Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-01-01
ODD AND PECULIAR.

It's generally the man who doesn't be-
lieve in either Heaven or the other place
who wants the Philadelphia In
quirer.
Merchant james, go down in the eel
lar and see what is the matter with that
gas meter" James-"Hadn't you better
go, sir ? l think it's easier for you to find
fault than any one else."-KeaRey (Neb.)
Enterprise.
''If," said a downtown school teacher to
a very bad little girl in school, eff you
don't behave yourself I'll write a note to
your father" "Well," said the child, "lt
you write note to my father my mother
will get jealous Philadelphia Record.
What the public would welcome with
cordial applause would be a thoroughly
good novel. This years crop has not been
encouraging. Inthe multitude of chaf the
wheat has been painfully scarce. What is
the matter with our creative literature P
| Baltimore american.
A brother who was trying to buy COW
| from a poor widow at less than it was
really worth, suspended conversation with
her for moment to raise a point with a
friend standing by as to ''the sin of dane
! ing" Quick as thought came the reply:
"Certainly it is not as much of sin to
dance as it is to cheat poor widow out Of
her old cow Richmond Religious Herald
"No," said Mamie in confidence to her
best friend, Katie, 'aif Charlie should pro-
pose to me before Christmas | would tell
him to wait, because if | accepted him he
would make the ring do as a Christmas
present, and otherwise he would be sure to
send me something else nice. After Christ
mas I'll accept him and get the ring any
way. He needn't try any such econom-
ical dodge with me"-Huper's Bazar.
In a Chicago store there are for sale
some shoes marked on the sole 'Ganc Rue
Valois, Paris" Numbers are put on from
20 to 50, and in other ways they are made
to resemble an imported shoe, and are sold
as such at Sc pair. A woman who had
travelled some, and was rather suspicious
| withal that the shoes were not as repre-
scented, looked inside of a pair and saw
Patented July, 1862 marked on the
stay. She said to the clerk, "You can't
pass these shoes on me for French. They
don't make shoes in Paris in two lam
guages"-Shoe and Leather Reporter.
Is reading, indeed, lost art, that We
must all flock to public hall and be read
to at a given price per hour? There
seems to be tendency in this direction
The gregarious reading is the idol of the
hour. 1t cannot be denied that to hear {
great play or poem read by one with whom
expression is an art, whose Interpretation
vitalizes and WHITES each individuality
and lends color to scene, is one of The
great artistic enjoyments; but this is tbs
exception and not the rule, and so one
still recurs to the question, Is reading be
coming a lost art to the jewellers in cities
Boston TrareiteT.
The daughter OF well-known banl
President was recently, for reasons salts
factory to him, put on monthly allowance
which was to be deposited by him to he
credit in his own bank The young lady
was given a check book, of course. Tn,
second week of the new arrangement sht
went to the bank to get some money, anC
the teller gravely informed her when sh
presented her check that her account wa
overdrawn. "Overdrawnp' exclaimed tn
pretty maiden. "Welr' with great sever
| ity, "Win you please tell the President
with my compliments, that hope he vii
not allow such thing to occur again.
And the clerks had immediate engage
ments under their desks-Philadelphi
Press.