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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-05-07

The Signal Service records show the rain,
fall in this city up to O'Clock last evening
to have been 10 of an inch The baron.
eter was falling up to P. NJ. yesterday.
The total rainfall, up to 5 o'clock last
night, was for this month and this storm
IA inches, making total of 10 80 inches
which is the same as the average seasonal
rainfall, as deduced from a record of &C
years. The highest and lowest tempera.
ture yesterday was 6Oo and 47o, and for the
same date last year it was 100 and 4So.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-05-07

The Copper trust having failed, the move
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-05-07

ment is now on foot to create beer trust
Now here let the line be drawn. Not to
say that there would not still be beer
enough in the land, but if it is to be drank,
let not the taste of combine" enter
into it.
The Washington critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1889-1889, 1889-05-01
CURIOUS THINGS OF LIFE.

A st. Joseph, Mo-, lad rides pony
that weighs only 1870 pounds.
"a superior house parlor maid, who
can teach elementary music and "a
plain cook, under 25, who knows short.
hand, were advertised for in recent
issue of an English paper.
Out in backwoods town in Indiana
the sheriff left the courtroom for din.
ner, forgetting all about his prisoner
who afterward leisurely walked off and
has not since been captured.
A paper contains the following in an
advertisement; Collins and Caskets.
will sell 90 per cent Cheaper than any
other Party. Ladies and Gentlemen
Laid Out at any hour of the Night OIL
Day"
An old saddle, which had been
kicked around in Nashville harness
shop for several years, was ripped uI
the other day and found to contain
81 800 in Confederate money. If the
owner of the shop could only have
found the prize in March, 1865, he
could have bought breakfast and
three cigars.
In new book upon "Americanisms'
some Of the less familiar are: Bubbles
for drinkables, bohn for crib or transla-
tion, balditude for state of badness,
to deacon, or TO place fine fruit at the
top; parquet, or the pit of theatre from
Its mosaic floor; piz2aro for piazzi; skull.
duggery, wire pulling; trampoos, u
wander aimlessly, and daisy, for any.
thing first rate.
The Washington critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1889-1889, 1889-05-01
FACTS NOT GENERALLY KNOWN

Lemons were used by the Romans TO
keep moths from their garments, and in
the lime of Pliny they were considered
an excellent poison. They are natives
of Asia. Spinach is Persian plant.
Horse -radish is native of England
Melons were found originally in Asia.
Filberts originally came from Greece.
Ounces originally came from Corinth.
The turnip originally came from Rome.
The peach originally came from Persia.
Sage is native of the south of Europe.
Sweet marjoram is native of Portugal
The bean is said to be a native Of Egypt.
Damsons originally came from Damas.
Gus. The nasturtium came originally
from Peru. The pea is native of the
south of Europe. Ginger is native of
the East and West Indies. Coriander
seed came originally from the East.
The cucumber was originally q
is indigenous to Great Britain Apri-
cots are indigenous to the plains of
America Pears were originally brought
from the East by the Romans. Capers
originally grew wild In Greece and
Northern Africa. The walnut is native
of Persia, the Caucasus and China.
The Glove Is a native of the Malacca
Islands, and is also the nutmeg, Vim
egar is derived from two French words,
rin aigre, sour wine. Cherries were
known in Asia as far back as the sew
enteenth century. Garlic came TO us
first from Sicily and the shores of the
Mediterranean. Asparagus was orig.
inally wild sea coast plant, and Is a
native of Great Britain. Nectarine re.
ceived its name from nectar, the princi
pal drink of the gods. The tomato is
native of South America, and takes
Its name from a Portuguese word.
Greengage is called after the Gage
family, who first took II TO England
from monastery in Paris. Parsley is
said TO have come from Egypt, and myth
ology tells us II was used 10 adorn the
head of Hercules. Apples were origi-
nally brought from the East by the
Romans. The crab-apple is indigo
neous TO Great Britain. IL Is a curious
fact that while the names of our ami.
mails are of Saxon origin, Norman
names are given to the flesh they yield.
the onion was almost an object of worship
with the Egyptians two thousand years
before the Christian era. II first came
from India. The cantaloupe Is ma.
tive of America, and so called from the
name Of place near Rome, where 1t
was first cultivated in Europe. Before
the middle of the seventeenth century
tea was not used in England, and was
entirely unknown to the Greeks. The
word biscuit is French for twice
baked, because, originally, that was
the mode OF entirely depriving II Of
moisture. Il Current Literature.
The Washington critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1889-1889, 1889-05-01
THE PEOPLES COLUMN.


Communications on any matter Of cur
rent interest will I've cheerfully printed In
THE Critic under this head. Letters
should In all cases be as brief as possible. ]
WARRINGTON, May 1.--Editor Critie.'
The promotion of clerks in the classi.
fed civil service from the positions they
have occupied to the next higher grade
only, while correct in principle and
generally proper in practice, never
theless works great injustice in some in,
stances. In 1884 A and B received, re.
spcctively, 1000 and $1,000 per
annum. Democrats would not promote
them, and their salaries are unchanged.
Their work has been about equal in
quantity and quality; perhaps AS has
been the more valuable.
But during these five years b has re-
ceived 81 900 more salary than A.
Would it be fair now to promote b TO
the 81 400 grade and make A accept
only the $1,000 position thus vacated
by By
In all Justice and reason should not
A be promoted at once to the 81 400
grade and b be permitted to remain in
the 81 200 position A's work having
been equally valuable, now, though
late, should he not be made as nearly as
possible, financially, equal to Is with
his 81 200 per annum and his $i 900
more already received than A has 2
Certainly so, because, though pro.
motion ceased in 1884, the years did not
tarry. AS family is more expensive
now, but he has 81 900 less money than
Is and fewer years than he had in 1884
in which to make such provision for his
family as b has been already enabled to
make for his family.
Why should b have all the advan.
iages and A be hopelessly deprived OF
his rights?
Again, should not clerk who has
received but 81 200 for doing 81 400
work during thc-last four years receive
81 800 during the next four years, even
though continued on the 81 400 work.
Or does the great United States need
these $500 worse than the clerk who has
done its work?
AT all events, should not those faith.
! ful public servants who have been
underpaid and mistreated during all
these years be afforded more than
ordinary advantages now, for the es
pecial reason that this considerable por.
tion of their lives is spent. To those
who are single and young in years this
may not seem so important, but to o
middle.aged man with a heavy family,
perhaps struggling with the burden OF
u half-paid house, all this is of the
utmost importance. &. NJ. u.
The Washington critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1889-1889, 1889-05-01
BISHOP porrER,s SERMON.

Bishop Potter, who preached the cen
teDnial sermon in st. Paul's Church,
New York, on Tuesday, with President
Harrison and many more distinguished
citizens, patriots and statesmen in the
pews, took advantage of the time and
place TO project some truths into his
congregation, which, to say The least,
were startling The Bishop did not
boom" our great and glorious Repub-
lie worth a cent; neither did he rub on
the American Eagle and the Fourth of
July to any appreciable extent. On the
contrary, the Bishop took alb the bun.
combe ont of his talk and sent it into
his hearers in raw state For instance,
he said:
And again, another enormous difference
between this day and that of which II is the
anniversary is seen In the enormous differ
ence in the nature and infuenue of the forces
that determine our national and political
destiny. Then ideas ruled the hour. To-day
there are indeed ideas that rule our hour, but
they must be merchantable ideas. The
growth of wealth, the prevalence of luxury,
the massing of large material forces, which
by their very existence are standing menace
tothe freedom and integrity OF the lndiyid.
ual, the Infinite swagger of our American
speech and manners, mistakng biggness for
greatness and sadly confounding gain and
godiiness-all this Is contrast 20 the austere
simplicity the unpurchasable integrity of the
first days and first men OF our Republic
which makes II impossible 20 reproduce to-
day either the temper or the conduct of our
fathers.
The infinite swagger of our Ameri-
can speechand manners" is something
almost reasonable on such an occasion,
but the Bishop let 1t 60
Then right after II he said
the manners, which we have banlshed long
ago. We have exchanged the Washingtonian
dignity for the Jeffersonian simplicity, which
was, In truth, only another name for the
Jacksonian vulgarity, and what have we got
In exchange for itl
"JefIersonian simplicity and Jack.
sonian vulgarity," think Of that will
you and wonder If the Bishop would
have said It had President Clveland been
an auditor instead of President Har-
fison
Bishop Potter was only one man in
all that myriad of men, but the style of
his talk was that of very big man.
He might have waited, however, un-
all some other day.
The Washington critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1889-1889, 1889-05-01
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into n cbair hurled her face In her
hands and commenced n crv This
ioucbed Jones and no camc over anJ
col down near bor
"Pm sorrv for all that has han.
pened he said and will 90 in n
minute. First. / want 10 know some.
thing abont vo,,rself and husband +
Gather that his name and mine are
identical insfs ne we annear 10 be in
nerson
"The little woman told him between
her sobs flat she had been married only
three months. That her husband worked
in a certain Wholesale house down
town and that thew wanted 10 rent n
room or iwo m helm out on tbe rrnt
Tbat ,yas wbv she answered his advcr.
tisen,ent
"Wben .Iones deportcan she went to
the door with him nnd smiled tbrou9b
her tears as she told him sbe could
The Washington critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1889-1889, 1889-05-01
WIN be shaken Up.
Chicago Inter-ocean)

NNuNuBO iHitI-Otttul
Mr. Grant Allen propounds in the Forum
new view of "Woman's Place in Nature.n
"Males,n he says, are the race; females are
merely the sex told of to recruit and pro-
duce II. All that is dstinctively human Is
man; the field, the ship, the mine, the work
shop; all that 1t truly woman is merely re-
productive; the home, the nursery, the
schoolroom." "This very necessity for
telling of at least a considerable number OF
the women for the arduous duties Of human
maternity, prevents the possibility of
woman as such ever being really in any
deep sense the race. 1t is human to till, to
build, to navigate, to manufacture; and
these are the functions that fall upon man,
"The males have built up human civilization
and have made the great functionally ac-
quired gains in human faculty, while the
females have acted as mere passive trans
mitters of these male acquisitions II Mr..
Grant Allen does not get shaken up until
he won't know whether he is afoot or horse
back the IaterOceaa will quit guessing.
The Washington critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1889-1889, 1889-05-01
AMONG THE WRITER'S.

Georges Ohnet says he always has
two to three books trotting in his head
but they never take form until he has
worked them out in every detail.
A lineal descendant of Thomas
Paine, the famous atheist and author of
"The Age of Reason" is a divinity
student at Tufts College, Boston.
NJ Zola has faith in General Bou.
langer's ultimate SUCCESS in French
politics.
Mrs. Cashcl Hoey, the Irish novelist,
now living in the Kensington quarter OF
London, Is about SO years of age, short,
stout, and in her style thoroughly Eng.
lish.
Marshall p. Wilder the humorist,
has written a book of amusing expert
enccs as a traveller and lecturer.
Horatio Alger, jr., the successful
writer of juvenile books, is busy writ
ing play.
The late John Bright was great ad-
mirer of John G. Whittier's poetry,
and he could repeat Snowbound and
many others of his poems.
The London Atheneum thinks that
until Arlo Bates learns to efface himself
he cannot hope to succeed i'm the diff.
cult kind Of novel which he affects ia
The Philistines.
Mr.. b. p. Shillaber, better known as
Mrs. Partington, is writing and COM
piling book of personal "reminiscences
during fifty years.
Sir Edwin Arnold, author of "The
Light of ASIA" never sal for his pho.
tograph till month ago.
Archibald Percival Graves, the Irish
poet, has In press volume of lyrics.
The wittiest woman writer In France
to-day is said 10 be the lady who mas.
querades under the nom de plume, Gyp.
Victorien Sardou contemplates visit
TO this country.
Rider Haggard is at work on novel
which he says will be his greatest
effort.
Mrs. Edwin p. Whipple, widow OF
the well-known critic, still lives on
Beacon Hill, Boston, where most of hei
married life was passed, in a house
filed with rare books and mementos OF
famous men and women.
The health of Paul Du Chaillu has
broken down under the strain of pre-.
pairing his great work on "Thc Viking
Age" which he has had in hand foI
eight years. Current Literature.
The Washington critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1889-1889, 1889-05-01

in tho face Of his pursucrs, The ab-
scondor may no longer seek the North.
The defaulter or other robbcr of his
type who wants TO get ont of the coun.
try now is likely to turn his eyes to the
land of cactus and red pepper. Mexico
is not TO the average American rs pleas
ant resort as Canada; he feels among
strangers, somehow, in Moxico-but 1t
is preferable TO the irksome confinement
of the ordinary penitentiary. Things
might be worse.
Things will be worse, eventually, for
the American plundcrer. Mexico will
become in time as unsafe a hiding place
rs Canada is now, and to find protect.
ing border will be q task of magnitude
FOR the guilty fugitives. The time may
not be far distant when Greenland OF
Central America will be the nearest re.
sorts of the voluntarily ostracised.
The Washington critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1889-1889, 1889-05-01
A RUINED REFUGE.

The individual who proposes to take
short cut TO fortune by abusing a
trust, be he bank cashier or president
or trusted man of any sort OF concern,
must hencefonh consult something else
Than the guide book TO Canada. The
Weldon bill, as it is called, which has
passed the Dominion parliament. closes
the country to boodlers, 1t is not
retroactive measure, and smugglers and
thieves now over the border are safe
as long as they stay there, but for those
whose crimes are as yet only contem-
plated, not committed, Canada is no
longer fair. No; no more may the
thrifty thief, as he gets over the line,
turn jauntily, and, applying his thumb
70 hie nose, gyrate his fingers playfully
The Washington critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1889-1889, 1889-05-01
Boston Benevoience.

Thirty five or forty of the Hub most
fashionable young ladies propose to es.
tablish an institution in the Bowery, in
New York city, like Toynebee Hall, in
the heart of London, which Is to be the
model after which the Bowery institu-
tion will be patterned. The poor women
in the neighborhood win be invited to
visit the institution and there learn from
the fair tutors something about the art
and science of making home attractive,
even where there is little money to
begin
The Washington critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1889-1889, 1889-05-01
1t Costs Less

ON the question of real economy Hood Is
Sarsaparila is so far ahead of other prepara.
tions as to place them entirely out of the race
as competitors Here are facts In regard to
this popular medicine easily susceptible of
conclusive proof
1. Hoods SarsapariiIa Costs the
Manufacturer More than any other com.
peting preparations, because II is more highly
concentrated and contains more real medi.
cinal value.
2. 1t Costs the Jobber More, as a con.
sequence of the fact just stated,
3. It Costs the Retail Druggist More
for the same reason-as can easily be learned
by inquiry. Hence the desire of some retail
ers TO sell their own preparations, which cost
them less, and for which they get the same
price, thus making more money But
A. 1t Costs the Consumer LESS than
any other medicine, because of Its greater
concentrated strength and the quantity In
each bottle, and because 1t is the only
preparation of which can truly be said
400 Doses One Dollar"
That the people appreciate this Is shown
by the fact that Hoods Sarsaparllla has
The Largest Sale of any sarsaparllla or
blood purifier It possesses peculiar merit
and effects wonderful cures.
4 POINT ron YOU.
When You buy your spring medicine, you
want the best Ask for Hoods sarsaparillar
and Insist upon having II. Do not let amy
argument or persuasion influence you TO buy
what you do not want. BE sure to get the
Ideal spring medicine.
Hoods Sarsaparilla
Sold by ali druggists 81; six for So. Pre-
pared only by O. !. HOOD d CO., Apothe-
carries, Lowell, Mass.
100 DOSES ONE DOLLAR.
The Washington critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1889-1889, 1889-05-01
ACCOUNTED FOR.

Dear Jess, II seems quite strange 10 me
docs II seem strange TO your
When we together used to be,
We both were twenty-five.
But now we meet (can II be trueY--
] think II DER and oerO
I've passed my forty-first and You
Are only thirtyfour.
do not know, do not care
How fortune favors you;
You look as young as when you were
My dear at twenty-five.
But this ia like TO know, dear Jess
(FOr so II now appears),
Why you In age than me are less
BY more than seven yearsg
The matron dropped her deep.lashed eyes,
And, as she held him fast,
She answered, 'twixt her long-drawn sighs;
You know men live 80 fast"
IN. Y. Evening Sun.
The Washington critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1889-1889, 1889-05-01
A MISERABLE SPRING.

What spring it has been What u
sloppy, cloudy, gloomy and altogether
disappointing spring II was of q
nature TO mar the inaugu.
ration. 1t has intcrfered with
the centennial celebration. II has
made the Washington races far less of
an event than they should have been
1t has interfered with all outdoor
recreation, put back the strawberry
crop, made quinine q regular article of
diet and accomplished lot of other
miserable things 1t has been bad
spring.
What are we going to do about it?
No one seems to know, and we can
only make weak jokes on the Signal
Service and pray for better weather
The Washington critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1889-1889, 1889-05-01
WASHINGTON, MAY /, 1889.
PRESIDENTIAL RECEPTIONS.

The Cabinet meets on Tuesdays and
Fridays at 1880 p. IN.
Senators and Representatives in Congress
viii be received by the President every day,
except Mondays from 10 until l2.
Persons not members Of Congress having
business with the President will be received
from i2 until on Wednesdays, Thursdays
ard Saturdays
Those who have no business, but call
merely 10 pay their respects, will be re-
ceived by the President in the East Room
81 p. m. on Mondays, Wednesdays and
Saturdays.
The Washington critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1889-1889, 1889-05-01
nPresident snsnanded.n %

There is grim humor about some of
Judge Lynch's executions. A bank
president in southwest Texas made
away with all the funds under his
charge and then posted on the door of
his institution Bank Suspended. :"
That night he was interviewed by a
number Of depositors who left him
hanging TO tree with this notice pinned
to his breast; Bank President Sus.
pended. " Bank suspensions will not
occur very frequently in that locality.
No MAN OR WOMAN can afford TO be with
out VOLTS Acme BlachinR.
The Washington critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1889-1889, 1889-05-01
shrewd Dutchnen.

There is a dearth of hyacinths In
London this year on account of com
mercial reasons. Previous large sales
Of the flower have reduced the price OF
the root, SO that the Dutch growers will
not permit the blooms TO be collected.
They are allowed to die upon the
ground and then are carted OIL In heaps.
The Washington critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1889-1889, 1889-05-01
SUGAR FROM COAL TAR.
A Scheme TO Break the Trust That
Not Likely to Succeed.

Not Likely to Succeed.
il il reported that q newly. discovered
chemicai-benzoic sulphinide-will be
used by Individual rehners to manu-
factnre sugar and break up the Sugar
Trust. The substance, commonly known
as saccharine, is made from coal tar and
possesses many times the sweetness of
cane sugar. A wcll-known chemist is
authority for the statement that the re-
finers who attempt to make sugar out of
benzoic sulphinide and sell 1t at prices
that will compete with the cane sugar
manufacturers will find II an expensive
diversion. THE material costs 81. 80
an ounce, and the exclusive right to
manufacture 1t is vested in a young
chemist who discovered the process. +"
Said he: Comparatively speaking the
saccharine does not contain the sweet
ness OF sugar, and the process of turn
ing coal tar into sugar is so incomplete
that cane will have the call for some
time to come"
The Washington critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1889-1889, 1889-05-01

G.. A. Sala tells that the Maoris are
great in oratory. On one occasion he
was being welcomed TO a Maori town
May your boots" said the orator of
the day, "be lovely on the hills" in
which G. A. s. dimly recognized q re-
vised version Of "How beautiful upon
the mountains are the feet of him that
bringeth good tidings."
The Washington critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1889-1889, 1889-05-01

THE ATTENTION of people who have
children to name is hereby called to the
fact that Washington's latest two murder
ers bear the name Nelson. Nelson Colbert,
who killed OH old man about so years of
age, and Nelson Thomas, who killed the
girl at Bcnnings.
The Washington critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1889-1889, 1889-05-01

A MAN just arrived in town yesterday
morning in quest of an Office was heard on
the Avenue, when he first came in sight of
the Monument, to ask what II was II that
man gets an Office something is defective in
our official machinery.
The Washington critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1889-1889, 1889-05-01

TUE NEW York San Of to-day gives Mr..
stuyvesant Fish of New York dressing
down, which, to any ordinary man, would
be of inestimable value as n lesson in de-
pertinent and decency. But Mr.. Stuyve-
SAINT Fish is nothing ordinary. What Mr..
Stuyvesant Fish is in public opinion gen
orally can scarcely he expressed in public
mint
The Washington critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1889-1889, 1889-05-01
A Campaign Lie

CNashville Amerlcan)
No ice cut within mile OF any distillery
will be allowed to go into the postoiilce
coolers during Mr. Wanamaker's term.