Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-08-28

| A SONG NANTED.-Ni Ill some reader OF
the RECORD UNION send me the words of
a campalgn song, sung during the Lincoln
and Mcclellan campaign of 1864 through
the columns of the paper ? The song was
sung TO the tune of % Just Before the
Battle, Mother, and commenced with the
words:
Just before the battle, brother,
am thinking most Of yOu.
The chorus commenced
Think Of that ye Northern voters
VIII some one also tell me the date of
Quautrell's raid into Kansas, and to what
political party he belonged,
Cora VASDERrooL-
Plymouth, August Goth.
A PREsERvArIvR.- What is now recor-
nized as the best preseryative Of coarse
vegetable preparations for the microscope
l would much hike 20 know at an early
date T. d. II.
Visalia, August GOTH
Anarer. -Salicylic acid. tits used with
good success. But 1t dissolyes but little in
water, and alcohol brings about undesira-
bic changes in the specimen. However, it
! dissolyes freely in a solution of borax
Borax itself, you probably know. is good
/ preventative. Now if you combine these
two you get an excellent result. Take two
parts OF the acid and one of borax COM
| pletely dissolved in half an ounce of
/ glycerine mix this solution with three
! parts of water, and you viii find fluid ex-
cellent for the coarser organisms.
The EUcALYPTUs.-After all these years
OF experiment, can it now be said that the
eucalyptus is a really beneficial growth to
resist malarial influences? / ask because
/ I've seen scraps in some papers denying it.
" hat has heen the experience elsewhere, if
you know! Nc.
Sacramento, August oath.
Ans,cer.-We have reason to believe in
| the eucalyptus. Its value in sllaylng the
Embellishments of the malarial districts
| is very positively affirmed in a recent num-
/ Der OF London Nature. The testimony in
support of the efficacy of eucalyptus in tAis
respect, the writer asserts. are too con-
vincing to be doubtful. In marshy dis
| tricts, where the fever-tree abounds, fevers
are unknown, and in Algerian Corsica,
where the experiment OF planting the trees
on the strength of their reputed virtues
was Systematically made some years ago,
inalarial fevers have entirely disappeared.
From Algeria, especially, the evidence Of
| its virtues is very convincing. Consul
| Playfair reports, for example, that large
tracts of land have been transferred by the
/ agency OF the fever tree, and that, wherever
it is cultivated. fevers are found to dimin-
| ish in frequency and intensity. NJ. Gimbert
recently made report OF ike tenor to the
| French Academy. The pestilential district
about the city of Rome. known as the
/ Campagna, had until lately worldwide
D s,l.l l. hot hal n I llxr
/ fevers. 1t is now affirmed to have vastly
improved in wholesomeness, in consequence
OF the presence Of large numbers of euca-
/ lyptus introduced some years ago by order
of the Italian Government.
RILEY Shortly after the death of
George Ripley there appeared several
short poems and essays concerning that
! journalist One of these l saw III an East
ern paper, in which he is spoken OF as n
true critic because an honest man. I'd
like TO have it for my scrsp-book. Can
you tell me what it is, by whom, and
where | can find it? E. S. L.
Marysville, August 18th.
Aas,rer-Yes. We have it, and give it
herewith. 1t is by L. S. Brooks Ripley
was the subject of a score of neat things
like this:
Not all the Thrift that crowds LIES narrow span,
or marks the Woodwork Of the prosperous man
Not all the chance that falls TO unsought,
Nor all the yantages from Others wrought,
Avail much in Justices even scale,
AS simple faith, whose judgments seldom fail.
Honor and truth cap Gods sublimest plan
The honest critic is the honest man.
RESAN.-Can you tell me something
about Renan? / can't get any concise ac-
count of him. STUDENT.
Sacramento, August lSth.
Ans,rer.-Ernest Renan is of Paris. He
is noted for his " Life of Jesus and his
virgins of Christianity" and for several
remarkable lectures on Rome, Christianity,
etc. He is now 81 years of age. His per-
son is noble, says correspondent who saw
him recently: he is master OF style, even
among the French, and he loves Christi
anity. The origins of Christianity, he
says, form the most heroic episode in the
history of humanity. Man never drew
from his heart more devotion, more love of
the IDEAL than in the one hundred and
fifty years which elapsed from the sweet
Galilean vision, under Tiberius, to the
death of Marcus Aurelius. His chosen
work is that of historian. He loves history
and hates dogma There are historians of
wars, of fashions, of industry. Renan, as
it is said, could be the historian of religion
only. 'All religions may be defective
and incomplete religion in humanity is
nothing less than divine" says Renan. In
recent London lecture he closed with
these words: About our destiny and
our end there is one thing certain it Is
the paternal smile which at certain hours
pierces nature, attesting that one Eye re-
CARDS us and one heart follows us.