Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-08-29

Opposition Is Hu2L We WaIh elU mus
have, to be good for anything. Hardship
ia the native COL of manhood and self.reh-
ance.-[John Neal.
The reason why the lightning does not
strike twice in the same place is because
nothing OF the place is left to strike after
the frat round. New Orleans Picayune.
Charles B. Wright, the ex.President of
the Northern Pacific road, has given $780,
600 towards the establishment OF boys
college, and like sum for girls college,
at Tacoma, W. T.
The Stats of Georgia has let out to Goa
tractors twslve hundred convicts. The
lessees pay $40 8 year for each man and
clothe aad lodge him, and are entitled TO
ten hours a day labor from them. The
net profit to the State IS about S25, 600 a
year.
The Supreme Cours of Indiana has de.
cided, in reviewing the proceedings in a
murder case, that the mere fact of man
having read newspaper accounts Of crime,
ana having an opinion therefrom, but enc
which could be removed by the evidence,
does not necessarily render him incompe-
tent TO serve on iuries.
Ashtu Q tIdNGl6I Al NliS OIioilS Vi 2 L hatt0
Is the Turkish civil service like ours :
Are there retiring allowances and pensions
for instance ?" 9 My illustrious friend, and
Joy of my liver" replied the Pssha, ''Allah
is great, and tho public functionary who
stands in need OF g retiring allowances when
his term of office expires 10 an asst l have
spoken.
There is said to be an unusually large
number Of Young men among the members
elect Of the Forty. eighth Congress, but the
youngest man who has ever be N elected to
Congteas since the adoption of the Federal
Constitution was John Randolph. of Viz.
ginia He feiloH.citizang, considering him
prodigy, elected him their representative
TO Congress at the juvenile age Of twenty
two yesrs.
The Italian Government hiss invented
designs Tor new hospital building at
Rome, TO cost upward Of 81 200, GOO, and
intended TO comprise in one institution q
number Of spscial departments, as well SIS
medico- chirugiosl hospital of 450 to 500
beds. Oae-ssoFiad bindings on the pavil-
ion system viii be adopted, and the sepa-
rate wards are not to contain moro than
from sixteen 20 eighteen beds each. There
will be al anatomical department at.
tached.
The German Admiralty sre to try the
experiment OF sending a completely
equipped hospital ship with the Baltic
squadron on is evolutionary cruise. The
ultimate intention is that in any future
naval war a ship Of this kind shall accom-.
papy the feet into action, carrying the
Geneva flag, and having her hull painted
white, with red streak, in order that the
enemy shall be able to distinguish her
from oombAtant, and SO refrain from fir
ing at her.
After several years OF experiment, it
was found by testing it in an open CRATE st
the Fell Tavern In Wllkesbarre, that an
thracite coal would burn. This was IS
years ago, and the event was celebrated re-
Gently by the Historical Society of Penn.
sylvania, and ex Governor Hoyt sad other
distinguished oitiz ms viaited the hotel, and
were seated before the open crate in the
old log parlor where the shining fus! frat
took blaze and made its capabilities pub
lic.-[ Philadelphia News.
The death Of Postmaster. General Howe
leaves in active life only three men who,
with him, occupied seats in the United
States Senate when President Lincoln
called it together in special session at the
outbreak of the war. They are Senator's
Anthony and Sherman aud Daniel Clark,
United States District Judge FOR New
Hampshire. Not more than half dozen
other members of that Senate are now liv-
ing. among them being Mr.. DoolittIe, who
was then Mr. Howe's colleague. The Vice
President, Hannibal Hamlin, and the Chap.
lain, DR.. Byron Sunderland, also yet sur
ylve.
Cholera in Egypt" says the Lancet,
% has, Notwithstanding ell ssanitary cor.
dons, progressed steadily along the lines
Of human traffic, and should it unfortu.
nately extend to Europe, we shall feel more
trust in an efficient system which involves
the careful examination of all suspe oted
vessels and persons, together with the
adoption Of measures for dealing with in.
fected perzons and things, than in a cys.
TEN of quarantine which herds the healthy
and the sick together under circumstances
which offer every inducement to fraud and
evasion"
Paris has very few native born resi-.
dents. Out OF every 200 of the inhabit-
ants only 322 were horn in the metropolis,
while So came from other communes of the
departments, 800 from the various depart
ments or colonies, aud 70 from foreign
countries. Not one Of the other CONT
mental capitals possesses SO large proper.
ton of foreigners. Berlin, for example,
has only Is of foreign birth among every
1000 of her population. Since 1876 the
German element has very largely increased,
at which time the natives of Germany
numbered only 1904, but now they mum.
Der 81, 1870.
Ruskin says "there is in every animals
eye dim image and CLEAN of humanity, a
flash OF strange light, through which
their life looks up to our great mystery of
command over them, and claims the fellow
ship of the creature if not of the SOUL"
That seems to be very true, and yet some-
times man notices this dim image and
CLEAN IN the eye of q strange dog in q for
eign orchard, where the trees are too high
to climb and the fence is too distant to
reach; and the discouraging thought comes
over him with duli, sickening thud, that
that dog has just formulated new theory
on the great mystery of our command over
him, and is going to prove it in just about
two minutes. Then all the fellowship that
man feels for the creature in the dog you
can put in your eye, be the same more or
less, with all the appurtenances thereunto
spPertsining. Il Burlington Hswkeye.
- " a doubtful friend is worss than Ger
tain enemy" and vica versa certain friend
IS lg-tiuitetv better Than a Coubtsui euerny.