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Some Muscular Ghosts.

The small village Of Tiskilwa, Ia, is in
state OF excitement that amounts to frenzy
over the alleged doings of a new kind of
spirits. who carry Off whole families and
nightly hold high carnival in an out-of the
way and unpretentious house two miles
from the village, almost due south. Of
course the visions of the original trade
mark story are many and fantastic, but the
following SENS 10 receive most general
acceptance: Last spring the owner of the
farm on which the house is situated leased
1t to man named 7. Richardson, the new
family taking immediate possession and
began their work. The ordinary round of
spring duties followed, and everything
about the place indicated the contentnent
OF the family and fine prospect for good
crops One morning in June Young
daughter of the family appeared at neigh
bor's door and announced that during the
night all the family but herself had disap-
peared and she could find no trace of them,
1t was at once inferred by the neighbors that
the little girl had been deserted, but it
seems strange that growing crops and all
the farm animals and utensils should have
been left, too. The neighbors for miles
around made every effort to find some
trace of the missing family, bat not the
slightest clue could be had A detective
was employed, with little result Another
tenant had been put into the house. and he
adopted the little girl. Every night, it is
claimed, the father of the child appears to
her, and asks her, in the orthodox sepuI-
chral voice, why she does not come to him.
When she asks where he is, a shower of
small-sized sand-stones falls upon fhe roof.
and can be gathered from the ground by
the bucketful 1t is claimed that last Sat
urday, while the lady of the house was in
the garden, shower of these stones fell
about her, accompanied by curious and in
describable noises. She was SO frightened
that she has not since left the house, Cin-
cinnati Enquirer.
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The Law CONCERNING salmon.

EDS. RECORD UNION By your kind per-
mission l wish tosay few words through
your columns respecting the past and pres
ent salmon laws At the last Legislature
there was a bill passed in the interest of
Mr.. Bradford and other caunery men at
and below Observation-Disclosures the close
season, and making it unlawful TO catch
salmon through the month of September,
instead of allowing it (the close season. to
remain as it was-in August. We have
three Fish Commissioners appointed by the
Governor of the State to see to the propaga-
ton OF fish, salmon especially, and how
Commissioner Buckingham could stand
idly by and not raise his voice against the
passage of such q law-having been an old
river fisherman himself-is more than can
account for. Now, Iiatend to show by the
following wherein the changing of the old
law was detrimept to the salmon interests
OF the State and starvation business to the
fishermen above Emmaton, and wholly in
the interests of the cannery men and Greek
and Italian fishermen at and below Collins
vile.
The salmon-for what is called the fall
run-start to come in through the Golden
Gate about the LIST of August; consequently
the fishermen OF the lower waters are on
A4a.iA a-io 'ds oub lLc4 nelS, some OF them
being as much as four hundred fathoms
long, while others lap on to them again
and again, forming cordons of nets in such
a manner that every inlet and passage is
stopped and nearly all the salmon are
caught before they reach Rio Vista What
few do reach above that point are so sick
and full of sores and scales taken off them
with breaking, forcing and struggling to get
through nets, that they are hardly fit to eat,
and not in condition to deposit healthy
spawn. Now, all this is done in the month
of August; whereas, had the close season
remained for the month of August, the
salmon would have had time to become
plentiful in the bays and rivers of the
State, and to reach the spawning grounds
in healthy condition. But it is row Just
the reverse.
was speaking to Commissioner Buck
ingham some eight or ten days ago on the
subject, and he acknowledged that the
changing of the closed season from August
to September was very wrong, and that no
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For the Fun of 1t.

There are many people who indulge in
fishing and cunning simply for the fun of
II, not stopping to ask whether or not it be
right to Kill creature for sport merely.
However this may be, morally considered
the supposed fun of the thing is not unfre-
quently accompanied by the keenest feeling
of remorse. A Boston boy, now an en-
ergetic business man in a Western city. tells
the following story touching this matter:
l was floating round in my boat in the
lower harbOr one bright day in June. when
sea- gull, which, on the wing, is one Of the
most graceful of birds, but whose flesh is
not used for food, came sailing over nv
head.
What splendid shot, l said, and, seiz-
ing my gun, | fired at him. He fell near
the boat, not dead, but mortally wounded.
As drew him into the boat, suffering much
agony, he turned his dying eyes upon me,
as if he said, Why did you shoot me? |
have done you no harm l was ENJOYING
myself floating in the air as you on the
water in your boat; why did you shoot
me?n
Having done what l did. it would have
been merciful to end his sufferings at once;
but had no more heart for killing; and
the minute that passed before he died
seemed an hour TO me-
The remorse for that wanton shooting
preyed on my spirits for days: and the re-
membrance of it has most effectually cured
me of any desire to kill, for the fun of it,
any creature that God has made Youths
Companion.
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salmon had reached the spawning grounds
up to that time. / saw a statement of Com
missioner Dibble, in an article in the
RECORD MON, refuting press statements
that they (the Commissioners were selling
spawn for iish-bait at the hatchery. In his
statement Mr.. Dibble said: They have
not yet caught any salmon at the hatchery,
and in fact they are not there to catch"
1t is no wonder that there was 10 salmon
at that time at the hatchery. How, in the
name of common sense, was it possible for
salmon to get there, when they were al
lowed to be all caught, or nearly so, before
they reached half way to that point?
Now, if these statements are not suffi
cient evidence of the fact that the law, as it
now stands, is detriment 10 the propaga-
ton of salmon, and an injury TO the Sacra-
mento-riyer fishermen, then | don't know
what it is. Another thing can be seen
plainly why the salmon are nearly all
stopped. When the fishermen at and above
Rio Vista begin fishing on Sunday night of
each week, they meet with some little sue
cess simply because there are two days of
each week-Saturday and Sunday-allowed
for the salmon 20 pass. The balance of the
week there are very few caught, after all
the nets below the points spoken of are
spread.
In conclusion, would say, that unless
the close season is set back TO August at
the next sitting of the Legislature, then
good-by to salmon fishing on the Sacra-
mento river G.. w. Stout.
Courtland, September :, 1885.
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MECHANICAL NOIES.

1t is announced that an English inventor
has lately devised method of coating tin
with material resembling glass, which
removes all danger of poison in canned
goods, and the adoption of his process is
likely to soon become general.
A balloon railroad is to be constructed in
the Austrian Tyrol. The balloon will have
grooved wheels on its car and these will
run on nearly perpendicular rails, the gas
providing the litting power. Grayitation
will be used on the down trips.
The most efficient fire-proof doors are of
wood covered with timed iron. The door
is made of two thicknesses Of tongued and
grooved boards. crossing each other dag
onally and thoroughly nailed together
The sheets of tin are bent over at the
edges, forming locked joints, as in timed
roof
French engineers have succeeded in find
ing water in the desert country of Southern
Tunis. At depth of 81 mteres they
reached water, which rushed from the
ground with such velocity that it carried
along stones weighing II kilogrammes and
threw them high into the air The well
yields 5000 cubic meters of water per min
ute
II has been discovered that the use of
petroleum as lubricant, unless it is fire.
quently cleaned from the gudgeon, causes
mineral glaze to form on the metal, pre-
venting the action of the parts. This
advice was given by machinist Clean
machines with petroleum, but be careful to
wipe off every particle OF the oil with
cloth, and then apply machine or sperm
oil. Petroleum will remove denser oils,
and is itself easily removed. For protect
ing metal from rust it is admirable, but it
must not be used where there is friction
Of the 413 species of trees found in the
United States, there are sixteen species
whose perfectly dry wood will sink in
water, The heaviest of these is the black
ironwood (CondGliG feyreu) of Southern
Florida, which is more than so per cent.
heavier than water. OF the others, the
best known are the lignum vitse (Guaiacaan
Sanctun,) and mangrove (Rhizophora man
giel. Another is a small oak Quereus grisea)
found III the mountains of Western Texas,
Southern New Mexico and Arizona, and
westward to the Colorado Desert, at an
elevation OF 5000 TO 10000 feet All the
species in which the wood is heavier than
water belong to semi-tropical Florida or
the arid interior Pacific region.
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PROPOSING BY ATLANTIC CABLE.-A GER
tain well-known citizen of Liverpool visit
ed America last year and fell in with a
very thoughtful lady, who hailed from one
of the chief cities of the United States For
five days they discussed together science
and philosophy and the deeper needs of the
human mind. They found presently, after
they had parted-he TO England, she to her
home of Brotherly Love-that the deeper
needs of their own minds required that the
controversy should be continued by letter.
Their correspondence revealed that deep
answered unto deep. Philosophy became
the handmade of love; and the greatest
achievement of science was called in TO as
sist bringing about an understanding.
Athene was employed to direct the shafts
OF Eros, A telegram which cost several
pounds was sent under the Atlantic pas
sionately entreating the philosophic maiden
to be kind to the scientific swain, and pres
emily the electric wire received again the
avowal of q requited passion. So Puck's
girdle was made the minister of love to feed
his flame. Pity it is that no Spenser is now
alive to write an epithalamium But cleo
tricity will probably become the symbol
henceforth of impatient love- At all events,
the fact that an offer of marriage has been
made by the Atlantic cable and accepted bv
the same is worthy to rank as precedent.
TLiverpool Courier
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How PRINCES MAKE LovE-How Princes
make love is told in the "reminiscences of
the Marquis Cuisine, which have lust APP
peared in Paris. When the Gar Nicholas
was is years old he spent two days in Ber-
lin, where he saw the Princess Charlotte,
two years younger, and of a delicate beauty
which at once attracted him. She, how
ever, showed no signs of reciprocating his
affections. On the evening before his de-
parture he sat next to the Princess at din
ner. 81 shall leave Tomorrow he sud
denly remarked. She did not show any
surprise, but quickly answered, 1--WE shall
all be sorry that you leave US SO soon.
Cannot your departure be delayed?" "That
depends on you" How SOP asked the
Princess. The Prince now declared his
love, somewhat to her embarrassment, as
she thought they would be overheard. As
pledge Of her love- he asked for the ring
she wore, suggesting tina. no one would
notice it if she took it off and, pressing it in
piece of bread, pushed it toward his
plate. The ring, however, was not hers,
but belonged to her governess, who had
received it of the Empress of Russia. And
on taking it off to give to the Prince she
read for the first time on the inside the
inscription, Empress of Russia" New
York Post.
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SPLTNTERS.
" VIII the coming man work." He will
if he narries Lowell gjrl.-tLowell
Ti-pac

" VIII the coming man work." He will
If he marries Lowell girl.-tLowell
Times.
Our national House of Representatives
compares with the French Chamber of
Deputies like Quaker funeral to a circus.
Washington Republican.
A Iowa girl keeps the pictures of all the
young men who have tiirted with her
without coming to the point, in an album
She calls 1t her rogue's gallery.
What are the last teeth that come p,
asked Lynn teacher of her class in phys
iology. False teeth, mum, replied boy
who had just walked up on the back seat
Call girl chick and she smiles; call a
woman hen and she howls Call a Young
woman witch and she is pleased; call an
old woman a witch and she is indignant.
Call girl kitten and she rather likes it !;
call woman a cat and she'll hate YOU.
Queer sex, isn't it Red Bluff News.
Children in Congo are the property of the
mothers relatives The right of Inherit
ance is from uncle to nephew, and a mans
slaves and real property go to the eldest
son of eldest sister, or the next of kin in
such line. A wise nephew usually leaves
his fathers house and lives with his uncle
to keep his eye on his future property.
A little boy who attends the Lawrence
private school came home the other day
and announced that he was at the head
of his class. On being asked how such an
honor had been achieved by him, he solved
the problem by saying, Oh, the other boy
is sick with the measles and had to stay at
home. Il Lawrence American.
A Western man says it is easy to distin-
guish between a tornado and gale, but
this explanation is not so clear as that OF the
British sailor who defined the difference be-
tween hurricane and typhoon. In a
hurricane" said Jack, the wind blows as
hard as it can, but il typhoon it blows as
hard as it can, and then gives Jerk. -
[Boston Commercial Bulletin.
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The Harvest Months.

Australia, New Zealand and Chile harvest
in January.
Upper Egypt and India harvest in Feb
ruary and March
Syria, Cyprus, Persia, Mexico and Cuba
harvest in April.
Algeria. Texas, Florida, Morocco Middle
China and Japan harvest in May.
California, Oregon, Spain, Portugal, Italy,
Turkey Southern Russia, Southern France
Greece, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama
Georgia, Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia,
Kentucky, Kansas, Utah, Colorado and
Missouri harvest in June.
Southern England, Nebraska, Oregon
Minnesota. Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, In
diana, Ohio, New England, New York,
Michigan, Ontario, France, Germany, Aus
tria, Switzerland and Russia harvest in
July.
England, Ireland Quebec, the Maritime
Provinces, Belgium, Holland, British Co.
lumbia and Denmark harvest in August.
Dakota, Manitoba, Scotland, Sweden and
North Russia harvest in September.
Peru, South Africa and North Australia
harvest in November and December
[School Supplement.
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Too Much Sugar.

A mother often complains that her child
IS troubled greatly with sour stomach, but
this cause is no longer mysterious when
the mother, to quiet the little one so that
she can continue her account of the case,
sets down before her a little dish of sugar,
from which the child may help itself Most
mothers would give candy or cookie in
stead, though some feed their children with
Jumps of sugar from the bowl, believing
that the children need sugar, and better
have it in that form than in any other.
In any case of this kind there is a
very frequent call for water. Do YOU
know how vinegar is made? You can get
plenty of it by mixing sugar or molasses
with water and keeping it warm. A sour
taste IN the mouth after eating sweets is of
very common occurrence.
1t is the acid caused by the fermentation
of the sugar left in the mouth with the sa-
Iva that causes the decay of children's
teeth-this and the lack of forming
material in daily food. Vinegar q eats .
lime, as one can tell by leaving an egg in
vinegar. Bits of sugar or candy left TO fer
ment among the teeth destroy their enamel,
as well as do pickles. The child that is fed
on sweets naturally Graves pickles as an
antidote, but Well-fed children are con-
tented with plain nourishing food, if prop
erly prepared and sufficiently varied.
Many imagine that all children should
have free access to both sugar and pickles
in order to suppress what they suppose to
be natural cravings, and to prevent thefts
of sugar from the family bowl. A mis-
taken policy.-lAmerican Agriculturist.
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THE BREAD REFORM MovEMEST-On the
part of the English physicians there is said
to be growing disposition in favor of the
movement in behalf of whole meal
bread, " that is, on practical rather than on
theoretical and chemical grounds, it being
held that the bread which contains all the
constituents of the wheat, except the outer,
insoluble and irritating portion of the seed,
seems, when the appetite for it has been
obtained, to be more satisfying and digest
ible than the white product found on most
tables. 1t is believed, too, that for children
the whole meal is preferable for sustaining
growth and for building up the skeleton
strongly and in perfect form. BY an i'm
proved process in the production of decor
ticated whole meal the extreme outer coat
ing of the wheat grain is cleverly removed:
and. on this abrading process being COM
pleted, the whole of the grain is reduced to
fine -four, in which are retained all the
substances that are nutritious and digest
ible.
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SWISS TREATMENT OF CoNsUMpTIoN.-An
interesting report is given of the expert
ments made by DIR. Albrecht on eonsump-
tive patients in hospital at Berne. Swift.
zerland. These experiments were made
with view to ascertaining the effect of
oxygen inhalation upon the development
OF phthisis, and whether, by increasing the
rate of organic combustion by this means.
the bacterium of phthisis had been dis.
charged with certainty on several occasions.
The patients were first submitted to an ap-
propriate highly nutritious diet, consisting
OF milk and peptone, and twice a week
they were weighed with great care. 1t was
observed that, as soon as the oxygen inhal-
atoms began, the daily loss of weight was
checked, and in some cases the weight in :
creased, dyspnGa diminished, and the mi
croscope showed fewer bacteria.
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THE WORLD FROM THE SIDEWALK.

Did you ever stand in the crowded street.
In the glare OF the city lamp
And list 10 the tread of the million feet
IN their quantity musical tramp?
ASthe suTglDg crowd go to and fro
lis pleasant sight, | ween,
10 marx the figures that come and go
In the ever changing scene.
Here the publican walks with the sinner proud.
And the priest in his gloomy cowl,
And Dives walks in the motley crowd
With Lazarus, cheek by jowl:
And the daughter of toll with her fresh young
heart
> As pure as her spotless fame,
Keeps step with the woman who makes her
mart
In the haunts of sin and shame.
How lightly trips the country lass
In the midst OF the city's ills
As freshly pure as the daisied grass
That grows on her native hills
And the beggar, too, with his hungry eve,
And his ican wan face and crutch.
Gives q blessing the same to the passer-by
AS he gives them little or much.
When time has beaten the worlds tattoo.
And in dusky armor Digit,
Is tTeadiug with echoless footsteps through
The gloom of the silent night,
How many of these shall be daintily fed
And shall sink TO slumber sweet,
While many viii go to sleepless bed
And never il crumb to eat
All me when the hours go joyful BY,
How little we stop to heed
Our brothers aud sisters despairing cry
In their woe and their bitter need!
let such world as the angels sought
This world of ours we'd call,
II the brotherly love that the Father taught
Was felt by each for all.
Yet few short years and this motley throng
VIII all have passed away,
And the rich and the poor and the old and the
young,
viii be undistinguished clay.
And lbs that laugh and ilps that moan
Shall in silence alike be sealed,
And some viii lie under stately stones,
And some in the Pottet's Field.
But the sun viii be shining Just as bright
And so will the silver moon.
And just such a crowd will be here at night,
And just such crowd at noon:
And men viii be wicked and women Will sin
As ever since Adams fall
With the same old world to labor in
And the same God overall
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Gymnastics for Girls.

Side by side with the immense strides
the intellectual education of women has
taken in the last quarter of century has
been a gradual, but somewhat tardy,
recognition of the value of systematized
physical education for growing girls.
Prejudice however, in spite of the wide
spread extension of knowledge in regard
to the laws of health, still bars the way to
physical exercise being placed on anything
like sure footing. To some gymnastics
for girls means wrenching the arms out of
the sockets by means of pulleys and ropes,
making the waist unduly thick and the
arms alarmingly muscular. For some sys-
TENS of gymnastics, and as regards some
people, there might be truth in these ideas,
but with the application of science to the
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WANTED.
FOR sAGF-T0 LES.

DooMs TO LET-THREE Ok FoCR NICE
IL rooms TO let at No. s2S " street, between
Third and Fourth. Sil-5t~
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Every year the Judges of Assize in Eng
land send to Queen Victoria the written
names of three men in each county from
whom to choose High Sherif1s, She indi-
Gates her selection by stickinga pin through
the names But this is an empty ceremo-
ny, for the choices are really made before
hand by the Prime Minister.
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ST. DAVID'S,

FIRST-CLASS LODGING HOTEL, CON-
n tanning 100 rooms; water and gas in each
room; no better beds in the world; no guest al
lowed to use the linen once used by another;
large reading room; hot and cold water baths
free. Price of rooms Per night, so and IS cents,
per week, from 81 upwards. open all night F.
HUGHES, Proprietor. At Marketstreet Ferry,
Howard jy2TuThStf
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ITO LET-FURNISTIED ROOMS AZ 9lS -
i Second street. between l and J. RS;J
Aftsl
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OFFICE AND RESIDENCE, N STREET, BE-
~ tween Ninth and Tenth, Nos. 9lS and $40.
VIII visit The Railroad Hospital daily st $50 A.
evenings s1-tf
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RANTED-LOST-FOUND.

NTANTED-A PRACTICAL MINER, WHO
w is competent and experienced Pros
pector, would like TO enter into an arrangement
with one or more gentlemen, with the view of
having his expenses paid while prospecting in
Shasta County. ANY discovery to he for the
mutual advantage of all. For particulars, adj
dress 8 PROSPECTORn this office. sII-ly&
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PRYsICnEs Avn SURGEONS.


CORNER SEVENTH AND / STREETS. SAC
~ rSmento. GiSee Hours: diss Dr. kellogg
St0 10 4 b., Y to : +. NJ, to : Pm.
Miss d. GoSs-S 70 9 l. H. ! TO PIX to p
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