Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-11-21
BRIEF NOTES.

Several Sacramentsns, among them NJ.
Madden, the contractor, lost heavily by the
Dixon fire.
The attention of the Street Superintendent
is called to the dangerously rough condition
of L street, from Second to Tenth.
Strongly increased opposition was manifest
yesterday among Republicans of the Fourth
Ward to the nomination of the slate ticket
for Director.
The polics-slate last night held hand of
three full Jaeks-Jack Collins, Jack Thomp-
son and Jack Fitzpatrick-all fearfully and
wonderfully full.
The meetings of the Sixth.street Methodist
Church grow in interest. The attendance is
larger each day. Meetings are held at
2:30 and 7:S0 P. NJ.
E. A. Stevens, of this city, received news
yesterday of the death of his mother in
Cuba, n. Y, at the age of IS years. Mrs
Stevens was one of the pioneer women OF
western New York.
The Republican City Central Committee
will meet at the Office of r. 7. Devlin, over
California State Bank, at s o'clock on Satur-
day evening, November "a, 1888, for the pur-
pose of nominating the Republican city
ticket.
The resignation of Captain Fred. Eisen.
menger, commanding the Governors Guard
Cadet Company has been accepted, to take
Cadet Company will meet this evening to
consult as to who their Captain shall be-
Things OF BEAUTY-The most beautiful
thing in the animal creation is horse. His
kingly bearing, his matchless symmetry, his
superb grace, his mighty speed and his great
docility, make him unquestionably the prince
of beasts. The most beautiful thing in the
human family is woman. Her queenly
bearing, her matchless symmetry, her superb
grace, her mighty speed-at times-and her
great dociity ION rare occasions, however,,
make her unquestionabiy the princess of ere.
alton. Catch pretty girl and hoist her on
to pretty horse, and behold o combination
of beauty such IS is seldom seen in the life
time Of mortal. When Mohammed looked
down from the hilltop and saw Damascus
lying white and pure In the Syrian sun, amid
her glorious twin-river gardens, he declared
that man was fated to enter paradise and see
the beautiful only once, and he preferred the
celestial to the terrestrial. Then the great
prophet turned away from the oasis city into
the trsckless solitudes of the dresry desert.
Now, if his camel had SHE'D Just then, at the
spparition of Californis girl on horseback,
he would have led his caravan into the Da-
mascus bazaar that evening So thought a
reporter last Saturday. ss be saw two young
ladies-one IN deep blue and the other in dark
green-fide down street. The fair horse.
women sat their steeds with grace that was
enchanting, and many stopped to look at them
as they passed. Down through the busy street
they went, and through the distance rode
into invisibility, like the fseting figures of
beautiful equestrian dream. The Bohemian
likewise became imperceptible to sight
through the doors of place where lager is
sold at cents glass. The girls and horse
had long since gone, but the setting SUMS
raya, as they fell through his empty schooner
on the opposite wall. shone darkly green and
deeply blue. The daylight upon the hills and
the sandwiches upon the counter went away
and left the world to darkness snd to-empty
plates. The absence of light and lunch
troubled the reporter not; he was wandering
far in nod-land. Across his slumber-world
galloped mounted troops Of amazons on spec
trail steeds that beat with noiseless hoof the
course of cloud.