. Another
chase is announced, and to obviats similar
- = l.
attached to the fox's hind leg, and the
hounds viii be tied en- the hunters' horses
70 prevent them getting ost.-[Norristown
Herald.
FIRST bill. board Iounser-" see that the
bill compelling a mau to marry his de-
ceased wife's sister has passed second
reading by a majority of one" Second B.
B. L.-"But IL don't compel q man to
marry his deceased wife's sister it only
allows him to, if he wants to-" First B.
B. L." Then what in thunder is all EGG.
land raising such a row about, anyhow ?"
Philadelphia News.
A cure for rheumatism an English doc
tor has found IN total abstinence from food.
He declares that many cases of acute
srticular rheumatism have been cured by
chronic rheumatism was also slleviated.
No medicines were given, but patients
could have cold water and lemonade in
moderation. The doctor states that rheuma.
tism is only phaae of indigestion, and,
therefore, can be cured by giving complete
and continued rest TO ali the digestive
organs.
A Portuguese vessel of the sixteenth
century mas been found embedded eight
feet below the ground near Rangoop, in
British Burmah. While cutting the
TRantay Canal through the barren coun-
try, IN order to facilitate communication
between Rangoon, Basseiu, and other s,a-
tiOns, the la0orers came on the stem of SO
old ship, very much damaged, and man
aged 20 successfully unearth their find,
which is now in the Phayre Museum, Ran.
COON. It is $50 feet long, and must have
BEEN of about $50 feet burden.
When, Gays DR.. Squib, the fixed stopper
Of glass bottle resists all management
such as warming the neck with cloth
wet with warm water, by tapping, end by
the wrench, or by all these in combination
There is another means which will I'll.
most always succeed. Let the bottle be
inverted SO as to stand on tho stopper in
vessel of water SO filed that the water
reaches up to the shoulder of the bottle
but not to the label. Two or three nights
of this treatment may be required some.
times before the stopper will yield.