Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-06-20
SAN FRANCISCO SIGHTS
AS SEEN AND TOLD BY A b.
HEMIENNE.
The Dudes Latest-Notes About La
dies-Bun Sun Low-ConminSi-
ing and Intermarrying Races.
CORRESPONDENCE Of the RgooRD-UNIOs. J


male friends The city papers exposed
their button-hook scheme, and now they
use handkerchiefs, don't you know" He
selects passing victim, strolls beside or in
front, so she will see him, then drops a lit
tie back. At an opportune moment, per-
haps as she stopsto gaze through window,
he feigns to pick up the handkerchief, and
says: "Aw, beg pawdon, l think aw, you
back, but usually says; Did l? Let me
look in my hand bag. Dear me- l believe
mine had a colored-why l do believe l
left it" While she looks he talks and often
works up the desired acquaintance.
dude Jack Horner,
Stands on the street corner,
And waits for society pie:
" On this hop-o' -my-thumo
Smiles silly girl plum
And he says What masher am ,?
Other poets are warned that the above
very blank verse is copy righted.
STYLES on THE STREETS.
After eighteen months absence the city
seems less changed than-the women. This
is the first season that light-colored frocks
are fashionable for street wear, and some
of them are decidedly loud. What do you
think of a lemon-colOred grenadine with
broad panels of violet Yelvet2 Also bright
wine-red, with breast bouquet big as a
pie plate of Waller marigolds, q ribbon
to match tied around the throat, and high
hat massed in marigolds? Also a light
bronze green ruffled to the waist, each
ruffie edged half an inch with a band of
gold braid When left here the favorite
corsage bouquet was cloth of gold rose buds;
now il is a big bunch of old-fashioned as
turtions Make a note of it, the seed balls
OF that plant are very nice in the pickle jar
or picked separately for capers or mutton
Fuchias used TO be the pet out door orna-
ment. They are supplanted by five feet
bush of marguerites so common as TO be
i'll almost every yard. Wonder if there is
any connection between the flower and the
fact that Faust is the towns fayorite opera !
INCREASED FAMILIARITY BETWEEN LADIES.
Women strangers have acquired a new
habit of conversing with each other where
ever they chance to meet. In hotel par
Tor one walks up to a fellow traveller with,
VIII you please tie my vel; | can
reach up. Thanks, you'rereal good, gives
nod and is gone. At the dead-horse
picture sale women made no preface of
though longtime acquaintance. In the
q Battle of Waterloo hall a young woman
standing by me said Have you noticed
there in the extreme background beyond
BOnaparte, that faint outline of church
steeple? Look at it through my opera-glass
and see how ii comes out" Had it been
my own sister she could not have spoken
more Familiarity or kindly. We exchanged
several ideas on the scenes, and when she
lett NE an elderly lady said, q I can't make
out from this programme where Marshal
Ney is do you know? We walked
around the platform, where | could point
out the brave Frenchman. Presently those
two women were talking together and
were evidently strangers to each other as
well as to me. Into these impromptu con-
versations no personalities are introduced,
no topics mentioned but those relating to
subjects under contemplation; no &C
quaintance formed, consequently they are
rather pleasant.
BATTLE OF WATERLOO PAINTING.
The Battle of Waterloo is now the most
intellectual sight in this city. 1t is called a
panorama, but is not movable, and is really
an immense picture entirely covering the
inner wall of a round building with a glass
roof. Visitors ascend a spiral staircase to
a platform surrounding q mound of real
earth that slopes twelve TO twenty feet and
is covered with real grass, shrubbery and
trees At the foot of the mound is a ravine
that so successfully joins the grass TO the
painted canvass il is impossible to discern
where fact ends and fancy begins. In the
Tavine are pools of muddy water, and be-
side one of them sits a soldier that has TO
be studied some time before one can tell
whether he is painted on the canvass or is
mo INT
on the platform the perspective is perfect
Art has entirely concealed art and so sim
ulated nature that the longer one looks on
spreading wheat fields, villages, etc, the
less they seem to be paints production.
The view represents the early part of the
historic battle, yet the few dead scattered
about are sickening in CHASTITY reality No
newspaper account can present the horrors
of war IS does q picture like this. To see a
man lying dead with a horrible hole in his
1'""d. wounded horse laundering about
over his riders body, viii give some idea
of the scene when thousands of i3oan ana
horses are piled upon each other dead,
diving maddened with thirst, or agonized
with memories Of loved ones. And qu
bono? That handful of politicians may
live in glory. Aside from
TIE HISTORICAL INFORMATION
In this picture, it Will unconsciously edu
cate the public mind to peace secured by
arbitration. No one should visit the city
without sparing at least an hour at the
panorama. ! passed two hours there, and
Shall expend another half dollar in further
study. II was odd that the sentiment of
visitors generally is sympathy for France
rather than admiration for England's mill
tary skill Perhaps the sympathy is more
markedly expressed just now as England IS
SO backward in coming forward. This piece
will, after exhausting the town, be replaced
BY one in which Americans are more di-
rectly interested-the battle of Gettysburg.
What q sight it would be, studied under
the auspices of some Grand Army man
who was on the field May we all be there
to see.
BUN sun Low
Is partly appropriate as the name of rest
aurant, if il was Chinese. That delightful
curio was burned last week, and it is to be
hoped Will soon be rebuilt. Every distin-
guished sight-seer who came to the coast
was dined at the Bun, if not on buns. The
buildings first floor was devoted TO the
common herd of Cinnamon, who carried
their own chopsticks, and made a complete
meal for six cents, on tea, rice, fish and in
describable stew. The second-foor habi-
tues were Suophcepefs, COull y men, Ohi'
nese visiting town, and those able to pay
for better fare and furniture than afforded
down stairs There was room at the top
for the elite of Monaghan aristocracy an
hundreds of bon ton Caucasian visitors
Third-door salons were n blaze of Oriental
splendor, and one could almost fancy then
some scene from the " Arabian Nights
tales. The walls were hung with richly
embroidered curtains, the carpets were I'M
equaled by any in town, tables inlaid witt
mother-of-ncd ri devices, ornaments of solic
silver narian marble, worries that seem L
have been carved by fairy fingers; shells
rare woods miniature gardens 100 year.
old the quaint porcelain and crockery o
daintiest design, afforded a days entertain
ment
AMONG THE GUESTS WHO DISED THERE
Have been General Grant and family
President Hayes and family. Marqui,
Lorne, Princess Louise and suit, Ferdinand
de Lesseps, Duke of Sutherland, Rev