Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-03-31
u REcoRD-usIos" NOTES AND QUERIES.

waited until after the Virgins storm TO
get married. Il louisville Courier-J Journal ]
Just as if David was afraid Of squalls
Jas. B., Marysville. are correct.
The Prohibition vote in Ohio was much
greater in 1881 than in 1882. In the for.
mer year it was l6, 597, and in the latter
Il. 202.
Hoods "Song of the Shirt" was origi-
News. Mistake, it was sew low.-[Bos.
ton Commercial Bulletin. Of course, and
it was performed by Teller.
A new "star route " has just developed
in the East. A letter mailed in Province
town, Mass, last June, and addressed to
Highland Light, about four miles away,
has just reached its destination, having
been as far as Nova Scotia in one direction,
and Tucson, A. T.. in another, in the mean
time. Dorsey and Brady ought to have
expedited" that route
II. w. C.-The appellation "Connecti.
cut Blue Laws" was derived from the fact
passed by the Colony of New Haven, were
originally printed Oh blue paper. The
popularity and stringency of these laws
had nothing to do with giving them the
name mentioned, but from modern usage
that feature is expressed in the term.
E. R. W.-The lines quoted by you
dog to gain some private ends,
Went mad and bit mai.
The result of which was. however,
The man recovered from the bite,
The dog it was that died.
Are to be found in comic ballad composed
by Oliver Goldsmith.
An Ohio editor, who is down among the
orange groves of Florida, describing his
visit to one of them, says that appetite
seemed to feed upon inexhaustible supplies,
and the sweet succulence of the golden
bulbs spurted in shining sprays from press.
ing lips pouting with pulpy fragrance. -
Boston Globe. The editor of the Globe is
evidently jealous over the expressive die
ton of the Buckeye traveller.
A Florida exchange says that thirty
pound watermelons and sixteen-inch rad.
ishes are now being gathered in that State.
Another paper in the same town, but not
expected to reach SO distant readers, re-
marks feelingly about the rough deal the
alligators are getting from being frozen
under all winter, and says their only
chance out is through the openings made
by the ice.gatherers. Those Florida ed
itors should compare notes before going to
press.
Manufactures avedeveloped remarkably
in Sacramento during the past few years,
but there is one limo suggested by the pres
emit esthetical demand for old breken-down
chairs, one-legged storks standing in un.
kempt bulrushes, and ancient broken harps
with mouse-nests in them, for use in house.
hold decorations, which has been entirely
overlooked. The man who first takes the
field among our aspiring artists and numer-
GUS art societies, and manufactures harps
and breK en- ecked violins, 100 years old,
will have fat thing of 1t.
1t has recently besn discovered by ex.
pertinent that paper is as serviceable for
rails as for car wheels. IL is superior to
steel in that it is made durable, is not sub.
ject to the action of heat and cold, is light
er in weight, furnishes a better track for
the locomotive drivers, and is less expense.
Exchange. The next step will be to
make paper ties, when we will vertically
have RAILROADS on paper" and that ex-
pIcsSlOH WHICH, uclctOlOIC COANcycQ Vic
idea only that such roads were only in con-
temptation, or projected on paper. will
complete another step of evolution in the
Kings English.
The Chief of Police of Philadelphia has
taken the trouble to request the New York
World to say that none of his officers or
men were attendants at the funeral of the
late James Elliott, pugihst. He considers
such correction necessary in Justice to
himself and his department = Chicago
Herald. The Philadelphia Chief of Police
probably knows what he is about when he
thus denies the recent dispatch which as
serted that "all the thieves and plug
uglies in the country were at Eiliott's
funeral, and to prove it says that none of
his officers and men were present on that
occasion.
A curious advertisement has lately been
inserted in Paris paper, wherein certain
Yankee Engineer thus address all
whom it may concern - Having visit
ed the Leaning Tower at Pisa, Italy, am
fully convinced that the architectural
grandeur and beauty of this ancient and
colossal relic of the past ages can be won.
derfully improved. hereby offer to con.
tract TO put this immense structure IN
perpendicular position and raise it to a
level of the ground for the sum OF $780,. !
600, the terms of payment and time of
completion to be agreed upon, the time not
to exceed ninety days" Railroad Jour-
nal. That reminds us of the kindly dis
posed, hay.seed gentleman, who, meeting
a aighlY. cologned dandy at ia fashionable |
ball, said in a sympathizing way before |
number of ladies "Say, ! can tell you
what'll take that smell out Of your clothes
My brother met polecat once, and got
served in similar way, and he tried
everything to get the smell out and
couldn't do it, and finally he Jest went and
buried his clothes and left EN- few days,
and they came out all right, and SO will
your'n. Jest bury EN-, my friend, and it'll
take sll that smell right out Of EN-"
OLD Doc TRAY.-At the fire last SUM-
dav r,ioht or, Dunont street near Ciav San