Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-11-07

me when we meet IN the city
"Come away from that straw stack,
chile" called a negro woman to her son.
"Fust thing yer know ye'll hab de hay
fever. Doan yer put none OBJ dat straw in
yer mouf. II [Arkansaw Traveller.
The following placard hangs up in a Ten.
nessee store-window
Peppermint lie for
He'd axe
Belize "
10th "
Almost all women will give sympathiz-
ing hearing to men who are in love. Be
they ever so old they grow young again in
that conversation, and renew their own
early time. Men are not quite SO generous.
[Thackeray.
There were, in round numbers, about
,, Ia, 500. 600 people in Spain and its belong
ings at the last record. OF these, 6.OO0,-
900 were in Spain ITSELF and 5, 500, 900 in
the Philippines 800, 900 in Cuba, and
about $50, 600 in Porto Rico.
An exchange says "Mark Twain has
had set up in Elmira, N. Y, solid stone
watering trough by the roadside for each
of his three children" Marks children
must be very thirsty set They proba.
bly, have their fathers dry humor. New
Orleans Picayune.
Mr.. Brown Ito man who has been SHOW
cling his walk: "Why, how's this Pat
rick-50 cents? You told me you d take
the job, and be glad of it, for a quarter"
"Ah, well, Mr.. Brown, if said that same
l said it KNOWN ye were a gintleman as
wouldn't keep man to the strict integrity
of his word"
| After all the most natural beauty in the
world is honesty and moral truth. For all
beauty is truth. The features make the
beauty of face, and true proportions the
beauty of architecture, as truth measures
that of harmony and music. In poetry,
which is all fable, truth still is the perfec.
tion. -[Shaftesbury.
A musical journal discusses Emusic as a
Healing Art" If man were to be treated
to serenade by a couple of bagpipes, he
would have to be pretty i'll if the inspiring
strains didn't infuse enough strength into
his system inside of five minutes to cause
him to jump out of bed and look around
for shotgun. Scotch Fun.
Patent plastering was novelty exhibited
at recent building exhibition in London.
1t is claimed for it that it saves both time
and labor. The material is prepared be-
forehand, in slabs, which are fixed to the
ioists direct, with great speed, forming the !
ceiling at once. Thus, plsstering that |
would require weeks to execute, can be &C. !
complished by this slab system in as many
days.
AT the recent annual meeting of the |
trustees of the Shakespeare Birthplace it |
was reported that the number of visitors to |
the poets house and the museum for the |
year was close upon l3, 600. New Place, |
where Shakespeare lived and died, will |
henceforth be thrown open to the public, |
without charge, for three days in each |
week.
An exchange says that a few years ago |
Florida raised some cotton, some sugar,
and good deal of the devil. With North. |
ernseapital and enterprise the State is be- |.
ing rapidly transformed, and twenty years |
from now will lead every State in the !
South in its wealth and improvements. |
Next year will see boom in Florida all |
along the line. AS winter resort it is
unsurpassed.
An Englishman, writing from this coun.
try to a London paper, says "We have
always supposed Englishmen to be stronger
physically than Americans, but think we
must certainly overestimate our strength.
l am told, upon good authority, that there
is an old man in this country named Til
den who could have slapped Daniel Lam
bert down three flights of stairs. This old
man is so powerful that he amuses him
self by lifting cattle from one pasture to
another"
In Egypt great number of hives of bees
NF% Il
Nile and transported from one location to
another on the river, according to the sue
cession of flowers in different districts. Ad
vantages and disadvantages, however are
almost always inseparably connected-as
illustrated ID this case-for though desira-
BILE results are secured in these rich bee
pastures, it is estimated that 25 per cent.
of the bees in their flight from the vessel,
or in their return thereto, fall into the
water and perish.
Some time ago remarkable accident
took place at a factory in Neusalz. A large
iron kettle was used to hold water. Into
this open vessel melted iron was allowed
to flow in moderate stream for making
iron shot. 1t chanced that one of the
workmen by mistake let the iron flow too
rapidly. There was sudden development
of steam which threw out q part of the
water, frightening the laborer and causing
him to drop his ladle, so that forty four
pounds of melted iron fell at once into the
water. There was an immediate outburst
of steam and 3 loud explosion, which
shattered the kettle into fragments, tore up
the woodwork, threw the laborer nearly
eight feet backward, and broke his right
leg. Only very small portions of the kettle
were found where it stood. Some of them
were thrown to distance of fifty feet. It
is to be noted that the kettle had no cover,
The sun has been, during the past sum. ;
mer, in state of great excitement as to
sun-spots, and the surface still shows a
considerable number. About the lst of
August there were several instances of re.
markable eruptions of prominences in con-
nection with spots at the edge of the suns
disk. Thollou, in France, observed one in :
which the l,474 line, which characterizes
the spectrum of the corona, was bent and
distorted in such way IS to show that t
the coronal matter itself was implicated in |
the disturbance most unusual thing :
Generally this line remains bright, smooth !
and keen as rapier, even when all the !
other lines in the neighborhood-lin of
iron, magnesium, calcium, hydrogen and i
what not-sre bent and knotted. In an. !
other eruption, observed by Professor .
Young, prominence was thrown up to an
elevation of 1000 in little less than
ten minutes. At the base of this promi.
nence an immense number of bright lines, I
never before observed, made their appear.
ance. One of them was above the line :
known IS X, at the very limit of the visi. :