Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-05-21
Wood
John
Macs
This was intended for John Underwood,
AndoYer. Mass.

This was intended for John Underwood,
Andover, Mass.
Here is suggestion which should be
borne in mind When you have the
woodwork in a room painted, it is a good
plan to have about two inches of the floor
painted also have the paint the same color
as that of the Dashboard then if, when
changing carpets, the carpet will not come
close to the wall, the little space left will
not be so unsightly.
Fire engines are said to have been in
vented by Ctesibius, B. c. 250. They are
mentioned by Pliny, A. D. 20, but the
first record we have of fire engine is that
of one used in Nuremberg in 1867. 1t re-
quired twenty. eight men to work it, and it
is said to have thrown a Jet of water one
inch In diameter to hight of eighty feet.
The first steam fire engine was built in
1929.
The Great Eastern is a great elephant on
the hands Of the shareholders. At a re.
cent meeting of the directors and proprie-
tors it was stated that all efforts to sell or
charter the ship had been unavailing. The
income for the year was made up as fol.
lows Transfer fees, fl interest, $40 !;
visitors fees to ship, fl3. The expend-
iture for the year in connection with the
ship had been "a, 402 Is Id.
The missing coins of the United States
are as follows: The five cent silver piece
of 1896, the twenty-five cent silver piece
Of 1897. and the twenty-five cent silver
piece of 1923. The five cent silver piece
OF 1902 is very rare-so rare, in fact, that
one of them sold few weeks ago for $500,
and the S. gold piece of 1915 is said to be
represented by single coin that is in the
collection of the King of Sweden.
Warm water, of all remedies, is the one
of most general application. Cotton dipped
in warm water makes the best and cleanest
poultice that csn be used. 1t is the most
healing application for cuts, bruises,
wounds, sores, felons and other infiamma.
tions. A very convenient way in case of
felon or other painful abscess, is to hold
the hand for hours in water as warm as can
be comfortably borne. II journal of Health.
"Why, Harry" said lady to small
boy, who was crying in the street, what's
the matter? "Mother whipped me"
groaned the boy. "What for?" "'Cause
/ fell in the river and got wet" "Well,
don't you think you deserved it ?" "No,
l don't. leone purity near gettin' drownd-
ed. And if l had then wouldn't she a.
cried her eyes out? And just because l
didn't, l come home little wet, an she
gives me a whippin'. Next time I'll
drownd, and teach her how to treat Teller
-boo-hooo !"
The Government Printing Office at
Washington is quite an establishment. 1t
is located about eight blocks north of the
Capitol, at the intersection Of l and North
Capitol streets, and covers a large area of
ground. About 2, 300 hands are employed,
as follows Sixty.fve in the job-room, 240
in the press.room, 600 book binders, $50 IL
the folding-room and 80 in the stereotyp-
ing-room. The number of employees re.
CURED during the session to publish the
speeches alone of Congressman which are
never delivered in the halls of Congress,
but permitted to be published as part
Of the Congressional Record, and sent out
broadcast to innocent constituents as tell
ing speeches made in heated debate, would
be sufficient to run the largest State Print
ing Office in the country.
A negro entered store in village in
Alabama and asked to look at some coats.
The only thing that suited him was gar
ment worth about six dollars, but for
which the dealer asked fourteen. "Ill
give you eight dollars" said the negro.
"AIy trent, you must be crazy. Dot coat
ish wort more as ask" "Pll say nine,
boss" "Snuss as crazy as pefore." cit
isn't much of coat" remarked Sambo, as
he looked over it again. "Vhell, l don't
brag about der cloth or der color or der
making, but What You shpose happens to
de black mans who puys der mate to dot
goat? Dot ish what l look at. ibid
he die of yaller fever, boss 2" "Not
much Dot goat fit him SO nice, und
made him look so shenteel, dot he runs
away nit my cousin Sarah, und I gifts her
two tousand dollars. I haf shust one
more cousin left" "Well, boss, 1 guess
I'll take it, replied Sambo. And he-got
into il and took walk around town to LET
the cousin look him over.-[ Wal.Street
Na-~s