Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-03-18
OUR LErrBR-Box.
Answers to Correspondents Information
on Odd Topics-Notes ard Queries

on odd Topics-Notes AID Queries.
Mrs. s., akersfeld-The most elab-
crate ana by all odds the best rhyming
is that of Rev. Samuel w. Barnum ID.
Appleton & Co., 1876.
Brutus, Sacramento-No the japanese
language is by no means monosyllabic, but
rather an agglutinative dialect of extremely
simple structure, with hardly an estab-
lished distinction between noun and verb,
and with 80 determinate hexion. The
phonetic structure of the language is very
simple and euphonious.
L. De- L.. Red Bluff-You are correct.
Miss Pardoe produced volume of poems
when but Is, and novel two years later.
She was remarkable woman IN many
respects. She died In 1862.
Mrs. George E. D., Lake House-We
are unable to find anything at all about the
picture of which you made inquiry some
weeks ago. We can find no SUCH character
in any historical work, and no account of
any such sacrifice. Perhaps you gave us
the wrong name and title.
Elmer, Ione-The first person who intro
duced the treatment of guashot wounds
without actual cautery, or without boiling
oil, substituting therefor simple dressings,
was Ambrose Pare, French surgeon, who
died in Paris 10 1890 You are mistaken
as TO the reason why the old system pre-
vailed II was thought necessary ON ac-
count OF the supposed poisonous nature of
such wounds. OF course, to stop hemor.
rhage was one of the reasons for the use of
cautery. Pare was the first to use liga-
lures for that purpose in cases of amputa-
ton.
Thee, Butte City.-Accordin to the
Biblical account, and the reckoning which
theologians of the old school make, Noah
was born in the l057th year of the world,
entered the ark in the l656th year, and
died in the 2007th year. We do not accept
these dates, which are only Of value accord
ing to the count based on the theory OF the
age of the earth as formerly contended for
| by commentators, but which is not taken
now to be the true method of ascertaining
the age of the world. On that head, we
do not care to 90 into any further contro-
versy as the subject has no longer any in
terest, the only Issue being as to how many
hundreds of thousands OF years probably
compass the life of the globe and not
ago.
Subscriber, Chico.-Indeed, 10. Sea-
weed has host of uses, and little re-
search In any ordinary library will con-
vince you of that. 1t is largely used in
manufactures and in agriculture. Marine
plants are of far more value than is gen.
orally supposed. We may direct your at
tention by stating that seaweeds are used
for manures, for the manufacture of soda,
iodine, bromine, etc. Irish moss is sea.
weed. In Scotland a kind Of seaweed is
used as food for animals. The moss or
lichen used by chemists is seaweed. 1t is
used largely as stufing for upholstered
furniture, and for many other things which
we do not just now call to mind.
Dormer, Piacerville. only city that
we have information of now that has streets
radiating like rays from given point is
the city OF CarlsIuhe, in the west of Ger
many. Its principal streets do converge
toward the palace, which is faced by fine
circus and the Government offices. There
are some Of our cities with some streets
converging III like manner, but we do
not think that there is any city in this
country with streets so arranged as sys-
TEN throughout.
R. r. a, Martinez The red spot on
Jupiter cannot of course be distinguished
by an instrument of the power you sug-
gest. Yet such an instrument would prove
OF great value to you, and source Of
never ending interest in the examination of
the heavens The red spot on the planet
named has been observed for long time.
Sometimes it has been absent for long
time, and then resppeared again, which has
led to the belief that it was in reality dis
sipated, and then reformed in the same
place. The very best work on Jupiter, the
superb planet, is that of NJ. Trouvelot, of
Cambridge, Mass, who made the planet a
special study for numbers OF years.
There is probably no more favorable local.
ity for the study Of the planet with the
least trouble than this State affords, on &C.
count OF the purity of the atmosphere !;
you can always place reliance upon the
cloudless nights-at least in the great val
leys. If you feel financially able and the
instrument is what you describe it, you
should by all means possess yourself of it.
1t will be source of delight and.wonder-
full disclosure to you at all leisure moments.