The record-union., 1896-05-10

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in alighting so abruptly from his We
hicle shook from his pockets about 81,
in gold and silver coin, which rolled
promptly into the river and was lost Il
the eye of man forever, only to furnish
high carnival for the little fishes far be-
low in the sands of the river bed.
A hundred persons Immediately
gathered about to condole with him ant
assist in putting him and his gig te
rights, and the Rev. Timothy Titus
| who always has kind, encouraging
| word for everybody, taking him feel
ingly by the hand, admonished him ol
the uncertainty of human existence
+, and reminded him that he should be
| thankful that he had so fortunately
| gotten off with his life.
| Whether the young man lives to re-
cognize his picture as portrayed here
| in, and married the sweetheart to whom
he was so anxious to be first to bear
tidings of the tragedy, for fear sht
would be overcome with anxiety as tc
his safety, tell us o We who can! But
| this am assured Of: His story is just
as true now as ever II was, for I heard
wonder how it is that the newspapers
| failed to render an account Of it.
|
David Nesfield has been heard from
again, and 1 am glad to say that he has
been appointed musical instructor for
| the Christian Brothers College, which
OF course, means that he has come to
| stay.
How awfully Americanized the Chi
nese are becoming! One sees evidences
of it everywhere. On coming up Sec
ond street one day quite recently in a
street-car, on passing Chinatown / saw
a Chinese mother wheeling tiny sar-
| fron-cOlored infant about in a truly up
to-date baby coach, with all the acces-
| series Of dainty linen, lace embroider-
les, etc, even to the little muslin cap
| that belong to the child of American
parentage.
1 often pass a youthful Celestial OF
about six years or SO, decked out in
Oriental orange and purple, "scorch-
| ing" along on a velocipede about one
/ size too small, his slender queue fly
/ ing merrily out behind him like
! :
Henry Lung, whose father is a prosper
| Gus laundryman, who conducts busi-
ness at Thirteenth and G streets would
scorn to be seen in Chinese clothes, and
goes to school in the old Perry building
| in company with several other Ameri-
can-born Chinese boys, and speak:
United States" like a full-blooded ma
tive. The little school is in charge O
Mrs. Clara Parsons, and it is quite az
| Interesting study simply to stand ant
watch the little rainbow-colored groui
at play in the schooly ard.
A friend of mine on being caught il
a heavy shower one day last week, tool
refuge under a convenient awning. I
Chinaman who was also waiting for th
shower to pass accosted her:
NO lain to-mollow," he asserted il
very positive tones.
MOP" she inquired.
mo; no lain," he repeated. II bet on
Chinaman ten dollar to-mollow goot
day, heap sun. My sabe California lonl
time" he concluded, with wise wag o
the head. The next day was the occa
sion of the Odd Fellows picnic.
leave it to you whether or not he won
So Eddie Jobson has returned t,
Sacramento! 1 wonder what on eartl
he finds in this "slow town to anus.
him. Perhaps Manager Todd has Sc
cured him an engagement at the Clu
ME; or has he just come back for hi
health, to rest his nerves in the sooth
ing atmosphere of our rural quiet?
The act of putting a lead pencil t.
the tongue to wet it just before writ
ing is one of the oddities for which /
is hard to give any reason, unless
began in the days when pencils wer
poorer than now, and was continued
by example. to the next generation
A lead pencil should never be wet /
hardens the lead and ruins the pen
ell. This fact is we'll known to news
paper men and stenographers, bu
nearly everyone else does wet a penci
before using, as a little watchfulnes
on your own account will soon assur
you. The fact was definitely settled b,
an observant newspaper clerk AVA
down East. Being of a mathematical
turn of mind, he ascertained by actua
count that of fifty persons who cam
into his office to write an advertisement
VI d CuuiCI HOliCe, lOTtS-Dlne wet
lead pencil in their mouths before usin,
it.
Now this clerk always uses the bes
pencils obtainable, cherishing a goo,
one with something of the pride whicI
soldier feels in his gun or sword, an
it hurts his feelings to have his pencil
spoiled. But politeness. and bushes
considerations require him to lend hi
pencils scores of times a day. and often
after one had been wet till it was har,
and brittle and refused to make
mark, his feelings would quite naturall
overpower him.
Finally he got some cheap pencil
and sharpened them UP and kept then
to lend. The first person who took Vi
the stock pencil was a drayman, who's
breath smelt of onions and whisky
He held the point in his mouth an,
soaked ii several minutes while he wa
) torturing himself in the effort to writ
an advertisement for missing bull
dog.
Then a sweet-looking lady came int
the office. faultlessly dressed and wear
ing kid gloves that buttoned half tn
length of her arm. She picked up TIL
, same old pencil and pressed it to he
, dainty lips preparatory to writing al
ad. for a lost bracelet. The clerk woul
J have stayed her hand even at the ris
: Of a box OF the best Faber pencils, bu
; he was too late. And thus that penci
passed from mouth to mouth for