Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-05-10
WISE AND OTHERWISE.

| C4ergymen, like railroad brakemell- 40 {.
good deal of coupling. Yes; and the
coupled ones do all the breaking.
Instead OF fogging bad boys, the teach
ers Of some of the schools in Scotland dose
them with castor oil. They won't even
give the boys their choice to be " licked. .
A Philadelphia man compels his daugh-
ter TO eat onions every night for supper,
and thus assures himself that he can shut
the house at 10 clock without locking in
g strange young man. Burlington Free
Press.
The Chinese chronicles state that their
mode of block printing was invented 30 b.
! G., but that paper was not manufactured
| by them till 90 4. D., so that printing was
in use fortv-five years before the invention
OF paper Previous 10 that time they used
Speaking on the subject of dances, Rev.
Father Dillon, Of Easton, Pa, recently
said: :" ] think young girl who attends
such place puts premium on her virtue,
and parents who allow their children 10
go TO either place an excessive amount Of
confidence upon the virtue OF their daugh-
tiers or else are not proper custodians Of
them"
Lizzie Belle Stevens, of LiYermo7e, Ne,
the girl who was frightened by finding a
snake in a box Of shavings. has died Of the
| fright She lay in q deiirium for ten
weeks, raving about the snake most Of the
time, and then typhoid fever set in, She
was thirteen years old. The snake was put
in the box by smart youth TO scare the
girls
John Day, who distinguished himself,
between 1916 and 1884, by the variety and
importance of his publications, had, for
his motto Arise, for it is day" This ws
in witty reference TO his own name. Bat
to him il had deeper and more serious
| significance. 1t pointed to that night Of
| ignorance which was enlightened and dis
per@ed by printing and the progress of the
Retormation.- Exchange,
I An English medical journal rerorts that
a retired Snowman has been making public
some OF the secrets Of his trade, notably the
secret Of fat women He says that in the
case Of these women hollow needle -
made to penetrate the adipose 70 the are
oar tissue air then being then forced
through until the woman Is distended to
her full limit. What is commonly taken
for fat is therefore largely wind.
Rover, an intelligent Newfoundland dog,
which saved Daniel P. Weirs little hoy by
diving through the ice in the South Mil
pond, has been photographed, and his picc-
ure has been sent TO the Massachusetts,
Humane Society and to Speaker Marden,
Of the House of Representatives. 1t r.
stated that he will be awarded the bronze
medal of the Humane Society for his bray-
cry and fidelity salem Gazette,
The results of the survey Of Palestine
etc, have begun to create quite a stir
among Biblical and other students. The
| statement that at the time Of the Exodus
the Red Sea and the Mediterranean were
continuous IS startling. If this turns out
10 be correct, warning will be given 20
writers on the distribution Of the human
race plants, etc, when so severe blow is
delivered to the prevailing assumption Ct
the practical immutability Of the great
land ard water masses since the appear
ance OF man upon the earth. Great
| changes must have occurred according 70
Professor HULL well within historic times.
New YorE, Times
Savings banks were established in France
in 1884, but although thee Institutions
grew yearly in popular favor, it was not IN
til the end Of 1916 that the amount Of de-
posts reached even 1903 GOO francs, and the
number Of depositors 6S40QQ. 1t the end
of 1882 the depositors numbered, 4,32l, 900,
and the amount Of deposits aggregated
l,746, 900 francs. and at the same period
21l $50 persons had 10 their credit 46, S23,
457 francs in the Postofice Savings Bank,
which was established by law 50 recently
as April Q, 1881. The study Of the stats
tics in detail of the French savings banks
unfold not a few instructive lessons in Sc
cial and political sciences.-[ New York
Times.