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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-03-05
The Wool Show in London.

A wool show is to be held at the Crystal
Palace of London from June to October,
1881. The exhibition will include not only
wool in every form or stage of preparation
from the fleece as it comes from the sleeps
back to wooden yarn ready for the loom, but
it will also include wooden goods of every
class known to wooden manufactures, and all
kinds of machinery used in the preparation
and manufacture of wool into goods. Here
is drst-rate opportunity for America to
compare the workings of one of her great IN
dustries-ruaning from the production of the
raw material through every stage of approach
to completion, with the like industry in every
other country, and whether she is bshind or
ahead Of other nations in this respect. The
opportunity is offeref to learn a great many
valuable practical thiugs. The wool producers
and manufacturers OF our country
should embrace this opportunity aud profit
by the lessons that may be learned from it.
It is said that we are ahead of all other ma
tons in the wooien machinery IN use an many
branches of manufacture, while we may
be behind in that in use in many other
branches. This exhibition viii enable US at
least to improve where Improvement is i'm
portant, SOFAS t. bring US pineveryd department.
to the best stage of advancement. At the same
time other nations will be able to bring
their position up to our best excellence, and
thus the world viii be greatly benefited ali
round. Il viii be remembered that at the
Worlds Fair held at Paris, one of our Cali
fornia wooden mills brought away the first
prize for California manufactured woolen
blankets. With such a record our manufac-
turers should not neglect an opportunity to
show that we have kept up with the advances
of the age in the great wool industries. Let
our woods and our manufactured goods be
placed on exhibition at the great wool show
to open in June next, and let us be represent
ed there ia $ manner that will enable US to
learn al that other people know in advance
of u.s. either as wool producers or wool man
,,faetureFS
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LoYAL-BUT NOT TRUE.-It's all very
well to be g true subject" but some per-
sons are apt to be carried away by their
respect for the throne that they can never
let slip an opportunity of making public
their very loyal feelings. One of this kind
was capital actor (let us call him Harry
Coburn> who happened to be playing Capt.
Thornton in Rob Roy" and was, there.
fore, required to give out the following
sentence: III | have been deceived by
these artful savages, know how to die for
my error without disgtacing the king l
serve or the country that gave me birth -
just as he was going on it suddenly oc-
Cured to him that, as Victoria was the
then reigning sovereign, it would be more
becoming in him TO substitute the word
queen for the word king and wind up the
speech right Loyalty with "the queen |
serve" instead of with "the country that
gave me birth" Whether, however, his
strong notions of loyalty made him care
less of all else, or whether he got ''mud-
died by so hastily attempting a transpo-
sition in so familiar a speech, no one could
ever tell, but he certainly produced a
marked impression by the following new
reading, which he delivered most emphat.
ically and impressively: elf | have been
deceived by these artful savages, / know
how to die for my error, without disgracing
the country serve, or the queen that gave
me birth /" believe hewas dubbed Prince
Harry after this Edward Compton.
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Alfalfa ON the sacramento.


Ten years ago the Sacramento river banks
produced more alfalfa than any or all
other sections of the State During the early
spring and late fall this clover. on the same
meadows used for cutting hay during the sum-
mer, furnished large amount of green feed
for stock. It was earlier in the spring and
later in the fall than any of the native
grasses. The introduction of alfalfa in this
ction of the valley and its demonstrated
success in the production Of hay and pasture
caused very decided rise in the value of the
river-b bank lands. We think this rise was at
least % per cent. Since about that date the
gradual filling up of the bottom of the river,
and the consequent higher stage of water in
the river, has been decreasing the width
of the belt of land upon which
alfalfa can be successfully, grown.
The last three years we have had high water
SO long each winter or spring that nearly all
the alfalfa has been killed out, and each year
it has been renewed by resolving at great ex-
pense Of money and labor, to be again killed
out the following high water. This coutin-
ued loss of crop and use of land has been
very discouraging, so that from being the
best alfalfa section this river bottom land has
become the most uncertain. There will not
probably be In alfalfa this year one acre
where six years ago there were twenty-five.
If, however, the levees could be maintained
SO as to keep the back water from flooding
the river banks, this belt would at once again
resume its value and its capacity for alfalfa
hay and pasture, and the belt would become
much wider than ever before. With this
change in the control of the water all this
section of country would not only regain its
fogmer productiveness and value, but would
assume value much greater than it ever
hire.
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A WORKERS SONG.

1t is not for me to order
The work have to do;
Ny eyes must follow the Master,
And ever his will pursue.
And therefore / wait and listen,
For as soon as hear his voice,
Forward press with gladness,
And even in toll rejoice.
Sometimes | can hear him calling
To tasks that are great and high (;
/ should often fear to attempt them,
But that he is standing by;
Son etimes unto service lowly,
That even child might do,
Comes the Masters kindly summons,
And hearing hasten through.
oh none can be sad or gloomy
In the hours they work for him,
For he smileth aye upon us,
Let the day be bright or dim.
And we cheer our hearts with singing,
While busy at our tasks;
It is but faithful service
That the gracious Master asks.
Some' lines am growing weary.
And by troublous cares opprest,
And the Master, in his pity,
Dismisse5 me to rest
And again, when / have not earned 1t,
In his kindly, great regard,
He loads me-, not with wages,
But munificent reward.
oh who that once has served him
viii any other server
Oh who that ever has seen him
Win from his fealty sweryef
Come all, and be his servants,
For he your friend VIII be.
All gracious and forgiving, still,
AS he has been to me.
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The Hindoo thiefs manner of scaling
walls is very ingenious. lis by means OF
huge lizard which he carries with him
in his nocturnal rambles. The process is
as follows: The lizard, which is perhaps a
yard in length, with great claws and fat
tened feet and suction powers like those of
fly, is made fast to the dacoit by a
tough cord tied to its tail. When the da-
colt is pursued and comes in his hasty
flight to a wall, he quickly throws his liz
ard over it, holding last to the other end
of the cord. By means Of its suction pow
ers the lizard fastens himself on the wall on
the opposite side, and the thief draws
himself to the top and jumps lightly down.
b choking the lizard it is made to release
its hold.
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Answers to Correspondents and Correct
Solutions.

Rose-Thanks for fine collection of
matter. They are two separate prizes.
Gus-95l, 95S.
Evelyn-955, 956 Not at all.
Sister-957. Very good.
Trinity-95l, 953, $50 tit is very near
it), $50, 962, 1863, 965 tno). Ms. received.
NOTICE TO TANGLEEs. The competition
for the Valentine Day prize brought out
four tanglers. We had expected for so
handsome prize many more. The awards
will be made all the same, however. For
the pictorial Bible commentator prize Ito
March lst) but two entries have been made,
and we deem it best to reopen the list for
that until April lst. The prize is one
worthy of earnest competition. For terms
see RECORD UNION of February l2th, or
WEEKLY UNION of the week following.
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"a RARE GEANCa
TO MAKE A BARGAIN.
YK1HERE has BEEN PLAcED IN MY HANDS,
FOR SALE
TRADE FOR FARMISG PROPERTY,
A Splendid New Residence

In the city OF Sacramento The Lot Is sox1eo feet,
located in the very best residence portion of the
city; is well filed, and planted to Valuable Orna-
mental Trees, and well sgarded TO Blue Grass
Curb, l6 feet; good sidewalks; shade trees, an
growing Cork Elm and Lombardy Poplar. The
house is new-fnshed less than ono year-hss 10
up, and a well-appointed, large bathroom. There
is brick basement 8 feet high. The entire plan,
architectural design and finish OF the house are after
the most modern and approved STYLE The place IS
new and tttact,ve, and cost, including Lot Fences
Curb, Trees, Sward and House, ss,500-couId NOS
be Reproduced to-day for SIT ,0es. VIII be sold at
bargain, or traded at far valuation for country
property-tbe latter preferred. Apply ~ once.
dS-2Diu
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-03-05

a Boston musical composer has written
a piece of music which gives the sound Of
Niagara Falls. 1t is said to be wonder
fully lifelike, and the listener can stand
and hear the rumbling of the falls coming
from the mouth of the singer and the lungs
of the piano, which is 80 natural that he
instinctively turns his head expecting a
tramp at his elbow to say Carriage, sir?"
and he is awakened from his reyerie in
which heaven is closely connected with the
rainbow from the Horseshoe Fall by a
thumper who says Fifty cents to go in
here
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-03-05

OF the 500, GOO steerage passengers land
ing in New York last year about lbs. 600
remained in the State, and about Is, 1000
more went to New England. Only $4,000
of those remaining in New York got en-
ploymens, and the rest are supposed to be
cumming and begging.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-03-05

DR.. Mattheson of Scotland, in lecture
on What is Cod = delivered recently in
Edinburgh, maintained that the three ele.
ments-nature-w worship, spirit. worship and
man. worship-were the elements OF the
Christian trinity.
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Answers to February 18th.

954. THE SACRAMENTO DAILY RECORD
UNION.
955. Chalcera.
$50. Honey bee or apple or sewing bee.
957. Pilgrimage.
95S. Reviver.
$50. Tang 1.-THE name of seaweed.)
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69S. Logogriph, by Conrad Delmar

SOS. Logogriph, by Conrad Delmar
If you narrow orifiee behead
A well known fish you'll have instead;
Behead this fish, that's so well known,
You'll have abroad, to it I'll own
Now drop vowel and transpose,
And tendency it viii disclose.
$685. Puzzle (selected), by Molly Magee
Fifty to the front, fifty to the rear,
Standing out boldly and without fear;
Next to each fifty Two others there are,
Though their respective values not at par;
hereas the first two equal to four,
And if you reverse them their value is more;
OF the other two each are of equal value,
But added together less than one, let me tell you.
Placed in the center there are three more,
But if you reverse them they are 8 before
The whole, taken together, will give you the name
OF a town in England not wanting in fame
700 Charade for Augusta Blake, from
Avis
First will name patriarch old,
Who Z" walked by faith, and not by sight"
Who in the Bible we are told,
Had visions oft Of angels bright.
Ii next was In Gods image made,
And in his noble likeness cast,
Then am very much afraid
The pattern did not last.
In Albion's fair land we find,
Whole wandered far and wide,
hImbug, feignng loss OF mind,
beggar and tramp beside
70l. Crossword enigma, by Rose :
In phases not in fays;
In Hayes, and in haze;
In weighs, not in ways;
In neghs and in nays;
In grays, and in Craze;
In maize, not in Mays;
In tiers ano in tears;
In seers, and in sears
A shining BILE whole appears.
702 Charade, for Amethyst, by E. &. d.
Ny first comes after tempests rage
Always with soothing power.
My next is found on every page,
We use it every hour.
My third means past, passing time,
Or nearness oft expressing;
My whole 8 the sweetest household rhyme
For "mother's little blessing"
1903. Diamond, by Hattie Heath
In California ; kind of steamship white
powder attained; shed kind of cherry meas
ured girls nickname in CALEDONIA.
704. Square, by Hattie Heath :
A yellow color; money; native of town il
Italy; infinite space; part Of month.
Jos. Charade, by Rose;
sat me down and unused
OF hopes which proved futile and vain
And sighed that in tcL0le never more,
Could last for the first prize again.
As thought how first had expressed
HIS restless longings in 1hoie,
I said in the far Land OF Rest
May rep0se lave his weary soul.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-03-05
THE QUIET HOUR.
rANGLERs' CORNER AND PUzzLERs con-
TRIBUTIoN BOX.

Charades, Fnigmas, Riddles, Puzzles, Word
Squares. Answers to and from Cor
respondents, and Solutions.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-03-05

BsRrAup's ISrAb,ists IsJsoTIos.-The famous
French remedy for gonorrhosa, gleet, etc. M. S.
Hammer, Sacramento agent for Pacific coast Sent
q. D. d. 20 any address
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New Tangles.

| New TangIes.
967 Biographical puzzles, by Silver King.
1--WE invite careful attention to these.
They are worthy the best brains of the
tanglers. They are true puzzles and very
| intricate
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-03-05

RgeUi ATE THE LIVER With Hammers Cascars
Sagrada Bittsrs, and health Is the result
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-03-05

HAMMERS CssCARA SaaRADA FILTERS cures all
syst IN.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-03-05

HAMMERS Cascara Ssgrada Bi.ters is the
best spring medicine.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-03-05

HAMMERS cAscAAA sAcaADA Bn1rns stimulates
a torpid liver
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From the Leonard Scott Publishing Com
pany New York; we have Blackwood's
Edinburgh Magazine" for February (Ameri-
can edition). 1t has these leading papers
Z" The Private Secretary" " King George the
Third and Mr. Fox in their Early Days,
MIR. Cox's Protege," ''On Some of Shakes
peare's Female Characters" 'TroIlope's
Life Of Cicero, 1.-THE Salmon of Clootie's
Hole" 1.-THE Government and Ireland, y
George Eliot"
Richland beacon., 1881-05-07
UJNGERS OF n FREE PRESS.

A little Oil City boy, whose father
gave him a printing press the other day.
has already discovered the dangers aud
pitfalls which surround the path Of TN"
printer. He set up and printed little
gilt-edged card, with the warning phrase,
" Paint look out ! " BY some means
this card became fastened tO his SISTER r
hat, and hung just above her left ear,
where he who ran could read, and when
she went down street there was n grin
extending clear from Pearl avenue TO
the Exchange; and that night the hoy
traded on his printing press for yellow
dog and popgun.--OH city Derrick.
Richland beacon., 1881-05-07
THE EXTINCTION OF LARGE AM
MAILS.


In an interesting article on this sub
jet i'll French journal, VI. Nigncs
shows that those species which exceed
their fellows i'll height or bulk are more
than ever at the present day threatened
with extinction. Since the recent scul-
ogical epochs the progressive diminu-
ton of their number has become all the
more rapid that they must now count
man among the numerous competitors
that dispute with them the surface OF
the earth. Thus the present age may
be called upon to witness the accom-
plishment of their extinction. In the
struggle which they have to maintain
against this new competitor, they pre-
sent, III comparison with species of
moderate or small size, two disadvant-
ages. The mass Of their body being
more developed, they require more
abundant nourishment, and are thus liza
bic to be deprived Of sufficient subsist-
ence. Beside, their multiplication be
ing comparatively slow, they only repair
their losses with great difficulty. Ger
tain small species-rats, mice, insects,
etc.-against which there is universal
war, with no hope of DISCRIMINATING
them, owe their safety to their extraor-
binary fecundiiy; whereas, the losses
among the larger animals can be but
partially filled up by reproduction. II
science does not make haste to COM
piete her knowledge of these great ami
mails, she will by and by find herself de-
prived of subjects. 1t is certainly not
rash TO maintain that the whales, laman-
tins, dugongs, walrus, certain species of
seals and otaries, the great white bear of
the Arctic coasts, the common bears,
wolves, the great ca nivora 0ions
tigers, ETC. }, gorillas, the giant armadil.
10, giratfes, Glands, aurochs, bison, elc
plant, hippopotamus, rhinOceros, kan
CARGO. clephantine turtle, crocodile,
birds of the ostrich group, the Arctic
penguin, &c, are oil threatened with
the same fate which, during recent cent
uries, has overtaken, among others, the
gigantic epironis of Madagascar, the great
moas Of New Zealand and within the
last two centuries tLe enormous dove
and the gigantic W. .ter-fowl of Mauri.ius.
Among the animals which have only re-
Gently become extinct birds are specially
conspicuous. Numerous other victims
of human competition will soon follow
the moas, the dinornis, the epiornis, etc.
All the great animals, in general, tend
after their kind to disappear, in con-
sequence of human competition. The
only ones which man will allow to survive
will be those from which he can, without
much trouble, draw some profit, either
by regulated pursuit or by domestica-
ton. London Times.
AN old tin kettle may not point NOR
al, but We have frequently known it to
adorn tail.
Richland beacon., 1881-05-07
VITAL STATISTICS.
Where aud of What We Die.

VHere ana or WHUt W0 Dte.
During 1880 sixty-eight cities OF the
United States made weekly death re-
ports to the National Board of Health.
1t appears that Vallejo, CAL, was the
hcalthiest place reported, and Norfolk,
Va, the unhealthiest. The average life
In Vallejo Was S3.5 years, and only one
person in 1000 of population died Of
consumption, while in Norfolk the aver
age life was only 27.9 years. and one
person in 2il of population died of con-
sumption. The aggregate population Of
these sixty-eight cities is 1853, 937 T; the
average duration of life in them was
44.5 years, and there was one death
from consumption for every 326 of pop
ulation, and one death from acute dis
case of the lungs for every 400 of popu-
latiOn. In other words, of every 100
deaths "a. were from lung diseases, and
of these ii were from consumption and
i0.4 from acute diseases of the lungs.
-Four of the best cities for health were
Ionkers, N. u, average life 70 years;
Omaha. Ncb., average GS years; Utica,
n. y, 67.5 years; Keokuk, Iowa, GIL
years; and four of the worst cities were
Jacksonville, Fla, IS years; Vicksburg.
Miss, 3i.S years; Charleston, s. c.,
3l.3 years, and Savannah, Ga, 3O.6
years. In Boston the average life was
1875 years, deaths by consumption in
o46, by acute lung disease l in 336 of
population; in New York average life
81 years, death by consumption in 254,
and of acute lung disease l in 26O; in
Philadelphia life AIS years, consump-
ton in 3l5, acute disease one in S44;
in Cincinnati life AIS, consumption 346,
acute disease 494; Louisville life 47.6,
consumption 800, acute disease 40; In
dianapolis life 47.S, consumption AT,
acute disease 3S1; Chicago life 4S, con-
sumption 593, acute disease 453; st.
Paul life 5S.5, consumption 56l, acute
disease 715; San Francisco life SIS,
consumption 295, acute disease 459;
New Orleans life Alb, consumption $50,
acute disease 5S4; ST. Louis life 50, con-
sumption 447, acute disease $50. The
difference between New York and Phil
adelphia in the general death rate and
in that from consumption is great; in
that from acute lung disease it is strik-
ing. Next to lung diseases diarrh9al
disorders cause the greater number of
deaths. In every 100 deaths from all
causes in the sixty-eight cities, 10 are
,liarrheal disturbances, and there is one
leaAk from this source in every 1876 in.
bab!tants.
Richland beacon., 1881-05-07

4 PHYSICIAN writing Il communication
to the Vcfich and SnTgicat R'portcr
on the relation of sex TO the conSump-
ton of the lungs gives 9gurcs which
show that in the United States there are
about twice IS many deaths from con-
sumption among females between The
ages of i and 20 as there are among
males of the same age He thinks the
mode Of life is the main cause of it, that
voung women have less outdoor cxcr-
else, fresh air, sunlight, and the activity
OF mind and body which is SO necessary
to health.
Richland beacon., 1881-05-07
THE MOON.

Not long since we had a view Of the
moon through fine telescope. She was
Ill what is called her gibbous phase;
that is, more than half enlightened, be-
tween the first quarter and the full.
The telescope had power of 5O0-or
magnitied 800 timcs-which so increased
the size of our little satellite that only q
small portion could be seen at once. She
was brought SO near that it seemed as if
We could almost touch her.
Her surface looks more like chalk than
like anything else. The scene was one
Of utter desolation. Deep indentations
with immense cones risingin the center
huge assures and crevices black as night
stupendous cavities, and every conceiv-
able form of shapelcss excrescence, are
all that now remain to show where YER
dure-covcred valleys once rcigned,
mountain tops lifted their heads covered
with eternal snow, volcanic craters sent
forth hidden flames, and basins and river
beds were covered with surging seas and
running streams.
The moons atmosphere has long since
been absorbed, and therefore no clouds
diversity her sky, no sound breaks the
eternal silence, no twilight prolongs The
day, and no sign of life can be traced in
the chaos that reigns on the dead planet.
Doubtless, before her internal heat was
exhausted, she was the abode of habita-
ble life, but, being only one-fourth of
the size of the earth, she must cool much
faster. and her mission be more quickly
fulfilled.
There is, however, some variety in the
view of the moon as different portions of
the disk come into the field. Now we
have comparatively placid scene.
known rs the Sea of Tranquility, for in
old times water was supposed to exist
there. Now comes the famous crater
Linnnus, which, few years since, was
thought to give signs of volcanic action.
Then other well-known localities are
glanced at, for astronomers know the
prominent features of the moon as well
as those of our own globe.
The most interesting view was that of
the Termination or boundary line between
the bright and shaded portions of the
moon. Instead of the line of light that
marks its appearance to the naked eye,
the rough edge was formed of golden
branches like huge formations of coral.
These were the submits of the mount
aims in the moon, just rising on this por-
ton of the satellite.
The bright mountain tops were grand
ly beautiful as they were touched by the
sunbeams. The scene was still more
sublime and awe inspiring when it was
remembered that the eyes that looked
upon it were 100000 miles away
Youths Companion.