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

What there is in a nsme-Mr. Thinne Is
the President of the Boston Fat Mems
Club. Boston Post.
Railroad journals are discussing the dis
tance the running of trains can be heard.
Eighteen miles is the greatest distance
claimed.
There are said to be 1000 one.legged
men the United States One-legged men
form the most peaceful and submissive
element of our population. They never
kick.
The spruce trees on the Green Mountains
in Vermont have been attacked by some
mysterious disease, which IS destroying
them and causing nc Itie uneasiness
among the owners of timber land
The Harvard Union few days ago de-
hated the following "Resolved, That the
requirement of Greek for admission to Har-
ward College should be abolished" a bal.
lot taken after the debate resulted Ayes
10, noes 81.
In Japan fish are kept in a reservoir and
killed as they are needed. Fresh vegeta-
bles are kept under trickling water, and in
all well.conducted places there is a scrupu-
lous neatness manifested in all culinary
arrangements.
ono" said George Henry. 81 didn't
90 there to court the giIl; only called in
occasionally to pass the time, YOU know /;
but first thing | knew they had me up for
breach of promise, and so, you see, went
to the Court at last.
A tribe of Indians having tails from six
to eight inches in length is said to have
been discovered in Paraguay. Should this
announcement prove true, the Journal Of
Science protests in advance against their
being paraded as "the missing link, since
the anthropoid apes have no tails
An Indianapolis man has an odd lawsuit
on his hands, because he refuses to pay for
the care of part of his own anatomy.
He had a leg amputated, an undertaken
put it in vault and has kept it there ever
since, and the other day began suit upon
bill rendered titus: To vaultage on
limb of Charles Smith for los months at
So a month, S504. "
1t is said the will OF P. 7. Barnum COW
ers seven hundred pages Of legal-cap pa
per- No wonder he wanted three physi-
clans to testify that he was of sound mind
when be signed the document. The old
man will have it published, to sell in the
ring next sumner. His temperance lect.
ure, made to aid the sale of circus lemon
ade, Is about played out.-LNsw Orleans
Picayune.
"Isaacs," he said, as he entered the
store with the evening paper in his hand,
wool has gone oop two cents per pound.
81 Yes, ladder" MARK everytings on dot
counter COP twenty per cent, :" g But all
dose goods vhas cotton, ladder" "Dey
vhas ~ Well, doc make no deefrence. |
see dot two button mills hat failed, und
der price of buttons must 90 oep. lsaacs,
you vhas never rich man until you keep
your eyes oud5 pehind you. u Wall-Street
News.
The exceedingly delicate photographs
colored on glass which have recently come
into fashion are produced by fixing paper
photograph upon a cushion-shaped glass
with transparent cement and when 1t is
dry rubbing away tw0.thirds OF the photo
graph with sandpaper. The thin film lett
is then rendered transparent by soaking IN
melted paratliue wax, after which trans-
parent colors are applied, which appear
softened down when looked at from the
front.
A curious lawsuit is now az aiting trial
in New York Some ten months ago Miss
Annie Petit, a young girl Of unusually
large proportions. was engaged by dime
museum manager to exhibit herself as
90 the largest young lady in the world. 3"
Miss Petit was given to understand that
her position was life one, and it prob
ably would have been hadn't nature inter-
fered and reduced her size go much that
she was no longer q curiosity. The man
agement promptly discharged her, and she
now sues for reinstatement.
The Republican party made the negro a
voter in order to be sure of Republican
success in 1865. After fifteen years it has
done nothing to enlighten, protect or de-
fend the allies who saved them from dis
aster. \ man who would appeal to a poor
blind negro to pull him out OF the mud, and
then leave the Imam and brother to
starve while he CROPPED his way onward, or
parted from him with taunt and a kick,
would deserve at least dose of earnest
English prose, if DO more solid and tangible
form of abuse.-[Judge Tourgee in the
Continent.