Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-03-03
NOTES OF THE DAY.

a potato of the Salt Lake variety was cut
open yesterday at the home of ]. w.
Knapp, on Eleventh street. preparatory to
cooking, when ground nut was found en-
bedded in the flesh of the potato near the
center, in rs fresh a condition and with tne
potato around it as white as if the recepta-
Gle Tor 1t had just been scolloped out with
KNIFE The nut was about as large as a
pea. There was not the least appearance
that the two growths had come in contact
and the potato grown around the nut The
latter lay in clear, white flesh, and there
fore presents quite query as to the opera
tons OF nature through which it became
appropriated by the potato.
few years ago the study of American
fnanclers was how to bring greenbacks to
par and maintain them equal with gold.
Greeley's trite remark 4 the way to resume
is to resume was characteristic hit at
nut thought difficult TO crack The prob
lem was, however soon solved. and when
brought about, il was discovered that
throughout the East greenbacks, by reason
OF their greater convenience were pre-.
ferred to gold. On this coast, where gold
payment was never suspended, they have
been slow to gain the same preference but
until quite recently considerable amounts
in greenbacks have been drawn from the
Sub-Treasury in San Francisco to send East
In place OF gold as less expensive in trans
portation, and preferred when it reached
its destination. Thus the anomalous fact
has come to pass, that Uncle Sans g prom
use to pay is regarded better than the pay
ment.
1T is well known that the Fire Depart
ment OF Sacramento has had the reputation
for years past of being an active political
rrZafion nd o+.arf /
the Republican political machine; that
while it was engaged in laudable work of
protecting property from fire. the unsala-
RED positions upon the Board were princi-
paliy sought for and used as stepping
stones to offices which did respond in sala-
| ries. However much of truth there may
| be in these statements, the regulations of
the Fire Department contain one rule upon
| this very subject, which is eminently a
proper one and should be rigidly enforced.
1t Is Rule ID, and reads as follows:
No officer or member Of the Department shall
act as efecuige committeeman, attend ana
political ConUesation as a deleqate, hold or dis
| tribute tickets at any election on pe1aalty of
instant dismissal.
Ii is to be presumed that whatever NAV
have been done in the past, our present
Fire Commissioners will not permit other
than strict observance of this rule.
The Committee on Invalid Pensions. YES
terday, favorably reported TO the House
bill granting further aid to invalid soldiers
and their families Among its provisions
is one that persons on whose account pen
sions are claimed, shall be free from dis
ease at date OF entering the service. This,
II II becomes law, will put to an end a
practice upon the part of the Government,
which has been disgrace to it. as well as
cruel wrong and insult to our invalid
veterans. Every enlisted man before being
accepted into service had to pass a rigid
physical examination by surgeon duly
appointed by the Government, and with
person barred before their acceptance into
service and after this was again carefully
inspected when mustered in. Notwith
standing this, whenever an invalid soldier
became disabled from disability contracted
IN the army, and he applied for a pension
or, II he died in the army and his wife or
children applied for a pension. they
were compelled, under the parsi
monlous meanness and seifstultifying
injustice OF the Government, to go to the
expense and trouble of furnishing most
exactlng proofs, by affidavits of family
physicians, of neighbors, etc., that the an
plicant was physically sound when he en-
tered the service. In many instances it !
was impossible to furnish such evidence as
required, on account of death of family
physicians and other witnesses, and thus
the Government by trick, so to speak.
and which is unworthy of it, has rejected
claims, and avoided granting pensions, to
an ihnumerable number of needy defend
ers OF the Union, or their widows and
iatherless children. 1t is fully time that
Congress take the matter in hand. and wine
out this foul blot upon the treatment of
our soldiers.