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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-12-26
Taken In by a Crank.

A few days since gentleman who some
years ago was we'll known in this community
came to the city and put up at one of the
leading hotels. He called upon g. Politz,
the clothier, who knew him of old, and
purchased a suit of clothes on time
He went to his hotel Wednesday and or
dered luncheon put up for twenty men,
and from his selection of edibles it was
quite evident that he was possessed of the
| taste of an epicure. The genial hotel
keeper was somewhat astounded when the
gentleman who ordered the Christmas
| lunch directed that it be sent to ward No.
%, in the Stockton Insane Asylum This,
coupled with the remarks of the walters
at the hotel, who thought the actions of
their guest little queer, caused mine
host to have grave doubts as to the sanity
of his boarder. He started to look up
the stranger, who had disappeared,
and called to his aid the police
force. 1t was ascertained that he had
escaped from the asylum at Stockton, and
when he was found, visiting at the resi-
dence of an old friend, he was induced to
ride to the police station in a hack, when
he was locked up and from where he will
be returned to the asylum to-day. He is
not violent, has no particular hobby
and 10 the common observer would pass
as perfectly sane. A respectable old gen
tleman, who boasts upon his science as a
cribbage player, is willing to swear that the
individual referred TO is mentally sound
He says there is no crazy man that ever
lived who could beat him fourteen games
of cribbage III succession. From what can
be learned, he is a gentleman of excellent
family, and has held many posi-
tons of honored trust. Seyeral
years ago he was knocked dJNn
and robbed near the town of Truckee by
footpads. He never recovered from the
effects of the blow be received on the head
at that time, which seems to have shattered
his mind. The man who was taken in and
done for" most effectually by this indi-
yidual was the City Attorney. He
was induced to believe that several
persons i'll the asylum were improperly
restrained of their liberty, and there was
millions in it, for the City Attorney if
he could effect their release through writs
OF habeas corpus. His story was so plan
sible, and backed by statements that were
credited, that the disciple Of Blackstone
proceeded to look up authorities, and was
ON the eve of departing for Marysviile to
investigate certain alleged crookedness in
commitments, when the telegram came
from Stockton that the individual was a
harmless crank. The air castle of the CITY
Attorney collapsed, the wave that was TO
ride him onward and upward TO fame and
wealth subsidized. Alex will not take an
other case until after his first inquiries into
the mental condition of his client.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-02-18
PERSONALLY CONDUCTED.
The Campo snnro, or Cemetery, of Genoa.

The Campo Santo is about a mile and
half from the city, and is built in the form
OF II vasssqnare court. wiihfhe tomhs - slsss
rich in raised galleries on the four sides,
and the graves of the poor in the fat ground
in the middle. All the galleries are built of
white marble, With roofs and long lines of
pillars; aud the tombs are generally place
along the inner side OF the galleries. aud the
greater part of them are surlnounted by
groups of lifc-size statuary. It is these
statues, all of them the work of famous
modern Italian sculptors, which give to the
place its queer and peculiar character
Alany of the groups consist not only of stat
ues of the persons buried in the tolnbs but
life-like figures OF the surviving relatives
dressed in modern clothes. In one place
You will see father on his death-bed his
wife, dressed in the fashion of the present
day, sitting BY his side, while his son, a
young man in double breasted sack coat an
striped trousers, and a daughter, with a
polonaise and pleated skirt, stand at the
foot of the couch. These figures are so we'll
done that they almost seem to be alive and
HS iiit iutiflptIh VI tilt tDile ltut
after year TO the cemetery, they must be
content to see the clothes they were sculp.
tured in getting more and more old-fashion-
cd. Some of the designs nre fine and artis-
tic, although to our ideas very strange.
In one part of the grounds we perceive
young lady richly attired in dress with
long train trimmed with a double row of
ruiiies and lace, and wearing cape edged
with scalloped lace, kneeling at the foot Of
her fathers tomb, while grand aud beauti-
full figure of Christ rises out of some clouds
Just in front OF her, and with one hand over
the recumbent statue of her dead father,
and one over her head, offers her consoln-
ton. In another place there is n group OF
two sisters who are kneelihg by the door Of
the tomb of a third sister; tho door Of tho
tomb is partly open, and the buried sister,
in company with nm angel who holds her by
the hand, has just come ont Of it, and is
rising toward the sky % these fgnres are
life-size, ,le effect is very striking. Close
to This tomb is one which is planned upon
an entirely different idea II large OLD angel
witha long beard ald u very grim. and
severe countenance is sitting soirnny upon
n closed tomb. His expression gives one
the idea that he has looked around upon the
young udy who has been liberated by the
angel, and that lie has said to himself:
The person in the tomb on which am
sitting need not expect 10 get out until the
proper time comes" There is no doubt that
these groups are considered very npp,o-
| pirate monuments to deceased friends and
relatives BY. those who have placed them
there, but some OF them can not fail TO
strike Americans as strange and oad.--Fsom
" Personally Ccsdaetc4,' ~ Frank II.
Stockt01 in 81. Wlc6olas,
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-02-18

biscuits, as usual, were perfection, and she
had mado a delicious apple pudding, while
my pigeon pie was certainly n triumph in
the culinary line, though l, the cook, had,
perhaps, no right to make the assertion.
But I felt that could not muster courage
20 carve the pie that held Jacks pigeons.
MOI cried l. Historically. 6 can't do
t ean'tln
Perry, don't be SO foolish" pleaded
Flossy.
Il couldn't eat 'en, ;" said 1. 81 know
should burst out crying if any one else
Hid
" But who is to take tho head of the
able?" said Flossy. 6 With mamma ill.,
YOU" criod T. II couldn't sit there,
not if the governor-general of Canada was
there, with all his staff"
And just as the footsteps of the gentlemen
were heard emerging from papa's study l
flew out to the bench under the old apple
tree, close beside the well sweep, and began
TO cry bitterly.
Here was moral courage for you! Here
was firs,~elass heroine
But rs cried and sobbsd like the silliest
schoolgirl in all the Dominion of Canada,
a sound more definite than the wind in the
apple-boughs struck ON my ear-the sound
of advancing feet-ana hand fell lightly
on my arm.
Perry my darling grill" spoke n
soothing voice, what are you crying for!
Flossy says il is about those miserable pig
cons. In themselves they are nothing but
if it is because they were my gift"
started up with the curious sensation of
being in n dream. But it was no dream
it was Jack the real living and breathing
Jack-that stood before mo.
Jack ~ was all that 1 could stammer.
Oh, Jack, IL thought you Ind forgotten
me-"
My darling my own Perry !n was ali
that he sid. But that was enough.
For Jack had been the company, after all
my true lover, Jac!s-who had received
an appointment TO get ont to Van Dieman's
Land colony as resident consul, and had
come directly to tell me the news, and ask
if could get ready to marry him and go
out there with him. If, indeed
wanted togo to you at once, = said Jack,
but your father kept me talking until the
dinner-bell rang. He gives his consent,
Perry although he says he don't know whit
he shall do when you are gone But W,
are TO have snug salary, pet, and the resi-.
lence is fine stone mansion, and we eau
always have either Flossy or Nina staying
with rs. And now let's go back and ent
ihe pigeon pie, darling
But was great deal too happy to eat. I
made pretence of nibbling at the biscuits
and drinking little milk, but it was quite
enough to see Jack devour the poor pig
cons. There never was much surface ro-
nance about Jaek, although for real actual
worth not man in her majesty's domln.
oLs conld excel him. -Amy Randolph.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-02-18
Is POT-ROlLERS.O


Pot-boilers" aro highly-colorod and
well-yarnished paintings, carelessly, rapidly
and conyentionally executed with the sole
purpose of selling as soon as possible. Al
though such Q picture is bad art it is bet
ter than the manufactured paintings
done by the yard from patterns and sent to
auction rooms as genuine oil paintings in
real gold gilt frames" In even n a. pot
boiler the artist feels some interest in his
work, and weavos into it some fragmentary
glimpses of his more loyal moods. As for
composition the popular pot-boiler al.
ways has n surrounding of purely conyen-
tionll and stereotyped arrangement dis
lance, middle distance and foreground, n
tendency to vivid yellow, purple or emerald.
Sunset scenes and marine views are very
common, the latter for the reason that an
economical perspective, and an expanse of
lifeless blue or green waves, can DO "paint-
cd in with vast rapidly. The gay barge
in the center of the canvas can be gotten
up with little drawing and much color The
entire picture may be done" by an &C
eornplished pot-boilerist without sketch
before him. lie knows to n cent the price
he will get for tho result, and his art is
leveled to almost the grade of the frame
maker.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-02-18

Superintendent Irwin, Of the Western
Union Telegraph Company, says that as a
rule women are not rs good operators as
men. They cannot work rs long and they
break down sooner. They arc not worth
much on the long circuits, because the
strain on the nervous system is too great.
In certain places, however, they are accept
able, and do n limited and regular amount
Of work exceedingly we'll. They are sue.
cessful in the management of small Offices,
as nj railroad stations ana hotels, and in
these situations they are sometimes prefer
red to men. Girls who have studied tele.
graphy for two months frequently apply for
positions, saying that their teachers have
pronounced them perfect, and expecting
salaries of $50 month right away. Super
intendent Irwin does not think that two
months study is sufficient, but that practice
should continue six or seven months before
tho would be operator goes to regular EN-
ployment. At the present moment there arc
stated to be plenty of expert telegraphers in
search of employment, and ten men ready
to I'll every situation which may be vacated
--py01re8s
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-02-18
a HEAr Ed FREroHr CAR.

The Easesaeia freight car heater is proving
an entire success. It was invented only
four years ago, and at the instance of Bos-
ton vegetable dealers, for the purpose of
bringing potatoes from Maine. Not only is
that business now monopolized by the East
man cars, but the banana traffic between
New York and Boston and New York and
Philadelphia is now wholly done by them.
Formerly most of the bananas sold in Bos-
ton were brought here by the outside line
of boats now every wholesale dealer in
Boston brings them from New York in the
heater cars, and though paying roundly for
the privilege, finds profit in so doing, by
reason of the safety of the fruit and the
rapid increase in the trade on account of its
superiority.
The Eastman car resembles an ordinary
box-car, but it has two air spaces through
out its floor and walls. The outer is for
dead air and the inner for the circulation of
warm dir. A kerosene stove of peculiar con-
struction, which burns without o wick, is
placed under the centre of the car and fed
by oil from o metallic tank that holds fifty
gallons, which is located between the sills
This supply will last ten days and nights.
No attendance is required. The oil flows to
the stove, and the quantity is increased as
the temperature in the car becomes lowered
from the effect of the weather outside. This
automatic device is very simple and abso-
lutely certain to work. It consists of IN
iron tube within brass tube, connected at
the bottom with the feed valve and extend
ing upward far enough into the car so that
the contraction and expansion of the metals,
caused by the temperature, will work the
valve and increase or diminish the supply
of oil to the stove. By this means the ship.
per can set the apparatus for any given
temperature before the car starts, and no
matter what kind of weather it passes
through, that temperature will be maintain
ed inside, without variation. An instance
occurred last winter where potatoes were
loaded at Houlton, Me-, when the tempera-
ture outside was 46o below zero, and it was
steadily maintained inside at GA differ.
ence of 1100. Bananas chill at AS and tend
to decay at 700 or S0o. The value of this
car for shipping them, and other tropical
fruits to the cities and towns of the North
cannot be overestimated. Boston Adrer.
fissr
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-02-18

The street cars are run in trains in Mexi.
10. Instead Of leaving tho terminus one
car each ten minutes, three cars are sent
together every half honr. This is not a
measure of economy, for each car has two
mules attached, and although they are never
moro than half block apart there are al
ways two conductors besides the driver.
Ono conductor takes the money aud gives
you ticket, nhl the other comes around.
punches it in the presence of the passenger
and then pats it in his pocket. They are
supposed to be a check upon each other.
The street car drivers always carry with
them horn, and blow it rs they approach
street crossing, so That there is aperpetual
footing going on The conductors usually
carry revolyers, don't know why, except
that ii is the fashion, for a Mexican would
as soon go out of doors without his hat as
without his revolver. Ho doesn't feel
dressed.
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Value and Cost Of Food.

Professor W. o. Atwnter, at recent
meeting of agriculturists, pointed out that
IA very large part of the expense Of living
Is the cost of food, and yet little is generally
known Of its real worth for sustaining the
body. A pound of beef and quart of milk
each contain about the same quantity OF
nutrientssyet they are not Of equal value
practically because the quality of the nutri-
ents is not alike. We are all largely gov
erned by taste. The rich may be so guided,
but the poor must economic. In beef we
often pay so much for bone and gristle that
the nutrients, particularly the protein, cost
more than they are worth. Protein, az
found in lean meat, eggs, beans and other
albuminous foods, is the most costly food
essential we buy. 1t usually costs less in
fish than in beef, less in wheat -four than in
potatoes, and less in vegetable than in ami
NAL foods. Our bodies require fiesh-forming
food to supply the waste Of the muscles,
and fat and starch to keep us warn. and to
keep the body supplied with its necessary
store of fat. CAicago Tribune.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-02-18
nawhlae Wheels.

Lately hydraulic compressed rawhide has
been favorably mentioned as material for
friction rolls and pulleys for skate rolls and
as facings for friction wheels. There is no
question of its advantage as material for
small pinion gears where much strain comes
on each tooth. If not exposed to continu-
GUS action of oil--aninal oil especially
the wheels will bear q deal Of rough usage.
One of the useful qualities of rawhide is its
yielding to q shock or sudden strain with
out breaking and without giving perma-
nent blacklash. Steel and the best Norway
iron will break under the strains to which
compressed rawhide will only slightly and
temporarily yield. The teeth or rawhide
blanks can be cut in the gear-cutting sn
CINE, as we'll as those of iron or steel, and
can be more readily turned in the lathes.
If q lubricant is required in the working
clear water is the best.--Inoentor's Mayt.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-02-18
GRAND CANON or COLORADO.


II is useless to attempt description Of
this place. Major Powell attempted 1t,
and succeeded as we'll as any one could
One loses all ideas of distance in the pres
ence Of tho cliffs, and the grandeur of the
mountain shapes paralyzes the mind. II
the Niagara River, from the foot of the
Falls to the Whirlpool, were extended 900
times, and the cliffs which enclose it were
twenty times higher than they are, the can
on of the Colorado would be reproduced
without the grotcsque shapes and gorgeous
colors in which these crags and peaks are
carved and painted. There is nothing on
earth 80 impressive, SO noble, so massive,
Here is cleft in the rock $500 feet deep
which is only forty feet across the top and
only four feet across the bottom, and little
further down the Colorado River, draining
the whole of the middle basin between the
Sierra and the Rocky Mountains, runs
through narrow gorge only few feet
wide, in which the water is said to be 150
feet deep. Above you rise on either side
cliffs mile and q quarter high almost per.
pendicular mot at single point, but for
miles.
The most impressive feature is called
Solomon's Temple, great mountain $3.50
feet high from the surface of the water
which flows at the foot. 1t is shaped like
magnificent building, well proportioned,
with doms upon its crest which resembles
very much that of the Capitol at Washing
ton. Although its dome looks to the OBJ
server as if it were near the edge OF the
canon, it is really mile and half back on
the plain, and is more than 1000 feet high.
Fairlee keeps record of the visitors, and,
in looking over the list, one is struck by
the large proportion Of foreigners. 1t seems
as if most of the people who have been here
are Englishmen.
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PRESERVING HIS REPUTATION.


He had been living on crusts md apple
cores and the remains of free lunches for
weeks, and the best bed he could scare up
was box half-fnll of musty straw. He was
begging uickels of pedestrians, recently,
when gentleman took him into restaur-
ant and said to the proprietors
Here, give this man some sort Of a meal.
suppose he will be glad to fill up on most
anything"
When the water approached to take his
order the tramp said
Now, then, make me nice piece of
toast, Drowned evenly on both sides, and
bring it here with quail on it. Iwant my
beef steak rare--rare, mind you, and if you
have any genuine Mocha coffee in the place
you may make me cup"
The waiter Went OF and brought in u
glass Of milk and some corn beef and bread,
and the man showed back and left the place
with the remark:
4 !" had an iden when came in here that
there wasn't any tone about this place.
Some folks don't seem TO know the differ
ence between hash house and banquet
hall.n
When the average American won't kick
there is something about him that ought to
be investigated.
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good Story is told at the expense OF
Lieutenant General Sheridan The last
time he was in New York, aud while dining
with friend he declared that there was
only ono place in America where roast
chicken could be provided to exactly suit
the requirements Of his taste. The idea
was laughed at, but finally General Sheri.
Ian invited his friend TO join party and
:est the matter the next evening Accord
ingly six or seven gentlemen snt down to a
dinner, Of which the chief dish was roast
chicken. During that course Phil alternat-
ed his mouthfuls with Mandatory remarks,
asserting the delicacy of the favor, the ten
derness Of the hesh tho daintness of the
cookery, and 80 on, until somebody's ire.
pressible grin set the table In roar. Then
the swindie was nproariously exposed. The
particular chicken set before Phil was
bogus-nota chicken at all, except for the
skin and the bones, the resi- being a clever
structure of veal and pig, in imitation of
the fowl, and impresnated with chicken
gravy.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-02-18

On q certain street in Denver is stone
mansion of surprising elegance, which,
with its grounds, cost nearly $1,000, 900.
Directly opposite, on n vacant lot, is tent
boarded up inside as far as the angle of the
roof. The back end of it is pierced will
stoyepipe and in the front end are door
and window. In the window hangs o cur
tain Of costly lace and in thVsent is piano
of exquisite tone. The tent itself did not
cost over 500. The piano, upholstery and
furniture inside arc said 10 have cost over
$4,000. The owner planted his tent here
over twenty-five years ago asd is one of the
moderately successful COLORADO miners, be-
ing worth about $50, 1000 He prefers his
tent to any dwelling house and says he
you'd not exchange it for Windsor Castle.
--Deager Times.
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POETRY.
Tho Past,

Tho Past.
into the moonlight OF the Past,
10 silence deep subsiding,
The Present, with its uproar loud,
ForeYermore is gliding;
There, backward drifting more and mora.
Its men and things grow DINNER,
Tnl what was once as sunshine clear
Fades to twilight gllmmer
Thus time that is to time that was
With noiseless lapse Is changing,
And we thatltye, 10 shadows turned,
VIII ghoSt-land soon be ranging:
As ranged or yore the phantoms thin,
The ltfeworn, spent and weary,
The thr0ngs unnumbered OF the dead
Through Homers Hades dreary.
The hours are brief while overhead
The sun for us is shining;
Then wherefore brood upon the Past,
For dead and gone repining2
We shall moi fail It's phantoms pale
To join at last forever
AT last TO know the ianguid flow
or Lethe's tabled liver
Whcn We are gone me years viii still
Be coming and be going,
rhe decades into centuries swell,
No pause nor respite knowing,
New efas take the place OF old,
Old things be wholly rotten,
GEtil our dwlndlins point OF time,
Long lapsed. shall be forgotten.
Its modes, beliefs and arts be strange
TO those for future ages,
AS modes which Hlstoryis sire records
Upon his hoary pages.
For on thoughts threshold still we stand,
Brute instincts low obeylng;
But Mind and Reason pure Will yet
Some future grand be swayine.
B. ". B.tli, IN aae Boston HerasL
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E.,.r.,.,n nr.x,co.

One of the most curious of the many
oddities which attract the attention Of the
stranger is the manner Of conducting fun.
erals. The rich go to the cemeteries in CIR.
riages as they do in the States; the middle
classes go on the street cars, coffin and all
he poor walk and carry the corpse on their
shoulders, almost always in rented coffin.
The scarcity of wood, which costs from $50
to 800 per 1000 feet, makes collins expen
sive, and there are places where decent
one can be hired for the day for 81 or 81
At the grave the body is taken out, wrapped
in blanket, and buried, when the coffin II
returned to the owner" Curtis IN lAtfr.
Ocean.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-02-18
Farmers Attention.

Farmers Attention.
have the original and only receipt
Of DIR. Bosenbury's Famous Chicken
Cholera Mixture, which / am prepared
to put up at the old rate, 80 cts. per
bottle. J. FRANK GRoMAS, Druggist,
Al Church Street, Lambertville, N. j.
Ut
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TIE malice Of ,nau;mate rh,uss.

It is always ON the coolest kind of g cold
lay that your furnace gets SO badly, out of
order that you can't start a fire. III August,
when the refrigerator won't work, the fur
mace is in the best of health