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SANITARY INSPECTION.

Perhaps the need and value Of house to-
house inspection for sanitary purposes has
not been more forcibly set forth than in
the statement of Professor de Chaumont in
his paper on the influence of density of
population on public health. Comparing
London and Paris, he found that in the
former every individual has an area of
about eighty square meters, while in the
latter each has about forty. The result
was showing of lower death rate in the
city with the larger population-London-
while the distinction in the character of
diseases was as marked. Thus, such dis
eases as scarlet fever are more severe in
London, but on the continent such as
typhoid fever and diphtheria the poison
and filth diseases, are more common and
fatal. Now what are the conditions? In
London the streets and sewers are poorly
kept, filthy, and in many cases abominably
sos but the houses are scrupulously
clean. The English town house is
the perfection of neatness, and
from cellar to attic is free from filth. But
in Paris the streets are kept perfectly
clean, and the sewers are kept in like
state, so much so as 10 be the models of the
world. The Partisan houses, however, are
as filthy as the sewers are cleanly In
other words, the Englishman turns all the
filth into the street, while the Partisan
keeps the house refuse in his dwelling, and
sweeps his streets and cleans his sewers.
Now, if to the cleanliness of the Partisan
streets and alleys and drains, could be add |
ed house-to-house inspection with view
OF enforcing observance of sanitary regula-
tons, Paris would be the cleanest city in
the world; and if there is any logic in san
itary science the first among examples of |
healthful cities. II in this country we
cleanse our streets and sewers ever so much |
and neglect house inspection, we have
gained little or nothing. Houses and lots
cover greater area than streets and |
alleys. The former are more La
bic to accumulate filth because it
can be largely concealed, but in
streets attracts attention and demands cor
rection. Then, too, houses cover the
ground and prevent the incursion of the
greatest deoderizers, the warm rays of the
sun. Beneath houses, therefore, in the
'oured soil are the chiefest seats of poison
disease breeders. House-to-house inspec-
ion alone will disclose the real causes of
lomiciled pests. If We were driven to
'hoose between two evils, being forced to
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-04-11
DARRIOS.

The news appears TO I've reliable regard
ing the death of Barrios, of Guatemala.
The man has met fate none desired for
him. His methods of forcing the Central
American States into a confederated union
were all wrong, but his aim was by no means
evil, He desired strong Government,
i'll place Of several weak States He would
have had that union of States based upon
the principles substantially that underlie
our own form of government. He was
moved by patriotic impulses, coupled with
personal ambition. Had the former alone
actuated him, he would unquestionably
have brought about the union by methods
all the world would have approved.
He was man of unque5tioned abil-
ity, and great executive tact.
1t cannot but be regretted that one
so capable of benefting and building up
his country should have fallen victim to
his own methods of accomplishing the de-
sired end. His defeat and death will
retard the Union cause in Central Amer
lea, which, when prosecuted by peaceful
means, must enlist the sympathies of the
people of the United States
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-04-11

endure one, we could with great safety put
up with filthy streets and uncleansed
sewers than with uninspected houses and
lots. Where there Is one householder who
IS diligent in keeping his premises clean,
and his house-drains free. and the founda-
ton ground pure, there IS another who IS
careless of these things, another who is
ncn-owner and prefers to take his chances
than favor his landlord. and still another
who has no faith in sanitary regulations
and believes preventive disease TO be a
myth. House-inspection under health or
dinances is the corrective for unsanitary
conditions in towns and cities. 1t proceeds
upon the wise and Just doctrine that no
man has the right to menace the health or
life of his neighbor by neglect of premises
which may foul the adjacent atmosphere
it proceeds, indeed, upon the theory that
the duty OF society is TO so govern itself as
to conserve the greatest good Of the great
est number.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-04-11
RICHARD GRANT WHITE.

In the death of Richard Grant White
there was lost TO the literary world very
bright light. White was born critic out
unfortunately he lacked discretion, and did
not possess the art of keeping his temper
He knew what to say, but was apparently
ignorant Of what not to say A an ANALYSIS;
of the English language and critic of lit
erary style he Was a remarkably dilligent
man, and one of admitted great force and
power. But his incisiveness was 50 keen
as TO awaken antagonism of very bitter
character He did not possess persuasive
powers. He fought with fails and clubs
rather than with polished steel He did
battle against literary evils with blud
geon, and was incapable of approaching
subjects except with his fists up
But, with all these failings
White was valuable servitor
to literary progression, and a valiant
warrior against the evils that infest our
language in these days. As critic Of
writers, White was less pugnacious, but
still too much given to hard blows. His
literary remains are numerous, and fair
percentage of his writings viii remain as
valuable contributions to pathological sci
ence. As Shakesperian student he made
the best showing, and he will rank as one
Of the most diligent and successful Of that
class; his contributions to Shakespearean
literature are exhaustive, and disclose
what painstaking worker he was, and
with what indefatigability he delyed for
information and digged to Law bare truth
and error.
1t may be said of White. in conclusion,
that while he wrote great deal Of value,
he wrote great deal more that was puerile.
Had he possessed the ability to check his
and to have sifted the minimum
Of wheat from the food of chaff which he
ground out, he would have taken very high
rank in the world of letters. The reading
public endured his torrent of language,
because running through it all were veins
If pure metal, but it demanded a great
leal Of patience to wade through his dog
matte verbiage in order to CLEAN the valu-
lble A remarkable instance was Mr..
White Of uncurbed genius, and ability
unning wild with eccentricity as its mate.
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CONTEMPORARY EXPRESSION.

THERE is no reason whatever to believe that
the events characteristic of the early part of the
Christian era, and in which civilization was
almost swept out of being by barbarism, are
about to be repeated. The Chinese and the
Soudanese are not in position to reproduce
what was effected by Goth and Hun, for they
are on the defensive. There is no Alaric or
Attila of to-day, ambitious to absorb fresh
territory, and possessed OF fierce hunger for
the viands of civilized countries.-Chicago
Times.
ONE of the blazing questions which the public
is imperatiyely called upon to decide is how to
check the decentralization of the skating rink
epidemic. That this new species OF sport has
become an epidemic, and that it is extending
its ravages TO every hamlet and village of the
country, is evident.-[New York Herald
IT is not little unjust to the new administra-
ton that some of those who helped to put it i'll
power should so soon begin to find fault with it.
New York Herald.
Mr.. BLAISE'S friends and opponents will alike
be pleased to see that the hasty predictions of
some of his over Jealous partisans concerning
the course he would pursue toward his success
ful opponent are not to be verified, However
much people may differ from Mr. Blaine In
opinion as TO political and other matters they
would have disliked very much, for his own
sake, TO have him depart from the courtesies
observed in everyday life between man and
man. Boston Globe
If It were laid down as a broad proposition
that those who bore arms against the Govern
ment ought to be excluded from Government
patronage, no one could condemn the rule as
harsh and yindictive. 1t would simply be an
act Of justice business house would not be
censured for refusing employment to men who
had tried for years to effect its utter destruction
The loyal rather than the vengeful sentiment of
the country will take solid comfort in the re-
Aection that between civil service reform and
the lapse of time the Government is largely
protected from the hungry hoard of ex-Con-
federates, Notwithstanding the fact that their
own party is in power. Chicago Inter-Ocean.
VIcE-PRE>IDESr HENDRICKS has given It to be
understood that unless his candidate for the
at indianapolis is appointed his
relations with the Administration will cease.
This is equivalent to threat to freeze himself
to DEATH Providence Journal
A WISE man does not often allow il to be seen
that his own estimate of himself is higher than
that which his associates and people generally
who know him well, place upon him.-{Burling
ION (vt.l Free Press.
EVERY great invention and every great reform |
has been stupidity misrepresented by ignorance |
and coarsely caricatured by wit-snappers. |
York Day Star
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Inuriries Answered.

EDS. REcoRD-UNIoN: viii you please inform
me whether regular soldier can vote or not
TINKER.
ANswEE-No soldier or sailor by reason
of being such, has right to vote. During
the War of the Rebellion the soldiers and
marines were generally permitted to vote
where stationed, but since then, and at the
present time, no person in the military or
naval service of the United States, except
by remaining in locality sufficient time
to acquire voting residence under the laws
of such State, can vote. Such right may be
acquired by soldier or sailor by the same
length of residence as any other person,
and then he may vote but not otherwise.
EDS. REcoID-USIoN: Please inform a couple
of US who have wager up, whether the battle
of New Orleans was fought in lol2 or lsl5.
Yours, b. NJ.
ASswER-The battle was fought on the
Sth day of January, 1915, fifteen days after
the treaty of peace had been signed at
Client, but the news had not yet been re-
ceived at the location of our Southern
armies.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-04-11

In your apparel be modest, and endeavor
to accommodate nature than procure adj
miration. Keep to the fashion of your
equals, such as are civil and orderly, with
respect to time and place.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-04-11

TIE RECORD UNION is the only paper on
The coast, outside Of San Francisco, that re-
eei,es the full Associated Press dispatches
from all parts of TIE ,OorId. Outside Of San
Francisco it TGs no competitor, IN point q
saunders, in its home and general circulation
fA,,o,Ghout The coast.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-04-11
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

From A. L. Bancroft & Co. (San Francis
COZ we have G. P. Putnam's Sons New
York issue of Helen Hinsdale Rich s vol
ume entitled "a Dream of the Adiron-
daek's, and other POEMS" The author is
well known in the East as an earnest
worker in the cause of woman's rights and
temperance. Her culture is the result of
devotion to study in hours snatched from
domestic care, as a faithful wife and
mother. She has been very prominent in
the lecture field, and as an essayist Her
style of writing is very pleasing. She does
not soar lottily but her pathetic singing is
very sweet, A few examples are given;
Ifmothers only knew, she said,
How hungry children are for love.
Above each little virgin bed
A mothers lips would surely prove
How sweet are kisses that Ire given
Between rosy mouth and heaven.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-04-11

Gay trumpeterS, my morning glories, haste
Crown the low lattice where my darling lies !;
The braided gold of ;rcsses to her waist,
And peaceful slumber yelling her sweet eyes
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-04-11

" A Trip Through Texas and California
in 1894 y is the title to 64-page pamphlet
written by ". G. kingsbury, in which is
described, in very interesting and highly
readable way, the leading points for visit
ors to see in making an extended trip
through the States mentioned. 1t was pub
lished in London, and intended as immi-
grafton work for Europe, where the facts it
contains will be eagerly read.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-05-14

New YORK is a big city, but big money is
required to live in it from those who pay
taxes for municipal excuses. 1t has been
recently shown that the total expense of con-
ducting the government of the city and
county during recent years has been, in one
instance, as large rs siO,6l9 sD7, or S3G27 per
capita-in other words, two-thirds the aggre-
gate cost of governing all the states in the
Union. These figures have so startled the
legislature that a commission from tho Senate
has been appointed to learn the reason for
this extraordinary expenditure. II New
York has tho same kind of timber in its
legislature as that which now oppresses
Pennsylvania, nothing need be expected
from the labors the investigating commit
tee The latter will probably succeed only
in adding a few mills to the tax rate by find
ing other avenues of expenditure
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-05-14
Praluce the PraaE.

1t is maintained by those who support
the bill vetoed by Governor Pattson, re-
quiring counties to bury the bodies and
mark the graves of INDECENT soldiers, that
the Pennsylvania statute, passed over the
governors veto, is transcript of a New
York law, signed by Mr.. Cleveland when
he was governor.
We doubt it.
No copy of the New York law has been
printed by the journals which so allege !;
nor is its date given. From what is known
of Mr.. Cleveland's close scrutiny of legisa-
ton and his fearless exercise of the veto
power as governor of New York and mayor
of Buffalo, it would he very strange if he
had approved any such injudicious and i'll
timed law as that which our governor 50
sensibly disapprovcd and our legislature
has SO inconsiderately passed with rush
over his veto.
Mayor Cleveland vetoed an ordinance
appropriating public moneys to decorate
| soldiers graves, for reasons akin TO thos,
given by Governor Pattson; and if III
| signed the state law that he is said to hav,
approved it must have been done in a mo
ment of forgetfulness such as seldom cam'
| to Mr. Cleveland in any Of his executive
| positions.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-05-14
Public Interests and Private Rights.

AS the Philadelphia Record suggests, the
public are entitled to protection from dele
terious food adulteration; and legislation
to secure this end is entirely proper and
within the police power of the state. Who
sells chalk and water for milk, or white
clay for sugar candy, diseased meat for
sound flesh or olemargarine for pure butter
is guilty of fraud and false pretense and
the public have the same right to he pro-
practiced upon them, as they have from
noxious smells and other abuses prejudicial
to the general health and comfort.
But the anti-oleomargine bill, Which
meets with such favor in the Pennsylvania
legislature, is based entirely upon the as
sumption that the butter makers of this
state have a right to protection against any
article that competes with butter. This is
heresy and false basis for legislation.
As well might the makers of iron nails ask
for prohibition against the manufacture and
sale of steel nails; or the slate miners de-
mand the prohibition of the use of tin for
roofing, or the lumbermen interfere with
iron beams supplanting wooden timbers
in building. If the legislature can suppress
oleomargTine in the way that is proposed,
1t can forbid the sale of canned fruits, or of
cotton cloths. Under certain circumstan-
ces, perhaps, it can do these things but no
oneWill have the hardihood to assert that
SUCH conditions exist All this sort of leg
islation ought to be steadfastly opposed by
conscientious and intelligent representa-
tives. Alas how few such there seem TO be.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-05-14

MAJOR BURKE. has resigned as director
general of the board Of management Of the
New Orleans Exposition.
THE EARL OF SELKIRK, who died very
rich lately, left years salary TO all em-
ployed on his estate.
THE PRINCE OF WALES took n ride in a
jaunting car during his recent Wait To Ire
land, and now the jaunting car is all the
rage.
REV. 1. q. BRowN, aged q, who died in
Wichita Kansas, on Wednesday, was n
graduate of the class 'j5 of Franklin and
Marshal college.
MIR. CAMERON, the special correspondent
of the London Standard, was, when killed
in Egypt receiving salary of G2,0O0 year,
and the Standard has provided for his
mother.
Hon. HENRY G. ROBINSON, in recent
| speech at Hartford, Conn, said " Danish the
devil of modern arithmetic from our public
| schools. IL assaults the brain and imperis
the life. 1t develops prccocty, and precocty
is immature, and Immature is a monster"
GovERNoR HILL, OF New York, has sent
| to tho legislature q message in regard To the
law ON capital punishment lie deplorcs the
| present system, "which permits, by means
of appeals such length of time to elaps,
| between sentence to death and its execu
tion," and he suggests AN immediate reform
by legislation.
| Miss CHARLOTTE NJ. YoNGE, whose lat
est novel bears the title of "The Two Side
of the Shield" " is now I'm her sd year, hav
ing been born in Otterbourn, Hants, i'm lS23
She began to write in 1854 and has kept at
so industriously that her books of all kind
now number one hundred and twenty title
or something like four hundred volumes.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-05-14
Qbe canfaster 1ntclli9cnfcr.
LANCASTER. MAY II, 1855.
A Question OF Folly.

Secretary Manning is said to have met
the criticism upon the revocation of the
appointment of James Blackburn, rs u col
lector of internal revenue in Kentucky,
that he was no more of rebel than his
fellows, though he did write bloody rebel
letter in his youth, with the statement
that Blackburn's appointment was not re-
yoked because he was a bloody rebel, but
because he was bloody fool. 1t must be
conceded that if a man is a fool it is good
reason for not appointing him to office; ;
and it is not TO be denied that James Black
burns letter was foolish. But it is also q
fact that he was young when it was written,
and youth goes with such looseness of eX-
preston as hisletter showed. Furthermore
it was written to his wife and such letters
are likely to be unguarded in their words.
1t seems harsh to condemn a man as fool
to-day who wrote foolishly to his wife Il
quarter of century ago. We are con-
vinced that, put to this test, u very great
many men now accounted as wise would
lose that character. Cold type make a
severe dress for the expressions of men in
familiar correspondence, even when youth
does not hang upon the writer to weaken
his wisdom. Mr.. James Blackburn seems
to be badly used.
And considering that he is the brother
of Senator Blackburn, we fear that Secre
tary Manning may not have been judiciou!
in the highest degree in revoking his ap
pointment for words of his indiscreet youth
Independence is good thing, but senator
are men of influence whose toes are not t.
be lightly trodden upon, especially by al
administration Of their own party whicl
expects their cordial support Both of th'
Kentucky senators now have fair griey
ances agai St the administration an
: z..inulgh forfrihing causes, yet they are o
- s.,cter of personal ailront whc
Particularly aggravating. A Louisan
= senator also feels aggrieved. 1t will bardl
do to extend the list much more. Th
Democratic party expects the administra
tion TO work harmoniously with its leader
and representatives and to challenge Tn
opposition of none without cause. Whil
the effort of the administration should b
to make the best appointments, harmon
with the party representatives should |
an important consideration in the selection
made.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-05-14

GERMANY is far ahead of England and the
United States in its educational facilities An
Englishman writing of Stuttgart, the capital
ofthe Kingdom of Wurtemberg, says that with
population of about one hundred and
twenty thousand, it has a classical high
school, with 1900 pupils, semi-classical
school with 800, scientific school with l. 100
two high schools for girls each with 500
pupils, a second grade or commercial school
for ], 100 younger boys, and an intermediate
or grammar school for 1000 girls-in all q, 300
pupils receiving an education higher than
that of the elementary schools. The propor-
tion is SO to every thousand inhabitants, while
in England the kindred proportion rarely
rises TO 20. But while these facilities for
acquiring knowledge in the German empire
arc very great, they are essentially hindeled
by the ball and chain OF compulsory educa-
ton. This has been found to be a lament
able failure in England. Mr.. Fitch, the chief
inspector of English schools, i'm a minute
furnished TO the educational department, says:
"lt is already drawback to the success of
the educational act, that ii has unfortunately
done little TO diminish the sense of parental
responsibility. To enforce, with regard to
any human duty, legal obligation is to
weaken in some degree the sense of moral
obligation. Far distant be the day when
this crude system of dispensing with parental
responsibility be adopted in the public schools
OF this country.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-05-14
he will always take his full pound Of flesh
let him not have one drop of blood.
An lIpright Juror.


The callow assistants TO the district at
torney in New York who recently failed
to convict Short for murderous assault
upon Phelan, because it was disclosed to
the jury that the accused had acted in self
defense, are trying to muddy the water by
proceedings against Munsell, the juror who
went TO O'Donovan Rossa's Office to get a
look at the scene of the tragedy. Nothing
at all has been shown To his discredit. 1t
appears that he was cOnfounded by the
cloud of witnesses who testified upon this
point, and he could get from their testimony
no clear idea of the premises. Hence he
went and looked for himself he talked to
nobody and was talked to by no one.
1t would be strange, indeed, if juror
were TO be punished or his verdict discred'
tied for such thing as this. He may have
been indiscreet in exposing himself to The
suspicion of being in correspondence will
the men who frequent the place he sought
| and who had an active interest in the case
but as he saw none of them, and had N
| communication whatever, the information
he gained was exactly of the sort he ough
| to have had TO have guided him to al
intelligent conclusion. The New Yorl
Erening Post, alone, we believe, of the me
tropolitan newspapers, has taken a sensbl
| view of this case.