The record-union., 1897-08-29

year going away to finish their educa-
tions in other places. Miss Naomi
Canon left two weeks ago for Irvington
College, and last Wednesday Miss Ruby
Brown, who recently graduated from
our Sacramento High School, took her
departure for the San Jose Normal
School, where she will finish prepara-
tory to teaching. The young lady IS
widely known among the young people
Of this city and will be greatly missed
during her absence
The Rev w. S. Hoskinson has gone
to Pacific Grove, Monterey, to rejoin
his family.
Miss Margie Genung, who has been
spending her school vacation with her
relatives in this city, left last Monday
for her school in Berkeley.
A little maid of but two summers,
who was spending a season with her
mother at the seaside. was recently met
by a friend, who, after chatting for
some time with her mother, asked the
little lady how she was enjoying her
self. 4 want to go home and see Ed
ward!" was her only reply. edward
is her next-door neighbour With the
tenderness of the feminine heart age
seems to cut no figure. From infancy
to young maidenhood, and thence on
through the seven ages of womankind.
there is generally an Edward some
where to whose whims and caprices her
sails are trimmed and whose lordly
ways fill her tender soul with delight
and admiration.
Mrs. John Dinkhorst and family have
returned from a VISIT to relatives in
San Francisco.
Sacramento is at present, in the words
of one Of our shining lights, "deader
than a door nall All our birds of
bright plumage are fed to the hill
tops and the seaside. and even the
inveterate whist player finds his spirit
weakening perceptibly under the de-
pressing influence of the exceedingly
ardent weather of the past two weeks.
Society functions have practically no
existence at present. They require
quite a bit of surplus energy, and that
Is now at a premium. The State Fair
is, however, at hand, and the drowsy
community will shake itself out of the
prevailing lassitude it has fallen into,
If only for a time, TO try its luck on
wild guesses at horse-hesh and like ele-
waiting and improving pastime. People
are still marrying and giving in mar
riage, but that imp Cupid will carry on
his harmless warfare against our race,
regardless Of time, place or season. In
fact, the more unreasonable his con
quests are the better he is often
pleased. And right here isn't it re-
marl1able that the nearer one guesses
at the wedding day of some people the
more arduously they viii deny it? A
good bit of friendly ''joshing" of this
character recently called forth an in
dignant denial from the bridegroom
elect. why, old fel," answered his
tormenber, Its no use to deny it, you
know; everybody knows it, and, in fact
it's in every ones mouth: so what's the
use?" Cupid has a language all his
own-a sort of sign language, as it
were, by which he makes little mat
tiers of this sort known, even when
people are trying to be particularly
close nEouthed about it. He sets his
sign on the forehead of his victims
and there you arei One young man, on
his approaching marriage nuptials in
a weekly paper. was about to rush out
and insert a card in the paper denying
it. He was, however, restrained by
his companions with the information
that they all knew it already. and ii
would not only be useless, but very
foolish, proceeding. and place him and
his lady in q ludicrous position in the
eyes of their friends. Upon this. he
gave up, but with a very bad grace.
Two ambitious and enterprisins
young ladies in the eastern portion OF
the city are starting new journal un-
der the appropriate and suggestive
title of The Tattle-Tale." The sheet
Is to be devoted to purely local mat
ter and the editorial sets forth the
fact that contributors of a high stand
ing in the literary world We're willing
nay, even anxious TO have a hearing
on the pages of the new journal. il
also states that the character of the
paper will be entirely in keeping with
the suggestion of its lofty title. The
paper is to be bi-weekly and other
news sheets in the community will have
to look we'll to their laurelS when the
new enterprise is fairly launched.
Ed. OfNeil and Carpenter and Black
the guitar and banjo artists, were
among the boys in blue who re-
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