Sacramento daily record-union., 1882-01-20
HALL OF RECORDS.

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February. The Auditors and Recorders
room is well advanced. Workmen were yes
terday engaged in putting up tho railing
around the balcony. As soon as that is fin-
ished the room will be cleaned and ready for
the cement foor to be put on, and which will
tske about ten days to dry. The book-racks
above the balcony are all in position, and the
Auditors desks and ratings will be put in as
soon as the floor is completed. The Auditors
room in size is 50 BY So, and the hight to the
ceiling in the clear story is 3S feet. The shelf
room for books exceeds that in the Oakland
Hall of Records. The County Treasurer's
room, on the right-hand side Of the main
entrance on the first floor, in sizs is II by is,
| lighted by six windows, has cemented floor,
corrugated iron ceiling, large fixed vault and
many conyeniences.
The County School SuperintendenPs room
| is en- the left side Of the main entrance on the
| first floor, finished similarly to che Treasurer's
Office and lighted with four windows. The
Supervisors room occupies the rear portion
of the building on the first floor, 2l by 35,
and the hight of ceiling is 14a feet. The
room is lighted with eight windows, has a
large fireplace with CRATE and marble mantel,
iron vault for books, ETC., and is flushed in
the same style as the Treasurer's office. The
! frescoing in the Auditors and Recorders
office is completed and is in modern style.
The balcony is formed entirely of iron, with
| rich and very tasteful railing composed of
gaspipe and cast-iron ornameDtation. The
| ornaments and railiugs are to be gil6ed and
painted in red and black, which will give it
quite an Oriental effect. The inside shutters
to all Of the openings are Of corrugated steel,
operated by spiral spring. The exterior of
the building presents a handsome appearance.
The building is considered entirely fire.
proof. There has been only 81, 800 spent on
the woodwork of the entire structure. as
against So 500 expended on the wood work of
the Hall OF Records of Oakland, which is
also considered freproof There are three
steam radiators in the Auditors Office. The
light is good and easily regulated as is also
the ventilation. The corridor connecting the
second floor of the building with the Court.
house is constructed entirely of iron, is very
convenient, handsome, and has pleasing
effect The cost of the entire structure foots
up about $4,000.
SLIcKENs.-It has been supposed that, af-
ter ALL there is some warrant for the recent
charge by clergyman, to the effect that Cal
| ifornians are stupid set and lacking in the
brain quarter, because the mass of them have
been at sea regarding the true and unaduIter-
ated meaning of the word "slickens." Mr..
Randall, witness in the "debris" " case. the
other day, with much apparent satisfaction,
announced from the witness. stand that he
was able to enlighten the Court as to where
that much-mouthed word sprung from, and
who stood sponsor at its birth. The informa.
tion will enable this people to remove the re-
proach of ignorance, and, though they all
know that slicken-sides," and "slich," and
"slick," as defined by Webster, give an ink
ling of the meaning of slickens. they will be
eternally grateful to the witness for adding to
their stock of information on this point. Mr.
Randall thus fathomed the mysteries of the
definition of ''slIckens ''' Slickens.' or
slickings; German, 'silch, 'schlich.' Eng
lish, sleek, slick Corrupt but POPULAR
'Slicken. Sides the sides of small vein of
mineral material; termed slso the hanging
and foot walls. The term slicken-sides i'm
plies that the material between the sides is
slickens.' I am informed by Mr.. Hunter
an old English tin miner, that the English
tin miners call the finely reduced portions of
mineral vein 'slickens' The miner en-
to nae apparent that the English miner, hav-
ing no word by which to translate Slick a
smooth soft, sleek material, formed one from
the adjective sleek or slick Here we
would have called it slicks, or slickings
| but the English miner, as before stated, en-
pleys en- ens,' for ing, ings.' Hence
we have 'slickens' The term as employed
10 California has broader Specification. In
general here, slickens, or Stockings. means
the finely comminuted portions of rock and
earthly material. The material composing
slickens,' may be argilacious, calcarious,
talcose, mineral, etc"
The WEArHER-The wind-stcrm which
ended yesterday began at 7:S0 P. NJ. of the
18th, blowing at tie rate of from 10 to 90
miles per hour. reaching the latter velocity at
12:30 A. NJ of the 10Th. The storm ended at
2:SO the same date, lasting 10 hours, and in
that time the total velocity reached 3l9
miles, making an average velocity of 16 s
miles pa hour. The noon or 1902 report
showed the weather to be at that time light
rain ct Olympia, w. T., and Portland, Ore
gon; cloudy at Roseburg, and clear weather
at Red Bluff, Sacramento. San Francisco and
Visalia; cloudy at LOS Angeles and fair at
San Diego. There had been sincs last report
(402 A. NJ a rainfall Of AT Of an inch at San
| Diego and 03 of an inch at Los Angeles
| The barometer at the noon report WAS falling
| from Olympia to oSscramsnto, and rising from
San Francisco south. At last nights SOP re-
| port the barometer was still falling north of
Sacramento, while here and San Francisco it
was steady south of San Francisco it was
| risirg at Los Angeles and San Diego rap
| idly wind south and fresh at Olympia and
| Portland, calm at Roseburg, north and fresh
at Red Bluff, northwest and light at Sacra-
mento, north and light at San Francisco,
southeast and light at Visalia, southwest and
| fresh ct Los Angeles, northwest and fresh at
San Diego. Clear at all the above stations
except Olympia and Portland, where it was
raining at the former and cloudy at the latter.
| WELCOME MEETING To NIGHT.-The ar.
rangements for the reception of the Hons. L.
| P.O'Connor and 7. NJ. Healy, members of Par
lament, by the Irish National Land League in
this city, have been completed, and they will
come up from the Bay to-day. This evening
public meeting will be held by the Lsague
at the Metropolitan Theater, which will be
addressed by Hons. O'Connor and Healy
ants in Ireland" There will no doubt be a
large attendance t, hear their presentation
of the subject. The First Artillery Band
| will be present and render selections during
the evening. Speaking will be commenced
at s o'clock.
SACRAMENTO TURN-VEBEIN.-A gymnastic
entertainment and social dance was given
last evening at Turner Hall by the acti7e
members of the Sacramento Turn Verein.
The exercises on horizontal and parallel bars,
and other gYmnastic performances, were of
the finest order. The class show marked
| Improvement since their last public exhi.
bition. Much credit is due their new
| teacher, Professor Gustave Lohse. The at
| tendance was large, aud dancing was en-.
gagged in until quite late hour.
| New DANCING FLooR-E. Fairchild ha7
recently erected, in rear of his shanty resi-
dence at Third street and China slough. an
out-d or dancing floor about twenty by fifty
| feet in dimensions He has built high
board fence around it to keep out the mud
| hens that regsle in the adjoining waters. but
it is not expected to keep out soiled doves.
DEBRIS CAsE.-The defense in the Gold
Run suit rested their case yesterday after
noon. Attorney. General Hart stated that
the evidence he should offer in rebuttal would
be brief and occupy but little time of the
Court The prosecution have occupied
twenty and the defense twenty-six days OF
the Court during this trial thus far.
SENT BELow-Two of the new pattern
engines for the Oakland local trains have
been sent down, one having left on Wednes.
day afternoon and another yesterday. A
| third one will be sent down in day or two
| and the others f1nder construction will saon