Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-08-04
ALI SORTS OF ITEMS.

ALL SORTS OF ITEMS.
Chairs and camp stools as used by IN.
dertakers in funerals, who take these seats
from place to place. are rightly viewed by
the Scientific american as disseminators of
disease, and it with nearly equal reason
deprecates the carrying around of the ice
boxes from house to house.
The well-known Partisan editor, NJ.
AhOigno, has written paper on the syn
thesis of the heavens and the earth. In
this he makes the deduction that every
thing originated from ether, which first
generated hydrogen. To an impulsation of
ether he attributes the existence through
out the universe of the action of grayita.
ton.
Mr.. Routledge held lately at scien-
tifc meeting that the paper trade was
probably the one which turned to immedi-
ate use more waste products than any
other. In it was utilized cotton, fax,
hemp and jute waste, and old ropes and
canvas rags. In fact the paper manufact-
urer could turn to profitable purpose any
vegetable fiber.
The nature of the bite of the leeeh has
been examined by NJ. Carlet. He detached
Viz Lu6 bAlAL VI q AaOO1b
at different stages. Suppose a scarifer
with three toothed and equidistant blades
withdrawing from one another while they
press into the skin, and operating several
times SUCCESSFULLY in the same place; this
gives pretty exactidea Of the mechanism.
The stage beard looks as much like
beard that grew there as cows tail would
if tied to the bronze dog on the front
porch. When you tie a heavy beard on a
young actor whose whole soul would be
churned up if he smoked a full-hedged ci-
gar, he looks about as savage as a bowl OF
mush and milk struck with club Mon
tana Gazette.
"Now, my DEAR" said Hartford man
recently, "you have made the sleeves
OF this shirt toosawful short. never can
wear it in the world" "Well, I'm sorry
but can't you wear it just for one day ?"
"If only had wart on my elbow l
might" Why, what difference would
that maker" 81 could use it for a cuff
button and be solid"
It is stated that several kinds of woods,
says the Engineer, although of great dura-
bility in themselves, act upon each other TO
their mutual destruction. Experiments
with cypress and walnut, and cypress and
cedar, prove that they will rot each other
when joined together, and on separation
the rot will cease and the timbers remain
perfectly sound for a long period.
a London clergyman says death is
grim subject to jest upon, and then adds
Z" 1t must be very awkward in the other
world before one knows ones way about,
and while one is liable to fall across ones
old acquaintance. Yes, and to be hailed
with that expression one has got SO weary
of hearing every summer sis it hot
enough for you % Boston Post.
When a young man says his girl ia
"worth her weight in gold he is not put.
ting very high valuation upon her, unless
she is very heavy girl. At this rating 100
pounds Of girl would be worth about $780,
900, and any young man who doesn't think
his best girl worth more than $50, 900
ought to be kicked clear over the front
gate, and I would like to be the mule to
do it.
A gentleman gave party in honor of
distinguished missionary lately returned
from his field of work. The ladies APP
peared in very decollete dresses, and as the
host feared the style might shock his rev.
erence, he apologized to him for it, saying
that fashion demanded it. "Oh, don't
mind it at ALL replied the missionary
81 have been ten years among the cav
ages"
1t is said that from 95 to 9S per cent. of
all the railroad locomotives in use in the
British colonies were manufactured in the
United States, and that all of the CONT
mental EurOpaan trio houa Al rno RI
equipped to greater or less extent from
the same source. Within the last ten
years the expectation of railroad locomo-
tives from the United States has aggre-
gated So, 900, 000a and the passenger coaches
$40, 100000.
A celebrated military surgeon recon-
mends for quenching thirst and sustaining
strength oatmeal water as superior to any
other drink. Boil quarter OF pound of
the meal in two or three quarts of water,
and add one and a half ounces Of sugar if
sweeteniDg is desired use cold in summer
and not in winter, shaking before taking.
If a supper is to be missed, or extra de-
mand made Oh the system, az some day in
harvest time. the proportion Of meal may
be advantageously increased to one half or
three quarters of pound.
Experiments have been made by NJ. LIE.
forte on the production of vowels and
whispered speech. Air is blown into a
cavity of variable capacity, open and clos
able at the upper part. The sounds char
acteristjc of vowels are thus produced
The author claims to prove the vowels are
not tiubres las generally taught) they are
notes of different nights of the instrument
of speech (quite distinct from the vocal in
strument) Various timbres may be COM
municated to them by action of the mus
cles of the organ of voice.
"Mr. Katz," says Philadelphia paper,
sis an accomplished linguist, speaking sew
eral languages with ease and fiuency." We
have heard members of his family on the
back fence, and have no doubt as to the
ease and fuency with which they indulge
their linguistic accomplishments. We
never were able to understand any of the
languages in which they are SO proficient,
and no respectable paper would care to
publish the language which their perform
ance calls forth from the audience II Bos-
ton Post.
Speaking of the proposed Sahara sea-
DR.. Bodichon, of Algiers, in a pamphlet
just published, deprecates the formation of
q vast inland salt water lake "till we hud
out to certainty whether the salt water
thus introduced may not penetrate to the
fresh water sources underground and de-
prive US of the means of obtaining artesian
wells" etc. The writer also makes many
curious observations concerning what, in
his opinion, is the great taste for practical
science in the nineteenth century, namely,
the civilization of the Sahara and neces-
sary changes of climate by artificial means.
Beer consumption, says the Lancet, in
the hospitals Of Paris, seems TO have in.
creased to such an extent that the bever.
age had become very serious charge upon
the budget. Without warning, the medi-
cal staff found the supply suddenly cut off
by the order of M. Quentin, the Director.
General of the Assistance Publique. Beer
is now only to be got for the patients by
means Of extraordinary prescriptions from
the medical officers under surveillance of
the central administration. Looking at
tho havoc done by typhoid fever in Paris,
the Lancet concludes, and believing in the
water carriage of this disease, that the rea-
son is very apparent why beer came into
such general use that the Director. General
thought fit to style its enormous use an