Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-10-20
PICCALILLI.


lieving the streets of bad smells and corner
losfers.-[ Peoria Transcript.
Tue general understanding is that
patient is not out of danger until the doc.
Tor has been discharged. New Orleans
Picayune.
The conqueror is regarded with awe the
wise man commands our esteem but it is
the benevolent man who wins our affec
tions.
The Engliah parcels post officials said
they had to draw the line somewhere, and
they refused to transmit live Holsters
through the mails.
$50 you've given up keeping boarders,
Mrs. Pringle. Couldn't you make it pay 2,
"Oh, yes; 1 made it pay well enough, but
the mistake made was that 1 made it pay
the boarders.
Mr.. Tilden has sent painting called
'A Hopeless Case" to the Louisville Expo
sition, but will not be present himself He
says one hopeless case is enough for any ex.
hioition. [Norristown Herald.
Engineer Boiler has reported to the Park
Board that " Macomb's dam bridge is un.
safe, and that it will require S27, 500 to
ASpaA ~ AIoG 10 6OOu OCaL VI
but there is no use in the engineer being
profane about it.
DR.. Mary Walker is happy at last. a
wealthy old crank in Springfield, Mass,
who died the other day, being moved by
the poor womans SORROWS, left her s., 600.
Exchange. Now Mary can afford to get
new pair of pants.
A man whose wife was taken suddenly
i'll hastened to a physician, who immedi-
ately responded. "What is the matter
with her, doctor - 81 fear she has lock-
.aw." "Lockjaw Well, doctor, you may
as well let her run along that way few
hours"
Down in Tama county last week cat
was born with two heads. 1t is lively and
healthy, and can yowl with one mouth and
waul with the other. If this breed of cats
becomes common it will just set the millen.
mum back about four thousand years.
burlington Hawkeye.
The female shrieks heard in Germantown
a few nights ago were not, as at first sup
posed, made by woman who was being
murdered by her husband. They were
emitted by young woman in West Phila-
delphia, ten miles distant, who, while
crimping her hair, dropped hot slate.
pencil down her back NorristoWn Her.
aid.
A da-ky on Pecano plantation not
long since was much tried by the obstinacy
of mule. After much urging and kind
ness to the brute, he broke out with 'Look
hyar, now mebby you think cause jined
the church last Sunday that can't use big
words but I'll hab you know I'm gwine
to make 'ception in your special case. -
Texas Siftings.
"May have the honor to conduct your
daughter to the supper table ?" asked a So
ciety gentleman of a lady from the coun-
try, who is staying with some friends
whom she is visiting here in Austin.
@ May you take her to supper ?" was the
response; "why, of course, and you can
take me, too. That's what we came here
ior. ~ -[Texes Siftings.
A remarkable case Of sleep. walking &C.
Cured in Woonsocket early on Wednesday
morning, a young woman of that section
leaving her home at . o'clock, and walking
two miles into the country. Being missed
= search was made, when she was found
and returned to her home by a friend at
whose house she stopped. She did not
awake until arriving there.
A school mistress at Yreks, Cal, while
on her way to school was attacked by an
infuriated steer. "She seized the animal
by the horns and held him until help
came" The next day she saw rat in the
schoolroom, when she hastily gathered her
skirts about her, jumped on desk and
yelled murder. a rat has no horns for
woman to grab hold DIN orristown
Herald.
Summer Primer-Why do those men
Run so fast this Hot weather Is anybody
Dying? No. How Red their faces are.
They will Burst blood-vessel. See, they
are almost Painting, but they will try to
run. Poor fellows Have they Escaped
from Prison No. my child. They have
summer cottages out of town, and are
Merely trying to catch train.5[[P Phila-
delphia News.
Little Sam Winkler, on visiting neigh
boring family last Saturday was addressed
by the lady of the house "What can l
do for you, my little man ?" she asked.
81 dunno, said Sam. Mamma told me
not to ask for cake or pie, as did last
time, and I'm sorter at loss what to ask
FOR, for don't know what else you've got
in yoar pantry, anyhow, but can put up
with most anything that's handy. ~ Texas
Siftings.
The length of the Mexican Central Rail
road from Ell Paso to the City Of Mexico
will be l ,230 miles !; $50 miles of this are
already completed, leaving only $50 miles
yet to build to finish the road, which will
give San Francisco direct railway COM
munication with the Mexican capital. The
distance between the two cities by the
Southern Pacific and Mexican Central is
ISIS miles, which is little more than the
distance between San Francisco and chi.
cago.-[ Recreation.
Very simple natural phenomena often ex-
cite surprise and sometimes alarm. Some
travellers walking along the shore of Loeb
Etine, Argyleshire, Scotland, noticed that
thew cast double shadow. The explana-
sion was simple when the facts were exam
ined. A well-detined shadow was produced
by the direct rays of the sun and fainter
one by the sums reflected rays from the
lake, which happened at the time to be
quite still and mirror-like. The strange
appearance might, however, have caused
shock to sensitive nerves.
deavy trageolan at rallrosu hotei
'Prithee, landlord, dwells there within
she precincts of this hamlet machinist?
Landlord-"A machinist? Yes, sir.
Tragedisn-" Then take to MIN this bird
of many springs. Bid him wrench asunder
these iron limbs, and then, for our regale-
ment, to chisel slices from its unyielding
bosom, for we would dine anon. And,
pray you, do it quickly. Yon peas you
aeed not carry, for those, with dext'rou
man sgement, We can swallow 8h3le.