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nB Supreme Court Of the United States, Ton the
17th, decided that Congress has the power to grant
copyright on photographs. This is a broad and
right construction Of the constitutional power "to
promote the progress of science and useful arts by
securing FOR limited times to authors and inventors
the exclusive right to their respective writings and
discoveries" A photographer is an author" and
also is an Inventor"
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PROGRAMME OF RACES
FIRST DAY.

No. l. RUNNING-Half mile dash free for all
2-year olds. Purse, $780, Winner Of half-mile
dash at p. c. B. Il. Meeting to carry pounds
extra.
No. ,. RUNNJNG-Th quarters of a mile and
repeat free for all. Purse, $500.
No. 8. RUNNING-One and oue-quarter miles /;
free for all Purse, $3.50.
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No. Q. PACING-For horses which never beat
2:20. Purse. $500.
No. 10. TRoTTING-Free for all. Purse, sSO0
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Lecture. Mrs. II. \. Hobart. President
Of the Minnesota W. c. T. o., viii lecture upon
March 18th, in the Presbyterian Church. Sixth aud
l. streets. mI2l-9t'
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No. IL. TRoTTING-227 class. Purse, $500.
No T. PACINj-For PAGERS owned III Sacramento
county January l, 1884, which have never beaten
go Purse. $500.
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THE San Francisco Examiner is doing its utmost
to make people believe that the Republican party
is resuTreetjng the bloody shirt for the coming
campaign. A mistaken policy, noighbor. South
orn Democrats are the men who are bringing the
" onsanguinei garment to view.
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Fisch&W atson's Dancing Assembly

II AIDES AND GENTS CLASS, TUES o0
IL day Evenings, at 7:3O. Ladies', EaS
Friday Afternoons, at o'clock. Gents, INA
Friday Evenings, at 1870 Juvenile Satur "a II tEG
day Afternoons, at o'clock. Social every
Saturday Night. Private Lessons at all hours
First-class Music furnished for all occasions Jacobs
Hail. street, bet Tenth and Eleventh. fe20-2pd
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To THE LADIES: Ladies desiring to be
perfect in their toilet should use Elite Boz
quet and Peck's Premium Perfumes. For
sale OF all druggists
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SECOND DAY.

NOS. TRCTTING-Mile heats, , in 8, for 2-year-
ois, for horses owned in Butte, Colusa Tehama,
Sacramento, Yolo and Yuba counties on January
I, 1854. Purse, $500.
No 8 TROTTING-2:35 class. Purse, $500.
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A densely packed crowd Of human beings
will average sbou. s.x.y-fve pounds weight
TO 5 square foot.
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100000
Paid in Endowments toDate.

rxJHE. UNIVERSAL BENEVOLENT ASS0CIA-
ton of California IncorporAted AUG. S, 1881.
Home office: 1883 Mission st, San Franciso.
Issue of Certificates of Endowment OF One to
Two Thousand Dollars, payable at Marriage, or at
Maturity Send for Circulars and Papers: Reliable
AGENTS Wanted. ia16-2pi
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PIrTsFIELD (Msss.) March 27Ch DIR. W.
Fl. Morse, author of the sensational account
OF the finding Of the remains Of Lieutenant
Chips party in the Arctic regions. was be-
fore the Court to-day, charged with forging
his brothers Fame TO notes and mortgages.
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MATTERS ABOUT BERBgR.

CAIRO, March 27th.-Colonel kitchener
and Major Rumble haze started from Cairo
to cooperate with Captain Chermoide in ne.
gotiations for opening the road to Berber
Teleersphic Communication between Berber
and Shendv has haen res .nrsd
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Death and Burial at Sea.


BOSTON, March 27th. -Taeodore A. Per-
rick, alias " Little Al" concerned in the rob
berry of the Missouri Pacific Express Com
psny's car on the night of September q,
1888, was arrested here to-day. LOOMS, the
express messenger, and Dennis DoEner, of
Detroit. are already arrested.
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Run over ana MutIIated

CHEYENNE (Wy.l, March 27tb.-Christian
Ksilie, formerly residing on Huron street,
Taledc, Ohio. later near Topeka. Kansas, was
run over By Denver Pacific train this morn
ing, and horribly mutila.ed. His recovery is
doubtful
Suilivaa's Antagonist.
CLEVELAND, March 27th.-Mervine Thomp-
son is nursing crippled hand, affected By in
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New YORK, March 27th.-James Brown,
Chairman of the former Committee Of Sew
enty, presided at great mass mseting of citi-
zeus tonight in Cooper L nion, to hear the
report of the Reform Committee of Fifty,
which was read by VIM. NJ. Evarts, ex.Sscre-
tsry of State. The report and speeches gave
every hope that pending measures for NUM-
cipal regeneration would be adopted by the
Legislature and anDroyed by the Governor
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Plenary Council Called.

New YORK, March 27th.-Isidore Dreyfu,,
clerk Of Pollock & Co.. importers of dry
goods, has been arrested charged with the
embazzlement of over Sl1 900, which he
squsndered in stock speculation.
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BbIGADIER-GENERAL JOHN T. CAREY,
JOHN a. SHEBHAS, Captain and Acting A. a. G.
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BERLIN, March 27th-Apropos of the ap-
pointment of Sargent as Minister 70 Russia,
she Berliner FdgJlatt considers that America
has conferred demonstrative honor upon Ssr-
gent, which cannot be regarded ss victory
for Bismarck's policy. The North German
Gazette (Bismarck's orgar) is silent on the
subject.
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Fishery War in Vermont.

SwANToN (Vt.), March 27th.-A Sheriff's
osse raided the Lake Champlain fishery
rounds to-day. Three fishermen were ar.
ested. and two forty-rod aeines seized. Re-
stance was made, and several shots ex-
hanged. Great excitement exists in the
shinn uillanes
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Another DcfauIiinx Treasurer.

WORCESTER (Mass). March 27th.-Frank.
lin Este, formerly Treasurer of the town of
South Borough, issued note for s., 000 four
teen years ego, and used the money, making
no resord on the town books h paid the
interest from his own fund. Estes bond for
that year c mot be found. Similar irrsgu.
iarities occurred a year ago. causing 81, 400
shortage in cash. lie settled the last affair,
sud was Obliged to resign. Este has bsen
Treasurer for twenty-,bree years.
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NEw York, March 27th.-Horatio Sey-
mour, in an interview in the Nal and Err
press, said 4" The two great topics of the day
are our carrying trade and the tariff. With
regard to the last, / think it will excite great
interest in the future, and it threatens to di-
vide with regard to it the West m from the
Eastern States. / see that even now the
West is coming to show symptoms of con-
srior,s sun-auuacv -
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Balance in Character

Few persons are possessed of a per-
fectly balanced nature. Amiability is
apt to be allied with weakness; a Wig
orous. pushing character is often i'm
pulsive, harsh and unjust. A reflective
mind is slow TO act; prompt mind is
often wrong. So through all the ele-
ments Of character. All the qualities
that go TO make up perfect moral
nature rarely appear in one person.
The physical and intellectual do not
precisely conform; the mental and
moral are not evenly balanced. There
are those possessed of stronger moral
than mental natures. They constitute
the spasmodic, impulsive element in
society. There are others whose
intellects SO absolutely control their
moral natures, that nothing is admit
ted that cannot be reasoned out salts
factorily. There are persons whose
strong animal natures dominate all
else. and both mind and spirit are sub
servient.
10 regulate all these parts SO as to
attain fair degree of equality is the
right step toward securing what may
be called balance in character.
deiphid Call.
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Snubbed by q Police Captain.

BOSTON, Nov. 13.-Mark Twain and Geo.
W. Cable had funny experience yesterday.
They called upon w. d. Howells In Beacon
street, and while seated at his window saw o
young woman jump in Back Bay from the
end Of Arlington street. They hurriei out,
but she had been rescued when they got
there. As she gave evidence Of desire to
repeat the performance, they took her In
charge and walked up Beacon street with
her. Her dripping garments and excited
manner attracted great deal Of attention in
that usually quiet neighborhood, and the
famous men were often the center Of gaping
groups, but nobody recognized them. Final
ly they found . policeman who took the
woman in charge. They followed her to the
station. The officer said she was drunk, and
when they said she wasn't, the Captain
bluntly told them to "shut up" He was
quietly writing up his record books and kept
them standing outside the rail about fifteen
minutes, and when he was through he booked
the woman, who belongs to q respectable
family and turned out to be insane, and gave
the Creole author and funny man to under
stand that there was no further need for
them. They accordingly left and agreed to
keep their own counsel, but Mark tonight
divulged 1t TO . reporter.
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The humblest of us have longings,
affections, sorrows. pleasures, and like
to be treated as though we filled q
place in the world. We want to feel
that those upon whom we lavish thought
are not unmindful of our welfare.
Genius hasn't time for such common
places. 1t is too engrossed in the evo-
luton of sublime idea to dwell upon
the individual head or heart ache. I'm
persuaded that this is the reason why
very clever men and women marry
those who are their interiors. They
know by introspection the egotism of
brains. and seek an unselfishness which
will minister to their comfort. Intel
lectual companionship may be found
in books or society. but that thought
fulness and care upon which the happi-
ness of daily life depends. can only
proceed from human beings possessed
OF hearts. As there are exceptions to
all rules, so are there great hearts al
lied 10 great heads. Such creations
are the glory of the universe, and to be
honored without stint.
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Hunting Condors.

The Gillian Government has declar-
ed a war of determination against the
condor. 1t offers u reward of $5 for
every condor killed. The hunting of
this bird Of prey has. under the circum-
stances, become lucrative business,
though 1t seems doubtful. if one con-
siders the astounding powers of the
bird and its wonderful habits, that the
Government can or will ever succeed
in destroying the species ut any price.
A Southern paper in speaking of this
matter. says: Shooting the condor
on the wing is almost out of the ques-
tion; for it sails at attitudes far beyond
the reach of the human eve, and roosts
on peaks immeasurably above the
clouds. 1t has been seen at attitudes
Of 1900 feet. 1t haunts the whole
western slope of the Andes-not only
Chill, but Peru, Bolivia and Patagonia.
Latterly the birds have so increased as
to form veritable scourge-notwith-
standing the fact that the female lays
but two eggs at time, and that con-
dor-hunting has been q regular and
lucrative calling for more than GEN.
tHry. ."-NeU York Tribune.
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Her Embarrassing Mistake.

As lady opened the door Of q
Second street residence to a ring Mon
day. u neatly dressed individual bowed
politely and inserted one foot In the
doorway far enough to guarantee that
proceedings would not be brought to
100 summary close. The lady con-
cluded he was an agent and remarked
In vigorous tones: II don't want any
thingr' at the same time giving un-
deniable indication tha she desired to
shut the door.
81 beg your pardon, madam, / am
not offering you any thing" said he
with an injured and dignified air.
'Pray excuse me-" she answered,
''my mistake arose from the fact that
! have been greatly annoyed by agents.
Whom did you wish to see2" -
Without noticing her inquiry he
said: MADAM, 1t is difficult to recon-
cile your reception of me with what .
gentleman would naturally expect at
the hands of lady. Such brusqueness
is chilling to refined and sensitive
natures accustomed to the usages of
polite society"
Again apologizing, she was about to
ask him In, when he drew from his
coat pocket little box and opening it.
explained; Madam, l have for sale
here an nvaluable--"
The feat OF extracting his foot from
that doorway before the door slammed
with noise that could be heard two
blocks SO distracted his attention that
ho left the sentence uncompleted.
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A Monkey College.

''The latest thing in educational
news" said naturalist to an Enquirer
writer, 'is the college of monkeys in
London. Half dozen evolutionists
and naturalists of the very advanced
school are attempting TO teach monk
eys to talk or express their wants. The
method is at first by letter blocks. A
block alphabet, in which the letters
are all distinctly colored, is arranged
before the monkey student. which is
at first taught to select some simple
word, as pie. and, when he picks out
the letters and forms the word, he is
given piece Of pie, SO there is con-
slant incentive TO learn-the prizes all
being bread and butter, SO to speak"
And what are the results?" asked the
visitor. 'They have not been divulged
yet" was the reply; "but one Of the
authors of the scheme states that there
is to be public exhibition soon when
the monkeys can be heard from them
selves. II pig can be taught SO
many wonderful things / see no reason
why monkey should not. 1t is ac-
knowledged. that ants have n language
and talk TO one another, and that the
light of some insects is used as
means of communication between
them; SO why not other and higher an
imalsP"-Cincinndtt Enquirer. '
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Lieut.. GreeIy and the Grindstone.

When little boy. not more than 10
years old, Greedy visited an uncle on
his farm in Vermont. One day the
uncle had occasion to use the grind
stone, which may be found in every
New England door yard, and jo-
cosely offered the boy five cents if he
would turn the handle for two hours.
The offer was accepted and the little
follow began to turn. In less than
half IN hour the perspiration poured
from him in streams; fifteen minutes
more elapsed and the tears began
to mingle with the .'sweat of his
brow" but he still turned away man.
fully. Then the uncle told him to stop,
that he had turned enough, and could
have the five cents without more work.
But the boy declined to stop and work.
ed away, although crying with fatigue.
He stuck to that grindstone until the
two hours had elapsed, and was laid
up for some days afterward. Knowing
the man rs did. I do not hesitate to
say that he made up his mind to sur
mount the obstacles and bring his par
ty through, and that it was his mental
superiority that proved Of more value
to him than their physical strength
did to the unfortunate seventeen.
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vALUATIoNANp REVENUE OF HELENA.
Herald. Nor. 10.

Herald, Nou. IL.
We learn from the eficial figures Of City
Treasurer Jacob Loeb, that the assessed val
uation Of the city Of Helena for municipal
purposes for the year 1884 amounts to s..
774,56l. The tax levy upon this amount il 8
mills, which will produce revenue for this
year Of S38, 1888. To this assessmen ent there
will be supplemental valuation, which will
no doubt increase the amount to 5000, ,0OO
And for revenue there is special street tax
Of SO upon all able-bodied male citizens Of
Helena between the ages Of q and Al, ex-
cepting iremen, whose membership in the
department must be verified by a certificate.
Assuming. therefore, that the supplemental
valuation, which will be added by the end Of
the year, will make the total of the taxable
property In the city above 5000 900, the
amount Of revenue will exceed SAC, 600 from
the mill tax alone. The special street tax
will add, say, So 900 more, and the amount
raised from licenses will reach about SIS, 900
more, making the total for the city govern
ment and improvements over s60, 900 for 1884.
The uses to which such a revenue have been
put are seen in the fine condition of our
streets, their smooth grade and ample i'm
provements everywhere; valuable real es-
tate upon which the basement story of city
buildings has been completed an illumina-
ted city by electric light, with drainage
fumes for convenience and safety; an Ell. .
Gent fire department, and other proper ap-
pliances Of . liberal city government. five
have a heavy tax upon our citizens we have
a corresponding return in city improvements
all who visit Helena. What outlays have
been made have been for permanent i'm
provemenu that will net have to be made
again for many years. We have, therefore,
reason to be proud Of the advance made in
the city valuation in the last ~ months. and
that our city has acquired that position
which promises a steady enlargement and
Importance from year to year.
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Massachusetts, is becoming some
what alarmed at the growth of illitera-
cy, as she may we'll be. The last GEN.
sus showed that there were in the state
rs. 635 persons above the age of 10 who
could not read, being 5.3 per cent of
all persons above that age, Il proportion
that is exceeded by no other Eastern
state except Rhode Island. The last
legislature passed law which Ii Is
hoped will have n tendency 10 check
the growth of this percentage. Itpro-
vides that any person who employs
minor IA years Of age who cannot read
and write shall forfeit from $40 to $50,
and that any person who employs a
minor over IA years of age who cannot
read and write, providing such minor
has been one year resident of q city
or town wherein free evening schools
are maintained. shall forfeit from $50
to 800 for every such offense. 10 go to
the benefit of the evening schools
BrooMUs Union.
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A remarkable story comes from
Woodland. A little child of that town,
aged about years, has been ailing
for some time. and, as the local ply
sicians could not discover the cause,
the parents took the child to San
Francisco, where it was examined by
the leading physicians, who were
equally rs unsuccessful in their search
for the ailment. 1t seemed that the
infant must slowly die. and the parents
resigned all hopes of saving its life.
But while the little one was receiving
the customary morning bath a short
time since, knot about the size of an
egg was discovered in its side, which
had formed very suddenly and seemed
to contain some hard substance. A
physician was called and decided to
cut open the knot. Upon doing so it
was found to contain n china doll about
two inches long. which the child had
swallowed about n year since. The
little one rapidly improved after the
operation, and is now as we'll and
lively as ever.-San Francisco Alta.
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An inventor OF Reaping Machines.

Cyrus II. Mccormick, head Of the Har-
vester Manufacturing company, and supposed
to be one Of the richest men in Chicago, died
at his home in that city on Monday, May l3,
aged seventy-fve years He had been an in
valid for a number Of years. He was born
in Rockbridge county, Va, on the 18th of
February, 1909. Hs father was a farmer in
moderately good circumstances The sons
first invention was "hillside" plough, for
which he obtained patent in 1881 1t threw
alternate burrows on the lower side, being
thus right or left hand plough He i'm
proved much upon this, and two years later
patented self-sharpening horizontal plough.
For long time previous to this he
had been at work on a recping machine
which his father had attempted to per-
feet After observing the character of the
experiments made with his fathers machine
he came to the conclusion that ripe grain
standing as it Is usually found and in q more
or less tangled state, could only be success
fully harvested by taking it as body. 1t
occurred to him that to cut and save the grain
properly q sufficient motion for that purpose
given to an edged instrument was only neces-
sary, and that in advancing upon the body of
grain to be cut by machine, the requisite
motion in addition to the forward motion OF
the machine, might be supplied laterally by
a crank attached to the end of a recipro-
eating blade. This principle, as invented
by Mr.. Mccormick, is the foundation of
all reaping machines. After several years Of
experiment he determined to devote nll
his energies to the manufacture Of the reaper.
And this became necessary because In tho
panic Of 1887 he lost much money in the iron
smelling business, and was in fact involved
in debt In 1S45 he removed to Cincinnati,
and two years later he made his homa in
Chicaro
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So numerous were the tales told Of SPRING
heeled Jack that good many must be sup
posed to be true; whilst, ON the other hand,
great allowance must be made for credulity,
some people not being content with the mar
velons as they find 1t, but being only too
happy to add thereto As final specimen
of the nonsense circulated about his appear
ance, perhaps the following Is the best. A
wonderful sight, IL was said, was witnessed
on Primrose hill one evening. On the sum
init appeared huge figure Of a man, in a
flame Of pale blue; Il then assumed the bulk
Of O massive elephant, then of windmill In
full operation, and lastly, In lessening its
dimensions, 1t became q large ball Of snow,
which rolled down the hill, and escaped fur.
ther notice. What Spring -heeled Jack had
TO do with this dreadful appearance Is not at
all clear, but it was attributed to him never
theless, such was the hold he had obtained
over the public mind
Whether too much attention was beginning
to be paid to him, with view to his cap
ture, or whether his love of mischief had
died out, cannot be told, but certain IL
was that nothing was known pub
liciy Of his singular being after
April, 1888, having kept London In q
fermept OF excitement and terror for about
six months. The foregoing are only a few of
the stories, veracious or otherwise, that were
related Of him, space not permitting any
more detailed account to be given.
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Addicted to the Bottle.

The fashionable girl of the summer
resorts is addicted to the bottle, it ap-
pears. This is sad, but not so sad as it
seems. 1t is not the old-fashioned
black bottle of their fathers, nor the
modern flask of their beaux. 1t is of
glass, an inch in diameter and from six
to ten inches long. 1t is elaborately
cut and ornamented with precious
metals, and is just about as useful as
the cane is to the dandy, and as con-
tinuously in her company. for she car
ries it with her to the bathing beach
and TO dinner. She toys with it; she
firts with it; she smells Of it; and If it
does not. like the old-fashioned bottle,
steal away her brains that is not the
bottle's fault.