Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-09-02
smoke cigarettes, and they will die within

smoke cigarettes, and they will die within
an hour"
There are now 500 American schools in
Turkey, all Of which, except one, are open
daily. An order was recently made by the
Turkish Government prohibiting any in
reference with the schools, which had
been impeded and interfered with by the
local authorities.
Curran, the Irish advocate, was examin-
ing witness once, and, failing to get a
direct answer, said: "There is no use ask
ing you questions, for / see the villain in
your facer' "Do you, sir?' said the man.
"Faix, / never knew before that my face
was looking glassp'
1t sometimes happens that horses
strongly bred in speed lines fail to give
promise of any unusual capacity early in
life, but, after being broken and used
awhile, suddenly change their gait and
astonish all who have ever known them by
coming to the front as winners.
In lecture in Kansas City, Robert In
gersoll, the infdel lecturer, in trying to
explain his faith, said: "What do | be-
lieve in? l believe in what l see before
me. | believe in these 1000 people at 81
a head" That was, without doubt, bit
of truth that slipped out unawares.
A hoop factory at Manistee, Mich, en-
ploys women to feed the planers and do
other like work, and finds that they do it
well. At the dairy salt factories all the
salt sacking is done by girls, who work on
piece work and earn from 81 to 81 25 per
day and seem to like the employment
The falling off of immigration into this
country in the past year or two does not
mean that Europe is not sending as many
of its sons and daughters abroad as for
melly, but simply indicates that many of
these people are going to other parts of
this continent instead of coming to this
country.
Mrs. Maria NJ. Dean is homeopathic
physician who took an office in Helena,
NJ. T., three years ago. Her income last
year was in the neignborhood of $4,000.
She is a graduate of Wisconsin University
and from a Boston medical school. and
also studied medicine in Berlin. She is
80 years old.
1t is a curious fact that there are 200, 900
people in the United States who have ar
tifcial legs or hands. This number does
not include the veterans of the Union or
the Confederate army. In New Vow city
and vicinity there are about 5000 men
and women who have supplied the place
of lost limbs with the manufactured ar
ticle.
A man who went to pick berries near
Bear Lake. Pa, a few days ago, was found
some hours later lying on the grass un-
conscious, with huge rattlesnake fas-
tened to his trousers. The snake was
killed and the man revived with cold
water. He had not been bitten, yet he
was affected just as if he had been until
his finders talked him out of it.
The total value of Kansas crops this
season is estimated at $100,000,000. The
yield of wheat is put at 40 100000 bushels,
and of corn, 300,000,000 bushels. Hay is
the best crop the State ever produced.
Potatoes, double the crop of last year.
Oats, rye, barley, buckwheat all biggest
crop in years. These figures are probably
too high.
The objection against making lead
pencils out of paper instead of wood has
been overcome. One of the difficulties
has been the toughness Of the paper cover
ing and its consequent resistance to the
action Of a knife. By new process the
molecular cohesion of the paper is modi-
fed in such manner that it can be cut
as easily as cedar wood.
Mrs. Frances Jeune is one of the leaders
Of the social world of London. She is said
TO have genius for entertaining. She has
a bright and beautiful face, cordial man
ners and perfect self-forgetfulness. Her
savoir faire is really wonderful, and she is
very proud of her social tactics. If a man
is particularly interesting, or woman
specially beautiful, she takes care that he
or she is not monopolized by one person,
and if she sees man or woman neglected
she rushes to the rescue Immediately.
Speaking of one member of the Shah of
Persia's suite, Paris correspondent says
"The small boy page, Azziz-Khan, is the
nuisance of the party, except to the mon
arch. All the dignitaries, the high of
ficers, feel obliged to pay court to this lit
tie monkey, who wears more Jewels than
his master, and who utterly spoiled the
solemnity of the operatic gala reception
the other night by persistentlY initiating
Mauri in the Presidential box right under
the nose of NJ. Carnot and the distinguished
Shah. The infant is distinctly offensive"
William Waldorf Astor, the heir pre-
sumptive to about $2O0,000,000, is a model
man for millionaire's son. Although
moderately found of horses and yachting,
and a good boxer and fencer, he is more Of
a man of business than a man of pleasure.
He is man of strong literary and artistic
tastes, and had he not been rich mans
son would probably have been an author
or an artist. He is tall, slender, and dis
tinguished-looking; polite to everybody,
but very reserved. When he was Minister
to Italy his entertainments were more
splendid than those of the King.