The record-union., 1892-06-04

ming. THE costly codd doth march with
ms rlch traIneD IS from poem entitled
A accommodation of New England
written by William Morrell, Plymouth,
Mass, about 1925. It is stiff. slow-moy-
ing rhyme, descriptive OF the resources
of New England. You will probably
f1nd the full poem" in any standard his
tory OF New England. Ii not, see Sted-
man & Hutchinson's Library of Ameri-
can Literature, vol. l. We do not think,
the research will repay for the trouble,
however, as 1t is more a literary curiosity
than otherwise.
SENTINEL, Winters-1. The nobility of
England dates from 1866. when William
fltz-Osborn was made Earl of Hereford
by William L. 2. a Peer of England is
exempt from arrest for debt, because he
is held to be hereditary counselor To the
crown. 3. No; but a Peer OF England
may be sued, though his person cannot
be attached.
CLARK. Woodland "IiEtat c'est
MOL" am the state. 2. The English
saying IS, God helps those who help
Il themselves; the French put it, Aide tot
heaven Ss6 w ipe6i beip a9P ya9 yoWTEsea W9ea and
ommend as the best work on foreign
quotations for your use, Belton's Liter
airy Manual Of Foreign Quotations, an
Gent and modern, g. p. Putnam'S Sons,
New York. 4. The dictionaries of quota
tions are many. a very seryiceable one
is the Encyclopaedia OF Practical Quota
tlonS,' i. II. Funk & Co., New ork, 1882
But Allibone or Bartlett are most ac-
cepted by literary men; the former is the
more elaborate; the tunk publication
the most general and varied and not con-
fined to the highest literary products.
An excellent dictionary of prose quota
tons, and the latest, is by Anna L. Ward.
l. G. Crowel q Co., New York, 1889.
D. wrong; the sentence, IN ext TO ingrati-
tude, the most painful thing to bear is
gratitude" was uttered by henry Ward
Beecher, and will be found in proverbs
from Plymouth Pulpit" So far as that
IS concerned the thought was not original
with him, but the form of expression was.
Goldsmith had said in his Citizen of the
orId,D Every acknowledgment of
gratitude is circumstance Of humilia-
tIon," which is quite the same thought.
S. L., Grayson-Ye exhibits for the
State Fair are transported free AS to
what VIII be the rule in case Of exhibits
not To be returned, but to be sent to the
w orld'S Fair Commission from the State
Fair, address Edwin L. Smith. Secretary
State Board of Agriculture, Sacramento.
| ANDIE W., Merced- -Celluloid is a
chemical product, used in place Of ivory.
bone and amber largely. Vegetable tber,
/ usually cotton, is treated with sulphuric
and nitric acids, transforming it into gun
! cotton. This is washed, bleached, rolled,
and camphor is added. II soitens at I700,
and can be nodded into any form and
! coolS rapidly. 1t is highly inhammable.
L or common use it Is therefore usually
mixed with chemicals OF the opposite
property. There are many processes for
producing celIuloid, and ali are or have
been covered with patents. Do not eX-
pertinent tor CURIOSITY IFS al
production. You will not succeed, and
WILL assume much dangerous risk.
HOUSEWIFE, Elmira-The carpet beetle,
otherwise the Buffalo bug, is a small
black beetle, about one-eighth of an inch
long; very destructive TO carpets; was
| brought 10 this country from Europe in
| I6iZ. one California development of this
pest has White branched line along the
Junction OF the wing covers; in other
| parts OF the land this line is red. From Oc-
tober until spring the beetle is most seen.
kerosene III the cracks OF the floor will
drive the pest out and kill ii. We are in
cllned TO think that what you find is not
the Buffalo bug. Ii the true carpet beetle,
1t IS black with patches of white on The
wing covers. the larva is brown with
| TUFTS OF bristles, those Of the tail as long
as the body when full grown.
STUDENT, Woodland - We answered
the question last week, but repeat that il
is now pretty well proved that there is a
planet between Mercury and the sun,
and it is called Vulcan, the planet of ro-
nance. II Is claimed that it has been OBJ
served. But the perturbatiouS of Mer-
curry convince astronomers OF the exist
ence Of the other planet.
| ELMER, Enthusiastically dust-free air
is not possible to be gathered. We come
very near TO it. however.