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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-09-10
THE SACRAMENTO WEEKLY UNION

THE SACRAMENTO WEEKLY UNION
Was established in 1851, and has been con-
tinuously published ever since. Unlike the
old-time weeklies, it is issued twice each
week in eight-page parts, making up weekly
issue of sixteen pages. The day of the old
style weekly news journal has gore by. Such
ancient methods no longer meet the demands
of the age. The WEEKLY UNION, moving
with the advance systems, is by its semi
weekly issue able to keep pace with the news
of the day, and give its readers the news
oftener, fresher and with closer approach to
the very latest than is possible to the journal
issuing but once each week. The WEEKLY
UNION is issued from the office of the DAILY
RECORD UNION, at Sacramento, the capital
of California. 1t is news, business and fam
lily journal, and enjoys larger and more
widely distributed circulation than any
weekly paper on the Pacific slope. Its edi-
torial department moves upon the highest
plane and in the front rank of advanced
thought For vigor of utterance, boldness of
position, scholarly finish and lucidity OF idea,
its editorial department has no peer in the
country.
Its agricultural department, specially pre-
pared for the paper, is edited from the stand
point of the highest intelligence, longest ex-
perience, and most practical knowledge in
agriculture, and at once commends itself to
the farmer, viticulturist and horticulturist as
the best and most desirable local authority,
THE WEEKLY UNION in its literary depart
ment presents original stories command
ing the best literary talent among
writers in Europe and America. 1t
presents departments for the household,
the studio, the laboratory, the garden,
and the puzzler, and gives the latest news of
discovery and progress in the mechanic arts,
science, engineering, decorative art, music,
etc. 1t also has regular departments of re-
view of the latest publications of the day;
of correspondence from New York, Wash
ngton, London, Paris, the Orient and the
leading cities of the Pacific coast of the
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include the home, Eastern and foreign dis
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reviews, and the latest merchandise, stock
and produce and financial quotations. The
WEEKLY UNION is beyond all question the
completest newspaper on the coast for the
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annual mammoth holiday edition. which ap-
pears on the first day of each year. Address,
VIM, H. MILLS,
General Manager,
WEEKLY UNION,
Sacramento, Cal.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-09-10

vforked in building the church. AS she
had several children then, she must be
about 40 years old. The Paumas have
kept in remembrance the teachings OF the
fathers; they have their little homes IN
closed with small door yards, their corn
fields and gardens, poultry, ponies and
cattle. and in the center of the little vii
lace is an adobe church built by their own
hands, the rafters made OF poles eIeu w.
retber With strips of sheepskin. 1t is a
S5nJe miniature of the oldest mission, with
ia rallied altar and elevated choir. reached
in this case by step.ladder. Before the
crucifx on any day OF the week you may
! find
| A voTTvE OFFERING
Of flowers, laid there by the women. Men
build churches, and women worship IN
them, whatever their creed. In some OF
these mountain school districts more than
half the pupils are Indian children. One
of the teachers told me that last year on
her opening day the father of two pre-
sented himself, and inquired how much she
would pay him per week for the children,
ane how much fer himself. He had heard
| OIL oldLG dAd SOuuSr oNhSSA
their pro rata distribution, and was intent
upon getting his share of it. When the
teacher explained as best she could the
true state Of the case, Lo departed, taking
his progeny with him.
During the fiesta, which both at Paia
and San Luis has been great success,
every kind of amusement common to the
old time has been enjoyed, save the burn
ing of Judas. The priests had given then
neophytes so profound hatred of lscariot
very bad Indian who betrayed the son o
the Great Chief to cruel death, thai
their festivals often ended with miracl
play in which Judas met his punishment
An Indian sometimes acted the part up +
the final scene, when an efigy was substi
: tuted. The last of these performances oc
, Cured at San Juan Capistrano, not man
E years ago.
Next week we shall be reminded of tn
? trials and triumphs which the Queen of tn
Angels has passed through in her centur
D of existence. She has many gifted son
8 who cat glorify her in English or CASTELAR,
2 Of these ceremonies and the fair l wi
! speak IN another letter. j. Z. Z.
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The Lancet gives an account of some
curious studies by DR.. Dogiel as to the in
huepce of music on the circulation of the
blood. His conclusions are that there is
such an Influence, and that it sometimes
raises and sometimes depresses the blood
pressure = this influence being brought
about by the reflex action of the excited
auditory nerve upon the medulla oblongata.
1t is found that generally the heart beats
faster, the automatic motor ganglia being
stimulated; strychnia increases the effect
of music, while curare lessons it. The
effects upon the circulation vary, as might
be presumed with the pitch, loudness and
tone of the music,
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Answers to Correspondents and Correct
Solutions

PHO, ll42, ll43. ll44, ll45,
TAG nearly, ll49, ll5o, ll5l.
Utah-ll42, ll43, ll44, las. ll47,
ll49, 1850 nearly, ll5l, 1853, ll54, ll55,
ll56, lI5S.
Silver King-ll36, ll40, ll4l, ll42,
ll43, ll44, ll50, isl.
G. A. M.-The edition before us read
"Little Story" Others answered it the
same, showing that they had print like
ours.
E. A. livery nearly correct. A very
ingenious answer. Received too late for
last week. Continue to contribute.
Mrs. G. E. D. sends a letter of thanks
to Sibyl for favors extended and for the
kind letter received, and adds "Such
letters are like rays of sunshine after a
storm. May indulge in the hope of re-
ceiving another sometime. No, l am
not member of the Quiet Hour circle,
but am just as much interested in its pro-
ceedings as if l were.
Trinity-lI53, 1854, ll55, ll57, lbs.
Hattie Heath-ll54, ll55 (well, you did
make it QUIT, ll56, ll5S, 1859 (no), ll6O
(no), ll6l, 1852 the certainly means you).
1853 (no). Indeed you do not guess. 81
guess" wrong this time as to your friend.
"Quest" received and filed for
next week, but please send the full an
swer-the plants named, "when primals
and finals are correctly classed.
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THE PRINCE OF PUNCHES is the delicate,
fulI-havored " Hub Punch" composed of old
fine liquors and luscious fruits. 1t can be
used clear, or with hot or iced water, lemon
ade or milk. and far surpasses any punch
brewed at discretion. Sold by all grocers,
wine merchants and druggists. Trade sup
piled by Richards & Harrison, agents for
Pacific coast, San Francisco.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-09-10

The English language has never been
equal to finding word to express chic.
The Americans have now kindly supplied
the deficiency by giving us the word
snappy." A dead-and-alive young man
is said to have no snap" whereas band.
box turned.out young girl, with white
teeth, coral lips, pink dimpled cheeks,
sunny hair, and white, soft hands, is de-
scribed as ga decidedly snappy maiden. =
London Truth.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-09-10

Two prayer.books belonging to Marie
Antoinette, and which were in the posses.
sion of Prince Louis Napoleon, have been
presented by the ex-Empress to the Duke
de la Rochefoucald- Bisaccia. The books
were read by the Queen during her impris.
onment at the Conciergerie, and are filled
with her manuscript notes.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-09-10

DRueGIsTs say that Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound is the best remedy for
female weakness that they ever heard of. for
it gives universal satisfaction. Send to Mrs.
Lydia E. Pinkham, No. 233 Western Avenue,
Lynn, Mass, for pamphlets.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-09-10

A headless statue, believed to represent
Hygieia, the daughter of -Esculapius, has
been discovered close to the proscenium in
the theater at Epidaurus. 1t is declared
to be the work of Polyclitus, the architect
of the theater.
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THE QUIET HOUR.
TANsIER's CORNER AND PUzzLER's CON-
TRIBUrIoN BOX.
cha1ades, Enigmas, Riddles, Puzzles, Word
Squares, Answers to and from Cor
respondents, and Solutions.

Answers to August 9th.
1853. Mason & Dixon's line.
ll54. Cabbage. =,
1855. Don't make noise or else you'll
wake the baby"
ll56. Rosemary.
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ll5S. Asa.
Answer to the letter-Cold Water, Con-
venience, La Porte (the door,, troublesome,
Rocky Hill, Mount Pleasant, Blooming
dale, Bold Spring, Fountain Creek, Avery,
Unique. Oasis, Anchorage, Welcome, Win
ter Harbor, Obligation, Mansfield.
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ll6s. Reversible words, by Hattie

l. drum on which the Hindoos pound,
Reversed bird in Brazil found
Divide, and find Of trumps the knave
Or the name of one who may be brave.
Reverse divided means word,
Or bugle strain in Scotia heard.
2 Plated palm leaves used for hats,
Reversed game not played with bats.
Divide find crime, and neat, or pure,
Spread the unwary to allure.
Reversed, symbol, number complete,
And "has not (this word is obsolete).
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GIVE Trask's Ointment one simple trial for
those sore eyes, 1t will give you a new lease
of life. For piles, aches and sores, it excels
everything.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-09-10

Corsets for summer wear are made of
net, and are also made exceedingly short.
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New Tangles.
.zla hxy Utah

u 1000 yn $ so &
ll66. Charade, by H. E. P.
Two plain English words, explicit and teise,
Though closely allied, are exact the reverse;
Though both come together and suferings mean,
In speaking, conjunction will slip in between;
Now change, place the last the first il YOU will,
II don't change my meaning It's sufferings still.
Together behead, you'll find without labor
The curse the poor widow invoked on her neighoor
ll67. ?, by Silver King:
In gore not in fray, not in mower but in sleigh.
Not in Boer in Malay, not in poor in decay.
Not in power but in may, in love not in lay.
Not in roar but in neigh, not in goer in estray.
Not in flower in bouquet, in store not in hay.
In yore not to-day.
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Is one of the minor missions, and its
church having been built almost wholly of
adobe, like that of San Diego, is almost a
ruin. There is an inn and one or two
houses to be discerned, but where the peo-
pie come from who throng to this fiesta isIa
mystery to all save bOtanists and bee
farmers. Oh, the wild paths among the
mountains, and the wilder people who
have squatted in every little valley. beside
every spring And what material for
romance OF drama would be found in the
unfolding of their life histories. 1t is well
to let the question answer itself "Can the
Indian be civilized p by visiting some Of
the rancherias in this lower country. AT
Pauma there is an old Indian woman who
remembers Father Peyri well, and lived at
San Luis while her husband and brothers
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Shows greater development in prose.
The Osceola times., 1881-01-15
Against Fast Trains.

The indianapolis Jou1,1l says With
in the last few months q feeling adverse
to running express trains so rapidly as
they are now run has sprung up among
the more prudent class of railroad men,
and to-day nine out Of ten of the general
managers of the roads of this country
would favor legislation making it n
iinable onense, with heavy penalty at
tached, to move trains faster than thirty
miles per hour. Indeed, this is faster
than trains should be moved in severe
winter weather. Fast trains were put on
more 10 favor the American people, who
are dcsirous of rushing through the cOun-
try at the rate of forty to fifty miles per
hour, rather than on the judgment of eX-
perienced railroad men; and now that
the important trunk lines between the
east and west are running fast trains,
nearly every so-called 'Jcrk-water' road
in the country is copying them. Quite
recently, in conversation on this subject,
d. W. Caldwell, general manager of the
pttsburg, Cincinnati * It. Louis road,
remarked that the running time of two
of the trains on the main line was fully
forty miles an hour, and that whenever
he heard of its arrival safely at either
Pttsburg or indianapolis real sense of
relief came over him. He further re-
marked that he often walked up in the
night, and among the first thoughts would
be as regards the safety Of this train, and
only Sunday last the general manager of
another indianapolis road remarked to
the railroad reporter of the journal that
with the coming severe winter weather
came anxiety about trains, especially the
fast trains run over their line, and he re-
marked: II wish the time would come
when the travelling public would not de-
mand such rapid transit If the officials
have such anxiety about these trains
moving so rapidly through the country,
what must be the feelings Of the men on
the fOotbolrd, and the conductors Of the
trains, as they run over the roads these
sharp, frosty nights with so much re-
sponsiblity resting on them that the
passengers should be carried through
safely on time?
The Osceola times., 1881-01-15
MhAt Is Il Cnlh HAih2

The season of the year, says the Lancet,
when very many people who have cXpe-
rienced pleasure and advantage from Il
daily cold bath have to discontinue the
practice is come. Months will clapsc be-
fore the return of genial weather will
allow of their indulgence in what may be
termed mans natural stimulant. Among
the young and robust there are a large
number who are able to bathe even in
the depths of winter; the advantage of
so doing is. however, questionable. But
let ii be once understood what cold bath
really is, and the course by which we can
avoid Scylla and Charybdis will be OBJ
vious. A cold bath is not necessarily Il
bath in water of the temperature OF the
atmosphere. \ bath is truly and really
cold when it produces certain physiulogi-
cal eiiects-a slight momentary shock
followed by pleasant and lasting reaction
These effects are, for the majority Of pco-
pie, most pleasantly obtained by bathing
in water about thirty-tyc 10 forty de
grce> below the temperature of the body
the usual temperature Of uuhcated
water in June and July. Bearing this in
mind we can enjoy our physiological
cold bath rs safely and pleasantly at
Christmas n at midsummer, and there is
no necessity for the mosttimid or weakly
to discontinue his morning tub because
the summer weather is over When the
water sinks below q temperature Of sixty
degrees, let it be heated TO that point and
then used, and We shall still have our
cold bath, though Of heated water
The daily stimulant effect of such a bath
is So beneficial to the great majority of
persons, and is of such marked service in
maintaining health, that it is very impor-
tant TO have it widely known that a cold
bath may be taken all the year round,
provided cold is not mistaken 10 mean at
the temperature Of the outer air. To
heat our bath during the winter months
is often thought To be unmanly, while in
reality it Is truly scientific: and TO bathe
in unheated water all the year round,
whatever the temperature of that water
may be, is TO prove ones self an ignor-
ant slave of outward circumstances
The Osceola times., 1881-01-15

interior periphery a double shuttle, twist,
and grind the enemy under the heel, that
Il cooler for the spectator, the thermom-
cter in the ninetios. than for the per
formers. from whose bodies the perspird-
ton rolls into the tea stems below.
The box factory is elsewhere. We en-
ter on our homeward way. 1t is another
old disusod tea hong occupied by for
eigners in the days when money was
made; tumbledoWn now and abandoned
to Chinese. Inside, a few Chinese youths
eating dollars worth Of rice per month,
are rapidly gluing and dovctailing to-
gcther, by rough wholesale strokes, boxes
by the score. Few nails are used, for
these are handmade and can not be af-
forled. What a bungling "mcnding' the
merchant will pay for, when these frail
cases reach the land of rough usage and
coarse nail3.
Here you see bit Of thin teawood,
there a DIT Of paper gaudily daubed with
cardinal colors, stroke or two, side
marrics end, the gaudy paper cover hides
all Joints, and the catty boxes, gay with
bird, butterfly, dragon and phenix are
en- route to be stared at in a provincial
groccr's window
The only foreign devices We have noted
i'm these busy establishment, where in
the season 500 men and women are busy
from daylight TO dark, are q Fairbanks
scales and Canton-madc fire engine.
Two red tapers, stuck in the earth at the
door, burn for good lack, and good luck
we must wish the patient set who work
here.
Nearly 1000 picus this season have
passed the sieycs, one might say a leaf at
a time And so this year, of hundreds
Of packing houses, some in hamlcts IN
the hills some rs Foochow. in cities ten
to fifty miles from the hills. Women
have carried, each her picul, up and
down the mountain pathways twenty-five
miles a day, not complaining of their
bent backs, nor once rudely lostlcd or
in-uted by foreign coolies from outside
districts who come starving their way
toward the handful of work offering,
their only food a double handful of salt
in their girdle to bite at before they
drink along the road. Boatmen at river
marts have fought pitched battles for the
tea, upon the transport of which depend
ed their livelihood.
Probably all the tea leaving Foochow
has been lifted up and down as much as
if it had bcou carried up one side of the
great pyramid and down the other a
score OF times. Plenty of men have been
ready to fight for the privilege Of carry
ing it; plenty of women, too, under their
loads, behind their new husbands.
The Osceola times., 1881-01-15
Great Prairles of south America.
Correspondence London Times,

The provinces of Buenos Ayres Monte
video are as yet far from being over
| crowded; but an immigrant will not fare
worse for going farther for elbow-room,
provided ne be as careful to insure free
and easy communication rs a good gen
eril would be anxious to keep within
reach of his base of operations. There
are rivers in this region navigable bv
steam for thousands Of miles, and the
railways, which seem to have been PROV
idcntially invented to serve the purposes
of American colonization, are already
reaching the borders of the Grand Chaco,
the Grand Pampa, Patagonia, and other
great deserts, where land is to be had for
the mere asking, and where the red In
dian has ceased to be the bugbear he was,
and can not be made 10 face breech-
loading rifle.
The land is, in the main, an immense
fiat, no doubt; very large tracts of allu-
vial soil, without tree or a pebble; part
of it mere swamps or salt wilderness.
But even these thousand miles of
unbroken level are not without "A peculiar
beauty of their own; their boundless
horizon and awful solitude; the freshness
and purity of the atmosphere, and the
enjoyment of unlimited freedom. Nor.
apart from intercourse with his fellow
men, is man here crushed by the sense
of utter forlornc-s; for nothing is more
striking than the tecming life of the ami
NAL kingdom in the pampas-the abun-
dance of game, storks and herons, the
owls and the hawks, the flights of the
wild turkeys and focks of ostriches, to
say nothing Of the ubiquitous pteroptero
and chattering little cardinal; a multi
tude and variety of fowls and brutes-
nameless to me as well as numbcrlcss-
the gayety Of whose plumage and fur,
and the strangeness and wildness of
whose screeches and howls a settler will
always and everywhere have with him,
and which will only gradually make
room for the focks and herds, the bark
ing and believing, the growing and cack-
ling of his domestic surroundings.
Life on the prairies is life in the saddle:
for the very beggar here is mounted and
away from rail or tramways, neither for
sex nor age is there any other practica-
BILE, or, at least, endurable means of loco
motion than on horseback; and the
horses are feet and surc-footed. brave as
lions, and gentle and docile as cows. and
their purchase and keeping cost little,
and their stabling and shoeing nothing.
The Osceola times., 1881-01-15
A STILL DAY AUTUMN.
nm,nnnrN wulrNAsl

lNAEAN niLLN hAAiAANsi
love to wander through the woodlands h9afy
In the VI glcam of an autniniiN dhyi
when summer gathers ny her ruhcs oi Elory
And Ike a drcam of beauty siidcs away
How through each loved, familiar path She ling
serenely smiling through the golden mist,
T,nting lie VIII grapc With her dewy tngosi
TN the cool emerald turns 20 amethyst
Klndllng the faint stars OF Che hazel; shining
10 lght the glcam Of autumns monldehhs
with h"ary plu,ncs The clcmatis entwining
Where DER the rock, her withercd garenus
falls
Warm lights are on the sleepy upands waning
Heneath dark clouds along the horizon rolled,
Tlil the slant sunbeams through their ffinse'
Battle ali ihe hills In melancholy gold.
The moist winds breathe Of crlsped leaves and
flowers
In the damp hollows Of the woodland sown,
Minclng the freshness of autumual showers
With spicy ars from cedar alleys blown.
Beside the brook and on the ambered meadow
Where yellow fern ufis icck the iaded ground,
win f,ldsd iips beneath their palmy shadow,
The gcntian mods In dewy slumber bound.
Upon these sof,frlnged lids the bee sits brooding'
Ikea fond lover 10th 30 say farewell.
OR. With shut wing, through silken folds intrud-
ing, u
Creeps near her heart his drowsy tale TO tell.
The little birds upon the hillside lonely
Fit noseessly along from spray To spray,
SIN as a sweet aud wandering thought that only
shows It's bright wings and softly glides away.
The soentless flowers IN the warm sunlight dream
ing
For 10 breathe their fullness Of delight,
And through the tfanced woods son airs are
streaming
80 in my heart sweet unTonted feeling
StirS ike the wind In oceans hollow shell
Through all its secret chambers soilly siealliig
YET hnds no words its mystic charm to tell.