Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-03-06

ADDREss.-H. A. May, Fair Play, Ell Do
RADIO county. The gentleman who is engaged
in raising millet is W. A. Sanders, of the set
Element of Sanders, Fresno county, Cal.
CoINAGE.-I have silver coin which |
picked up in Mexico-date 1852, letters
= Mxican," all very plain. Can anyone ex-
plain who coined 1t! INQUIRER.
Mendon, February Is, 1880.
ENGINE RUNNING inform me if
bill has been passed at the present session of
the Legislature providing for the examination
of persons who may be engaged in running
steam engines and boilers. ENGINEER.
Rio Vista, February &c, 1880.
Ansper.-There is a bill before the Legisla-
ture of that character. 1t has not become
law yet.
HEAT-As an answer to question 40 has
not vet been proposed, | will endeavor to an
swer it. In 1899, shortly after Count Rum
ford proved that heat is a species of motion,
Sir Humphrey Davy added confirmation to
the theory by rubbing together two pieces of
ice and thus melting them. Before this, in
1760, Dr. Black, the discoverer of carbonic
acid discovered the fact that the heat, which
enters ice and melts it, remains latent until
the last particle of ice is melted. l.. W. V.
Red Bluff, February %, 1880.
NORTHWESTERN TERRITORY. A dispute
has arisen among some of us here in regard
to the Louisiana purchase. One side con-
tends that all Of this Western country, viz:
Idaho, Montana, Washington and Oregon,
were included in that sale, while it is stated
in a cyclopedia which we have, that it in
cluded all the country west of the Mississippi
to the Rocky mountains. Also, did the
Government, at the time of Tyler's admins
tration, offer to sell the aforesaid country to
the British? Ii this country was not in
cluded in the Louisiana purchase, how was it
acquired by the United States? IDAHO.
Idaho City, February 80 1880.
ARslCer.-Iu 1900 Bonaparte succeeded in
inducing the Spanish Government TO retrocede
Louisiana to France. He then sold it to the
United States for $4,000 600. The country
comprehended the present State of Louisiana
and all the country to the north and west be-
tween the Mississippi and the Pacific, except
such parts as were occupied by Spain, and as
far north as the British territory. During
Tyler's administration there was critical
situation with England relative to the
northern boundary. Lord Ashburton and
Daniel Webster arranged the matter by
treaty, which was ratified by the Senate
August 20, 1872 If there was any offer TO
sell to the British Government it did not be-
come matter of record in political history.
The conventions which settled the boundary
or frontier line between British America and
the United States were known as the con-
ventions of 1889 and 1876.
ALLoY.-Can you inform me if rifle balls
alleged with quicksilver are injurious to a
rife Can you give me method for alloy
ing? NIMRoD.
Ansper. -Assuredly balls thus alleged
would injure rife sooner than balls not so
treated. Ii you will state for what purpose
the alloy is desired formula for alloying
with various metals will be given.
REMusATs 'MEMoIRs."- have received
the first volume of Nine. Remusat's Me
moirs of Napoleon Bonaparte," and am de-
sirous of having your personal opinion of the
work, and the motive that induced its publ
cation. If the book has already been noticed
in the RECORD UNION, please refer me to the
number if not, l will be sincerely gratified
to find your comments thereon in the columns
of some future issue. A New READER.
Suffer Creek, February %, 1880.
Ansaer.-The work was briefly referred
revelations of social court life under
the Consulate and the First EN-
pire. Madame Remusat was nearly
unknown in this country until the publica-
tion of this work. She is inclIded in Sainte
Beuve's " Portraits of Celebrated Women"
She made essays in literature which attracted
some contemporary attention, but are compar-
atively unknown now. Sainte-Beuve says
she wrote early with facility and grace and
sent forth creditable short essays at the age
of 10 or 16 years, as well as some NOVELTIES
and some translations of odes of Horace. She
was a great letter writer, and nightly wrote
down the events of the day preceding.
She wrote two romances and work on g Fee
male Education" Madame Remusat was born
in 1880 and was grand niece to Louis XVI.
She married an aged magistrate of the Su-
preme Court and lived life of retirement for
several years-one of quiet enjoyment and
| intellectual culture. Madame Bonaparte made
her one of her ladies in waiting, and her hus-
band Project of the palace. She died in 1921,
about 60 years before her memoirs were given
| to the world. Says Sainte-Beuve: "In 1915,
during the hundred days, some peculiar cir
cumstances, which she doubtless exaggerated,
excited her alarm on the score of these papers,
teeming as they were with items and with
names. She sailed forth to place them in
the keeping of friend, but, failing to find
her, she returned in haste and threw them
into the fire. Before an hour had elapsed she
regretted what she had done. 1t was not
until the publication of Madame de Stael's
work on the French Revolution that she felt
the courage to undertake once more the col
fault of the first Incompatible mar
rative, those will be partially Unidentified
who shall one day read the second"
The memoirs lift the veil from the leading
actors of the period treated. Her chapters
have all the charm of romantic fiction with
what there is every reason to believe the
power of truth. She was simple, easy
writer, not brilliant, but very skillful in mar
rative. The record she kept was an accurate
one. Her powers of observation were great !;
nothing escaped her, and she saw generally
clearly. Napoleon, on separating from jose
phine, knowing Madame Remusat's habit of
recording daily events, and her memory of
conversations, distrusted her. He sent her
husband into exile subsequently, 1t is set
tied that the rewritten memoirs are very
faithful picture of the times and an honest
narrative of events, presenting accurately the
feelings, expressions, passions and sympathies
of the historic characters, and giving clear
insight into the real relations of Napoleon
and Josephine.
ANSWERS. of Tahoe, Placer county,
sends in these answers to questions:
To No. 40--Salad oil is olive oil Of the
best and second best qualities: In the mar
kets it is quoted as: Fine salad olive, cans,
GAL, So so; salad olive, Bordeaux, quarts,
per dozen, 80 %. The best, called virgin oil,
is made from olives when nearly but not quite
ripe, and comes from southern France. Other
qualities are made from fully ripe fruit
that which has lain in piles and soured, the
mash from previous expressings, etc.
To No. 41-The tomato, Solanum Lycopersi-
cum, originated in South America. About
the year 1896 it was taken to England and
grown as curiosity, the fruit hand ed for
its beauty, and called love apples" 1t re-
manned for the Italians to discover its utility
as human food this date is not known, how
ever. Afterwards the French began to use
it, and finally the English Its extensive
use does not date back over twenty-five or
thirty years.
To No. 45-Black lead is an improper
name for graphite, one of the forms Of pure
carbon. When iron other impurities are
contained IN it, they form no part of the ma
! terial itself, no more than stone in pail of
water is part of the water.
To No 2Q-NoSaic cold Ia a br,s- 49,,