Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-01-17


sheet and make their questions as concise as
possible. Replies by contributors to questions
BY correspondents will be aiven when accompanied
by the name and address of the writerl
THE AUTHOR UNKNOWN.
In SEMI-WEEKLY UsIoN of December
oath is poem called Sometime" Would
you be kind enough to inform me through
your columns who the author is, or if it
was new poem written for the UNION
think it one of the sweetest, most COM
forting, that ever read.
VIDA, Placerville.
The poem referred to begins;
Sometime, when all lifes lessons have been learnd
And sun and stars forevermore have SET
The things which weak Judgment here has
spurnd,
The things DER which we griev'd with lashes wet,
VIII flash before us cut OF life's dark night,
AS stars shine most in deeper tints Of biue;
And we shall see how all Gods plans were right,
And how what seemed reproof was love most true.
The poem is upon the newspaper wave,
without an authors name attached. Per
haps some correspondent can give it.
ABOUT DRIERs.
VIII you, through your query depart
ment, tell me whether there is constant
market in San Francisco for dried potatoes,
also the cost of drier?
Roe, Suffer county.
Drying of potatoes is a new venture. 1t
is claimed by ''drier" builders that the ar
ticle will soon be popular and regular
market quotation be made for it. AS to
the cost of drier," it cannot be stated
here; prices are varied and driers numer-
Gus.
THE OLDEST CITY.
The answer to question No. p concern
ing the oldest city in the world has Ger.
tainly been answered correctly both from
Princeton and Visalia, but it is certainly
no proof of the same to say that 6 Damas-
Gus was city in the days of Abraham.
SO was Jerusalem for did not Melchizedek
come out of Salem or Jerusalem to thank
father Abraham after the brave rescue of
his nephew Lot from the grasping hands of
the five cruel kings-under Chedarlaao-
mer? Now Abraham was the tenth gen.
Grafton from Noah, and our first accounts
of Jerusalem are during his time. Da-
mascus was founded by the second genera
ton from Noah (by W, grandson of Noah,
and therefore was an old, very old, city
when Abraham came into notice.
ANNA r. GILLIs.
Yreka, January 8, 1880.
MIR. SPEAKER.
VIII you please decide an argument in
the Letter box column of your valuable
journal? The question is, "Does the
Speaker of the House of Representatives
have any vote except the casting vote in
case tie occurs also the Speaker of the
lower house OF our own Legislature ?" By
answering this you will confer favor on
constant reader. S. T. A.
Rowlands, January s, 1850.
Mr.. Speaker in both cases is the repre-
sentative of constituency, and he votes
on all roll-calls and otherwise, as does any
other representative.
THE LEADING CITIES
VIII you please give in your paper the
names of the first to the seventh city in the
Union, in their order of Importance by
reason of population. j. NJ. SHAW.
Winters, Yolo county,
According to the latest figures published,
they are: New York, I,046 OBJ Philadel-
phia, Sl7, AS st. Louis, 49S. 1872; Brook
Ign, 500, 099; Boston, 344, 9l9; Chicago,
800, 977; Cincinnati, 250, 000.
QUESTIONS ANSWERED.
"Smllax, of Collville, Mono county,
answers questions propounded in the Let
ter-box column in December as follows:
" Muscovite or common mica is found in
Siberia, Norway, Sweden, Russia, the
Zillerthal, Tvrol, etc. In America it is
found in several localities - in Maine,
Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connect
icut, New York, Pennsylvania and North
Carolina, where it is extensively mined.
Quite fine specimens are also procured from
Western Kansas For use it is simply
split along the cleavage planes into sufii-
GENTLY thin laminal.
Kid gloves, especially Partisan kids, are
quite often manufactured from ratskins.
very few from kldskins.
The speed of railroad trains in England
exceeds that of both French and American
roads, averaging forty-fve miles per hour
for express trains, and reaching for short
distances sixty, seventy-three and even
seventy eight miles per hour.
The rhinoceros is destitute of true
paired horns, but bears on the upper sur
horns, composed of horny deposits in the
integument, which belong to the skin and
are taken off with it. When two horns
are present they are arranged one behind
the other In the ordinary use of the
term he is a horned animal, as his name
implies, being derived from the two Greek
words rhin, the nose, and kerd, horn. In
the strict scientific use Of the word he does
not possess horns.
AUDIPHoNES.
A correspondent asks if the new instru-
ments for the deaf are now in practical
use. They are, and are to be had of deal
ers in surgical and like instruments.
A QUESTION OF CONTRACT AND LAW.
G. E. H. asks Is there general rule
or custom prevailing that when farmer
rents his farm for one-fourth of the crop as
rental, for the lessor to furnish sacks for
his share, or baling-rope or wire, if the
crop is cut for hay: He knows that it de-
ponds upon the bargain, but wishes to
know what is the general rule or custom,
and desires to hear from correspondents
regarding it.