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J0TTINGS OF SCIENCE.

The comb Of the bee is hung vertically;
that Of the wasp is horizontal.
The skeleton Of the carrion crow weighs,
when dry, only twcnty-thrce grains.
The large. prominent eyes of the brilliant
dragon flies, or devils darning needles, arc
each furnished with 5000 polished lenses
The intestincs measure $50 feet in length
in full-grown OK, while they are but
three times the length Of the body III the
lion and six times in man.
II is difficult 20 drown an insect, as the
water cannot enter the pores of the skin,
but if drop Of oil be applied to the abdU-
men it falls dead At once, being sufiocatcd.
Continued observations made since the
year 1879 al the MeudOn Observatory have
confirmed the conclusions that the rings of
Saturn are extremely variable, and do not
retain fixed form.
An ordinary spiders thread just visible
| to- the naked eye, is the union of 900 or
more fine and delicate threads of silk.
! These primary threads are drawn out and
united by the hind legs of the spider.
An electric horse chronometcr has been
! invented. The movement is controlled BY
q current opened and closed BY the break
ing Of AZ almost microscopic copper wire
Z stretched across the track. Il is said 10
/ record 20 the 1900 of a second
Professor Douglass, Of the Michigan
State University, &muses his classes by
charging 81 suspended copper plate heavily
| with electricity and producing miniature
( cyclone funnel-shapcd, and whirljng with
/ sufficient velocity To catch up pens pennies
and pith-balls from of a table
An interesting result of the late earth
quake IN England has been noticed in the
| wells of Colchester, the water level in which
| commenced to rise soon after the shock
and in few days reached point eight feet
above the highest ever before known. II
now stands at about seven feet above the
former high-water mark.
Silveroid Is the trade name given to a
D.! new, closc-graiued brilliant, white alloy
/ regarding the composition Of which little is
known beyond The fact that cadmium
enters into il. II is intended 10 take the
place Of the brass. bronze. and gun metal
class of alloys, and if all turn ont 10 be
| true which is spoken in its favor it will
soon 90 So, especially in the manufacture
Of articles which must be strong and capa-
bic of taking fine polish.
\ new scientific society is being formed
I in New York for the purpose of investigate
| ing and sitting the physical phenomena OF
man and thelower animals, and of discus
( sing psychological questions The Nature
. AMI Physiological Relations Of Pain is e
bc the subject of the Presidents opening
address-as subject upon which he holds, as
starting point, that in general terms what,
ever tends TO undue tissue disintcEratior
and disturbance is source Of non-ple.sur.
.,1.f .ga1,-s,tif,r,
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"Jvsr oUrm GUST N.Y.

"Just out -
The prettiest miss in all the town;
The latest fashion for gown:
The sedgGDg in its nest of down.
"Just out -
The blooming rose, a bud last night
The evening star a gem of light;
A sunbeam from the cloudy hight.
Just out -
The village school, mid noise and din;
The morning paper, damp within
The last coal from the poor mans bin.
Just out"
Thc latest book, " the best one yet -
The thief who paid, i'll Jail. his debt;
Jacks money, in the spoilers net.
"Just outr'
A story, with its thread of gold;
The truth, that has at last been told
And killed the lie as on it rolled.
Just inr'
The noble ship. with snowy sails;
The weekly bill that never fails:
The season for bleak, wintry gales.
"Just inr'
4 welcome freight, the morning mail;
The sower' seed DER hill and dale
The grain, fresh from the thrasher fail
"Just inr'
The happy father freed from toll,
The spade that breaks the untitled soil;
The widows cruise refilled with oil.
"Just in -
The ncw-mown hay in barn and shed;
The 20 thered sheep by shepherd led;
Good times, that bring the hungry bread.
Gust inr'
The children from their merry play
EeYyE from the one that sailed away:
The rosy dawn OF brighter day.
Il New York Ledger
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-08-30
MARRY NE, DARLINr, TONIGHT

Ne darliut, it's akin they arc
That goes to til. wars to be kilt,
An come back wild an iligaut shkar,
An sabcr hung on 10 :: hilt.
They offers promotion to those
Who die in definse of the right.
I'll be of in the mOrnin-suppose
Ye marry me. darlint, tonight?
There's n0thn' so raises n man
In the eyes of the WUrTld as to fall
Fernins the ould flag. in the van,
Pierced through wit a bid of ball.
An whin am kilt yc can wear
Some iligint Grape in yr bonnet.
Just think how the women Will shtarc
Mid hwy vhiniyer We don it,
On, f,eat proud wildly yen he
v hen they bring me corpse home-not Il
mntiOn
Tie fact we can live don't ye see?)
All the rest of our lives on me pinsiOn
Nv. ". Fink in the Century.
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CT DANID'S.

FIRST-CLAsS LODGING-H0USE, CON-
A tains 100 rooms; rs Howard street, near
Third. San Francisco. This house is especially
designed rs a comfortable home for ladies and
gentlemen visiting the city from the interior.
No dark rooms Gas and running water in each
ROOM The floors are covered with body Bras
sells carpet and all the furniture is made of sslid
black walnut Each bed has spring mattress,
with an additional hair top mattress, making
them the most luxurious and healthy bees in
the world. Hot and cold baths a large garlor
and reading-room, containing Grand kiano-
30 cents: te- week, from s. upward. House
omen all night L. HUGHES, Proprietor.
At Msrketstreet Ferry, take Omnibus line os
street cars to corner of Third and Howard.
iy2-ruThSu
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-08-30

ACToRs' EARNIYGs-An item in Julian
MarshaIl'S library on sale at Messrs Sothe-
by's, affords an opportunity for seeing the
payment made to actors at Covent Garden
'rhcater in 17l0-i1. | noticed that Ryan
received 25s. night: Delane, 30s.; Cibber,
Dos; Hippisley. COS; Denoyer, sos; Lalangc,
30s.; Hallam, 25s Id Rich. les Sd. OF
the gentler sex, Barbarini got AS; Horton,
3os.: Wofiin Eton. Us. 3D.; Rowland, lbs.
Adj; Bellamy, los. Compare these pay
ments with present-day prices. \ popular
Thespian now gets for single performance
as large a sum as his forefather obtained for
n whole season. For instance, Judie's con-
tract for 210 coming performances III the
States will bring her e42o00. NJ. Capoul is
also to receive ESQ a night, NJ. Baron f40.-
lLondon World
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PERTAINING TO HEALTH.

To stop bleeding at the lungs equal
mixture Of salt, powdered alum and nut
meg a bit of the mixture should be eater
same as one would eat salt.
Southey records in his Commonplace
Book that a physician who had seen
more than 10000 cases of smallpox
said lie had never met with the disease in
person with red or light haXen hair.
Jurubeba q drug that is quite popular in
Brazil, has been recently introduced into
the United States. 1t belongs to the sofia
mum or tomato family, and is said to pos
sess all the virtues and none of the vices of
mercury. DIR. Carvallio, of Rio de Janeiro,
and DR.. De Champs, of Paris, call it " the
vegetable mercury
Dried leaves of the bitter orange tree are
much used by the inhabitants of South
America as household remedy. An in
fusion of the leaves is regarded in Brazil as
q specific for sick headache, iiatulence, in
digestion, hysteria, spasms, recent colds,
and chills and fever. Its free use is con-
sidered to promote perspiration.
Vaccination performed once does no act
as q preventive of smallpox after u GER
tain length of time has elapsed An exam
inatiOn of the statistics of this disease
shows that of those who had taken ii and
y,
cent are over 10 years of age, while only 10
per cent are under 10 years of age Re
vaccination at intervals, say, of seven years.
is the only known effective measure for
protection.
Opedeldoc liniment, good for pains, head
aches, bruises, sprains, swellings. and for
colds One pint of alcohol, / ozs camphor
gum, o. opium, l OF. salts ammonia,
OF. CASTLE soap. Pulverize the opium and
shave or cut line the piece of soap mix all
| together III bottle, which keep corked
closely to prevent too much escape of the
ammonia. For cold apply above the eyes
and nose and inhalc the Odor through the
nostrils. a good liniment for man or beast
Basing his opinion upon the results of
experiments made on rabbits as well as on
| clinical observations, DR.. Pick maintains
| in the Pharmaceutical Journal that alumni
mum and its compounds constitute Il most
effective remedy against pulmonary tuber-
culosis. He administered the aluminium
| in this form Metallic aluminium. s
grammes; aluminium hydrate, 3 grammeS
calcium carbonate, 5 grammes, and gum
tragacanth sufficient quantity; divided
into sixty pills, one pill to be taken three
! times a day.
The Lancet condemns the practice of Civ
! ing ana taxing Such depressing narcotics as
choral and bromide of potassium as Il
remedy for slceplcssness. as mischicvous
and wholly indetensible. 1t is as clumsy
| in theory as knocking man down because
! he needs rest, and yet as by common con-
sent, this eminent authority states, the pro-
I fessi0u sanctions the abuse of such drugs
as poisoned sleep producers. There
are more than a score and half of known
causes or forms of sleeplessncss each one
requiring direct and specific treatment.
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,srrersitx which resists the railroad is loath

perversity which resists the railroad is loath
to have the mountains yield up their stores
under the influence of Frank enterprise.
have lust heard than an American COM
pany, more powerful than any that has
been hitherto organized, has been formed
for the purpose of opening up some of the
mineral hills in Asia Minor. l hope the
capital stock consists of unlimited money,
phenomenal patience, and Irresistible per
severance That some of these mountains
are treasure-houses, no one can deny. Cop
per, lead, alabaster, marble, rock crystal,
cinnabar emery, and even gold, undoubted-
". Turk not far below the surface of the
earth. waiting for relentless foreign energy
to disinter them. Not only is bituminous
coal found but near Smyrna are mines of
fine Ignite coal and of the finest hematite
iron ore.
THE MODERN GREEK
Is not altogether charming individual. In
fact, my opinion of the Greek in the in
terror is not at all flattering TO them. But
here on the coast, where the race has been
brought more in contact with the more ad-
vanced peoples of Europe, marked social
improvement is to be noticed, along with
political advancement. The 100000 Greeks
in Smyrna hold the wealth of the city, and
display as much fashion as any European
people, though not always IN tne pest VI
taste, perhaps. No gayer, better-dressed
throng is to be witnessed anywhere than
that which nightly promenades the spaci-
GUS quay there. There is only this differ
ence Follow the dispensing promenaders
to their homes, and you will have to pick
your way carefully over wretched pave
ments, past scores of NANCY dogs sleeping
in the Street, often past rocking pools of
corruption. into dreary square stone houses,
with never yard in front for miles, with
houses joining on both sides, and with only
eight or ten feet of space separating the
front from that of the house opposite.
Thither the retined-looking bellies and cult
ured gentlemen repair in perfect content,
never seeming to think that exterior deco
ration of houses is possible. The interior
of these houses are often magnificent, but
it alwas strikes me as SO homogeneous to see
wealthy, aristocraic lady or gentleman
emerging from such prison. Nine-tcnths
of the people live in just such dismal
places.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-08-30
YOUNG MENLREAD THIS

The VdLTMc BELT Co., of Marshall,
Mich. offer to send their celebrated ELEc-
rEo-VoLrA1c Belt and other ELECTRIC Ar
PLANES on trial for thirty days, to men
(voung or old afflicted with nervous dcbil-
itv. loss of vitality and manhood, and all
kindred troubles Also, for rheumatism
neuralgia. paralysis and many other dis
eases. Complete restoration to health
yigor and manhood guaranteed. No risk
is incurred as thirty days trial is allowed
Write them at once for illustrated pamphlets
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-08-30
LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S
\ VEGETABLE COMPOUND
is A POSITIVE CURE.

For ALI those Painful Complaints and
: Weaknesses so common TO our best 3
+ FEMALE POPULATION. =
II WILL CURE ENTIRELY THE WORST FORM
OF FIIALE COMPLAINTS, ALL OVARIAN TRoU-
BLEs, INFLAMMATION AND uLcERATtoN.
FAILING AMP DrsPLACEMENTs, AND THE COl!-
sFQUENr SPINAL WEAKNESS, AND is PaRTIC-
U1IELY Awaited TO THE CHANGE OF LIFE.
= = =
IT Will DISSOLVE AND EXPEL TUMoEs
FRoM THE UTERUS ~ AN EARLY STAGE OF DE-
vELoPMENT. TIE TENDENCY TO CANcERous
HCMoRs THERE Is CHECKED VERY SPEEDILY
BY IT'S USE. = =
. IT REMOVES FAINTNEss, FLATvLENCY, De
sTRoYs all CRAVING FOR sTIMULANTs, AMI
| RELIEVES WEAKNESS OF THE STOMACH. II
UREs BLoATING, HEADACHE, NERVOUS Pros
TRATIoN, GENERAL DEBILITY, DEPRESSION
| AND INDIGESTION. = :
= THAT FEELING OF BEARING DowS, CAUSING
PAIN, WEIGHT AND BAcKACHE, Is ALWAYS
| PERMANENTLY CURED BY IT'S USE. 4
IT WILL At ALL TIMES AND UNDER ALL CIR
| CuMsTAECES ACT IN HARMONY WITH THE LAWS
THAT GOVERN THE FEMALE SYSTEM. y
ny IT'S PURPOSE Is SOLELY FOR THE LIE
! CLIMATE HEALING OF DISEASE AND THE RE
! LIEF OF PAIN, AND THAT IT DOES ALL II
! CLAIMS TO no, THOUSANDS OF LADIES Can
! GLADLY TESTIFY. "a Il y
! y = FoR THE CURE OF KIDNEY COMPLAINTS
IN EITHER srX THIS REMEDY Is UNSURPASSED
! LYDIA i. PINkIIAIrS VEGETABLE COM
| P0i;ND is prepared at Lynn, Mass. Price. 81
! six bottles for So Sold By cH druggists. Sent by
mail, postage paid in form OF Pills or Lozenges
on receipt Of price rs above. Mrs. Pinkhant
"C,uide - Health Will be mailed free to an!
! Lady sending stamp. Letters conidentially an
| swered.
! 10 family should be without LYDIA z. PINK
! HAMS LIVER PILLS. They cure Constipation
! Billiousness and Torpidity OF the Liver o cent
! per box. m29-1y TuThS&w1!
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Do NOT forget to add to your Lemonade
or Soda ten drops Of Angostura Bitters. II
imparts Il delicious favor and prevents all
summer Diseases BE sure TO get the gen
uine Angosiura, manufactured by DR. J. G.
b. SiCgert Il Sons.
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Is THE past thirty years there have been
many remedies advertised for the cure of
kidney and liver troubles and diseases of
the urinary organs. OF only one can 1t be
said that /" it is never known to fail That
one is HUNTS Kidney and Liyerl REMEDY
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-08-30

Several people have been poisoned re-
Gently by eating bologna sausages This
Is the result of allowing dogs to wear brass
collars Philadelphia Chronicle Herald.
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HoRsFoRD's ACID PHOSPHATE for nervous
ness, indigestion, etc. Send to the Rumford
Chemical Works, Providence, Il. l., for
pamphlet. Mailed free
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" WEAK AND UNDEyELOPED PARTS
Of the Human Body Enlarged, De-

yeIoped and Strengthened" Etc,
TIC An INTERESTING ADVERTISEMENT
long run in our paper. In reply to inquiries
we will ay-that there is no evidence OF humbng
about this, On the contrary, the advertisers are
very highly Endorsed Interested persons may
e. sealed circulars giving all particulars by adj
ressing Erie Medical Co., 2. o. Box 5lS, buiialo
Y.-[ToledO Evening Bee. Ho-ly NUNS
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FOR ALL NERVOUS TROUBLES.

" DFNsoNs CAPCINE POROUS PLASTERs
ID relieved my sciatics. CONGRESSMAN
Guenther, of Wisconsin, % cents jal6-lyWS
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For fifty years the Vegetable Pulmonary
Balsam Of Cutler Bros Il Co., Boston, stands
unriyalled for Colds and Consumption.
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MANHOOD RESTORED

A victim of early imprudence, causing nerv-
ous debility, premature decay, etc, having tried
in vain every known remedy, has discovered a
simple means OF selfcUre, which he will send
FREE to his iellow-suherers. Address, J, II,
REEVES. a. Chatham street. New York.
ivIo-1VTuThS
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CANCER.
CANCER FOR II YEARS.

The development Of the treatment of Cancer
with SwItt's Specific seems 50 wonderful, that all
so Inflicted should write US:
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Is{z;j.l5 .....||I!!'
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FOR THE COMPLEXION !

TTNHIS ELEGANT PREPARATION IS THE
most perfect beautifer known: 1t is pure
and harmless, delightful in its application and
wonderful in its effects while the closest scrutiny
fails to detect its use Prepared by III. low
MAN, Chemist, Oakle2i. For sale by all drug
criSf mrO-OllMM
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-08-30

Many Hotels and Restaurants refill the LEA &
PEREINS' bottles with spurious mixture and
SERVE IT rs the GENUINE Lea 4 PERKINS Wor-
ppstprshirp S.iucp
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-08-30

Mining ought to be an important indus
try here but the same spirit OF Turkish
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\ pretty panel for the wall is made of
black velvet, with an owl on a branch
painted on il The bottom of the panel
should have gilt fringe across it. This, il
heavy, will help to make the panel hang
as it should
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-07-11
Some Irish Stories.
I.nnllnn Snectatnr

A gentleman, overhearing a car
driver asking an exorbitant fare of an
unsuspecting foreigner, expostulated
with him on his audacious misstate-
nent of the tariff, concluding with
the words, Il wonder you haven't
more regard for the truth" Och,
indeed, thin, I've great deal more re-
gard for the truth than to dthrag her
out on every pa 'thry OCCASION" was
the reply.
The Irish bull dourishes in Munster
as freely as in the other provinces of
Ireland. But far the best exponent OF
this form of speech was country doc
tor, now, alas gathered to his fathers
In mental habit he was true lineal
descendant of Sir Boyle Roche
Though hardly calculated to satisfy a
logical mind, his expressions were of
ten exceedingly picturesque and eff
fectiye. Conversing with q friend
about the high rate of mortality then
prevailing, he remarked, "Bedad,
there are people dying who never died
before" What an admirable result
was here obtained by merely substi-
tutlng the indicative for the condi-
tional mood-to put it from the gram
marian's point of view. Speaking of
a neighbor who was a daring rather
than an expert mariner, he related
how his yacht had ''stuck fast and
loose IN the mud" Again, at meet
ing of church wardens, when it was
debated whether the pew of a gentle
man who had seeded to Revivalism
rl L,> l., Al
doctor urged that it should, adding as
a reason, IT'S unbeknownst but one
of his ancestors might want it. T"
Perhaps for concentrated inaccuracv
of statement nothing can surpass the
following sentence, which occurred in
an account Of a burglary given in an
Irish newspaper: "After a fruitless
search, all the money was recovered,
except one pair of boots.
Surely, Mr.. Matthew Arnold will
not quarrel with the lack of lucidity
which gave this and the following to
the world. Our most famous jigdancer
came by his death in faction fight at
a village fair An inquest was held,
at which a verdict was brought in
that he met his death by the vista
ton of God, under suspicious circum-
stances.
Malaprops, often closely related as
they are to bulls, are not especially
confined to Irish soil A quiet young
English lady was overheard the other
day by the writer asking an Oxford
undergraduate where he was going to
spend his Christmas vacuum.
Still, it is by no means improbable
that Sherldan's famous creation had
an Irish prototype. The following re-
mark, made by the cid doctor men
toned above, may serve to conclude
for the present these specimens Of
Irish speech. Abiding to recent
and mysterious event, he devoutly ex-
claimed: ''The ways of providence
are GnscrupulousW
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-07-11
Why a Kerosene Lamp Bursts
Christian Union.

Girls, as we'll as boys, need TO under
stand about kerosene explosions. A
great many fatal accidents happen
from trying to pour oil into lamp
while it is lighted. Most persons sup
pose that it IS the kerosene itself that
explodes, and that if they are very
careful to keep the oil from being
touched by the fire or the light there
will be no explosion. But that is not
so. If a can or lamp IS left about
half full of kerosene oil the oil will
dry up, that Is, ''evaporate," a little,
and Will form by mingling in the air
IL the upper part of the can a very
explosive gas You can not see this
gas any more than you can see air
But if it is disturbed and driven out.
and a blaze reaches 1t, there will be a
terrible explosion, although thabiaze
did not touch the OIL There are sew
eral other liquids used in houses and
workshops which will produce an ex-
plosive vapor in this way. Benzine
is one, burning fluid is another, and
naphtha, alcohol, ether and chloro-
form, may do the same thing.
In a New York shop lately there
was q can of benzine or gasoline on
the floor. A boy Is years old lighted
cigarette and threw the burning
match on the floor close to the can.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-07-11
Greek Pottery From Antiparos
London Cor. Liverpool Courier.

The archaeological treasures of the
nation have just received distint and
very characteristic addition in the
shape of collection, not yet, how
ever, in the national possession, of
thirty or forty specimens of Greek
pottery and other articles. which, dat
ing from prehistoric period, can not
be regarded as later than from 400 to
1900 before the Christian era. TLey
have been excavated in the island of
Antiparos, famous for its wonderful
grotto, and for its having been the
birthplace of Phidias and PraXiteles,
and they are remarkable as being the
first find of any importance which has
responded to the enterprise of the ex
cavator in the Cyclades or in other Of
the minor islands of Greece. The
specimens of pottery ware and nodded
are generally of the rudest description,
and present singular marks of affinity
with the earlier products of the
ancient British artificers in clay. Into
the compassionate some of these terra
Gotta vessels pieces of granite have
been introduced, which seem to have
been previously granulated for the
purpose of imparting consistency to
the material of the vessel with which
they were Incorporated In the
numerous cases of fracture this very
precaution, which was intended as an
element of durability, forms special
difficulty in the way of the restorer,
who is apt to find homogeneous
substances the most amenable TO re-
construction. On few of the YES
sells which, notwithstanding their
rudeness of construction. are very
elegant in form, a leaf pattern is
represented as the nearest approach
to ornament. In addition TO articles
of domestic and, so TO say, of artistic
life there are human figures, which
are also of the rudest character. being
suggestive and symbolical rather than
accurately initiative. This remark APP
plies principally to the limbs, for the
faces are. more finished, so far, indeed,
that they are upturned in a way
which is suggestive of prayer or invo-
cation, and have the eyebrows in hign
relief