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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-09-14
HARRY BERNARD,

CORNER OF SIXTH AND STREETS, HAS
" on hand light open and top BUGGIES, light
tHc-sest csnopy-top CARRIAGES, for family
use light for one or two horses to pull; also the
finest family carriages in this city, light grocer
and butcher wagons, finest road carts; some
painting and repairing at the lowest possible
prices for good work. apO-tf4p
THE WEEKLY UNION = THE LEADING
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-09-14

Ny wife cured of malaria by Simmons
Liver Regulatory. N. Thompson, pastor
NJ. E. Church, Leigh, Neb.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-09-14

SUNDAY excepted. sunday only. 2Monday
excepted. A-For morning P'EFor sfteT-
noon,
=. n. TOwSF, General Manager.
T. H. GOODMAN, General Passenger aud ticket
Agent. It
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-09-14
A Good Invention.

Edison has new invention, whereby
you can see mans face miles away" said
Smith. Mrs. Smith" Oh, how nice
james, you will buy one, won't you? You
can then stay in at nights and still see the
N an.'-American Commercial Iraueler.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-09-14

Benevolent Old Man" What's The
matter, my little man? What are yor
crying about?" Small Boy-"I amt got
no (bo-hoo) no mother, ner no father, mel
(bo-hooJ no brothers ner no sisters, mel
(bo-hoo) ner no uncles ner no aunts, mel
no (bo-heo) ner nobody else" Benevolent
Old Man" Well-tut, tut-don't cry
about that you're just the kind of a mar
we'll be wanting to run for President about
forty years from now Columbus co..
Light.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-09-14
AMERICAN STEAM LAUNDRY,
NIneteenth and I sts., Sacramento

WHITE LABOR ONLY, LINEN POLISHED
w III the neatest manner, We guarantee sat.
isfaction. All ordinary mending, sewing on
buttons, etc., free of charge, Washing called
at sswtelles book store, 7OS and 10 street.
Splm <. Fl. GREEN. Proprietor
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-09-14

man counted his own nieces, sisters and
daughters among the number of his wives.
FANNIE B, WARD.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-09-14

HANDY for travellers is Simmons Liver
Regulator in powder. 1t can be carried in
the pocket.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-03-14
A Physicians Warning.

SCOT cold, have you'll |" began a con
versation between well-known uptown
physician and patient q day or two
ago. "Well, you are in the fashion. At
least eighty-tiye per cent. of all my pa
dents have colds, and they will have
the pneumonia as as a sort OF wind-T7-' if
they are not more careful wher { :
warm weather ceases, which it will wi
an almighty snap within few o. ;.
The cause of the colds is that the system
which is far more sensitive than film
of gelatine to the action of heat and
cold, has become accustomed to this
springlike weather, and the longer it
lasts the more accustomed it becomes.
The system appreciates the fact that all
this is unreasonable and trusts in man
or woman's good sense to protect it.
''But they don't do it. just as soon
rs it gets warm they abandon their win
ter wraps, and the air, which is still
filed with frost, although not manifest
because Of the directness of the sun,
gets in the crevices of the winter a1mor,
and the first thing my patient knows he
has to hold On to his hat to keep from
sneezing it off. The pores have opened
to secure some of these illusfvc advanta-
ges of warm weather, and Just as soon as
soon as genuine cold snap comes the
deaths from pneumonia will be greater
in number than they have ever before
been in this city. ."--NeN York Times.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-03-14
The Beautiful Midnight Sun.

To us who have never seen it, there is
feeling of subdued awe i'll thinking
about the sun that never sets, away up
in the frozen regions of the north.
What it is in reality may be inferred
from the following beautiful description
of the midnight sun, taken from that in
teresting volume, Jubilee Jaunt to
Norway" Imagine yourself in ship
at anchor looking west or straight in
front of you. There is broad expanse
of sea a little to your right hand, behind
you will be the rugged coast, and to
your left the long, narrow ford between
the islands and the main land that the
steamer has Just traversed. You watch
the sun as it slowly, slowly sets; the is
lands and the coasts look like O dark
rich purple, and the shadows cast by
the ships masts growlonger and longer.
After bit, when the sun has sunk
apparently twelve feet from the horizon,
it stops and seems to remain stationary
for about twenty minutes; then the very
seagulls hide away, while the air all of q
sudden strikes chilly. Each one has an
awed expectant feeling Soon the sun
rises very slowly again, and the yellow
clouds change with its uprising to even
greater beauty, first to the palest prim
rose and then to a blush pink. The
sky, which was just now rose-color, be
comes gray, then pale emerald. green
and lastly blue. Rock after rock stand.
out, caught by the suns bright rays
and the reign of day has begun once
plnre.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-03-14
The Silver Mace of Congress.

There was an unusual upheaval in
congress one day during the short ses-
sion, and the members became SO riot
Gus that the speaker instructed the ser
geant-at-arms to seize the silver mace
and restore order. The statement is
added that this was the first time the
mace had been used during the present
congress.
A gentleman who, supposed, knew
more about such things than l ever ex-
pect to know asked: "What is the silver
mace, and how can q mace restore order
when man with gavel can'tE"
The mace in the house of representa-
tives is q silver eagle on the end of a
poe. That is the blunt explanation of
it. 1t is one of the things-a mace is
that has come down from the first gen
Grafton of parliamentarians, and is re-
tanned for no other reason, particularly,
except as q sort of sentimental reco4lec-
ton. Congressman become quiet when
it is brought out, not because it pos
sesses any more persuasive power than
the gavel, but because when it is swung
UP and down the aisle the honorable
members understand that the speaker
Has 1OSG Ills uIuoCuleI dbl1bJ w pOuhu
the desk, and the appearance of the
mace, by custom and common consent,
means, to put it plainly, that the time
for foolishness to cease has arrived.
The mace is the traditionary symbol
of parliamentary power and is as old as
the sixteenth century. This is the en-
cyclopedia of mace. 1t was a block OF
wood carved and gilded, and when the
speaker of the house of commons enter
ed OF left the house it was borne before
him on the shoulder of the sergeant-at-
arms. While the speaker is in the chair
the mace is laid upon the table.
In this country the mace stands at the
table of the sergeant alarms at the
speakers right.
The mace used in the house of com.
mons is much more formidable in ira
ditionary way than the one in our con
eress. The former is the identical one
handed down from the accession OF
Charles II. in 1900. The one that
ouelled the disturbance in our congress
dates from 1912, although am informed
by the same learned authority from
which I get all this wisdom it was first
introduced in 1759 When the house is
in committee of the whole the mace is
removed.
There is no mace in the senate.
don't know why unless 1T is because
there is no mace IL the house of lords.
T suppose if the house of lords should
decide TO have one our senate would
follow suit. 1t would be English, y-u k
w.-Chicago Times.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-03-14
Ludicrous Samoan Traits.

Family and marital relations among
the Samoans are strict. One wife is
the rule, except with the chiefs. 1t is
looked upon as slovenly to wear wlisk-
ers, though much pride is felt in own
ing handsome mustache. Badness is
a disgrace, but gray hairs are respected.
Shaving is done most deXterously with
broken bottle.
Tattooing is done at an early age in
both sexes. The operation is so pain
full that usually it is extended over IL
number of years. 1t is done more ex-
tensively in the male sex. A male is
not q man until the regulation amount
of tattooing is performed. Quite Of
ten the tattooing sets up an undue
amount of inflammation, with the re
suit of immense sloughing sores that
\ sSs,iiy, ns eVinecd during the lSrcs D.,
war They have lots of grit. One poo
fellow shot through the chest came IL
| during a battle, had the wound dressed
rested awhile, but within an hour wa'
to the front fighting again.
And what do you think of the Samoan
belle with the American craze of the
chewing-gum habit! But in the case OF
the Samoan it is her toothbrush. The
bread fruit exudes a gummy exudation
that is used by the natives as tooth
cleanser-chewing the gum and working
it about the teeth.
1t was laughable to see the odd and
delighted pranks the men and women
indulged in while looking in some small
mirrors that were presented to them by
some of the steamer passengers.
A partly worn-out Jersey was thrown
into canoe. One of the men seized it
and put it on, then looked npprovingly
at himself in the looking glass.
The natives seem to be fond of tho
taste of kerosene oil. Their method of
filling lamp, either from n bottle or
from one lamp to another, is to first fill
the mouth with the oil, then to squirt it
into the lamp that is to fill.
They bury their dead in the garden
adjoining the hut, as near as possible
to the dwelling, that the hg hts may
shine out on the grave and cheer the
spirit of the departed.-san Francisco
Chronicle.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-03-14
CARL DUNDER.
Some Things He Wonders Over.

Sometimes my neighbor comes to mo
und says: ''Mr. Dunder, 1 doan' like
to make you feel bad, but dot
pOy of yours goes NIT der gallows if you
doan' pehave him peter. He hits my
dog NIT some snowballs yesterday" 4"
Vhell, der next day comes und somepody
preaks my window NIT snow ball,
und When 1 goes oudt to shpeak aboudt
it he calls me oldt Knickerbocker.
[ look at him closely, und 10 he vhns
lot same neighbor's poyl can't make
oudt how she vhas.
Sometimes my nelghbor comes to me
and says: "Mr. Dunder, you doan' lif in
lis country 50 long ash do, und like
to tell you dot it was agin some law If
you put ashes around. shpeak to you
because / vhas your friendt." "Yhell,
lot makes me ashamed und I goes of
und puys box. In two days police
man comes along und says my neighbor
keeps more ashes, swill, dead cats und
strawbeds in his yard dan he secs pc
fore in two hoonered years, und he goes
py der Recorder Court und pays fine.
can't make oudt how she yhas.
Sometimes my frendt comes to me
und says: "Say, Mr.. Dunder, doau'
make some fool of yourself. If der
poys like you to run fer aIdermans in
our ward, decline NIT thanks. Dcro
vhas no money in it, und der papers
Ibuse you like some tiefs. Vhell, dot
settles me, but when goes py der polls
to vote, 10! my frendt vhas ON der tcckct
for aldermans und is elcctedl Somcpody
tells me he pays more ash $500 to be al
lermans. can't make oudt how she
vhas
Sometimes my frendt come in und
says; "Say, old chappie, haf always
said / like to help you to good thing,
und der time vhas now come. / know
L man On Rivard street who vhas awful
hard oop. You can puy dot house und
lot fer one tousand dollar. und he vlils
wort eighteen hoonercd III yOu take
her / warrant you make one tOrIsand
dollar in year." Vhcll, / pellet dot,
und puys der place. In two weeks /
find out dot my frendt makes 500 com
mission on dot sale, und dot / ylas
sheated by tree hoonered can't make
oudt how she vhas.
Sometimes dot neighbor on my loft
hand comes to me and says: "Say, Dun
der, oldt poy, doan' hurt yoIr feelings
for one million dollar, but [ like to
slpeak NIT you leedie. You haf some
beer wagons drive oop in front Of yoiIr
house, and my wife vhas afraid der pub
lie shall pellet it vhas us who vhas tax
ing beer Be some good fellows und
haf der wagons go in der alley" Yhe !,
dot looks reasonable, und make 'em do
it, but in four days my neighbor comes
home SO drunk on whiskey dot haf to
help him in his house, undhis wife says
it vhas nopody's peesness. Ican't make
her oudt.
Sometimes, ash I go to shurch on
Soonday, l fin1 all der saloons open,
der poys playing ball, and peoples going
off on picnics. When goes inside der
looks right at me und says: ut
prcaks my heart dot SO many heathen
in Africa vbas on der broad road to deS-
truction. Please come down NIT some
contributions to save en-" como
down, but can't make her oudt. -
Detroit Free Press.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-03-14
GOVERNMENT" OPIUM DENs.
A British N. P. Relates What He
Saw in Lucknow, India.

81 have been in East End gin palaces
on Saturday nights, / have seen men in
various stages of dctrium tremens, l
have visited many idiot and lunatic asy-
Iums," writes Mr.. Caine, NJ. P, from
Lucknow, to friend connected with q
London paper, 'but / have never seen
such horrible destruction of God image
in the face of man as [ saw in the
government opium dens of Lucknow.
To my dying day [ shall carry the rec
election of the face of handsome young
woman of IS or 10 years, her fine brown
eyes hattened and dulled with coming
stupor and her lips drawn back from her
glittering white teeth. Another girl of
the same age was sitting in n group of
newly arrived smokers, singing some ro-
nance as they handed round the pipe.
I went from room to room, and counted
ninety-seven persons of both sexes in
various stages of opium stupor. Green
hands could get drunk for penny or
less, but by degrees more and more
opium is needed, and the callous keeper
of this hideous den showed us men
whom $50 drops of thick opium, mixed
with tobacco, hardly sufficed to intoXi-
Culc. L Citlllt OuG Staggering dlllt lStliIG
with the poison-laden atmosphere.
CATER few minutes walk my guide
said: Here is another opium shop.
VIII you go in?' l could not believe
there was more than one abomination
in Lucknow, and, mastering my disgust
[ entered a second. 1t was even worse
and more squalidly beastly than the
first. Again went from room toroom,
and counted on the ground floor alone
1T human swine of both sexes, noticing
among them bonny little lad of six or
seven Watching his fathers changing
face with dreadful Indifference. HAY
ing counted III. [ was asked to go up
stairs, where there were many more Gus
toners. ] had had even more than my
strong stomach could stand, but / was
told that there would probably be fifty
more. It was three in the afternoon
when visited these places, and 1 am
told that after dark the attendance is
doubled. | have felt the effects of the
fumes ever since, and the slight head
ache produced will probably last for two
or three daysl In the city of Lucknow
there are thirty distilleries of native
spirits, 201 liquor shops, twenty-fouI
opium shops, and ninety-two for bhang
and other Intoxicating drugs. An opium
sot is the most hopeless of all drunEards
once he is well into the clutches OF
this fiend everything gives way to his
fierce promptings. He only works tc
get more money for opium. Wife,
children, and home are all sacrificed tC
this bprril lola fToyipp
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-03-14
Water at Meal Times.

Opinions differ as to the free ingestion
of water at meal times, but the view
generally received is that it probably
dilutes the gastric juice and so retards
digestion. Apart from the fact that q
moderate delay in the process is by no
means n disadvantage, as Sir William
Roberts has shown in his explanation
of the popularity of tea and coffee, it is
more than doubtful whether any such
effect is in reality produced. When in
gestcd during meals, water may do good
bv washing out the digested food, and
by exposing the undigcsted part more
thoroughly to the action of the digestive
ferments. Pcpsin is catalyptic body
and given quantity will work almost
indefinitely, provided the peptones are
removed as they are formed. The good
effects of water, drank freely before
meals, have, however, another beneficial
res,lit-it washes away the mucus which
is secrcted by the mucus membrane
during intervals of repose, and favors
peristalsis of the whole alimentary tract.
The membrane thus clcansed is in a
much better condition to receive food
and convert it into soluble compounds.
The accumulation of mucus is specially
/ marked III the morning, when the gastric
walls are covered with thick, tenacious
layer. Food entering the stomach at
this time will become covered with this
| tenacious coating, which, for time,
protects it from the action of the gastric
| ferments, and So retards digestion. The
viscid condition of the contents o1
the stomach, which is normal
before breakfast, is not suitable fol
receiving food. Exercise before par
takiug of meal stimulates the cir
crllation of the blood vessels. A glass
of water washes out the mucus, partially
distends the stomach, wal1esup peristalsis
and prepares the nlimentary canal fol
the morning meal. Observation has
shown that non-ilritating liquids pass
directly through the tubular" stomach
and even if food be present, they only
mix with it to slight extent. Argonant
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-03-14
Silk Keeling in America.

| For the past five years the Depart
mcnt of Agriculture has been carrying
on series of experiments with view
of testing the feasibility of profitable
| silk reeling in this country and thus
promoting, if successful, market for
American grown cOcoons. For two years
these experiments were made at three
different points-viz., San Francisco,
New Orleans and Philadelphia The
result of having such experiments con-
Quoted at remote points was not encour-
aging, and subsequently Congress
authorized the Commissioner to estab-
lished silk filature in immediate con-
nection with the department at Wash
ington. This gave an opportunity to
thoroughly test the merits of the i'm
proved machinery employed, in the
hope that the matter of labor could be
sufficiently economical and minimized
to make silk reeling profitable in the
United States. Owing to the difficulty
arising in adjusting foreign-built ma
chinery to the methods in use, of teach
ing labor to work in an entirely new
field SO far as this country is concerned,
of explaining to the thousands of cocoon
growers from whom the Department
purchased cocoons the precise necessi-
ties of the business in order to secure
the best results, and of many and var
iOus vicissitudes which are not stated in
detail, the Commissioner does not con-
s;der the experiments satisfactory from
a commercial point of view.
As certain Improvements have been
perfected in the machinery that promise
well and others have been devised, the
Commissioner think it would not be
fair to this young industry to measure
its probable future by what has been ac-
complished the past year. He there
fore has asked for further appropria-
tion TO determine from the results
achieved and those in prospect whether,
with the necessary Encouragement, the
United States is to add the silk industry
to its other resources, and enter the
markets in competition with the silk,
growing sections of the Old World
Hedo Fork WOrZS-
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-03-14
Cured of q Delusion.

"That is a queer freak, " said one of
the newspaper men, but l knew of a
case stranger than that. 1t happened
in my own family, and the victim of the
hallucination was my uncle. He was a
farmer and wealthy man. When the
war broke out he enlisted and fought
bravely to the end. He had not been
home six months when the strange fancy
seized him that there was a small drum
secreted in the top of his head and that
he would never more have peace. He
was sent to a private insane asylum.
Except for this peculiar idea, he was
apparently as sane as you or i, and his
conversation ON any topic but this was
rational. Finally the physicians hit
upon happy idea. They told my un-
Gle that they would perform a surgical
operation and take the drum out. So
they had miniature drum made, and
one of them kept it in the palm of his
hand where the patient could not see it.
They then cut the scalp ON the top OF
his head until blood came, and the
physicians pretended to draw out the
drum through the top of his head,
stitching the wound after doing so. My
uncle was cured the minute he saw tie
drum. Mi iI1caukee Sentinel.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-03-14
A Dairy Mystery Solved.

For some time past the cows on the
ranch of S. W. Coffee, who lives about
five miles northeast of Modesto, have
been yielding little or no milk in the
morning. As the yield at night has not
been decreased, it was naturally cause
of wonder and surprise. The conlec-
lures as to the cause were many, and it
was finally investigated. The result
was truly astonishing. 1t was discover
ed that after the cows were cOrralied at
night, and after they had laid down, a
band of shoats that frequented the barn
yard had been in the habit Of extracting
the milk from the udder. The parties
on watch saw the young swine, about
midnight, cautiously approach the cows
and commence sucking with a confidence
and zest that denoted familiarity with
the work This story, although singu-
lar, is voUched for by N. f. Howell.
''Doc" says the shoats in question will
soueal and whine after the COWS as per-
sistently and naturally rs though they
were calling their mothers.-Aodesto
(Cdl.) Ners.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-03-14
Caution on Both Sides.

A woman who applied for a place as
cook with family in this city was sub
jected to very searching gcross-examina-
ton as to her abilities and habits by the
lady of the house. At last the latter
asked the woman:
''Do You drink"
The woman replied with quiet dignity
''No, ma'am; but Judging by what I've
seen in service L might ask you that
question. y
Asked to explain herself the woman
continued: '1n both my last places my
employers drank to excess, and / led a
dogs life III consequence. L do not
mean to enter house where the mistress
touches drop of liquor"
This was turning the tables with a
vengeance.-Pitts6urg Dispatch.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-03-14
S regulated not to lose half second o

s regulated not to lose half second O
week, s gin-a-wine bran-new Pennsyl-
vania Railroad watch, and can't be du-
perlicated in this city The railroad
makes every emperloyee buy one of
these here watches for S16 and takes it
out of their wages, but Tn acquainted
with the factory, and git 'em for good
deal less. What mi offered fer this ere
Pennsylvania thermometer 2"
He is promptly offered rs cents by a
piping voiced boy, 81 by woebegone
tramp, and S1.25 by very tough-lool-
ing youth in acorduroy vest. The last
bidder gets it and pockets it. One
would think that even a cOuntryman
would see through the rest of the game,
for the instant an outsider bids for one
of these nice-looking watches that ap-
pear to be going for song the
price mounts higher and higher.
Elrery~ ~lounger begins to bid until the
duplicate OF the watch tlAst--sssIst--fe n
dollar and a quarter is found to sudden
" command fifteen dollars, or eight or
ten dollars, or whatever it happens to be
bid up to when the outsider ceases his
efforts to get it. The bidding always
ends, by the way, so that the stranger is
caught ht-Nelc York sam