Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-01-12
QUAINT AND eUoTABLE.

The reported breach between the At
lantic cable companies is denied. Their
relations are entirely ami-cable.-BOstcn
Herald.
A drunken man sees everything double
but his money. 1t is only the man rho
saves who sees his money double Yonkers
Statesman.
as he your older brother or younger
brother ?' someone asked DR.. L. J. Bur-
rows, pointing to his son Lansing.
naord Religious Herald.
1t is proposed when another Arctic
search expedition is organized, to send a
rescuing party along with it. This is
much better than the old style.-Atanta
Constitution.
Stranger Gn a dime museum Say,
where's the walkin' match you adver-
tised?" AIanager-"See the livin' skele-
ton over there? ?" "Yep," "Well, that's
him" m."-Tjme.
A family at West Bethel consists of a
couple 50 and so years of age respectively,
who live alone and do most of their work.
But they do not lack for music or excite
msnt-they keep fifteen pet cats.-Leois-
| ton Journal.
When people hop around lively for
reasons and apologies for not doing thing,
they can always find them. A couple of
I sluggers seriously announced that their
/ slugging match, announced for Sunday,
had been postponed on account OF the
/ death of President Davis.-New Orleans
Picoyune.
The President was in the city last night,
and, except giving his opinion of jeff
| Davis of the proper site for the Worlds
Fair, of the Pittsburg Postmastership con-
| test, of the result of the November cleo
tion, and of the Silcott defalcation, ex-
pressed himself freely.-Pittsbug CONNER
eiai Gazette.
1t does not take long for live Western
! city to recover from scorching. A few
months ago everybody was sending money
and provisions to stricken Seattle, and now
! the sporting fraternity of that place is
/ offering $4,000 to have the Sullivan
jackson fight take place there. Seattle
has almost forgotten it ever had fire.
/ Chicago Tribune.
We recently heard public speaker of
some note say to an uncommonly intelli-
| gent audience, "The Constitution of the
! United States says that all men are born free
/ and equal" /" When the speaker had con-
! cluded his haranpue brother took him
aside and said: Don't quote the Consti-
tuition again as saying all men are born
free and equal "Why not?" asked the
orator. Because the Constitution does
not say anything of the kind" "Well."
said the speaker, "I made blunder then
l should have said the Declaration of In
dependence" "No you shouldn't" "Why
not ?" Because the words are not in that
| document. Mr. Jefferson wrote that paper,
and he owned great number Of negroes,
! and he knew that none OF them we're born
ee."-Riokmoad Religious Herald.
An old preacher, whose name we will
! call Birch, was famous for preaching on
the subject of paying off old debts. One
of his auditors, who had been wearied
| with Brother Bireh's iteration on this sub
iect, once said TO a neighboring minister :
/ { | wish you would suggest subject that l
/ can give Brother Birch, out OF which he
cannot get anything about paying off old
| debts" ''Give him the conversion Of Saul
+ of Tarsus," said the minister. Soon after
/ ti.is the wearied brother met his pastor,
and said: Brother Birch, l would like
to hear you preach a sermon on the con-
version of Saul of Tarsus. Won't you do
it?' "Certainly," said the pastor. sit Is
/ a capital subject. will preach on it next
Sunday.n On the following Lords Day,
Brother Birch announced the text, Acts
tx. 6: "Lord, what wilt thou have me to
do ?' and opened thus; NY brethren, L
shall preach to you to-day on the conyer-
sion Of Saul of Tarsus. Saul, my breth-
ren. was trgly-converted man, and my
sermon VIII lie discussion of the marks
Of genuine conversion. And the first marx,
brethren, cf genuine conversion IS that
mar will always pay of his old debts, =
Gresacdls IS. G. Bapiisi Cearier