Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-05-18

It is understood that General George B.
Mcclellan will be in Texas soon, TO engage
in some engineering contracts.
have lived to know that the secret of
true happiness is never to allow your en-
ergies to stagnate. Adam Clark.
The Byron Fund Committee is trying to
obtain Dean Bradley's sanction to placing
a memorial tablet to Byron in Westminster
Abbey.
a rattlesnake, killed recently in Craig
head county, Arkansas, had forty light
rattles and a button, making it 81 years
old, the Oldest on record.
False friends are like our shadow
keeping close to us while we walk in the
sunshine, but leaving us the instant we
cross into the shade.-[Bovee.
Lieutenant Schwatka says that the Es
quimauxs reindeer clothing is the only ap-
parel for the Arctic explorer, and that
without it he can scarcely hope to survive
the extreme cold.
The Star of Bethlehem ia expected by
astronomers to make its appearance this
year or next. 1t was observed in 1872,
1864 and 945, and the inference is that it
appeared in $50 and 80.
We are on perilous margin when we
begin to look passively at our future selves
and see our own figures lead, with dull
consent, into insipid misdoing and shabby
acheivement.-[George Eliot.
No intellectual investment, feel certain,
bears such ample and regular interest as
gems of English, Latin or Greek literature
deposited in our memory during our child
hood and youth.-[Max Muller.
The new Postmaster. Generals wife,
Mrs. Gresham, is described as "a model
of feminine beauty" They all are-as
soon as their husbands get an appointment
in Washington - Norristown Herald.
France bases her claims in Madagascar
on secret treaties made with rebellieus
chiefs in 1910 aud lS4l, although she made
treaty with Radama Ii. in 1862, and &C.
knowledged him as sole sovereign of the
island.
At one of the schools in Cornwall, Eng,
the teacher asked the children if they could
quote any text of Scripture which forbade
a man having two wives. One of the chill
dren eagerly quoted. No man can serve
two masters"
A plan is afoot for lighting the whole
canton of Vaud by electricity derived from
| turbines of 5000 se-power. Gas is ex-
pensive, but water-power costs nothing in
Switzerland, and it is thought that the
project will be economical.
Even some savages are polite. An Eng.
lish officer, dining with cannibsl king,
was asked what religious denomination he
affiliated with, as it might be more agreea.
BILE to him to have the missionary about to
be served of another faith.-[Boston Post
Colonel Mapleson says that Mr.. Abbey
new tenor is not much, because he has
such small legs. Mr.. Abbey's attempt to
foist little.legged tenor on this country
should be met with proper rebuke-that
is, if he sings with his legs Norristown
Herald.
The young Duke of Morney has been as.
tonishing Paris, if the chroniclers do not
lie, by appearing in salons there in the gor.
geous coat with sapphire and ruby buttons
which he wore at the Vanderbilt ball. He
meditates a boom, it is said, In favor of
scarlet velvet dress-suits for evening par
ties. The dudes will now have an object
in life
The total expenditure per headin Canada
for the past year was 1920, while it was but
$5l9 in the United States, and during the
same time the Canadian debt increased 81,
500, 900, while the United States debt ex.
hibited great decrease. The Canadian ex-
ports to Great Britain fell off $685., 07S, and
those of the United States increased over
$50, 900, 600.
Fred. Bean, a young Iowa farmer, de-
sired wife, but did not take fancy to
the girls of his neighborhood. He aspired
to something different, and wrote TO an In.
dian agent in Dakota, inquiring whether a
reasonably good-looking squaw could be
obtained. An exchange of letters and
photographs ensued, and he is soon to be
married to the daughter of Sioux chief.
A lady had in her employ an excellent
girl who had one fault. Her face was al
ways in a smudge Mrs. tried to
tell her to wash her face without offending,
and at last resorted to strategy. "Do you
know, Bridget" she remarked in a conf.
Dental manner, sit is said that if you
wash the face every day in hot soapy water
il will make you beautiful? ," "Will it ?"
answered Bridget. Sure, it's wonder
ye niver tried it, ma am"
AiudHyy uoo Vic OulJ
billiard ball factory in the world. It al
ready does large business, and the owners
are confident that in little time their
product will drive the ivory article quite
out of the market. The inventor has an
other composition called bonisillete, which
is even better and it is said that balls
made of it are often mistaken for ivory By
experts, while the cost is much less, and
there is no shrinkage and change of shape
The factory works from twenty to twenty
five men, and has capacity Of $50 to 400
balls day.
H. M. Stanley was the other evening
telling a distinguished company, in Lon
don, an incident in his discovery of Liv.
ingstone. Coming to the climax of what
was really most pathetic incident, he re-
peated the words of an old African woman
concerned in the story, TO the effect !:
"Tangalle wallulo mungandi wangbeng p
"Ah," said Edmund Yates, who was a
listener, II thought that was what she
would say J" the result being that the ten
sion of the hearers feelings was instantly
relieved, everyone, Stanley included, burst
ing into loud laughter.
The late Bishop Chase, of Ohio, who
Was sAs luc LALic Vi QSASt VIC O.0cSg 6uu,
in consequence, Presiding Bishop of the.
Episcopal Church, was remarkable man.
Beside being Bishop of large diocese,
he worked farm of thousand acres, was
Postmaster of Gambler, and was President
OF college in which education was offered
at $40 q year. A countrymau once ac-
costed him as General" 81 am not Gen.
eral. he CURLY replied. "I beg pardon !;
l mean Judge" 81 am not Judge, either.
"Well, then, Bishop" "Why do you
call me Bishop? How do you know that
l am a Bishop" "Well, knowed, said
the man of homespun sense, I" that what.
ever you was, you was at the top"
In wood-carving, Bavaria holds pre-
eminent position. From kitchen utensils
and wooden clogs to the most elaborate art
work, the wocd-turner and carver produce
something to suit taste and demand. In
trifes-little ornamental objects, such as
wooden brackets, eta sale amounting
to about f7OO 600 is annually effected. For
toys in wood and wooden statuettes, the
aneieat principality of Berchtesgsden was
renowned in the sixteenth century. At
Nuremberg, Venice, Genoa, Cadiz and
Antwerp there were regular depots for the
sale of these objects, even at that remote
period. Then, as now, Reiehenhall and
Oberammergau were renowned, not merely
for the /" Passion Play" but for their sim.