The record-union., 1896-08-09
BUREAU OF INFORMATION.
Some Odd Questions Briefly Answered
Herein.
Information Given to Inquirers on
Subjects of More or Less Gen.
eral Interest.

Eds. Record Union: Please give me
the address Of a good, well-organized
chess club that I can write to for in
formation as to forming one. PAWN.
Sacramento.
There is a chess club in San Fran
cisco, but its address we cannot give
you. The best chess organization In the
United States is that of the New York
State Chess Association. Its address Is
New York City.
James A." Roseville-The questions
you ask are important TO be well under
stood in answering. To give you ade-
Guate answers would involve two or
three columns of treatise and explana-
ton, and such an article is outside the
purpose of this department. In any
one of number of financial pamphlets
on the silver and coinage question you
can find all the answers you ask for,
with tabulated and other information.
If you wish it we will procure a book
seller to forward you pamphlet works
on both sides of the issues you ask
about, though from any large book
store you Will be able to get them your
self at the cost of few dimes.
Eds. Record Union: Your paper
had a local item Saturday about mod
crate" rates of speed for driving in the
streets. Now, what do you consider a
moderate rate Of speed?
Sacramento. WHEELMAN.
In business streets for cyclists not to
exceed seven miles an hour; for teams
the same. On outside residence streets
eight miles an hour for either.
Eds. 'Record-URion": Be so kind as
to tell me who was the author of the
lines beginning:
"Old Grimes is dead; that good old man,
We ne'er shall see him more"
SACRAMENTO. SADIE.
A ballad by Albert Gorton Greene; q
singularly, absurdly witty Jingle that
in its day was on every tongue, and was
worked into grotesque games among
commercial travellers, passengers on
sea-gofng vessels, etc. These games
have gone out of use now, however, and
as to who Albert Gorton Greene was we
are unable to say, except that he was
an American versifier born in 1902.
Eds. Record Union: have a work
entitled INSIDE" relating to Southern
scenes during the war, and some Of
them the wittiest reading I have met
with. The book is by George +. Har-
rington. but it's preface shows to me
that it is not the true name, for the
author tells how he had to bury his
manuscript in war times in the South,
and how his wife used to carry it to
church in her clothing. fearful to leave
it at home, as its discovery would have
been fatal to both of them. All this so
interests me that I am very, very anx-
ious to know who really wrote this re-
markable book. 1t is suggested that
you may be able to ascertain for me-
VIII you do so? MRS. S.
Dixon.
The work is credited in the litera-
ture cyclopedias to Rev. VIM. NJ. Baker,
an American clergyman and novelist,
born at Washington, d. c., in 1925;
died at South Boston, 1888. He was in
the South during the whole time of the
civil war. He wrote several other
books OF like character, as we'll as some
doctrinal works. Most of his writing
was done after the war and his return
to the North, though Inside, a Chroni-
Gle of Secession" was written while he
was in the South and during the war.
Eds. Record Union: To settle dis
pute, please tell us which is the more
nutritive, rice or barley? I hold rice
has most value. and Elsie says barley
has the most. Which Is right?
Auburn. MARY AND ELSIE.
Brande's tables of average nutritive
values places the quantity of nutritive
matter in 1000 parts of rice at $50, and
in 1000 parts of barley at 900 Compare
either with the nutritive value of the
which is rated at but %.
Eds. "Record-Union": To whom can
the term ''prelate" be properly applied
Sacramento. C. G.H
To bishops, archbishops, patriarchs
and similar church dignitaries.
SMART PTrVrTE TIrTEurc