Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-06-23
CLIPPINGS.

The will of Aaron Somers, an old Con-
necticut farmer who died last week in
Bridgeport, states that his property shall
60 ''to the worthy poor deserving white
American Protestant Democratic widows
and orphans in Bridgeport until all is ex-
pended" His estate is valued at $4,000.
The British Medical Journal says: We
often hear great deal about the dampneSs
of our climate as cause of disease, of the
respiratory organs especially, but the death
rate and the amount of rainfall do not ap-
pear TO stand III definite relationship,
whereas spell of cold weather produces
an immediate and notable effect"
DR.. Koch, who has just returned TO Ber-
lin from India, where he has discovered the
cholera gem, is described as of medium
hight, very thin, with serious, energetic,
spirituelle students face. His beard is
brown, but his hair is becoming gray, and
this, together with his glasses, makes him
seem TO be older than 40years.-[ New York
Post.
1t has been decided by the trustees of the
British Museum TO make an important
accession to the treasures of the coin de-
partment of that establishment by the
purchase Of about $500 Chinese coins
selected from the Tamba collection The
COillS iIlt VI swell IL
going back as far as the fourth or fifth
century of the Christian era.
Thaddeus Stevens gold snuff-box was
among the historical treasures sold with
the personal property of the late Mrs.
Smith, the housekeeper of the Commoncr,
in Washington the other day. The relic
bore this inscription: Ito the Hon. Thad-
deus Stevens, from Colorado Territory.
When old Thad takes snuff Colorado will
sneeze. This. box is made of Pixies Peak
gold"
The Bureau of Works and Charities of
Dr. Heber Newton's church in New York
has purchased nine acres of sea beach at
Sea Cliff n. j., and will erect six cottages
thereon. 1t cost the church $1,000, and has
been named Glen Lawn. Accommodations
will be provided for sixty persons, and it
will be devoted TO giving poor children OF
New York fresh air in Two weeks doses
without respect to creed or class. This is
true charity.
The Mississippi river appears to have
pTofited by Captain Eads' instruction as to
its powers, and has proceeded on its own
account to make new cutoff That saves a
distance of twelve miles for the largest YES
sells that enter the port of New Orleans.
The improvement has cost nothing thus
far, except the money expended many
years ago in digging an unfinished ditch
that has been taken by the river for the
new line of its course.-[ Philadelphia
Ledger.
"Arrah, Paddy dear, is Ameriky a big
counthery?n asked his wife whom he had
come after to take back to the land of the
free "A big counthery-av coorse it is.
You might rowl England through it,
an it wouldn't make a dint in the
ground; there's fresh wather oshuns in it
that We might droun ould Ireland in, an as
for Scotland, we might stick it in a corner,
an ye'd never be able to find it out except
it might be by thesmell of whisky.
Pennsylvania lights as well as keeps
warm large part of The world. There are
in that State 10000 producing oil wells
yielding 10000 barrels of oil a day
Nearly IS, 100000 barrels of oil are stored
in tanks in the region of these wells.
These tanks cost $4,000 each, and over
81 100000 has been spent during the past
three years in building them. Besides
5000 miles of pipe line in use in the oil
regions, there are 200 miles of trunk pipe
line connecting the region with the prin-
cipal cities The Standard Oil Company
employs 100000 men.
" Has your son experienced any llnguls-
tic developments? asked Mrs. Bobbs,
as she was calling on Mrs. Dobbs,
whose son had just returned from
college. No, 1 don't understand that
he has" returned Mrs. Dobbs slowly !;
with the exception" she continued,
Frightening with motherly animation.
with the exception of the muscles of his
arms; he assures me that the linguistic
development of the muscles of his arms,
owing to club swinging, l believe, is some
thing remarkable" And the caller
coughed, and said, really, she couldn't re
member when she had seen so wet a
SPRING Rockland Courier Gazette.