Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-01-11

mistress instructs her to dust the parlor.
She begins her work BY shutting all the
doors and windows. and goes to busting
every object dutifullv, but all the dust
atoms come down again upon the small
objects. 1t is thus we drive ont our unde-
slrable people. The skip from town to
town in California, but never leave 1t. If
the girl takes wet cloth once in awhile
and wipes up the dust particles, they are
removed; and the same can be done with
those who will Eot work. Call them in.
4Apropos, the latter process has been adopted
here but will it ever materialize Give
every hungry stomach something to eat,
but let it be earned, too. Upon those
principles the English Garden was pro-
duced in the city of Munich, under the
supervision of Count Rumford
The reigniDg Duke of Bavaria invited the
noted scientist, Thompson tan American),
to Munich as an advisor. When the Duke
asked him, What shall do with my beg
gars ?" he told him to make them work.
But have no work" the Duke replied.
Well Thompson answered, create work
by turning that unhealthy morass beyond
the city into public garden"
The idea was carried out; the result was
public benefit in establishing pleasure
ground for large city, and almost wiping
churches, such as is yet found in the city of
Rome, for instance. Something of that
sort would be an aid to street improve
ments, when properly apphed-using the
man simply as a machine, and the same
soil for our streets and highways. We will
still have our dust in summer, and no
foundation for mud IN winter. Whatever
is done must systematically and honestly
carried out and if higher price is paid il
is cheapest in the end. Those who have
visited European countries, and seen the
harbors, quays, etc, of solid masonry, also
tn e highways of the most civilized coun-
tries, know what is meant by it. To all
such public work there must in sill cases be
a substantial, solid foundation, and if
street or highway, some method to carry of
the surface water.
We will take, for instance, the CITY of
Berlin, gaining every year as much as our
population amounts to, yet this city lies as
fiat as a 'pan-cake,' with a snail-like river
passing through it. Yet the paving of the
streets and the drainage had to be carried
out, or the people would not flock to Ber-
lin. The engineers probably who have.
or will carry out the important work are
not placed there by political parties or
cliques. When the sewerage of Paris was
carried out, Louis Napoleon had men en-
gagged who were not simply experimeniers.
They were Eltfels in their line of work.
II Sacramento wants TO get out of its
stills, its must employ men like other
cities, or say, our railroad corporations
men qualified for their positions in their
line, and with proper material, streets and
public buildings viii be built as substantial
as in other cities and countries.
In any city where public reading matter,
sustained by the taxpayers, averages the
year round from IA 20 rs per cent in fiction,
expectations generally run high, but prac-
tical results are small, because the founda-
ton is not real. If over. jealous temper
ance people will work against novel-read-
ing they can WELD power against the
toughest, as well as the more delicate. Bad
mental food is frequently worse than bad
whisky. JOHN EITEL.