Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-12-22

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use of denying that he is phenomenon in
every sense of the word saw him in ex-
] hlbition three or four times, and each time
became more impressed with his wonder
| ful powers as jumper Why, | saw him
clear over forty-one feet in three standing
jumps, with heavy clogs on his feet ever
twenty six feet in two standing Jumps; five
feet four inches in a standing high Jump;
Jumps over two chairs placed twenty one
feet apart, and many other marvellous feats
which cannot remember now. Besides
this be is the lightest man on his feet
eyer saw. He will jump upon a person 5
back and off again without the person feel
ing an ounce OF pressure and lie will step
upon eggs placed Two and three in row
without breaking the shell, and tLcv are
not wooden eggs, either. He's daisy, and
no mistake"
The mud was ankle deep, and it was
raining cats and dogs as the csr pulled up
at the corner of Tenth and streets.
Here you are, madam" sni the driver,
| poking his head inside the DOR. Then
there arose big woman, a handsome wo-
man. woman OF avoirdue os aud grit and
| bad grammar.
You Just turn this car around and go
! back, Mister driver | told you NJ street
and here you have carried me block out
of the way, and it raining So, and me with
no umbreller, too, and my rubbers at home;
| you Just turn your Old bOb-tailed cart
around and go back, or I'll sue Carey and
make him think it worth while 10 hire
drivers who can hear"
"Whv. madam, you surely said n street."
81 said nothing of the kind, you old
| frowzy- headed beast. You are Just as bad
as the market men. They, confouud them,
are forever and eternally mixing up things,
NJ and n streets, and getting up pretty
scandal. too, sometimes. There's my sis
ter's husband-he went and sent Thanks
giving turkey home; he's got sweetness
over on n street-though goodness knows
the woman don't encourage him, but she's
no fool and takes that he sends"
Come, madam, don't keep this car
standing here
Shut up, will you, I'm telling this story,
and I'm going 10 tell it while you pull
back to NJ street-you mind that Well,
he sent his wife up Thanksgiving turkey
and that market man delivered it on n
street, the numbers are the same. Well, it
all came out, and if Eliza didn't kick up a
row Are you going to turn this car
around"
We'll" exclaimed an old citizen, when
the indignant woman had been induced to
alight, Il sympathize with that person.
know of scores of cases every week of in
convenience and annoyance, because of the
mistakes due to the similarity of sound in
the names of those streets, and the fact that
they are numbered alike"
They are not similar" replied q stout
man in the corner. The correct name of
| N street is Capitol avenue. 1t is the only
avenue the city hes, and if the officials and
business men would speak of it as the ave-
nue., in few weeks all the town would be
using that title. Some places of business
on the avenue have their signs out now,
| Capitol Avenue
Yes, added another. There's Rev. Mr..
| Merrill, for instance; he and a newspaper
man | know of often get each others goods,
and one Christmas they say the parson's
turkey went wrong, too, and that the news
paper mans people got it and cooked it,
thinking it had been sent home by him.
He denied it stoutly, but they say the par
son believes it, all the same"
Yes" said H q. May, the market man,
on being spoken to about it, as he got on
the car on the return trip. at the corner of
Tenth and l.. Yes, that's so the deliver
ers of goods do mix things up on those
two streets. Why, even the Directory has
errors in it, and locates some n street peo-
pie on n street. Look at the case of lum-
Der dealer Frazer, for instance, and see how
the Directory distributes his family. Yes,
the street ought to be always spoken of as
the avenue"
Doctor" James Curtis, the ity's genial
| ianitor, is a heavy loser from the recent
break in the Yolo levee, snd his ranch
over there is under several feet of water
yet. Despite this, however, the "doctor"
is pursuing the even tenor of his way, as
jovial and good -natured as usual.
A friend was fstonished upon behold
ing the doctors" beaming countenance last
Friday on a street car, and remarked that
a gloomy and sad expression would be
more becoming, considering the disasters
occasioned by the break.
why sh-should l be sad ?" asked the
''doctor" in reply. I'm not loser at all. :"
We'll" said the friend. II thought yon
were. Your place is flooded, your i'm
provements washed away, your poultry
and stock drowned, and your house is in
danger now. How do You get around all
thst?"
Easy enough" replied the City Janitor
pleasantly, yet seriously. I've gig got the
NM most elegant crop of catfish on my
place now that you ever saw. And the best
| of it is, there is a BIB b-barbe3- wire fence
around N Mummy place. so they can't
get out. You see, now, you are an alarm
ist.'