Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-10-20

meanneSs in the town to the square foot
than in any place in the world. On Mon
day they paid him bonus to hustle away.
Dave Braham can transform plaintive
Groom into a dancing melody by single
change of time. He did that with Little
Sallie Waters" and set millions to singing
it. The air was an adaptation of " Home,
Sweet Home"
Uncle Bob Carlton, of Magazine, Ark, is
said to be one hundred and twenty-six years
old. He is strong and hearty, has good eye
sight and can shoot more squirrels than any
boy in the neighborhood He uses and old
fashioned rifle that was carried by soldier
in the Revolutionary War.
| J. II. Myers, of Horton, Mich, announces
himself the champion guesser Of Jackson
county. Last spring he guessed on the
weight Of 450 sheep, and came within half
pound Of it, and turned round and
guessed that the bean crop on the farm
would be forty bushels, and the measure
ment showed only i've quarts lacking from
that amount.
A Vienna millionaire has Just died leav-
ing request for his only heir to keep the
family vault lighted with several Jab-
loekoff electric lamps for one year. But
the authorities having refused the neces-
sary permission the heir has ordered
candle and box of parlor matches to be
placed near the man in his coffin in case
he should wake up from his long sleep.
The Emperor of Germany recently sent
a specimen rifle to the Emperor of Aus
tria, the barrel of which does not grow
hot After 100 shots had been fired the
barrel was merely warm. The magazine"
of this rife is in the stock, and the load
consists of twenty cartridges. 1t can be
reloaded in five seconds, and can discharge
sixty shots minute.
1t is said that while American manufaet-
urers have succeeded in rivaling European
cutters in nearly every branch, they have
failed to make any serious inroads into the
razor business. Several Eastern houses
have tried to make razors, bat one by one
they have dropped out of the business till
there are very few remaining. Nine
tenths of the razors used in this country
are made in Europe.
A remarkable fan has Just been pur-
chased by the Princess de Ligne at Brus-
sells. 1t was painted by Vatican for Louis
XIV, who presented it to the Duchess Of
Burgundy, and it remained in the posses
sion of the royal family until the reyolu-
ton, when it was stolen and conveyed to
Germany, and nothing more was heard of
it until the other day, when it appeared
among a collection which was offered for
sale at Brussels.
DR.. James II. Gordon, of Greenville, H.,
is seventy-two years old, and the father of
twenty-five children. Seven of these
were boys, and, with one exception, all be-
came physicians and attained more than
ordinary success. The exception was
son who was accidentally killed while
student at the st. Louis Medical College.
To take the place of this one, though,
there is an only living son-in-law who is q
medical practitioner.
An English paper gives this explanation
of the familiar phrase, "by hook or crook"
About century ago two celebrated Kings
counsel fourished, whose names were re-
spectively Hook and Croke pronounced
"Crook"). They were generally opposed
to each other in all important eases, and
people said: "If you cannot win your
cause by Hook you will be Croke." Hence
arose the idiom which is now so firmly
grated into the English tongue.
The drink habit spares no people, how
ever pious; the theological Scotsman is
so incorporate that 10000 of the Inhabit-
ants of Glasgow get drunk every Saturday
night, and 1t Is true, as a book-writer
says, that "whoever has had the misfOr-
tune to spend Saturday night in Glasgow
or Edinburgh will carry with him as long
as he lives picture of social degradation
Of which it is not too much to say the
civilized world furnishes no parallel"
An anti-sewing machine guild has been
formed by the Chinese tailors OF Hong
Kong. A Chinaman who had joined "the
party Of progress" and hae been using the
sewing machine was recently waited upon
by deputation from the guild and re-
quested to pay to its members thirty taels
as compensation for using the "foreign
devil" He refused, and was instantly as
sailed. The police saved his life, but he is
not quite so eager now to use the sewing
machine.
Red-headed girls are dangerous in more
ways than one, as appears from this item
in the Philadelphia Record: "a young
lady with a peachy complexion and a
wealth of auburn hair went into Gaylord's
barber shop in Wilkesbarre yesterday and
let her tresses flow to have them curled.
The barber wove the mass of hair around
the hot iron and staggered back as if he
had been shot. The lady's hair was full
of electricity, and the muscles of his arm
were sore for an hour"
The European residents whose prop
erty was destroyed in the recent re-
volt in Chian-King, China, have re-
Il
$1S5,000. 1t is rather remarkable that
this sum was paid by neither the
government nor the province, but
the officers of the city. The Governor
was assessed $4,000, the Governor of
Shanghai the same, while the minor Of
fcials paid the remainder in proportion to
their rank The British Consul, whose
house was entirely demolished, received
$4,000.
An explanation of the profusion of Col
onels in Kentucky is to be found in part
in the Governors privilege to appoint
Colonies on his staff ad libirum-
Governor Blackburn appointed sixty in
Louisville alone, with propOrtionable
numbers for the back counties. It
is believed that no Governor of Ken
lucky ever has his entire staff together at
one time. There is no public hall in Ken
lucky big enough to hold it. The Texas
method is simpler still. You have only
to drink with the Mayor to be named
Colonel on the spot.
There is one Lansing young man who
wishes that death would come to his re-
lief" says Lansing, Mich.,. paper. "a
week ago he loaned a gold ring to young
lady friend. Two or three days Later the
absent-minded young man noticed that
the ring was missing from his finger,
and he walked straight down to
police headquarters and notified Mar
shall Bates that it had been stolen,
carefully describing the property When
the young lady returned the ring to its
owner yesterday you could have knocked
him down with feather duster The in
nocent young woman had been liable to
arrest every moment Of the week while
wearing the borrowed ring, owing to its
careful description"
| The Senators at Palo Alto.
rs. F. Post October l9th.l
Senator and Mrs. Leland Stanford gave
a reception yesterday at their residence at