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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-01-01

1LLITERACY STATISTICS. Census returns
as to llliteraey in the United States show
that of all over 10 years of age, SO, 76!, 6O7
being enumerated, 4, 923 45l are unable to
read (l34 per cent. and {. 239 95S az per
cent are unable to write. OF 80. l60, 400
whites, over 10, enumerated, 8. 0l9. OSO - 4
per cent? are unable to write. OF 25.-
7S5 79S enumerated native whites, over
10, 2 255, AGO Is per cent. are unable to
write. OF 6,374 Gil foreign born, over
10. 1853. $40 IL per cent? are unable to
write. OF 1901, 207 colored over 10
enumerated, 3,22O,S7 90 per cent are
unable to write. In California, of
6Sl, 062 over 10 enumerated, 1883
u l per cent? are unable TO read,
and 53,430 Us per cent? are IN.
able to write. Of 80, l60, 400 enumerated
whites over 10, 26. $50 "a A. are unable to
write. OF BAT native whites, 1860 ~
are unable to write. OF 2l4, 463 foreign
born over 10, is 400 Is g. are unable to
write. OF 1887 colored persons over 10,
q. $40 (29 81 are unable to write.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-01-01

Iotals SlS, z0UVO0 SI5o,OO0 SlS. $50 300
The foregoing exceeds by little over
81 DOC. 600 the estimate prepared at the
San Francisco Mint, and varies in several
instances in the estimate as to counties. It
also exceeds the total estimate of $lS, 020,
679 Of Mr.. Valentine, based on shipments
by express. by upwards of 5000. 900.
l am inclined to believe, however, that
the gold production was greater rather than
less than the figures l have given. The
deposits of gold of domestic production at
the San Francisco and Carson minis during
1881 were S26 l61. 1872, not including .
deposit of S. 657, 677 of foreign gold.
The production of all the Pacific States
and Territories, except California, which
deposit their gold production at the West
ern mints, is estimated at Sc, 40, 900,
which would make the production of Cali
fornia more than $4,000 600. Some for
eign gold may have been melted at private
refneries on the Pacific coast and deposited
at the mint as domestic bullion, but, after
making all proper allowance and deduction
on this account, am satisfied that the gold
production of Che State could not have
been less than the amohnt have stated
SIS, 200, 900.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-01-01
MEAN ANNUAL AND SEASONAL TEMPERA.
TURES.

MEAN ANNUAL AND SEASONAL TEMPERA.
TURES.
The statement below shows the mean
temperature for each year, for twenty. nine
years, and for the four seasons of each year
for the past thirty years. The coolest year,
infering from the mean temperature, was
that of 1880, SIS; the warmest was 1864,
60 s. The mean average for the past
twenty nine years being GOA, showing the
coolest to have been 2 9 below the mean
average, while the warmest year being
that Of 1864, when it was 2 4 above the
mean average for twenty. nine years. By
careful study of the following table one is
struck by the slight difference between the
coolest and warmest year as compared with
a thirty years average, generally not more
than 3'-that is, we might safely say that
the mean temperature of any year is not
likely to vary more than g from co. either
way between the hottest and coolest year,
as compared with the mean average tenn
perature for the past twenty-nine years.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-01-01

Two of the principal gravel mines in the
State which heretofore have been paying
dividends, now appear for the first time for
years among those that levied assessments.
They were obliged to suspend operations
during most of the year, not from any
dimir ution in the value of their property,
but from litigation consequent upon the
conflict between the agricultural and min
ing interests.
Taken as whole, the past year has not
been an unsuccessful one for mining in
California. The output has been fully as
large as that of the preceding year.
THE OUTLOOK.
The outlook for the future is equally as
good. Mining for the precious metals is
becoming year by year more of legitimate
business. Necessarily it involves many IN.
certainties, but these uncertainties create q
need for knowledge, energy, and prudence,
which the established companies have &C.
quired, and this fact insures their perma-
nency.
The following is my estimate of the pro.
duction of the State nv counties
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-01-01
YEARLY AND SEASONAL RAINFALL, ETC

YEARLY AND SEASONAL RAINFALL, ETC.
The instructive tabulated information
below gives the rainfall apnually-that is,
from January to December of each year
for twenty mine years that for 1882 only
includes TO December 2lst. Also the rain
fall by seasons beginning with September
lst of one year and ending with August
3lst of the next year, the wettest season
being that of 1S6l-2-35 SO inches; the
dryest that of 1868 Al Sc inches the
wettest calendar year being lSS0-3l 80
inches the drysst being ISIS 43 inches /;
the mean average seasonal rainfall for
twenty-nine years being IS 1876 inches /;
the mean average for the year, or the mean
annual average, being 10 4l6 inches. The
difference between the mean average rain
fall, calculating from January lst to De-
cember 3lst of each year, and from Sep.
TENDER lst of one year to August 3lst OF
next year, is only POI of an inch in favor
of the calendar year:
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-01-01

Color BLINDNESS AND MYoPIA.
school children OF Boston have been tested
as to color blindness. The result shows
that of IA 469 male scholars COS were color
blind; of 13.45S female scholars, only g.
Tests with regard to myopia have been
made in Rockford, Ill. The results showed
that among all the boys the percentage OF
myopia was 8 s.; girls, So; boys of for.
eign parentage, 3; girls, 6 8; boys Of
American parentage, 5 4; girls, sc.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-01-01
MEAN sUMMER TEMpERArURE.

The mean temperature in the following
table is for the summer months and for the
summer season, showing by their mean
temperature that 1866 was the warmest,
"a s.; and the coolest to have been 1861,
69S' the mean average for thirty years is
II s.; the season of 1866 being 8 above
the mean average, and 1861 being 2 below
the mean average for the past thirty years.
It also appears that the mean average tenn.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-01-01
MEAN AUTUMN TEMPERATURE, ETC.

The mean temperature for the fall sea-
son indicates the fall of 1858 as being the
warmest, it being $50; that of 1881 was
the coolest, Judging from the mean tenn
perature, it being 500 The average mean
temperature for thirty years past being
GIG, showing the average of 1858 to have
been 7 above the mean average, and that
Of 1881 to have been Z below the mean
average temperature for the past thirty
veara
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-01-01
MEAN SPRING TEMpERAT1rRE

The table below will be found to con.
tain the mean temperature by months for
the spring season, also for the season. The
warmest one, as indicated by its mean TEN.
perature, was 1858, 62 g.; the coolest, 1860,
Sc s. the mean average spring tempera-
ture being SO 81; the warmest, 1853, being
8 A. above the mean average; the coolest,
1860, being g below the mean average for
the past thirty years
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-01-01
MEAN SPRING RAINFALL,

The table below will be found to contain
the record of rainfall and number of days
rain fell during the spring months and for
the spring season. 1t informs us that the
wettestspring season was thatof lSS0-l6 66
inches and the dryest was that of 1857
.6S of an inch the mean average for thirty
years being 05S inches, showing def
cheney of nearly inches in the dry season
of 1857, and an excess of II COZ inches
during the wet spring of 1880 as compared
with thirty years average:
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-01-01

perature for the past thirty years for june,
July and August, was ia the seventies,
which gives us to understand that the three
summer months are usually of even degrees
of temperature, with July little the
Warmest OF the three summer months
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-01-01
:. .ss4, ZOO. Ooo AS. OOO. 600 s77. ZOO 600

OF the gold production, about s26. 0O0,-
600, nearly four fifths of the whole, came
from the mines of the Pacific coast, inclue.
ing Nevada, Idaho and Arizona, and was
deposited at the San Francisco and Carson
MINIS, while nearly IS 600 600 was re-
ceived at Philadelphia and New York from
Colorado, Dakota and Montana.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-01-01

HoRsFoRD's AoID PHOSPHATE in ssssick-
ness. Professor Adolph OFT. New York,
says: II used il for seasickness amorg the
passengers dusing passage across the Allan
tic. Ia the plurality OF cases 1 saw the vio-
lsut symptoms yield which characterize that
disease, and give way to healthful action Of
the functions impaired"
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-01-01
MEAN suMMER RAINFALL

In the recorded statement below will be
found the rainfall for each month of our
dry or summer season; also total for the
season, as well as the total number of days,
etc., that rain fell. The average for the
thirty years past is 1872 of an inch. The
summer season that gave the most rainfall
was that of 1861, IS of an inch. The dry
est were 1853. 1863, 1867, 1868. 1870, 1871,
1874, 1877, 1880, only sprinkle. But one
season out of the thirty gave none, that
being 1878
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-01-01
MEAN AuruMNAL RA1NFALL.

The table following shows the seasonal
rainfall by months and total for the season,
both of rainfall and number of days rain
fell. for the last thirty years, the, wettest
being the fall season Of 1864 6 S4 inches !;
the dryest being that of 1850. .05 OF an
inch the mean average for thirty Years
being 2.666 inches deficiency IN 1871 OF
26l6 inches over the average, while the
season of 1864 gave 4 ia inches IN excess
of the thirty years' average:
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-01-01

1882.
MEAN WINTER TEMPERATURE.
The tabulated statement below shows
the mean temperature by months, and for
the season also, of the winter seasons, be.
ginning with the season of 1853 and end
ing with the one of lSSl-2; also showing
mean average for twenty mine years.
Judging from the temperature for each sea-
son, we must conclude that the season of
1879 so was the coldest-44.5', the warm
est being the season of lSS0-l-5l o. the
mean average of twenty nine years being
As 60, showing that the coolest season was
3.S0 below the mean average, and the
warmest being Z above the mean aver.
age for twenty years
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-01-01

The following is the summary for the
past twenty. nine and thirty years Heavi.
est yearly rainfall, 81 SO inches, in 1850
heaviest seasonal rainfall, 35 Sc inches, in
1862 smallest yearly rainfall, 43 inches,
in 1877; smallest seasonal rainfall, 1856
inches, in 1864 greatest number OF days
rain fell in one year, l02. in 1860; greatest
number of days rain fell in one seasonal
year, l0l, in 1859 60; least number OF
days rain fell in one year, 81, in 1870 ;
least number of days rain fell in one sea-
sonal year, 81, in 1853 highest annual
mean temperature, 62 6, in 1858; lowest
annual mean temperature, 81. 5, in 1850.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-01-01

Mean for IL months / Mean for 20 years.
The winter temperatures are for the winters from
1888 to 1872, both inclusive.
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MEAN WINTER TEMPERATURE.

Up to and including the 2lst day of December
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-11-22
Something About Dress Reform.


If there is a divinity which shapes
our ends, rough hew them as we will,
there should, also, be some kind Of an
artistic divinity to shape the abnormal
dresses of the present era. While the
male portion of poor, struggling hui
manity manages to get itself up regard
less of cost, taste and everything else,
we must sorrowfully confess that the
beautiful forms of our wives, daughters
and other female relatives are wrapped
up in the drapers of extreme hideous-
ness and fantastic designs.
The Mother Hubbard must 90. If
Mother Hubbard does not step in and
redeem her old clothes, and place them
on the retired list, there is going to be
trouble at Hot Springs, Saratoga, Long
Branch, Skowhegan and Kalamazoo.
Turn the Mother Hubbard out! AS a
balloon, it is all right enough, and en-
regle, but as dress, it is a lock-stitched,
gathered, pulled and ruffled failure,
and whitening reproach to the boast
ed culture of the nineteenth century.
The Mother Hubbard dress is all skirt
and no waist-a kind of a calico rag
bag, gathered at the neck, drifting
away off into nowhere, and floating
along after the wearer like spanker
sail in dead calm. If the Mother
Hubbard dress is an old fashion reiuv-
enated, we can only say, in the postum
nous language of departed poet,
''shoot it. From the ashes of the dead
past rises the Mother Hubbard dress,
like phoenix, and not so much like a
phoenix, either, as like o coffee-sack,
held in place at the swan-like throat by
q silver arrow, and trimmed with point
lace and other frills. There is nothing
like it on the face of the globe, unless
it be another dress of the same awful
pattern.
Sometimes they are seen in pairs,
triplets and quartets, bobbing along the
street like oriental mutton-legged sails
dotting the Mediterranean Sea. De-
void of grace, shapeless and cumber-
some, what is there about Mother
Hubbard dress to commend itself to the
taste of our girls, and of other fellows
girls? We implore the dear creatures
to discard the Mother Hubbard before
it is eVerlastingly too late; before the
awful Mother Hubbard habit gets
too firm hold on them.
Then let them adopt something less
voluminous, balcony and turgid, some-
thing neat, natty and petite. VIII
lingly would we yield up dollar and
a half to witness such a decided move
ment for dress reform. VIII our
wives, sisters and daughters give heed
to our timely warning, or will they still
persist in elinging to the abnormal
Mother Hubbard and leave us hanging
on the ragged edge of despair. TerGs
Sittings.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-11-22
UnsOlVed Mysteries.

But there are some unsolved mysteries
in the great problem of life that give
me cause for reflection and anxiety. IF
were rich l believe would build me a
lonely cell somewhere in Clifton or some
place like that, worth about 800, 900,
with store-room like a wholesale gro
Gerry, where might have plenty of help
in studying these intricate problems in
our daily economy, or extravaganza, as
the case may be. For often and often
wonder and wonder:
Why you always put teaspoons into
the vase upside down?
Why the pantaloons of o goddess
atheist who never said prayer in his
life bag at the knees Just as quickly and
decidedly as the breeches Of the saint
who spends half his days on his knees?
Why it is wrong to eat pie with
knifeP
What Washington said to General Lee
at the battle of Monmouth?
Why so many Generals in the army
have been privates ever since the WARP
How the directory of railroad COM
pany can etrich, while the stockhold-
ers gradually starye to death?
How receiver prospers and grows
fat on a business that ruined the mer-
chant?
Why the man who shas gone out of
politics" never misses a convention,
and always keeps 9tin the hands land
also the pockets) of his friendsPn
What the State would do for peniten-
tiaries if all the rascals should suddenly
stem mn and aonfoccp
Why woman falls like q flash not
two inches from the banana skin she
steps on, while man falls like cyclone
half way round the block, howling like
demon at every plunge, and at last
climaxes with crash under a peanut
stand on the other side of the street?
Why ''pure BEARS oil'' is always
cheaper when pork is away down, and
booms up like a balloon in the cholera
years?
Why, when spring chickens are so
small you have to eat them by the
dozen to taste one, the price is so high
you have to buy them by the chickenP
/ Why a man frequently tries to make
himself necessary when he would serve
humanity much better by making him
self scarce?
Why is it so much easier to lose half
dozen bets than it is to win one?
Why Tom Thumb was always billed
as ''twenty-three years old until the
day he died, when he made jump of
more than his lifetime?
Why some people remember the
Sabbath day. as though it was only
parlor-car porter, and give it a quarter
in full for all demands?
Whatever became of the "blue glass
remedyP
And what went with all the archery
clubsp
don't believe in philosophy wasting
its time on trihes. If the wise men want
something useful and practical to pom
der over here are their problems
Bstrdette.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-11-22
The Old Fireman's Little Game.

"Times ain t now what they used to
be, remarked one gray-bearded vet
eran. as he turned his eyes, dinmed
by looking at many fires, upon the re-
porter who sat on the bench beside him.
Twas bad day for Phil delphy
when them paid fellers got in. They
amt got the quickness at we Volun-
teers had. Bless me, you orter seed
us breakin' along with that air hose
cart boundin' after US like toy wagon.
| reckon we could beat any pair o.
horses they've got now in the city for
mile. / r'member TIL night that the
big fire started down at Race Street
same day as President Zachary TAYLOR
died--in 1856. One of the boys piled
inter the shed yellin' that house had
hlowed up near the Race Street wharf
an killed dozen people an had
thrown hundred bales of burnin' hay
around that air neighborhood promis-
cuous-like, which was settin' the hull
square agoin'.
81 started on ahead to find how
things was, an when l got there I see
No. 8 comm up the street like mad,
quite ways ahead of our cart. | see
they'd get the first chance at the near
est waterin' plug, an wasn't willin'
nohow, that the Niagara should be beat
by that No crowd. So [ picked up
ash bar'l an tipped the ashes over
into the gutter, an then puther bottom
up over the plug an sot down on the
top of her, smokin' my pipe as easy as
anythin', though there was four houses
blazin' away right afore me. The fore
man of No. came tearin' up, and be-
gan lookin' fur that plug to hitch his
pipe onto, but he couldn't find it no.
where's. Says he, swearin' mad: Am
| gettin' ter be that foolish as to forget
where that plug is on this here streetP'
Very like, said /, as cool as a chunk
of ice and suekin' away on my pipe,
which couldn't have gone out very well
though, on account of the sparks fallin'
around us that thick. IF you have for
got, that there plug is down t'other cor
ner, further on. Us
t'He jumped ahead. and, yellin' for
the boys to foller him, the hull crowd
went off down the street like lot of
wildcats. The next mint the Niagara
comes up, and gifts down off the bar
and, liftin' herup over the plug, hitched
fast an got a stream on five minits be-
fore. any other comp'ny. I tell you,
young man, they kin say what they
want bout these new jig-a-marigs, but
the old volunteers was the best, an
some time, when Phil 'delphy's clean
burnt up, they'll wish they'd kept us to
take care of em.---E1tiEoS1eEDbsG Times.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-11-22

The Chinese celebrate their New
Year during a week about the begin
ming of February. At this time they
carry gifts of fire-crackers, silk hand
kerehiefs, candied dates and citrons to
their patrons. One of them being
asked, John, what do you do on your
New Year?" he replied: "Oh! we
have heap-ee candy, heap-ee fire.
clackers, heap-ee meat-ee, heap-ee
China boy comes in and eat 'em;
heap-ee Melican lady comes in to
wateh-ee China boy ea5-ee'
This is a tolerable accurate account
of their New Year festivities.
They never speak of each other as
Anything but ''boys.n An old man of
sixty is still a s'China -boy'' in their par
lance. A cheap" is their common and
only expression when they want to say
very, or much, or many. They use
"heap-ee starch,' or they keep your
washing 'sheap-ee days. or they ex-
cuse poor work by saying they are a
''heap-ee sick" This is a favorite
word, often repeated. They use
much also Spanish word (got
from the Mexieans on the border) sGbe,
which means, to understand. They
pronounce it, almost properly, saUey,
and their most frequent expression in
listening to orders is either, 'sMe saYey,"
or ''Me no savey."
This latter means 81 do not under.
stand, and is the first phrase new
emigrant learns. White people on the
slope, who employ them much as SER
wants, fall into their habit of saying:
''I savey," and use it more frequently
than its English equivalent
Their employers find study of these
foreigners (who come among US, bring
ing with them their national dress and
peculiarities) full of interest, and grow
to wonder how people who have never
profited by the example of the China
man ever learn the arts of patience,
economy and laundrying, three arts in
which the Celestials excel.-K. d. For.
gcroaa, IN Youths Companion.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-11-22
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.


The Salvation Army of England is
having fifteen halls built, with seating
capacity for $4,000 people.
"A collection in a Bowling Green
(Ky.) church yielded four hundred cop
pers.
The Fulton Street Daily Prayer
Meeting has passed its twenty-sixth an
niYersary.-M Y. Examiner.
"A leading religious paper estimates
that at the present rate of conversion
Japan can in seventeen years become a
Christian country.
1t is found that there are now over
100000 scholars of both sexes in the
schools of Italy. This is the ninth part
Of the whole population of the King
dom.
"A high official of the Roman Cath
olie Church in Galveston, Tex, has for
hidden children destined for Roman
Catholic communion in that city to
attend the public schools. Chicago
Journal
The German language is taught in
nearly all the white public schools of
st, Louis. The entire number of pu-
pills who are now studying German is
over 10000, or more than half of the
whole number of pupils in all the
schools of st. Louis. st. Louis Post
Adirondack Murray told an au-
dience in Chickering Hall, New York,
the other day that reason leads people
to reject the theology taught by the
theologians. The Christianity taught
by Christ Himself, he said, is alone
worthy of acceptanee.-M Z. Tribune.
The University of Alabamais crowd
ed with students, and mo more can be
received until the new buildings are
completed, which will be in a short
time. This is the first time that the
University has ever been full, and indi.
Gates gratifying state of prosperity
NJ r Times.
Mr.. A. t. Hemingway, General
Secretary of the Young Mems Christian
Association, has returned from Dakota,
where he attended a convention of
Christian Sioux Indians. He says there
were two hundred and fifty Indians
present, that there are now nearly eight
hundred Christian Indian members of
the churches represented, and that the
work of evangelizing the red menis pro-
crossing Chicago Tribune.
The Boston Herald gives currency to
some serious charges against the public
schools. of Lowell, Mass. It states that
many pupils are graduated with only
smattering of knowledge, which is en-
tirely useless in praeticalslife. General
inefiiciency and too much red-tape on
the part of the school committee are
named as the causes of this state of af-
fairs. The great value of practical
education that will prove to be useful
in actual life is being more clearly rec
ognized every year.