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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-05-08
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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-05-08

GRADUATE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF BER-
W lin, Germany. Office and residence, No. 52l
street, between Fifth and Sixth, Sacramento Office
hours-9 to IL A. NJ, 3 to and Z TO SPM m13-tf
Morning journal and courier., 1883-06-09
COMMUNICATIONS.
The soIdIers' Memorial.

To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER:
The agitation now going on concerns both
the good name of our city of the present and
that of the great future. 1t has been grow
ing wonder with people who have travelled
much, that with our many other and great
advantages there has never been established
here free public library, where the artisans
as well as the men of art and literature and
finance, where men of science as well as
the poor widow and children could
each and all have free and untramelled
access to its great stores of wisdom, and the
results of learning could be had for the ask
ing, as in the great Astor library or the great
public library of Philadelphia or many others
which might be mentioned. 1 am very well
convinced that great majority of the think
ing and taxpaying citizens and voters of the
city will be willing to be taxed for this pur-
pose, but will not be willing to be taxed for
the purpose of simply a shaft of stone which
can give nothing of benefit either to the
present or to future generations.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-06-09
More Sarcasm.

To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER:
The views of Judge Sheldon concerning
the erection of memorial building in place
of the proposed Soldiers monument strike
US as being sound and sensible, and worthy
of consideration by the committee having
the matter in charge. By all means let us
have something which, while 1t serves to
memorize the deeds of the gallant and pa
triotic men who laid down their lives in the
Unions defense, will at the same time be of
some public utility, and nothing will carry
out this idea better than a memorial build
ing. The expenditure of $4,000 in the
erection of mere pile of stone will not, it
seems to us, carry that satisfaction with it
which will naturally result in the
erection of building where the
Grand Army posts can have a hall
for their business meetings, where q public
library can be instituted, and where some of
the relics Of the late war can be safely kept
for exhibition. If we must have a monu-
ment and our public Greea is too precious a
spot for such q pile to occupy, I would sug-
gest that it be erected in the middle of the
harbor, using the new breakwater for base
which, in our opinion, would be visited and
viewed by quite as many people from out of
town as such pile would if placed on the
top of East Rock. Being too unsightly an
object for the Green it does not matter
A1ucA WAo10 IL Ii 1OcetteOs 50 sASe IL Is WAoES
it viii not be often seen, to unpleasantly re-
mind us of the transitoriness of all things
earthly, and of the end of human
aspirations and pleasures and designs.
Other cities in the Union, perhaps quite as
intelligent as New Haven, do not scruple to
erect soldiers monuments in their public
squares, but the people of our city seem to
be possessed of more esthetic sense in this
particular Our first choice, as we have said
before, would be memorial building, but if
we cannot have that and must have monu-
ment, and the Green is too good place for
it, let it be erected either on the breakwater
at South End (perhaps the old lighthouse
could be fixed up to answer the purpose) or
out in the north woods. Anything that will
not offend the esthetic sense of the people of
our University city. VETERAN.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-06-09
AIbany's Unique Factory.
How They Make Billiard Balls cut
Ivory Substitutes.

| Ivory S%Obt1Eube6s
| The Albany Argus says The manufacture
| of billiard balls from celluloid and bonsilate
| is a peculiar industry, from the fact that the
| only factory of the kind in the world is in
| this city. A large proportion of the balls now
made are of celluloid, but only for the reason
that the machinery is not as well adapted to
| the manufacture of bonsilate balls. The
| time Is coming, however, when all balls will
| be made of the latter material The cellu-
loid which is received in white sheets, is first
| cut into small square pieces abou tive eighths
of an inch in size. These are placed into
mouIds previously heated by steam to the
proper temperature.
They are then placed in the hydraulic
presses, and, with pressure of from ], 800 to
2, 900 pounds to the square inch, are roughly
moulded, heat at the same time being applied
Ths various positions of the blocks IN the
mold give the peculiar mottled appearance
when finished Experiments have been made
by grinding the celluloid to a powder, and
using it in that form, but nothing has sue
ceeded SO we'll as the present method. After
being taken from the molds, the balls are
turned absolutely spherical by an exceedingly
ingenious device. The processes IN the man
ufacture of bonsiIate balls are quite different
in many respects. The material is placed In
the molds in powder, and the balls after
being roughly pressed up, considerably lar
ger than the required size, are covered with
rubber and tin foil, to prevent the material
from being injured by water and are then
placed under water pressure. By
means of this, which is the only machine or
the kind in existence, the balls are placed un-
der pressure of from 5000 to 1000 pounds
to the square inch. The water touching the
ball at every point, and the pressure being
equally transmitted, the result is perfectly
pressed sphere, of just the same specific gray
ity in one spot as another. Without this
apparatus the successful manufacture of bill
lard balls from bonsilate would have been
impossible. A simple but ingenious contriv-
ance is also employed to ascertain when the
balls are perfectly poised or balanced. They
are first weighed, and are then placed in
fiat dish of mercury. This subtle fluid de-
tects the slightest shade of inaccuracy, and
the balls are put in the lathe and corrected
until they absolutely true. Not only bill
lard but pool and bagatelle balls are made.
The prices at which they are sold are far be-
low those charged for ivory, ranging from
$3.50 to $13. so per set of fourballs for bill
lizards, and from $26 to $50 per set of 16
ho1I
Morning journal and courier., 1883-06-09
,aournal ana Courier.
SINGLE COPIES THREE CENTS.
Saturday, June 8, 1888.
A MEMORIAL BUILDING.

| 1 EENtO2NLAA nO4AD1N0s
We repeat that if we are to have a monu-
ment to perpetuate the memory of our dead
soldiers it should be placed in some conspicu-
GUS place in the new Park. But perhaps We
shall not have monument after all. The
arguments in favor Of a memorial building
seem to us stronger than those in favor of a
monument monument would, of course,
in this generation, be dear to many and in
teresting to all as the embodiment of feel
ing of gratitude or sorrow for the dead SOL
diers. But in less than generation it would
practically cease to be interesting and scarce
ly attract attention. Who, for instance,
takes any special interest in Dixwell's monu-
ment on the Green or the Ledyard monu-
ment at Groton? monument is, as our
esteemed contemporary, the Register, sug-
gests, very common thing. Indeed, there
is no sort of memorial less likely to attract
attention for any great length of time. The
best way to perpetuate the memory of our
dead soldiers is to connect it with some insti-
tuition of constant and permanent usefulness
which will meet general want, will be dear
alike to all classes and will be constantly Wis
tied by the people. What institution will SO
comp letely serve this purpose as memorial
library? Where would the names of the SOL
diers be more often seen and read than upon
a memorial tablet placed in such library?
The money thus expended, besides helping
to meet the greatest public want now felt in
New Haven, would preserve the fame and
recall the example of those who fell in battle
as nothing else could.
1t has been suggested that the old State
House be turned into memorial library
building or that one be erected on its site.
What is needed on the Green is not more
buildings-not monuments or structures of
any kind-but more room. We do not want
more buildings there, but less of them.
Nothing is SO desirable, nothing SO delightful
and refreshing in the center of city as
green sward. There is no building however
elegant, that can be erected on the site of
the State House that will compensate for its
room. We shall spend no time in trying to
convert those to our opinion who think the
old State House is a delightful object and
who prefer an imitation of Greek architec-
ture composed of cobbIe stones and plaster
to the square yards of turf of which it robs
the Green. By all means let us build the
memorial library, but do not let US impair its
value by depriving ourselves through it of
part of our Green.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-06-09
WORR lying

sNo," said the boy, cit amt SO much that
1 didn't get any strawberries cause I was
late to supper that worries me. What breaks
my heart is to think that Jack got my share" J"
Boston Post.
Mrs Lille Devereux Blake describes wo-
man as ''the grand crowning act of creative
power" Let's hear what Mr. Blake has to
say about it. He's lived with her. Detroit
Free Press.
Little Jhonny says that all men do not belong
to the animal kingdom. For instance, there
is the circus proprietor. He doesn't belong
to the animal kingdom, but the animal king
dom belongs to him.-Boston Transcript.
B. F. Taylor says "a poet of the rude
northern frozen nations is called 'scald,
because, perhaps, that is the pleasantest
thing man can think of who has to fight
frost for a life time Huntington Hawk
eye.
Edith The fact that you do not know
what s'rock salt" is shows that you have
never kept house. Rock salt comes in little
bags labeled ''best family table SALT 1t has
to be pounded with fatiron before you can
get any Philadelphia News.
Peanut Flirtation.-Breaking the shell
gently-I am mashed on you. Crushing it
savagely-Why will you break my heart !?
Slipping the shell into the pocket-We must
be secret Throwing it away-You are fired
alone. Eating it mincingly-Go slow. Toss
ing it up and catching it dexterously in the
mouth-Some other evening.
Barnum's assertion that Jumbo is still
growing is evidently true. Now we see by a
picture of him in western paper that Jum-
bo, as he walks along the street. lifts up his
trunk and accepts buns from the painters on
church steeples. Still there's one thing
about the picture that looks suspicious
How does it happen that the painters have
buns up there Boston Post.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-06-09
RECENT PUBLICATIONS.

Beyond Recall y by Adeline Sergeant, is
Holt & Co. 1t is very entertaining novel
dealing with the English colony in Alexan-
dria during the Arab disturbances and the
bombardment of the city. It is well written,
the love affairs are tangled and sufficiently
tragic and it has the two great advantages of
being short and in good print. For sale in
this city by Judd the bookseller.
wanda, Countess Won Szalras," by ''Oui-
da," is story of Russian life told with the
authors wonted power. A critic well says of
the book: ''Here, as in former tales, her
inimltable style, her brilliant descriptions,
her appeals to the Imagination, the gorgeous
coIoring of her scenes, the vixidness of her
characterizations facsinste.. the reader, though
he disapprove of the morals or want of them,
which mars SO much of the work Of this tai
ented author. Wanda is, however, compare
lively free from such Questionable qualities.
The hero is the illegitimate SON of Russian
prince, whose father, having reared him lux
uriously, dies, leaving him penniless and un-
acknowledged. Fortune. however, fayors
him, and among her bounties gives him
high-born and noble wife, whom he marries
under an assumed name, and whose love for
him continues until, his secret being be-
trayed, she spurns him, banishes him from
her home, and does not forgive him until he
is dying, when in a scene rendered with ex-
ceeding tenderness they are reconciled. -
Published by j. B. Lippincott & Co., phila-
delphia, and for sale in this city by Judd the
bookseller.
1.-THE Led-Horse Claim A Romance of
Mining Camp" by Mary Hallock Foote.
which was first given to the public in she
Century Magazine, is now published in book
form by James R. Osgood Co., Boston. 1t
is vigorous and interesting romance of
mining life, and is not inferior to some of
Bret Harte's stories. For sale in this city by
Judd, the bookseller.
"Daniel Webster, y by Henry Cabot Lodge,
is added to the American Statesmen series,
Morning journal and courier., 1883-06-09
Some Sarcasm.

To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER:
Would it not be wise for those who favor
in place of a Soldiers monument the erection
of building I" where the greatest political
leaders, can ''address the people," ''while
round them hang the portraits of all the
glorious patriots, ETC., to consider what halls
the city can offer them now for that purpose?
Carll's might possibly be purchased and dec
GRATED with such photographs as could
be obtained as memorials. The State
House would hardly furnish room
enough, but we have a good many
audience rooms that might be made to an
swer Indeed, here and there in different 10
calities small halls might be rented for that
purpose, s'where political leaders, could
hold forth and an occasional allusion to
"dead heroes and ''heart's blood" would an
swer all that the present generation seems to
think necessary for Soldiers monument
Morning journal and courier., 1883-06-09

published by Houghton, Miffin & Co., Bos-
ton. Mr.. Lodges review of Webster's career
Is very sympathetic and readable, but it is
also critical. ellis moral character" says
Mr.. Lodge, "was not equal to his intel
lectual force. He was deficient in that inten-
sity of conviction which carries men beyond
and above all triumphs of craftsmanship and
makes them the embodiment of the great
moral forces which move the world. If Mr..
Webster's moral power had equalled his in
tellectual greatness, he would have had no
rival in our history" For sale in this city
by H. 81. Peck.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-06-09
GIadstOne's Retirement.


Up to the present session Mr.. Gladstone
overcame all the difficulties of his position by
determined energy. He was always on the
Treasury Bench, and when there nothing es-
caped his notice This session his energy
seems to be overpowered by desire to with
draw entirely from public business. He
takes, when present, very languld interest
in what is passing before him, and seems to
contemplate the scene as though he were a
philosopher watching with calm Indifference
matters which no longer concern him His
friends ask each other, will he retire to-day,
tomorrow, or at the end of the session !? ALI
observe rsgretfully the disintegration OF the
Liberal party, and no one knows precisely
what to do. This state of things cannot, and
ought not to, continue. No one has more
sincere admiration for Mr.. Gladstone than L
have. No one is more proud to fght-a
humble soldier-under his banner. 1 regard
him as the best ministers that England has
had for many day. I and many others are
willing to subordinate our opinions upon
many things to our sense of gratitude and f.
deity to him for having done so much for
the Liberal cause, and for having marshaled
us to victory at the last general election. We
recognize that he is head and shoulders above
US all. If he will lead us we are contented
to follow. But if he wishes to withdraw
from the leadership, we fully admit his right
to do so. When man has served his coun-
W
plain if he chooses to give up active political
life. All that we plead is that he should
make up his mind. Doubt and hesitation are
fatal to US as party. Whenever Mr.. Glad
stone does retire Lord Granville will proba-
bly, succeed him as Prime Minister, and Lord
Harrington as leader of the House of Com
mons. Radicals do not entertain very high
estimate of LOrd Granvilles political opinions,
which, no doubt, are whiggish. They would,
however, be ready to accept Lord Harrington
in the House of Commons provided that he
makes himself the executive officer of their
views. Measures, not men, is their creed,
and they are fully determined to stand no
whig nonsense. They decline to be hum
bugged with mere party appellations. If a
Liberal Ministry shows Conservative tenden-
cies they will overturn it. If they had to
choose their leader he would probably be
Mr.. Chamberlain, or, in default of him, Mr..
ChiIders, who is far abler man than is gen.
orally supposed, and who, when at the Anti
podes, proved himself to be sound Radical.
We're there a dissolution at present. am in
clined to think that the Conservatives would
have a very good chance of securing the VIC
tory. 1t is still probable that the Conserva-
tives and the Irish combined would have a
majority. The Liberals have been beaten
more than once during the present session,
and they are by no means unlikely to be bea-
ten more than once again. Their majority
in the present Parliament is rotten one; 1t
will not stand any strain. They have one
trump card in their pack, and they must play
it, or they will lose the game.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-06-09
ssThe Land Afar OF.7

land wherein bleak winter doth not reign,
But always summer, sweet unto the CORE
Where broken hearts are knit in love again,
And weary souls shall wander out no more;
Where bliss is greater for all woe before
Where fair flowers blow without earthis sad decay,
And friendships happy voices, as of yore-
But tenfeld dearer-ne'er again shall say
"Fsrewell"-but ever welcome to this shore :"
Or, HAIL, tired pilgrims, to this golden dayI"
And, "Come ye blest, to joys which will not pass
awsyI"
country in whose right our souls shall bask
A goodly heritage-where all we sought
OF hope and love, and every pleasant task
Shall center gladly-far beyond all thought
And He, the Lamb-who from all evil bought
His chosen people-shall our eyes behold,
And graciously, as when on earth He taught,
His voice shall speak again-clear, of old,
But with no ring of sorrow in Its tone
Glad presence, walking in the streets of gold
mighty King, with people all His own!
-Chambers' journal.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-06-09

Mr. E. z Robinson, an English scientific
gentleman, has made mp his mind about ''the
man of the future" and he is to be a very
unique being. He will be toothless, hair
less, slow-limbed animal, incapable of extend
ed locomotion. His feet win have no divi-
sions between the toes. He will be very
averse to fighting, and viii maintain his posi-
ton in the foremost files of time to come
solely upon the strength Of one or two pecul-
lar conYolutions in his brain.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-06-09

A will made by an inhabi tant of New Jer-
necessary at any time to dispose of portion
of my real estate for the payment of my
debts, hereby give my executors power to
do SO, either at public or private sale." The
power of sale was very large tract of land
worth $4OO, 900, the value of which would be
heavily deprecated by selling it in portions,
and purchaser of it in q body could not be
obtained except through unusual efforts. The
executors therefore determined to borrow
enough to pay the debts on mortgage on the
land, and to authorize this step
they filed a bill for the construction of
the will in the court of chancery of
New Jersey. The chancellor, in the opinion,
said: Where power of sale is given to raise
particular charge only, and the purpose
can be answered better by mortgage than by
sale, and that method is not violative of the
intention of the grantor of the power, the
former mode of raising the money should be
perferred to the latter for the obvious and
sufficient reason that it is for the advantage
of the estate that it should be adopted, and
it is within the limits of the power intended
to be preferred. It would be absurd, to say
the least of it, to adhere SO closely to the
literal terms of the grant of power as to ne
cessitate sacrifice of the property when by
q reasonable construction that could be
avoided
Morning journal and courier., 1883-06-09

According to the New York Tribune, Lii
Han Russell, the actress, has fed to Europe
with Edward Solomon, the opera writer.
The couple took passage for Europe Thurs
day, on the steamer Lydian Monarch.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-06-09

The Buffalo Common Council has a fine
sense of the fitness of things. It has by
vote of Is to passed an ordinance permit
ting the violation in that city of the criminal
code as applicable to Sunday. The appIica-
Morning journal and courier., 1883-06-09

The iron steamship Bywell Castle, which,
it will be remembered, ran down and sank the
Princess Alice, sending over six hundred per-
sons to a watery grave, has, it is believed
sunk herself. She left Alexandria January
Is, and when last reported, January 90, was
She was bound to Hull with grain cargo
and the opinion in shipping circles is that
the great vessel, being too heavily loaded to
rise to the waves, shipped heavy seas and
foundered. This is the fourth case within q
short time where British vessels have dis
appeared with all on board without any as
signable cause except that they were over
laden. Referring to this fact the London Tel
egraph asks with considerable warmth
tsWhat is the good of calling up ship
owner and Furnishing him by making him pay
the costs of an enquiry into the loss of his
ship through overlooking when the men who
for bread for themselves and families con-
sented to work his vessel are at the bottom
of the sea? The ocean keeps her dead; the
widow and the fatherless are not con1forted
by the mulcting of a shipowner." In the
missioner before whom an investigation was
held did not SO much as hint at fining the
owners of the ship, but contented himself
with ';hoping that it would be warning to
shipowners not to send vessels to sea SO
deeply laden"
Morning journal and courier., 1883-06-09
THE AWFUL PUNsTER

love to make puns
They may call me dups,
But still I'll make puns,
And the worst that can
They'll all be preserved,
Though get In a pickle,
I'll still myself tickle
With puns old and gnu.
Though men may get mad
And sheW me their shoe,
I'll still make 'enl bad;
And summary suRmer
Shall ne'er ind me dumber
Than usual in puns
That every one shuns.
No spring snail go by
When I shall not try
To speak about leaving,
Although I'll ne'er leave,
Whoe'er it may grieye
That stay and make puns.
In winter I'll stay,
In my happiest way,
"Snow use" and write frieze,
To again myself please;
And the days will be cold
When make not some old
And appropriate puns.
So, gents, all your guns
May GO off, but I shsn'ti
As long as the sun
Revolves, shall pun
Louisville Courler-Journa
Morning journal and courier., 1883-06-09

The Iowa Democrats did not take the crafty
announced themselves as squarely in favor
of a tariff for revenue only and condemned
the tariff legislation of last winter. What
can be done with such harmonious Demo-
Gratis as those of Iowa2
Morning journal and courier., 1883-06-09
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Governor Butler fears that the Unitarian
influence of Harvard viii harm his beloved
Massachusetts,. Hal Ha!