Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-08-03
"A BIG. COUNTRY.
Rev. John Harmon Gives His View. on
CALIFORNIA;.


California.
Some months ago Rev. John Hanno,. a
Methodist Episcopal Church South minis
ter, preached several sermons in this eity
some of which were reported in this paper
and were-remarkabiy original. In a recent
letter to She Richmond (Va.) Caaistton
Adrooate Ar. Hanncn saws:
God was at His best when He made
this wondrous landi This is, the feeling
that comes over one rs he goes to and fro
turning the pages of its gilt-edged volume.
IN TEE 5sUPERIArIvE DEaREB.
The biggest milk dairy" in the world.
ahe largest butter dairy in the world! the
largest almond orchard in the world. the
largest orange orchard in the world. the
largest vineyard in the world, the NEST
productive gold quartz mine in the world.
the largest hotel in the world, the largest
grape vine in the world, the corporation
which has built the most miles of railroad
il the world, the largest telescope in the
world, q think perhape1 the biggest YES
sells In the world; these are some of the
things that California glories in. Nature
seems to have had monomania. for big
ness when she worked on,the Pacific slope.
The people have imbibed the same spirit
Some weeks ago, crossing the straits at
"Silver Gate" | remarked to deck-hand
that the ferry-boat on which trains are
carried over was a mammoth affair " Yes
said he IN the California spirit, it is
THE BIGGEST IN THB WORLD
l thought afterwards that l should have
qui2zed him-told him that it made me
homesiek to look at it, it reminded me so
much of the canoes at the East; that the
Pacific Ocean made Inc think of the goose
pond at my grandfather's. But tho-feIlow
was right. 1t is the largest in the world,
and there is nothing else for US to do but
to swallow the statements we hear and try
not to show too plainly the wonder we
feel. Said an able divine to. me not long
ago, drifting uncoRsciously into this cur
rent Of California beasting: Yes, sir, the
grizzly bear is great animal A menag-
erie was challenged some years ago to pit
Its lion against grizzly, but declined
Yes" said the divine, complacentBy, [
reckon California has the king of beasts" "
One.of my outings has taken me 10 the
University of the Pacific" Situated at
San Jose, 1t is the great educational center
of our Northern brethren. OF course
IT RUNs~To BIGSEss.
DR.. A.C. Hust, the President, is r big
man. The faculty,is n big faculty. -Four
hundred students make big maEicula-
ton. The lecturer for the evening had q
big audience. Perhaps it would not do to.
say the lecture did not partake of the big
ness Some Of the lecturer's-old friends,
might object. Co-education. of the sexes,
is the rule here rs well as at our own col
lege at Santa Rosa. It seems to me that
the tendency would be to an, undue devel-
opment of the sensibilities. EoaY of the.
senior class, / understand. are engaged.
Hos do YOU think a postgraduate course.
there would do for old bachelor CORE
spcndents? i am sure in, years gone that
'woman's looks would have made mo.
neglect my books"
A IIANDSohE CRY.
Sacramento the Capital of the State, has
some 10000 population. Zoe level for
beauty. But her palms and Towers give
her many charms. The whole Sacramento
valley is a garden. Months ago, when,
was passing through it, andiwhen old nature
in Virginia was wearing "sseoud mourn
ing" she had here put off her widows
weeds. The orchards wene. tEisting 1aill-
ions of blooms into their hair and making
love to thesunbeams. TheGApitol Sqaare
Is as handsome rs art can veil make it.
But it lacks hills, elevations, and Is, in
ferior in natural beauty to the grounds at
Richmond or at Montgomery, Ala. Those
/ at Montgomery are the finest for situation
l have eTer seen, north, OF south. There,
I.G L L 4
| inaugurll--or ,ather, L should say, | saw
| him. To be candid, was so in lcge with
little girl on the grounGs that Jefi's- elo-
quence- was wasted on, me. The building
here is handsome Among its attractions
isa
MAGNIFICENT. PtEcE OF sTArGAIsY
l-Tsabella Commissioning Christopher
for his voyage across TIE 'Big Bond" D.
0. Mills paid iS68e00' sor it, ana presented
it to the S8,ste The janitor | found to be
! a loquacioas old Considerable Had done
| battle at Petersburg under Lee. What
good timber ths old Confederacy vas built
OCT, They come to the FROM everywhere.
| Stanley in Africa. Judah p Benjamin, top
brick Ia, the temple Of British iurisprti-
lence, Congssss full of them,. Page and
Cable knocking st the doors of literary
fame. All honor to the bows with whom
We drank s,om the same canteen." The
stars upon etir national s&nEier do well to
shine kindly apon such as.these Close 10
Sacramento is the ruin c6 old Fort Sutler.
1t vas e2e OF the garrison of this fort
that years ago first discovered gold in Cali
foznia. The old fort lies there nox like
the cracked shell out Of which has come
the yoang rooster - California whose
growing is waking TIE sleeping nations OF
Asia to the dawn of the day of aew civ
ilizatiOn.
sArASyS SEAT.
1t IS a hard fighsh here. Humanity never
did thrive in Paradise. The bread tree, il
is said, drives ont the missionary from
tropic islands. Men cut doEn the Cross
the Tree Of Life. here in California to make
room for the fruit tree TAe same ocean
that gives QUIZ glorious temperature SENDS
, the fog that shuts out the skies. The very
overflow of the Nile that fertiiizes Egypt
produces the deadly cocatrice. The same
; ocean of wealth that gives California iti
prosperity sends the fogs OF unbelief thai
shut out heaven. The very overflow o
the river Of plenty that makes California
fertile fills the land with cocatrices O
crime and wrong. When one looks al
California he " believes in Heaven" wher
he looks at Californians he "believes il
hell"