Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-02-16

test between himself and the Senate very
pointed by refusing papers called for con-
corning removals. He evidently has nc
intention of retreating.
The Trustees of the Baptist Church al
San Jose are taking legal proceedings to
Gust the Rev. n. +. Ravlin, and to procure
possession of the church. The contest is a
very spirited one, but not spiritual.
Another Court Clerk has gone wrong,
This time it is Frank p Murphy, Clerk OF
the Justices Court, San Francisco, and the
amount of his populations so far as known
IS 81 ,O2S-not enough to warrant trip to
Honolulu.
Concerning the cold wave of early jan
uary and its effect on citrus trees in River
side, the Press says: after careful in.
spection, and gaining what there is to be
learned OF the effects of the late cold wave,
we find little damage done to the ripening
fruit and but very little to the young
growth of the trees" There has not been
even leaf or twig of the tenderest Young
orange trees, injured in the least in the
Sacramento valley.
The camphor tree grows to perfection in
northern Japan and is very valuable as an
article of commerce. Might it not be
grown at some places in California? We
have no recollection that the experiment
has ever been tried. The camphor is ex-
tracted from the wood of this tree, where it
is formed in concrete Jumps, some of
which are as large as a mans arm, though
this is rare. The tree has to be sacrificed
to procure the camphor.
Sacramento is determined to not only
- q n Mt two, l..,s
is also reaching out to cast off the "semir
and to don the simple tropical" S. H.
Gerrish has at his residence, 1517 street,
about thirty fine banana plants which are
doing finely. The frost of this winter
nipped the leaves little, but thew are
now, at the middle of February, growing
finely. The Los Angeles Herald man
should come mp and procure one, when
spring opens down that way.
Although several persons have at differ
ent times been credited as the inventor of
the lucifer match, it is believed that Daniel
X. Jones, native of Philadelphia but
who spent most of his life at Chillicothe.
o., was the first to succeed in the matter.
Mr.. Jones was often heard to regret that he
had failed to take out patent for the in
yenuon. He was gentleman of high
character, ofingenious talents, good chem
list and scholar. A London paper claims
that the " friction lueifer was invented in
April, 1927, by John Walker, chemist and
druggist, in Stockton-upon-Tee The sub
ject of inventorship of this much-used
household article has been under discus
sion recently at the East.
James Anthony Froude, who recently
made tour of the English-speaking couri-
tries of the world, has just published a
book, in which he sums up his conclusions
concerning California as follows "In
short, California is a pleasant country, with
good people in it. If one had to live ones
life over again, one might do worse than to
make ones home there. For a poor man
it is even better than Victoria and New
South Wales for not the necessaries of life
only are cheap there but the best of its
luxuries. The grapes are like the clusters
of Eschol. The wine, already palatable, is
on the way to becoming admirable and as
accessible to light purse as it used to be
in Spain. | ate there the only really good
! oranges which | have tasted for many
years-good as those which we used to get
before the orange-growers went in for aver
age sorts and heavy bearers and the great
est happiness of the greatest number"