The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1892-08-02
OUR IMPORTATION BUREAU.
Responses to Correspondents Seekin
Substantial Information.

Responses to Correspondents Seeking
substantial Information.
For responses to questions of practical
value. Mere puzzles, and the curious and
common, answers to which ought to be found
in the ordinary home library, will receive no
attention. queries published without re-
sponses are invitations TO furnish answers
TO make this department an information ex-
change also. Communications must be brief
and signed with name and address.
IF the correspondent who asked con-
corning treatment OF dry and wet Their
mOmeJers, ETC., will send his address (the
first having been mislaid) we will for
ward him book of complete instructions
for volunteer weather observers, issued
by the Signal Service and Weather
Bureau.
EDS. RECoRD-U UNION: Is it a rule not
to break the egg you eat into cup or
glass? Some contend it is i'll breeding to
do so, and others say no.
SIGMA, Plymouth.
AS a rtle it is best table manners to eat
it from the shell. That is quite the table
law in England, but it is not the general
practice here. Refined custom abhors the
mess of broken egg in cup.
EDS. RECORD UNION: When is it
proper 10 say one Is SlCKI is IL ever
proper to say or write gents?
ELLA, Sacramento.
l. Not when nausea is nrpant; not when
you are merely i'll or unwell. If PROSTATE
with disease one is sick. Sick for i'll is
too much used. 2. Never.
EDS. RECORD UNION: Would you say
"a party then remarked" etc. or "a per-
SON.? NJ. N, Sacramento.
Never "a party''-it is vulgar.
EDS. RECoRD-UNIoN: Did Shakespeare
ever use the sentence in his PLAYS, '.Suf-
ticient unto the day is the evil thereof?
G. D., Auburn.
If so you ought to be able to find it in a
Shakespearean glossary. He did write,
Every mite serves for the matter that is
then born init"
EDS. RECORD UNION: For what did
s. z. @. r. stand on the Roman ban
ners? JOHN, Folsom.
Senatus populus que Romanus. The
Senate and the Roman people.
EDS. RECORD UNION: In your In
formation Bureau kindly give me the
meaning Of the words Iowa, Indiana and
Dakota. JENNIE c., Sacramento.
Iowa, sleepy ones'': Indiana, ''river''
is the meaning of India and Indiana is an
Indian word of similar import; Dakota,
''allied."
EDS. RECoRD-UNION: What are the
values in this country, in our money, of
the Crown, the Guinea and the pound
sterling. E.S., lone.
Crown, 81 81; Guinea, So 05; Pound,
81 81.
EDS. RECORD UNION: If not too much
trouble tell us how long it takes the
steamers to go from San Francisco to
Acapulco, Mexico. G. & B., Sacramento.
About nine days.
EDS. RECoRD-UNIoN: What is the
central meridian spoken of as Pacific
time used by the railroad company, aud
where is it? B. b., Sacramento.
1t is 1902, eight hours west from Green
witch, or about L i east of Sacramento.
Ems. RECoRD-UNIoN: ] often see the
words French paste, referring to inIita-
ton of precious stones, diamonds. Can
the Information Bureau tell me what il
is? j. II. L.. Woodland.
1t is kind of glass with a mixture of
oxide of lead. Cannot give you the
formula now.
EDS. RECoRD-UNIo Is any part of
the building used as the Capitol of the
State standing at Vallejo? Is the present
Courthouse here the first Capitol in Sac
ramento? CITIZEN. Sacramento.
We believe not. The old Capitol at
Benicia is still standing. The present
Courthouse in Sacramento is the second,
not the first Capitol building in this CITY.
The latter was burned in 1854