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THE LABOR OF CHILDREN.

This week new law goes into effect
in this State. 1t is designed to regu-
late the labor of children, and pro-
hibits the employment of boys under
II and girls under IA years of age in
factories and mines. IT also limits the
daily labor that may be required of
children under IA to ten hours. How
it will work remains to be seen. AT
first thought there appears to be no
very good reason why it should not
have a wholesome influence. A SINH
lar law is in force in Pennsylvania
and Massachusetts,, with the difference,
however, in the latter State that it
likewise limits to ten hours the work
required of women. Like limitations
exist in England. Russia has a law
prohibiting the employment of children
under IL years Of age under any pre-
tense, and fixing the time Of labor at
eight hours for children under 10. The
Russian law further provides that
these children must attend school at
least three hours day.
The regulation of the employment
of children in workshops and factories
is a matter of grave concern. The
practice of making children work
steadily at one thing, without the
chance for proper relaxation, has been
condemned by physicians and philan-
thropists, who argue that they are thus
defrauded of their right to "eat, sleep
and grow" Certain it is that although
the work required of children in facto
ries is generally not of the sort which
calls for the expenditure of much
physical strength, it is very monotonous
and soon wearies both brain and body.
Children require variety of thought
and action more than grown people.
For this IT ason wise teachers do not
keep them at one lesson very long, but
give them frequent change.
To offset these reasons why the law
putting restraint upon the overwork
Of young children should become pop
ular, it must be borne in mind that
the parents do not take kindly to any
law which they consider an interior
ence with their parental rights. For
this natural reason the rule of compul-
sorry education is not appreciated by
the class it was designed to benefit.
Moreover. it is often necessary for the
children of very poor parents to begin
early in life to earn the bread which
they put into their mouths. Self-pres-
ervation is the first law of nature. To
live and grow at all, these children
must work, even though they do not
live so long or grow so well as they
would under more favorable hygienic
circumstances. 1t is nice question to
settle, in all matters where the family
is concerned, at what point to begin
and where to leave off. The law in
Pennsylvania is practically IA dead let
ter.
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Is it settled ? Is the conflict over?
Does the action of the Council settle
the license question for this year, or
will it every month keep raising its
deformed head to vex and trouble not
only the council, but all citizens inter-
ested in the welfare of the city ? The
law is very explicit on this subject.
Section %. Of the "Inn and tavern
ordnance says cit shall not be lawful
for such person or persons whose appli-
cation to keep such inn land tavern
shall have been rejected by the council
aforesaid, to apply again for said
license at any time within one year
thereafter" Hence none of the persons
whose applications were rejected on the
evening of July 9Th, may apply again
till after July 9th, 1884.
Our charter says in regard to the
power of councils to grant license,
that the council is subject to the same
provisions, and in like manner, as the
same may lawfully be done by the
courts of common pleas in this State.
Now it is the manner of the Court Of
Common Pleas not to receive any APP
plication from one whose petition has
been refused, within one year from the
time of refusal neither is there any
reconsideration, the decision once made
is final for that year. So that to recon
slider the motion by which the licenses
were refused would be all illegal trans
action. This is just, else at any time
trap might be sprung and injustice
done. Fl would be right to recon-
slider rejection, it would certainly be
right to reconside a granting and no
man in his senses would take such
ground.
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Blowing up" the teacher, says an
exchange, is favorite practice with
some people, and is in exact accord
ance with the habit of always attempt
ing to shift>our own sins upon some
other persons shoulders. This is one
of the many trials and annoyances
which beset the path of the teacher.
She must not only give the lesson, but
she is expected to furnish brains to
the pupil, and command his constant,
regular attendance at school. 1t is
Just such mothers as this one, who
keep their children at home from
school upon every trivial occasion,
find every excuse for his absence,
hide his faults from his father, supposes
him to be a genius who can learn
everything by intuition, admire his
studious habits as he pores over the
dime novel, and then gets mad be-
cause he is not promoted. Is there no
law to protect the teacher from such
ignorant viragos, who force their way
into the teachers presence and in
language unfit for any respectable
female to speak or hear, heap I'M
measured abuse upon her head? Of
course the teacher can not reply, can
not stoop to handy words with such
as her assailant, but she knows never
theless that the fault lies in the fail
ure of the parent to do her duty, and
the irreg ular attendance of the pupil
at school, as well as his inattention to
his studies when he is there.
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IT is worth while to know that here
after two cent stamps will not be re-
quired on bank checks. Also, that on
October Let letter postage will be re-
duced to two cents, at which time all
money order offices will issue postal
notes, in sums for any amount under
FIVE dollars, for which three cents will
be charged. The ordinary money
order, will be issued for sums of 500
and less, at rates graded from eight
cents for SO order, up to forty-fve
cents for one of$10O.
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HAS the Council the right to order
citizens to curb the sidewalk in front
of their property with stone curbing2
Sec. 8 of the charter says, "that it shall
be lawful for majority of the whole
number of members of common coun-
Gil that may be assembled in council
meeting conven ed, to pass all ordi-
nances for compelling the occupiers
and owners of lots to grade, curb and
pave the sidewalk opposite their lots"
and Sec. l. of the ordinance says Gin
such manner and agreeably to such
regulations as are now or may hereafter
be established" Now the next ques-
ton is, if council ordered and put down
a wooden curb which is now in good
condition, can they now put down
stone one and take the wooden one up,
and force payment There seems un-
questionably an injustice in SO doing
and in perfect equity allowance should
be made in such cases. An ordinance
not resolution should be passed fixing
the kind and dimensions of curbing so
that citizens should not be subject to
the whims and conceits of every new
councilman that may be elected. We
believe there is at present no help for
it but by expensive lawsuit, but we
also believe that in perfect justice those
whose curbing is found good should
be reimbursed for the expense they
have been put to. Let our council
men in public improvements not in
fringe on the rights of citizens to JUS
tice and equity.
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CHOLERA is said to have made
dreadful ravages at Swatow, China,
and its spread in Egypt is already
alarming not only the people of Italy,
where the populace refused to allow
the steamer from Alexandra to land
the mailbag even after it bad been
fumigated. In Damietta, Egypt there
is a danger of starvation added to the
other horrors, and it is not strange that
several Europeans should have tried to
run the blockade at the risk OF wounds
or death than remain shut up inside.
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COMMUNICATIONS, !.


Mr.. EDITOR Our town looks
beautiful now, with all its foliage out,
the shade trees and walks all eommu-
nicate joyful feeling as we pass along.
The beautiful yards and flowers each
one trying to out do the other adds
beauty upon beauty all go to show
that there is neatness and cleanliness.
1t is an old proverb cleanliness isnext
to Goodness" While we have these
many things to enjoy there are some
places in our town that need looking
after. We will use the word, sanitary
influence. For the health of the COM
munity. There are several cutters
that our city fathers must look after,
for the health of the citizens of Bever-
ly. | need not mention many OF the
places. One on Cooper street is bad
place. / can not think that citizens are
allowed to make our streets sluice
way for all the filth and garbage that
may accumulate around house. If
so, our town will soon be infested with
diseases as sure as there is lightning
and thunder. We need to keep our
cellars, our yards, our cutters, and all
places, where any filth can accumulate
clean. The decomposition Of all mat
ter vegetable, especially, will create
miasma and hence disease.
One neighbor cleans all up, the next
neighbor let's foul stuff lay around his
house. The one must suffer- because
the other is negligent and 1azy. l
think when our city has such, places
ffilsh oar city fathers should remove it
at once. If such places are not, am
satisfied disease must breed. | Speak
for the good of the communityd and
not personally to any one. | pean
every one to look into his own nome
for his own health, if he does that pro-
perly there will be no disease bred Nom
foul matter.
was quite amused at our last cod In
eli meeting, while things came %
differently, from what | expected q
not feel disappointed. I would havj
thought that some of our city fathers(
would have shown more dignity, more'
of the gentleman. They are men of
standing, men to whom the city have
placed its business. They should show
a more dignifed spirit and not an an
CRY spirit because every one does not
think as he does. j.
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Miss Mary e, Laird, POS Southland street, Trenton,
N, j., says Il used Browns Iron Btters for dyspep
STA and have experienced great relief
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THERE is danger of our city being
cursed by dust for years to come. A
short time ago great hue and cry was
raised at the expensive, roadway pro-
posed by one of our wide awake coun-
cilmen. The citizens were in arms
against the "prodigality proposed"
The cost of such a roadway was to
have been inside of two dollars square
yard, its efficiency was not doubted.
Now there is a proposition to cover
our streets with gravel. New beds
have been looked at, and country roads
have been visited and conclusion has
almost been come to, that the proper
material has been found. No better
gravel is in our vicinity than that last
used on our streets but with the great
travel on them, it is soon ground to
powder and cloud of dust acc ompa-
MES every vehicle aud fills the eyes
and nostrils of pedestrians and those
who inhabit our chief thoroughfares.
We believe our citizens will uphold
the spending of money on our streets,
providing they see good work done,
but the tooling and naroaon,iadedness
that has characterized the past, they
are tired and sick Of The proposed
gravel if used will cost fully dollar
a square yard, and in two years the
roads will be as bad as ever. Let
councilman Bennett not get weary and
worn out by opposition. Let him bid
for material that is substantial, like
broken stone, blocks or asphaltum, and
though at first there may be some
grumbling the people will soon some
around all right.
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GLASS is beginning to take the place
of wood and iron in making railroad
bridges in England The inventor
makes blocks of glass, which he hard
ems by special process. In solidity
it is said they leave nothing to be de-
sired. The experiments already made
have given surprising results, and the
cost is below that of bridges of wood or
iron. Moreover, the glass cannot be
injured by insects like wood, nor rusted
like iron.
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Errors of Youth.

gentleman who suffered tor years from Nervous
Debility Premature Decay, and all the effects OF
Youthful ndscretion. will for the sake of suffering
humanity, send free to all who need It, the recipe
and direction for making the simple remedy Dy
which he was cured. Sufferers wishing to profit by
the advertisers experience can do so by addressing
IN Per g isSi B. OGDEN, AZ Cedar ST., New York.
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DIED.
SPECIAL NOTICES.

DURE MILK AND CREAM can be obtained
Il al any time, by calling at the depot Laurel
Street above Warren. Beverly, N. j.
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PIMP Il.

will mail (Free) the recipe for simple Vege-
table Balm that will remove Tan. Freckles, PIN
pies and Blotches leaving the skin soft, clear and
beautiful: also, instructions for producing uxuri-
ant growth of hair on bald head or smooth face
Address, including &c. stamp, Ben. Wander ~
Co., IL Barclay ST., N. Y. June24 ly.
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THE Pension List, to be published
by order of Congress, will make work
of 4, 800 pages. 1t will contain list
of the pensioners, their post Office adj
dress, the amount allowed in each case
and the reason why. A list Of each
county will be furnished to the papers
of that county and published by them.
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PRINCIPAL C. C. c. c., TRENTON, N. ].
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-02-03
NAT GoonwlN,s Nor1oNs.

"I have had no time, writes Nat Good
win, to struggle with grammar and join
Mccullough and the other great tragedians
in the North american ReUiea0 in publish
ing my views on the subject of Success on
the Stage Besides, l prefer another me-
dunn Of communicating the thoughts which
are too much for me in the world at large.
To beginner should advise one of two
things. First, he may join good old
stock company, if he can find one in the
woods anywhere, and remain member of
it for about forty years. By that time he
will have so worked himself up as to re-
ceive living salary, support stars and be
prepared for testimonial on the fftieth
anniversary, whacking up with the mana
ger, of course. This reward of merit vir-
tually amounts to a half clear benefit every
fifty years. If very healthy and successful
the actor may catch two of them and die.
Second, if the beginner does not fancy that
way, he can join some variety show pur.
chase a sparkling comic song from some
good writer have it set TO music; get W.
Carleton, Charles Gayler, Mcdonald or
MeCloskey to write plot around the song
and he will be engaged for forty weeks
season, and may be longer, at high sal
aTys Dub IL snc USgiuAer 1ahSs tue secOnQ
way, he must never own that success was
easy. find that all the really great actors
who have been boosted to the top of the
tree by chance, notoriety or money, are
very fond of referring to their days and
nights of toll and struggle, and of limiting
how very hard they work now. / have
had tolls and struggles and hard work my
self +; but it was generally after the per-
Torrance was over, and 1 might better
have been at home in bed. The midnight
oil theory is beautiful but never saw it
in practice, did You 1t is SO easy to study
and struggle when You feel the Bank of
California at your back. believe that an
actor should study acting; attend to his
business like other people, and when he
draws prize in the lottery of the profess
sion, thank heaven for it, endeavor to de.
serve it, and keep quiet about the price Of
midnight oil, and his wrestles with the
wick. The ReviesC may copy."-[Spirit of
the Times.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-02-03
EATING BY RULE.

Etiquette has laid down several rules
about eating particular kinds of food.
Soup, for instance, should be called for
only once, and eaten from the side of a
spoon. If oyster crackers are passed with
the coup, place them at the left side of
your plate on the table cloth, and hold one
in your left hand as you eat. But if bread
is served, break off piece as you wish it,
with the left hand. Both the bread and
crackers should be eaten without butter.
A little said in regard to the position at
table may not be amiss. Never eat loung.
ing back in your chair; though, while the
different courses are being removed, it is
entirely allowable to sit back in the chair.
The elbows should not, at any time, be al.
lowed to rest on the table.
Convey the food the entire distance to
the mouth. Some people have ludicrous
habit of opening their mouths the moment
they raise the food from their plates then
when the food is within several inches of
its destination, their heads suddenly come
forward with jerk, and the food is
snatched from sight. Quick motions and
gestures are seldom graceful, and never SO
at table. Then is the time, most assur-
edly, to "let your moderation be known
to all men," moderation in movement as
well as in eating and drinking.
Be always attentive TO the wants of 9th.
ers, and see that your neighbor is provided
with whatever he may need within your
reach. Remember the golden rule can be
applied precisely as well during the meal
time as in our intercourse with our fellow.
beings Penman's Art Journal.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-02-03
WHAT THE TELESCOPE DID FOR AS
TRON0mY,

The foundations of physical astronomy
were laid in the invention OF the telescope.
Every one has heard of the emotion which
filed Europe at the announcement OF the
discovery Of an instrument which had the
power of making distant objects appear as
If they were near. 1t was at that time
that Calico. having only learned that such
an instrument existed, discovered it's ar
rangement, constructed one, turned it to-
ward the sky, and, with this aid, fortified
by his genius, made series of magisterIal
discoveries. These discoveries belong pre-.
eminently to physical astronomy, and form
its first courses. five except the sun and
moon, which have very sensible diameter,
and admit of some observations without
the aid of the telescope, all the stars ap-
pear to the eye only as brilliant points,
and admit of no studies except of their
motions. Therefore, an astronomy without
the telescope would never have permitted
Us otherwise than as a matter of probable
ity to consider the planets as like the earth
in form, constitution and office. But when
it was seen that these brilliant and almost
blazing points were resolved under the tel
escope into well-defned disks, showing in
dications of continents, clouds and atmOs-
pheres when satellites were perceived
around those globes playing the same part
to them as the moon plays to the earth
then probabilities gave place to clear GER
tainty. Telescopes, then, ara the instru-
ments by means OF which the constitution
of the solar system has been defnitively
unveiled, and the earth has been assigned
its part aud its rank in the system of the
planets. The discovery of the spots on
the sun and OF it's rotation completed the
conception of the solar system and pre-
pared for the theory of its formation. Here
is marked well determined phase in the
history of human ideas respecting the uni
verse, and it is characterized by the great
name of Calico. Was it possible at once
to go beyond this A? Was it possible to
question the stars in their turn and inquire
if, like the sun, they had a sensible disk,
spots, a rotation, and planets revolving
around them; was it possible, in short, to
extend to the stellar universe the notions
we had already acquired concerning the
solar system? The methods in use did not
yet permit this. Il Jules G. Jansen, in
Popular Science Monthly.
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qag DAILY RECoRD-UNION.
GOING TO SCHOOL,


"Class in geography, come forward, and
in case any Of you drop pencil, look out
of the window or utter cough, will keep
the whole school in at recess. Now, then,
where is Green Cheese creek 2?
They give it up.
"What None of you able to answer
that question Here are twenty boys who
expect to become business men, and seven
girls who will become wives and mothers,
and not one of you know that Green
Cheese creek rises IN the southeastern part
of Hindosban, and flows in northwesterly
course for seventeen miles and twenty-five
rods and emptiss into Ham river You
boys would look nice starting out as Law.
yers, doctors and book keepers, wouldn !
you? Go to your seats. and as punish
ment each one of you must write fifty
words and give me the name OF every Pres
ident of the United States.
"Class in arithmetic step this way, aud
be careful how you step or you won't get
any dinner to day. Now, james, what Is
. rhomboid 2"
81 don't know, cir.
"You don't? You are expecting TO
grow up aud becomes clerk in clothing
store and you don't know what rhomboid
is a rhomboid, sir, is paralleiogram
whose opposite sides are only equal, and
whose angles ere not right angles. Take
your seat, and don't you dare look up until
YOU have committed seventeen pages OF
history to memory.
NOW, Thomas, what is the amount due
on note for S467 1919, given for one year,
one day, one hour and nine-tenths OF a
minute, and bearing seven and three.elev.
enths per cent. interest? Come, now, an
swer oIf-hand.'
"Can't do it, sir.
"You can't? Only yesterday you told
me that you intended to run a grist mil
when YOU grew up, and here you can't an.
swer a simple question in mathematics
You'll never be able TO run one end of a
corn.sheller, and might as well tell you SO
now. Go to your seat and cipher out Ice
examples in vulgar fractions.
"Class in ancient history, now advance
When was the first rebellion against tht
Assyrian King Sardanapalus %
No answer.
g James, Henry Charles, Samuel-what
None of you able to answer this question
You are preparing to 60 out iHto the worlC
as insurance casvassers, telegraph opera
tors, bank clerks and Board of TRADE
spectators, and behold your ignorance
What would any of you do il case yol
were walking through an alley on darl
night twenty years hence and some on
should suddenly stop you and ask thi
question? The class is dismissed. HOY
the next generation will manage TO rui
stores and factories and keep the wheel
of commerce and progress moving l don
KNOW.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-02-03

An EXPERIMENT IN GAsTRoNoMY.-A
curious wager is now attracting much at.
tention among the sporting men of New
York. Some time ago a discussion arose
between "Gabe Case, who keeps an inn
much frequented by the drivers of fast
horses in the upper part of the city, and
James Moffat as to mans capacity for
eating quails. Mr.. Moffat offered to bet
$3.50 that he could furnish a man who
would eat two quails day for thirty con-
secutive days. Mr.. Case declared that it
could not be done, and accepted the wager.
Mr.. Moffat named W. S. Walcott as his
man, and on the afternoon OF January eth
that individual began his task. MIR. Wal
colt has made wonderful record in gas
tronomic feats, having in 1873 won $500 by
eating one quail day for thirty days, and
he entered upon his new experiment with
perfect confidence of success. Since then
about o'clock every afternoon he has sat
down to his monetonous repast, which he
persists in declaring is exceedingly agree.
able. He is carefully timed, and is cred.
tied with having devoured his brace in as
few as nine minutes, although his average
comes nearer thirteen minutes. A crowd
of horsemen watch him, and dispatches are
sent to st. Louis and other distant points
every day as soon as he begins to eat the
birds. A large number of bets are pending
upon the contest, and probably more peo.
pie than would like to confess it await with
some eagerness the daily published record
OF the progress of the experiment.