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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-01-07
shakespeare on Baseball.


The Elks of this city, says the New Or
leans Picdgune, engaging in game of ball,
played in characters familiar to the stage,
has led lover of Shakespeare to inquire
what the immortal bard knew of baseball,
and the following illusions were found:
The affair cries haste, and speed must answer
1t. -Othello, l, 3.
Eight yards of uneven ground is three-score
and ten miles afoot with me. Henry ", 2 2.
Our safest way is to avoid the aim.
Macbeth, ., 8
Among nine bad If one be good
There's yet one good in ten. Ais Well, l, 8.
Base men that use them to so base effect
Two Gent. Verona, . Z.
The base is right; It's the base knave that
Jars. Tam. of ShIew, 8, L.
These knocks are too ho'; and for mine own
part have not a case of lives. Henry V, 8, 2.
Be not out with me;
Yet if you be out sir;
| can mend YOU
Julius Caesar, /, l.
You are slow: for shame, away
Can we outrun the heavens?
Henry VI, s. 2.
Will make him fly an ordinary pitch.
seduced the pitch and height of all his thoughts
To bass declension. Richard ILL.,, s. Z.
Base men by his endowments are made great,
Richard H., . S.
As fearfully as does CALLED rock
Oerhang and jutty his confounded base
Henry v, g. l.
Had she affections and warm youthful blood
She would be as swift in motion as ball.
Romeo and Juliet, 2, ).
There's daisy Hamlet, 4, 5.
Pardon me, sir; it was black. ill-favored fly.
Titus AdrOn., 2, 3,
To what base uses we may return, Horatio
Hamlet, /, 8.
will run as far as God has any gound
-Mer. of Ven, 2, g.
Thus do the hopes we have in him touch ground
And dash themselves to pieces.
Henry ", 4, q
Like to bowl upon a subtle ground,
have tumbled past the throw.
-Corioanus ., .
Till you had measured how long
fool you were upon the ground.
-Cymbeline, l, .
You come not home because you have no
stomach. Comedy of Errors l. }
If our betters play at that game,
We must not dare
To initiate them. -Timon of Athens /, .
The greater throw
May turn by fortune from the weaker hand.
-Mer. of Ven, 2, /.
You can fool no more money out of me at this
throw. Twelfth Night, 5, l.
Just death, kind umpire OF mems miseries.
Henry ", 4, s.
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carries with it the most delightful sensa-
ton, and again it is only productive of the
horrible. When patient is 'sgoing Off
or returning to consciousness, he often in
dulges in absurd remarks.
There's my blue bonnet" said lady,
opening her eyes after some time spent in
| dentists chair $50 | can't be dead; that
wouldn't have been waiting for me in
heaven"
Another, sober matron, was so de-
| lighted on returning to consciousness. Mt
seeing the kindly face of her physician
bending over her, after she had been float
ing oft into space, that she exclaimed ex-
citedly, 80, doctor, l love your
"Yes, yes, know it," he replied, sooth-
| ingly, and she has since declared that she
was so angry with him for under estimat
ing the importance of her statements that
| she kept on wildly insisting. "But YOU
don't understand | adore YOU p
One young girl, compelled to 90 through
a painful surgical operation, began laugh
ing lmmoderately as soon as the ether
affected her. After her recovery. She was
asked to recall the cause of her mirth,
and IN dong so she laughed as heartily
again.
Nei tOi Nol HOW lunly IL was, she
declared. q seemed to be croeheting. and
there was big mosquito going in and out
with the loops Oh, if you could only
have seen how funny he lookedp
From which it may be inferred that
ether, in common with hashish and opium.
has the power of investing the simplest
objects and imaginings with some absurd
characteristics.
A gentleman who had inhaled ether for
the purpose of having his teeth extracted.
says there was some delay in the course of
the operation, and when the last teeth were
pulled he had begun to regain conscious
ness.
g l felt no pain" he says, in describing
his sensations, but l felt the jar when
each tooth left my head. But all the
time | was dreaming that l was whizzing
through the country ON lightning express
train.
At intervals some one threw huge
log across the track, in front of the en-
CINE, and we went over it with bump and
jolt. Not until afterward did | realize
that the jar was that of departing TOOTH"
-C0urier-J 9urnd{.
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The Great MoguI.

The following good story comes from a
quarter where We are assured its correct
ness can be vouched for" Many years ago,
at the time of great ceremony Windsor
Castle was honored with the presence of
three sovereigns. After breakfast the three
potentates walked and talked on the ceIe-
brated slopes, and were, of course, in
mutt" They were delighted with the
grounds, and presently entered into con-
yersation with a gardener, who evidently
took them for a party of "gentlemens
gentlemen out for stroll. After some
little talk he could not resist the query :
Now who may you gents be-" "Well,
said the spokesman, this gentleman hap
pens to be the King of Prussia; that one
standing by your side is the Emperor of
Austria, and, as to myself, | am the En-
peror of Russia" This was carrying the
joke too far, thought the gardener. ave
seen lot of queer furrin gents here lately,
but this beats me-" so he burst out in a
rather rude gufiaw. We'll, my friend"
said Emperor Nicholas, ''you seem amused ;
perhaps you will tell us who you are.'
"Oh certainly" so taking up the skirt of
his coat with the action of great eagle
spreading out his wings, and spinning
round on his heels, he said, eff you are all
what you say you are, why, | am the Great
Mogul~ The three majesties roared with
laughter, and returning to the castle told
the story at the luncheon table, to the i'm
mense amusement Of the Queen and Prince
Albert.-London Society
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A Noted Masonic Lodge

The Baltimore Sun, in speaking OF the
approaching Masonic centennial celebra-
ton to be held in that city, says: The
public, as well as the Masonic fraternity,
seem to fully appreciate the magnitude of
the centennial celebration of the Mary
land Grand Lodge on May 10th, 11th and
18th, and there is general desire TO make
1t great success.
responses from out-of-town lodges ac-
cepting invitations are numerous. Most
OF these lodges are composed of representa-
tive business men. A correspondent of
the Sun at Fredericksburg, Va, writes as
follows; "The Masonic centennial cele-
bration in Baltimore is looked forward to
with considerable interest and pleasure by
members of the mystic tie in this place
The invitation extended to Fredericksburg
Lodge, No. 4, to participate in the cele-
bratlon has been acknowledged and form
ally accepted"
The records of Fredericksburg Lodge
show that George Washington was init
ated on the 4th of November, 1852 Passed
Fellow Craft March 8, 1853, and was
raised to the sublime degree of Master
Mason August 4, 1853. He was initiated
before he was twenty-one years of age.
This may have occurred from the fact that
Daniel Campbell, Master of the Lodge, re-
corded Grand Master, and exercising the
prerogatives of Grand Master, as the Lodge
afterwards performed the functions of a
Grand Lodge in chartering lodges, granted
a special dispensation But Past Grand
Master, B. B. French, of the District of
Columbia, in an address in 1851, said that
no one stopped to inquire Washington's
age when his petition was presented He
was appointed Surveyor of Culpepper
county, Va, at the age of seventeen years.
At the age of nineteen he was appointed
Acknowledgement, with the rank of Major,
in the Virginia militia and at the age OF
twenty he became executor of the large es-
tate of his deceased brother, Lawrence
Washington. As these things showed he
was of mature age, no inquiry was made
1t is almost certain that Washington re-
manned member of No. to the day OF
his death
Among the many other dis
tinguished men whose names APP
pear on the rolls of this lodge are
George Weldon, Washington's Adiutant-
General; General Hugh Mercer, who fell
at the battle of Princeton; Jacob Won
Braam, Washington's instructor in sword
fencing Fielding Lewis, Washingtons
brother-in-law. The Bible that was used
in this lodge at the time Washington was
made Mason is still in the possession of
the lodge. The Bible is over two hundred
years old, and is IN an excellent state of
preservation. There are many other ex-
ceedingly interesting "reminiscences con-
nected with the lodge, and its presence on
the 18th of May will no doubt be notable
feature of the centennial celebration.
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CARE OF THE TEETH.
Some Timely Hints Which Nay be Oh
served With Personal Profit,

Some Timely Hints Which sTay be OBJ
served With Personal Profit.
What should man use to clean his
teeth? :" was the question asked of a we'll
known dentist recently. The dentist re-
Piled at once, Nothing but water There
are more good teeth ruined by so-called
dentltrices than by all other causes in the
world put together The object of the
makers of these dentifrices is, of course, to
produce preparation that will, with yery
little rubbing of the brush, make the teeth
look perfectly clean and white. To ac-
compllsh this they put pumice-stone, and
sometimes strong alkahs, in their prepara-
tions. Pumice-stone. will unquestionably
take all tartar off the tooth and it will also.
Just as unquestionably, take all the enamel
with it. An alkali will make yellow
tooth look white in few seconds, but be-
fore week has passed it will have eaten
away nearly all the enamel and utterly
destroyed the tooth. In walking along
the street you often see Il 'fakir.' bv wav
of advertising his patent dentifrice, cali a
small boy from the crowd near by. and
opening the boys mouth, rub the dentri-
frice on his dirty teeth, and in minute,
almost, take offall the tartar and make the
teeth look perfectly pure and white. Now
man like that fakir ought to be arrested.
for he has forever destroyed that bows
teeth. HIS preparation, composed Of
powerful alkali, is eating away the enamel
OF that boys teeth, and in a few months
the poor youngster will not have sound
tooth in his head. The dentifrices COM
posed chiefly of pumice-stone are not as
bad as those containing an alkali, because
they will not destroy the teeth as quickly;
but if used habitually they will certainly
destroy them in the end.
should advise man BY all means to
use no dentrifrice of any description. unless
it be prepared chalk If this is used not
oftener than once week it will not iniure
the teeth, and may help to clease them,
but it should on no account be used every
day. Orris root does the teeth no HARM
and gives Il pleasant odor to the breath !:
and If all dentritices were composed simply
OF orris root and prepared chalk, they
would be harmless enough, if no. bene-
fetal. My own plan is to use moderately
hard brush and plenty of cold water, and
nothing else, and my teeth are in excel
lent condition. If people would only pick
their teeth carefully after each meal, max
ing sure that not the slightest particle of
food remained near the gums or between
the teeth, and would also, before retiring
| at night, run piece of soft thread through
their teeth, they would not have any ne
| cessity for dentrifrice OF course sweets
and candies are bad for the teeth; so is
smoking; or taking either very cold or
hot drinks; but, bad as all these undoubt-
edly are, | really think that the worst
enemy the teeth has is the so-called den
trifice. Take the advice of dentist, and
never use anything for your teeth but a
brush and good cold water" -Boston Ga
| =effe
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The typewriter is creating a revolution
in methods of correspondence, and filling
the country with active, competent young
ladies who are establishing distinct
profession, and bringing into our business
offices, lawyers officers, editorial sanctums,
etc, an element of decency, purity and
method which is working perceptible
change. The field is widening daily; not
from crowding out of their places young
men who have been in the habit of claim
ing pre-emption for clerical work of all
descriptions, but in creating absolutely
new positions. The revolution, if it may
be called so, has come from the discovery
to business men Of an ability Of which they
were unaware until the great convenience
and excellent work of the typewriter forced
them to it.
The art of dictation is almost new art,
but it is spreading rapidly, and business
men are beginning to understand that
much of their lives has been wasted in
the mere drudgery of letter-writing, and
that through employing competent aman-
uensis they are now enabled to get off their
correspondents with the least possible fric-
ton and the smallest amount of time.
Whereas, five years ago the typewriter was
simply mechanical curiosity, to-day It's
monotonous click can be heard in almost
every well-regulated business establish
ment in the country A great revolution
is taking place, and the typewriter is at
the bottom of it.-PenmdHs Art journal.
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Care OF the Eyes.

AT the Sanitary Convention lately held
at Ann Arbor, Michigan, Dr.sC J. Lundy
read paper on Hygiene in Relation to
the Eyes" which should have wide circula-
ton, especially among teachers and school
officers. A fruitful source of eye troubles
is shown to be excessive strain upon the
muscles and nerves of the eyes due to
faulty educational methods, the ill-planned
and insufficient lighting of school-rooms,
poor ink and fine print in school-books
and other causes, which education might
correct
In conclusion, the doctor lays down the
following rules for the better care of the
eyes.
l. Avoid reading and study by poor
light.
2 Light should come from the side, and
not from the back or from the front.
3. Do not read or study while suffering
from great bodily fatigue, or during recov-
cry from illness.
4. Do not read while lying down.
D. Donot Use the eyes too long at time
for near work, but give them occasional
periods of rest.
6. Reading and studying should he done
Systematically.
Z. During study avoid the STOPPING
position, or whatever tends to produce CON
gestion of the head and face.
8. Select well printed books.
9. Correct errors of refraction with pro-
per glasses.
10. Avoid bad hygenic conditions and
the use of alcohol and tobacco.
II. Take sufficient exercise in the open
air
y. Let the physical keep pace with the
mental culture, for asthenopia is most
usually observed in those who are lacking
in physical development.
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Beauty Developed by Pressure.

But this resistance is meant to bring out
all that Is best in u.s. to stimulate our most
strenuous exertlons, to cultivate our pa
thence, to educate our faith and hope, to
mould us after the Divine pattern. 1t is
the weight of the architrave upon the
pillar that gives it stability and endur-
ance; and it is the fightings without and
the fears within that give strength to the
character and perseverance to the life.
What 4 beauty and grace does the spiritual
life take from the pressure of the light
affections that are but for moment and
that work out for us Il far more exceeding
and eternal weight of glory The capital
of the Corinthian pillar, the loveliest of
all the styles of architecture, derived its
origin from a basket of offerings placed
upon child's grave, and covered with a
tile to protect it from the birds. The
basket stood upon the root of an acanthus,
a species of thistle, and the plant grew
and spread its leaves around it in the most
graceful manner, thus suggesting to a pass
ing artist the form of the Corinthian CAPT
tai. And so the pressure of earth's troubles
causes the spiritual life to develop around
them its fairest forms and thus it is
crowned with its appropriate capital.
The thorny sorrow that springs from
the grave of some dead love or hope
forms the richest adornment of the Chris
tian life. Not only is the outward form of
the Christian life moulded into shapes of
moral beauty-into whatsoever things are
pure, and honest, and lovely, and of good
report-but its inner substance is also
made more lovely by the pressure of ex-
ternal shocks and internal sufferings. |. is
not the tree that grows in the rich soil and
in sheltered situation that produces the
richly grained wood which is selected to
adorn our richest furniture; but the tree
that is exposed in its bleak, shelterless sit
uation to every storm of heaven. The
wild forces that beat upon it, and which it
successfully overcomes, develop in it the
beautiful veins and markings which are so
highly priced by man. And so it is not
when growing up in luxurious ease and
comfort that we produce the gifts and
graces which enrich and ennoble the
Christian life The natures that have the
richest variety and the greatest interest
are those which have grown under the
pressure of suffering, and by vital faith
have overcome the world.-Qmuer for
,jdnudrU
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SUNDAY EASY CHAIR.
Truth Is TRUTH.


sods pans are deep and wide. The years are
hours,
And centuries but years in Gods own time;
while We, with downcast eyes and puny powers
100 weak 70 understand his plans sublime,
arope blindly on along our narrow ways,
ana measures wisdom by our years and days.
30 from the sage, who seeks with wishes wild
All. knowledge, aIe the simplest things con
cealed
While to the trustful pleadiugs of a child
Are mighty truths and hidden things re-
yeeled;
And dark events no wisest seeker sees.
Gods angels whisper to the least of these
One life Is but sipgle passing breath;
One lifetime but short ana slender span;
so some die young, while some wait long for
And all is equalized in Gods great plan.
what matters 1t if Gods invited leave
AT early morn or in the hush of eve?
Thus men walk onward, and the yyhitened head
Bows low beneath the burden of the years.
dread.
And al gels guard it from its griefs and fears;
Death brings no vain regret, repentance wild,
Or fierce rebellion to the trustful child.
In this is highest wisdom he who brings
His Offering of ehildlike simple trust
is wiser far than he whose wisdom clings
To every doubt; and, delying in the dust
btlrs such cloud OF ills as veil the sun,
Creating darkness ere his day is done
Child-tIust is truth. The sun is often shining
For those who see the sUnbeams in a tear.
And there is little gloom or vain repinine
For those whose faith, pure crystalline and
clear
Sees Lights reflected from bright angel wings
The pictured grace concealed IN duller things
That sweet child wisdom which contentment
brings.
50 age learns lessons from EXTREMIST youth:
That truth is trust and trust itself is truth.
L. Edgar Jones, in NclU York ObSerrer
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Preserving THE FORESTS sug-
gestion has been made, and has been re-
! ceived with favor in many quarters, that
! the best way to prevent the disappearance
of the forests of this country is to exempt
from taxation all land planted in forests
The experiment might be worth trying at
any rate. 1t is evident, making due allow
ance for the exaggeration TO which alarm
lists are prone, that unless the eonsump-
ton is checked or the production eventu-
ally encouraged, the soil of the United
States will be practically denuded of tim
Der in the course of not many years
There is no way to check the consumption
since the habit of independence is so strong
in the American people that they will
hardly submit to restraint in the matter OF
whisky, let alone that of timber. But we
do not doubt that thousands of farmers
would hasten to plant trees on as many
acres as they could spare for the purpose
if the certainty were held out to them that
land so employed would be henceforth free
of taxation. And the benefit accruing to
the public would in the end much more
than compensate for the immediate loss to
the treasury.-Meehanieal Neus.
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DROPPING TO PIECES.
a Negro Farmer Who Can Pull of His
Fingers and Toes Without Pain.

An odd case of human wretchedness was
reported yesterday by Justice John LAWNS
and Constable Frank Little. who had lust
returned from trip TO Chickasaw BAYOU.
On plantation near the bayou they found
a negro man who had been farmer until
| lncapacitated by disease from working.
lie first attracted their attention by hob
bling about on the stumps of what should
have been his feet, and exhibiting hands
which were without fingers or thumb.
Too much accustomed to the sight of
queer deformities in the persons of the
negro race, they simply glanced at him
and would have passed if the unfortunate
African had not deliberately unwrapped
bandage about one of his hands and
carelessly caught the remaining stump of
finger between his knee and the wrist of
his other hand and with the utmost nom
chaance pulled the stump Off He threw
1t away and again put his disfgured arms
In his bandages. He then scratched a
considerable portion of his left foot off and
settled himself comfortably on the shady
side of the fence.
The peace officers recovered their eoua
nimity after few seconds and held con-
sultation. They were not sure that If
they disturbed the man he would not
urloint himself entirely, and, not wishing
to be the cause of such a catastrophe they
waited until he had time to grow quiet be-
fore they questioned him.
The curiosity started to lie at first. but
Justice LAWNS put him on oath to tell the
truth, and stopped this The story told
was that about six months ago the victim
noticed that his fingers and toes were be-
coming cramped and numb. He paid no
attention until one day using his index
finger as a stopper for his pipe, he broke it
OIL IN the bowl. He was alarmed and threw
the pipe away, and as he did so, parted
with another finger. Panic-stricken, he
fled to his home, and had voudou doctor
| to attend him. The treatment he received
dld not benefit him, and he continued to
lose his toes until he became hardened to
1t, and of late, when he found one growing
too dry, he would pull if off
One OF his feet was gone, and the toes of
/ the other was missing. The last finger he
| possessed was the one his audience saw him
remove, and he had stripped nearly all the
calloused flesh from one shin. He further
stated that he never felt pain
After he finished the listeners were in
clined to doubt, and on the promise of a
two-bit piece the darkey pulled off por-
ton of his left ear, which he said was
dying very rapidly, and would fall away
In few days anyhow. He did not seem
particularly frightened at his condition, as
he thought he had enough legs and arms
to last year or two longer at the worst
None of the mans friends were able to
explain how he contracted his disease, and
the man did not know himself. The gen
tlemen who were treated to the sight of
his condition were also unable to tell what
his trouble is, but are inclined to believe
that it is something of the nature of lep-
rosy or clephantia'is.- Vicksburg Herald.