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BITS OF INFORMATION.

THE payment of postage originated In
France in 1868.
THE Pacific ocean was discovered 10y
Balboa, Sept. 5, 1913.
THE British Museum was first opened
Jan. Is, 1859.
GAs-I1GHTs were first used in New
York city in 1928.
CHRISTIANITY was adopted as the re-
igion of Rome 81 A. ID.
FROM December, 17SS, until March,
1859, the Delaware and Ohio rivers were
both frozen and navigation suspended.
In 1880 snow fell two feet deep in Ohio,
and the river was so firmly frozen that
mounted troops and artillery wagons
rode across by the hundred.
CATS are called "pussy" by some peo-
pie, but why they call them "pussy"
instead of by their particular name is In
timately and closely connected with the
question why red apples grow on green
leafed trees. The word "pussy" is the
Tamil word for cat, and has been intro
duced into the language through folk
lore. Nearly all fairy stories about cats
come TO us through the Persian, which
preserves the Tamil word.
THE first Mayor of New York was
Thomas Willet, who was born in En-
gland in 1911. He came to Massachu-
sets when Is years old, and in 1647 sue
ceeded Miles Standish in the military
command of Plymouth colony. When
the English took New York from the
Hollanders, in 1864, Capt Willet was
chosen Mayor of the city and admins
tered the Government for two years, at
the expiration of which he returned to
New England, where he died.
PIUs X. was the 263d Pope. Of the
whole number fifteen were French, thir-
teen Greeks, eight Syrians, six Ger
mans, five Spaniards, two from Africa,
two from Savoy, and two from Dalma-
tia. England, Portugal, Holland,
Sweden and Crete gave one Pope each
Italy 1914. All Popes since 1923 have
been elected from the italian Cardinals.
Of the 263 Popes eight died within a
month after their accession to the Pom
tifical throne, forty have lived only one
year on the throne, twenty-five between
one and two years, fifty-four between
two and five years, fifty-seven from five
to ten years, fiifty-one from ten to fifteen
years, eighteen from fifteen to twenty
years, and nine have lived more than
twenty years.
THE famous hanging gardens were
built by ACKNOWLEDGMENT to crafty his
wife Amyitis, native of Media, who
Ionged for something in that country to
remind her of her mountain home.
These gardens consisted of an artificial
hill 400 feet on each side, rising by sue
cessive terraces to height which over
topped the walls of the city. The ter
races themselves were formed of sue
cession of piers, the tops of which were
covered by flat stones sixteen feet long
and four feet wide. Upon these were
spread beds of mating, then thick
layer of bitumen, covered with sheets of
lead. Upon this solid pavement earth
was heaped, some of the piles being hol-
low, so as to afford depth for the roots
of the largest trees. Water was drawn
from the river to irrigate these gardens,
which thus appeared Like hill covered
with verdure.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-03-13

Of the %, $50 breweries in the Ger
man empire, Bavaria alone had, when
the last returns we're made, 6,524, while
in Prussia the number of breweries has
fallen from 10, 900 to 7,246, though the
quantity of beer brewed has not dimin-
ished. Berlin, which supplies nearly
all the. beer drunk in that city, had in
1876 only forty-nine breweries, but they
were on SO large scale that they made,
on an average, nearly 100000 gallons
each. The same is the case in Saxony,
where the production Of beer has trebled
during the last forty years, while the
number of breweries has diminished.
Nearly fourth of the Austrian beer is
brewed in Bohemia, and the imports Of
beer continue to diminish, while the
quantity exported is seven or eight
times greater than it was twenty years
ago.
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see that the force of the shock was sufi-
cient to have disturbed the waters of an
ocean covering the whole surface OF the
earth. For the sea-waves which reached
Yokohama in one direction and Port
Fairy in another had each traversed
distance nearly equal to half the earth's
circumference; so that If the surface OF
the earth were oil sea, waves setting out
in opposite directions from the center of
disturbance would have met each other
at the antipodes Of their starting point.
It is impossible to contemplate the eff
fects which followed the great earth
quake-the passage of a sea-wave of
enormous volume over fully one-third
Of the earth's surface, and the force with
which, on the farthermost limit of it's
range, the wave rolled in upon the
shores more than 1000 miles from its
starting place = without feeling that
those biologists are right who deny that
the subterranean forces of the earth are
diminishing in intensity. 1t may be
difficult, perhaps, to look upon the eff
fects which are ascribed to ancient earth
throes without imagining for awhile that
the power Of modern earthquakes is al
together less. But, when we consider
fairly the share which time had in those
ancient processes of change, when we
see that while mountain ranges we're be-
ing upheaved OR valleys depressed to
their present position, race after race
and type after type appeared on the
earth, and lived cut the long lives which
belong to races and to types, we are re-
called to the remembrance OF the great
work which the earth's subterranean
forces are still engaged upon. Even now
continents are being slowly depressed or
upheaved even now mountain ranges
are being raised to "a new level, table
lands are in process of formation, and
great valleys are being gradually scooped
out. It may need an occasional out
burst, such as the earthquake of August.
1868, to remind us that great forces are
at work beneath the earth's surface.
But, in reality, the signs of change have
long been noted. Old shore-lines shift
their place, old soundings vary; the sea
advances in one place and retires in an
other on every side Natures plastic
hand is at work modelling and remodel
ing the earth, in order that it may al
ways be fit abode for those who are to
dwell upon it.-Prof Richard Il. Proc
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The Peacock and the Oyster-A Fable.


One day an Oyster set out to cross a
neck Of land to save himself long swim
around it, and as he journeyed along the
dusty highway, content with the wealth
er, the climate and his surroundings, he
suddenly heard a harsh voice crying out
for him to halt. As he rolled into the
shade Of pigweed, a Peacock advanced
with lordly strut and demanded:
Chow, now, sirrah? Where are you
going, and what is your errand?"
"I'm simply crossing from water to
water, and tired enough I am. I be-
ieve I have been three good hours max
ing half a mile"
"Three hours? Why ] could strut
over the distance in three minutes! All,
me, but you don't amount to much for
SIZE"
"No; child can swallow me at q
gulp."
"And you aren't the least bit pretty. u
"That's true. My shell is coarse and
full Of ridges"
"And you can't sing?"
"Not a note"
"Nor fy?"
"Not a fly"
"Well, well, I really pity you. Now,
then, if you want to see something
gaudy, just gaze on me"
The bird strutted up and down, head
up and tail spread out, and the Oyster
was compelled to say that it was sight
to do sore eyes good.
"While you creep I walk, strut and
fly"
"Yes."
"While you whisper I sing"
eyes"
"While you tumble around in the
mud and sand I reflect all the colors Of
the rainbow on the lawn"
1T must admit it., sighed the Oyster.
"And, while pig-weed shelters you,
it takes a whole apple tree to give me
shade. You sep
And the Oyster saw. An Eagle had
been looking for breakfast. The hum
BILE Oyster, hidden away under the weed,
escaped his piercing glances, but the
gorgeous Peacock was instantly seen
and spotted. There was a whirr, a
scream, and the Eagle had assembled
with the vain-glorious bird fast in bis
claws.
"Come to think it all over" said the
Oyster, as he squinted his larboard eye
aloft, cit is about as well to be an oyster
under a pig-weed as a peacock in the
claws of an eagle. guess I'll move
on"
Those who were born to strut should
not exult over those who were born to
oraa,o EIrpo Dr1oo
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ORIGIN of the "Baker,s Doaen.''

Close by Market street-now Broad
way-ived and prospered baker, the
first man that ever baked New-Year
cakes-in fact, the inventor OF them.
The name of our friend was Volckert
Jan Petersen Van Amsterdam, COM
monty known as Baas. He was Dutch
from his large feet to his round bald
head, and had no respect for any one or
anything that was not Dutch. He was
regular attendant at the old Dutch
church, but, nevertheless, in constant
fear of being bewitched His wife,
Maritie, was economical even to saving
the parings of her nails, and his ginger
bread babies were always made In lml-
tation of his children. It was New-Year
eve, 1866, and Baas was in his shop
dealing out cakes for small pieces OF
money, called wampum. He had taken
an extra glass of rum in honor OF st.
Nicholaus, when he heard sharp rap,
and in walked as ugly an old woman as
ever he had set his eyes on.
81 want dozen New-Year cookies"
she screamed.
"Vel, den, you needn' sbeak SO loud"
replied Baas. 'Duyvel! l amt teal,
den." @-
81 want Dozen" screamed the old
woman, "and here is only twelve
"Vell, den, und What de duyvel il
dwalf but dozen?' said the baker.
tell you I want one more" she
shrieked.
"Vell, den," said he, you may co to
de duyvel und get anodder; you Won't
get it here"
From this time on our bakers wife
and himself were made miserable. Their
money and cookies were taken away by
invisible hands; their bread either rose
out Of their sight or sank into the earth;
their famous brick oven was torn down,
and poor Baas pelted with his own
bricks; Maritje became deaf; Baas was
black and blue from head to toe; and
such q life as he led was purgatory.
Thrice the old woman appeared, and
thrice was she sent to ode duyvel." And
at last, in his agony, Baas bethought
himself of st. Nicholaus, who advised
him, on hearing of his troubles, when he
counted dozen to count thirteen.
"Py St. Johannes de Dooper, put st.
Nicholaus is a great plockhead l."
thought Baas and while he was thus
thinking, st. Nick had vanished, and in
his stead was the old woman. She re-
peated her demand for zone more and
Baas, remembering st. Nickolaus, ac-
ceeded to her demand, when she ex-
claimed, "The spell is broken, and
henceforward a dozen is thirteen, and
thirteen is Dozen" And, taking o
cooky with an efigy of the good saint
on it, she made Baas swear That ever af-
forward twelve should be thirteen, as a
type of the thirteen mighty States that
should arise out of the ruins Of the Gov
eminent of Vaderlandt.
It is we'll known how terribly st. Mich
CLAUS reyenged himself upon those who
set themselves up against the venerable
customs of their ancestors, and refused
the homage to him to whose good Offices
it was owing that this, his favorite city,
has surpassed all others in beautiful
damsels, valorous young men, mince-
pies, oliekoeks, and New-Year cookies-
-H0rper's Magazine.
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short from three to twenty dollars,
and having heard father, or Uncle
John, OF DR.. What s-his-name, our
classmate, speak so often and so
warmly of us, ventured to call, con-
ide to us his embarrassing position,
and ask for Loan Finally, he ar
ranged with a shrewd business man.
to deal with all unknown applicants,
and that gentleman had little diff
Guilty in detecting the frauds, Indis-
criminate almsgiving is not charity,
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-03-13
Beer by the Gallon.

The Journal of Applied Science gives
some detailed information as to the pro-
duction of beer, the number of brew
cries, and the consumption of beer per
head of the population in the different
countries of Europe:
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-03-13

resent the idea! Should subtle insight
and profound sagacity evoke the
humiliating passion of pity? And
yet a man with such fund of misery
within himself can command no other
sentiment.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-03-13

"WHAT! Twenty-Five cents pound
for sausages? Why, I can get 'em
down at Schmidt's for 20 cents. % "Vell,
den, Wy didn't yer % "'Cause Schmidt
was out of 'em." "Ven, Nv vos owit
of 'em I sell 'em for dwenty cents, doc"
"IF you ever think of marrying Ia
widow" said an anxious parent to his
heir. "select one whose first husband
was hanged for that is the only way to
prevent her from throwing his memory
into your face, and making annoying
comparisons. Given that won't pre-
vent il" said the old bachelor; "shen
praise him by saying that hanging would
be too good for you"
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-03-13
Trade in Cat.Tails.

It may not be generally known that
trade in cato nine tails, or cat-tails, or
catkins, or whatsoever they may be
rightly called, is Of some importance
and magnitude. Whoever discovered
and made known the fact that the proper
place for the swamp-nurtured catkin
was the parlor and drawing room has
not left his name behind, but certain it
is that in the year 1879, and more par
ticularly in the year 1880, catkins began
to be included in the house-furnishing
of ornamental things. At the present
time the demand is large and increasing
and useless weed has become an arti-
Gle of commerce. The catkins are used
with pampas grass, sea oats and native
grasses to make up the contents of vases
which ornament mantels and room-cor-
ners. This has become the rage, as it
is called, and many q room is undergo
ing the process of catkin and grass
adornment. For the reception Of these
grasses large and small vases are used,
according to location, and drain-pipe,
ornamented by home handiwork, are
used for the same purpose as well as for
umbrella-stands. The catkins with the
beautiful pampas grass add great deal
to the attractiveness Of any room, and
particularly Of that one with compile
mentary surroundings. The time was
when the beauties of natural grasses
were concealed under coating of alum,
OF some other glistening substance.
From the tinsel we are gradually turn
inc to a more correct taste, even in such
small matters as catkins. One firm in
Providence has laid in q stock of about
1900 catkins. Portland (Me.) Press.
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times the sea retired and returned with
great power at intervals of about two
hours. Afterward the oscillation Of the
water was less considerable, but it had
not wholly ceased until Aug. II, and
only on the 18th did the regular ebb and
flow of the tide recommence
Far on beyond the shores of New
Zealand the great wave coursed, reach
ing at length the coast of Australia. At
dawn of Aug. Il Moreton bay was visit
ed by five well-marked waves. At New
castle, on the Hunter river, the sea rose
and fell several times IN a remarkable
manner, the oseillatory motion COM
mencing at half-past 6 in the morning.
But the most significant evidence of the
extent to which the sea-wave travelled
in this direction was afforded at Port
Fairy, Belfast, South Victoria. Here
the oscillation of the water was distinct
ly perceived at midday on Aug. IA, and
yet, to reach this point, the sea-wave
must not only have travelled on circui-
tous course nearly eqnal in length to
half the circumference of the earth, but
must have passed through Bass straits,
between Australia and Van Diemen's
Land, and so have lost a considerable
portion of Its force and dimensions.
When we remember that had not the
effects Of the earth-shock on the water
been limited by the shores of South
America, wave Of disturbance equal in
extent to that which travelled westward
would have swept toward the east, we
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This favorite Summer Resort will be
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Best brands OF wines, liquors, ales, beer
and cigars always on hand. Hot and
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slavvaras Victorious.

New LONDON. Conn, June 81
Tho Harvard beat the Columbia
Grew by three lengths in the four
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On Thursday June 30, toS1'
These drawings, occur monthly (Sun'
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Act OF the General Assembly OF ken
tucky, incorporating the Newport Print:
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rBThis is a special act, and has never
The tinted States Circuit Court on
March 3ist, rendered the following deci'
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Ist-That the Commonwealth Distrl-
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2d-1ts drawings are fair.
The Company has now on hand
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prizes for the
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a child eight years old can, with ease,
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LITTLE Rock, June 27.-Jas.
Anderson was murdered by assass-
ms while blowing in field. His
homesteadipg some land Is sup
posed to be the cause.
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SAN FRANCISCO, June 27th.-A
! tug went out ut midnight to make
kan0thsr attempt to take off the
brew OF the wrecked FrancOpia
from the Island. She has not yet
Returned and her long absence is
considered to imply success In ef-
feeting q landing.
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JAVIES d SUIT.
S0A X STREET, BETWEEN FIFTH AND
ClJ Sixth, are prepared to do Calcimining,
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SUMMONS.

SSIATE OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAC.
- ramento-ss In the Superior Court in and
for said county. TIE People OF the State OF Cali
forlia to WILLIAM HENRY HOWARD, AGNES
HOWARD and A. FORBES, greeting: You are
hereby notified that n action commenced Ia the
Supe Tor Court Of the county Of Sacramento, State
aforesaid by the filing OF complaint in tie Clerk )
office, of said Court, the 18th day of MAY,
1880, in which action RICHARD FOX is plaintiff,
and youa defendants That the general nature ofthe
action appears from sad complaint, is as follows
To RI auire the above na1Bei Gefendsn to exhibit
to the Court their title that certain rroI erty,
bounded by and U and Tenth and Eleventh streets,
in the city q Sacramento, county of Sacramento,
State Cf California that the conflicting claims OF
plaintiff and defendants to said property be deter.
mined by the Dart, and that plaintiff be Judged
to be the sole owner thereof, and defendants be
restrained from asserting any claim thereto Also,
that plaintiff judgment FIR his costs Of suit
herein-all Of which is fully stated in the csm-
plant herein, to hich reference - hereby made.
And you are heTsby directed TO appear and
answer said complaint within ten days from tbs
service OF this writ exclusive of the day Of service,
If served you in sad county of Sacramento; and
withia thirty days, exclusive of the lay of service,
if served elsewhere; and you further notified
that unless you so appear and answer within the
time ABOVE specified, the plaintiff will apply to the
Court sor the Iel demanded therein.
In testimony whereof, i Thos II. Berkey, Clerk
of the Court aforesaid % hereunto set nay hand and
afix ths'seal of said Court. this 18th day Of MAY,
A. D. 1Ss0.
[ssAL.l JHeS. H. BERKEY, Clerk.
By j. II. PARSELL, Depnty Clerk.
DUSLk5' & VAN FLEET, Attorneys for Pihintih.
mrl5- iaw2mTu
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IRON AND BRASS FOUNDER AND MA.
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and Clog Crusher and Barley Mills. All kinds Of
Hydraulic Pipes. For sale, Three Miller Patent Hay
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