Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-05-29

lCnicagO heIalO.
The youngest telegraph operator in the
world is probably little girl ten years old,
Halle Hutchinson by name, who lives in
Texas, and has charge of the telegraph Of
fee at the railway station al which she re.
sides.
The new Capitol architects at Albany
report that its completion will require
81, 100, 944, of which $4,000 is needed
for the tower and ST. 500, 900 for the ter.
race. The sum now needed will bring the
total cost to SIS, 953 937.
An INSCRIPTIONS person contributes this
to the Courier. Journal "a gentleman
went down to Missis sippi from Tennessee)
TO prospect, with view to inmigrating.
He happened to be in tina. part of the
country which the tornado struck, and was
completely carried away with it.
It is claimed that tall tree has been
discovered in Victoria, Australia, that far
euIpassea any OF the great trees of Califor.
MIA. Il iH variety of the eucalyptus tree,
and it is claimed that it is 430 feet high,
and measures 60 feet around the trunk, at
considerable distance above the roots.
Charles II. yelling, who failed in New
York in 1868 for $500, 900, paying only
fifty cents on the dollar, has recently
sought ont his old creditors and paid them
nearly in full. As he was under no legal
obligation to do so, the majority OF people
VINO are familiar with the facts are para
lyzed with amazement. Surely AN honest
man is the noblest work Of God" as well
az the scarcest.
The orfe.mile sensation" race prac.
ticed In England is after this style: The
competitors run around the track once,
carry their machines round once, wheel
their bicycles round backwards once, and
ride the three remaining laps. In the "dis-
mounting" race the riders have to dis.
mount every time they pass the judges
stand, and lift their machines over q post
placed across the track.
A large collection of weapons and i'm.
elements from the stone age in Japan has,
Nature is informed, arrived in London.
The collector, Herr Won Siebold, is an of.
fetal of the Austrian Embassy in Japan,
and has resided fol- many years in the lat
ter country. The collection embraces q
large number OF flint arrow-heads, celts,
axes, as we'll as numerous specimens of pot
terry taken from she'll HEAPS in various
parts of Japan.
It is said that the greatest dread of q
gambler is that he will be paralyzed. They
nearly all expect to die from a shock of
some kind. 1t may come from the fact
that great many of them have gone that
way. IT man with withered arm or
deg should happen in q gambling house the
dealer would quit his chair. Another
dread of gamblers is man who comes in
to play with a cane in his hand. That ia
regarded as bad luck to the house, Elk.
change.
AT the "New York Farmers" dinner,
recently, Thomas Sturgis, gentleman
representing 10000 head of cattle, gave
the following regarding the Wyoming
Stock Growing Association This body
organized ten years ago with ten members,
representing $4,000 head of cattle, worth
$500, 600; to-day it has a membership of
100, representing LOCO. 600 head of cattle,
worth $50 600, 900, and last year sent to
market 200, 600 head of CATTLE, which net
ted their owners $l0,000,000
The Springfield, Mass, Club is now
making preparations for three days race
meeting, to be held next September in
Hsmpden Park. Ten first prizes, worth
$3.50 each; one first prize worth 81 900 /;
one first prize worth $500; 81. 500 for
professional races. What feast for rae
ers Four thousand five hundred dollars
in prizes, three bands of music, s., 600
worth of fireworks, grand camp illumina-
ton with electric lights and thousands of
Japanese lanterns.
A new self.tending strawberry bed is the
invention of a Californian. Fill with earth
any sort of barrel that has been bored well
all round with inch holes. Plant straw
berries in every hole and in the open top,
root downwards and top outwards. 1t is a
great success. 1t is quite ornate, and will
keep for several months in bearing. Chi
cseo Herald. Tnat's intended for q slur
on California. Barrels are put to better
use out here than that. There is much
more inspiring refreshments in barrels in
California than strawberries.
Old 81 was asked by one of our mer.
chants:
Isl, do you know darby by the name
of Davis %
"Sisero Davis wild de red eye dat got
burn'd in the powder sploshin p
Yes, he's the man.
"Well, kno's him."
els he reliable p
"Gin'ull, but it ponds moughty ON de
bizness dat he's gagged in at de time. -
What business would he suit best in,
as porter y
Well, ter tell ye de fiat-footed, unso-
phisticated trufe, dar's enc place whar de
niggar could wuck an be ez homes ez de
day-an OATS ez porter in er real state
sto'. In dat case de o'ner I'D be liable ter
fine de property allus jess whar he lef hit. !"
A correspondent writing to the Montana
Labor Union from the "Bad Lands" de-
scribes, with engaging frankness, singular
experience which befel himself aa5 his com.
panions. After plcdding along, thirsty
and discouraged, for several days, they
came st last to ravine in which tiny
rill of sparkling water trickled over the
solid rock below tuft of long grass. To
get at the water more conveniently, they
pulled the grass up, when 20 their amaze.
ment they perceived that the roots pos
sessed the power of locomotion to such an
extent that the travellers had much diff.
Guilty in carrying few of them away as
curiosity, inasmuch as they were constant
ly crawling over the edge of the pail. The
travellers made one serious mistakenly
did not stake out claim in the mysterious
ravine. '' A rivulet of mountain dew that
will make a thirsty man see snakes so clear
ly and so suddenly ought to be bottled"
says tie New York Tribune.