Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-05-30

10 KNOW IN Iartner Oh from heaven
Than when was boy.
Blood. drinking at New York slaughter
houses has become too common to be con.
sidered worth mentioning.
The mind profits by the wreck of every
passion, and we may measure our road to
wisdom by the sorrows we have under
gone.
It is a wise Frenchman who remarks
that he who oonfdes in tattler and lends
to spendthrift will find his secret every
where and his money nowhere.
A native of India, writing to an English.
man, says: "We are mild Hindoos, !
know, and we are towards and vegetarians,
but we are 200, 900, 900 after all. !"
Bayard Taylor says: at is whitening
commentary upon our modern costume
that no sculptor has dared, or ever will
dare, to model a statue wearing stove
pipe hat
The people residing on the shores OF
Lake Champlain have gone crazy over the
discovery of few pieces of Spanish gold
coin, dated 1879 and l740, and they are
all engaged in digging for more gold.
Wasn't it rough on Clara, just as she
was telling Frederic at lunch how ethereal
her appetite was, to have the cook bawl
out : "Say will you have yer billed
pork and beans now, or wait till yer feller's
gomez"
Ben House having made some poetry
about the bumblebee humming his lazy
lazzaroni song" Dick Ryan writes to Ben
of bumblebee that once chased him a
mile, aud then built goose egg on the
summit of his idea pot. Mr.. Ryan argues
that the bumblebee is not lazy Courier
Journal.
At one of the stations in the suburbs of
ST. Louis the following notice is posted
Hereafter, when trains moving in oppo-
site direction are approaching each other
on separate lines, conductors and engineers
viii bring their trains to dead halt, and
be very careful not to proceed until each
train has passed the other. y
The perpetual clock, which has been
running in Brussels for year without
stopping or being touched by human hands,
is wound up by a draught Of air through a
tube, which operates on a fan connected
with the machinery. The draught is made
to pass upward through the tube by ex.
posing it to the heat of the sun.
At one of the churches of Danbury,
Conn, on Sunday, the opening piece on
the organ was from 'iPirates" and the
closing piece from Pinafore," and, &C.
cording 10 the little Ratchet" scribe of
the Boston Post, nobody found any fault
except the deacon who passed the plate to
ba of opo pirafa XIV
Work has been resumed upon the Wash.
iugton monument. The total pressure now
borne by the bed of the foundations from
the column is 74,S7l tons, which is about
92-l00 of the total pressure to be finally
placed upon it. When completed the shaft
will be the highest structure in the world
The total settlement OF the shaft thus far
has been Il inches.
Mr.. Marsh, Of Albany, N. Y, on Legis.
latures:
" What to do with our convicts in prison to-day,
Said to myself, said J.,
A question I'll answer without further delay,
Said to myself, said l.
as our State Legislature has SO many flaws,
Let's abolish it for the good OF the cause,
And contract with conYicts to make all our laws
Said TO myself, said l."
A Brooklyn widow, who cannot bear to
see her husbands empty chair at the table,
has pet dog to sit in it during meal time,
and helps him to the best on the table /;
and widow near Philadelphia has all the
love. letters her husband ever wrote her
framed ana hung in the parlor. Now let
us hear what the wfdowers are DOING
Courier Journal.
Civilization runs in streaks in New
York. On the very day that the authori.
ties moved against opium dens into which
young girls have been decoyed, the exist.
ence of which has been known to the
police for two years, the cook Of the Lotus
Club lost his place and was fined $40 in
Court for cutting off the tail OF thieving
at Boston Herald.
The State of Virginia expended more
than million dollars in 1882 for the
support of her common schools. Of these
4, 062 are white schools and l, 525 colored.
The State Superintendent of Schools
colored children. The white population.
between the ages of five and twenty one,
was. in 1880, 3d. while the eolored
between the same ages, is
204, $50.
The natural tendency to Scriptural turn
Of mind is as much matter of transmits.
zion from parent to child as anything else.
DIE of Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stoves four.
yesr.old grandsons, swinging on a neigh.
oor's gate few days since, was reproved
by his mother, who told him Mr.. Smith
would not like it. 81 don't care for Mr.
smith, F" said the urchin, "nor for his OK,
lor his ass. nor anything that is his.
A clam who was taking ramble over the
one day, met hare, aud after
that winter would soon be here,
lie added:
Goa, by the way wanted to say that
don't believe in Christianity"
"You don't?'
No, nor in the Bible %
:" Is it possible -
And may as well declare that have
'ecome an infidel."
Dear, dear me !" gasped the hare, and |
Nth tears in her eyes she argued and |
oaxed and pleaded and reasoned with the |
lam to change his views. She was still |
Fasting her breath when along came the
Don, and called out :
GOOD day to both. Why those tears,
frs. Hare p
The hare explained, and the coon turned
0 the clam and inquired:
" Is it true that you do not believe in
Tod or hereafter p
Strictly true" was the reply.
And what if you don't?" continued
ne coon. You are simply one clam out
billions. What you believe or don't be.
eve won't effect even one blade of grass or
isturb one grain of sand. Please shoulder
cur opinions and move out Of the path.
I detroit Free Press,