Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-04-19

o, what are earth, and air and sky,
| Life's pomp and JOY, the pictured wall,
| When one sweet face, in passing by,
With ecstacy subdues them all Z?
-lJoel Benton, in the Critic.
Ex. Congressman Shanklin, of Lexington,
KY, has been terribly gored, and killed,
by bull.
Robert Goalet, of New York, has com.
pleted hundred thousand dollar cottage
at Newport.
A Detroit barber has the lockiaw. None
of the customers are willing that he should
find the combination IN. Y. Com. Adver.
vertiser.
Peter Cooper's greatness consisted, not
in keeping the millions of dollars he han.
died, but in using them for the benefit Of
humanity.
There are 40, 900 square miles of almost
unbroken forests in North Carolina, CON-
prising pine, chestnut, oak, maple, beech
and hickory timber.
General G.. I. Beauregard invented the
endless cable system, and used it in New
Orleans in 1870, afterward selling the
patent to Chicago firm.
"Aunt'; Polly Hatch died in Manchea.
ter, n. H., Friday, aged los years. She
was the Oldest person in New Hampshire,
and probably in New England.
The discovery of coal has caused big
excitement at Whittmore, Ia. The dis
covery was made in well forty feet deep,
where an eight,foot vein was struck.
Wrong to fiirt with your friends wife ?
| Maybe. But if she wants to firt and you
won't, she'll think you're stupid dummy,
and man must take some care of his own
reputation. Il Boston Post.
In the Episcopal church at Dent, York
shire, two long shelves are filed every
Sunday with loaves for the poor, which
! they carry away with them after the SER
vice. This is solid religion.
Little Jack Horner sat in the corner eat.
ing concentrated lye his mother came in
he had emptied the tin. They will meet
in the sweet by-and.by. He lived in
Wheeling, W. Va, and was two years old.
In Siberia milk is sold in blocks with a
little stick frozen in for a handle to carry
it, As the process freezes all the water
out of it, it is not expected that it will be
adopted in this country. Hartford Post
1t is reported that the premiums on the
pews having fallen off 81, 500, the appro.
priation for music in Plymouth church has
been cut down from Sc, 600 to $4,000, and
the hired quartet choir has been dis.
| missed.
A prize type.setting contest took place
recently in Berlin, where the winning COM
positor set 9,4l5 letters in the course of
three hours, an average of about fifty.
three letters per minute in ordinary news
paper type.
Tom Marshalls last words, as he turned
his face toward window, were This is
the end l am dying on borrowed bed,
under borrowed blanket, in a house built
by public charity! Bury me under that
oak tree, where there is plenty of room. 1
have been crowded all my life
| At fashionable wedding in New York,
| the other day, the ceremony was performed
under floral umbrella. This was proba.
| bly, little suggestion of the brides moth.
by the emblem that he ought to put up
something for araipy day. Harlem Times.
George Gussie Sala, he of the rubicund
nose, says in his america Revisited that
the Sunday bells "boom and bawl from
sunrise to sunset, as though they were SO
many hotel gongs calling guests to theo-
logical meals By the way, was Sala in
the country over Sunday on his last visit !?
Hartford Post.
First dude, with an embarrassed smile
essay. Augustus, 1 really believe I've
broken corset lacing. Have you an extra
one with you? Second dude, with an ex.
preston of horror" Really why, Alger.
mon, where could you fix it if had one
The gyurls are all looking at us, We know. :"
Il Hartford Post.
meeting of Israehtes was held in this city
(San Francisco, to choose new minister
for congregation. Politics in the pulpit
has been heard of before, but mass.meet-
ing for such an election is certainly nov
city. Why did the reporter say nothing
of the bonfire and the torchlight process.
sion 1.-THE Hebrew.
The Rev. DIR. George E. Pentecost has
discontinued his services in the Brooklyn,
n. Y, Academy of Music, for the reason
that the Directors have rented the build
ing Sunday evenings to person who
claims to cure people in the Apostolic fash-
ion, "by the laying on of hands and by
faith" Mr.. Pentecost hasn't any faith
in that kind of public. show religion.
Nordenskiold is about ready to sail away
to the north again. He expects to leave
Gottenburg, Sweden, in May. The main
object is to search for colonists planted in
Greenland in the tenth century. Another
is to survey the east coast of Greenland,
from point opposite the southern part OF
Iceland to Cape Bismarck, the extreme
northern psrt of Greenland on the east
side. The patron Of Ns1denskjold is Oscar
Dickson, lumber merchant Of Gotten
burg. MIR. Dickson is estimated to be
worth 100000.
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has
decided that Catholic priest cannot re-
cover salary from his bishop. The case
was that of a priest who sued the Bishop
of Pittsburg for three years salary. amount.
ing to 81, 400. The plaintiff had been IDLE
during that time because the Bishop would
not appoint him to pastorate. The Judge
remarked that areligious organization VI hlch
forbids its priests to do secular work ought
to provide for their support; but when an
attempt is made to force the payment OF
salary, a contract has to be shown.
The cent. bunch tax on matches yields
the Government daily income of nearly
$4,000. Any one who desires can figure
from this, approximately, how many
matches are used per day. On the insig-
nifcant little bunch of matches 10 levied
by far the heaviest tax known to CT vilized
Governments. Your grocer will charge
fifty cents for quarter gross package. OF
this sum thirty-six cents stands for the tax
of penny bunch, while fourteen cents
represents the first cost and the manufact-
urer's, iobber's and retailers profits.
At the auction sale in New York OF the
library of the late DIR. David King, of