Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-04-16

The joke on the gentle plumber
Now silently steals away;
And the Jest on the new spring bonnet
Will linger along till May;
And through the long, hot summer,
Like the curse of fearful dream,
Will float the ancient chestnut
And the girl that likes ice-cream;
And the joke of the boy and the apples
Through the autumn winds will sound;
But the joke on the wretched ice-man
LasIeth the whole year round.
Ofall the things that man possesses, wo-
man alone takes pleasure in being pos
Observation-Disclosures.
Little girl at breakfast table" Mamma,
this is very old butter have found a gray
hair in it."-IWilhamsport Breakfast
Table.
Lady hunters after bargains will capture
the best in the city at T. j. Dawson & Co.'S
243 St. James street. The game there is
very plentiful.
One of the English Governors of New
York, Lord Cornbtrrv, used 10 amuse him
self by dressing like 4 woman and promo
nadng around the Battery.
The word museum was originally APP
piled to that quarter of the palace of Alex
andria in which learned men were main
tanned at the public expense.
Indian cotton cloth is mentioned by
Herodotus, was known to the Arabians in
the time OF Mohammed, and was brought
into Europe by his followers.
1t is said that bee can draw twenty
times the weight Of its body. But it is not
by pull that bee gets the best of his vic
tim; it's his push.-[New York Journal.
While oiling dynamo machine at the
Health Exhibition in London one of the
workmen inadvertently touched it with the
oil can he held in his hand and was instant
ly killed.
q wonder if she's worth my wait in
cold?" unused the youth who fingered out
side the church wherein his girl worshiped
while the ten-degrees- below-zero air nipped
his nose New York Journal.
Mamma dining out -" 1t isn't polite
Bobby, to smack your lips when eating
You never do that at home" Bobby
"'Cause VIC never have anything worth
smacking over. IN. y. Times.
\ Fiji writer remarks that when focks of
tern and other sea fowl rest upon the sea in
great numbers the water becomes smooth.
and there is not ripple to disturb them"
This is ascribed TO oil emitted by the
birds.
Yes, sir said the entomoIogist. can
come and alight on my hand ''Pshaw "
said the bald-headcd man, " that's nothing.
They come and alight on my head without
whistlng.' The entomologist sat down.
Nabia, Algiers, has Il sinking mountain
that ranks as the most extraordinary of the
many disturbances of the eagth's crust
During the past two years this mountain
has been sinking into the earth at q rate
that will soon cause it TO entirely disap-
pear.
A physician in Erie has in his office the
body Of child which died three years ago
and which, at that time, he embalmed ac
cording to some new process, and it has
been preserved from decomposition and in
a perfectly natural condition ever since 4
1unlor that the body had been restored to
life attracted a large crowd to the Office on
April LIST.
1t is said that an English firm has been
experimenting with RangoOn earth oil as
fuel. with satisfactory results, for steam
street railway motors. An engine designed
10 burn this kind Of fuel has, in conse-
quence been sent to Burmah for working
street railways there. 1t is estimated that
the use Of the new fuel Will reduce the
working expenses 20 per cent.
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has
decided that unless persons look both ways
in crossing q railroad track they cannot OBJ
tain damages for injuries they may receive.
This gives croSs-eycd people decided adj
vantage over those who can see straight,
and in some measure mitigates the atiilc-
ton of being cross-eyed. Life is full of
conversational Boston Courier.