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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-02-17
Seminal weakness.

Is practced by the youth of both sexes to an almost
unlimited extent producing with unerrng certainty
the following train of morbid symptoms, unless
eonbated by scientific medical measures, viz: Salow
counenance dark spots under the eyes, pain In the
head ringing the ears, noise like the rstling OF
leaves and rafting Of chariots asiness about the
loins, weakness Of the limbs, confused vision,
blunted intellect, loss of confidence, diidence In
approaching strangers, diglike to form new &C.
euaintances, disposition to shun society, loss OF
memory hectic fushes, pimples and various erup-
tons about the face, furred tongue, fetid breath,
coughs, consumption, night sweats, monomsnia ans
frequent by insanity.
CURED AT HOME.
Persons at q distance may be cured at home
addressing a letter TO DIR. GIDEON, stating case
symptoms, length Of time the disease has continued
and have medicines promptly forwarded, tree from
damage and curiosity, TO any part the country
with full and plain directions. By inclosing ten
dollars in registered letter. through the Postoice
or through Wells, Fargo Co, package Of medicine
will be forwarded to any part OF the Union. Please
say you saw lthis advertisement IN the RECORD.
UNION. Address. DIR. J. F. GIDEON,
js24-4ptf&sw Box 1857. San Francisco.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-02-17
PUBLISHED BY THE
Sacramento Publishing Company,
WA. II. MILLS, General Manager.
Publication once, Third ST., bet. and X.
PUBLISHED BY THE
TIE pAELY REcoRD-uN.oN

Unpublished every day Of the week Sundays excepted
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Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1883-12-13
Facts About postmasters.


There are about fifty thousand post
offices in the United States, says Wash
ington correspondent. Two thousand
two hundred of these are so considerable
as be to filed by the appointment OF the
president; the others are filed by the
appointment of the postmaster general.
As a matter of fact. of course, they are
filed by the politicians Of the towns to
which they belong. Opposite the name
of each postoffice on the books Of
the department is the name of the
departments correspondent" for that
point; always a Senator or Representative
in Congress. The salaries of these
fifty thousand postmasters vary greatly.
Postmaster Pearson, of New York city,
gets IS, 900 a year. No other postmas-
ter gets as large salary. ''All the
"non-presidential postmasters - the
small fry-are paid upon the basis of the
business done at their offices. This is
determined, not by counting the stamps
sold nor by counting the number Of
pieces handled, but by counting the
stamps Cancelled. Forty-seven postmas-
ters receive 81 year as salary; eleven
receive % cents a year; one receives 9
cents; one cents, and one cents a
year. Postmaster Sloane, of Perilla,
White county, Tenn, is the fve-cen4
man. He enjoys the humble distinction
of receiving the smallest salary paid to
any of Uncle Sans civil servants. There
is some difference between Mr.. Arthur's
$50, 900 and Mr.. Sloane's five cents. In
all, we pay the postmasters of the coun-
try about $40, 100000 year; ss,75O,-
900 goes to the Presidential post
masters
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1883-12-13
Social Life in Japan.

In the course Of lecture on Japan
and Its People" delivered in Boston,
Professor E. S. Morse said that aslf
conspicuous feature Of their intercoHH
with each other was their politeness. No
harsh words are ever heard, no eagerness
for selfish advantage, no indifference or
forgetfulness Of the feelings Of Others.
They do not salute by shaking hands.
but by bowing, unusual consideration Of
cordially being expressed by profounder
bows, or more usrepetitions there
Of. The rich people dress their children
in the most inferior garments in send.
ing them to school, In order that the
feelings Of the poor children, who can
get no other, may not be hurt By Auy
contrast. There is no profanity ia their
language. A trifing mishap or offensc
is not unfreqsently met among our peo-
pie with volley of oaths; but q Japa-
nese, when wrought up in his feelings to
the highest pitch, never utters any
stronger expression than what ii our
language would be the exclamation.
" How vexatlousln They keep their
angry passions under control, yet they
do not lack tierceness, but make excellent
soldiers Their kindness to animals is
extraordinary. The songs of wild birds
are constantly heard in the gardens Of
the great cities. Birds Of passage alight
in the ponds and public grounds of
Toxic, and wild deer come down from
the mountains and go about freely and
unharmed in the streets of densely popu
lated places. The driver Of vehicle
will turn out Of his course in the public
highway that he may not injure doe
that is sleeping in the middle Of the
street.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1883-12-13
The Quaker Bonnet.

Those persons who have supposed. and
not without reason, that the Quaker bon
net was as unchangeable as the laws of
the Medes and Persians, will be sur
prised TO hear that an important modif-
cation, which almost amounts to revo-
luton, has been quietly introduced and
firmly established. This reform bonnet
is made Of olive or nut-brown silk, with
a soft crown raised little in the Nor
mandy style and plated into the front,
which is composed of narrow castings,
with tiny finish Of pleats around the
face. The strings are set up on the sides,
50 as to give the cottage bonnet effect,
and there may or may not be a plain
quilting of white on the inside, accord
ing to the fancy Of the wcarer
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1883-12-13
Heavy Brains.
masters.

According to the notion that the size
of the brain bears a general relation to
the intellectual capacity of the individ-
uaI, Cromwell and Byron might be re-
garded as having possessed the greatest
minds known since the practice Of test
ing the mind by the weight Of the brain
came into vogue But, unfortunately,
the reported weight Of their brains,
eighty-two and seventy-nine ounces re-
spectively,. is not accepted as correct by
PSYCHOLOGISTS, and SO, until now, the fa-
nous naturalist, Cuvier Dr. Abercrom-
bic, and DR.. Dupuytren have been re-
garded as having possessed the largest
brains on record their weight being
sixty-four, sixty y-three, and sixty-two and
half ounces respectively. But now
they must yield the palm to the Russian
novel writer, Ivan Tourgueneff. At the
post-mortem examination made in Paris
by four well-known French surgeons,
Boirdelle, Descou, Paul SECOND, and
Manien, it was found that Tourgueneff's
brain weighed seventy-one and half
ounces. The surgeons say it was in a
healthy condition. Tourgueneff's brain
outweighed the brain Of the ordinary
man by twenty-five ounces. In the list
Of the heavy brains, James Fisk, Jr,
leads the American, being credited with
fifty-eight ounces of brain; next comes
Daniel Webster, whose brain, however,
weighed only ffty-three and half
ounces. According to his cranial ca
pacity Webster ought TO have had sixty
three and three-quarter ounces of brain.
-Neic York San.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1883-12-13
All About chImneys.


Chimneys seem so natural to US that
we forget that there was time when
they were unknown. They were in
vented about the same time with clocks
and watches. No house in ancient Rome
or Athens had them. The Greeks and
Romans heated their rooms with hot
Goals in dish, or by fues underneath
the floor. The smoke passed out by the
doors and windows In England, in the
time of the conqueror 1Oe6), the fire
was built on a clay floor Or in a hole Or
pit in the largest room Of the house
The smoke passed through an opening
in the roof. At night a cover was placed
over the Goals. Everybody was BY law
obliged to cover up his fire when the
bell rang at a certain hour. In French
this was couvrefeu, and hence the word
"curfewn bell.
Chimneys began to be used generally
in England in the beginning Of the reign
Of Elizabeth. No one knows who in
vented them, or when they first came
into use. We find them first in Italy. In
Venice they appear not to be uncommon
as early as 1347. In 1868 they had long
been in use at Padua. They were at first
built very wide and large, 50 that they
could be easily cleaned. The wide
chimney-pieces of some Of our older
houses are very curious.
But as time passed on chimneys were
made taller, narrow, and often crooked.
When they had to be cleaned it was GUS
tomary to send boys up into them to re-
move the SCOT and ashes. 1t was then the
saddest stories were told Of the little
sweeps who were forced to climb up the
narrow fues, and come down torn, bleed
ing and covered with SCOT. These poor
creatures, v ho were often not more than
seven or eight years old, were sometimes
suffocated in the foul chimneys they at
tempted to clean. When they reached
the top they we're expected to look out
and give loud shout Ne boy would
ever become chimney sweep from
choice, and they were often driven to
climb the chlmneys by the fear Of
whipping. The cruelty Of the master
sweeps was fearful
The little chimney-sweeper has passed
away. His place is taken by patent
broom and colored operator. CHM
neys are built two and three hundred
feet high. In Birmingham, England,
one fell down recently on a large factory,
killing and wounding thirty or forty
workmen and others.
In the days before chimneys were in
vented men lived In clouds Of smoke.
The walls Of the finest palaces in ancient
Rome were soon covered with SCOT and
filth. 1t was impossible to keep them
clean. The mosaics and the paintings On
the walls soon became discolored. In the
castles Of England and France it wassrilI
worse. Here the huge fie blazed in the
center Of the great hall. hesmoke COW
cred the roof with black drapery, and the
savage knights and squires were forced
either to endure the cold or to live and
breathe in an air that was dangerous to
sight, health, and life itself Harpsr's
Young PeopZe.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1883-12-13
NOTHING BUT LEAVES.
Nothing but leaves. The spirit grieves
Over wasted life:

Nothing but leaves. The spirit grieves
Over wasted life;
Sins committed while conscience slept
Promises made, but never kept
Hatred, battle and strife
Nothing but leaves.
Nothing hut leaves-no garnered sheaves
OF life's fair, ripened grain;
Words, idle words, for earnest deeds;
We sow our seeds; lol tares and weeds;
We reap with toll and pain
Nothing but leaves.
Nothing but leaves; memory weaves
Novel; to screen the past:
As we retrace our weary way,
Counting each lost and misspent dav,
We sadly find at last
Nothing but leaves
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1883-12-13
WORDS OF WISDOM.

One hand cannot explain the wrong of
the other.
A woman is seldom merciful to man
who is timid.
Life is too short for its possessor to
wear long faces.
The way to forget out miseries is to re-
member our mercies.
Consistency is about as scarce in the
world as in dog kennel.
You read of but one wise man, and all
that he knew was-that he knew moth
ing.
AS charity covers a multitude Of sins
before God, 50 does politeness before
men.
It is strange how often we think lightly
of the gifts we have and wish for those
that Providence has denied.
Pat says that if men could only hear
their own funeral sermons and read their
own headstones, there would be no living
in the world with them at ALL
Kind looks, kind words, kind acts and
warm hand-shakes- are secondary
means Of grace when men are in trouble,
and are fighting these unseen battles.
Remember that you grow older every
day; if you have bad habits, they grow
older too; and the older both grow to-
gether the harder they are to separate.
The malice of the weakest is not to be
despised We should remember that
venom supplies the want Of strength,
and that the lion may perish by the
puncture Of the asp.
As our intellectual food makes our
minds what they are, coarse or refined.
barbaric or cultured, disciplined or wild
and riotous, so our spiritual companion
ship makes our spirits what they are.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1883-12-13
NUMBER Is.

Malay country, by anative, who said that
the frog flew from tree. On examining
the creature, its feet were found to be
provided with enormous webs, so that
they were in reality parachutes to bear the
little animal up. Later, Mr.. Wallace
observed them in the air. They could
not rise, their fight being much the
same as with the others mentioned.
They launched themselves from the trees,
swooping downward, rising slightly and
at once grasping the bark with the suck
ing discs, with which their delicate feet
are provided.-Neao York Eoe1sing Post.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1883-12-13
Burnino Dead Bodies.

Cremation viii receive powerful
impetus from Portugal if the cable dis
patches are correct. 1t is reported that
it has been decreed that in all the
municipalities the cemeteries shall be
emptied each five years and the bodies
be publicly cremated. Why the law is
to wait five years which is quite enough
time for contaminating theearth and the
water supply, instead Of having the
bodies cremated at once after death is
not clear. It may be Cancellation to
the sentiment Of the people. Sanitary
Nesss.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1883-12-13

Mrs. Alexander Hamilton was the tiret
to introduce ice-cream into Washington
society. We are inclined to be charfta-
bic always; but the cnormity 81 such
crime is not cbscured by the lapse of
years since its commission. ---L Loa1slll.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1883-12-13

1t is estimated that there are 800, 600
young women in London engaged in
business.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1883-12-13

Cats are bot5tailed in Japan, but they
take their walks abroad after sundown
all the ssrhe.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1883-12-13

For he next three months rt due ion of
Ten PER CENT. will be made from our
pTeseit very low pr:ces. Parties wishing
geo rk will find it 10 their dgsntage 10
cali and see what can b bought for a very
small amount of money. My b eet in max
II g the above reduction is to Gle n up large
so k on hand, wi b co not want TO carry
ever the wine. Thanking the people of
Voc dbury and sur1 ounding country for their
liberal patronae e, | hope, by Fair and Square
Dealing, to merit a continu nee of the same.
DAN'L R. HAWTHORN,
Cooper Sir eet. Woodbury., N. ].
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1883-12-13

4 man who win notgive mp his lnsssszs
vice the blacksmith
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1883-12-13

The Mormons are likely to raise trouble
in the Sandwich Islands, where they have
large and growing colony
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1883-12-13
AT THE OLD STAND,

At the old Barber Shop, three doors below
Sewton's Hotel you con have your work done in
irst class style
HAIR CUTTING SPECIALITY:
Also, fine brands of Tobacco and segars always
JOSEPH +. sITLEY.
Daily globe., 1883-07-09
[Republi.hed from Sunday edition.
OLD WORLD NEWS
COUNT DE CHAMBORD.

PARIS, July IA dispatch from Vienna
t. the GauIoiS says Count de Paris and
Duke Dalencon have gone from that city
to Frohsdorff The condition of Count de
Chambord is not changed since last re-
ports. If his weakness continues his ply
sicians will prohibit him from seeing all
visitors, including the princess. Gen
Thibandin, French minister of war, has
authorized Duke de'Armale to proceed ia
Vienna. The GauloiS says Prince Jerome
Napolean will issue a manifesto in the
event of the death of Chambord.
VIENNA, July 7.-Chambord passed a
quiet night and experienced little suffering
He is very weak this morning, however
He received Count de Paris at noon to-
day.
VIENNA, July 7.-Chambord saw the Or.
leans prince to-day, Notwithstanding the
advice of his physicians not to see visitors
The patient rose in bed and kissed Count
de Paris. The princess on leaving the
room displayed great emotion. They will
return to Vienna.
Daily globe., 1883-07-09
THE COMMERCIAL TRAVELLER.

What would do without "the boys
How often have they been my friends.
go to q new town. I don't know one
hotel from the othor. I don'5 know
where to go. The man with the salnpl,
gets of at the same station. I fo.luw
him without a word or n trem0r. e
calls the bus driver by name, and orders
him to get out of this now, is soon IL
We are seated. And whom follow hin
I am inevitably certain 10 GO to the best
horse there IS in The place. He Shouts
at Il" clc:'& y nap'e, and fires a'50Ae az
the Landlord rs we go in. He Looks
over nv shoulder as | register after
hin, and h4ll5 ehis cardw q siaoai
Of recognition. lie peeps over the reg-
LITER again, ana watches the ecierE assign
NE to pinety-:lree. "Ninety noth-
;ne," he shouts. "Who's i'll fifteen ? >
Tie clerk says he is saving fifteen for
Judge Dryasdust. "Weli, he lie
blowed, )" says my chcery friend, "give
him the attic and PIT this gentleman i'll
fifteen" And, if the clerk hesjtates, lie
seizes the pen and gives me fifteen hir-
self, and then he calls the porter, add
orders him to carry up my baggage and
put a fire in fifteen, and then in the
same breath adds, "What time will you
be down for supper, Mr.. Burdette :? "
And he waits for me, and, seeing that I
am stranger in the town, he sees that [
am cared for, that the walters do not
neglect me lie tells me about the town,
the people and the business. He is
breezy, CHEEKY, sociable, full of good
stories, always good natured; he frisks
with cigars, and overfows with "thou-
sand-miIe Tickets" he knows all the
best rooms in the hotels he always has
q key for the car-seats, and turns a seat
FOR himself and his friends without
troubling the brakeman, but he viii
ride on the wood-box or stand outside
10 accommodate lady, and he will give
up his seat to an old man. I know lima
pretty we'll For three years I have
been travelling with him, from Colorado
to Maine. and [ know the best far out
weighs the worst. I could hardly get
i,.oHs without him. am glad he IS SO
numerous. Bvdettc.
Daily globe., 1883-07-09

all veteran fremen, and they are unan1-
mously of the opinion that iron shutters
have caused greater losses than they
ever prevented. We have, says the
Fyr6nnan'S Journal, frequently given
expression to this opinion in these col
umns, and are glad to have the fact so
emphatically repeated by so good an
authority as Mr.. Esterbrook. He sug-
gests that they might be of service in
narrow streets in protecting building
from fire raging on the opposite side
of the street, but when employed for
this purpose they should be left open
habitually, and only closed when danger
is imminent. A far better protection,
however, is a solid shutter made of wood
and lined on both sides with tin. It
would resist fire longer than iron, and
Will not break or shrink away from its
position and give access to the flames.
The sooner iron shutters are abolished
the better it Will be for property owners,
and the more effectively will the iremen
be enabled to do their work.
Daily globe., 1883-07-09
H1RD WORK.

"What is your secret of success ?''
asked a lady of Turner, the distin-
guished painter. He replied, 81 have
no secret, madam, but hard work.
Says DR.. Arnold, "The difference be-
tween one boy ands another is not so
much in talent as in energy"
Nothing" says Reynolds, sis denied
well-directed labor, and nothing is to be
attained without 1t"
Excellency in any department, u
says Johnson, "can now be attained
only by the labor of lifetime it is not
to be purchased at less price.
"There is but one method" said
Sydney Smith, "and that is hard labor:
and a man who will not pay that price
for distinction had better at once ded.
icate himself to the pursuit of the fox"
"Step by step," reads the French
proverb, "one goes very far"
Daily globe., 1883-07-09
Assessment for Construction Of Western
Avenue System Of Sewers.
OFFICE OF THE BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS,
CITY OF ST. PAUL, Minn. July 6, 1888.

OFFICE OF THE BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS,
CITY OF ST. PAUL, Mimi, July 6, 1883.
The Board of PublicWorks, in and for the cor
poration of the city of ST. Paul, Minnesota, will
meet at their Office in said city at 2:30 p. m,
on the 18th day of July, A. D. 1883, to make
an assessment of benefits, costs and expenses,
arising from the construction Ofsewers on Coed
rich avenue from Fort street to Western avenue,
Western avenue from Goodrich avenue to Selby
avenue, Harrington avenue from Selby avenue to
Summit avenue, Virginia avenue from Nelson
avenue to Summit avenue, Selby avenue from
Harrington avenue to Virginia avenue, Laurel
avenue from point half way between Macku-
bin and Arundel streets to Western avenue, and
from Virginia avenue to harrington avenue; Ash
land avenUe from Mackubin street to Western
avenue; Holly avenue from Mackubin
street to Western avenue; Port
land ayenUe from Mackubin street
to Western avenue: Summit avenue from Mae
kubin street to Farringto. avenue in said city,
together with the necessary catch basins and
manholes--o on the property on the line of said
sewers and benefited thereby amounting in the
aggregate to $42, 500 .65.
All persons interested are hereby notified tC
be present at said time and place of making said
assessment and will be heard.
J. c. TERRY, President pro tenn.
Official: r. L. GoRMAN,
Clerk Board OF Public Works. 1855
Daily globe., 1883-07-09
The Vermont Miners Riots.

Ely, VT, July -Four companies of
state troops arrived early this morning
and found the streets deserted, the riotous
miners not expecting them. Gov. Bar
stow and other state officers accompanied
the troops. Eleven of the ringleaders
we're arrested and no resistance made.
They will probably be taken to Chelsea
this afternoon. Much sympathy is ex-
pressed for the miners. Some families
are on the verge of starvation. Women
with children in their arms appealed to
the troops for relief. Money has been
raised to relieve their immediate needs.
The company proposes to pay $2,500 II
once, $4,000 next week, and the balance,
$1,500, as soon as the ore now in process
of refinement can be put through and
shipped. A large portion of the troops
will probably return to night and it is
thought danger is over