Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-05-07

TIE PRE-GLAcIAI MAN.-Was he black ?
| That we don't certainly know. but all an
| alcgy would lead one 20 answer positively.
| yes. White men, seem on the whole, TO be
| Il very recent and novel improvement on
| the original evolutionary pattern. At any
: rate he was distinctly hairy, like the Amos
or aboriginca Of Japan, in our own day, OF
whom Miss Isabella Bird has drawn so
startling and sensational a picture. Sew
! eral of the prc-glacial >ketche, show us jank
and gawky savagcs with the body covered
| with long scratches. answering exactly TO
| the scratches which represent the hanging
| hair of the mammoth. and suggesting that
man then still retained his old original
| hairy covering The few skulls and other
| fragments Of skeletons now preserved 10 us
! also indicate that orr old master and his
contemporaries much resembled IN shape
| and build the Australian black fellows.
| though their loFchea1s We're lower and
/ more rcecdug, while their front teeth still
! projected in huge tangs, family recalling
! the immense CANNES pi the male gorilla.
! Quite apart from any theoretical considers
! tons rs 10 orr probable descent Tor ascent
! from Mr. Darwin's Hypothetical " hairy
ar5orcal quadIum&uous ancestor, whose
! existence may or may not bc really true,
there can be no doubt chat the actual his
torical remains set before Us pre-glacial
| man IS evidently approaching in several
important respects the higher monkeys.
The Cornhiil Magazine.
SIX AND WOOL TNDERcLorHINe. An
exchange treating upon wool and silk
Ciuthins, says IN essential point IN re
spect Ia health, and as preventive OF dis
ease is 10 keep warm in the middle line of
the !ront OF the body, rs well as 20 sutii-
=
We contend can most efficiently be
performed by wool or silk underwear.
silk, We think has the advantage by afford
I. ing c.eciriCu! conditions conducive to a
strong. regular and equal circulation OF the
/. blood Ia the CXtrcmitics rs well as 10 all
parts Of the body Experience has demon
sirated that silk undertaking viii in some
eases c'lrc ana in ali mitigate, the pains of
rheumatism. neuralgia and nervous dis
eases of many kinds while even in febrile
diseases it cXertS an influence that is very
beneficial IN giving increased yigor 10 the
patient Persons wearing silk underclOth-
ing are less susceptible TO climate changes,
and are more free from colds than even
those wearing garments made Of wool.
Medical science has also shown in numer-
ous instances that silk resistS the spread OF
contagious diseases that are rapidly and
alarmngly reproduced wherever plant fiber
takes up and carries the offensive odors
emanatiug from the sick chamber
SINrLE TEST Fon GLUCOSE II SUGAR.
The simplest and best test is to place q
little of it under thy low power of micro
scope. Masnify!ug forty times is quite
sufficient, ana less will do Cane sugar
under this power is distinctly and heauti-
fully crystalline, and each crystal looks like
rock candy. They are clear. bright and
beautiful. Glucose. on lie other hand. has
q duh, opaque appearance. like a lump of
,all1@: Once seen, il Will be easily known
ever after.