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Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-02
TAD LINCOLN'S FAsT-pAY PICNIC.

IHO LIN COLH'S FAST Y PICNlC.
If there was ever a boy in danger Of
be- lg spoiled" it was the youngest son
of President Lincoln. Much of the
time it was impossible that he should
not be left to run at large. He was
foolishly caressed and petted by people
who wanted favors of his father, and
who took this way of making friend III
the family, as they thought; and he was
living In the midst of O most exciting
epoch in the country's history, when a
boy in the White House was in strange
and somewhat unnatural atmosphere.
But am bound to say that Tad, al
though he doubles shad his wits sharp
ened by being in such strange sur
rounding, was never anything else,
while knew him, but boisterous, roll
licking and absolutely real boy.
Great was Tad's curiosity, in 1864, to
know what was meant by the Presi-
dents proclamation for day of fasting
and prayer. His inquiries were not
satisfactorily answered, but from the
servants he learned, to his dismay, that
there would be nothing eaten in the
White House from sunrise to sunset on
Fast day. The boy. who was blessed
with vigorous appetite, took measures
to escape from the rigors of the day. It
happened that, just before Fast day
came, the family carriage was brought
out of its house to be cleaned and put
in order. Tad stood by, with feelings of
alarm, while general overhauling of
the vehicle went on, the coachman dust
ing, rubbing and pulling things about,
quite unconscious of Tad's anxious
watch on the proceedings. Pretty soon,
drawing out queer-looking bundle
from one of the boxes under the seat,
the man brought to light a part of a
loaf of bread, some bits of cold meat,
and various other fragments of food
from the larder. Tad, now ready to
burst with anger and disappointment,
cried, "Ohl OIL give that up, I sayl
That's my Fast-day p'cnicl' The poor
lad, from dread of going hungry, had
cautiously hidden, from day to day, a
portion OF food against the day of fast
ing, and had stood by while his hoard
was in danger, hoping that it might es-
cape the eyes of the servants.
He was consoled by a promise from
his mother, to whom he ran with his
tale of woe, that he should not suffer
hunger on Fast day, even though his
father, the President, had proclaimed
day of fasting, humiliation and prayer
for al the people.-Noah Brooks, in
81. Nicholas.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-02

HARVARD COLLEGE, proper has been
living beyond its income for four
years to the average amount of $12, 800
year. The deficit for 1S80-S1, amount
ing to 1874, 1919, is the largest the
college has ever incurred.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-02
THE PILLOW-sHAM HOLDER.

Some enemy of mankind has recently
invented an Internal machine known as
the pillow-sham holder, which is at
tached to the head of the bedstead and
works with spiral spring. tits kind
of refined towel rack on which you
hang your pillow shams at night, so
they won't get busted by the man of
the house. The man of the house gen
orally gets the pillow shams down under
his feet when he undresses and polishes
off his cunning little toes on the lace
poultice on which his wife prides her.
self. The pillow-sham holder saves all
this. You just yank your pillow sham
off the bed and hang it on this high
toned sham holder, where it rests all
night. At least that's the intention.
After little while, however, the spring
gets weak and the holder buckles, too,
or whatever you may call it, at the
most-unexpected moment. The slight
est movement on the part of the occu-
pant of the bed turns loose the pillow
.ham holder and the slumberer gets it
across the bridge of his or her nose, as
the case may be. Sometimes the Vi
bration caused by a midnight snore will
unhinge this weapon of the devil, and
it will whack the sleeper across TIE
features In way that scares him almost
to death. If you think it is a glad sur
prise to get lick across the perceptive
faculties in the middle of o sound slum-
Der, when you are dreaming of elysium
and high-priced peril, and such things
as that, just try the death-dealing pill
low-sham holder, and then report in
writing 10 the Chairman of the Execu-
tive Committee. It is well calculated
to fill the soul with horror and amaze.
A raven black Saratoga wave, hanging
on the back OF chair, has lean known
to turn white in single night as the
result OF the sudden kerfluramix of one
Of these cheerful articles OF furniture.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-02
1.-THE B1N1.

Clerk What do you wish, sir?"
Ruffian- Why, I just dropped in to
e voa that I'm the man that knocked
osn and robbed your cashier"
Clerk Vel, sir, I'm very sorry;
II you'll have to identify yourself.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-02
Il MIN WITHOUT FEAR.

Every often," said an old British Off
Ger of marines, bravery only means the
devil getting into you, for the time.
You lose your head-and your fears.
Now the bravest man / ever saw, or
knew, was a convicted thief. He had
smuggled himself into the marines
somehow, without letting it be known
that he was tickes-of-leaFe man. Ny
Lieutenant had once TO take my men
asher to garrison, temporarily, small
fort near Gargenti, in Sicily, and among
tin. m was the ex-thief. Hardly were
our men landed and in command OF the
guns than two of the enemy's ships hove
in sight, and soon they were launching
landing party under cover of the
ships guns. We were but a handful.
and no match for the boatfuls attack
ing us. Our FIRE was kept up steadily,
but so was the fire from the ships. The
men in the fort were dropping fast.
Tie thief had leg smashed AZ last
Il am forced to confess 1.-THE two or
three marines who had still whole skins
took te their heels into the scruhwood
behind. Poor chaps, there was some
excnse. Certain death was crawling
up the hill upon them in that landing
party, which neared the rampant with
rounds of cheers. Shamel' cried the
thief after his running comrades, and
up he got, loaded gun and fred it
right in the enemy's face, just two sec
d Us before q sword thrust put him for
ever out of pain from his broken leg.
The man had always been a sneaking
elbow on Eoard, and we were surprised
noEg,i at. the heroism of his end.
When lis loss was reported home it
..n.e out through some relative that he
Nes convict. Poor wretch! lie made
piucky ending, at any rate
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-02

EXPERIENCE is trophy composed of
all the weapons that we have besn
youndad with
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-02
MALFORMATYO. s CAUSED BIZ BID
SHIES.

The chief surgeon OF the Swiss tel
eral army declares that the Swiss ex
aiming surgeons are compelled to re-
iect every year 800 recruits-the
strength of battalicn-for malforma
ton of the foot resulting from wearing
badly-ftting shoes. The human foot Isl
in reality, a bow SO elastic that at every
step it expands and contracts, lengthens
and shortens. A line drawn through
the center OF the great toe should inter
sect the heel But, despite all the books
which have ever been written on the
anatomy of the organ in question,
those whose bu mess it is to cover it act
as if the foot were solid piece CT me-
charism. They cabin, crib and confine
the big toe, which requires room for
lateral expansion, until it is forced
against IFS neighbors and is tortured by
corns, lsunions, and sometimes painful
inf nm ation of the joints. Flat foot
edness is due to many ca1ses connected
with impronsr V made shoes; yet, If
people would insist Oh their foot gear
l,a.us con<truc 81 sr IS to wv their
toes free act on and the instep it's due
pay, it would be li5s possible to cure
tie mischief
a pair OF perfect shoes, the Swiss
NJ. deal Colonel contends, should, when
placed together, touch only at the toes
and heels; the soles should follow the
sinuosities of the feet, and, to give
room to their expansion, should exceed
them by about one "size." The pecul
lar, awkward running gait of women and
Zig girls is due to weak kneedness
charac eristic Of the sex, owing to the
different way the upper supports of
tLeir limbs grow as they approach ma
tn ity. This condition is well seen in
pictures and statues, and forces the wom-
an in running to move the knees
around each other, and throw the feet
out in a succession of small serni-circles.
In men, on the contrary, the knee-cap
looks a little outward, instead of
straight forward, and their knees are
Guite free. The result Of the high
eeled, hieh-legged ! cots now Ia vogue
for women is to render the natural con-
dition deformity, and, By throwing the
weight o. the body on the inner ankle,
TO break down the arch of the foot, and
FRO nee lit foot .. complete e7enness
of one o. Dot'l fees.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-01-09
THE CHIPS PARTY STORY.

The Arctic traveller, Mr.. KEENAN,, has
undertaken to demonstrate that the story
of the finding of the two members of
Lieutenant Chips party, belonging to
the Jeanette, cannot possibly be true. 1t
must be admitted that Mr.. KEENAN, makes
out very plausible case, and yet we think
it may be worth while to suspend judg-
ment for while. For, however many OBJ
jections to the story may be shown, it is
still possible that the author of it has been
stating facts. We have seen great many
disproofs of travellers stories by learned
persons who were rot within ten thousand
miles of the scene. We remember how
poor Du Chaillu was set upon when he
declared that he had encountered the
gorilla, and how many scientific skeptics
tbereupon undertook to prove that there
could be no ouch animal. We remember
also how, when Victor Hugo wrote his
description of the poulpe, or devilfish, in
"The Toilers of the Sea" he also was
bounced upon, and informed that his
monster was fabulous. Presently, how
ever, some fishermen of Newfoundland
killed poulpe having tentacles thirty feet
long, and from which no single man could
have escaped had the creature once seized
him. There have been a great many con-
elusive disproofs of travellers tales, in
fact, and large proportion of these dis
proofs have turned out to be fallacious.
For this, among other reasons, and not
withstanding the great knowledge of Mr..
KEENAN,, it may be as well to wait little
before deciding upon the question.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-01-09
PASSENGER LISTS,

OMAHA, January Sth.-Left here to-day, tt
arrive in Sacramento January 18th: e. T.
b. Mill. San Francisco Jerome Hosfsrd
Cincinnati; B. III. Milton. New York Miss
DERRICK, San Francisco /; e. b. Couant, Mil
waukee; George Darward, Canada; Bruce
L. Curtis, Baltimore.
Twenty.one through em:grants left on last
nights emigrant train, to arrive in Sacra
mento January 18th.
CARL1N January Ssh.-Passed here to-day
to arrive in Sacramento tomorrow @. a
Barlow, wife and child. Manchester, Eng
land Mr.. ard Mrs. William Walker, n
Blake and wife, Stevens Point, Wis; NJ
Daily, Butte City, Mont; Thomas NJ. Hus
ton, Sanford, Canada; L. Samuel Portland
Or; Charles Hall, +. W. Ciements, Mrs
man, San Francisco; Mr.. and Mrs, w
Duval Philadelphia William Smith, EGG.
land N. M. King, Promontory, Utah; Mary
V. Smith. Cincinr att; Mrs. E. q. Epson and
child, Chico; William Master, Scotland; Ii
3. Bottsford, Salt Lake, Utah: J. D. Gard
ner and family, Cheyenne, Wy. T.; AZ emf
grant passengers, including 81 males, to ar,
rive in Sacramento January 10th.
NEwHALL, January Ssh.-Passed here TO-
day, to arrive in San Francisco tomorrow
Mrs. S. NJ. De Groot, New York; Miss F
E. Webster. Boston Mrs. p W. Sharon
Richmond g. Andrade, San Fran cis CO; II.
Ruse, Australia D. E. Rowen, wife and
child, Sacramento J. E. Aiken, Portland
Or; J. l.. Peterson. Los Angeles; l.. j
Moyse. Wilcox, A. t.: s. Linkton. A. E.
Castle, San Francisco; Governor j. G.. Dow
ney and wife, Los Angeles; A. G.. Gusson
Ogden, Utah Dr.. G.. l.. Mathes, Cincin
natl. o.; George Romney, Salt Lake; E. M
Jewell, San Francisco; John Dundee. Silver
King, A. t.; NJ. Downing, Bloomfield, Ia.
J. H. Robbins, Portland; J. T. Stockton
Florence, A. T.; = Herman, Albuquerque
n. NJ; Mrs. l.. A. McMillen and child. Will
mington; G. o. Connell, Oakland; j. L
Hall, Pennsylvania; Lima Jacobs. San Der
nardino Louise Jones, Los Angeles.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-01-09
PRINCE KRAporK1aE's TRIAL.

Prince Krapotkine, the amateur Nihilist
and Anarchist, is to be tried in manner
which seems to afford very little opening
for the peculiar kind of tactics usually EN-.
ployed on such occasions. He will have
no jury to appeal to, but three Judges will
hear and determine the case. Under these
circumstances it is more than probable
that the Prince will be convicted, and if
he is the French Government will be apt
to send him out of the country with q
warning against return, if it does rot give
him lengthy term of imprisonment. The
latter penalty would no doubt be the more
effectual of the two, for mere Punishment
would not prevent him from plotting and
conspirings while his prosecution would of
course endear him to the elements which
have hitherto constituted his favorite
associates,
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-01-09
THIS MoRNING's NEWS.

In New York Government bonds are quoted at
1l9l for As Of 1907; 11Ss for AS; 1o2 for sss
sterling, "a s1@4 IS; silver bars, 1o9s.
Silver in London, 50sd; consols, 101 Sled; 5
per cent. United States bonds, extended, 1853 49,
1913; s3s, 1l6I.
In San Francisco Mexican dollars are quoted at
1896 cents
There was quite an active business in mining
stocks in San Francisco yesterday morning. The
sales were larger than for any Monday morning in
long time. Apparently the bulk of the activity
came from the selling interest Prices were gen
orally lower than Saturday.
In San Francisco yesterday, William Pierson, re-
sisting arrest was shot dead by officer Michaels.
stage coach upset near Prescstt, A. T., yester
day, injuring nine passengers, two seriously.
During 1882 the new buildings erected in Chicago
cost SIC 600 COO.
Oregon and California are to be reimbursed fol-
moneys paid out in connection with the Modoc war
The citizens of Lyons, France, have contributed
81 900 to the Garfield Hospital fund.
William Laporte a resident of Monterey since
1s49 died there yesterday.
In runaway accident near Monterey, Mr.. Mon
roe, of Sacramento, had shoulder dislocated.
Two masked men entered a house IN Oakland yes
terday and shot both the occupants father and son,
the former fatally.
Large quantities of oysters are being shipped to
London ard Paris from New York.
John Diego was thrown from wagon and fatally
injured near Centervile, Alameda county, yesterday
The anniversary OF the battle Of New Orleans was
celebrated yesterday at New York, Boston and
other places
Gladstone is suffering from overwork.
Play fair has resigned his seat in the British House
OF Commons.
The Democrats of the Sixth Louisiana District
have nominated Bennett v Lewis for Congress.
The San Francisco city officials turned over the
offices to their successors yesterday.
George W. Click was inaugurated Governor OF
Kansas yesterday.
The General Assembly Of Arkansas organized yes.
terdey in Little Rock.
At autopsy is to be held on the remains of Gen.
eral Chanzy
The Project Of Madrid has rendered his resigna.
ton.
Fire in Minneapolis, MINI; also at Easton, Me.
Sir Charles Dixie has been reelected to Parla-
ment
The opening of the Yellowstone National Park is
announced to take place next June.
A Montreal grave-robber has been captured with
a"cadaver" in his possession.
In a railroad accident yesterday near Cedar Falls,
Iowa, several persons were hurt.
Smallpox is raging in Roanoke county, Virginia.
]. Edward Monk and his wife committed suicide
in Detroit Sunday
Two butchers of Reading, Pa, have been selling
the meat of hogs which had been bitten by mad
dogs and died of the rabies.
E. J. Baldwin's condition is more favorable, and
his 81 cousin has been held in 50, 600 bail.
The death of Chief Justice John W. May, of the
Boston Municipal Court, is hourly expected.
A three-year old girl was found hanging by the
neck, dead, near Watsonville yesterday.
carload of carp to be sent to the Pacific coast
in few days
Hon. Lot NJ. Morrill, is on his deathbel at
Augusta, Maine.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-01-09
NOT VERY EXTRAORDINARY.

A case is reported from Toronto of a
sudden development of insanity in all the
daughters of family, the mother of which
has for some time been insane, though
never sent to an asylum. She had been
kept at home, and attended by three
grown-up daughters, and suddenly these
latter manifested mental alteration of a
marked type. This is spoken of as very
extraordinary case, but there are many
quite similar ones recorded. OF course
there had been latent mania in all these
young women, and probably they had all
been regarded as eccentric for some time.
They inherited their insanity, and alienists
know that the nearest connexions of insane
people ara often almost as mad as, and
much more troublesome than, the patients
themselves.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-01-09

1t does not teach pluck and endurance.
Ali it teaches is to look with absolute in
difference, or, what is still worse, with pos
tive pleasure, upon the sufferings of others.
In short, these are amusements which every
civilized community has found it necessary
to prohibit, and it is an insult to the Legis-
lature Of California, as wellas to the people
of Sacramento, that it should have been
thought perfectly safe and certainly profit
able to open cock. pit in this city simulta-
neously with the commencement of the
session. There is in San Francisco So
ciety for the Prevention Of Cruelty to
Animals, and to Mr.. Nathaniel Hunter, its
worthy and energetic Secretary, we
specially commend this matter, as one
which he may find it his DUTY to investi.
gate, if the local authorities ars not sufti-
GENTLY concerned to gee that the law is
enforced
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-01-09
THE LOSS OF TIE CITY OF BRUs-
Sells.

The loss of the splendid Inman passenger
steamer City of Brussels, by collision with
another steamer, narrowly missed being
an appalling disaster. Had the collision
occurred little earlier, when all the pas.
sengers would have been asleep, there can
be no doubt that the loss of life would
have been very much greater. Great
praise is evidently due to the Captain,
officers and crew fof their steady discipline,
self-possession, and care for the lives in
trusted to them. The Captain appears to
have taken every precaution in his power
to insure the safety Of his ship, and there.
fore all the responsibility rests upon the
master of the other steamer, which ran into
the City of Brussels. 1t is noteworthy
that the escape of any of the crew and
passengers of the latter is attributable
mainly to the construction of the ship in
compartments. Though the hull was cut
down to the waters edge, and almost in
two, it foated for twenty minutes. A
vessel without compartments would have
gone down like stone in one minute after
the collision.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-01-09
SAN FRANCISCO ITEMS.

A banquet was given to Sheriff John
Sedgwick by his deputies Saturday night.
The amount of taxes from all sources
collected the present fiscal year by the Tax
Collector is g, AIS, ASS 45.
Police Judge Webb has appointed Ed
ward A. Girvin shorthand reporter of his
Court, vice Frank w. Cherry.
Monday morning about l As, Nellie Kon.
nelly, aged Is years, and Lizzie Ward,
aged Is, were arrested by officers Gillon,
TENNIS and Bourgouis at the corner OF
Francisco and Mason streets. They were
found in saloon drunk.
E. J. LIE Breton, administrator of the
estate of Theodore Leroy, deceased, has
brought suit against Sallie Hinckley, under
the name of Sallie A. Roundy, to recover
s., 662 25, money loaned to the defendant
by Leroy during the last year of his life.
The State Board of Harbor Commission.
ers las notified the Board of Supervisors
that the Ecow used by the Odorless Exca.
waiting Company is not towed to deep water
and there emptied, as required by law, and
has become a nuisance, which must be
abated.
The Stanford and Occident trottinp
stakes closed on January lst, the first with
twelves nominations and the latter with
thirty. Both stakes ale for foals of 1881,
the Occident being trotted at Sacramento
during the State Fair, and the Stanford
the third Saturday in October of this year.
The first money order of the American
Express Company received in San Francisco,
arrived Saturday, and was honored imme.
diately on presentation at Wells, Fargo &
Co.'S. These orders can be collected at any
of Wells, Fargo Co.'S offices, but the sys-
tenn of issuing them has not yet been intro
sum lss..sSer than $40 is issued, and the
charge for this sum is 10 cents, the same
as the United States Government charges
for postal money order of equal amount.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-01-09
CRUEL AND sARBARous ADJUSTMENTS

It is no secret that pit has been set up
in this city for the purpose of dog and
cock. fighting, and that already exhibitions
of the kind have been given. 1t is there.
fore in order to point out that these amuse.
ments are made illegal both by State law
and by a municipal ordinance of Sacra-
mento, and it at the same time becomes
necessary to inquire why the law and the
ordinance referred to are not enforced
promptly. Cock-fghting and dog. fighting
are emphatically cruel and barbarous
amusements. They are brutal and EN-.
bruting. They minister directly to the
most savage and uncivilized tendencies.
They teach horrible indifference to suffer.
ing. They are in all respects fit only for
barbarians and roughs, and it is disgrace.
full for any civilized or self.respecting man
to take an interest in them. The spologists
for these beastly and bloody contests have
always been fond of expatiating upon the
good they do in giving lessons in pluck
"and endurance" But this is all fustian,
and cant of the worst kind. The spectacle
of dogs and birds fighting with
cultivated ferocity, mangling and
torturing one another, can only de-
moralize all who witness it. 1t
arouses in the spectators the passions
and the inclinations of brutes. They fling
aside their humanity, and by their yells
and bowls show that they are for the time
being no whit higher in point of develop.
ment than the wretched animals they are
batting. No man can see one of these
combats without being the worse for it.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-01-09

TIGHTEN THE BURDENs.-Every mortal
has burdens and discomforts. By picking
the burden up fifty times day and weigh
ing it, it becomes no lighter, but rather
produces an increased sense of heaviness.
By worrying over the discomforts they be-
come none the mere comfortable, but are
harder to endure and give cause for more
and more worry and complaint. To ignore
them may be impossible; we are not called
upon to do that. But by turning the SUM-
light upon them and greeting them with
the merriest laugh, we can rise, we can
tighten them, and melt them as cakes
of ice are melted in the MONDAY sun SO
that when we look for them we fin1 they
are gone, and wonder who has carried
them away. Blessed be the sunshine that
comes with its benediction to the weary
and lightens the burden of the heavy heart.