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MATHUSHEK PIANOS

ARE THE BEST-OVER TWO -axaEa
n Hundred and Fifty in use in z5kMEssa SHs
Sacramento The Uprights ahead ID h
of everything. Keep in tune at
One-quarter the expense of any other piano. BE
ware of limitations and frauds offering them.
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IMPORTANT TO LEGISLATORS. Every Legis-
lator should purchase bottle of Elite Bou-
quet The perfume is most refreshing after
hard mental labor.
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1,0SO Acres Fine Rich SANDY Loan Soil
near town of Woodland well timbered from
so to $50 per acre.
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FISCH G. WATSON'S
Dancin ESGn bIv

I AIDES AND GENTS CLASS. TUES on
| i day Evenings at 80. Ladies' FcL- 90
day Afternoons at o'clock. ttru-,. I'M
Friday Evenings. al $50. Juvenile. -ttuC n Il IL
day Afternoons at = O'Clock Social Sassaa II
every Saturday Night. Private Lessons at all
hours. First-ciasS Music furnished Tor all occa-
sions. Jacobs Hall, J street, betweeA Tenth and
Eleventh te2u-2pu
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4 Hotel Completely Furnished, nearly
new and doing splendid business, often hav-
ing to turn away patrons situated in one Of
the busiest towns in the state. Price, $1,000
Apply to
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H. C. Hottilter, manufacturing JeWeler.
Sixth street. bet. J and X, Sacramento, Cal. Jew
elry made 10 order Repairing specially.
mr1q-tf
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Chairman ComtyRepublicanC Central Committee.
A. J. RHoAps. Secretary County Republican
Central Committee, apl4-3tNWF
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2 Z & 9zAxA * 9
Grand Joint Picnic and
Woodland,

UranU JOIHt T'lCnlC and ENTIr-lOn 10
Woodland.
TIVE ANCIENT ORDER OF UNITED WORK
| MEN of Sacramento and Nun counties will
hold Il Joint Picnic at Woodland COyl-'- Grove,
MAY 1Sr. The Grove is in excellent condition,
and will accommodate all who % Tickets To
the Grove and return. Il: Children lover i've
and under l. years.. so cents. Tho tickets to
entitle the holder 10 partHkc NJ 1ii games,
amuSemcnts, dancing. and compete lnT prizes
free of charge. 1t will be THE rICSc of -hc sea
son. II. J. NORTON. Chairman.
JOHN BRADLEY, Secretary. Hp.u-sJ
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Is Acres of Rich Bottom Land, half a
mile from the city; 10 acres in Hops; 81
acres in Pears and Pluns splendid Hop
house; Hop Poles; large Dwelling, Barn.
Farming Utensils etc. Price, $1,000.
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Sacramento and PlaCGrYiIlG R. R.

1:3O 4. M.-lsundaysscxcep Pas
seugcr Train Tor Folsom and ShinglC
Springs.
400 r. M.-(SuudayS cxcepted)-Local Pas
senger Train for Folsom.
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DINE. DINE.

II CENTS FOR A GOOD, SQUARE MEAL,
10 Sacramento Restaurant, Nos. 81 and 319
street, between Third and Fourth three
blocks from the Depot Street Cars pass every
five minutes-ask the conductor where to stop.
lee Cream and Cakes u cents. Fine Dining
Parlors for Families. Open Day and Night.
jyl3-tf J. D. SMITH, Proprietor
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100000 PAID

IN ENDOWMENTS TO DATE-TaE Uni
| versal Benevolent Association NJ California.
Incorporated August :. 1881.
Home Office: 1883 Mission street. san
Francisco.
Issue of Certificates of Endowment Of One 10
Two Thousand Dollars payable NJ Marriage OF
at Maturity. Send for Circulars and Papers Re
liable Agents Wanted. illG2ptt
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A Saw and Single Mill. located in the
center of a splendid timber belt, mostly sugar
and yellow pine Single Mill of the Drake
patent. run by water power. Price, $1,000.
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\ mile and one-half dash for three year
olds was the third attraction. for which J,
i. Haggin entered Hirondelle and Rosa
Bella and Theodore Winters entered Prince
of Norfolk Callie Smart and Bonita had
been previously entered, but were with
drawn Norfolk sold as f;Norite at 800 to
SO upon Haggin'S horses. Hirondelle led
off for the first mile, Norfolk several lengths
behind and Rosa Bella tagging still fur
thcr; then Norfolk forged To the front and
spattered mud in the face of Hirondelle fo;
the remainder of the course. winning 10y a
neck Rosa Bella was left far in the rear.
Time 2.4J
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REFEHuNG to the Wallace resolutions the
hollowncss of " which has been pretty thoroughly
exposed, the Oakland Times says: 1t is not to
be disputed that they encourage that lawle>s
feeling which mduly coyct, the property Of an
other and sets idleness preying upon thrift.
But /; is not their most serious fault after all.
They misplace entirely the foundation of the
states right 10 control its railway corporations.
The right to control railroads rests not upon the
narrow foundation of condemned right OF
way. It is on the broader base of the right to
regulate and control the common carrier, 10
compel that carrier to give equal service under
equal circumstances to all customers. and to cN-
act from each only reasonable charge for the
service rendered. This right inferred in the
state before eminent domoiu had been invoked
in condeuning a single rod Of ground for rail
v.ny'
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-04-14
THE EDUCATIONAL BILL.

We have all along expressed our belief
in the impolicy of the educational bill
that has just passed the United States Sen
ate The chief objection to it is that
national aid to State educational systems
must tend to decline of the self-reliant
spirit that alone can make State strong 1t
is the duty OF each State TO reduce litter
acy to the lowest possible minimum. That
there is great illiteracy in Kentucky and
Georgia is no way chargeable upon Michi-
gan or New York, where there are very
low rates. If Georgia and Kentucky re-
ceiye two or three millions of dollars from
the Federal Government to aid the COM
mon school system, the Federal Govern
ment does for those States that which
Michigan and New York have done for
themselves. Such aid will not develop
the self-helpful spirit it will tend 10
make the States, thus assisted, laggars in
educational ambition. A State, like the
physical system is best aided by being
compelled to exercise its own powers. The
educational system of the States with the
highest rate of illiteracy, if built up by
Federal aid, cannot occupy so close a rela-
ton to the people, as if it were the result
of their own efforts. Alabama will receive
largely of the Federal fund, simply be
cause Alabama has not promoted the
education Of her people according to
her ability. 1t is not improbable that the
schools to be fostered by national aid will
in some sections be distinguished by the
people a Federal schools, and pointed out
as new evidences Of the growth of central
ization, and thus really be made the means
Of cultivating spirit antagonistic to the
unity of the country.
To all that is urged against the bill now
to 90 to the House, there are but two re-
plies that are really forcible-it is the ma
tons duty to protect itself from the GER
tain results Of illiteracy consequent upon
the neglect of the States; it is the right
and duty of the Federal Government TO
qualify the men from whose hands it
struck the shacllles of slavery, to become
intelligent voters, and to enter into fair
competition with intelligence, their ignor-
ance now practically ensIaving them.
1t Is probably foregone that the bill will
pass the House and become Il law. Some
of It's most obnoxious features have been
eliminated, and it will come out of the
legislative fire shorn Of several indiscreet
provisions, not now necessary to enumerate.
There is one consolation to those of Us who
estimate the good in the bill as a very
small quantity compared to the danger Of
the experiment, and that is, that it is not 4
partisan measure, and testifes forciblv to a
broad and patriotic spirit, and to the
growth of that liberalism which recognizes
no sections Of the nation, but the Federal
Union as one common country. Were it
otherwise We should have the spectacle of
the States where the educational system is
of the higher order and productive Of the
largest good, strcnuously Directing to any
interest they may have in the common
funds of the nation being disbursed in
States which have grossly neglected their
duty in educational matters.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-04-14

The second event was a dash Of three
quarters of a mile, horses of all ages, for
the Hearst Stake j. B. Haggin started
Premium, aged, and Susan, three-year-
old; Delaney Il Ayers entered Joe Howell,
aged. Trade Dollar, Jou Jou, John A. and
Lena, other previous entries, did not come
to the post The Haggin horses readily
brought SO in the pools to $50 on the rep
reSentatives from the Stable of Delaney d
Ayers Premium and Howell took the
track 10 themselves, leaving Susan to fol-
low at her leisure but by a gallant squirt
around the turn the mare regained her
ground and came down the hOmcsuetch
under vigorous use of the lash. Premium
won by length in 1:2l Howell second
and Susan third.
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- StNiAEY

Pacifc Blood-H Horse Association. Bay District
Track, April l., 1854. Winters Stake-F0r
thrceyear-olds Dash of one and onehalt
miles.
T. Winters names ch. e Prince Of Norfolk 49,. !
J. b. Haggin names ch. e.
j. T. Haggin names b. f. Rosa Bella. :.
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Spring meeting of the Pacific Blood Horse As
Socintion, Bay District Track April l., 1881
Hearst Stake-FOr all ages ofS2l each; SO for
felt S2DOadded second To save stake. Dash OF
three-quarterS of mile.
j. i. Haggin names CHI m. Premium. ................l
Delaney Il Ayres name b. = Howell.
j. b. Haggin names ch f. Susan.
Time
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PIANOS
NlToMA GROVE, FOLSOM. APRIL &c
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ns-Thc Company desire TO state that all VINO
wish for information or particulars can apply to
any one o. the Directors. tes7-isimNFM
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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-10-18
Humorous Definitions.

A smart, pithy or humorous defni.
ton often furnishes a Happy illustra-
ton of the proverbial brevitY which 10
the soul of wit. A boy once said that
"dust is mud with the juice squeezed
out" A fan, we learn from another
juvenile source, is "a thing to brush
warm off with;" and a monkey. SO
small boy with a tall" ''salt, what
makes your potatoes taste bad when
you don't put any on;' 'wakefulness,
eyes all the time cda4ing unbuttoned;' y
and "ice, water that staid out too late
in the cold and went to sleep"
A schoolboy asked to define the word
"sob," whimpered out: at means
when a Teller don't mean to cry and if
bursts out itself" A youngster was
asked to give his idea of the meaning
of responsibility" so he said: "Weli'
supposing l had only two buttons on
my trousers, and one came off, all the
responsibility would rest on the other
button"
To hit off a jury as "a body of men
organized to find out which side has the
smartest lawyer" is to satirize MANY
of our 'intelligent fellow-countrymen.i -
The word suspicion" is, in the opinion
of jealous husband, ga feeling that
compels you to try to find out some.
thing which you don't wish to know. y
A good definition of ''Pharisee" is "a
tradesman who uses long prayers and
short weights" of "humbug, one
who agrees with everybody" and aa4s
,''tyrant, the other version of s0n9-
,body's hero" Thin soup, according to
an Irish mendicant, is ga quart ofwater
boiled down to q pint, to make it
strong"
Of definitions of bachelor" San I'M
altered man, ga singular being" and
"a target for a miss" are apt enough.
A walking-stick may be described as
1.-THE old mans strength and the young
mans Weakness and an umbrella as
ga fair and foul weather friend who has
had many ups and downsin the world. -"
A watch may be hit off as a second
hand affair, land spect3les as 'second
sight or friendly gltsses." "Fash-
ion'' has been cIeverlr hit off as san
arbitrary disease which leads all geese
TO follow in single ile the one goose
that sets the style." -BoSton Herald.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-10-18
A Brave Catfish Mother.

1t is rarely that fishes, with their
staring eyes, that can neither open nor
shut, and eXpressionless faces, make
any great display of their likes and
dislikes, but when they do, they ara
very apt to astonish us. Can it be pos
sible, we say, that a fish has any pow
er of feeling emotion? But hear what
my friend Mr.. Holder tells me. He
saws that DR.. c. c. Abbott, the we'll
known naturalist, or some one whom
DR.. Abbott knew, once saw young
brood of catfish Tor kitten-tish, which
ever you please) following their mother
in creek; and, securing them with a
net, he placed them all in a glass globe
two feet from the water. The mother
fish seemed TO know at once that some
thing unusual had happened, and swan
about for some time, evidently obsery-
inc her babies alive and well, though
not able to understand 1t. Several
times she approached near the globe,
then swan back us if undetermined; but
finally she swan into shallow alter,
and using her side, or pectoral, fins as
feet, fairly wriggled on dry land to the
base of the globe. Here their captor
carefully liberated the young fishes,
when, to use his language, ''they i'm
mediately clustered about her, and fol-
lowed her into deep water" Now you
see, this catfish not only showed a
motherly anxiety for the fate of her
young, but she was willing to do a
difficult and very dangerous act in order
to 60 to them She bore the severe
suffering of being out of water, and
braved all the pain and unusual strain
upon her fins in crawling upon the
ground after her little ones. SD
| Nicholas.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-10-18
Family Reunions.

We read, almost every day, of the re-
union or gathering of some old New
England family, the living members of
which bring the experience of two hum
dred years or more, and fraternize as
kin-people. There is generally prayer,
singing, an address, and dinner, fol-
lowed by brief speeches from repre-
sentative men of the different branches
of the "clan." Historical sketches are
given of those members of the family
whose lives have been prominently
crowded with action and with Thought,
and due honors are paid to the humble
men and women who, unknown to
fame, have enjoyed honorable positions
in society, enjoying the blessings of in
dustry, knowledge, liberty and religion.
Anecdotes concerning some of them
are told, and there is general desire
to obey the injunction in Deuteronomy,
and TASK now of the days that are
past"
Many people think that family pride
is incompatible with republican ins<Sshs,
tions, and say that those who boast of
their ancestry are like potatoes in q
garden-the best part of them are
under. ground" But others, whose
opinions are entitled to respect have
placed high estimate upon family
pride of birth. Daniel Webster, who
could not boast of an aristocratic lin
cage, declared that it was 'wise oc-
casionally to recur to the sentiments
and 10 the character of those from
whOna we are descended. Men who
are regardless of their ancestry, and of
their pOSteritY, are very apt to be re-
gardlesS of themselves. The contem-
platiOn of our ancestors, and of our
descendants, ought ever to be within
the grasp of our thoughts and aflec-
tons. The past belongs TO us by atlec-
tionate retrospect, while the future be-
longs to us no less by alectionate an
ticipation of those who are to come
after lis. And then only 90 we do our
selves justice when we are true to the
blood we inherit and true to those to
whom we have been the means of
transmitting that blood
Many families have published, or are
publishing, family histories, in which
is often recorded heterogeneous mass
of chronicle and of tradition, some of
which is doubtless true, and much of
which is undoubtedly false. But these
family chronicles are invaluable as
material for the future historian, and
those who gather them merit great
credit.
Their lips shall tel them to9heir sons,
And they again to theirs,
That generations yet unborn
May teach them to their heirs
Boston BUDGET.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-10-18
The BabY-Ca

Bless the baby, but drat the cab!
Whenever there is a street parade
the baby-cab must be brought out. 1t
must be pushed into the thickest of the
crowd: It's muddy wheels must 90
raking against dresses and barking
shins and legs. Ii there is space for
only small boy to stand on one leg,
that space must do for the baby-cab.
No matter how blocked the walks are,
the baby-cab must be got through. 1t
is not a dodger and twister, but it
bears down on its victims like q hurri-
cane, and who ever came off first best
in fight with such vehicle? Let the
fire-bells ring, and the baby-cab pro-
cession begins to move. 1t is the duty
of every mother to grab her young one
off the floor, chuck it into the four
wheeled nuisance and 90 rushing for
the scene of cOnhagration. She gets
there. No matter who gets left the
baby-cab squeezes through, tits pushed
along the crowded walk, dragged over
hose and lifted over engines, if need be.
The infant has nothing to do with it.
He may grin with delight or howl with
terror procession moves on.
News of an accident has scarcely
travelled block before the baby-cat
puts in an appearance. The child may
be dressed for company or ready fol-
bed, but it comes just the same. Pust
-jam--wiggle-swear -bump-smasf
the cab wins the victory! Ask the
mother what on earth she is doing there
with such nuisance and her expires
sion is that of startled surprise
Shoulder the cab and walk off with
baby and all and she will simply taxi
you for some crank who wants an acre
of room to breathe in.
Nuisance. on wheels!
Terror with a top to it!
Obstruction intended to make human
beings forget the wickedness of pro
family!
You scrape our legs at the cross
walks. You try to drive between ZEN
at the corners. You make car conduc
tors feel murder in their hearts. You
make sudden dives out of stores auC
scare people half to death. You COM
booming down upon a crowd around {
man in fit, and iam-push-shOve-
whack-and dozen men shake thei
fists at you and want to make kindling
wood of the whole outfit.
Acme of nuisances, wheel yOurselye
off Take a drop from the wharf
burn up-blow up-skip !-Detrou Ere
Press.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-10-18


. The list of treasure lost in the sea
would indeed be long and melancholy
one; instancing, for example, the Mad
agascar, from Australia, which, in the
early days of the gold fever there,
having on board the precious yellow
dust in enormous quantity, was never
heard of and left not even the faintest
clue to speculation rs to her fate. And
in later years the Thunder steamer.
from Calcutta to China, with some
$500, 900 worth of silver, destined never
to reach the eXpectant consignees, was
supposed to be lying abandoned among
the awful sand-banks at the mouth of
the Hooghly, but, in spite of many
rumors, never to be seen there. These
are instances, out of many, of treasures
never heard Of The wreck of the
Royal Charter steamer from Australia.
lost in frightful gale on the Anglesea
coast in October, 1859, with some
$500, 600 of gold on board, will doubt
less occur to the readers mind, coupled
as it was with such lamentable loss
of life. In this case, happily, great
part of the treasure was recovered sub
sequently, but there is still a fortune
left at Moelfra for the fortunate being
who can find it. In old days Vigo BAY
had always an attractive sound to
treasure seekers, from the reported
wealth on board the Spanish fleet de-
stroyed there by Sir G. Rookie in 1902;
but the infinite pains, money and pa
tience expended over its recovery have
been thrown away, the silver (even il
it is there, which is somewhat doubtfuN
obstinately refusing to make reap.
pearance in the world.-BeIgrGvia.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-10-18
Bose.

1t all happened because mamma was
trying to cut Mother Hubbard dress
for Bessie out of too small a piece of
cloth.
You see they were five miles from
town, and she didn' want it TO look too
narrow, so she had turned it upside
down, and in every conceivable way,
and yet it would not come out
There was worried pucker between
her eyes, that would not come out
either.
Hess and Edith were having q lovely
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-10-18
For Young Readers.
LITTLE WILLIE.

Little Willie Sunny head,
Only quiet when in bed
Other tines he's tumbling, dancing,
OR like u restye pony prancing;
Such a boy, suCh boy,
Yet he mother darling 10y
Mother 5 precious Willie!
Up and down, now here, now there,
Sunny-aead is everywhere
Peering into dishes, hampers,
Or with kitty wildly scampers;
Such boy, such boy!
Yet he's fathers darling Joy
Fathers precious Willie!
Sometimes on an old tin pan,
Making all the noise ne can:
Sometimes on the parlor mat,
Telling stories to the cat;
Clutchng poker by the middle,
Scraping bellows for fiddle;
Such Il boy, such boy
Yet he's eyerybody's joy
Sunny-hearted Willie,
30 Peep.