Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-02-28
ODDS AND ENDS.
Queen Victoria made s., 900 on stock
farming last year.

queen Victoria made S4,UVO on stock
farming last year.
The military prison at Leavenworth,
Kan, is reported as having turned out in
the last fiscal year 25, 225 pairs of boots
and 81, 220 of shoes.
The Produce Exchange of Boston, has
started movement for making that city a
chief center for the wholesale butter and
cheese export trade.
The butchers of Milan have invented a
process for killing their cattle by launch
ing projectile against their foreheads /;
they oppose throat-cutting.
There is a movement in indianapolis to
cut down the course OF study and shorten
the hours in the public schools, on the
ground of the overwork of the pupils.
A writer in the Cincinnati Enquirer, after
critical inspection of New York women,
says that the higher you so in the social
scale the further you get from beauty, and
the Bowery shop-girls are, in that respect,
far superior TO the "swell' young ladies.
An experienced matron says A man will
eat soggy biscuits twice week without a
complaint when his girl invites him out to
tea but when the girl becomes his wife, if
there is the falntest suspicion of saleratus in
them, the neighbors will think the district
school IS out for recess by the racket he
makes.
Oar song birds The sparrows are like
some men who get erected for great deal
of evil that they don't do Sparrows are
accused of driving away our song birds. OF
all our song birds the cat is the best known
and most numerous. Yet the sparrow
No harf ca hair af @l,o
cats head II Brooklyn Eagle
1t seems a pity that some method cannot
be devised for keeping the re-plugs from
freezing. Every winter the losses from fire
are enormously increased by the difficulty
of getting water. A fire ia Brooklyn last
week, which caused loss of $4,000,
might, it was estimated, have been extin-
guished with no more than $500 damage,
had not the MIGRANTS been frozen.
Prof. Fort, in paper on artificial respira-
tion read before the French Academy,
states that he was enabled to restore to life
child 3 years old, three hours and half
after apparent death, by practicing artiti-
cial respiration on 1t for four hours. An
other physician reports a somewhat similar
case. He terminated a person nearly
drowned after four hours of artificial re-
spiration. The person had been in the
water ten minutes, and the doctor arrived
an hour after asphyxia
Charles Sumner, Z. L. White says, did
not know what dyspepsia was. Speaking
of his good fortune in this respect one
evening, he said that one of the first re-
quisites to success in political life was a
good digestion, and he reminded his visitor
that "a majority of the Senators were
portly men. While he admitted that slim,
dyspeptic men sometimes attained high po.
sition, still he maintained that in order to
do so they had to overcome greater OBJ.
stacles than those who had good stomachs,
A German naturalist, E. 7. Sachs, who
IS now travelling in the East Indies, writes
to Nature from Batavia, that on the island
of Billion, 200 miles from there, he found
fresh water fish which produces its
young living from its mouth" 81 con-
Quoted my observations with living fish
and closed doors" he explains, " and
what assert is undeniable. The eggs are
Matched IN the lower portion of the head of
the fish, and are projected out of the
mouth and nowhere else. He proposes
to send specimens TO Europe and have the
matter placed beyond dispute.
The idea has recently been advanced
that Bright's disease is attributable to the
immoderate use of ice water and cold
drinks, the fact being cited that the people
of this country use so per cent. more ice
in their drinks than the people of
any other Countrywide inhabitants of
Greenland not excepted-and that we have
rs per cent more Of Brights disease. The
wine-drinking countries of Europe are said
to be comparatively free from the malady,
while in America the progress of the dis
ease, 1t Is asserted, has kept pace with the
increased consumption of ice.
River fish in India are said to taste like
boiled wool. but as it has hitherto been
regarded as impossible to transport sea
fish to the interior, Anglo Indians had to
be content with boiled wool or dispense
with fish diet. Messrs McHinch & Co.,
of Kurrachee, however, have surmounted
the difficulty. and are now sending fresh
mullet and sea salmon from hurrachee to
Delhi. The fish, on being caught, are
suspended by twlne III fresh water, which
IS gradually converted into solid blocks of
ice three feet square and nine inches thick,
which can be sent by rail for a thousand
miles without melting.
The number OF eggs consumed in this
country IS enormous, and has been rapidly
increasing for quarter of century. As
many as 10000. coo have been shipped
hither annually from Montreal alone, and
it is computed that more than twice that
number come east from Ohio and the in.
terror States. Eggs are reported as very
scarce and dear this winter in Great Britain,
where some 400. 900 900, valued at IS, 900,
000 are annually imported, mainly from
the Continent. 1t has been estimated that
the consumption in the United States
reaches more than l,000,00 900 every
year.
Some observations made at Gissen last
winter by Herr Hoffman show light on
the way in which plants are injured in
time of hard frost. The great advantage
of billy position was then apparent; the
plants so situated took little or no harm,
while in the valley there was extensive in
jury. The injury, too, decreased in pro-
portion to elevation above the valley. Still
more instructive was the fact that one and
the same bush was killed in its foliage or
the south side, while on the north side il
remained green. The author infers that il
is not particular degree of cold that kills
plant, but the amount of quick thawing.
Lore NAMES.