The record-union., 1896-01-25
NOTE AND COMMENT.

Chamber of Commerce could devote it
self to no more worthy and absolutely
necessary cause than the mapping out
for subsequent ratification by the citi-
ems of some system by which pure,
potable and wholesome drinking water
could be furnished to the residents of
Sacramento" Sacramento will never
progress or become an inviting place of
residence as long as the domestic water
supply is taken from the filthy river.
The Montreal Witness says people
know more about the Monroe doctrine
now than they did month ago." True,
especially the English people.
The upright bicycle is one of the
novelties at the present New York Cycle
Show. The machine is one having the
front wheel one-third smaller than the
hind one. The handle bar is beneath
and behind the saddle and the handles
rise on each side. The saddle post and
the fork post meet and form the apex of
a triangle, the base of which carries the
treadles and sprocket. The rider sits
upright, slightly leaning backward,
head and chest thrown out, and grasps
the handles just below or at his hips.
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down on the handles. This new device
is said to be especially desirable for
women, because it permits of any kind
of chair seat desired, allows no curva-
ture of the spine, and reduces the jar
to the minimum. If there is any thing
else that the bicycle manufacturers and
inventors can cudgel from their brains,
now is the time We had really thought
the cycle limit in novelty had been
reached, but assurances are given by
the makers that they have only just be-
gun, and presently they will have all
the world a-wheel by inventions that
will meet the doctors at every point,
remove the very last one of their objec-
tions and dissolve their latest doubts.
At the recent bicycle exposition at
Chicago, no less than $40 factories were
represented, and not all the returns
were in at that Talk of rapidity of
development in an industry in this coun-
try? Why, five years ago there were
not one hundred factories of that order
in the world.
1t is not the vent of pent up animal
spirits; what is it then that makes so
many University youths develop as
hoodlums during the vealy stage? A
parcel of Harvard youths went to New
York City the other day and left their
manners behind them. They visited
the theaters and made nuisances Of
themselves They were arrested and
every last one of them was fined So for
disorderly conduct. 1t then turned out
that they are sons of New York farnil
les, who before going to Harvard were
correct and peaceable and not at all
rude. There is certainly needed in our
large educational institutions the exer-
else of some influence which while not
repressive of youthful vivacity, nor pro-
hibitory Of manly sports, will prevent
young men who are receiving thorough
education from degenerating into howl
ing nuisances.
The Truckee Republican has en-
tered upon the twenty-sixth year of its
existence Editor Calkins has made it
a good paper during the three years it
has been under his proprietorship and
direction.
The New Year edition of the Fresno
Republican was an exhaustive six
teen-page exposition of the resources of
Fresno County, its social and educa-
tional and other features. 1t was an
excellent paper of much value freely IL
lustrated and we'll compiled.
So the expected has happened at last,
and Madagascar is now a French pos
session. Pity that some sort of a Mon
roe doctrine did not intervene in that
hemisphere to protect the Hevas in
their right to be self-governing.
The OroviIle Mercury crisp, newsy
and well conducted daily, entered upon
its twenty-sixth volume on the 9TH in
slant.