Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-02-22
NOTES BY THB WAY.

A man may hold his tongue at the wrong
time.
Chance is q word void of sense nothing
can exist without cause.-[Voltaire.
We should believe only in works, words
are sold for nothing everywhere. Il Rojas.
Ill fortune never crushed that man whom
good fortune deceived not Ben Jonson.
One pound Of learning requires ten
pounds of commsnsense to apply Ill Per-
sian Proverb.
Don't Judge man by his failure in life,
for many man fails because be is too hon.
est to succeed.
Nine. Modjeska writes to Cincinnati
editor that the proper spelling of her
maiden ZANE is Modrzejewska.
A little boy came to his mother recently
and said s. should think that if | was
made Of dust I would get muddy inside
when drink.
A smart American girl calls young fel.
low of her acquaintance Honeysuokle, y
because he's always hanging over the fcont
fence in the evenings.
The Duke of Wellington once Joined a
famous London gambling house, that he
might be able to black bali his SONS if they
ever became candidates.
Why are so many classic concert pieces
called " polor aises on the programme p
Edith. Bscauae they are quite long and
generally DRAG. Philadelphia News.
Victim Ito dentist)-'t Good heavens 2!
man, that is the second sound tooth you
have pulled" Dentist ito victim)-" I
beg your pardon, sir, but az you had only
three when l commenced, l think shall
make no mistake this time. II The Judge.
A New York man has 500. 900 invested
in the gathering of stale bread from the
hotels of that city, grinding it into food
for pigs and poultry. He employs nine
teams in the business. He pays the Aston
House, for instance, $500 year for its stale
bread.
A woman in Akron, Ohio, bothered the
central telephone Office for an hour and a
half tying to get her husbands ear to tell
him an important piece OF news. When
she was put in communication with him
all she had to say was: Baby's got a
tooth through"
Oh, see the girl Is the girl pretty ?
Oh, yes indeed, the girl Is pretty. She is
very pretty, and she knows it, too. Do all
pretty girls know that they are pretty
Oh, no, they do not. They never know it
until they are told SO that is why great
many homely girls think they are pretty
Puck.
The English Cabinet, as now constituted,
consists of fourteen members-aeven peers
and seven commouers. The average age OF
the peers in the Cabinet is nearly 60 that
| of TIE commoners little over "a, thus
giving for the whole Cabinet an average
age of 81. The average of President Ar
thurs Cabinet is about 40 years.
Mrs. E. a. Jewett, of Georgetown,
| Mass, coasted down . hill on hand-sled
the other afternoon, her ninetieth birth.
day. Though the sled went faster than a
railway train, she said, when asked if she
were frightened 'fNo, indeed l like il
as well az ever did, and never wondered
that children liked coasting."
Mrs. Emma B. Drexel, wife of Francis
| a. Drexel, Of Philadelphia, who died Nor .
day night, was noted for her philanthropy.
| She paved rent for more than $50 families,
and distributed among the poor over $40.
| 600 year. She employed woman to in.
stitute inquiry into the merits OF each
applicant, and once every week dispensed
groceries, clothing and money to the poor,
| who gathered every Tuesday IN the rear OF
her residence.
| The Kansas City Times Gays it Won't
ridicule the bill before the Connecticut
Legislature making it compulsory for voters
to remove their hats when depositing a
ballot, if it does not lead up to the neces-
sity of wearing a clswhammer coat and
doeskin pants. The whole scheme has
been sat upon. a man can vote, as usual,
without exhibiting his bald pate to the
derisive scorn Of his political opponent =
| New York Post.