Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-05-01


The test of good orange is said to be ii
thin skin and heavy weight.
The Wisconsin House has defeated 1
bill requiring all priEon made goods to b'
marked.
The largest vessels in the English navy
cost a million and quarter to build, ant
nearly thousand dollars day TO keeE
them at sea afterward.
The liturgy of the Episcopal church 10 t.
be revised. A commission OF leading bish
ops. clergymen and lasmen are in session
in New York to that end.
Old.time American idess and old.tin'
American honesty are what are needed t.
build up society and business on an endur
ing s.-[Philadelphis Press.
New Jersey stands second in regard K
railway facilities in the United States
| There are 500 miles Of road, and the cap
ital invested reaches S2l4, coo, 900.
Professor Langley, the astronomer, sayl
that at a hight of three miles above Tia
suface of the earth the SUMS rays are OF 6
blush color. The sun, he thinks, is blue
star.
The wages of male agricultural lahorerl
in Scotland are from Sl60 to $3.50 per year
Females receive from S65 to 800 In the
case of both board and lodging are furnished
by the employer.
Josh Billings two springs in the White
mountains are now in excellent condition
and over the cup Of the one near Emerald
Pool is the legend TAX drink, m
friend. but don'5 tax tie cup. Yurs, with
ont struggle, jean Billings
The Tennessee Legislature has passed al
Act making it felony TO keep gambling es
Establishments IN the State, or TO rent houseI
for such purpose. The penalty for a vic
| lstion of this law is not less ttan one OIL
more than three years in the penitentiary.
The San Francisco Ereaiag Post Gays
The Carson Appeal is printing diagrams o.
the prehistoric footprints in the Nevads
State Prison grounds. They are printed
from plates of the plans of the new City
Hall il this city, and are truly prehistoric
There is an apple tree in Rsbun county
Ga, that is probably the largest on this
continent. It shades the greater part of 8
farm.yard, and in one year the owner gath
cred two hundred and four bushels of ap-
pies from it, besides what his stock de
stroyed.
A London contemporary says that &C.
cording to q recent estimate, the picture
gallery of W. Fl. Vanderbilt has cost
81. 900, 600, next comes that of Mr.. Stew.
art, $500. 600 and that the aggregate value
of European pictures in tho private CALLER
les of New York is Sc, 500, 900.
The National Sugar Manufacturing Com
pany, chartered in Pennsylvania, has a
new patent for the extraction of sugar from
beets, and is about TO erect a mill neal
York, Pa. The company expects to ex,
tract $40, 600 pounds of sugar aud 1860.
900 pounds of molasses from 30. 600 tons o.
beets.
The old church of Lancaster, Mass.
which in nearly two centuries and hal
has had only eight pastors, is still supported
by tax on the whole parish, an assess
ment being annually levied on every man
property for that purpose. 1t is said to b
| the only survivor of the old system in thu
country.
Investigation shows that in Utah tn
| Mormon church has about 100, 600 mem
bers; in the Western States Snd Terrific
ries about so, 900, and in the Sandwich Isl
ands about 1000. It has about nines,
churches il Great Britain, and the demon
| nation is one OF the largest in the south
ern part of Wales.
! Adelaide Ristori, now the Marchesa de
Grillo, appeared the other day as Mari
| Antoinette aS Roman theater on the oc
casioo of benefit. The house was crowded
but poor Rissori, now aged sixty.five, is
pitiable wreck. However, she is yer,
wealthy, so that she will not be obliged t.
appear on the stage any more.
The number and value of stamps, stamped
envelopes and postal cards called for b,
Postmasters' acquisitions received at tn
Postoffice Department in one day recent,
were as follows Number of stamps IS,
600, 900, envelopes 1000, 000 postal card
2, 100, 900, aggregate 100000. These or
ders exceeded in the aggregate any ever be
fore received in one day.
"But why did you leave your las
place % asked Mrs. Brown. Och, mum,
replied the young person, with toss of he
head, ''they were that mean that there wa
no livin' wild EN-. If you'll behave it
mum, twas only yister that / whit init
the parlor, and there was two Of the CUR
ruls a-playin' on one pseany, aud thei
father rich enough to buy dozen and nive
| fale it J"
DIR. Lewis Swift, Director of the Observ
atory at Rochester, N. Y, has received
| from United States Minister Morton, o
| Paris, $40 francs, the LIZ Lande prizs o
the Paris Academy of Science, awarded
each year to the astronomer most distin
guished during the year. TIE prize also
| includes silver medal OF the Institute O.
Paris, of which DR. Swift becomes an hon
orary member.
Paul Tulane, of Princeton, N. j., has Sc
apart S239, 600 in stocks and bonds to b'
added TO his fund for the education OF the
white youth of New Orleans, when thu
real estate he has previously given for th.
purpose is made exempt from taxation fol
ever, giving, however, the dividends there
on, amounting to about SIG 600 per an
nun, pending the proper steps to be taksI
to procure the exemption.
A bankrupt's lot is not happy one IL
| China. The broker of silk firm in Shang
hal, which has recently suspended pay
ment, was set upon in the street by credit
ors Of the firm, beaten and hung up by the
cue SO that his feet swung clear of tn;
ground. Having been discovered by the
police in that painful situation, he wal
taken for protection to the police station
followed by the creditors, who declared that
| if he fell again into their hands they would
bite him to death and eat him afterward
The Occident.
OF the results of high license in L:
Claire, Ia, a dispatch to the Chicago Trib
me says: Daring the last twelve months
the high-license system has worked admi
rably. During the two preceding year:
theie was nominal prohibition, but the
name was disgraced, and the traffic under
| little or no control. The best citizens say
that prohibition not only did not prohibit
but that it was an utter failure; SO much
so that at the last two elections the mum
cipal officers were elected without opposi
tion-a all pledged to high license.
What difference there is in the ways
of mans and womsn's falling on the
ice. A man will 90 sprawling all over ths
sidewalk. and after kicking about like .
crab with the shaking palsy for two Oh
three minutes, will finally get up with Q
thoroughly demoralized air, his raimeni
covered with dirty snow and his mind full
of maledictions but woman, bless herI
When she falls, she sinks down with Q
coprfesv into n neat and eonnact bundle