Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-04-17

Be ignorance thy choice where knowl-
edge leads to woe.-[Beattie.
| A chicken is dressed when its covering ia
taken of. 1t is about the same with 9
buriesque actress, although the majority Of
them are no chickens.
As to people saying few idle words
about us, we must not mind that, any more
than the old church.steeple minds the
rocks cawiug about it.-[George Eliot.
The price of wife in Siberia is eight
of dogs in Siberia it is hard telling whether
| this is cheap for \ wife or not Lowell
Citizen.
Things are coming to pretty pass in
Kentucky when preacher has his salary
locked for time lost on trip to fight a
duel in distant part of the State. Texas
Siftings.
A glass object has been found in the
Catacombs of Rome showing in gilt out.
lines the great Temple of Jerusalem. It is
considered one of the most precious histori.
cal pieces which the CatGcombs have so far
yielded.
The withered leaf is not dead and lost.
There are forces in and around it, though
working in inverse order, else how could il
rot? Despise not the rag from which pa
per is made, or the litter from which the
earth makes corn.-[Carlyle.
Lord Granville recently apologized to
Mr.. Lowell for a short dinner notice to
"the most engaged man las diner-out) in
England" Mr.. Lowell very neatly re-
Piled that "no notice could be too short
which came to the most engaged from the
most engaging man"
A novel spectacle in Baptist church OF
Brooklyn on recent Sunday was the i'm.
mersion by the pastor of a lady seventy
one years of age, the ceremony being wit
messed by the aged mother of the convert,
who on the 18th of March will celebrate
her one hundred and second birthday.
Mr.. Reese, the editor of the Eatonton
Ca Chronicle, has produced the literary
curiosity of the period. 1t is an editorial
headed, SIS it Right to Send Our Paper
to Negro" 1t appears that " g few of
the white people " of Estonton protest
against the acceptance of subscriptions
from colored people.
Inc SndpS Vi bile new DElLtSu llldi-Ul-
war Mars is so peculiar that her keel can
not be laid in any of the usual building
slips, and the vessel must be constructed
in one OF the docks. Great care is taken
to prevent strangers having any oppor.
! tunity of making any examination Of the
model and drawings.
"Manma," said al little fellow whose
mother had forbidden him to draw horses
ard ships on the mahogany sideboard with
sharp nail, "Mamma, this amt a nice
house. At Sam Rackett's we can cut the
sofa, pull out the hair and ride the shovel
and tongs over the carpet; but here we
can't get any fun at all. -
"Don't you think that was convincing
sermon }" asked friend Of Yeast as they
were slowly making their way out of the
Rev. Mr.. Jerieho's church on a Sunday
9" Convincing? Well, I should say so,
replied Yeast, with yawn. Z" He fully
convinced me that he hadn't the slightest
idea of what he was talking about )
| Yonkers Statesman.
! The fish of gold found in Southern Ger
many is fifteen inches long its head is GOV
cred with arabesques next comes groups
of animals fighting, followed by sea
monster ssizing a fish ; on the tail is bird
with open wings. Little fishes are incised
between the groups. The object ia like
things found in tombs on the northern
shore of the Black Sea.
Many people think that the Douay YER
| sion of the Scriptures is the only one au
| thorized for use In the Roman Catholic
Church. This is not SO. however. Bishop
Ryan has recently stated that while
Bishops in their dioceses may recommend
particular translations, as the Douay OF
Archbishop Kenrick's, the authorized yer.
sion for the Universal Church is the Vul
gate. -[Leslie's Sunday Magazine.
An old colorsd man in Halifax, who is
begging money, uses the following plea
Use tired of life, longin' TO- de grave,
Sebenty. eight years now l begun dis mis-
cradle existunce. As grew in age fos-
tered fond ambishun, pieterin' de road to
wealt and fame. Here I am to day, poor
and wretched as when was born, hopes Of
success blarsted, bones waitin' YEARLY TO
de day OBJ rest. Glib me but few cents to
help me buy coffin to bury my achin
| body"
In Colombo, the Capital of City Island,
CeyIon, riots occurred recently between
the Buddhists and Catholics. The Catho.
lies seriously objected to religious process.
SIGN Of the Buddhists, in which was carried
crucifx surmounted by monkey. This,
which the priests held to be an insult to
the Catholic religion, brought about vio.
lent conflict in the streets, which was only
stopped by vigorous efforts of the troops,
who dispersed the rioters and restored
peace without bloodshed.
Average candidate "No, sir, l am not
candidate fer reelection. There isn't
any money in the Office, and it's more
trouble than its worth. A man never gets
paid for serving the public anyway. Some
body always finds fault. Never intend 10
run for office again, but. still, if the pee
ple want me, of course I'll serve. think
that can beat anybody that has come out
thus far. Say If you can say anything
that will help me along, l wish you
would. u Arkansas Traveller.
An Austin gentleman, who is an invalid,
recently had occasion to hire a negro man
to wait on him. When an able.b bodied ap-
plicant for the position put in appearance,
the gentleman said elf hire you, Sam,
| shall expect you to help me up the stairs
and assist me in getting into bed" Dress
your soul, boss, Use more fitted for helpin'
folks up stairs and putin EN- to bed dan
anything else. Use been porter at board
in. house whar dar was four Senators. Use
de berry niggah you am sugerin foah. =
Texas Siftings.
In recent lecture Professor Huxley
said elf man cannot get literary cult
ure of the highest kind out of his Bible,
and Chaucer, and Shakespeare, and Milton,
and Hobbs, and Bishop Berkeley, to mem
ton only few of our illustrious writer's
1 say if he cannot get it out of those
writers he cannot get it out of anything
aud l would assuredly devote a very large
portion of the time of every English child
to the careful study of the models of Eng
lsh writing of such varied and wonderful
kind as we possess, and, what is still more
important and still more neglected, the
habit of using that language with precision
and with force and with art. I fancy we
are almost the only nation in the world
who seem to think that composition comes
by nature. The French attend to their
own language, the Germans study theirs.
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