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A LadY's Dry Stockings.

Yes" said Main street shoe store
clerk to an inquisitive customer, day or
two ago, we see all sorts of socks and
stockings in our business, from silk to none
at ALL"
None at all"
well, / don't mean that many people
come in here without stockings, but it
sometimes happens that naked feet are
exposed to our gaze, and women's feet at
that
-" How does that happen ?"
"Ill tell you of an instance. One rainy
day last week very stout lady came in
here and wanted to get pair of shoes.
After looking at several pairs she selected
one to try on. | unbuttoned her shoe for
her and tried to put on the one she had
picked out, but although evidently of the
size she wore found it impossible to put
it on. The difficulty was easily seen. Her
stockings were damp; and l told her that
it would be impossible to fit her foot while
she had on those stockings.
Oh, thought of that, she said, and
provided myself with an extra pair, at the
same time displaying a small parcel she
held in her hand"
g | told her she had better put them on,
and retired to the back of the store to give
her chance. Hearing nothing from her,
after few minutes had elapsed, l ven
tured to glance around and saw that she
was in an awkward predicament. The
fact was, she was too fat and too tightly
laced to put on her own stockings Well,
sir, it was a cOmical sight to see her inef-
fectual plunges in her endeayors to reach
her feet, and the ludicrous sideIong chances
she cast around to see if any one was
watching her. l couldn't help standing
and looking at her for a minute or two, al
though my duty in the case was clear
enough. You see was there to sell this
lady pair of shoes, and if she bought
them she must have on dry stockings, and
it was plain that if she gore dry stockings
some one would be obliged to put them on
her. So like a hero | marched up to where
she was sitting. With her exertions and
the modification she felt her face was the
color OF well-boiled LOBSTER and ! have
no doubt my own beautiful phiz was no
faint reflex of that kind.
Can l assist you, madam, said in the
politest tone ! could muster.
Yes, you can assist me. Pull off those
stockings and put on this pair, and be
quick about it, she ordered, speaking
quite savage like.
Well, got her stockings of, and man
aged to get her foot in the dry pair, then l
left her again. When l came back I got on
the shoe we had tried before without
trouble. Well, she took the shoes-thev
were a Sc pair-paid for them. and founced
out of the store as though we were to blame
for the display she had made
Yes" concluded the narrator, reflect
lively, shoe clerks have queer experiences
sometimes, and see more of human nature
in its varied aspects than many people wot
OF. i Rochester IN. Y. y Express.
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Princess gowns obtain in Paris, especially
arranged in deep fittings the bodice full,
the fullness confined by a buckle. Ribbon
velvet and Algerian ribbon in diverse col
ors are used in long loops for dress skirts
and round hats and bonnets We still
affect everything Oriental, and canvases
embroidered in many colors are used alike
in dressmaking and millinery. One point
in gowns would seem to be certain-that
it is almost impossible to have collar too
stiff or too high. People look as if their
the summer bright-colored velvet collars
and cuffs have been worn on white and
cream dresses, so now they appear in dark
er shades, and mostly in contrast to the
gown they appear on, composed of the
autumn and winter stuffs.
If you suffer from rheumatism-and
every one would seem to do so now-get in
this winter a store Of pine wool hosiery
This flannel is sold by the yard, and can be
made up into undergarments, and there is
an additionally heavy make well suited to
cold weather but there are also all kinds
of underclothing-p etticoats, kneecaps
chest protectors, shoes soles, mittens, cuffs
etc.-ready to be put on. A new and good
notion is a perforated channels leather vest
covered with pine wool flannel, an excel
lent safeguard against east winds, damp
and chill, especially to be recommended to
those W ho have delicate chests or any in.
cllnation to consumption. A Frenchwoman
has brought to Eng land novelty i'll cor
sets-they have no bones, only coarse bears
hair, run in all over, giving sufficient sub
stance and support without pressure They
have had great success in Paris
1t is certain that the Princess of Wales
leads, more than any one else, English
fashions and striking evidence of this will
be given during the autumn. Most people
are now familiar with the photograph of
Her Royal Highness in the academic robe
she Wore, during her recent visit to Ire
land, when the degree of Doctor of Music
was conferred on her by the Royal Uniyer-
sity Of Ireland. The gown, with full sleeves
of white satin lined with crimson satin.
with its academic hood of the same mate
rials, is completed with a piquant velvet
college cap, with gold tassels. So well did
the Princess look in this attire that London
milliners determined at once TO make col
lege caps feature. Immense numbers
have been prepared, and they are made in
every variety of material, velvet taking the
lead, and we have even seen them made to
match autumn and winter costumes. and
trimmed with beads and bugles
Two fashions of by-gone years are again
reViving, viz, long circular cloaks and
Garibaldi bodices. The former are called
now " Irish cloaks." They are quite round
and slightly gathered at the throat, which
causes them 10 fall in full folds. They are
made of either blue cloth or serge, and
lined with red silk; they have a circular
hood, all blue CLOTH Paris Letter, in Cas-
sells Family Magazine for November.
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THE cATAwRA GRAPE.

The Catawba grape was formerly n great
tayorite at the East, especially for wine
purposes. Of late years it has Jared poorly.
however, and the Cincinnati Commercial
Gazette thus refers to its decadence:
The rich, f1uIty bouquet of the Catawba
grape 'nimbiy cOmmends itself to our
gentle senses at every fruit-stand now. for
the harvest OF native grapes is ended, and
luscious lunches reward the culGvator 1t
is sad fact, however, that the Catawba has
almost entirely disappeared from this lati-
tude, not only through q mysterious blight
that intervenes between the green stage of
the berry and its ripening, but also because
Catawba culture has ceased to pay. The
only persistently-keptv vineyard near this
city is owned by Mr.. Lewis Hoffman. the
well-known winner and wine presser at
Delhi. 1t consists of four acres, planted in
1861, twenty-five hundred vines to the acre.
This little vineyard is kept scrupulouslv
free from every other growth, but the vines
of these are constantly tended by an ex-
perienced cultivator.
The first crop was realized in 1865, and
ever since then from i've hundred to fifteen
hundred gallons per year of Catawba wine
rewarded the vintner, This year the har-
vest is only two-thirds of half crop. or
about six hundred gallons, which is a fair
yield considering the unfaYorable season.
The latter was owing to the uniformly cool
weather Of the past summer and early fall.
4 hot year is good grape year, everything
else considered.
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Pure Line Engraving.

The production of pure line engravings,
such as those of Raphael Morghen, is now
almost wholly thing of the past Though
number of highly trained engravers are
still constantly employed to engrave on
copper in the old methods at the Calcograda
Regia, in Rome, yet this is done with the
help of large Government subsidy, and
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his wares, only one is a vender by retail
while the other sells in quantity So it is
in the matter of breeding stock. A poul-
tryman who, by a due exercise of brains,
energy, perseverance and experience, sue
ceeds in raising choice fowls, is to be as
much congratulated as he who raises fine
horses, cattle or sheep by the exercise of
the same faculties. To raise fine poultry
and understand it thoroughly demands
more skill than raising cattle or sheep does,
that is all.
Not only is there vast amount of money
invested in the breeding of fancy poultry
in this country, but in the ranks of poultry
dealers can be found some of the best
minds for our land; and these breeders
show by their continued success in each
year, IN solid cash, too, that brain work has
been and is appreciated. These cavaliers
are hindrance to the community in which
they live, though they would have US con-
slider If they but could, that no other occu
patton but theirs is the heightened one.
In such pretenders it is evident that shall
Iowness, sham and deceit rule supreme,
requiring but time to reveal it.-[The
Patron.
ALFALFA FOR PORK.
The Kansas State Agricultural College
has been engaged in an experiment con-
Quoted for the purpose of determining the
value of alfalfa as food for hogs. 1t is said
to form an excellent pasturage for hogs,
and furnished a feed that is liked 1t is
claimed for it that the quality of the flesh
produced by this green food is really worth
more; pound for pound, than that pro-
duced by the grains. 1t is believed that an
acre of alfalfa, fed off in its growing state
to hogs, will produce more pork than can
be produced from an acre of grain requir-
ing much labor in production. But the
most important question was really left
undetermined, viz: whether alfalfa is suf-
ticient feed for fattening hogs. This is of
most Importance and will perhaps be ex-
perimented upon in the future. Connecti-
cut farmers have not been given to pastur-
ing hogs IN late years as was the case when
me highways were used for pasturage, but
II 1t should predetermined that pork can not
only be grown, but fattened, upon alfalfa.
a new impetus can be given to pork rails
lng.-LNew England Farmer
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On the rancho Rodeo de las Aguas, nine
miles west of Los Angeles, all the ingre-
dients used in making glass are to be found
in abundance, and it is probable that q
glass-bottle factory will soon be started
there
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A WORD TO WoRKINGMEN-Dr. Lyman
Abbott contributes to the November Cen
tttry an article on the labor problem, en-
titled Danger Ahead, in which he SAYS
wish / had the ear of the working
mems organizations. ! would put these
figures before them, and then l would ad-
dress them in some such terms as the fol-
lowing: Do you not see the fatal defect of
ali your organizations? You combine only
that You may not work. In one summers
Geographic strike You spent 100000 for the
right to be idle. Why did you not expend
it for the right to be Independent? Half
million dollars, plus all the best Geographic
talent in the United States, with the SYM
pathies Of the nation az a reserve, combined
to establish postal biography, might have
given you success instead of failure Strike,
not for better wages in servitude, but for
independence. Organize not to be idle, but
to be busy. Combine not against your en-
pi6yers, but that you may employ your
selves. You battle not for the right to
labor, but for the right not to labor; it is
barren, fruitless right not worth fighting
for. Victory is as bad as defeat. For eora-
bination put cooperation for few hours
and fair wages put independence for a
right to be idle put power to work Make
yourselves capitalists, combine your capital
with your industry, and add to it by your
credit, and so become your own masters"
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HoRsFoRD's AcID PHOSPHATE Beware
of limitations. limitations and counterfeits
have again appeared. Be sure that the
word HoRsFoED's is on the wrapper
None genuine without it.
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First Annual Sale Of TrOtting Stock !
OF PROSPECT HILL STOCK FARM, TO BE
~ sold at Auction,
Thursday, November I2, 1888.

-
Thursday, November I2, 1855,
AT 2P. NJ, at AGRICULTURAL PARK. eacra-
mento, the following finely bred colts FLEET
b. f., foaled March &c. 1855, by Prompter, son OF
Blue Bull, dam spec, by Spec ulation, he BY
Rysdyk's Hambletonian, z d Alicia Mandc-
vile FLIGO-b. c.. foaied April s, 1854, by
Prompter, dam Spec, by Speculation. HICKS
b. c., toaled April Z, 1885, by Prompter dam
Spec, by Speculation. Entered in yearling colt
stake to be trotted at State Fair of 1883 TRI-
QMPH-b. c., foaed April 20. 1885, by Prompter,
dam Lady Brighton, by son OF St. Clair. Also
entered in yearling colt stake of 1856 Is three
quarter brother to Transit, yearling record of
2:i5. and tWo-yearold 2:53, and all are half
brothers to Apex and Transit, Apex having q
thTee-year,old record of 23I The above colts
are all well broken single, ana show remarkable
fine action for the handling they have mad.
ELMO-b. c., foaled March - 1881; sired by the
imported French coach horse Romeo. dam the
Ashby mare, by Bashaw stock Also l yearling
Registered jersey Heller; l Registered Jersey
Bull Calf, months old, sire and dam imported
from jersey Island. N. TOOMEY, AUctioneer.
ul-6t
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At 10 O'clock a. NJ, sell to the highest bidder for
cash, al the book accounts ard bills receivable
take place in front Of the Court house of Sacra-
mento county. The book accounts will be sold
IN one lump and the books delivered to the mr.
chaser. The bills receivable will be sold sep
arately. [n4 ST. +. h. Russell, Receiver.
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GENERAL NOTICES.

good digestion if you give them Parker's Tonic
~ da h Hair Balsam promotes the growth of
sAAS AaAi. au9C-itS
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TEA-RAIsING IN AMERICA.-When Mr..
LeDuc filed the position OF Commissioner
OF Agriculture, the newspapers used to
make merry at his expense over what they
papers, perhaps will be surprised to learn
that the bureau is still conducting the same
work and that there is a steady demand for
tea plants. Experiments have demon
strnted that tea can be raised in this coun-
try, although the time may be far distant
when the business will become profitable.
The process of picking the leaves and cur
ing them is tedious one, and we cannot
compete in this direction with the cheap
labor of China. Thus it is only question
of labor which restricts our tea crop, but
many families throughout the South raise
tea for their own use, and the number is on
the increase.-[Toledo Blade
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AUCTIONS.
RECEIVERS SALE.
TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 10Th.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT in PIJR-
~ suance of an order Of the Superior Court
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Frank Il. Stevens. Piano Tuner.-A5-
e ore, j: +: CoOPERe MUSIC STORE, No.
5E7 street. Sacramento, Cal. an9o,9nn
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NATURE OUT oF JOINT.

What under the sun is the matter with
the fruit trees this fall? Plums and prunes
are out in full bloom again after raising a
heavy crop, which has been gathered; and
even the steady old apple trees, now break
ing down with their enormous loads of
fruits, are putting out bloom by the thou
sand. Is it possible that the orchards are
forgetting the regular run of the seasons,
or have the laws of nature been repealed :?
[Santa Ana Standard.
We haven't looked up the records, but
perhaps the last California Legislature
tackled little joker to the end of some of
the bills passed by that body, repeating
some of the laws Of nature If 50, that will
account for it-[Prcss and Horticulturist
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Advice to Mothers.-s.rs. yyipsIo,,,o
SOOTHING SYRUP should always be used when
chlidren are cutting teeth. 1t relieves the little
sunerer at once; IT produces natural, quiet sleep
cheruo awakes as bright as q button" II is
very pleasant to taste. 1t soothes the child
so1tens the gums, allays all pain, relieves wind
regliates inc bowels and is the best known
remedy for diarThea, whether arising from teeth
ing or other causes. Twenty-Five cents q bottle
fe7-1vMWS
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TARENTIEE WooL.-The Tarentine wool
has been praised by many classical writer's.
Varro speaks of its softness, while Srabo
praises its luster; Pliny, Horace and Mar
tial all laud it, and Columella describes the
great care taken of the sheep. They were
never allowed to Craze with their heads
turned toward the sun, for fear of blind
ness or let out while the dew was on the
grass. Their wool was washed with wine,
oiled and combed, and then covered with a
cloth. The breed had degenerated in the
time of Queen Joan H., who in 1415 issued
an edict to relieve the guild of wool manu-
facturers from many imports and taxes, in
order to improve the quality of the produce
The sheep now seen in Apulia are small,
and give but little wool. They are almost
universally black, with curiously brilliant
yellow eyes, and agile as deer Macmil-
lan's Magazine
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Carpet Weaving-S02 NJ street, wort,
done hrst-class on shortest notice auao-3ms
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A BIG ToRToIsE.-The discoverer of the
gigantic extinct sea-turtle found near Fort
Wallace, in western Kansas, first observed
the large bony shields projecting from a
bluff near Butte creek. They were care
fully taken out and brought to PhiIadel-
phia, where the restoration was made The
fore flippers alone were nearly five feet
long, while its expanse from the tip OF one
extended fipper to another was about
seventeen feet. The question may arise,
how did this sea-turtle become buried in a
bluff in the State of Kansas? A natural
supposition would be that Kansas is the
bed of a former ocean, and SO it is. Ages
ago, in what is called by biologists the
cretaceOus period, that part of the world
was the bed Of great sea, in which the
great turtle swan, together with other
monsters of curious shape and appearance
Gradually the crust of the earth was raised,
and water fell back, or became Enclosed,
and left the Inhabitants of the cretaceous
sea high and dry, to be covered by the earth
and preserved for us to study ages after
ward. The shores of this ancient ocean are
easily found and followed by biologists.
Its extent has been traced on our western
plains by the bleaching and disintegrating
remains that have been found, upon and
beneath the surface.-[St. Nicholas
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Said handsome Tom to smiling Nell,
Where did you find that mystic spell,
That hovers round your every smile,
and would my throbbing heart beguile o.
Quoth laughing Nell, you silly boy
In SoZOD0NT-the cream of Joy,
m14-TuThS
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In March of last year dSS4), I contracted
blood poison, and being in Savannah Ga, at
the time, went into the hospital there for
treatment | suffered very much from rheu-
matism at the same lime. I did not get wen
under the treatment there, nor was l cured by
any OF the usual means. l have now taken
seven bottles of Swiit's Specific and am sound
and Well 1t drove the poison out through boils
on the skin. Dan LEAHY.
Jersey City, n. j., Aug. 7, 1885.
Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed
free.
THE SWIFT SPECIFIC Co. Drawer s, Atlanta.
Ga; New York 157 W. sd St fe5-ly&wly
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S. S. & Il. L. Seuthworth, Dentists. sac
SIT
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TUFTS HAlR dye
Contagious.

l am native OF England, and while was
IN that country l contracted a terrible blood
poison. and for two years was under treatment
as an outdoor patient at Nottingham Hospital
England, bat was not cured l suffered the
covered with sores all over my body and limbs
Finally l completely lost all hope in that
country, and sailed for America and was
treated at Roosevelt in this city. as well as by
a prominent physician in New York having no
connection with the hospitals
l saw the advertisement of Swift's Specific,
and determined to give it a trial l took six
bottles, and can say with great joy that they
have cured me entirely. l am as sound and
well as ever was in my life.
L. FRED. HALFORD.
New York City, June u. ISIS.
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ORIGIN OF THE CEREAL GRAINS.

Professor Grant Allen in an article on
the" Pedigree of Wheat" in Popular Sci
euce, says: Wheat ranks by origin as a
degenerate and degraded lily Such in
brief is the proposition which this paper
sets out to prove, and which the whole
course Of evolutionary botany tends every
day more and more fully TO confirm. By
thus from the very outset placing clearly
before our eyes the goal of our argument,
we shall be able the better to understand
as we go whittier each item of the cumu-
latiye evidence is really worth tending.
We must endeavor to start with the sim
plest forms of the great group of plants
to which the cereals and other grasses
belong, and must try to see by what
steps the primitive type gave birth first
to brilliantly colored lilies, next to the
degraded rushes and sedges, and then to
the still more degenerate grasses, from
one or another of whose richer grains man
has finally developed his wheat, his rice
his millet and his barley. We shall thus
trace throughout the whole pedigree of
wheat from the time when its ancestors
first diverged from the common stock of
the lilies and the water plantains, to the
time when savage man found it growing
wild among the untitled plains of the pre-
historic Asia, and took it under his special
protection in the little garden plots around
his waited hut, whence it has gradually
altered under his constant selection into
the golden grain that now covers half the
lowland tilth Of Europe and America.
There is no page in botanical history more
full of genuine romance than this; and
there is 10 page in which the evidence is
clearer Q, more convincing for those who
will taxi the easy trouble to read it
Alright"
SKILL NEEDED IN THE POULTRY BUSINESS.
Why is it some persons are prone to jest
about anybody who is engaged in rearing
poultry or pets, we cannot imagine, for we
always think the business does not elevate
or degrade the man, but the man elevates or
degrades the business just so far as he may
use good or bad means in the furtherance
of his designs and desires. As far as mere
business is concerned, a peddler is no worse
than the merchant from whom he buys
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Cure for the Deaf.-Peck's Patent I'm
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restore the hearing, and perform the work Of
t li natural drum. Always in position, but in
visible 10 others and comfortable to wear. All
conversation and even whispers distinctly hoard
we refer TO those using them. Send forillustrated
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