Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-05-11

Where railroad trains are running.
The stranger didn't know the game,
But he was willing TO live and learn;
To him the cards were all the same
''They was to all at first, he'd hearnr
And the sports laughed loud and dealt the pack,
And gave him four queens and thck-legged jack,
As they will, when trains are running.
And then they bet on the poker hand,
And fattened the pot to goodly pile,
And they asked the stranger il he would stand,
And the stranger stood with simple smile,
and one sport raised the other two
And the stranger him. as strangers do
Where railroad trans are running.
And then. in solemn, breathless hush,
The three sports showed what they had got;
But aces won't beat royal flush,
And the stranger gobbled the obese pot.
For strangers and sports are natural foes,
And the former carry cards In their cloes
Where railroad trains are running.
The Boston definition OF Irritation is &C at
tentions without intentions"
The friends of the Rev. Thomas Guard
are trying to raise the sum Of $40, 600 for
the children of the gifted preacher.
The man that married handsome but
laxative young lady says that he begins
to realizs that thing of beauty is a jaw
forever.
Benjamin F. Bancroft, of Salem, n. Y,
has given to the Presbyterian Church
there handsome chapel, in memory OF
his late wife.
Whosoever lends greedy ear to a SLAM
derous report is either himself of a radi-
cally bad disposition or mere child in
sense Menander.
A new song, entitled "Dream of Life, "
and written expressly for Nine. Nilsson,
was sung on Passover in the temple of the
Adath Israel congregation, Boston.
When Mr.. Moody had his photograph
taken recently he had only about dozen
copies printed for his family and closest
friends, and then bought the negative.
The curfew is still rung in many towns
of England, and at Rlpon horn is blown
at 8 P. NJ. in memory of the presentation
to the city of horn, still extant, by King
Alfred.
A calculation shows that Dundee spin-
ner must spin sixty miles of yarn to earn
81. Almost any country store can pro.
duce men that will spin a longer yarn for
nothing.
The Dead.letter Office at Washington is
carrying novel and entertaining plan into
effect A museum is being arranged of all
the queer things that lie there for years
unclaimed.
Owners of fine horses at Albany and
thereabout have portraits made of their ia.
vorites by T. K. Van Zardt. Mr.. Van
Zaudt is in his 10Th year, and has recently
built himself new studio.
A woman lay three days in a trance at
Big Rapids, Mich. On recovering she be-
| lieved that she had died and come to life
in another person. This deiusion cannot
be dispelled, though in other respects she
is sane.
| DIR. Lepsius, of Darmstadt, is to be sent
by the Berlin Academy of Sciences to
Athens with an assistant to make geologi.
cal survey OF the district, and to decide, il
possible, the age and origin of the Athenian
marbles.
! A statue of Admiral Dupont will be
modelled one.third larger than life by Mr..
Lsunt Thompson, for erection in Washing
ton, d. c. The sum Of So, 600 has been
appropriated for the pedestal. Citizens Of
Delaware will contribute three granite
steps for platform for the pedestal
Twenty lifeboats of new pattern have
Just been sent to the different life saving
stations on the Long Island coast. They
cost about 5000 each. They are twenty.
five and a half feet long, broad and high
at the bow, so as to ride easily over the
swell. They can seat twelve men with
oars.
The tallest electric mast in the country
| has been erected in Minneapolis, MINI. II
is surmounted by eight lights, each with
4, 900 candle power. It lights up the most
dangerous portion of the city, and any
where within radius of one mile diffusel
light enough to enable one to tell the tins
! at night by his watch.
The old wagon in which John Brown
used to carry runaway negroes from Mis-
souri,, and in which the arms of the men a
Harper's Ferry were brought to West Lib
erty, Ia, and shipped as carpenters tools
was sold at auction at Quaker settlement
near that town few days ago. 1t will b,
used as delivery wagon by the Iowa City
Republican.
The Rev. John Jasper, theologian and
astronomer, of Richmond, Va, is a tall
angular, very black negro, with all tb,
physical characteristics of his race. He il
now nearly 60 years old, and with advanc
ing years tightens his grip upon the doc
| trine that de sun do move" His sermon
on that subject has been repeated more
than five hundred times, and yet "draws
as well as ever.
Professor Schliemann's house ia one o.
the sights of Athens. 1t is built of whit,
marble and adorned with numerous statues
of the same material. He and his wife
talk ancient Greek together, and have
called their two children Andromachi and
| Agamemnon. Around the Professor cir
culates large body of erudite Germans
The Teutonic element is omnipotent in the
Hellenic capital. -
Queen Victoria is said to encourage agri
culture by entering the lists as competitor
at local fairs. The Emperorof China adopts
more patroniziDg policy, by once year
going with all his Ministers and blowing
| furrow across field. In this country We
do things differently. Here the people are
sovereign, and as a great many of them are
farmers, they pillow not one but many mill
ion burrows every year.
Dynamite is a terrible substance, bui
there might be some use for it in Jewish
circles, in exploding various errors into
which some of our co.religionists have
fallen, and in getting rid of various nui
sances which incumber the synagogue and
the Sabbath. school. How nice it would
be TO " blow up some of the loud-mouthed
g bosses of the congregations and some
of the fault-finders who look at everything
through blue glass, and cast an evil eye
upon every body's business. 1.-The Hebrew.
Professor Rsinsch thus gives the resulte
of his researches regarding the manner in
which coal has been formed. He had ex.
amined with the microscope not less than
9. 500 sections of coal, and had come to the
conclusion that coal had not been formed
by the alteration of accumulated land
plants, but that it consisted of micro
scopic forms Of lower order of proto.
pIasm, and although he had carefully ex-
arnined the cells and other remains OF
plants of higher order, he computed that
they have contributed only fraction OF
the mass of coal veins, however numerous
they may have been in some instances.
Daniel Webster, travelling, had the night
stage from Baltimore to Washington, with
no companion save the driver, and contem-
plated that worthY's forbidden visage with a
very uneasy mind. He had nearly reasoned
his suspicious fears away, when they came
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