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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-02-09

THE DRESS CoAT.-I is said that the
Prince of Wales is heartily in favor of
abolishing the dress coat and substituting
a garment of many colors, such as was
worn by our ancestors, and which was cut
away gracefully from near the neck. The
dress coat was originally invented to allow
the wearing of a sword without incon-
venience. 1t is said that this reform in
mems dress is becoming popular in Paris,
and the thing has gone so far that ladies,
when they send out invitations, describe
the color of the garment they would like
their gentlemen friends to wear. This
gives additional brilliaucy to the gather
ing. Trousers are being discarded, and
knee breeches and stockings substituted,
with low shoes and buckles. 1t is further
claimed that mems legs are batter devel-
oped than in the eighteenth century, when
knee breaches were universally worn. Men
are now larger, because better fed. A
tailor in Chicago is beginning to advertise
plum. colored suits, in accordance with the
new notions about dress. - [Demorest's
nthly.
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CHOOSE HEALTH OR SICKNESS. Those
who desire and appreciate health should be
as willing 20 make some effort to secure it
as they do to obtain the other good things
which increase the pleasures of life. Pure
water is essentially necessary to good
health. All wells, cistsrns and springs
should be thoroughly cleaned in the early
spring or in the autumn. The usual
method of placing a large stone on the top
of the cistern is injurious to the water
unless an aperture is left in the stone and
fitted with a wooden cover. The air should
not be wholly excluded from the cistern,
else moldy conditions will predominant,
although perhaps not apparent. aid the
water will not be wholesome, and in it
sometimes there may be found various
kinds of insects and reptiles. Water is the
natural drink Of all living creatures, and 1t
serves several important purposes in the
animal economy. Firstly, it repairs the
loss of the aqueous part of the blood
caused by evaporation and the action OF
the secreting and inhaling organs. Sec
ondiy, it Is 8 solvent of various elementary
substances, and therefore assists the stom-
ach in digestion, though if taken in very
large quantities it may have an opposite
effect by diluting the gastric juice. Third
ly, it is a nutritive agent, that is, it assists
in the formation of the solid parts of the
body London Lancet.
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HUMOROUS.

"You are the most stuck.up chap /
ever saw" remarked young lady to a
youth whom she met at taffy pull. To
which he replied And you are Just as
sweet as you are candid" Another leap.
year horror.
my Lord, F" said Tawmus, "you've no
idea what horror it gives a man to steal
up behind girl who is scribbling, look
over her shoulder and find that she is idly
writing your name with Mrs. prefxed. 81"
Boston Post.
Does Charley wear corset, Mary p
asked a fond mother of her daughter.
"Why, no, guess not" was the response.
81 thought he did, said the mother.
Thought SO What in the world made
you think so, mother ?" asked the Devil.
dered girl. Because he is such good
slayer" was the response. = [Pretzers
Weekly.
"Come," said Brown, "you must give
something for our fair. Why, even Ssod-
kins came down handsomely. l didn't ex.
pecs anything from him. He has very
bad name, you know, but charity covereth
a multitude of sins. Come, now, what
shall l put you down for ?" "Well," re.
piled Fogg, az guess don't care to have
my sins covered up; no hypocrite about
me. Day-day, old boy. - Boston Tran
script.
a little girl, travelling abroad, took up a
French humorous paper, and having seen a
gentleman of the party, who understood
the French language, laughed when his eye
reached certain place in column, she too
threw back her head and lauuhed aDDreci-
ately. "Tot," said her brother, tauntingly,
"you don't know French enough to under
stand that paper. What are you laughing
at % Well, guess l know a joke when 1
see it, " retorted his small sister, promptly,
greatly to the amusement of those who were
listening. Harper's Bazaar.
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MEN IN PETTICoATS.

Men appeared in Elizabeths time in
ruffs, pleated and plated as dsintily as
any dame they carried fans and pocket
glasses by which to arrange any occasional
disorder in their dress. Then, too, they
wearing earrings. But lest it should seem
that this arrangement of men is, piece by
piece, taken from our forefathers all title
to our respect, it should be mentioned
that to men originally belonged the right
to wear rufus by virtue of original owner
ship. 1t was only when ladies invaded
masculine privileges, and took to rutfs,
that keen competition began, in which
each sex strove to Guido the other in ex-
travagapce, and the heads of people ap-
peared as if borne on linen trenchers.
Earrings, too, were worn by men before
the conquest This cannot be held to ex.
onerate men from blame, nor divert US
from the conclusion that at certain periods
men have adopted sn unseemly display and
been guilty of an etfeminate refinement in
dress.
1t is not SO much to the discredit of Egg
lishmen that they wore petticoats and
stomachers in early days, when those were
recognized parts of male costume, as it is
to the disgrace of their descendants who
took up the wearing of fripperies and finer
les proper to womeu-the dissolute cava-
hers who, after the Restoration, pranked
themselves out in laces and ribbons and
feathers and flowing curIs, or the cravated
and bewigged handles and macaronies of
the succeeding reigns, who with their gar
ish coats, laced cuffs, silk brooches, clocked
stockings and buckled shoes were at least
as fine, and certainly not less depraved.
than their fathers. 1t is well that mascu-
line dress has now distinct lines of demar.
cation, and has become generally dark and
somber in color, so that although " mash
ers" and "dudes" perpetuste effeminacY
in men, they have not at least the advan.
tage which gaudy apparel and common
garments might give them in parading the
degenerate daintiness of which they seem
so unworthily vain American Queen.
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The WHITE ELEPHANTS RETINUE.-A
very singular and interesting custom pre-
walls among the Todas Indians, race
about 1000 strong, which dwells in the
Neilgherry Hills, in Mysore, Southern Hin.
dustan, and one which should commend it.
self to the favor of those unhappy people
now abiding in Utah. 1t is said that all
the brothers of family unite and take
unto themselves one wife, and this family
wife is the object of the combined alteration
of from one to twenty men who constitute
her husband. Several of these polyandri-
ans, together with two Afghsns natives Of
AfghanIstan, not blankets) and four Hin.
doos, sailed from Bombay for New York on
the steamship Coptic yesterday. Two of
the Todas are priests, VINO are looked upon
in their own country as gods, because of
the fortitude with which they bear self
inflicted punishment. 1t is asserted that
their endurance is cultivated to such a
high degree that they will be able to ride
from Fulton ferry to the Brooklyn City
Hall in a street car without uttering
moan. 1t is probable that this is an
exaggeration on the part of the repre-
sentatives of the Barnum and London
shows, for which these foreigners are H.
tended. They will have seats in the ethno-
logical congress which will surround the
sacred white elephant with view to max
ing the beast feel as comfortable and as
much at home as the circumstances will
admit. New York Times.
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ALTAR MOUNDS IN OHo.-Professor
Putnam, of Harvard College, in lecture
in Springfield, Mass. on his own explora.
lions of the Turner altar mounds of Ohio,
near the head of the Little Miami river,
said that on the interior Of the baked
altar were found great number of objects
showing, by the action of fire, that they
had been thrown on the altar while the
sacriticial fire was still burning. On one
altar 200, 900 specimens were found-cop-
per implements, fossils, carved clay fig
ures, bears teeth, alligstors' teeth, pearls,
etc. Several specimens of plating were
found in the form of bracelets, hair orna.
ments, etc., copper being the base metal
used. One very curious case of copper
covered with thin hammered sheets of me-
teoric iron was described and illustrated.
The carved heads and figures found were
well preserved, and showed considerable
degree of advancement in the fine arts
The heads, and especially the faces, were of
distinctly Egyptian type, while one OF the
forms of hair-dressing, as shown by side
view of head, was exactly that now used
by Central African negro tribe. An odd
point brought out by the lecturer was that
the mound builders figures in clay all show
a condition of rest, while those Ct the Pc.
ruyians are of persons in motion,
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DIvIsE COMPASSION.

Long since, dream of heaven had.
Add still the vision haunts me oft;
see the saints in white robes clad,
The martyrs with tteir palms aloft;
But hearing still in middle song
The ceaseless dissonance of wrong,
And shrinking with hid faces, from the strain
or sad, beseechiug eyes, full of remorse and pain.
The glad song faltsrs to a wall;
The harping sinks to low lament;
Before the still uplifted veil
see the crowned eoreheads bent,
Making more sweet the heavenly air,
With breathngs OF unselfsh prayer;
And a voice saith " o Pity which is pain,
o Love that weeps, fill up my sufferirgs which re-
main
"Shall souls redeemed by me refuse
To share my sorrows in their turn!
Or sin forgiven my gift abuse
Or peace with se fish unconcern?
Has sanity ease no plying care
Has faith no work, and love no prayer
While sin remains, and souls in darkness dwell,
Can heaven itself be heaven, and look unmoved
on hellg'
Then through the Gates of Pain, dream,
wind of heaven blows coolly in
Fainter the awful discords seem
The smoke Of torment grows more thin;
Tears queLch the burning SOIL and thence
Spring sweet, pale flowers of penitence
And through the dreary realm Of mans despair
StaI crowned, an angel walks and, 10 GODS nope
is there
Is it dreami Is heaven so hi,h
That pity cannot breathe its air?
It's happy eyes forever dry,
Its holy lips without prayer?
Ny God my God if tbither led
Be thy free grace unmerited,
No crown nor palm be mine, put let me keep
A heart that still can feel, and eyes that still can
weep. John G. Whittier.
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WHAT TO DRINK TO KEEP You WARM
eff you want drink that will keep you
warm whole night long out of doors, ;"
said an old policeman to friend, "don't
drink whisky or rum, or any liquor. The
heat they afford is short lived, and leaves
you cold and weak. They are worse than
nothing but drink a glass of ale and pep
per-new ale and common black pepper.
1t will not affect your head, but it will
keep your blood warm in the keenest wind
and coolest rain" 81 never tried the
pepper part of that prescription, said a
Third-avenue car-driver, "but ale is,
know, thought to be very warming. We
car-drivers have colder work than police
men do, think, and the old ones among
us have tried every drink you ever heard
of. A lot of us were talking the whole
thing over the other night. Hot rum, hot
whisky, brandy and ginger, and all the
cold, clear alcoholic drinks were discussed.
But the majority were in favor of hot
coffee. That is the least hurtful, the most
heating, and the longest-lasting drink 1
know of. ~ New York Sun.
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ENGLISH Foe HoRNS.-0f more recent
growth than lights and balls as part of the
equipment of many of the floating lights
is the powerful fog. signal which it brought
into play during fog, Ironically termed
siren, f" nothing can be more disagreeable
than the din raised by this instrument and
its iron trumpet, worked by hot.sir en-
CINE. When in use, the horn is pointed to
windward. The eound produced is exactly
like the believing, or lowipg-if that be
more correct-of grea. COW. a further
means of distinction IN the shape of high
and low notes has been of late introduced,
to guard against confusion with the horns
of navigating vessels and other light.ships.
For distinctive purposes, also, the blasts
are varied at different stations. So dis.
agreeable is this designating duty &C.
knowledged 10 be, rest and sleep being well
out Of the question :" in the same ship with
it," that in addition to extra pay to certain
Of the men for acting as signal-drivers, the
whole crew receive what they call noise
money" an allowance calculated at the
rate OF so much an hour for the time the
signal is actually in operation.
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PUNCTUATED JOKES.

II brevity is the soul OF wit, how is this
= @[ Wheeling Journal.
1t is without a New York Enter
prise.
Do you expect anybody to " that >
[Pniladelphia Sunday Mirror.
Those are the worst jokes of the -
Washington Post.
My you're pointed as a +, aren't
you ? Burlington Enterprise.
We - the opportunity to say that these
are real ? you fellows PROFOUND
[Goli.
Well, they offer US Sous sort of amuse-
ment at best, and - our spirits greatly.
n Elevated Railway journal.
Ii you were in this of country We would
grasp your Il i Msriden Recorder.
An editor is an his reputation with
such puns - Welcome,
Much ado about 0. Detroit Free Press.
We should remark. We would like TO
such punsters We can hardly withhold a
wicked When we all get to the hot
place we'll apply for the job to put the
to roast you fellows Il Northwestern Min
ing journal.
That Is y fdW
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dynamite DESCRIBED. Those who have
never seen the much-talked-of dynamite
explosive will be interested to know that
it looks very much like moist brown sugar.
Nitro.glycerine, which is formed by the
action of nitric acid upon glycerine at a
low temperature, is the active agent in
dynamite, but is mixed with some absorb.
emit substance, TO render it safer to handle
than the liquid glyoerine. The absorbent
material thus used is silicious earth-a
fine white powder composed of the remains
Of infusoris, and resembling powdered
chalk; this takes up two or three times
its weight OF the nitro-glycerine without
becoming pasty, and the ingredients are
easily mixed, leaden vessels and wooden
spoons being used to avoid dangerous fric-
ton. When flame is applied to this mass
1t burns with strong fame, without any
explosion but when ignited by detonat.
ing fuse, or even by q sudden blow, it's ex
plosive force is tremendous, New York
Sun.
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WONDERFUL INVENTION IN TELEGRA-
PHY.-Tnere has recently been perfected,
after some three years OF patient study and
investigation, an invention that bids fair
to revolutioDize tho present method of tel
egrsphic transmission of dispatches. 1t is
called the synchronous multipiex system of
telegraphy, and the inventor is Patrick B.
Delany, of New York. The Scientific Press
says of it Briefly stated, the result of Mr..
Delany's discovery is to enable numerous
telegraphic dispatches to be simultaneously
transmitted over one telegraph wire. Hith-
erto the greatest number that could be so
sent was limited to four, as in the we'll
known quadruplex system, but in the SYM
ohronous multipleX system the division of
a single line has been carried as far as sew.
enty. two, and the limit in this direction
does not yet appear to have been reached.
The value OF the discovery will by no
means be diminished when it is known that
in the synchronism system, unlike the
quadruplex system, these messages can be
sent either all in the same direction, or any
number in one direction and the remainder
in the opposite direction.
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TELEPHONE Across THE OCEAN.-Al-
fred Beal is young gentleman with fine
tonor voice, aud he sang last evening, very
acceptably, Good by, Sweetheart"
Away Down upon the Suwaneo River, "
and other popular ballads. Mr.. Beal was
Ia Elmirs. The half dozen gentlemen who
listened 70 him were in the battery-room
of the Postal Telegraph building, No. 40
Broadway, the singer and his audience be-
log separated by distance OF POO miles.
Yet every note came pure and clear and
each word Of the songs distinct. The in
strument which made such thing possible
Is the telephone invented by Webster Gil
lette. Mr.. Gillette's hrs. instrument was
an ordinary telephone with single point,
with which it was possible to talk well for
100 miles. Then he conceived the idea Of
multiplying the points something which
had by electricians been pronounced i'm.
possible. He constructed an instrument
with two points, and found il great i'm
provement. The next advance was the
quadruplex, and the instrument used last
night had ten points. He has another
with twenty points. by which he hopes to
talk to London. New York World.
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HIBERNATING ANIMALS Even among
warm. blooded animals like the bear and
dormice, Information actually occurs to a
very considerable degree, but it is far more
common and more complete among cold
hlooded creature g, whose bodies do not
need to be kept heated to the same degree,
and with whom, accordingly, Information
becomes almost complete torpor, the
breathing and the action of the heart being
still further reduced to very nearly zero.
Mollusks in particular, ike oysters and
mussels, lead very monotonous and un.
eventful lives, only varied, as a rule, by
the welcome change of being cut out of
their shells and eaten alive; and their
powers of living without food under ad-
verse circumstances are really very re-
markable. Fresh-water snails and mussels
in cold weather bury themselves in the
mud of ponds or rivers and land snails
hide themselves IN the ground or under
moss and leaves. The heart then ceases
perceptibly to beat, but respiration contin-
ues in very faint degree. The common
garden snail closes the mouth of his shell
when he wants to hibernate, with Shiny
covering but he leaves very small hole
In it somewhere, SO as to allow little air
to get in and keep up his breathing to a
slight amount. My experience has been,
however, that great many snails go to
sleep in this way, and never wake up again.
Either they get frozen to death, or else the
respiration falls so low that it never picks
itself up properly when spring returns. In
warm climates it is during the summer that
mollusks and other mud haunting creatures
go to sleep.
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INVENTOR Ericsson. Here lives old
Ericsson, who made the screw and the mon
itor and is making the solar engine TO boil
BY the suns fire and save coal. He is past
eighty years old. He saved this country
from being butted down at sea and the
blockade opened and McGlellan's army
captured. He weighs in the moral and
useful scale about three millions of Van.
derbilts, Goulds and Keenes put together.
Nobody knows much about him. because
he has some knowledge and self respect
Forty-six years he has lived here, and
every great ship you see is his monument,
One of those monuments built on the Del.
aware sank a few days ago and swallowed
up hundred people as if they had been
condemned and executed on the gallows
trap Yet, shipwrecks do not make as
good reading as they once did, when we
were seafsring nation. IN. Y. Letter.
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A NOVEL Snow PLow ATTACHMENT.
There have been various methods resorted
to for the purpose of cleaning the snow
from railway tracks, such as using steam
or hot water in connection with the snow
plow. The latest departure, however, in
this branch of railway engineering, appears
to be the use of combined snow pillow and
cannon, which is provided with a triple
muzzle, so that when fred it will loosen
the snow and allow Of it's removal by the
pillow. The mechanism of reloadipg and
firing is under the control of the engineer,
b>;pg operated entirely from the lOcomo-
tive cab Scientific Press.
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WAGES IN EUROPE AND AMERICA
comparing wages in this country with those
paid the same workmen in other countries,
one fact is not generally taken into account,
and that is: What constitutes a days
work in each case. Men work more hours
as rule in this country, and universally
they work harder or faster. The energy
of workmen here is the fact that strikes
foreigners most forciblv, next to the
'drive" of everybody. 1t is estimated
that in productive capacity a days work
here is equal to one and one. third or one
and one-half days of English or French
labor. A part of this increased energy is
due to the spirit that moves all our insti.
tutions and affairs part to the stimulat.
ing effects of our dry and varying climate !;
but most of all to the rich diet at COM
mand of our working classes. They have
the fuel to make steam with and work it
off, European employers have ground
wages down 80 that their employees can
barely get enough sustenance to go throu h
the motions Of work. They get all they
pay for. When writer's compare the cost
of living IN the two countries they are con.
sidering cause in place of effect. The cost
of living is regulated by the scale of wages.
Men live as well as they can on their in
come, always their stomschs take imper-
alive control of this disbursement. Ex-
press Gazette.
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The Great English Remedy

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for Nervous Oebility,Ex
hausted Vitality, SEM
inal Weakness, Sper-
matorrh5a, Lost Man
hood, I'm pote ncy,
Paralysis, and all the ter.
rible effects Of self.abuse,
youthful follies and ex-
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such as Loss Of Memory,
Lassitude, Noe turnal
Emissions, Aversion 20
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LOIS sL0Ss & CO.

~ streets. Highest price for Hides, Sheep
Pelts and Tallow. Butchers supplied with Salt,
Paper, latest improved Sausage Machines, Suffers,
Lard Presses, etc. Prompt cash returns made for
all consgnments felS-4pf
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CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS, ARE PRE-
" pared to do all kinds Of work in their lihs, In
city or countf Principal place Of business, Sacra
mento Shop, Nc. 1924 Second street, between K
and L Pcstoffice Box No. 40, Sacramento.
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sYM. GuTENRERGER.

IRON AND BRASS FOUNDER AND MA
L chinist, Front and \ streets. Manufacturer of
Gutenberger's Horse Powers Patent Ground Roller
and Clod Ciusher and Barley Mills. All kinds Of
Hydraulic Pipes. For SALE Three Miller Patent Hay
Presses ml-lplm
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Society, Dimness OF VISION, NOISES IN the Head the
vital Aud passing unobseryed in the urine and
many other diseases that's sd to insanity and death
DIR. MINTIE, who is regular physician grad
nate of the University of Pennsylvania will agree
70 forfeit Five Hundred Dollars for case OF
this kind the VITAL RESTORATIVE (under his
special advice and trsatent will not cure, Or for
anything impure injurious found in 1t. nR.
MINTIE treats all Private Diseases successfully
without mercury. Consultation free. Thor.
ough examination and advice, including analysis OF
urine, S.. Price of Vital Restorative. SO
bottle, four times the quantity, $40; sent TO
any address upon receipt of price, or G. o. D., Sc.
desired by A. Z. NISrIE, N. D.. NO. III
Kearny street, san Francisco. Gal.