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Taking Off Hides bv Electricity

The introduction of improved labor
saving appliances in the slaughtering in
dustry of the country has been so slow and
OF so unimportant nature, that it is with
q certain degree of satisfaction we record
the invention of what the patentee calls an
electric siding knife" for taking off ami
nal skins without injury to either the hide
or carcass. The inventor is l.. Newgass,
who for number of years has had charge
of the Fairbank Canning Company's i'm
mense slaughter house. The depreciation
in value of hides, from what is known in
the trade as scores, ships and cuts is large
In other words, where a number of men
are employed by large firm, it is impossi-
bic at all times to get skilled and careful
butchers, especially during the busy sea-
son, hence the number of damaged hides
turned out annually by such house as the
Fairbank Canning Company, though small
in proportion to the total amount shipped,
is sufficient loss from dockage by the
buyers of hides to make the new discovery
one of great value. Further, we have no
hesitancy in saying, from what we have
seen of the " electric siding knife" that
the value of hides will be increased from
one-half to one cent pound, as the fieshv
side is left as smooth and even as the inner
side of Sleeps pelt. The siding knife,
like all good inventions, is simplicity itself,
being virtually nothing more than a slight
alteration of the Edison 'incandescent or
arc light, with the glass bulb removed.
The knife, in construction. resembles very
much the receiver employed by the Tele-
phone Company, and like it, has a double
set of covered or insulated wires attached
to the butt end of the handle, connecting
through the body of same to the cutting. or
more properly the burning edge or wire.
which is composed of platinum The cur
rent is entirely under control of the butcher,
who, after opening the hide in the usual
way with an ordinary knife, turns on the
current and commences removing the hide
with long quick sweeps of the slider The
principle is that OF burning, as the platinum
edge is brought to an intense white heat,
yet said edge is so arranged and protected
with noE-conducting shields, that it is i'm
possible to injure either the hide or the car
cass; in fact, the hide seems to be, as it
were, torn or pulled off by some unex-
planned force of this wonderful agent,
electricity, and further, it has been demon
strated beyond doubt, that the meat holds
its color better and longer, this being ac-
counted for by the fact that the pores are
closed up by the action of the current,
which seems TO leave a thin. transparent
coating over the entire side another adj
vantage is. the beef after leaving the chill
room. never "sweats" or "weeps" as under
the old system of taking off. The patent
is controlled by the Fairbank Canning
Company American Marketman.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-01-09
Married Paoule

Married people would be happier
IL home troubles were never told to a
neighbor
If expenses were proportioned to re-
ceipts.
If they tried to be as agreeable as in
courtship days.
If each would try to be a support and
comfort to the other.
If each remembered the other was q
human being, not an angel.
If each was as kind to the other as when
they were lovers.
If fuel and provision were laid in during
the high tide of summer work
If both parties remembered that they
married for.worse as well as for better.
If men were as thoughtful for their
wives as they were for their sweethearts.
If there were fewer silk and velvet street
costumes, and more plain tidy house
dresses.
If there were fewer please darlings in
public and more common manners in
private.
If masculine bills for Havanas and fem
mime ditto for rare lace were turned into
the general fund until such times as they
could be incurred without risk.
If men would remember that woman
cannot be always smiling who has to cook
the dinner, answer the door-bell half a
dozen times, and get rid of neighbor who
has dropped in, tend sick baby, tie up the
cut finger of a 2-year old, tie up the head of
a 6-year old on skates, and get an Swear old
ready for school, to say nothing of sweep
ing, cleaning, busting. etc. A woman with
all this to contend with may claim it as a
privilege TO look and feel title tired some
times, and word of sympathy would not
be too much to expect from the man who.
during the honeymoon, would not let her
carry as much as a sunshade.-INew Yorl,
Nail and Express.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-01-09
Two Ouails a Day for a Month,

On the 9th OF last month Dr. E. L. Bee
man heard a friend say that it was impos
sible for man to eat thirty quails in thirty
consecutive days. The doctor said it is q
popular error, and that there is no reason
why man may not eat quail every day as
well as beef. He said he could eat two
quails day for thirty days. The end OF
tins friendly dispute was a small wager
and DIR. Beeman began the task of eating
sixty quails in thirty days, pair day,
one for dinner, one for supper
Last evening the thirty days ended. A
reporter found DR.. Beeman in Mexican &
Buckleys restaurant making preparations
to eat the last quail. The doctor said:
Il have eaten fifty-nine quails. and l
feel good. People have said that it could
not be done. ! merely wished to prove the
fallacy of this statement, and l think |
have done so. like quail now Just as well
as did month ago when [ began to eat
them. | could eat forty more in twenty
days, and I'll bet $500 on it."
The waiter announced that the last quail
was ready and the doctor entered the din
ing-room and sat down at a small table.
On plate resting on two pieces of toast
was broiled quail. On the table was a
dish of olives, dish of pickles and some
crackers The doctor did not begin to eat
Immediately. He took the bird in his
fingers and broke off leg. but laid it on
the plate. He ate large olive and then
swallowed mouthful of quail.
relish that" said he, and hurriedly
ate two more olives.
He finally finished the quail and the
referee declared him the winner. The
stakes were trifiing. and were presented
by DR.. Beeman to the cook who served the
quails. The meat on sixty 9uails weighs
5s pounds.-fCleveland Plain Dealer.
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leather and feather, but for in zinc, and
omitted the last in bridegroom. The
edition twenty years later dropped these
speliings, and the present publishers of that
work have put second / in traveller and
that class OF words. We stand nearer to
the booksellers edition of johnson of about
$500 than We did twenty or forty years ago.
The people will not willingly purchase
books or newspapers thus spelled They
are too conservative. Why do not the ed
itors of the Library Journal and other inno-
yators see that this is the case? The refor-
nation IN Dutch spelling was only accom-
pllshed by governmental edict, but no
other modern language has been able to
alter its customs. There are now four
usual spellings of English that a proof
reader must know. Webster marks the
greatest difference from Johnson. while
Worcester comes between. Besides these
there IS the Office photography, in which
the rules of the dictionaries have been
modified for general usage of the compost
tors. Shall fifth spelling be introduced
to make still greater trouble.-[The Book
maker
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-01-09
Some Historic Beds

a curious precautlon was observed dur
ing the Middle Ages with regard to Queens
about to be confined, and probably to all
ladies of rank. They were secluded in bed
rooms of which the bed curtains, tester.
tapestry, or wall hangings, were carefully
chosen, so that there might be nothing in
them to dazzle the eyes or awake gloomy
thoughts in the mind. Figure subjects
were not allowed on the tapestry Eliza
beth, Queen of Henry XII, retired on ALL
hallows' Eve, 1850, to her chamber in
Westminster. After mass and communion,
for which the Earl of Salisbury held the
towels, the corners OF which were embroid-
cred with gold, she was led to an ante
room, where she waited under her cloth of
estate Chrome canopy and partook of a
void (refreshments). Her chamber was
hung and ceiled with blue arras cloth with
golden iieurs- e-lys on it. The pallet had
a canopy of velvet of many colors striped
with gold, and garnished with red roses.
An altar was made, furnished with relics !;
a cupboard, the top shelf furnished with
gold plate She commended herself to the
prayers of the lords, the chamberlain drew
the curtains of the /" traverse which
parted off that portion of the room, and
after that no manner of officer came within
the Queens chamber, but only ladies and
gentlewomen after the old custom
The cradle of King Henry " is pre-
served in Monmouth Castle. 1t is not I'M
like the old cradle in South Kensington
1t is a crib. paneled, swinging on two
posts, one at each end, rudely carved into
falcons. There is no half-tester over the
head
The Elizabethan bed is still to be seen in
many varieties 1t stood under canopy
or tester. on four stout columns. two of
which formed the framework of the bed
head. Sometimes the actual tedstead was
within the paneled Enclosure, and could
be drawn out and pushed back without
disturbing SO large structure. 1t was de-
rived from the paneled bed of the Middle
Ages, to which reference has been made.
On the columns of the older beds were
figures or half-figures of the four evange-
lists. Many beds made of oak for the
English market were imported from Elan
ders, the bed heads and feet composed of
many tiny open arches. Bed testers,
finished with details representing hanging
fringes and decorative detail borrowed from
drapery, may generally be set down as of
Flemish origin. English beds of this date
are more massive and ruder in execution.
Shaw's Ancient Furniture contains an
engraving of the great bed of Ware" in
Herlfordshire. 1t is in the Tudor style,
twelve feet square, and bears a date (but
not authentic), l460.-IMagazine of Art for
JanuaTv
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Spelling Reform.

Librarians, who have lately finished their
annual meeting at Lake George, have done
good work but why, doing SO much that
is useful, do they still insist on printing
their proceedings and their regular period
ical with an photography which certainly is
not English, and which provokes the sneers
of the general public? The word "cata-
loging,' and such gems as "dialog and
monalog are profusely spread through
its pages. Not disputing the right of mem
bers to spell in their private notes in any
way they may like, it looks ridiculous in
the formal publication of learned society
The world does not adopt the theory which
prompts it. Not tenth of one per cent.
OF the printing in the United States is done
AFTER this manner, although it has been
several years before the public, and almost
all OF the individual members of the soci-
ETY., IN the books TO which tier names are
signed. abandon it. 1t is too little of a
reformation ever to take hold. II changes
lew hundreds of words only. and leaves
the vast number of anomalies not covered
Dy their rules just as they were before
The phonotypists of 1850 did much better
They sought to reform it altogether and,
tseefns to me, stood more chance of accom-
piishlng their task than the later reformers.
Dr. Webster tried TO change some words
when his dictionary was first published.
He struck out The superluous from
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-01-09

POSTAGE STAMPs.-Few people, perhaps.
realize OF how recent origin is the postage
stamp. 1t was first issued by Great Britain
in 1910. Brazil was the first nation to fol-
low the example. which it did in IS43 and
in lS47 the United States began the use of
postage stamps. There are now 2ll stamp
issuing countries. Il is estimated now that
every year some 5o,000,00O,O coo letters are
posted in the world. America leads with
about 2,5O0,0O0,000, and England follows
with 7OO,OO0000. Japan now mails annu-
ally 95,O00000 letters, and the cancelled
stamps on these letters are worth an aver
age of one cent each. Last year there were
26G0O letters posted in England without
any address on them. In 500 OF these
gold coins aud money were inclosed. The
cancelled postage stamps of many countries
are worth quite as much as the unused
specimens, and many are use solely for
collections, the revenue being an important
item. Monaco is the latest to issue stamps;
but Stellaland, with its l. fifty houses and
three stores" IS probably the most insig-
nificanf, even more so than Heligoland or
the Virgin Islands. Bhopai has the oldest
stamp. Nicaragua the finest, Siberia the
largest. Zealand the smallest, Guatemala
the most striking, and Sarawak and Great
Britain divide the honor of having the
cheapest Exchange.
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DYSPEPSIA.

Sedentary habits, mental worry, nervous
excitement, excess or imprudence in eat
ing or drinking, and various other causes,
induce Constipation followed by general
derangemcnt Of the liver. kidneys. and
stomach, III which HE disorder OF each
organ increases the inirmity oil The others.
The immediate results are Loss of Ape
tite, Nausea, Foul Breath, Heartburn, Flat
ulence, Dizziness, Sick Headaches, failure
of physical and mental yigor. distressing
sense of weight and fulness in the stomach,
and increased Costiveness, all of which are
known under one head rs Dyspepsia.
Ineyery instance where this disease does
not originate from scrofulous faint in the
blood, AYERS PILLS may be confidently
relied upon to effect Il cure. Those cases
not amenable TO the curative influence of
AYERS PILLS alone will certainly yield if
the PILLS are aided by the powerful blood
purifying properties of AYERS SARsAPA-
RILLA.
Dyspeptics should know that the longer
treatment of their malady is postponed,
the more difficult of cure it becomes.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-01-09
"FRIGHTEN ME SOME MORE,

Lovely, charming little Dolly
A bashful little maid
Seeming one day very jolly
thought might persuade
To forsake her fathers dwelling
And journey through this life
Sad or gloomy thoughts dispelhng-
My pretty, loving wife.
SO I spoke in accents tender,
And drew her to my side,
For thought she would surrender
When asked to be my bride
Then she started from me quickly,
Saying neither nag nor yea,
But, as bushes gathered thickly:
. am frightened go away"
Then thought that I'd offended
nothing more could say,
For thought my suit was ended,
So turned to go away.
Oh, my heart with grief was laden,
But ere I'd passed the door
Cried the charming little maiden,
Please brighten me some more"
Il The Rambler
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-01-09
JACK FRosr's PRIsoNERs.-The Bate
(Montanal Miner prints the subioined.

(Montanal Miner prints the subjoined:
The other evening about supper time,
while the dining-room was crowded, the
guests at the Centennial Hotel were thrown
into state of CONSERVATION and excite
ment by hearing cries and shrieks coming
from apparently an unknown quarter
Some thought tie house was haunted, and
others were satisfied that the cries were hui
man. A speedy search was made, and it
was soon discovered that the balcony was
the point whence the sounds emanated,
and the voices belonged to two little pets
of the household-Pearlv Bateman and
Rosa-the daughters of the Householder.
When the crowd reached the spot the little
ones were found prisoners in a manner
that is familiar to the older folks, but was
something new to them Together they
had walked on the balcony, the rail of
which is iron, and as the frost looked so
tempting they decided to lick il off. The
result was, of course, that both were glued
to the iron, and luckily. instead of attempt
ing 10 release themselves by force, they be-
gan "a series of shrieks DIR. Bead, who
was ON hand, promptly procured pitcher
of hot water, and soon, the iron absorbing
the heat the youngsters were released
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-01-09

Recently the lost town was visited
by miner, who reports that he found
everything in town as left nearly twenty
years ago. The antiquated billiard tables
were standing in the saloons, heavy i'm
ported goods were on the shelves uf the
deserted stores, and letters in the Postoffice
were dated back in 1866. The story has
been corroborated by Walla Walla parties
of veracity and standing who are personally
acquainted with the facts.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-01-09
THE KITCHEN HEARTH

The mind runs back to other days,
To childhood's time of mirth.
When happy children in their plays
sat round the kitchen hearth
Dear mother, with her needles bright,
But not of queenly birth,
With busy fingers left and right
Sat knitting by the hearth.
Dear father, too. with book in hand,
We cherish now his worth,
Gave us counsel and command,
While sitting round the hearth.
We hid the slipper in our play,
And played at blind mans buff;
Z" find you here" says sister May,
Just by the kitchen hearth.
That little mound hard by the kirk
Did check our youthful mirth.
And left vacant seat near by
Our happy kitchen hearth.
Then as the onward rolling sphere
Sped on from day to day,
Another one within year
Went from the kitchen hearth
Dear mother, too. whose trembling form
Did not betoken Plan or mirth,
Foretold too plainly 0Bat storm
Would sweep the kitchen hearth.
That blazing fire, those happy days
OF childhood and OF mirth:
Well ne'er forget our youthful plays
While round the kitchen hearth
But storms have come, and childish plays
Are numbered with the past
Forever gone are happy days
Around the kitchen hearth
III w Sage
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-01-09

STRANGE But TRUE.-This is one of the
curious things floating about: Take piece
of paper and upon it pat in figures your
age In years. dropping months, weeks and
days. Multiply it by two then add to
the result obtained the figures 3,770; add
two, and then divide by two. Subtract
from the result obtained the number of
your years on earth, and see if you do not
obtain figures that you will not be likely
TO forget.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-01-09

WHAT We learn with pleasure we never
forget. = Alfred MERCER The following
is case in point . paid out hundreds O.
dollars without receiving any benefit saw:
Mrs. Emily Rhodes, OF McBrides Mich
" / had female complaints, especially
dragging-down, for over six years, DR.
r. V. Pierce's Fsvorite Prescription die
me more good than any medicine evel
took. l advise every sick lady to take it,
And so do We 1t never disappoints it:
patrons. Druggists sell it.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-01-09
AN ANEcDorE OF wAsHIKGroN's BoYHooD

AN ANECDoTE OF WASHINGTON 5 BoYHOoD.
There is story told of George Washing
toms boyhood- unfortunately there are not
many stories-which is to the point His
father had taken great deal of pride in his
blood horses, and his mother afterward
took great pains to keep the stock pure
She had several young horses that had not
yet been broken, ana one of them in partic-
ular, sorrel, was extremely spirited. No
one had been able to do anything with it.
and it was pronounced thoroughly vicious
as people are apt to pronounce horses which
they have not learned to master. George
was determined to ride this colt, and told
his companions that if they would help
him catch it, be would ride and tame it.
Early in the morning they set out for the
pasture, where the boys managed to sur
round the sorrel and then to put bit into
its mouth. Washington sprang on its back,
the boys dropped the bride, and away flew
the angry animal. Its rider at once began
to command; the horse resisted, backing
about the field, rearing and plunging The
boys became thoroughly alarmed, but
Washington kept his seat, never once losing
his self-control or mastery of the colt. The
struggle was sharp one: when suddenly,
as if determined to rid itself of its rider,
the creature leaped into the air with ire
mendous bound. 1t was its last. The vio-
lence burst a blood-vessel, and the noble
horse fell dead.
Before the boys could sufficiently recover
to consider how they should extricate them
selves from the scrape they were called TO
breakfast and the mistress of the house,
knowing they had been in the fields, began
to ask after her stock.
e Pray. young gentlemen" said she,
have you seen my blooded colts in your
rambles? l hope they are well taken care
of. My favorite, l am told, is as large as
his sire"
The boys looked at one another, and no
one liked TO speak. OF course the mother
repeated her question.
THE sorrel is dead, madam" said her
son. killed him.
And then he told the whole story They
say that his mother flushed with anger, as
her son often used to, and then, like him,
controlled herself and presently quietly
said
" 1t is well but while l regret the loss
of my favorite, rejoice in my son, who
always speaks the truth. list. Nicholas
for January.
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DESERTED TowN.-The annexed is ex-
tracted from the Yakima wv. T.) SionaI !.

On French creek, about 800 miles from
the Little Dalles, is an abandoned mining
hamlet known Us the 4" Lost Town" In
1864 placer diggings were discovered there
and great rush was made for the place.
About thirty houses were built, and the
steamer 80 took up provisions, liquors
and even couple of billiard tables At
ter awhile the diggings were found to
be Improbable, and new excitement
breaking out in another section of the
country, everybody prepared to leave. In
the meantime the Old steamer was wreck ed
on reef of rocks, and there was no way to
get out of the camp but by bateaux and
raft, and the miners were compelled to
leaTe heix tools a,-a ali heavy objects.
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HEALTH is impossible when the blood is
impure. thick and sluggish, or when it is
thin and impoverished. Such conditions
give rise to ooils, pimples, headaches, neu-
raigia, rheumatism and other disorders.
Ayers Sarsaparilla makes the blood pure.
rich and vitalizing.
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