Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-02-11
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Answers too Odd Qaestions-old and Few
Things-Useful Information
Marie, Sacramento-Th Chinese fur"
is worth l cent and mills of our money,
and the "le mills of our money.
Egbert S., Dixen-Yes. J. Fenimore
Cooper did write under a fictitious name,
that of GA Travelling Bachelor" So you
win.
Mrs NJ, Independence, Cal.-Common
salt will produce the yellow flame you de.
sire for green, use borax; for red, muriate
of Hthia.
Serious, Amador Wickliffe's version of
the Lords prayer, for which you ask, reads
as follows: "Our Fadir that art in
heavenys, halewid be Thi name. Thi
kin gdome come to, be Thi will done in
erthe as in heavenys. Give to US this day
our breele, OUR other Substance. And
forgive to us our dettis as we forgiven to
our dettouris. And lede us not into tempt
atioun, but delyver US from yvel. Amen. :"
Della, Oroville-'' Fitz," undoubtedly
corresponds to .fls" in the French, and
hence we have Fitzgerald, Fitzpatrick, etc.,
as meaning the son of Gerald, etc. So
with about all the common patronymic
Uul( SOiiC udl
suffixpg of the word SOD, as Davidson,
Robertson, etc, out of which grew David
son and Robertson, etc. So, too, the Oy,
of Irish nomenclature, or the letter o, sig
nifes son, and hence we have O'Brien,
O'Keefe, etc. Ap, in the Welsh, has a
similar import, and hence APP AVIAN, Ap-
Howell, etc. The French De, in like man
ner, gives US sach names as DeFoe, De-
Kay, etc,
81 l., Bodie oh, yes, there is table of
averages of the weight and hight of chill
dren at birth. Upon the average, boys at
birth, weigh little more than and 10
pounds, and girls a little less than 81
Is. 402). Average hight of boys, 10 81; of
girls, 10 OIL.
Digestion, Sacramento-Ou table was
entirely correct, and your criticism is not
we'll based Oysters are not the most easily
digested of foods. This matter has been
demonstrated, and is now beyon any con.
troversy. However. to satisfy any doubts
you may have on the matter, and which
appear to be sincere and based on what you
think is your experience, we give again
some extracts from Beaumont's table. This
table was the result of observations taken
at Mackinac, Mich, by DR.. William Beau
mont, of the United States Army, who
treated, from 1922 to 1888, Alexis St. Mar.
tin, man of Is, who had been accidentally
shot. at very short range-about three
feet-by a musket. In year st. Martin
was restored to health, but with an apert-
ure in his stomach, through which the
doctor was enabled to mark the process of
digestion. The doctor also obtained the
gastric juice and analysed its properties
and powers. He further noted the infu.
ence OF human passions on digestion, and
found that this was delayed from twenty
four to forty, eight hours, by anger, fear,
fever, gluttony or drunkenness. OF course
Beaumont's table may not represent the
uniform operation or rate If digestion, but
it is accepted as standard authority, and
is as perfect standard as we have, and
much superior to any supposed personal
observations. Moreover, physicians find
that their observations very nearly coincide
with the results given by Beaumont, and
act upon that basis. We quote part of
the table once more, not desiring to again
refer to the subject unless correspondents
can give us something of higher value than
Beaumont's and like tables. The figures
ranresant hours and minutes