Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-02-13


He's got his silver slippers on,
And running everywhere.
Some men are so lucky that they couldn't
fall over board without being pulled up with
their pockets full of fish.
A newspaper in Paris has been sued for
damages for printing a portrait of
Countess which did not look like her.
A Ffenchman is teaching a donkey to
talk. What we want in this country is
a man who will teach donkeys not to
talk.
A voter, praising candidate at recent
election. said He is as fine fellow as
ever lifted hat to lady or boot to
scoundrel"
Hunters have been setting fire to the
grsps in the Sioux reservation, and driving
the buffalo into the settlements, where they
are slaughtered by thousands.
The difference between long and short
yarn is very well illustrated by the differ.
ence of ones feelings in holding skein
for ones grandmother or ones sweet
heart.
Little George was questioned the other
| day about his big sisters beau. How
old is he % 81 don't know" "Well, is
he young?" 81 think so, for he hasn't any
hair on his head.
A "cultivator of the thoracic diaphrag-
matte muscles, and educator of laryngeal
contortions and vocal technique may be
better than singing teacher, but we don't
know why.-TMusical Herald.
1t is said that it comes natural with
women to firt while they are at the sea-
shore, and as usual, one wave of a woman's
handkerchief continues to attract more at
tention than all the waves of the sea-
A Kentucky blue. grass belle says that
for her part she hasn't the slightest curl
osity to hear Mr.. Arnold lecture, as she
doesn't see how the traitor can have the
face to stand up before the American
people.
The young man who profusely thanked
his '' best girl !" for a beautiful crushed
strawberry pen wiper, presented to him on
his birthday, still continues the good old
style of using his coat sleeve for pen
cleaner.
1t is a sight worthy of an artists crayon
to see woman, while talking through
telephone to her grocer three miles away,
stamping her little foot and shaking her
fat as though the poor man was quailing
right before her Yonkers Statesman.
An Austrian chemist gives this receipt
for detecting false butter: Melt little of
the suspected article soak a wick in it.
When again solid, light it like candle;
blow it out. If it smell OF blown-out
candle, it is oleomargarine if of fresh
butter, why butter it is.
The bicycle sled has been perfected in
Canada. The rider sits on wheel which
is cogged to catch the ice, and there is a
frame shed with four blades of steel like
an ordinary skate runners. upon which the
machine glides along. Still, it is said not
TO be SO popular as skates. There is no.
body's hand to hold.
If, says Dr. Troitski, the average tenn
perature of non smokers were represented
by 1000, that of moderate smokers would
be ,00S, and while the heart in the former
case was making 1000 pulsations in the
latter it would beat l,lS0 times. 1t is to
the latter effect, he thinks, that the danger
of tobacco smoking is due.
"No," said Mrs. Homespun. 81 haven't
seen the Light of Asia, and don't want
to, either. I've Just been bothered to
death ever since | began keeping house,
forty years ago, with your new-fangled
light and lamp chimblies and burners.
Kerrysene's good enough for me. Light
of Asia = No, don't want nothing to do
with it. . Boston Transcript.
Among the late John w. Forney's pecu-
lisrities is said to have been that of fire.
quently depositing large amounts in differ
ent banks, and forgetting all about them.
This must be habit he fell into from
being publisher. Editors who are not
publishers never acquire this popularity.
1t would, perhaps, not be unprofessional,
but they never do it.-[Progressive Age.
The shortest letter on record is that of
Senator Sumner to Secretary Stanton when
President Johnson was try ing to oust the
latter from his cabinet 1t was "Stick.
That one word contains whole philosophy
of life for those who are wise enough to
read it Alright. ''Stick and hang, young
man, says Josh Billings in some of his
aphorisms Don't forget that it is the
last six inches that win the race"
The famous italian violin. makers used,
it is said, the following sort of varnish
on their instruments Rectified alcohol,
half gallon six ounces of gum sandarsc,
three ounces of gum mastic and half pint
of tuTpentine vanish. The above ingre-
dents are put into tin can by the stove
and frequently shaken until the whole is
well dissolved. 1t is finally strained and
kept for use. If upon application it is
seen to be too thick, thin with an addition
of more turpentine varnish.
In the rubber industry in this country
there is employed an aggregate capital of
about S75, 900, 900, of which nearly $780,.
O00. 600 are confined to the rubber boot and
shoe industry. The total number of en-
pIoyes is placed at $4,000, and the total
number of factories at 100 According to
recent census bulletin the value of the
annual product is $3.50 100000, Some
80, 600 tons of raw rubber are imported
every year, which, when combined with
other materials in manufacturing, amount