Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-07-09
PRESS EXPRESSION.
What Some of the Papers of the Coast
Find to Talk About,

Ia spite of the repeated warnings of
all the newspapers of this county, we find
many voters who have not yet reregis.
tered. Unless every voter goes in person
to the Clerk of thescounty, or one of his
authorized deputies, and again registers,
he cannot vote at the election in Novem.
ber. And unless this duty is performed
before the third day of August, five weeks
from now, he will not be put on this years
register, and his vote is lost. IL Cotton
Semi-Tropic.
The dullness in stock transactions can
not, so far as the Bodies are concerned, be
attributed to the condition of the mines
themselves, for healthier appearance in
any camp was never presented than is seen
in a large number of our mines. To resi-
dents of Bodie the tenacity shown by stock
speculators in San Francisco and New
York in hanging on to their money, and
refusing to purchase as good stocks as were
offered, is something quite unaceountable.
[Bodie Standard.
"Name the bones of the arm % This is
one of the questions asked by the County
Board of Education at the recent examina-
tion of applicants for teachers certificates.
1t is type of the whole vicious system of
testing the knowledge of both teachers
and pupils. No wonder that twenty nine
out of thirty.fve would-be teachers stuck
fast on such snags as this about the bones
of the arm and were left high and dry on
them. How does a persons failure to re-
member the names of bones affect his or
her ability to teach :-[Santa Clara
Journal. 4
: 1t must be affecting to hear the Confed-
crate Brigadiers sing "Rally Round the
Flag " and other patriotic songs as they
proceed in their congenial employment of
bulldozing niggers and rotten egging Re-
publican meetings in the South. What's
in name A rose by any other name
would smell as sweet, and so the Demo-
cratic party stinks just as bad in the nos
trils of Union men as though it hadn't
tried to mask its natural scent with Han
cock perfume. Calaveras Chronicle.
The narrow-ga over the mountains,
if built at all, will be constructed by a
company as business investment, and
will not need so begging for money to build
It, AS business men, they will not need
any help in the way of "jaw-bone." They
will examine the volume of business
present and future-that will naturally
come to the road, and when satisfied on
this point, from information carefully
compiled, they will put it through.
If the surveyors, upon careful exam
ination, shall report that the Sonora
route is preferable. both as to cost,
feasibility and probable revenue resources,
over the Big Tree route, then it will &c
this way If otherwise, then it will go by
the Big Tree route. All the fuss we may
make or fail to make will not have a
| feathers weight in deciding that common
sense and practical business base. 1t does
not retard the project for our citizens te
cry over any fancied injury such a road
may infict upon the county, nor does it
hasten the matter to rejoice over any rose
colored benefits it may shower upon us
We have no money for the road, even if i.
were needed +; and our objections, if any
would not delay it second of time.
[Tuolumne Independent.
About once in twenty years the people
want candidate from the ranks of the
people. In 1910 it was General Harrison
the log-cabln candidate of Tppecanoe. II
| 1860 it was Honest Abe, the rail-splitter
In 1880 it is General Garfield, the wood
chopper and canal-driver. And it is re
markable that when the people make uI
their minds that they want such MAJ
| they elect him with naiorities that admit
no questioning. Los Angeles Journal.
Whoever called politics filthy pool
certainly showed a correct understanding
of the force of words, as well as a thor
ough knowledge of the subject. Yet nj
| GOOD reason exists why politics should mo-
take its place among the sciences and oc
cupy sphere above the reach of th'
opprobrious epithets usually ascribed to it
The mistake is made in confounding trick
cry with politics, a means with an end. /
is one of the misfortunes inseparable from
our form of government, at least as nov
constituted. that jobbery and politica
fraud should be powerful means in every
election, involving as it does an uuknow1
number of official positions, together will
the vast amount of money and iHfiuenc'
known by the name of "spoils. Thi
evil, however, presents no insurmountabl
obstacles toitsreform. L Marysville Ledger
| There is no sight more beautiful thai
that of man or woman who has passet
the meridian of life, with locks whitening
in the frosts of years, and with face turne'
towards the setting sun, growing olt
sweetly and gracefully. There ought t
be no such thing as old age, except IN
physical sense. Years should bring wis
dom to the mind, and growth and grandeu
to the soul, but not age to the heart
That should be kept ever young and fan
1t should become more and more beautifu
and fragrant with spring blossoms as th