Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-08-29
SAN FRANCISCO LETTER.
CONTRASTING CALIFORNIA WITH
FOREIGN SHORES.
taneous Photographing-A
citation of the Fair Sex-Etc.
Sac FaANcIsco. August 8. 1ss5.

in their families ought TO subscribe for
few papers printed in foreign lands BY
| reading and discussing them in the house
hold circle children would soon discover
attractions about other than fictionai litera-
ture. An Australian paper sent to a friend
recently returned from there, contains as
much amusement as a seaside novel One
article ON weather topics describes the pres
ent winter as unusually severe. How hap
Ply Sacramento could be, when the Their
mometer registers along about 1859 in the
shade, if by some sort OF telephone contri-
vance there could be aswapof climates with
our southern helnispheresl Perhaps cleo
tricity viii yet accomplish that exchange.
Seasons out there are just opposite ours.
| Christmas is midsummer, and is always
! celebrated with picnics to which people
come IN white garments and straw hats
with sea bathing, and luncheon spread on
! the sands. While my friend was out
! there she had occasion to buy Il stock of
underclothing. Not in one shop could she
! find night gown but what buttoned ND
| the back Other garments are of such ludi-
| crous shapes as to cause roars of laughter
| TO American women who are favored with
sight of them. People have an idea that
goods can be bought cheaper in English
colonies than in the United States My
| friend intended laying in lot of handsome
! fabrics, but found prices fully up to those
in California, while there was none of that
dainty style characteristic of Pacific stores
Certainly underwear is far behind our own
! for fashion and cheapness.
TREELEss TRACTS.
| The paper mentions that a business firm
| have ordered 100000 worth of lumber
| from Red Bluff. 1t seems q long ways to
travel, but there are no trees i'll Australia
except gum varieties in sparse groups and
almost useless for lumber What a reve-
| lation the shady avenues of Californian
Capital would be to Melbourne and Sgd
ney Could you live in u land without
pines or oaks? | can't imagine any TO-
nance or poetry without trees.
The Fourteenth Amendment seems not
! to have extended political lines thenceward
as under theatrical notes is quoted "A
roaring business is being done in ST. George
| Hall by w. NJ. Emerson and his niger
minstrels.' Observe the calm effrontery,
please, of those two gs 1t is also stated
that Benicm's baby, Oracle Plaisted is the
! leading prima donna at the Bijou Opera
| House, Melbourne.
\ The colonists pattern everything possible
after England. The Pail bal disclosures
and subsequently protective measures had on
prototype in Sydney, but that town felt
called on to indorse the example by imita-
! ton, A new Principal was to be appointed
| for the girls high school. After eiectifig
| their man the committee informed him
| that he must be benedict before assuming
control of daughters descended from Eng
lands crime de la crime. Only on the hy-
pQthesis that almost all conditions of that
| country are contrary to the rest of the
world, can the belief be accounted for that
married mems morality is above par To
this naive proposition the teacher answered
that being unengaged it would take him
! three months to find wife. On his prom
Use to jump the broomstick within that
| time he received the appointment If
within that seminary there isn't for the
next quarter more ogling, flirting and dew
iltry going on than that committees phil
osophy hath dreamed of, then human ma
| ture is q lie.
THE sHoo-FLY sHINDIG.
There's no use trying to invent any mis-
| chief that girls are not into. A dozen San
Francisco school girls went off together
| this summer for their annual vacation.
Two of them were leading choir singers,
! too, in big city churches. They visited
several resorts and paralyzed each place
with their pranks. Just how it was evolved
they can't tell, but dance of their compos-
| ing struck terror to the beholders' hearts
and is likely to lead as fashionable folly
during coming social frolics. Eight or ten
people are enough to unite at once, as more
are apt to make the sport tiresome. These
| take the parlor floor and join in q walk
round, all singing some lively air, gener-
ally beginning with 'Shoo-fy, don't bother
me-" AT the chorus the ring stops and
mark the music. by hand-pats and foot
beats, while one comes to the center and
dances. Everything goes, coats off, petit
coats gathered well out of the way, steps
wild and wicked, until the dancer falls back
/ into line. The next person can turn the
| tune to Sixteen days in Georgia, " Tramp,
tramp" Go tell Aunt Rhody,' 1.-THE
! Mockiug Bird" Dixie" or " Dancing in
the Barn
| At Alum Rock Springs there was in the
ring San Jose Judge that tips 2l5 pounds
weight to 100 of dignity, but whose pranc-
! ing as a premier danseuse gave proof of
having missed his calling. A Kentucky
woman, who leads society by the nose, inn
itated plantation belle, and they do say
her name is plainly marked on the tops of
| her stockings.
CALIFORNIA TO THE FRONT.
! Instantaneous picture-making of moving
objects has engaged study from photograph
ers since that science was in infancy. Dur
| ing the maintenance of his Palo Alto horse
! training ranch, Ex-Governor Stanford ex-
pended $4,000 trying but never securing
satisfactory pictures of running horses.
After thirty years of experiments Prof. w.
E. James of San Francisco, brought his art
ahead of anything in Photographic history.
| BY the invention of drop-shutter," he
uncovers and covers the camera upon
passing object quicker than any possible
movement of the hand-Guicker, seem
| ingly, than an eyelidS fall, and secures
perfect picture at the rate of S35 in a sec
| ond Among foremost inventions of the
! age, this one We owe not TO electricity, but
to laws of gravitation. A horse trotting $50
feet second, or 240 gait outlines distinctly
the tension of every muscle. The sulky
wheel-spokes are all in place, plain as if
| stationary, and the drivers likeness recog-
nizable. Other moving objects are copied
plain as if painted. Among them are ocean
waves beating the shore and on Seal Rocks
at the Cliff House; flash Of sixteen cannon
firing a salute from the English corvette
Comus; lady riding horseback in the
| park. There are several fiocks of quail in
the park that have become so tame as to
answer a peculiar whistling call made by
| the resident keeper. Before lighting down
about him the CAMERA pictures dozen of
| the pretty birds on the wing. There is a
tug curling spray under its Prov while pass
ing Golden Gate and race between six
teen saifboats that is very attractive, while
all are interesting proof Of Western adj
yancement.
| TO wELL-MANNEIED MEN.
| An Eastern writer protesting to speak for
all his sex says that among those who
/ travel much in street-cars there is grow
ing tendency not to giveup seats to women
He asserts that men having paid for, are
entitled to their seats. which women ac-
| cept as right, not as a courtesy, and in
nine cases of ten fail to give any acknowl-
edgment of the accepted favor. Now, gen.
| tlemen, we concede your rights and decline
to ask anything granted unwillingly, but
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