Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-09-04
NOTES OF THE DAY.

y Philadelphia woman While walking
along the street one day recently, suddenly
became aware that her clothes were burn
ing. She Immediately turned her back to-
ward large window and deity made
grab for the smoke, which came from the
direction of her bustle. First she brought
out a purse and then came small pack
age of dry goods, box of candy, pair of
baby socks, novel, half a dozen papers of
pins, pamphlet on dress reform, and last
of all was the flaming and incinerated re-
mains of a discreet religious Philadelphia
weekly newspaper that had Just been doing
duty as a hustle. By this time quite a
crowd had gathered and helped stamp out
the fire on the sidewalk. But meantime
the fire had caught the embroidered gar
ments and she was in great danger of being
very severely burned. However a pitcher
of ice water subdued the confiagration, and
the lady, more mortified than injured, re-
plenished her wardrobe from neighbor-
ing store.
A writer in the Galveston NelOs calls at
tention to the fact that the greatest damage
done on the beach during the recent storm
along the gulf coast occurred after the tide
had turned and commenced to ebb. As the
tide turned the velocity Of the wind in
creased, forcing the water inward, while the
receGing tide eXerted an outward pressure,
thus causing churning motion of the wa
ter to and fro, and a whirlpool around ev-
cry obstruction met. wrenching to pieces
buildings which had fallen from their pill
ing, and undermining the piling of those
still standing. Fence posts two feet in the
ground, from which the fences had been
previously washed, were torn from the
ground by this churning motion of the wa
ter, leaving holes where they stood from
one foot to eighteen inches deep.
The editor of the Vicksburc Miss) Herald
has unfortunately incurred the displeasure
of the Prohibitionists of thai city, and one
of the leaders thus refers 10 him III pub
lie card: When he disappears beneath the
vile green scum where he belongs, and his
warty and diseased soul goes to It's black
home, all hell will shudier with horror at
the intrusion, and the demons will draw
aside their reeking garments lest they be
polluted by his infectious touch. The
words 'scoundrel,' liar blackguard,'
coward, and cur which have so often
been applied to him, are the most fulsome
fattery."
A fishing party left Baltimore last week
in a yacht. The committee on supplies
provided four demijohns, filed two dozen
lemons, one bottle Angostura bitters, four
crates of beer, two boxes cigars, one cigar
box filled with poker chips, three decks of
cards, and six bottles of brandy, the latter
to be used in case of sickness No rods,
reels, lines, hooks, etc, were ordered
Nevertheless each of the party returned
home with large bunch of fine fish, and
claimed that they had given away large
quantities, being unable TO carry them.
Alvin Adams, when the express business
was in its infancy, had an office and two
horses in New York. One of these horses
was fine, fast animal, and the other an
old, broken-down nag. Packages that were
TO be delivered Immediately he sent out
have to be rushed he would say Leave
them for the old hoss." In every express
office to this day there is an " old-hoss
room, where uDdelivered and unclaimed
packages are kept.
There is on exhibition in jewelry store
at Washington very unique electrical
time-piece. The face, or indicator, of the
clock is suspended by two cords, and the
electric apparatus, which is the motive
power hangs by wire in the bottom of
the window. The clock works silently,
and it has been tested and proves to keep
accurate time No clock work of aily kind
is attached to the time-keeper, except the
hands, which move only each minute.
There are now sold in the United States
about S250,000, 900 worth of paints every
year, and raw materials to the amount of
half this sum are consumed in making
them. Putty is made by all the big paint
factories. 1t is made out of whiting and
the skin of linseed oil. 1t is put up by the
thousands of tons in kegs and skins, and
costs about one and half cents pound to
make it.