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Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-10-20
Lincoln and the Little Girl.

VIII the world ever know what depth Of
tenderness there was in the heart of Abra-
ham Lincoln? An anecdote, which has
never been published, brings out one more
instance in which his sympathies, awak-
ened by little child, nobly controlled his
action. In one of the first skirmishes of
the civil war, young Union soldier was
so severely wounded in the leg that the
limb had to be amputated On leaving
the hospital, the young soldier, by the aid
Of influential gentlemen, obtained posi-
tion as q government weigher of hay and
grain. Not long after he had entered
upon his duties, his superior officer said
/ to him:
"See here, Mr.. M, this hay weighs
so much on these scales; but to the Gov
ernment it weighs so much more"
81 do not understand, sir, that way Of
doing business. | can enter but one
weight, and that is the correct one" an
swered the young weigher.
His superior walked away, uttering
threats. The young man from that day
! suffered many petty prosecutions for his
i honesty, and it was not long before he re
ceived notice that the Government had nc
further need for his service. The summary
dismissal made him so down-hearted tha
when he told the story to his family b,
seemed a man without hope.
"Father," replied the eldest daughter,
girl of l3, "cheer up / am going to se
President Lincoln. l know he will ma.,s
it all right
! Her father and mother tried to tdrn he
purpose, saying that it would be useless t
Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-10-20
SlRdUa DOGS

Kamschatkan dogs are probably the
most sagacious of all feral types, and are
employed and trained in the most care
full manner for the multitudinous services
required Of them. Soon after birth they
are placed with their dam in deep pit,
that they may see neither man nor beast,
and after having been weaned are con-
demned to solitary confinement for six
months, at the end of which time they
are put to sledge with other dogs, and
being extremely shy and frightened
withal, they run as fast as they can until
they become blown and cowed. After this
trial trip they are remanded to their pit,
where they remain, off and on, until they
are thoroughly trained and sledge-broken.
This severe education sours their temper
amazingly and makes them anything but
companionable. Drivers are frequently
obliged to stun them by blow on the nose
before Embarrassing them, on account of
their savage nature. Besides drawing
sledges, they tow boats up rivers in sum-
mer and keep their masters warm in win
ter nights. They are remarkable weather
prophets, and discount the Signal Service
Bureau, for if, when resting on journey,
they dig holes in the snow, there is certain
to be a storm. They are of the husky
type, shaggy, with erect, curling bushy
tails, and not very sharp noses and ears.
They live exclusively on fish, which they
catch for themselves In winter their
ration comprises forty frozen herrings per
day.-E0rest and Stream.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-10-20
How Daniel Boone Died,

A Kentucky newspaper, seventy years
old, just found among some old papers,
gives the following account of the death OF
Daniel Boone: GAS he lived so he died,
with his gun in his hand. We are in
formed by gentleman direct from Boone's
settlement, on the Missouri, that early last
month Colonel Boone rode to deer lick,
and seated himself within blind raised
to conceal him from the game; that while
sitting thus concealed, with his trusty rife
in his hand, pointed towards the lick, the
muzzle resting on a log mis- face to the
breech of his gun, his rifle cooked, his fin
ger on the trigger, one eye shut, the other
looking along the barrel through the sights
lin this position, without a struggle OF
motion, and of course without pain, he
breathed out his last so gently, that when
he was found next day by his friends, al
though stiff and cold, he looked as if alive
with his gun in his hand. just in the ac'
of firing"
Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-10-20
SAID IN FUN.

There IS bright young man in Eng
land who proposes to set Wagner's operas
to music.-IHe Tribune.
Customer (getting his hair cut )-"Didn't
you nip off a piece of the ear then ?"
Barber (reassuringly)-" Yes, sab, a small
piece; but not 'nough to affect de hearin',
sab"
Irate father Ito young Binks)-" See
here, young man Didn't tell you never
to enter my gate again?" Young Binks-
" Yes, sir; and didn't l clum over the
fence."-Juelge.
Mrs Gnsher-"O what sweet little
fawns. | do wish you would buy them
for me, Charlie" Mr. Gusher-" Perhaps
| will next fall" But they'll be two
deer then, won't they? Better not wait"
"How did that burglar alarm turn out ."
"Great." Worked very well, eh ?' ''Yes;
when it went off it alarmed everybody in
the house so badly that the burglars got
off with everything before we got over be-
ing ratified"
New York Magistrate-"Is Is it furriner
yez are?" Prisoner" 81, signor; me
from Italia me sella fresh roasted pea
nut" Magistrate" Oh thought yez were
a farriner. Oi kin always tell furriner
by his accint."
Madam Ito French cook applying for a
place. )-"Your accent, Marie, is not strictly
Parisian." French cook-'No, mum; me
husban, hiven rist his sowl, was Dublin
born, and it is his accint that / have ab-
sarbed troife.' .'-New York Sun.
First Young Lady-"Fred is getting
positively spoony; he called me flower
just before l came up stairso Rival Belle
with much sweetness )-"You have been
sitting against the wall tor long time,
dear, but it was not at all nice of him to
allude to it."-Trmh.
He" must break off my engagement
Violet" She" Why should you do that?''
He" Well, your father has failed; how
can he support son-in-law in the style in
which | have lived" She" Why, YOU
goose, he failed on purpose to meet the
extra expense .'-HUper's Bazar
Not all 'There's the luckiest man
in seven counties" said an Arkansas man
to an Eastern traveller. "How so ?" 'Uad
his house burned down and lost six child
luck come in ?" "Saved his coon dog, sab;
saved his coon dog."-Drake's Hag1=ine.
Miss Tipity Fitchet-"Are you sure you
have never loved any other woman ?o
Mr.. Goodman-"Quite sure" Miss Tipity
Fitchet-"And no woman has ever loved
you? Mr.. Goodman" Never" Miss
Tipity Fitchet-" Then, sir, must really
decline your offer. l cannot marry such
an inexperienced man." ."-Railuay Mars.
Comparative Appetites-Very stout old
lady watching the lions fed" Pears to
me, mister, that amt a very big piece O
! meat fer sech an animal" Attendant
with the greatest and most stupendous
show of politenesS on earth y" s'pose it
does seem like small piece of meat to
you, ma'am, but it's enough for the lion"
Life.
Old Mrs. Bently-" might have been
run over to-day, Josiah, if truck driver
hadn't kindly stopped to let me eros" :"
Old Mr. Bently-a What stopped for ye ~
Old Mrs Bently-" Yes, an said: 'Gwan
accrost we ould bag o bones = thought it
was very polite in him." Old Mr.. Bently
:" Yes, he must have been very polite"
N Y. Sun
Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-10-20
ROId Muskrafs.

One afternoon, walking through the
meadow toward the pond, and when few
feet from the water, | saw muskrat run
ming to reach the water Bringing my
pole down from over my shoulder, where L
had been carrying it, struck him with it
as he was running. The blow did not kill
him, but he turned over on his back with
his feet struggling in the air, and giving
small cries of pain and anger. / started
toward him, when from the loose stone
wall making part of the dam l saw five
muskrats coming for me, with their mouths
open, and giving every appearance of rage
and desire to avenge the injury to their
companion. Without stopping at the
place where he was still kicking, they
came past him and at me on the run, and
after the first astonishment was over, /
concluded that discretion was the better
part of value, and started for the house as
fast as could go, glancing over one shoul-
der to see if they were gaining in the race
Although they chased me for only few
rods, did not feel safe near that locality
until the next day, when l returned and
found the pole where had dropped it, but
no muskrat, even the wounded one being
gone. l have always believed that the one
which | struck was not severely injured
but that his cries of rage brought his com
panions to his aid and to fight for him.
Forest and Stream.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-10-20
GIVE PER CENT. REDUCTION. %
Mr. Blaine Considers III, and Asks Some
Very Hard Ouestinus.

MIR. Blaine Considers 1t, and Asks Some
Very Hard Questions.
In his recent speech at Evansville, In
diana, Mr.. Blaine devoted himself to show
the fallacy of Mills figures wherein he
claimed that his bill reduces the tariff but
| five per cent. What does Mills mean, he
asks, when he says the reduction is only on
the average five per cent? VIII he face the
wool growers of Indiana, from whom he
strips every article OF protection, and tell
them he has reduced them only FIVE per
cent? Will he tell this 10 the lumber
| manufacturers in the largest hardwood
| market in the world, in this very county,
after having put their product on the free
list? Will he say the same thing to the
salt producers of Michigan? and l may re-
peat the inquiry as to numberless pursuits
which he thrust down from fair protection
to the free list. VIII be tell them all to
submit because of the widespread fallacy
that the average reduction on the whole is
only five per cent? What is it to those in
dustries that are stripped naked whether
the average is five per cent. or 500 per cent?
In either or any event they are thrust out
into the cold.
Mr.. Mills in his speech does me the honor
to quote what I said upon reaching home
from abroad, to the effect that the tariff is
primarily for the protection of American
labor. think any man is blind who does
not see, and is practically dumb who does
not say the same thing. Let me illustrate
Mills proposes to take the tariff from wool
and give to our manufacturers wool from
Australia as cheap as they get it in Eng
land. | will take that es a test case. for
wool is made test case in Mills bill. The
wool being the same, the light and water
being the same, and necessity for human
labor being the same, how shall we make
wooden goods here TO compete with the
cheap yoolen goods in England unless we
reduce the wages of the workingmen far
below the rate now paid
A man might as well Try to controvert a
proposition in geometry as to dispute the
fact thar if we are driven to do that verv
thing The inevitable result must be one of
two things, viz: That we must lose the
markets for woods in this country or must
reduce the wages of the laboriug men to an
amount of from so to 40 per cent. Presi-
dent CLEVELAND evidently anticipates that
result for, not long ago, when blankets
were to be purchased for our army, pro-
posals were invited from foreign countries
as well as from our American manufact-
urers, and an English firm, bidding the
lowest By a few cents, was awarded the
contract. The money was carried out of
the country, and English workmen were
preferred to American workmen by the
Administration for the avowed reason that
they work cheaper. The question, as l
have said, is before all things one of the
wages of workingmen.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-10-20
BE Your Own Plumber =

One of the most requent annoyances to
housekeepers, says writer in the New
York Telegram, is the obstruction to the
free quick outlet of the waste water of the
wash-basin, the bath-tub and kitchen-sink.
This is caused by gradual accumulation
of small bits of refuse material, paper
rags, meat, bones or grease, which check
and finally entirely stop the overflow OF
the water, and then the plumber is called
to remove the stoppage with his force.
pump. Sometimes this is accomplished
but often the pipe has to be cut, and
there is great inconvenience and expense
Just before retiring at night pour into
the clogged pipe enough liquid soda
lye to fill the "trap," as it is called-ol
the bent part of the pipe just below the
outlet. Be sure that no water runs into il
until the next morning. During the night
the lye will convert all the offal into sof,
soap, and the first current of water in The
morning will wash it away and leave the
pipe as clean as new. See? This is prac
tical chemistry, yet few chemists would
ever think of it.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-10-20
COLONEL INGERSOLL.
Some Pointed Remarks Why He Is Op.
Insed To the nea,a1cz.a

posed to the Democratic Party.
% | am opposed to the Democratic party, ),
says Colonel Ingersoll, land l want to tell
you why. Every ordinance of secession
that ever drawn was done by Demo-
crat. Every enemy this country has had
for twenty-five years was a Democrat
Every man that starved Union soldiers, re-
fusing them crust in the extremity OF
death, was Democrat. The man that as
sassinated Abraham Lincoln was Demo
crat. Every man that sympathized with
the assassin-every man that was glad the
noblest President ever elected was dead
was Democrat.
Every man that wanted the privilege ol
whipping another man 10 make him work
for nothing and pay him with lashes on his
naked back was Democrat. Every man
that raised bloodhounds to pursue human
beings was a Democrat. Every man that
clutched babies from the breasts of shrek
ing, shuddering, crouching mothers and
sold them into slavery was a Democrat
Every man that swore he would never pay
the bonds, every man that swore he would
never redeem the greenbacks, every ma
ligner of his country's credit, calumniator
of his country's honor was q Democrat
Every man that hid in the bushes and shot
at Union soldiers simply because they were
trying to enforce the laws of their country
was Democrat.
Every man that cursed Lincoln because
he issued the emancipation proclamation
was Democrat. Every man Who believed
that a State could get out of the Union at
pleasure; every man who believed that the
grand fabric of the American Government
could be made to crumble instantly into
dust at the touch of treason was a Demo
crat. Every man who tried TO burn the
asylums in the city of New York was q
Democrat-although he knew that thou
sands would perish, and the great serpents
of the flame, leapiDg from one building to
another, would clutch children from their
mothers arms-every wretch that did this
was Democrat. Recollect it! Every man
that tried to spread the smallpox and yel-
low fever in the North was a Democrat
Soldiers, every scar you have on your heroic
bodies was given you by q Democrat.
am q Republican
Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-10-20
HAPPY HOTTENTOTS.
A Woman With Two Fingers Cut on to
Show She Has Been Married Twice.

A Woman With Two Fingers Cut OF to
Show She Has Been Married Twice.
The Hottentots in the Jardin d Acclima-
tion continue to attract the attention of
Parisians, but the poor creatures have been
shivering in the cold autumnal weather
which has prevailed lately. They have
been brought to Paris by a German, who
relates that he got them to start for Eu-
rope almost by force. Herr Thege, the en-
ergetic person in question, first negotiated
with "Mother Elizabeth" the most intelli-
gent member of the troupe, who is herself
on view in the Bois de Boulogne. The
natives were enticed to the railway carri-
ages, into which they were unceremoni-
ously packed. When they arrived at the
wharves at Cape Town they were so dazed
that they allowed themselves to be car
ried like children on board the steamboats,.
The Hottentots, however, have little to
complain of in Paris except the bad
weather.
The men received as pay 81 per month,
and the women thirty..shillings in Eng
lish money. On Sundays they are well
largessed" by the crowds of people whe
flock to the garden to visit them, ans
Mother Elizabeth" WHO takes care to put
herself in evidence, and to show that She
is the most important parsonage in ths
troupe, makes fifty francs, or s5 at least
on sach occasions. Mother Elizabeth.
however, has formidable rival in TIL
person of Jacob" the head man of tn
Hottentot troupe, who is mighty hunte
and has slain lion. This chief order
the minor Hottentots about, and ever
evening designates the cook for the follow
! ing day, the functionary of the kitcher
having to rise at 6 o'clock in order 1
chop wood, light fires and make e,oul
'Shich is composed of coffee an
salt. When they are at home l., Afric
| Herr Thege's troupe are not particul;
Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-10-20
An Actor Who wouldn't Lie.

The reporter, at an uptown resort. last
night overheard a well-known actor de-
scribe the fishing experiences of a brother
artist. He said that his friend went to
one of the lakes of upper New York with
as fine an outfit as there is in the whole
North territory. He saw a country lad
with straw hat and freckled face sitting
on little dock away from the road, and,
as the little fellow already had pretty
good string of fish, he did not hesitate to
sit beside him and endeavor to entice the
fish away from that poor country boy. But
the gaudy flies had no charm for those
fish. They preferred the juicy garden
worm that concealed the point Of bent
pin attached to the string that dangled
from freshly-cut alder stick in the hands
of that freckled urchin of the farm.
Presently he said: Little boy, would
you mind changing places with me? l
don't seem to have any luck here"
"Not at all" said the boy. 1t was a
cunning device of that wicked man to
cheat the poor country boy out of his we'll
stocked hole. But it didn't seem to work,
for the fish still followed the bent pin and
spurned the gaudy morsel offered by the
giddy actor. Then the boy grew tired of
fishing and gathered up his tackle, counted
big string of speckled beauties, and, tying
another knot in his single suspender, was
about to start for home when the actor
again spoke to him.
Little boy" said he, would you like
to sell your fish"
Don't mind was the laconic reply.
"How much ~
"Dollar"
"All right" and the crisp greenback
was transferred to the little country boys
pocket. He was just going to hand them
to his customer, when that good man again
spoke and said:
"No, no, little boy. Don't hand them
to me, but stand where you are and I'll
stand here, and you throw them over to
me; then when go back to the hotel ]
can swear that caught them. ."-Ner Yorl
! V,slsor1,,
Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-10-20
A BIG POTATO YIELD.
Nearly Six Hundred Bushels to the Acre
Bad Work of a Flea Beetle.

Z. S. Carman, editor of the Rural Ne,u
Yorker, has faith in system of growing
potatoes in trenches, which, as he claims.
renders the crop independent of the weather
by keeping the ground moist in time of
drought and helping it to dry out when
there is rainfall every day. Mr. Atkin-
son, of the Farm Journal is mildly scepti-
cal of mans ability to circumvent the
weather, and when Mr.. Carman, early in
the spring advertised his anxiety to wager
$50 that he would raise potatoes at the
rate of 100 bushels to the acre in the
season Of 1888, wet or dry, Mr.. Atkinson
covered the money with cheerful conf
dence that the weather or the potato bug
would never allow so big yield in Jersey
sand. Friday good many farmers of high
degree assembled at the rural experiment
grounds in Bergen county to see the crop
unearth. There were five rows, three feet
apart and two rods long, so that each row
represented the one four-hundred-an
fortieth part of on acre, and the terms of
the wager were that the yield should be at
the rate Of 700 bushels to the acre.
The first row showed handsome tubers,
with hardly any undersized ones, and the
scales testified to yield at the rate of
nearly 6S4 bushels to the acre. The Sec
ond row of the same variety. known as
'Rural Seeding No. A." turned out COS
bushels to the acre. The third row was of
another rural Seeding, "No. 3" and the
potatoes that rolled out of the trench as
tonished the farmers. Hardly any of them
weighed less than half pound, and an
acre of them weuld have yielded l,056
bushels, with twenty pounds to spare.
The three rows SO far averaged 7SS bushels
to the acre, but the last two rows showed
at the rate of 299 bushels and 253 bushels,
respectively, depressing the total average
to 5S3 bushels per acre, and Mr.. Carman
loses. The money, it should be said, goes
to some charity, or there was no bet in the
worldly sense of the word. 1t was evident
to the visitors that Mr.. Carman had beat
the weather, but had failed to beat the
bugs. The potatoes started with energy,
but early in July the tops began to brown
| from some unknown cause At last it was
| found that the leaves were preyed upon
by the Haltica cucumeris, known by the
plain people as the cucumber flea-beetle-
a minute and almost invisible insect
| New York Tribune.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-10-20
Crane Rot.

This year has been remarkable for the
prevalence of the rot in grapes, says the
Farm and Vineyard many remedies that
were thought to be very successful in other
years have failed to be of any use in the
present.
In some connection the fruit has been
almost entirely destroyed by rot, and va
rieties that were formerly considered very
free from it have this year suffered with
the rest. This disease is caused by the
growth of small plant In a damp Or
moist season, or even dry one, when fogs
and heavy dues are prevalent and the
weather warm, it will rapidly develop into
the rot.
There are many forms of the fungi which
affects the grape, producing the rot. Won
Thurman describes about 800 that trouble
the grapes in Germany, and from the great
prevalence of the rot this year we should
presume we had equally as many. The
Phoma Ucicota is the most general cause of
the rot, the spores of which exist every
year in vast quantities in the air, ready for
suitable season to find lodgment and
growth The most favorable conditions for
this is warm, damp nights and mornings,
when the spores lodge upon the damp sur
faces OF the leaves and grapes, and find
moist and warmth enough to sustain them
until they gain foothold, and when once
established it is impossible to eradicate
them. Hence, all vineyards that are usu-
ally free from heavy fogs and dews are less
affected than others. Grapes growing upon
trees and sheltered by the leaves from
dew, as we'll as those that are covered,
sufier but little Coverinp is sometimes
done by making small roof, by mailing a
few boards on top of the trellis, over the
vines. This keeps them free from dew, and
retards the growth of the spores of the
fungi and protects the vines in great
measure from the rot. Placing the young
punches of the grapes when very small
into paper bags and piuning the bag to the
vine will, when done early enough, l. e.,
before the rot gains a foothold, generally
protect the grape from these pests.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-10-20

MiIIs Knifes CIeveland.

Cleveland has one more Burchard. EEs
name is Roger @. Mills. Wabterson was
Burchard No. l when he said at the St.
Louis Convention that the Democratic
party in handling the tariff would remove
the occupants before taking the roof cd the
house" Scott was Burchard No. 2 when
he said that we (the capitalists) could scon-
troll the laboring raan only so long as he
eats up to-day what he earns tomorrow;
and now Roger @. Mills is Burchard
No. g. In his speech of September
18th, at Ease St. Louis Illinois, he
pledged the Democratic party, il it got
the Presidency and both branches Of
Congress, to put raw materials all on the
free list, AID then. he said, 1--WE will pu
our own Intelligent and skillful and pro
doctive labor in this country upon plane
of equality with the laborers of all otAel
countsses.''-N. 7. Nesss.