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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-01-03

States; Macaulay's History of England !;
Knights Mechanical Dictionary; Stewards
Travels Around the World Humboldcs
Travels; Herbert Spencer's complete works !;
Darwin's complete works, nsEols.; Huxley's
complete works, Is vols; Tyndall's complete
works, vols; Ernest Hoeckers Freedom in
Science and Teaching, vol, Evolution Of
Man, vols. History. of Creation, vols. !;
Treatise on Mechanics, by Prof. Roleaux, of
Berlin. used as textbook in Germany and
France in the technical schools A Fools Err
rand. by Ford Howard Hurlburt, n. ";
Stockton's Rudder' Grange Series Falcon
berg-A Norseman's Pilgrimage; Mrs.
Burnett's Haworth's Yacht Club Series !;
Dorcas Club Series :. Ocean Boom Series /;
Goethe's Works, vols; Good Company !;
Helmholz' Popular Lectures on Scientific
Subjects; Hartt's Scientific Results of a
Journey in Brazil by Louis Agassiz and his
travelling Companions International Scien-
titic Series, "a vols; Illustrated Library
of Wonders, "a vols; Illustrated Library of
Wonders, second series-hrst and second sec
tons, 10 vols; The Story of Goethes Life, by
Lewis Charles Nordhoffs Works, z vols. /;
Popular Science Library, 5 vols; R. A.
Proctor's Works, vols; Sam Smiles Works.
. vols.;. NJ. +. Sweetser's Artists Biogra-
phies; Jules Verne's Works /; Life and Let
tiers of Madame Bonsparte The People, by
Alichelet /; Ernest Remains Works; Theirs
History Of the Consulate and Empire OF Ma
poleon, 3 vols; Grants Travels Around the
World, by J. r. Young; Miss Carsan's
Cooking Manual, ? copies; The Boy Tray
elers in the Far East; Camp Fire and Cot
ton Field; Adventures of Young Natur-
alist An Involuntary Voyage; Caricature
and Other Comic Art, by James Parton ;
John G. Edgar's Juvenile Works, 3 vols;
Eggleston's Roxy, Hoosier Schoolmaster,
Circuit Rider; Geo. Corey Eggleston,s A
Rebels Recolleetions Cartoons My Days
and Nights on the Battlefield, Following the
Flag; Blavtzky's Isis Unveiled Mills Sub
lection of Women; Mile Junot; C0bbett's
Advice to Young Men; Stanley's Through
the Dark Continent Geo. Lippard's Quaker
City; Geo. Sands Countess De Rudolstadt /;
Charlotte Temple Dumas Count of Monte
Cristo; Tom Paines Works, complete; Du-
mas Iron Mask, Andres De Tavney; Mrs.
Aliens Betsy Bobbitts and My Opinion
Dickens Works, complete; Shepherds
Charles Auchester and sequel, Counterparts
Evans Macaria, Inez; Clemens Tom Saw
yer; Bronte's Jane Eyre; Warmers len
Thousand Year; Gil Bias; Books for
Girls, edited by the author of John Halifax,
6 vols; Abbott's Stories of Rainbow and
Luck, ) vols; Abbott's Franconia Stories, IL
vols; VIM. Blaike's Howto Get Strong; Anna
DclIinsons A Ragged Register; Harry May
hew's Works, vols w. K. Clifford's Lee
lures and Essays, 2 vols; w. X. Chffords
Seeing and Thinking.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-01-03

Do you have a
Pain in your Back,
Loins or Sidel II so,
your Kidneys are
diseased. Do not de-
lay, but try at once,
HINTS REM.
EDY, the Great
kidDeyaRdLiyer
Medicine, Ii is
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-01-03
Mr. rorsr-No DIV cert.;n,v NOT

Mr.. Carey-No sir !; certainly not.
Reporter our Secretary has been under
stood to say so.
Mr.. Carey-On the contrary, our loans are
on outside property mainly, and that remains
good and improves. What little depreciation
there may have been here and there has not
affected us in this matter. We consider our
securities all good.
Reporter-Have you anything further to
add !?
Mr.. Carey-No, sir; I've told you the
whole business. The bank statement you
have. The proceedings of the Directors you
know Of There is no cause for alarm by
any one, and everything will be paid up to
the handle.
The conversation closed at this point.
1t may be added that the facts stated prior
to the conversation related were obtained on
equally good authority, and it will be seen
that they are maintained by the statements
of Messrs. Carey and Clarke. In this con-
nection it should be stated-what is gener
ally known-that the stockholders Of the
bank all rank as solvent, and are what is
termed in commercial parlance gilt edged"
The furry concerning the Capital Bank oc-
casioned very naturally some calls upon other
banks, but these were slight, and the only
sign that any other bank paid attention to the
street chat was the hanging up by the Sacra-
mento Bank of this notice:
Owing to coin accommodating faster than it can be
loaned satisfactory real estate security the Board
of Directors have decided to discontinue receiving
any more deposits until further notice.
ED. R. HAMILTON, Cashier.
1t has been understood for some time that
most of the city banks had surplus coin on
hand and could not find profitable loan OPP
portunities for it, and the excitement of yes.
terday seems to have brought that fact still
more prominently forward.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-06-18

BIRDS AND WORMS.-After the in
PRODUCTION Of the sparrow there was a
general disappointment. He was brought
here to eat WORMS and no one ever saw
him eat any, The writer has watched
him for hours, with worms all around.
without touching them. The sparrow
is a grain-edting bird, yet he varies his
diet and is very fond of insects on the
wing and while he would not eat the
worm, he would chase and devour the
miller that was seeking a place to de-
pOsit her eggs, ready to be Matched out
the next season into a new crop of worms.
and so the worms disappeared. Now.
moths are nearly disappearing from our
house, and 10 doubt the SparrOwS are
killing millions Of the moth-millers as
they fly abOut, and if this is so it will 90
far toward reconciling the houSekeepef
to the dirt which the sparrow makes on
the sides of the houses.
y great hue and cry was made a few
years ago by the pomological societies
against the robin. They declared that
his song did not compensate for the fruit
which he destroyed, and as for worms
he only ted ON angle-wOrmS, which did
no harm, and IN consequence of this
there was a great destruction of robins
Still, ! have watched the robins and
have seen them chase and devOur the
miller which lai6 the eggs for the worms.
And the result is that as robins de-
crease worms increase, and these not
only destroy fruit but trees also.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-06-18
How the Earth was First Mapped Out.

What these early maps were we do
not know. but can from a reasonable
conjecture. The earth at that time was
supposed to be fiat circular plain, or
disk. the broadest part being from east
to west. which was entirely surrounded
by an ocean, or great river, that washed
it upon all sides. In about the centre
of this plain Greece was supposed to be
situated The great central sea oil the
inhabited region was the Medlterrean:
The farthest point known at the west
was the straits of Gibralter, then called
the pillars of Hercules. The southern
mart comprised the north of Africa as
far as the deserts while the region
north embraced the countries bordering
upon the Mediterranean, and an uu-
known hvperborean land farther to the
north. with the EuXine and Caspian
seas at the northeast, The fartheSt
eastern point known was about the Jm-
it of India. This was what. would then
be contained in a map as representation
of the earth. The sun was supposed 10
pass under and around this flat plaln-
which was then the mode OF accounting
/ for the changes of day and night. The
/ space beneath was supposed to be great
| yault. called Tartarus, the abode of the
! spirits of the wicked among men, as the
| region corresponding to it above the
! plain was heaven, or abode OF the Gods.
/ The unknown region beyond the Pillars
/ of Hercules was fill up with creations OF
/ the fertile imagination of the Greeks.
/ To the northwest and north were the
/ Cimmerarians, people living in perpet-
ual darkness and the hyperboreans, a
race supposed to be exempt from toll,
! disease and wars, who enjoyed life for a
thousand years in a state of undisturbed
I serenity. In the west of Sicily were the
/ enchanted islands of Circe and Calypso,
and the floating island of Elous. A lit
tie to the north of the Pillars Of Hercul-
es was the entrance to the internal re-
gions and far out into the Western
Ocean, the happy region called Eiysiun
land Of perpetual summer, where &
gentle zephyr constantly blew. where
tempeSts were unknown, and where The
spirits of those whose lives had been ap
proved by the Gods dwelt in perpetua
felicity Here, also, were the Gardent
of the HesperideS, with their golden ap
plies guarded by the singing nymph, wh'
dwelt ou the river Oceanus, which wa
in the extreme west, and the position o
which was constantly shifted, as geogra
phical knowledge increased.-IH Poptt
Tar Science Monthly.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-06-18

MEDICAL PROPERTIES OF EGGs.-
For burns or scalds nothing IS more
soothing than the white of a egg, which
may he poured over the wound, 1t is
softer. as a Yarnish for a burn, than col
lodIon. and. being always at hand can
be applied Immediately. II IS also more
cooling than the ''Sweet oil and cotton ,
which was formerly supposed 20 be the
surest application TO alIay the smarting
pain. II IS the contact with the air
which gives the extreme discomfort eX-
perienced from ordinary accidents of
this kind and anything which excludes
air and prevents inflammation IS the
thing to be at once applied
The egg is also considered one Of the
best remedies for dysentery. Beaten up
slightly with or without sugar and
swallowed at gulp, it tends by IT'S
emOilient qualities TO lessen the lntlam-
nation of the stomach and inte5tlueS,
and by forming a transient coating on
these organs, to enable nature TO resume
her healthfal sway over the diseased
body. Two, or at most, three eggs per
day, would De all that is required III or
diuarv cases. and since the egg is not
merely medicine, but food as well, the
lighter the diet otherwise, and the
quietcr the patient is kept the more GER
tain and rapid Is the recovery.
1t is stated within few years that a
certain oil, 10 be obtained from the
yoiks Of boiled eggs, .s OF great use III
curing cuts and bruises. This oil IS OBJ
tanned by cooking the yolks over a fresh
fire. They are stirred constantly till
seemingly on the point of bursting into
blaze, when it is found that quite a
quantity of oil is eliminated from each
yolk, and this strained and secured is
said TO have wonderful healing proper
t'es.-Amerjc0H Poultry Yard.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-06-18
A NEW WRINKLE FOR FARMERS.

On a former occasion we alluded to a
system introduced into this country by
which green food for cattle can be pre-
served in its fresh. green state, through
the winter for feeding cattle. 1t may
be corn. grass, oats, &c. and the way 1t
is done is to dig pits, which are called
solos, in OblOng squares, made OF a ca
pdcity of 500, ,OOO pounds. This green
provender, which is called cpSjldge, is
put down late in September or begin
ming Of October, according TO the season
and crops, and opened at such time as
the food NAV be needed-say the begin
ming of December. OF course the ensil-
age is covered, so as entirely to exclude
the air in order to ensure its proper
preservation.
Mr.. John NJ Railey, of BilIorica,
Mass, seems to be the first in this cOun-
try 10 introduce this new system OF
feeding green food in winter, and he
claims his success to be thorough and
unquestionable. One tie first of May
ultimO, he says that he opened his solos
on the Sd of December last. and that
since he had been feeding large stock
Of cattle and sheep upon cOrnfOdder put
down, OF 'ensilaged, - the previous Sep
jcmbeT, and that its condition vas as
perfect as when first used il December.
milch-cOwS and ewes with lambs eXclu-
siyely with it. He invites everybody
interested in feeding cattle to examine
his arrangement and satisfy themselves
of his success. The system is not new
in parts of Europe but he is the first
person to try it here. BY it, he asserts,
milk can be produced at one cent quart,
butter at ten cents a pound, beef for four
cents, pork for three cents, and mutton
for nothing when wool Is thirty cents a
pound This green forage can be put
down for two dollars per ton, 1.-TWO ton s
Of which are worth as much rs one ton
OF the best timothy hay, and as much
as four tons of corn fodder fresh from
. the field"
This, our agricultural friends must
ali admit, is a decidedly new wrinkle in
. farming of marked Importance. and
VIII agree with us that if it can be
proved to be all that Mr.. Bailey repre-
sents, it viii be ''boOm" in the dairy
ing business and i'll the production OF
meat, such IT'S viii create in both revo-
luton. And we hope it will he for the
benefit Of all concerned GermuntOlcil
Telegraph.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-06-18
DESTROYING WEEDS.

Every once in u while we read that
the way to destroy noXious weeds Is TO
haul loads of earth and cover the places
where the weeds grow a half foot or so
deep. Sometimes these instructions are
varied 50 as to read rubbish instead OF
earth. and then again rubbish is defined
as straw, cornstalks or even brush
Now. we have no doubt in the world
that weeds can be destroyed In that
way. We know that weeds are to feed
on air. and all that sort of thing, and
that if they are smothered they can't
breathe. and if they cannot breathe they
die. All this is 50 plain to the thickest
skull that one may feel perfectly safe in
recommending it as something that will
surely do. And yet we would like TO
know how many persons who recon-
mended it have ever done so, or seen
their plan tried by others We very
much doubt whether it was ever done.
Some persons may have noticed that
under a brush heap everything was Kill
ed. and that after remaining year the
brush heaps removal would show the
spot bare of all vegetation. II the re-
commendation ever had any ground AT
all it was surely this.
Our remedy for noxiOuS weeds is
thorough cultivation. If a piece of
( ground is full of briers, milkweed,
/ couch-grass, sodom-apples, Canada this
! ties. sorrel. toad-flaX, or other miserable
stuff that so often tries the mettle OF
our good farmers, let them put the
ground in corn for a couple of years OF
/ SO. keeping the cultivation going contin-
ually, and especially going in the earli-
est parts of the season, and the toughest
/ character among these weeds will fail to
stand the ordeal. If the hand-hoe can
be spared to 90 in among the hills OF
/ corn occasionally, where tie teeth of the
! harrow cannot reach, or to cut off here
and there one which the harrow may
miss. q bad case may be cured in sin
gle season. But if this cannot be done
a couple of successive years with {
sharp-tooth cultiyator among corn
crop will generally do the business fol
the worst case that ever was.
Let any ore who has weedy fen
before him resolve another season to pu
the whole tract in conn., and he vii
soon give up all the common ideas o
smOthering-out with great layers oi
earth, cutting up in the fuI OF the moon
) putting salt upon their tops, or tn
many other recommendations started II
the interest it is believed of laZiness
but which really call for more trouble
and hard work than thorough anC
systematic cleaning, such as we have in
dicated. does. .- GerHldJtOtcH Telegraph
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-06-18

THE Duty OF A NEwsPAPER.-An attor-
ney, in a recent speech before jury in a libel
suit, made use of the following language as
showing the functions of a newspaper
There has grown up a sort of an obligation,
recognized mutually by the press and the
people. by which the people expect that the
press, as the distributors of useful informa-
tiOn, shall inform them as well what is to he
avoided as what is to be sought, as well what
is to he suspected as what is to be confided i'm.
And newspaper, as a garneTeT and distrib-
utOT Of news, Is n public monitor and it is
its duty To admOnish the people against shams
and frauds, and impOstureS and dishonest ties.
1t is TO be Il beacon as well as guide: and
whenever a public newspaper, through its
diversified appliances for the collection and
distribution OF Information, discovers any
where in public life and in public avocations
whether it be a lawyer, or a clergyman, or
phySlclan-a man who, instead of securing
the public welfare by honorable methods and
practices, simply prowiS about in the back
yard of his profession, and uses the means
and iBstrumentalities which honorable title
gives him to pandeT to his own lust and ava
rice, or any other vile passion, and that paper
fails to send out some admOnitOry voice and
some signal of warning, il is recreant to every
principle of duty and responsibility, and
should lee stigmatized by the public it pre-
tends to serve.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-06-18

MAHoGANY FURNITURE 1t was
only in 1920 THAT mahogany was first
employed in England for cabinet furui-
ture. Its origin is thus related
DIR. Gibbons, an eminent physician.
having had some plduks OF this wood
given To him by his brother, a West In
dia captain, who had brought them in
his vessel as ballast, wished to use them
for house he was building but the
carpenters complained that the wood
was too hard. 1t was therefore laid
aside as useless. soon after Mrs. Glib
bonS wanted a candle box. and the doc
tor called in his cabinet maker to make
him one out of this wood. then lying in
the garden. lie also declared that it
was too hard. The doctor said he must
get stronger tools. The candle box was
completed and approved, inasmuch that
the doctor insisted upon having bureau
made Ol the same wood, and when finish
ed, the fne color. the polish. etc. We're
50 striking, that he invited his friends
to come and see it. Among them WAS
the Duchess of Buckingham. whO was
50 well pleased that she Had a bureau
made of the same wood, which speedily
became fashionable among the higher
classes, and has ever since remained So =
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-06-18
REPAIRING REPRESENTATIVES.

REPAIRING POsT-AND-RAIL FENCES.
1t Is said that a pust-and-raii fence
made of chestnut timber would last
lifetime if it were not for the post rot
ting off at the ground. Whenever the
latter occurs, all that is necessary is to
plant new posts (WithouJ being NOR
t.ced) close alongside OF those that have
rotted off, and then, with piece of pail
ing wire, tie the tops of the old posts-to
The tops of the new ones, and. il necess-
ary, the bottoms of the old posts to the
bottoms of the new ones in like manner.
In this way the same set of rails will
outlaSt several sets of posts, and the
strength of the fence be preserved for
many years, if not for lifetime.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-06-18

LONGEVITY OF EISHES.-SOme DAYS
ago | had occasion to make some inquiry
into the age of fishes. ana was surprised
to find that they lived so long. Think
ing that there are others who know as
little about the subject as 7 did. Ian
pend y letter ] received from Prof.
Spencer ". Baird. United states Fisb
Commissioner, who IS the best aGtLori-
" In the world ON fish. lie writes.
There is, I believe. authentic evil
dence TO show Thar carp have attained
the age of two hundred years. There is
tradition that, wi-h.u the last Gftv
years, pike was living in Russia whose
age dated back to The fifteenth century
The fish is said 10 have been eighteen
feet long. This, however. is not con
sidered very reliable But there Is
nothing to prevent a fish from living al
most indefinitely, as IL has 10 period of
maturity, but grows with oacI year of
life. In species like mammals and
birds, where there is limit. q definite
term Oi years IS generally the rule. =
There are now some gold fish here. in
the aquariuns OF ,he Clited states
botanical garden. that are fifty wears
old. \ goldfish dealer in Baltimore
showed me some goldfish that he had
kept in his aquarium for thirty years.
Vast gt13 Lof'cy io itc Hartford Cya1i
Jo,s,s.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-06-18

ANIMAL IONGEyITT.-l TORTOISE
which died IN the Bishop 1t Peters
borough 5 garden in 1871. was more t..l-
two hundred and twenty wears l- a--
and one belonging 10 Archbishop -..L
died at the age of l2- years Is I'D
fishes, the pike has been Saia 10 i've ~
two hundred and siNtY-scvel Years. --
the carp for two hundred years, i is
hardly probable that the gigantic 5l.-
mander may live for q greatly Irl..1-.
period, and frogs and tOads are r-#laa.
iOng-lived animals, small as Is their r-
ative size. A toad has been kept
thirty-SiN years without showing signs
Of age, and then died through al E..-
dent. Whales have been supposed 3.
live from three TO four hundred years
The life OF an elephant Is said Cd extend
beyond one hundred years. Irt a- .-s
there seems as yet TO be E0 certain t.-
dence. Birds. as Creatures ar once ---
tive and WaTm-bl0oded land thus con-
pressing, as it were, much life INTO
small perIOdl, might be expected .1 Dc
short lived Yet parrots have been
known to live for upward of % c.ll-I.r
and pellcaus, geese, and crows ua. --
ceed the period commonly a.-e.-A q.
man. But, however commonly a--.t--t
three-score years and ten may DE- .<
term Of human life. man can both ..t
and retain his intellectual --eEs
more or less beyond one hundred E.--'
ct horse Is generally ola al --....
and is not known TO nave eEsr ..l.-.--
twice that age. The life o- "a -.s
about fifteen years duration, al. ..-
OF a dog from fifteen to twenty. t--.-..--
allied animals are much longer .Ft..-
Thus the lion called PcuI #
died In the tower of London, E -...
had lived there no less than
years. Extremely varied Jl--. IS ..-
duration of the life of individual l=
isms. Not less varied are Che r--
TO time of the lives of races and u
ferent groups OF animals and
Species, genera. families, orders. .
classes of animals and plants dine
tremely as to their period Ol 1lL.
some of each of these groups aiE.e.
TO have been but shoTt-livla c-L-...
with other divisions of similar rams.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-06-18
ToNATO VINES -Iftt

TOMATO VINES If there is any truth
in the following it is important 4
statement comes from South America
that singular property Of tomato leaves
has been discovered hy a fruit grower.
Having cut down some tomato vines he
used them to mulch around his peach
trees. He soon discovered that the cur
culio, which was destroying his fruit,
had abandoned the trees surrounded 10y
the tomato vines. Following up this
discovery, the free use of tomato vines
proved a perfect protection, not only
sgainst the curculiO, out other noxious
inSPctS
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-06-18

BED BUGS-How TO DEsTOY THEM.
These troublesome pests may be effect
ually destroyed with kerosene or coal oil
applied by means of a feather to. the bed
stead or crevices in the wall and such
other places as they may inhabit. But a
more effectual remedy is made of two
ounces of corrosive sublimate, one pint
alcohol, half ounce spirits turpentine,
half ounce tincture red sanders, mixed !;
but as this is one of the most deadly poi
sons, much care should be used to keep
1t out of reach of the children 1t should
be applied in the same manner as direc-
ted for the coal oil. Two OF three ap-
Plications will effectually eradicate them.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-06-18

IRON FOR FRUIT TREES. The scales
which fly off from iron being worked at
forges, iron trimmings, filings, or other
ferruginOus material, if worked into the
soil about fruit trees, or the more min
ute PARTICLES spread hinly on the lawn.
mixed with the earth of flower beds OF
in pots, are most valuable. They are
especially valuable to the peach and
pear and, in fact, supply necessary III
gradients TO the soil. For coloreG iiow-
ers they heightcn the bloom and increase
the briIIi2ncy of white or nearly white
flowers ofall the rose family. Amerjcgn
NociiniSf.