Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-12-25
A GENUINE PANoRAMA


With a cut and dried little speech ac-
companying, telling just how it really
is it was a good little speech, too, only
speeches explanatory Of panOramas are
always amusing. The pictures worked
up to a climax, and that climax of
course was the volcanoes. The end Of
the lava flow near the town of Hilo was
the most real representation of de-
strOying force III nature broken loose,
that can be imagined. The eXplainer
explained that lava does not follow any
of the laws that govern the flowing of
water. The rapidly cooling outer sur
face makes a pipe through which the
fiery mass runs up hill as well as down,
and crosses a ravine as easily as it fol-
lows it. The picture represented a
very peaceful meadow upon which the
wide black stream Of lava sprawled like
an evil ungainly monster with a wicked
fiery tongue. Even the picture of the
Halemaumau," the House of Ever
lasting Burning, one red burning sea,
could not compare in desolation with
the end of the lava flow.
MISS COEsON-THE COOKING ART, ETC.
Miss Corson has delivered her last
lecture in Oakland, and there will be no
class in cookery in San Francisco. Miss
CorsOn is an enthusiast on the subject
OF teaching wholesome cooking to the
children Of working people, and not by
any means content with teaching ladies
how to make ice-cream and angel-cake.
All the same, the San Francisco ladies'
cannot fully appreciate what Miss Cor
son Is, or they would never allow her to
return to the East without giving her a
call to lecture here. The Industrial
Committee of the Board of Education
has, under the most favorable consider
alton, a proposition to introduce practi
cal cooking into the course at the High
School in Oakland. | saw Miss Corson
deliver a demonstration lecture before
! the girls Of the High School, calling up
one after another OF the children to help
her, which they did extremely well.
| She believes in an inbOrn capacity for
domestic employments in girls and
women, and that ever so much woe and
discomfort and agony could be saved if
they were taught Systematically while
they were young and receptive, which
Is a very good theory. There are talents
and talents. Miss jaime Lucas is eX-
hibiting an oil painting at one OF the
galleries, which is attracting a great
deal of attention. 1t is about five feet
by four, and Is gorgeous with trailing
silk {; the metallic plumes Of peacock,
the whole bird, standing with his sweep
ing tail hanging over the edge of the
table where he has perched upon two
old books bound in vellum. Near by
stands vase full of dried grasses and
rushes. The work is capital; strong
and bold and appreciative in making
the most of the richness of her materi-
ais. | see yOu have had the
CoADJUToR ARCHBISHOP RIoRDAN
In your city. He is singularly grace
full and natural speaker, and has a
beautifully clear cut accent, due to his
training in New Brunswick. | had the
good fortune to meet him in the episco-
pal residence, next door to the cathe-
dral, the other day. He was dressed in
a long robe OF some soft black material,
a little heavier than cashmere, with but
tons and worked button-holes of red. A
rich plain gold cross hung from a chain
round his neck, and a high black silk
cap, III IHTee ulNlSions, duoTueu HIS
head. 1t was very pretty TO see a young
girl, a daughter of an enthusiastic
Catholic family, reverently kiss his hand
calling him Your grace" One does
not need to be a Roman Catholic to see
a great deal of picturesqueness in the
externals of the faith. and Archbishop
Riordan's is a highly picturesque figure
among the older and less impressive
priests to whom we have been accus-
toned SO long. PHLIP SaIRLEY.