Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-06-29
REPORTS OF GOVERNMENT CHEMISTS
ALL AROUND THE WORLD.
As to Purity and Wholesomeness Of the Royal Baking Pds


tions.
A citizen of Tarpon, Fla, has tame OF
ter which follows him about the streets
like dog.
Powerful interrupted voltaic currents
have recently been used in England to ar
rest the growth of cancer.
1t is proposed to keep the Paris EXPOSE
| ton open for year, with the exception
| of the three winter months.
At the horticultural show at the Tro-
| cadero during June there will he 5000
rose trees, of 5000 varieties. in blossom.
A new disease called photo-electric oph-
thalmia is described as due to the contm-
ual action of the electric light on the eyes.
The monograph is attracting consider
able attention liz French electric circles,
many novel experiments being made with
| it.
More than LOCO empty patent medicine
bottles were found in the house Of rich
bachelor who died at Knoxville, Penn,
lately.
The railroads of this world are worth
nearly S240, 000,000,000 and yet few of us
are able to own more than coupon ticket
on one for a brief period.
1t has been proposed to secure secrecy
in telephone communication by breaking
the transmitting current up and sending
one portion over one line and the rest
over another line.
The leaning of English capital toward
| Americal breweries IS contradictory of the
old English idea that good malt liquors
could not be made in America, because
they 'aven't the ops, you know"
The largest family in Arkansas is that
Of w. D. Green and wife of Murfreesboro
Pike county. They were married in 1885
and have had twenty-three children,
eighteen Of whom are living.
An elephant is used to harrow the track
at ST. Louis, and the novel exhibition at
| tracts a good deal of attention. The ZOO
logical garden is an appendage to the race
course, and track visitors are admitted free
| The cash value of the coin. currency
and securities in the United States Treas
ury is S572,000,0 00-a pretty good show
inn for Government that imposes lighter
taxes upon its people than any other in
| the world.
NJ Marcel Deprez has introduced some
new types of resistance and switches for
use with high tension currents. In these
he uses pure water as the connection
and the metals themselves never touch
| ing, there is no spark on breaking con-
| tact.
To give an idea of the kind of tele-
phone cable which would be required to
work under the ocean it has been calcu-
lated that the copper core would have
to be as large around as a -four barrel,
and the insulation the diameter of hogs
head.
| Ex-Vice-President Hamlin is now nearly
80 years of age, but he has changed very
| little in his appearance of late He still
wears at all hours of the day what is
usually regarded as an evening dress suit
| No weather is cold enough to induce him
to wear under-fannels, overceats or gloves.
| The tensile strength Of a wet rope is
found to be only one-third that of the
same rope when dry, and a rope saturated
with grease or soap is weaker still, as the
lubricant permits the fbres to slip with
greater facility. A dry rope twenty-five
feet long will shorten to twenty-four feet
on being wet
The Duke of Portland gave these
trifes to his bride: A pearl necklace, a
diamond hoop ring, a diamond turquois
bracelet, a gold bangle watch in red
enamel, set in diamonds; a moonstone
breach, dressing case and travelling bag
with gold mounts and initials in diamonds,
a gold hunting watch, sable cloak, muff
and boa
General Sheridan's estate included much
non productive property, which has been
a drain upon his widows reduced revenues.
The Government pension of $1,000 year
is about the largest single item of income
The fund inaugurated by George W.
! Childs, of Philadelphia, and other ad-
mirers of the departed hero, is growing
but tardily,
'This indiscriminate abuse of mothers
| in-law is not just" said Judge Finletter
from the bench of the old Courthouse in
| Columbus, Ohio. "Week after week the
testimony adduced in this Court shows the
mother-in-law to be much traduced per-
son. 1t shows that the mother-in-law is
the one person of the whole family who
suffers most from the introduction of a
| stranger in the house The mother-in-
| law is the one of all who sacrifices her
comfort for her unhappily married chill
dren."
| November 26, 1864, Mrs. Hodges of St
| Louis mailed a letter to her husband, who
was with Sherman's army. On reaching
his regiment the letter was given to Cap
| tain Bixby to be delivered to Mr.. Hodges.
The captain naturally put it in his pocket.
Two weeks ago he found it in the same
pocket of the same coat, yellow and dingy
! with twenty-five years incarceration, but
| otherwise all right. He Immediately
| mailed it, and Mr. Hodges received it in
St. Louis, the city from which it originally
started.
In this way joyous Western contem-
| porary talks of the typewriter girl; "She
| may chew gum, but she never dallies with
tobacco nor toys with the serpent lurking
| in the wine glass. In these respects her
superiority over her male competitor Is
palpably evident She never INDUCES in
draw poker nor high-low-jack, therefore
she can work for a smaller salary than
| male and save more, too. The proprietor
swears less, the office boy doesn't whistle
as much as before the advent of the type
writer girl
Professor Whitney says that from the
summit Mount Hamilton more of the
earth's surface can be seen than from
any other spot on the globe, though it is
| only $500 feet high The view extends
! around it in every direction, and thesnow
capped range of the lofty Sierras can be
plainly seen 200 miles away against the
| northern sky. To the south, nearly as far
away, the San Bernardino range limits the
view, and between the two lies room for
all the Eastern States, with their rivers,
lakes, mountains and sea coast.