Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-04-26

| And wrought with care,
For lows, not coin,
It'll death US join"
Alabama has 7.247 more women thar
men.
Discretion in speech is more than elo.
quence. L Bacon.
Chicago has more liquor saloons than the
whole State of Missouri.
"Thrice is he armed who hath his quarrel just.
And four times he who gets mis- blow in fust.
True repentance for sin is that which
takes place just before the sin is commit.
ted.
Benjamin Butler is called the dude OF
American politics by the Philadelphia
Press.
The annual report of the Commissioner
of Patents shows that 20,5lS patents were
granted last year.
The ecclesiastical presentment against
the Rev. r. Heber Newton, it is now
stated, will be sent to the Bishop this
week.
The Capitol in Austin, Texas, the
foundations of which are Just laid, will
cost S., 000. 900, and will be one of the
handsomest buildings in the country.
Tight trowsers are out of fashion, and
now it will be necessary to put on more
street cars. There won't be so many young
men anxious to stand. = Philadelphia
News.
It is estimated that not fewer than TO-.
600 persons now arrive weekly in st. Paul,
and are forwarded to the remote North.
west by the Northern Pacific and Mani
toba lines.
Eli Perkins, the famous prevaricating
newspaper contributor and lecture, was
soundly thrashed in a Buffalo hotel the
other day because he wanted to beat the
hotel. New York Post.
The knights of Honor, which order
originated in Louisville 81 years ago, began
the year with a membership of l35, 600.
and has paid in sick and death benefits to
its members over 50 000,0 600.
A letter has been received by the Score.
tary of Castle Garden from man in Gin
cinnati, asking him to look up wife for
him among the immigrants, as he lacks the
courage to ask a woman TO marry him.
In fifteen years fifty libel suits, demand.
ing total of $1,000. 900 damages, have
been brought against the Baltimore Amer.
icaa. During the same psriod the sum
paid in damages by that paper was $500.
An old lady was asked her opinion about
Mrs. Smith, her next door neighbor.
"Well, she said, 81 am not the one to
speak ill Of anybody, but feel very sorry
for Mr.. Smith. II Rochester Post Express.
Ragged boys in New York and other
large Eastern cities gather cigar stumps
from the sidewalks, cutters and beer-hall
sweepings, and sell them for 10 cents per
pound, to be made into the fashionable
cigarettes.
The value of little capital to young
men who go West to grow up with the
country is illustrated by the experience OF
a Connecticut youth who has written home
for 81, 600 with which to marry wealthy
Iowa widow.
Salmi Morse proves to be very wreck.
less sort of manager. He not only wanted
to offend the taste and swindle the public
by his Passion Play" but he actually
did swindle the members of his chorus
New York Post.
The death at Athens, Texas on Satur-
day, of Mayor John Mcdonald, is likely to
throw the Mayoralty into the hands of a
negro.1[ Exchange That would be ter.
rible, where the colored voters greatly out.
number the white.
An Irish judge, in reprimanding a pris'
oner who was accused of striking his wife
with an ink bottle, remarked I" Ye moight
have known it wud hev been loike to hatch
mischief, becaze it was with the ink-you-
hata 'er u-TRoua Santinal
The Hudson river is now open for steam.
boat navigation as far as Albany-three
weeks later than usual. Lorge fields of ice
cover parts of Lake Erie, and it may be
several weeks before vessels will begin run
ming to the upper lake ports.
A mute in Yorkshire, at the funeral OF
tie late Mr.. Stoddart, when requested by
the deceased's brother to tell gentleman
to take glass of wine with him, said
Please, sir, the corpse's brother would
like to tex glass O. wine wi ye.
The Greeley farm at Chappaqua will soon
be sold under the provisions of Mrs.
Greeley's will. Nicholas Smith, Mr..
Greeley's son. n.law, has recently removed,
with his three children, to Kentucky. Miss
Gabrielle Greeley resides in New York.
Governor Sheldon, of New Mexico, lives
in a veritable palace. 1t is only one. story
high, and is built of mud, but it is $50 feet
loog, nearly three centuries old, has shell
tered Spanish Governors without number,
and always held the name of palace.
Too young to wed the brush Artist Ito
young lady who wants to learn painting j.
How old are you ?" Young lady
g Twenty.one. Artist Only twenty.
che Then advise You TO desist. You
may still succeed in getting husband. -
[Fliegende Batter.
The bicycle rider with cultivated taste
for the beautiful will never pass carriage
containing young ladies of his acquaint.
auce, while he will ride for miles at the
side. He knows well enough that the pro.
file of bicycle rider is well enough, while
front or rear view is puffickly ridicu.
lous. - Lowell Citizen.
While in the midst of the gayest and
most gorgeously attired of the throng at
the Vanderbilt ball, Herbert Slade, the
Maori prizs.fghter, whispered in my ear.
He was gracefully attired as Tom Thumb,
and looked the character to the life.
Look" said Slade, at that Queen of
AN6hes VIZ lies JNos ot06ACa ny . CD, WV
chair. Notice her head-dress." 1 did SO.
The lady who wore it was certainly the
most richly-dressed person in the ball
room, for enwreathed in her hair were two
certified checks for $3.50, 0O0, 600 each.
The only really Objectionable feature at
the Vanderbilt ball was the price of sand
witches, which was ten cents. I did not
object to five cents for lager, but ten cents
for a little bread and silver of meat was
really too much. / think it ought to have
been included in the invitation-not that
the guests were not amply able to pay for
the refreshments, but it was awkward to
circulate among the company endeavoring
to get change for $1,000 bills, and there
was unusual scarcity of small coins. The
handsomest persons at the entertainment
were John Kelly and Lydia E Pinkhsm.
Their costumes were very much admired.
Mr. Kelly was Bryan Boru, from an origi.
nal photograph. Mrs. Pinkham was Au-
rora.-[ Puck.
"MY skin. which has been covered with