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He Had a Good Memory.

FROM the MacOn- 0eorf1h, Ielekftpn.
Up in North Georgia some years ago there
was young farmer who was as poor as Jobs
turkey. He was very ignorant and did not
even know his letters. One day a tourist
paused to rest under a tree where the farmer
was eating dinner and recited a pretty poem.
The young man was pleased with il, and the
stranger gave him q written copy. But il was
useless to man who could not read. and the
traveller had TO 60 over il with his finger, point
ing out each word and letter. After his friend
left the countryman went home and took his
first writing lesson from the written poem.
One letter was missing-the letter z.
The next day he walked i've miles 20
see a neighbor who showed him how TO
make il, and then he was master Of the alpha
bet He got spelling book and Q reader, and
studied them by pine-knot fire. Two wears
later he visited Mercer university, ct Penfield,
during vacation time, and the professors
showed him through the building. He ques-
toned me for an hour" said the professor Of
chemistry, land went away knowing more
about the science than some young men who
have studied il two terms" sand talked
with him an hour" said the professor Of En-
glish literature, land he extracted from me
enough information 10 all . volume" The
young fellow, had q wonderful memory. II
stuck TO everything. He entered the univer-'
sity and became noted for his Strong clear style
and hia vnried aftninmentn.
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, An Exscting Giri.

From - k1ftsoox4 D1ep@Sca
Thsrsis . student In Yale college Who dosmv
admire certain young lady - much - he did
. week or 20 ago. With her he ssssyed 70 pes
Q certain aftsrnoon st Lake whitney . few
days ago. Both dated around and had Lots Of
fun for few hours, but tAere came an end
70 the pleasures. for suddsnly, 90 ths twain
we're exscufins . fancy movement. the trseeh-
erous ice gave way and the collegian and NJ
girl were IN the water. Il wns quite deep. aud
The audent sank He soon came up. hovsvsr,
and found he girl st<uGgliag ct the cop q Ne
vatsr, = her skirb had kept her aAoaG There
was quite . large sPacs Of epen vatsr, but ths
ing her toward de sdgs Of the ice, vhsrs
others placed her on her fesk He vas sbous
70 crawl out IN her vsks vhsn this New Hsvsn
girl. With rs1axkabls peessnos Of rid, ~
marksd: s'oh! vill yea iissse 8 bssk cad 80
ny nuG" The sedsntss.aia:d I. ths sh1lly
sos ! ~ sors sissnsarss VA sssk :. =.
sseing giF3->his vintsr = lsas&
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-03-05

study, comparison or research, one is led to
say that the fortunate youth of Washington
may almost claim 10 possess that "royal road
70 learning" which we Of an earlier day were
taught did not exist HWR
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s1t = the partings in this world hat ,ive ~
pain, pndly stngs poek It y tie nestinm
too. II ron don't believe this ask he - NJ
has noe - Ueo&-Rao1n 0butUS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-03-05

Bessie--sspoes Cholly know much?'' ss9
Jennie-s'Just enough TO make . fool Of him.
self. "--Nev York Eossing Sun.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-03-05
Light on the Hair Wanted,


Say, speaking of Science, with big s, will
some learned medicine man tell fellow one
thing? Did ever anybody's hair turn white in
a single night, from terror or grief? This is
no joke, but an honest and restless yearning
after Truth, with big T. 1 wonder. some
times, If this hair-turning business is only
found in thrilling stories; 1 would like an au-
thoritative statement upon the subject. 1 have
been SO badly frightened myself that would
have given SO for a clean place to lie down
and die in. but my hair didn't turn white, and
/ am not aware thatit even stood ON end. Ionce
knew young man who hada broad. snow-white
band across bis young brown head, but he told
me he wasn't scared; he was scalded by steam
in tobacco factory. Tell a fellow about this
white hair act, doctor, and if the human hair
will turn white from fright, why should it? If
you can't tell I'll ask the Queries" man. He
knows, but he has SO many people to answer
that hate to bother him. Besides, once
asked him, dead solemn, why dogs nose was
cold, and he wouldn't tell me. Said he knew
but / was too young to ask about such things
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-03-05

Al INSTITUTION CONDUCTED FOR THE BENEFIT OF
THE MANY-ITs INTERESTING AND INSTRUCTIVE
coNTESTs-rYPEs OF VISITORS TO THE
MUsEUM-ISTEREsrED ExcURsIoSrsrs.
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The Modern Ball Dress.

The Modern Ball Dress.
From the Boston Courier.
How do yeu like my new ball dress, JohnY'
asked the young wife. 4Rb
.'0h, Gou look beautiful" replied the young
husban4 sbut You are wrong in asking how
you look In IL"
l"WhyT seA s- -
because you are head and shoulders out Of
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-04-13

THE year thus far has not been fruitful
of sensations, but we are promised by the
Directors of the Lick Observatory the
spectacle of a comet next month that will
be phenomenally brilliant. There has
never yet been recorded the fact of the
approach of comet toward our planetary
system without expressions of alarm
being made in some quarter. 1t proves true
now, and suggestion of fear is uttered
because fine large comet is promised as
an interesting spectacle during the pleas
ant evenings of May. We confess surprise
that a journal ordinarily so intelligent as
the San Francisco Call should have loaned
itself to speculation upon the possible
danger there is to the earth in the APP
proach of the comet. 1t testifes to love
of the sensational at the expense of duty
on the part of journalism towards the
readers Of the press. The straightforward
newspaper should say to its readers that
there is not only no warrant for fear in the
appearance of comets within or without
the solar system, but that the best authori-
ties are agreed that the usual cometic mass
is incapable of doing injury to our globe;
that there is no instance known of any
harm having resulted to the earth by rea-
son of the appearance of a comet, and that
people who worry about comets are more
than foolish.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-04-13

contract marriage is, the report justi-
fies the statement. 1t is pointed out that
while in South Carolina in 1873, when the
maximum figure was reached, there were
but SO divorces, in Illinois, between 1867
and 1886, no less than 59,072 DEGREES OF
divorce were entered, so that in South
Carolina there is / divorce to every l33o,
$50 marriages, while there was in Illinois,
on the basis of the report of 1880, to
every 271. Michigan had l divorce to
every 403 marriages, upon the basis of the
returns for 1870, and l for every 269 on
the basis of the report of 1880; while in
Virginia, in 1870 there was but ! decree to
every 1874 marriages, and in 1880, l to
every 1,74S. In Oregon there was | di-
vorce 10 every lis marriages in 1880. OF
course these are but glimpses of the start
ling facts exposed by the report, but they
are sufficient to show that the laws are toe
lax under which domestic ties may be sew
cred. No state of society in which such a
condition prevails is healthy in tone or is
proceeding socially to better things.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-04-13
COMMERCIAL WISDOM.

Several hundred merchants of New York
have organized themselves into Board of
Trade, the sole purpose of which is to
stimulate and expand our trade with South
and other foreign American States. Some
thing of this kind has long been needed.
We have not urged our claims in that di-
rection as they deserve. We have given
little heed to the warnings of our Consuls
that we must manufacture to the tastes of
the South American consumers, and pack
and ship our goods with great deal more
care than has been our custom. For these
and other reasons the European merchants
have outstripped us in nearly all the
countries of this hemisphere, outside of
our own. Take Mexico, for instance, in
the single case of vehicles for the country
road-the German wagon finds market
there while ours goes begging, simply be-
cause the German is shrewd enough to
order wagons constructed as the Mexicans
wish, and does not attempt to force upon
them vehicles of better order. So, too.
it has been reported over and again
by our Consuls and Consular Agents
that American goods for South America
oftener than not arrive in bad con-
dition on account of poor packing.
1t has also been matter of COM
mon complaint that our merchants
have been Indifferent to the necessity
of keeping shipments to fill orders up to
the standard of samples. 1t is now shown
that of the $3.50, 100000 of imports into
countries south of us in the year 1888
only small proportion came from the
United States. The st. Louis Globe Demo
crat places the percentage that we enjoyed
at but one-tenth, but this is an error, the
probability being that three-tenths is
nearer the true figure, but as the statistics
are obtainable without much difficulty, we
shall make it a point to ascertain the ex-
act fact. 1t is gratifying to know that the
organization referred to is not to confine
its labor to New York, but intends to in
vite the active cooperation of the whole
country. This is wise, since the manufact-
urers of the South and West are vitality
interested in this matter. If the CONNER
cial influences of the United States act to-
gether intelligently and free from the jeal-
ousies that are too apt to exist between
sections, it will not be long before England
and Germany will find the United States
far more formidable competitor for the
trade of the nations south of us than here
tofore. The first step proposed by the new
Board is careful and exhaustive inquiry
into the causes that have led to the bulk
of the South American trade having passed
into the hands of English and German
houses. This ascertained, the application
of remedies will be but matter of detail
and persistence
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-04-13
DIVORCE STATISTICS.

Carroll D. Wright's report to Congress
of the statistics of marriage and divorce,
is by no means pleasant reading. But the
facts must be faced, and the sooner the ma
ton deals with them the better. We have
been putting the subject behind us too
long, and leaving it to the consideration OF
social science associations, to the injury of
vital interests Of the country. For the
strength Of the homes of the nation are to
be best conserved by throwing the strongest
safeguards about the marriage relation, en-
couraging only rational entry into it and
discouraging its severance. Mr.. Wright
affirms all that Judge Davis and his Anti
Divorce Association long ago told us, that
we are on the down grade in the matter of
preserving the sacredness of the matri-
monial state; that the ease with which it
can be broken up legally is national
scandal, and must result in decadence of
respect for marriage. Mr.. Wright reports
to the National Legislature that there are
States in the Union in which it is cor
siderably easier to secure divorce than to
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-04-13
FREE LABOR BUREAU.
An Appeal In Its Behalf by n Laboring
Man.

An Appeal In It's Behalf by a Laboring
The following communication, written
by laboring man of this city, contains
food for thought, and presents a matter
which is worthy of careful consideration
by the citizens of Sacramento:
EDS. RECORD UNION: / noticed a COM
munication to the press a few days ago
from some humane man, why styles him.
self " Progress" on very important SUBJ
ject viz, A Free Labor Bureau" which /
am led to belive has not received the atten-
ton it deserves, or which its importance
demanded. That Sacramento needs such
an institution no one who has given the
matter any attention will deny. It would
do world of good, properly and imparti-
ally managed, asit should be. The work
ing classes would not be slow to appreciate
the efforts made in their behalf, and would
soon realize and be glad that they lived and
labored in community having the gener-
osity and public spirit of making. if pos
sible, their pathway smooth. The Mayor
of Los Angeles indorses, and points to such
an institution, and calls it public neces-
sity. Other towns are moving or have
moved in the same direction. In San
Francisco the Examiner undertakes the
work which the city or State should do,
and succeeded at least in demonstrating
beyond the possibility of doubt that the
wants of our people, our wide and varied
interests, scattered over vast extent of ter.
ritory, demand such an institution.
The management must be above re-
prosch. and should have alike the conf
dence of the employer and employee, and
as both those parties must come together
4 IN 200 tho fnhtfc
who are the consumers. are interested in
bringing those agents together at the least
possible expense, to the end that human
wants are satisfied. Many very deserving
men. and / will say women, for unfortu-
nately they too have wants, are too poor to
nav the extortionate price at the employ
ment Offices charged them for uncertain
positions. and il they are not too poor they
have learned from past experience that
they are liable TO be gulled, sent to some
distant county of the State to pay stage
fare. road and poll tax, and then their work
being done, would be given the freedom of
locomotion. Our PRISON and lunatic
asylums eloauently plead for reform in
this direction and asks those who can to
undertake this work. 1t would be good
from a moral point of view. Everybody
who wanted employment could more easily
get il. 1t would stimulate enterprise, as
many industries would be started when
labor can be easily and speedily secured.
1t would stimulate travel between this
city and the different fields of labor, for as
large numbers would be employed. large
numbers would come here looking for en-
ployment. Hotels and stores would be
better patronized, for very many who go to
San Francisco now would then come here,
and coming here once would be more liable
TO come here again. However, as laborer,
| feel this is duty that the successful few
owe to the unfortunate majority. The
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-04-13

ASSUMING that there was measure of
truth in the report that an attempt has
been made in New York to confne the
social features of the centennial celebration
of the Both to an exclusive set, that claims
to be somewhat better than ordinary folk,
it is gratifying to learn that the scheme
has met with defeat. The tendency of a
class in which wealth has congested, to
found an aristocracy in country where
class distinctions are odious is strong
enough, without being fostered by efforts
to convert national celebration into an
occasion for wealth of coin to make
special show of ITSELF When it comes to
pass that the worthy American citizen
whose purse is light and whose name is
not related to the presumptious people who
assume to be of better blood must stand
aside and watch these would-be aristocrats
do the honors of the country, it will be
full time to consider the wisdom of revolu-
tionizing our form of government While
it is right that property should be an OBJ
ject of endeavor, and that the uses of
wealth for the purposes of industry and
benefcence should be encouraged, there can
not be tolerated in this land the upblild-
ing of classes that are to absorb the right
TO patriotic manifestation. Any political
distinctions that are based on property
possessions or the assumption of superior
blood are intolerable in America. We can
treat the plottings Of Anarchists ard the
chimerical schemes of Socialists as of small
concern in such country as ours, but
when the luxuriousness of wealth and the
arrogance of purse-proud clique prefer
the claim that only the representatives of
that class are fit to engage in the
patriotic observance of our national
holidays, we may well take alarm.
But the safety Of the nation from
such danger is found in the fact that
many men of great wealth, men who have
acquired that potential agency by severe
endeavor and wise use of the opportuni-
ties that open to every man in America,
in no wise give countenance TO the
offensive inclination of the aristocratic
s'setn that in New York and other great
centers assume to constitute the American
mobility The rich men who are an
honor to our civilization are sufficient in
number and social potentiality, patriotic
devotion and attachment to the funda-
mental principles of a free government, to
rebuke and crush the silly pretensions of
the few who would erect sham aristoc-
racy upon soil to which class distinction is
foreign. THERE'S great deal of mammon-
ism in America, to be sure, but the aris-
tocracy of intellectual and moral worth is
not in great danger as yet of being over
thrown by congested wealth, or the as
saults of pretentious exclusives.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-04-13

THE Ohio Legislature has rejected the
woman suffrage bill that was so long de-
bated before it. The many defeats of the
similar bills are to be attributed to the
simple fact that the women of the country
have not yet in sufficient number mani
tested any sincere and solicitous desire to
have and use the ballot. But this does
not go to the principle involved, nor does
it mean that the women of the nation are
unlikely in time to demand and receive
their full political privileges.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-04-13
4 Chance for Hotels and Restaurants.
RESOLUTIONS.

A RMORY COMPANY E, FIRST ARTILLERY
n Regiment Fourth Brigade, n. G. C. Sac
ramento. April 4, 1889.
WHEREAS, 1t has pleased God to remove from
our ranks Comrade William T. Parker, who
passing away in the flower of his young man
hood, leaves us sorrowing behind, unable to
comprehend the dictates of an All-wise Provi
dence therefore, be it
Resolved, That in Comrade William T. Parker
our company has lost firm friend, its members
an honest, upright companion, faithful to duty
and to his convictions and loySl to obedience
when deserved. Further be it
Resolved, That we deeply deplore our loss, and
offer to the bereaved parent and relatives OF
our deceased comrade. these sorrowing words
of esteem, and hope and trust that they will
find consolation in knowing that Goods will
must be DONE" 1t is further
Resolced That a copy of these resolutions be
spread upon the minutes of our company, q
copy be sent to our deceased comrades rela
lions, and that they be published in the daily
newspapers. LIEUT.. P. B. JOHNSON,
LIEUT.. w. A. GETT,
SERGT. +. L. QUINN,
1t Committee.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-04-13

In the Legislature of Missouri an in
vestigation has been set on foot to test the
soundness of the charge that the commit
tee-rooms of the Capitol have been con-
verted, practically, into bar-rooms. 1t
was perhaps fortunate for the late Legisla-
ture of California that no investigation
was entered into concerning the violation
of the law, by its connivance, which pro-
hibits the sale of liquors in the Capitol.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-04-13
THE MODERN NOVEL.
The New York Herald asks in the course

The New York Herald asks in the course
Of an essay upon the subject:
Shall our noyelisis paint life exactly as It is.
give strong meat for men. or shall they provide
milk for bahes-rirgiaious paerisque-and keep
ever before their eyes the fear of the young
girl who is the most eager and constant por-
ton of their pubiice
There should be but one answer to such
a question: the novelist should write for
the people into whose hands he is reason
ably assured his work will fall, but should
treat of real life in manner not likely to
corruot or nislead. In this country very
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-04-13
T Fort Worth. Texas. a great perm

AT Fort Worth, Texas, a great perma-
nent exhibition is soon to be opened, and
the local journal of that place says of it:
The object of the Palace is to exhibit Texas to
the people from other States, and to induce
Northern men and women to see the South for
themselves. The chief effort of our city will be
to have Northern people see US and hear u.s. to
the promotion of fraternal feeling. The people
of the North are better able to come South than
are the people of the South to go North, and we
believe that every effort to get the people of the
two sections together is one deserving the en-
couragement of every American.
Such preaching as this will do more to
settle the Southern question" than all the
editorials that can be written, the conven-
tions that can be held, or the bills that can
be passed through Congress. Such ex-
preston bshind such works will be hailed
gladly at the North. Let it be once clearly
made manifest that the South wants
Northern men and Northern capital in all
tolerant sincerity and the trouble" will
be half over, and the negro question prac-
tically settled for before an admixture OF
Northern and Southern elements that
problem will not be difficult one.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-04-13
THE SIGNAL CORPS.

Its Disarmament the Result of Mis-
construed Order.
In Regimental orders No. 3, issued by
Colonel Guthrie, all the members of the
Signal Corps have been discharged. This
is an error, and must be countermanded,
as the order of General Orion did not con-
template the discharge of the Signal Corps.
II simply ordered the members transferred
temporarily to companies in the regiment
until they could be reorganized as Brigade
Signal Corps, which will be done immedi-
ately. There will be only ten members in
the Corps, according TO law. as there is but
one regiment in this brigade.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-04-13

The RECORD UNION is the only paper on
tho coast, outside of San Francisco, that re-
ceives the full Associated Press dispatches
from all parts of the World. Outside Of San
Francisco, Il has no competitor either IN its
Influence or in It's home and general oircula-
ton throughout the State.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-04-13

strong should assist the weak, the fortunate
the victims Of accident, 70 the end that we
would secure the largest amount of human
happiness.
Trusting you will give space and publish
this, earnestly and hopefully call the at
teniion of the press, the benevolent associa-
tons. the Mayor of our city and those who
are charged with its government. the Board
of Trade, and the public generally, to this
matter, with the hope that after discussing
the question fully something would be
evolved that would materially improve the
condition of the laboring classes.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-04-13

THE New York Post begins long essay
with the statement that "The path of the
editorial diplomatist is beset with snares.'
Had the journal quoted have said that
the path of the editor, whether diploma
fist or not, is beset with snares, the expires.
sion would have been laden with greater
truth
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sAN FgANUIsCo AGENCIES.

This paper is for sale at the following places
=. p. Fishers, room 81, Merchants Exchange,
California street. Who is also sole Advertising
Agent for San Fran cisco; the principal News
Stands ana Hotels, and at the Market-street
Ferry.
coming into sacramento.
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VIE DESIRE TO RETURN OUR THANKS
w snd kind regards TO our friends, for theiI
sympathy and assistance at the funeral of oul
hrnfher Il E Smith flf&l NJ MCEIENEY