Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-12-29

| loft, and everywhere-but nary a tramp
could we find. l was puzzled, and was be-
ginning TO think the dinged place was
haunted or else harlequin had been there
ahead of US, like in the pantomime, and
made the tramps invisible. Well we were
about to give up the search and depart
when a thought struck me. Each one of
you take a pitchfork,' says l to the other
officers, and poke around in that hay. !
think that will fetch 'em.' The words
were no sooner out OF my mouth than
twenty-one shaggy heads bodied up out
of that hay-pile, and twenty-one voices
began to howl, Hold on there; we'll come
outp"
Little five-year- old Tommy Blank was
riding town ward in bob-tail car with his
mother.
Presently bu1om colored girl who is
employed as nurse in the family of we'll
known business man boarded the car car
rying her employers twin babies. The
twins were magnificent specimens, las like
as two peas" as the saying goes. Both
were dressed alike, crowed, cried and goo
gooed'' at the same time, and had the nurse
been heartless enough to emulate Little
Buttercup, by mixing those babies up"
it would have been an impossibility for the
parents to ever call them by their right
| names again.
Tommy gazed at the twins in open
mouthed wonder for some time. Then,
unable to contain himself any longer, he
exclaimed: "Oh, mamma Look. Two
out of the same box"
The car was full of people and several
men were standing in the aisle holding to
the straps suspended from the ceiling as
the poor driver was urging his horse
| !, tla Of Ob,o
| Talbot remarked to G. w. Hancock that
1.-THE demonstration in Chicago in honor of
Jackson's victories would be grand af
fair"
Yes" replied the State Agricultural
Director, who has Los Angeles by the ears
$50 I see. Well, old Hickory was a
great man. 1 see they are going to have
Grover Cleveland present"
A politician from the Second Ward who
is better acquainted with the ethics of the
prize ring than he is with the history of
his adopted country was an interested
listener and finally blurted out
ITO - wild Jackson. He's mayer
1 suppose the next thing Boston will be
giving John L. blow out and Harrison
will be invited"
Two members of the California Pioneers
boarded at red car at Seventh and K for
| their homes up on H street. They were
busily engaged in conversation when they
entered the car, and after each had
dropped nickel in the slot" it was re-
| sumed.
Yes, I ran away from my home in
Hallowell. Maine. when 1 was IS, and
| went whaling"
so did l when l was the same age"
You went whaling?"
Eyes; took charge of a country school,"
Often on the street cars the common
ordinary-everday- go-as- you-please citizen
is edited with short religious discussions
A member of the hard-shell Baptist
Church and a deacon in the Presbyterian
congregation were in an O-street car the
other day, and they talked SO loud and
earnestly that the other passengers, in
Guiding the reporter, sat quiet and inter
ested listeners. They were discussing the
Pope and the Vatican and denouncing the
Pope's Irish in regular Frank Pixley style
when wag, who seemed to be annoyed,
said
Say, you fellers, don't-cher-know there
is a county in this State in which there is
not single Catholic"
No" replied both in the same breath;
(which one is it."
Orange. They are all Orangemen, see."
Several members of the State Board OF
Agriculture were on their way out to the
4 Pavilion, where meeting was. to be held.
| Secretary Edwin +. Smith was also with
the party.
They were all talking horse-relating
ancient history of the race track, both
abroad and at home.
Director Chase told one about some old
time "two-forty" flyer that astonished the
sports and made money for its owners way
back in the sixties.
Mr.. Hancock told one, too, of similar
kind, and then it was Secretary Smiths
turn.
There's one old timer that guess most
of you have forgotten" said the genial
| Secretary.
who was that ?" chorused the party.
why, old Sam Mulkey's mare, Pre-
MUM
That's So" said Director Chase "she
was fast mare, wasn't she. Let me see,
now-she never had many regular races,
did she? l mean she never entered fire.
quently in the big events"
Very few
yes, and still old Sam made barrels of
money with her. That was the mysterious
part of it all. He used to trot her incog'
or something like that, didn't he. Ed?"
We'll, it was something in that line"
replied Mr.. Smith, "but it was much
smoother scheme than that. In the sum-
mer time, or rather in the spring. Sam
would take the mare down South-Texas,
Colorado, or some of those places. He
would dress himself up in the Orthodox
| 'hayseed' fashion and would hitch the
mare to an old tumble-down sulky with
harness all patched and tied with bale
rope. To look at the outfit you wouldn't
think il would get over a mile in FIVE min
| utes Well Sam would drive in some little
town aud stop at the tavern or saloon.
| Sam was good fellow to make acquaint-
ances and he wouldn't be in the place ten
! minutes before room would be made for
| him at the poker table. He would play
away there, losing or winning-it didn't
make much difference which-until finally
horse Sam would join in, aud pretty soon
fast trotters would be the subject. One
of the players was sure to know of some
phenomenon which could beat anything
! in the country. We'll, now,' old Sam
would say, your trotter might be racer
an all that, but I've got an old mare
hitched up outside that can git over ground
about as fast as l ever see. An what's
more, my money is behind her, too
When the townsmen sized up Sans out
fit they'd laugh, but he'd insist that it was
4
greenbacks in their faces it was no trouble
/ to get up a match-rsce. OF course the
| townsmen backed their fayorite for every
cent Sam could put up on the mare, and
the result would be that his pockets
wouldn't hold bis winnings after the race.
Why, old Sam Mulkey actually broke
dozen of those towns down there"
A prominent San Francisco business
man, who is too modest to allow his name
in print, was captured by a reporter the
other day on the cars.
I'm up on little business trip" said
he ''and am going right back this after
noon, SO you need not bother about putting
in personal about me-"
They discussed the weather, the river.
crop prospects, politics and finally drifted
into national and foreign affairs. II see,"
said The gentleman, that there is more
trouble down in Brazil. Alleged adherents
of Dom Pedro are kicking up row. If
they were genuine adherents of his and
had his interests and views at heart, they
would keep quiet. What do mean? Why,
| mean that 1t is my firm belief that Dom
Pedro really iavors the IDEA of republican
form of government. and though he was a
monarch himself, be detested monarchy.