Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-01-16

Fall River Advance.
Camphor trees are being SUCCESSFULLY
grown in Florida.
Sanguine persons out in Wyoming say
that the petroleum belt there is twice as
wide as the Pennsylvania, and railroad is
started to develop things.
TIE Picayure says that never were cut
flowers more scarce in New Orleans than at
present. The sweet-scented narcissus is
the favorite flower of the moment for cor.
sage bouquets.
A smart advertiser in Baltimore offered
prizes for guesses as to the number of seeds
in pumpkin. 1t was cut on New Years
Day, and found to contain 727 seeds. The
nearest guess was 72l.
Burke, of Atlanta, Ca, still buys Con-
federate notes. He pays half cent each
for all bills below 81, 200. and for that de.
nomination he pays % cents. He sells
them to Northerners as curiosities.
Italy makes more use of the telephone,
in proportion to population, than any other
country in the world. The General italian
Telephone Company increased its list of
subscribers during the past year at least
100 per cent.
The Cleveland Herald, during a lull in
the recent cold spell at the East. said :
"There is fear out that the weather has
only stopped to spit on its hands, and will
come again stronger than ever; and it costs
$3.50 to get to California.
A Chicago advertisement says Mrs.
and Miss May have cast off clothing of
every description. This fairly takes the
breath Let US hope that they wear at
least necklace during this excessive cold
snap Bismarck Tribune.
James, my son, take this letter to the
Postotfice, and pay the postage for it. ]"
The boy James returned highly elated, and
said g Father, seed lot of men putting
letters in a little place, and when no one
was looking l slipped yours in for nothing" "
a Japanese student at the University of
Berlin has been appointed assistant to the
Professor of Anatomy, and the Minister of
Public Worship has approved the appoint
ment. No honor equivalent to this is said
vet to have fallen On Chinaman in any
European institution. i Inter Ocean.
The papers announce that a Chicago
hotel waiter was accidentally shot in the
pantry" Why will the papers insist on
using these medical terms? We don't
know Just how much to sympathize with
the poor fellow. 1t is to be hoped the
pantry is not vital spot Bismarck
Tribune.
J. H. McIlvaine, of Philadelphia, is said
to have the finest collection of Indian relics
and stuffed birds in the country. He is
considering an offer of so, 600 from the
Blvarian Government for his birds OF
Indian curiosities he has everything from
an arrow point to q tent, from bead to
full dress, from a feather TO q tomahawk.
Philadelphia Record.
Philadelphia Belief should think &C
tresses would get dreadfully tired of say
ing the same thing every night. Chicago
Belle-So should l. Philadelphia Belle
And when one play runs right along they
have to wear the same dresses week after
week. 1t must be horr;d. Chicago Belle
Yes, but that is not the worst of it. Just
think of the monotony of being kissed by
the same leading man for months at
time. Ii l couldn't change once week
I'd just die.
Flour to the value or 1926. 900, 900 is an
nually consumed in Great Britain and Ire
land. J. Harrison Carter says that while
most of the -four is manufactured in the
United Kingdom, great deal of it comes
from abroad, because the foreign miller ap.
precates the advantages of roller grind.
ing. The first complete roller plant was
started, he said, in America, in 1880, and
now is almost universally employed there,
while the British have made comparatively
little progress with the new system.
Henry Clay, in his Raleigh speech in
1914, exposed the fallacy Of the free trade
assumption, that the price of an article is
enhanced by the amount OF the duty there
on, by citing the discontinue Of Demo-
cratic stump speaker, who, seeing a shah
billy dressed hearer Just IL front of him,
arrested the flow of his eloqueIce long
enough to ask " My friend, do you know
that these tariff monopolists make you pay
SIX cents yard more than you should for
that shirt you have on y 81 suppose it
must be SO, since you say it, responded
the surprised and scared auditor but |
have no learnin', and don't quite unders-
stand it, since l only gave five and half
cents for it.
Dumley had taken the landlady s daugh-
ter to the theater, and, as usual, had bust
ness outside between the acts. " Do you
see young Brown over there " he said to
the young woman. Yes" che replied.
" Well, he is man | expect to paralyze
some day Are you going out to see
another man at the conclusion Of this act %
she asked. "Yes," Dumiey said, reluc.
family, " ana afraid l shall have to F; he is
waiting for me now" "Well, said the
landlady's daughter, "I don't like Mr..
Brown very much either, and l will tell
you what to do. When you return from
seeing the gentleman outside who ia wait
ing for you, just step over to where Mr.
| Brown is sitting and breathe on him. That
Will paralyze him. ~ Philadelphia Call.
THAT match you are lighting your cigar
with is very small thing, isn't it ?" said
a passenger who had shared nay seat for a
| few miles. "a small thing but you
wouldn't believe the American people paid
out So, 900, GOO for matches last year,
would you: 1t looks big but it Is iac'
Now, take a pencil and figure it out.
Fifty millions of people in this country !;
| they use on an average i've matches each
per day; that il 2j0, 600, 600 matches daily
or >, 500, 600 boxes OF 100 matches in box,
every day, Last year these boxes retailed
at an average OF three cents each, making
/ So, 900 a day for matches, or .S27, 375, 900
a year. And then, TO think that three
fouT.hs of all these matches were supplied
by one company. II they didn't make
| $, 900, 600 clear profit out OF it, they didn't
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