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Japanese and Chinese.

Comparing the Japanese and Chinese students now enrolled in American schools and colleges, several marked contrasts and ikenesse5 are made evil dent. The most prominent difference in respect to external characteristics is the greater readiness with which the former adopt the dress and manners of the Western world. The Japanese dresses h European, and in excellent taste; the Chinaman still braids his queue, and wears his loose trousers and blouse. The Japanese is more easily denationalized; the Chinaman is con stantly impressed with the duty of low ing and serving the land that gave him birth, and is giving him education. The latter leanrs the English language with greater case, and uses it with greater facility: the former, after 9 residence of even five or six years, experiences, in the case.of not few individuals, diffi- culty in conducting an ordinary conver- sation. Both manifest much deference to anthokity, and are models of decorum and politeness. The Japanese belongs relativelg to a higher caste; the major | ity of the Chinese students are from the middle class of the empire. In mental characteristics the contrasts are less marked than in physical. The ex- cellenciea and tEc defects of the two types Of mind are similar. In each the ! memory is developed to 8 degree not commonIv attained by an American schoolboy; and the Chinese draw forms and figures which they have once seen with marvellous accuracy. The superior development of the memory seems to weaken the growth of the
 logical faculties; and 8 difficulty in con ducting processes of thought, of ordi-
 nary intricacy, is one of the first defects
 which teacher notices in their mental
 constitution. Intellectually, both are
 clear-sighted rather than far-sighted
 and are distinguished for exactness in l thought and statement. Considered as
 8 whole, the Chinese make more rapid
 progress in linguistic, and the Japanese
 in mathematical studies. The former
 are by temperament the more passive
 the latter the more impulsive. Both
 are hard students, and. though seldom
 ranking first, maintain 3 creditablt stand in their classes. In respect te moral character, also, as well as intel
 1ectual, . high degree of similarity is
 obvious. Neither, as a body, is addicted to the use of liquors or tobacco, ane
 both are free from the vices to which American college youth are somewhat subject - Scrib32er
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4 Watermelon Joke.

MT. Thomas Bray, manager of the Crescent Tube works, at Pittsburg, Pa., left the factory at the usual hour one night recently, but in passing the office was halted by the treasurer, who handed him a watermelon. Mir. Bray at first demurred, on account of the dis tance home. but at length took the fruit. and placed it before the children immediately on reaching home. It WAS decided to cut the melon and Mrs. Bray handled the knife. The blade suddenly struck box. which was taken from the center of the melon, and on being opened WAS found to contain gold watch and chain. The watch was in, scribed as follows: To Thoman Bray manager, from the employees of the Crescent Tube works, as a testimonial of respect. ' MT. Bray, astonished and surprised, was conducted to the par1or, where Mrs. B. exhibited handsome silver waterset, presented to her by the sape part ties
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In the Dark.

In the Dark. Midnight brooded weird and lone; Nothing broke the wintry gloom Save the drowsy monotone Ot the clock, as, one by one, From it's steady hands, the minutes tell intt my silent room. | Close beside the larger bed Stood the cradle in it's place; Mid it's blankets, softly spread, Lay the baby's golden head, And his light breath, coming, going, gently famed against my face. Something in the darkness stirred, Warmly nestling at my side Like little sleepy bird, Mammal" very low the word; Hush and darkness made the narrow space
 between us seem so wide.
 Then 1 murmured, as he lay,
 Mammals close beside you, dear; Soon the night will go away,
 By-and-bye it will be day; Tn the morning when my baby wakens, mann.
 ma will be here."
 Wandering fingers toward me crept;
 Mamma, let me hold your hand;n Clasping it he hushed and slept;
 Casping his could have wept, Humbled by that perfect trust which needed
 not to understand.
 Years have passed me by since then;
 Long the little bed has stood
 Empty, silent; yet, again,
 Thrilling deeper than my pain, Comes the tender voice to banish every bitter,
 doubling mood.
 Through the voiceless hush of death,
 Through lite's midnight dark and dim, Turning unto Christ, who saith
 To each asking soul, Have faith," Heavenward I reach my lonqing, human
 hands to Him.
 Does He take them? Ay, he does!
 All the ohasm deep and wide
 Spanning by his love that flows
 Freely for all human woes, shall wake in heavens bright morning with
 my baby by my side. -Caroitne Leslie, tn the ChrfstiGn Union.
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Fashion Notes.


 Very small bonnets worn on the back of the head are again in vogue.
 Laces embroidered with metals will be among imported novelties.
 Buttons o1 boots worn with fancy costumes match those Cn the suit.
 Petticoats are made wider to fill the fuller skirts of the dresses now worn.
 Cords will play an important part in the trimmings of dresses ard wraps this fall.
 Fancy colored handkerchiefs, either silk or linen, grow more and more fashionable.
 It is again fashionable to wear the hair in coils, in which strings of pearls are twisted.
 Smooth cultures and fiat waves, bangs and creve coeur locks are the rule in hairdressing.
 New reticules to match dresses are richly trimmed with gathered lace, cords and tassels.
 Natural or very fine artificial flowers are worn in the hair to match those worn in the corsage. Among Parisian caprices are large double collars on many dresses prepared for early fall wear. Dresses made of cretonnes, with large figures, in other words, curtain calicoes, are again in vogue. The corset cover, the chemise and the petticoat are all combined in one garment in new underwear for fall.
 Flowers and ostrich tips will bejmore used for bonnet and hat trimmings than fancy feathers. Whether a toilet is white, black or colored, it is considered good taste to use colored handkerchief with it. Fancy reticules. worn at the elbow, are decorated with ali kinds of metallic and enamel insects and reptiles
 Low cultures are more in favor, but short women, or those with round faces, still wear the hair dressed high. l Two corsage bouquets are worn. one on the left side of the neck. the other far back and high on the left side of the neck.
 Large embroidered collars, like those | worn by children, are worn with white muslin dresses trimmed with embroid. cry.
 High cultures are no longer formed by braids or puffs, but with soft waves of hair arranged in loops on the crown of the head.
 Three large silk tassels, each of 8 diff; ferent color, are used this fall in the place of flowers on bonnets intended fol seaside wear.
 Fichu collarettes are worn by olde, young ladies, while misses in their teens affect large square collars such as liitlt children wear.
 A wide satin ribbon belt fastened ir front with long bow and ends makeI the most effective kind of finish fol white or colored muslin dresses.
 Wide sashes of cheeae cloth, finished with large cylindric lace tasseis. ars T prettier than Surah silk sashe8 for wear | ing with cheese-cloth dresses. I While long-waisted corsages. witl l vandykes back and front, are worn il Paris, the tendency is to the shor waists and belts of tho first Director! period E.
 Some of the new bssquee nra cut lonl and square in front, with pocket pu q on each eida Of this squ4x1 fto1ts n back of snoh haaqpes 1. s1a<t el1! eQk q
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Business Cards.

J. H. ALLEN,
 DEALER IN HARNESS, BRIDLES, HALTERS, WHIPS, BLANKETS, ROBES, CURRYCoMBS, BRUSHES, ETC., ETC.
 Woodbury, Conn, Repairing promptly attended to.
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At the GIeauine.

Soft neecy clouds athwart tho evening sky, Seem like veil across . loved ons's saee, Hiding its beauty from the passer by, Yet lending 10 the covering sveeter grace. The shadows deepen, and the night oomss
 down,
 Folding in its embrace the weary earth Across the river in the distant town, The lights flash up, like stHu of later birth' While slowly in the West theycrescent sinks To rise in glory on another scene Of more transcendent loveliness, methinks, Than aught that earth can ofer-mors
 serene;
 And dreaming of world than this more fair, My spirit longs to cleave the ambricnt air
 --LflIa N. Csshnan.
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There are many npleasant things in this vale of tears. but 3 collar and but
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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-10-01
THE DILEMMA DEEPENING.


The Dulcigno problem has not been
made easier by the destruction of the
town. The surrender of it has, it is true,
become impossible, since there is no longer
anything to surrender, but the RESPONSE
bility of the Powers is even more heavy
than before. They undertook to compel
the Porte to keep its treaty engagements.
Thus far they have been completely foiled.
A handful of Albanians have taken the
prey out of their hands, and made their
demonstration ridiculous in advance Just
what all the world outside of diplomatic
circles predicted, has come to pass. A
naval demonstration which was to do
nothing, has alarmed nobody. Against so
mild a show of force even the Albanians
can afford to organize resistance, and while
the combined feet has been awaiting
orders they have taken the bull by the
horns, and burned Dulcigno. What will
the Powers do now? There is more cause
than ever for decisive action on their part,
but there seems to be less probability that
they will act. Ii this game of see-saw
goes on much longer the Sultan will win it,
and then woe to his unhappy Christian
subjects and tributaries.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-10-01
PAYMENT FOR SLAVES.

The Alabama Democrats pretend that
they are committed against all South
ern claims. This is not the case with all
Southern Democrats however. The proof
that the idea of securing ultimate pay
ment for the slaves has not been aban.
doned, may be found in the following ex-
tract from an editorial in the Macon (Ga. J
Telegraph and Messenger 1--WE cannot
but indulge the hope that when we have
helped to extinguish the public debt,
and time has healed the gaping wounds
F." of the past; when reason and brotherly
Glove have regained the ascendency over
=" prejudice and hate, even though it shall
" be in the next generation, brave and
" honorable people of the same blood and
" lineage 'ciR see to IL that the ratue Of or
" property in SLAVES shall be returned to those
{" from ,choma il toas acronUuiiy rcrested. 1t
50 will do no harm to keep the question be-
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fore the people, that they may preserve
the records and proper memoranda OF
their former slaves, in the event that a
returning sense of justice on the part of
the Federal Government may compen-
"sate them, at least in part, for the loss of
this portion of their rightful property.
1t will be seen that the writer of this ap-
peals to sentiment He pleads humbly, as
it were, and ventures in a depre-
eating way to hint that payment
for the slaves would be thankfully re-
ceived. 1t is interesting to look forward,
however, and to conjecture the change
which might easily pass over this mild
gentlemans ideas in case Hancock was
elected In that event it is conceivable
that he would no longer relegate the ques-
ton of payment to " the next generation.
He might even be encouraged to join an
organized raid upon Congress and the
Courts without further delay. There were,
it will be remembered, four million slaves
emancipated Their estimated average
value was $500 per head. 1t does not re-
quire much arithmetical skill to discover
that the aggregate would therefore exceed
the total of the national debt, and if the
interest were added (which would GER
tainly be the casel, it would require sew
eral generations for the country to dis
charge the BILL As it is evident that
however wild the idea of securing COM
pensation for the slaves may appear, it is
still cherished in the South, the folly and
danger of putting in power the party whose
success involves the rehabilitation of
all such enterprises and claims ought to be
evident to the meanest capacity.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-10-01
The CHAMPION LIAR.

The New York World has in this cam
paign abandoned every semblance of de-
cency, and devoted itself to the fabrication
of lies with a zeal and hardihood which
speak volumes for its Generalization. Its
most notorious fiction until recently was
the forgery of Supreme Court decision,
purporting to reflect severely upon General
Garfield Needless to say, no such de-
cision was ever made by any Court, Su-
preme or otherwise. The World had got
hold of part of speech of one Doolittle, a
renegade Republican politician and an ex.
posed corruptionist, and had turned this
scurrilous stuff into a judicial ut
terance. The lie was of course
promptly exposed, but the World has
never retracted it or explained it. It's
latest achievement in the line it has made
SO completely its own is the forgery of a
letter from Senator John P. Jones, pur-
porting to announce his withdrawal from
the Republican party, and his declaration
of belief that Hancock was the coming
man. This letter was written with
some cunning, for it began by
reciting well-known fact, namely,
that Senator Jones desired the NOM
nation of Grant. The Senator has
lost no time in repudiating the fraudulent
letter, and it has given him the opportunity
to assert publicly that he is for General
Garfield. This, therefore, has proved a
boomerang for the World, but we do not
expect that the latter will make any re.
traction. As, however, the Examiner
swallowed the bogus letter with particular
avidity, and rejoiced over it as " a thun-
'derbolt" which was destined to "hope-
"lessly wreck the Republican party in Ne
"vada, there is some ground for calling on
that journal to make an equally conspicuous
reference to the Republication of this sham
thunderbolt by its alleged maker. I'm
less the. Examiner is DESTROYS of emulating
the evil reputation the World has earned
of late, it will frankly acknowledge that it
made mistake, and that Senator Jones
never wrote the letter imputed to him.
And as it is reported that the Examiner is
about to die or be translated, perhaps it is
the more incumbent upon it to leave no un-
settled accounts behind it.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-10-01
RASH PROPHETS.

And now one Jordan, of whom we know
nothing, rushes forward to posture as a
California political prophet. He is a
Democrat Perhaps he is one of the
Worlds phantom Democrats. But he has
declared his insignificant opinion that this
State will 60 for Hancock, and the Asso-
ciated Press agent (wbo is very exasperating
at times) has thought the absurdity worth
wiring back to this coast. Now in the first
place this Mr.. Jordan is nobody, and in
the second place he cannot possibly have
any knowledge Of the subject whereon
he so Silly dogmatizes. No one can speak
any farther than as to the indications, and
assuredly they do not warrant the belief
that the State of California will 90 other.
wise than Republican. The party has not
been 80 united and so enthusiastic for
several years. 1t is well led. it has strong
issues, and there is no reason for any
Democratic premature cackling Mr.. Jor-
dan is an impertineRt and irresponsible
prophet, and his vaporings should not
have been honored with transmission.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-10-01

In MEMORANDA a meeting of the
officers and men of the First Infantry Reg
iment, n G. c., held at San Francisco on
Monday evening, a committee was ap-
pointed to prepare suitable resolutions ex-
pressive of the regiments appreciation Of
the herolsm of engineer Brown, who re-
manned at his post of duty on the engine
at the time of the accident to the train
bringing the regiment home on September
26, 1850, when death was the inevitable
consequence of his doing so, and by which
act the regiment escaped uninjured. The
committee presented the following as the
sense of the regiment
WHEREAS, The special train on which the First
Infantry Regiment was returning from Camp
Barnes on September 49, 1880 met with an accident
on the long wharf at Oakland, by which the engi-
neer lost his life the locomotive and tender were
thrown into the bay, and one of the passenger cars
wrecked and the others very nearly SO and where
as the entire train would have been thrown into the
bay and many lives been lost and injuries sustained
except for the heroic devotion and of mind
Of William Brown, the engineer OF said tran who,
when he the danger instead OF trying to save him
self and with inevitable ceath consequence. re-
manned at his post of duty. Here | am, he said,
and putting on the airbrakes and reversing his en-
gine stopped the tran bu not until his engine had
gone into the bay confused mass, with engineer
Brown underneath it, from whence his lfeless body
taken the next day from the reverse levers.
Now, therefore, il is hereby
Resolved That in the set Of engineer William
Brown We recognise brave devotion to duty, q
rare presence OF mind true heroisn tender re-
gard for Others and disregard for self when in the
balance against duty worthy the emulation of all
men, and that we most sincerely mourn the los of
one who has shown himself by deed to be true
man, and regret that the mysterious ways of Provi-
dence required that he should be sacrificed upon the
altar OF his devotion to his duties; but though he
be dead, yet his example is before incentive
to be true 10 our stations in life.
Resotrcd, That the First Regiment owes its preser-
Walton from many deaths and untold suffering, un-
der the guidance of benefcient Providence to the
said act Of the deceased.
Resotred, That while We bow in humble submits
sion to the Divine Providence which called for his
life, deeply mourn the loss OF one whom, though
We did not know him before, became known, en-
deared and lost to us at one and the same instant.
Resotred, That to his widowed mother and brother
less sister our EARNEST sympathies are hereby ex-
tended in their bereavement, and they assured
that they will End the First Regiment able and
willing to aid and encourage them, and to tighten
their pathway through life.
Resolved, That copy of this preamble and res.
oiutions be presented to the mother and sister OF
the deceased and be read upon the minutes of
the regiment aud be published in the San Francisco
aud Sacramento daily papsrs.
THE COMMISSIONED OFFICERS,
By Joffy H. DICKINSON Colonel
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YuBA COUNTY AND MIR. PARKS.

The Republicans of Yuba county have
done wisely in nominating Mr.. w. H.
Parks for the Assembly. The relations
which that gentleman holds towards the
people of that district are indeed such that
had it been possible he might well have
been put in nomination by the citizens
generally, without distinction of party.
For he is the author and the most active
promoter of that scheme of drainage which
promises to redeem the whole adjacent
country from the ruin menaced by the
flow of mining debris. The work to which
he has thus devoted himself, and in the
prosecution OF which he is displaying the
most persistent and indomitable energy,
has no connection with politics, but it
is an undertaking destined to confer the
most important and permanent benefits
upon every resident of Yuba county. And
it is incumbent upon the people of that
county to realize that the debris question
has wide implications. 1t affects them
nearly, but 1t is not under their control.
and the present scheme has many active
enemies, who are bent upon attempting
to defeat it at the first opportunity MIR.
Parks cannot be ASSOCIATED from this
scheme. Ii he is elected it will be accepted
as an Endorsement of the project by those
who are deeply concerned in its accom-
plishment. But if he is not elected it will
become very difficult for the friends of the
farmers and others who are threatened by
the debris to resist the onslaught
which is certain to be made upon the
bill this winter. In word, the people who
have practically everything at stake are
called upon to show their faith in the
means which are.being taken to save them
from ruin, and they will be very unwise if
they allow any secondary considerations to
divert them from the primary duty they
owe to themselves and to those who have
stood by them in their need. We are
decidedly of the opinion that Mr.. Parks
ought to be elected by the largest majority
his county has ever given for any candidate,
and we say this, not solely because we know
him to be trustworthy and able man, and
fully entitled TO the confidence Of his con-
stituents, but because there is great prin-
ciple in issue, which the people of Yuba
cannot afford TO ignore, or to take a wrong
course upon. The work of reclamation
and protection has been begun, but
whether it will be finished or not must
depend largely rpon the harmonious and
sagacious action of those whose nearest in
terests are involved. Let them remember
that in union there is strength. and not
fritter away their opportunity to cliuch
this business firmly, by going off on side
issues, or by allowing politics, which can
have only very indirect interest for them,
to dominate their action at the polls in OPP.
position to the great material problem
which is really their one dependence.
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SELF ExpLANAToRY.- The following let.
ter explaips itself:

SAN FRANCISCO, September 60 1850.
Phil H. Doyle, Esq, Chairman State Central Re
publican Committee, Nevada: The report in the
Ford is a stupid invention of the enemy, with
out a shadow of foundation in fact. In my ludg-
nent the best interests OF the whole county will be
promoted by the continuance of the Republican
party in power and imperled by the success OF the
Democracy.
never was more ardent believer 10 Republican
principles and supporter OF Republican CANDIDATES
than now Democratic promises are no better and
Democratic history is more savory than hereto
fore see manifold reasons why former supporters
Of the Democratic party should now become Repuo-
leans; but absolutely no reason why former sup
porters of the Republican party should become
Democrats.
trust and believe that the patriotic citizens OF
Nevada will bear the Republican standard TO victory
in November JOHN p. JONES.