Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-04-18
Ireland is bent upon peace, if she has to
fight for il and sink half of England.

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| in about month.
1t is stated that Paul Tulane, of New
Jersey, viii add S25, 900 to his previous
large gift to the city of New Orleans for
educational purposes on condition that his
former donations shall be free from taxa
| ton.
According to the Pittsburg Telegraph,
Philadelphia is place where doctors can't
tell whether woman is dying OF pneu.
monia or of three stabs in the side.-lNew
York World. Perhaps she has got the
measles.
Perhaps MIR. Parton will admit that
"the coming man can hardly get bet
ter religion than to be honest in little
things as well as in great, and to look for
what is good in his fellow. men rather than
for what is bad in them.
Columbia College makes the modest re-
quest for an endowment of 81, 600, 900 and
over, to enable it to become great uni
versisy. Some one of our Sacramento
business men should put his hand into his
pocket aud let the college have the little
amount desired.
An exchange, speaking of the Army
Mutual Aid Association. the life insurance
company of our military defenders, says
that it has paid S22. 500 to deceased
army officers" since January l, 1882.
This. if true, must be an attempt at a
literal fulfillment of the scripsural injunc.
ton to lay up ones treasures in heaven.
Judge Taft, of Ohio man of 7O-has
set an example of perseverance that young
er men might follow with advantage.
When he went to his post of duty in
Vienna last summer, he was totally igno.
rant of the German language. But ne has
mastered it, and often writes home to his
friends in the purest language of the Fa-
therland.
The attention given by certain life in
surance companies to the effect of alco-
holic drinks on the duration of human life
has developed one curious fact, which is
that the habitual use of beer, contrary to
general opinion, is more hurtful than like
indulgence in ardent spirits. This fact, if
it can be substantiated, must shake the
fealty of the loyal followers of Gambrinus.
| The Hour.
A popularity of dynamite is that its dis
charging power is not developed unless the
| heat communicated to it comes from full
minating compound. Hence it is that a
Illuminating cap or Illuminating fuse is in.
dispensable to produce an explosion. The
charge which would be sufficient to destroy
house might be let off with hot poker
on dining-room table with impunity.-
1.-THE Hour.
Leland Stanford figures in flying para
graph as "the largest vine grower in
America. That place of honor is held by
r. Nadeau, of Los Angeles, who owns
more vines than any other man in Califor-
MIA. Mr. Stanford aims to lead Mr.. Ma.
deau, and is having 2, 800. 900 vines planted
in Vina, Yola county, California. AL
bany Journal The Journals geography
is little off.
The Rochester Post sets itself against
the propored reduction of two cents a
gallon on whisky. "What good would il
do ?" asks the Post. eff our lawmakers
want to popplarize themselves they should
reduce the tax on the drink and let the
price per gallon remain where il is. It has
come about that statesmen do not grasp
the live issues of the day with sufficient
omprehensiveness."
A weed has been defined as "plant OF
which We do not know the uses, SO until
recently the cockroach might have been
described as an insect, the uses of which
are unknown. At present, however, that
repulsive enemy of the housekeeper comes
forward as an aid to suffering humanity,
and it is said that cockroach tea or pill
cockroach may be used with benefit in some
varieties of Bright's disease. Many would
endure the malady rather than dose of
the remedy.
1t is reckoued that the daily sale of nat
aral flowers in Paris realizes about $40, 000
The flowers most in fashion at present are
the gardenie, which sells at five francs
each flower the lily OF the valley, worth
ten francs the pot the queen rose and the
purple rose, the Spanish carnation and the
violet. OF the latter large number come
| from Nice but they have not the perfume
of those grown around Paris. The camellia,
at one time so much priced, is now quite
out of fashion.
The distance required for stopping rail-
road trains increases very rapidly with the
increase OF speed. In experiments made
in England the Westinghouse brake stop.
ped train moving at the rate of Az
miles an hour at point only 4S5 feet dis.
tant from the place where the brake was
| applied; but when the speed was increased
| to 81 miles an hour the distance run after
the application of the brake was !, lS5 feet,
and at speed of 81 miles an hour the
train ran zoos feet after the brake was ap-
piled.
| Going out to hunt in the forest one day
| late last autumn, the Empress of Austria
saw an old, half crippled woman totteringo on
the very brink of high, steep river bank.
| Springiug from her horse, she ran and
caught the poor creature, just in time to
save her life, and then discovered that the
old woman was blind, and that the child
who was acting as her guide had Jagged be-
hind. The Empress waited till the truant
| came up, and administered severe reproof
| for its carelessness, gave the old woman a
purse full of gold, and then rejoined her
companions In the chase.
The ArkanSap TraUeler sends in the fol-
lowing authentic food incident in the
South: "Yes, 1 enjoyed a very novel
sight, " said a gentleman who had Just re-
turned from the overlooked districts of Ar
kansas. ''In skiffs dinner party, includ-
ing myself, entered the window OF a resi-
dence. We padded around the parlor for
some time listening to the skillful perform
aRce OF young lady who sat in a canoe
and played on piano. After while din
ner was announced, and we padded out to
the dining. room. The waters padded
around US. LsaniDg back in my boat, I
caught sight of the cooking-stove, on a
small raft After dinner onr host proposed
fox chase, and we all readily assentea.
We went out into field here the water
was only eight feet deep, and watched the
dogs padding around trailing a for.
Pretty soon we discovered fox in small
boat, and Immediately lively chase began.
The hounds rowed with commemorate vigor
and the fox bent himself to his work. The
chase was very exciting People came out
in boats and watched the chase, and, upon