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Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-09-22

on the Munich Dsisenhofen line, and pro-
nouuced in its favor. II the Sedlaczek
system has thus achieved the sue
cess credited to it, it cannot be
long before the improvement will be
introduced upon American roads. We
have no report from General Weaver of the
comparative cost of the light and the ma
chinery for its application, but it cannot be
so great under any circumstances as to pre-
vent it for any great length of time from
being added to railway appliances in the
United States and put in use on leading
roads, since it will lessen the liability to ac-
cident and increase the security of railway
travel. 1t is announced that at the Inter
national Electric Exhibition at Vienna,
which opened there on the lst inst, new
and verifying experiments will be made
which will thoroughly test the invention
and settle all doubts as to ita claims.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-09-22
MIRAGE on THE MAIZE COAST.

A few days ago beautiful mirsge was
seen at Squirrel Island, on the coast Of
Maine, Gays the Mastery. The dav had
been warm and calm, and TO person stand
ing at the waters edge waves of heated air
seemed to vibrate with great intensity on
the sea. Suddenly, at 5;20, the ocean az
sumed wonderful appearance. Above the
true horizon seemed suspended in air a sec
ond ocean, which faded away and formed a
gray vapor that appeared like an immense
tidal wave, and fell and rose 20 4 great
hight. Vessels before iuvieible rose from
below the horizon and sailed n spectrsl
procession through the clouds. To the
eastward Monhegan rose high above Fish
erman's Isle, and kept company with 4
ghostly island covered with dense forest,
which quivered far beyond Pemaauid. A
feet of schooners south Of Fisherman's
Isle suddenly stretched. upward N G cro-
tegque manner. a great heava in the at.
mosphere separated the msstg, and the up-
per sails scurried upward AID dissolved.
only to appear again just above. A seiner
north of Damariscove was quickly trans
formed into leviathsn. Her sails changed
from white to gray, and swayed upward far
above Damariscove. But on Dsmariscoye
was the most wonderful appearance seen,
To the south end of the island rose up per-
pendicular colmunar cliffs leo feet from the
sea. The houses were nearly hidden be.
hind them. The hill rolled together into a
mound and then unfolded to twice itS
real length, Just beyond the spectral
cliffs the sea broke on long ledge and the
spray leaped skyward with lightning ra.
pidity. Damariscove and Heron Isles as.
sumed grosesque shapes, and danced and
stretched upward in marvellous elasticity.
1t awoke delightful reeollsctions of the
Arabian Nights. Land and aea wers en-
chanted, and under the mystic spell invisi.
ble genii transformed them into heautifnI
but tieeting illusions. The phenomena
lasted till sunset, and then n The haze
slowly faded away.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-09-22

should be permitted to be recorded in pub
lie print. The manner and details of his
taking off should be as secret as the grave,
and so far as the world is concerned, known
only to the necessary officials. The scat
fold should be robbed of its dramatic &C.
cessories and scenes, and the utter blotting
out of the criminal made as complete as
possible even the place of his burial should
be unknown to the world. The law for
feits his life, and should dispose of his
body. The criminal should be brought to
realize that he is to be cut of even from
memory. Professor Wayland admits too
much, when he is forced to admit that
there is hope in life sentence. It's integ-
rity cannot be assured, and hence he comes
up with suggestion for reformation of the
pardon laws, requiring the confinement of
the prisoner absolutely until before the
Court OF his conviction his innocence can
be shown. This Is an old remedy, and
merely substitutes Court for Board OF
Pardons. The subject, Notwithstanding
it's age and the much debate it has en-
dured, ia still an interesting one-One that
will engage the attention of society for
time to come, as it has in time past but
we think that Professor Wayland, while
contributing ably to the literature of the
discussion, has not advanced the cause OF
the side he advocates.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-09-22
ELECTRIC HEADLIGHTS.

The experiments with electric loco
motive headlights in Austria appear by
Consul General Weaver's report to have
been fully as successful as announced bv
the papers last May. The Cenaul says
that the conception of illuminating the
railroad track by means of an electric light
attached to the head of the locomotive has
long since ceased to be a novelty in rail-
way engineering, while the advantages to
be derived therefrom, if successfully &C.
complished, have furnished sufficient spur
to urge inventors to the greatest possible
researches and endeave-s. But the cbsta.
cles to success have been the oscillations
and jars OF the engine. which soon de-
stroyed the delicate apparatus of the best
lights. 1t has been desired to overcome
this impediment and to seeure cheap and
convenient method of generating the cur
rent not Immediately dependent on the
continuous motion of the locomotive. In
1851, Mr.. Sedlaczek, chief sf the tele.
graphic service at Leoben, IN Austria,
aided by Mr.. Schuckert, of Nuremberg.
after six years Of trial succeeded IN obtain.
ing 1t is affirmed, these two great desider-
alta, fret by adopting as q generator
Grsmme machine with a Brotherhood
motor, furnished with an automatic regu.
lator. having likewise attached thereto
a sehuckert dynamo. electric mackine.
1t wGs foCnd that from 700
to 500 revolutions of the motor were neces.
sary, calling for about three-horse power.
or two per cent of the force OF
the locomotive. The lamp used is
the invention of Ssdlaczek. The exper.
iments were, we are assured, entirely
satisfactory, The road being lighted
up for $50 meters SO brightly that colors
could be distinguished, the forms of sig.
mails made known. and fine print could be
read By person at that distance from the
lamp. AT l,500 meters drawing on
white paper could be seen. The light of
the lamp was visible st distance of at
least four kilometers. The oscillations
and Jars of the locomotive in no way af.
fected the light. The Board of Examin-
ers for electro-clinical trials st the ROYAL
Crystal Palace, Munich, tested the light
Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-09-22
An CID DEBATE REVIVED.

Prof Nsyland, of the Yale Law School,
has appeared before the American Social
Science Association as an essayist favoring
the abOlfion of capital punishment, and
the substitution therefor of life imprison.
ment. Ee wisely left out of consideration
all humane questions, treating the issue
solely as one of social policy and govern.
mental regulation. He takes the position,
unquestionably strong one, that the
death penalty aas not afforded adequate
protection to society. Obviously this
might be said of all penalties 'under
ahe law, which has given US none
shat work an absolute cessation of GRIM
iIal acts. 1t Is, sAen, question rather of
degree than of adequacy of protection, and
we,do not think The learned philanthro.
pict can adduce evidences to show that
capital punishment has been less effective
in protecting society than have other prim.
tive remedies. This brings the mind,
thec, 20 the consideration of the question
whethe- life imprisonment has been zsore
etfectaal for the protection of society, and
we take it that it has not The statistics
on the su5ject do not demonstrate that to
be fact. But it may b5 admitted that
crime punishable by death has not in
creased by reason of the ahe!ition of cap
ital punishment. But Shis really proves
nothing it leaves the matter precisely
where it was before the new zystem was
tried. But K it is to be conside cred as
question of punishment of the criminal,
then arises the Issue as to whether impris-
orment is the sevsrer punishment. Prof. |
Nayland holds tkat it is, saying thst while |
" tie Lessons OF the gallows are short
lived, the prisoner for life breaches from
his lonely cell a daily sermon to deter from |
crime. There is nc room here for mock |
heroism or bravado. There is no specsa- |
Gle; there are no spectators" This is not
new sEgument, but those who have OBJ.
served pnsoners closely do not all concur
in it. The murderers in prison form a sort
OF aristoersey as contrasted to the thieves
and the criminals who commit less grave
offenaes, while there attaches to the gallows
an ignominy no hravadO or mock heroism
can disguise. The trouble is that TOO much
publicity is given to executions. The law
should, from the time of the final sentence,
bury the condemned from the world
Nothing further than the mere fact that
John Doe was yesterday executed
Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-09-22
sMoKING CHARITIES.

In one of the schools of Brooklyn boy
Is years old, naturally very quick and
bright, was found to be growing dull and
titful. His face was pale, and he had
nervous twitchings. He was obliged to
quit school. Inquiry showed that he had
become confirmed smoker of cigarettes
When asked why he did not give it up, he
shed tears, and said that he had often tried,
but could not. The growth of this habit
Is lnsldious, and its effects ruinous. The
eyes, the brain, the nervous system, the
memory, the power of application, all are
impaired by it. cts nothing bat cigar
cite, is really 1t is nothing but poison
German and French physicians have re.
Gently protested against it; and conven-
tion OF Sunday and secular teachers was
recently held in England TO check it.
1t was presided over by an eminent
surgeon OF q Royal Eye Infirnary, who
stated that many diseases Of the
eye were directly caused by it.
Parents, save your children from this vice
if possible. Do not allow them to deceive
you. In future years they will rise up
and bless you for restraining them. 1t is
now known that old cast-away cigar
stumps are used in the manufacture of
cigarettes. Boys are employed to gather
them from hotels, bar-rooms, sidewalks
from wherever they are thrown. Collect
ors buy them of the boys and send them
to the manufactures by the barrel. No
matter how disgusting the spot whence
they are picked-whether from the spit
toons with its filth-the foul refuse finds
its way into the mouth and nostrils of the
cigarette-smoker. Many a smoker throws
away the stump of his cigar because he
does not like the favor of it. He does
not know why the flavor is unpleasant to
him. but it is caused by nicotine-the
active principle of tobacco. and violent
poison. This accumulates in the base of
the cigar with every draft of the smoke,
and the man, noticing the unpleasant favor,
throws the stump away. This reservoir
of nicotine finds it's way into the cigarette,
and the person who smokes it gets in
condensed form the poison which SO often
works mischief on the brain of habisual
smokers. Again. these cigar stubs-or
any tobacco, for that matter, that ia made
into cigarettes-is wrapped with paper
which contains very large per cent. Of
arsenic or other deadly poisons, the powers
OF which exert deIeterious effect upon
the tonsils-in fact, the whole throat-of
all those who use them indeed, it has
been found impossible to cure catarrh in
inveterate cigarette. smokers. But even
this is not the werst of it. These cigar
'stumps have been in the mouths of all
sorts of men-drunkards, fast young men,
rotten old roues, whose very kiss, or touch,
or even the pencil they hold in their
mouths, might communicate the foulest
and most fearful disease that comes to a
human being.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-09-22

ERosIvR POWER OF GLACIERS. Both
from mechanical and physical considera-
tions, A. Irving concludes that too much
erosive power has been attributed by some
writer's to glaciers, and that it is doubtful
if the work of actual excavation has been
accomplished by them all. He attributes
the differential movement of glaciers to the
following causes / Cracking and regela-
ton, as explained by Tyndall and Helm
holtz. 2. Geieration OF heat within the
glacier, es s,t forth by Helmholtz. 8. The
penetration Of the glacier by luminous solar
energy. the absorption of this by opaque
bodies. snoh as stones, earth, organic germs,
etc., contained in the ice, and the transfor-
nation nf it in this way into heat To
these causes he attributes the greater diff.
ferenti.i motion Of the glaciers by day than
by night, AMI 10 sumn.sg than IN winter.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-09-22
DEFYING THE LAW.

There is nothing that will start the metal
from off the cheek of the political boss.
Every Pennsylvania in Office at Washing
ton has received from Chairman Cooper
the usual campaign circular calling for
voluntary" contributions for the State
campaign fund. OF course, Mr.. Cooper is
careful to use the word voluntary" and
to point out that the law forbids campaign
assessments, etc. Nevertheless, his letter
is a bold and criminal violation, not only
of the laws of the United States, but OF
the State of Pennsylvania, and there is not
an honest set OF jurymen in all the land
but would so find on a fair trial. Evasion
is worse than defiance, and Coopera act ia
attempted evasion of the reform laws of
the country. Cooper's circular is just as
hagrant violation of the law ss ever were
Jay Hubbell's and Mahone's impudent let.
ters of request, aud that the clerks so view
it is evident from the CONSERVATION created
by the demand. They know that a pre-.
text can be trumped up for their removal,
and 60 they yield while they grind their
teeth, and ask, "Is this to be the outcome
CT civil service reform?"
Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-09-22
THIS moRNInG's NEWS.

In New York Government bonds are quoted al
1901 for As of 1907 1l9l for as, 1O1 for sss
sterling, 81 s2g4 &C 1929 for 3s. lO1 for IS; silver
bars, ll0g.
Silver in London. so 1l-lGd; conscls, 1eogi; 3
per cent. United States bonds, extended, IO5 4s,
1922 Ais, 1l54.
In San Francisco Mexican dollars are quoted at
s7l@ss3 cents.
Mining stocks we're in light demand yesterday
morning In San Francisco. Prices were steady, but
the volume Of business was unusually small.
In a theater at st. Louis Thursday night, Richard
whalen shot at Carrie Kart, an actress, and then
blew his own brains out
The visit Of Gladstone to Copenhagen has no po-
utical Significance.
Convention Of the Independent Labor Party is
called TO meet in Philadep phia January 18th.
The negro rayisher Of a white girl in Sumter
county S C., was killed by citizens.
Gladstone has returned TO England
at Manchester, Eng, yesterday, Passaic won the
paddock handicap sweepstakes
A cold wave passed over Independence, Mo, yes
terday morning, causing the mercury to fall from
76' to AZ
The hottest weather Of the season prevailed in the
sprinkle of rain falling at Merced
The section house at LoveIocks, New, was burned
yesterday.
The wife Of Captain Morton. of the Pacific MAI
stean,hp Colon, who Was missing in New York, hal
been found.
Jem Mace processes to be anxious to spar sun
Van.
A serious international difficulty is reported from
Ell Paso. Tex.
The Georgia Senate has passed the oleomargarin
bin.
Mrs. Llugtry mas engaged complete English
company for her mex. American tour.
The New England Milk Producers Association
ave voted 10 raise the price Of milk.
Twenty-three States and the District Of Columbia
we're represented in the Educational Convention at
Louisville, Ky.
An explosion Of fire damp in westphala killed
fifteen miners.
The Tennessee river is half an inch lower than
ever known before.
Another bank is in difficulty at Montreal.
Over $4,000 people were in the New jersey State
Fair grounds Thursday.
The Brooklyn Bridge Railway is working like
clockwork.
Discouraging reports come from the Ontario hop
districts.
customs union between Belgium and Holland
is about effected.
The Austro- German alliance is believed to be d.
rectad against Russia and France.
Fire at Rathdrum, Idaho; loss $1,000.
At Rogers, Ark, during divine service, E. C.
Roberts shot and fatally wounded Dr. Elliott.
e The disorder still continues st Croatia conflicts
still occurring between the authorities and popu-
lace
Nordensklolds expedition has penetrated further
INTO Greenland than human beings have ever be
fore travelled.
Adolph Hartmann, Secretary of the Humboldt
Savings Bank, was found dead in his bed yesterday
at San Francisco, having shot himself.
Considerable damage is being done by fores. fire
Il New Brunswick.
The new steamship Oregon, recently launched in
England is guaranteed to cross the Atlantic in five
days.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-09-22

THE President has acted wisely in appointing
commission to investigate the European charges
against the American hog. Good The American
hog has long enough been the victim Of the ISLANDERS
Of the European aristocrats Let his reputation be
vindicated, and if hs is not just good hog, and
just as much of hog the foreign hog, let it be-
known at once. The President has asked the Cham
Der of Commerce of Chicago to name one Commits.
soner, an it has chosen Professor Chandler. The
Chicago Board of Trade is to select other, the
Bureau of Agriculture two, and the President one.
But why is Cincinnati, shut out from voice in
thia Cnrnnnias;nnf
Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-09-22

THE "malaris" at the Little Boars Head Rye
Beach, which killed Mr.. Lewis and two others, and
made many sick, 1t has been ascertained was caused
by the well water OF cottage adjacent to the one
occupied by Mr.. Lewis. The well was sunk near the
base of hill, while a cesspool for the reception oi
refuse placed higher up the same hill. Yet
there people who insist that cesspool win OF
poison the soil, and who urge that filth covered in
by earth from sight is harmless-that the earth at
serbs the poison and all such fustian that. San
itary science needs to be studied in Sacramento by
some Of the wiseacrcs.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-09-22

PROFESSOR PERRY, of Williams College, says that
il Webster was day living he would swing the
Titanic hammer of his eloquerce to the destruction
OF the chains that bind down the commerce of the
country that in fact Webster, with his giant intel
lect, would be in the foremost ranks OF the free
traders. He adds: "Mr. Webster's great tariff
speech, delivered in the House Of Representatives
in April, 1924 is, in reality, of the best and
strongest free-trads speeches made in this or
any other country"
Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-09-22
ZOE peEss FoR SALE.

We have at the REcoRD-UsIoS office two large
doublecynder Hoe presses, in perfect order, Of
which will be sold at low price, and upen easy
terms. The size OF bed-plate is 4oxe0 inches. The
purchaser can have his choice Of the presses. The
object IN selling s to replace with one Of more rapid
Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-09-22

Each head of clover contains about sixty
distinct flower tubes, each of which con.
tains portion CT sugar not exceeding the
five hundredth part of grain. The pro.
boscis of the bee must therefore be inserted
into 500 clover tubes before one grain of
sugar can be obtained. There are 1000
grains in pound, and, as honey contains
three fourths of its weight of dry sugar,
each peund OF honey represents 500, 900
clover tubes sucked by bees. Chicago
Tribune.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-09-22

THE San Francisco Bulletin well says that il the
old revenue system had been left it was and the
absurdities of the new Constitution had not been
introduced, the railroad taxes would have been col
lected and there would have been no escape from
them This is dawning upon the most of the people
now, and the time not far distant when the double
taxation, the involved and impossible revenue sys-
tems the unjust and discriminating prejudices and
hardships OF the new Constitution, wi be aban-
doned by the people, and will return TO the prin-
ciple of even-handed justice, non-discrimination
between property liable to taxation and equality OF
rights between citizens in the enjoyment of their
property
Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-09-22

Retrospection. .-Scene-Esthe.ic neigh.
borhood. Converted betting man tplays
first concertina in Salvation Army bsndj |:
Pooty 'ouses they builds in these subj bs,
Mr.. Swagget." Mr., S. reformed burglar
and banner-besrer in the ssme): "Ah!
and how andy them little balconies would
a been in former" ca warning flourish
on the ooncsssina, and Dir, s. drops the
subject. Il Punch,
Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-09-22

Now THAT Judge Field has decided Chinese re-
strctio1 ease, as did the New York Supreme Court,
and ruled that Chinese ara to he excluded, mat
ter where born the timid press which has feared
the Massachusetts, decision would break down the
Restriction Ao: cool its fevered blood and rest
in peace
Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-09-22

THE Oakland Tribune, referring to the recent
railroad tax decision, says that it only demonstrates
the absurdities of the new Constitution For several
years spirit of communism has been abroad in this
State. 1t crept into the new Constitution to cuch
capital but the result has been precisely the oppo-
site, and the cinchers are being einched The Tri5-
adds that the organization Of the State Board
OF Equalization with eye single to the cinch-
ing Of the railroads All compromise with the rail-
road companies was hooted down, and no county
official could advise compromise without subjecting
himself TO the charge of having sold out the
porations The result is that the cnchers have
again been cinched. Is it not about time that this
communistic craze ceased"
Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-09-22

OUR foreign trade continues satisfactory The I'M
ports not excessive, and the output promises to
reach the best Paint obtained at any time in the
past. For instance. in July, 1882, we sent out of
provisions S. 97667s, while for July, 1888, we sen.
out, OF like character sl2, ,Ss2, 1885, In 1882 we ex
ported of fresh beef 81 while for July, 1885,
we sent out s., ,307, 1888.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-09-22

TMs sln Francisco Bulletin says the people are
beginning to discover that the new Constitution
really Eade no change in the relations OF borrower
and lender where mortgage is taken, so far as the
payment ct taxes is concerned. The borrower pays
the taxes now, just as be always did and always
will and all the laws that human Intelligence may de-
wise between this and eternity will not reverse the
process, az tie Bulletin might well have added
Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-09-22

THE moral sense Of the country should stand be.
hind the Postmast er-GeEeral and support him in
nis war asainat the cstsry gambllng sEipdss q the
continent
Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-09-22
Total number of possible hands

IOtal NUMBER Of possible hands. 2,05S, ,9oO
Finally the Professor proposes an exam
pie and answers, showing how to bluff and
win. He then says: "Suppose your
original hand contains pair-she other
three cards being all unlize-should you
stand cut or should you draw 10 purchase
right to which yon must stand in), or
should you stand in without drawing
again, if you draw, how many of the
three loose cards should you throw out,
and what are your chances of improving
your hand? Here you have to consider
first whether you will stand in. which de.
pends no. on the value OF your hand only
but also on the chance that your hand will
be improved by drawing. Having decided
to stand in, remember that dlscarding
three tells the rest of the company that in
all probability you are drawing to improve
pair hand, and at poker telling any thing
helps the enemy. If one of your loose
cards is an ace. you do well to discard only
the other two, for this looks like drawing
to triplet, and you may chance to draw
q pair to your ace. But usually you have
so much better chance of improving your
hand by drawing three that it ia, as a rule,
better TO do this "
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1883-04-13
Payday Notice.

WOOD RIVER G. AND s. NJ. CO, OF
SALT LAKE CITY, L. T.-All persons mold
ing claims against this company must pre-
sent their bills in duplicate, at the company,s
office. at Bullion, before the first day OF each
month, and payment will be MADE on the
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