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Leaf-Cutting Ants.

In my rambles | discover q nest Of the
large black leaf-cutting ant (the Ecodoma)
found over the entire South American
Continent-and a leading member of that
social tribe of insects Of which it has been
said that they rank Intellectually next to
ourselves. Certainly this ant, in its actions,
Stimulates mans intellect very closely, and
not in the unpleasant manner of species
having warrior castles and slaves The leaf
cutter is exclusively agricultural in its
habits and constructs subterraneous gal
leries in which it stores fresh leaves in
amazing quantities. The leaves are not
eaten, but are cut up into small pieces and
arranged in beds; these beds quickly be-
come frosted over with growth Of mi
mute fungus; this the ant industriously
gathers and stores for use, and when the
artificial bed is exhausted the withered
leaves are carried out to make room for
layer of fresh ones. Thus the Gcodoma
literally grows its own food, and in this
respect appears to have reached stage
beyond the most highly developed
ant communities hitherto described.
although the leafcutters have
peaceful disposition, never showing resent
ment except when gratuitously interfered
with, they are Just as courageous as any
purely predatory species, only their angry
emotions and warlike qualities always APP
pear to be dominated by reason and the
public good. Occasionally a community
of leaf-cutters goes to war with a neighbor-
ing colony Of ants of some other species;
in this, as in everything else, they seem to
act with definite purpose and great de-
liberation. Wars are unfrequent, but in
all those | have witnessed-and | have
known this species from childhood-the
fate of the nation is decided in one great
pitched battle. A spacious bare level
spot Of ground is chosen, where the con-
tending armies meet, the fight raging for
several hours at a stretch, to be renewed
on several consecutive DAYS The COM
batants, equally sprinkled over wide
area, are seen engaged in single combat or
in small groups, while others, non-fghters,
run briskly about, removing the dead and
disabled warriors frcm the field of battle
I The Cfentleman's Magazine
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How the treasury is Guarded.

A party Of Englishmen, who recently
visited Washington, expressed their sur
prise at the absence of guards at the Treas
ury. Why they said, cat the Bank of
England the military is always on duty,
and to get past ii and into the building is
worth ones life, unless he has authority.
Here we don't see guard" But there are
guards, and plenty of them, only they don't
wear red coats and parade up and down the
street in front Of the building. That isn't
the way we do things here. DO you see
this armory p said Captain Cobaugh, the
chief Of the force, opening a door as ne did
so, and displaying line after line Of loaded
rcvolvers. They were of the largest and
best variety known to the military author
tiles. We have sixty men armed with
these he said, "and nearly all old soldiers.
l should ike to see any successful attempt
to rob the Treasury. These. men are
divided into watches, and are OH duty in
all parts of the building at all hours.
After the force Of clerks and officials goes
home at night, our officers enter and in
'spect every room, see that the safes are all
locked, the heating apparatus all right,
and the water turned off. If safe is found
unlocked man is put in charge of it, and
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MISCELLANEOUS.
ACROSS THE CONTINENT.

TNHE NEXT GRAND FIRSTCLASS PULLMAN
i PALACE CAR EXCURSION PARTY TO
SAN FRANCISCO AND RETURN, under. the
auspices of the Missouri Pacific Railway Com
pany, will leave Chicago February Sd and st.
Louis February 1. 1881. A splendid inducement
TO Eastern people TO visit California. Tickets
good for six months TO san Francisco and return.
Rates from Chicago S1l7, and from ST. Louis only
Sll0. All other Eastern points in proportion
Would suggest % CalifornianS having friends or
relatives in the East DESTROYS of visiting our Won
deriul State that they write them incloSing adj
vcrtisement of this rare opportunity for doing
so II ost reasonably.
Arrangements can be made to have ladies or
children coming 10 California without escort
placed under the personal charge of our Travel
ing Passenger Agent who will accompany this
party.
For all further information call on or address
JOHN +. ENNIS,
Travelling Pass and Land Agent, Missouri Pacific
Railway Co., 100 Clark street. Chicago H., or
II. B. SMITH, JR.,
Pacific Coast Agent Missouri Pacific Railway Co,
COS Market street, San Francisco
:
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Clock Hidden in a RnstIe.

An amusing story reaches lis from Paris.
On Friday last lady, having paid her
hotel bill, sent away her boxes on a cab and
sailed forth on foot No sooner had she
departed than the landlord discovered that
the clock had disappeared from the man
tel-piece OF the room which his late lodger
had been occupying though he remem-
bered to have seen 1t there subsequent to
her trunks being dispatched. Convinced
that she must be the thief he rushed out in
hot pursuit, and oyertaking her he charged
her with the robbery and gave her into Gus
tody, the lady meanwhile protesting loudly
against the indignity offered her, and VOW
ing vengeance against the traducer. She
was, however taken before the Judge din
struction, to whom she resumed her torrent
of indignant denial, with the extraordinary
volubilitv peculiar to the daughters of
Gaul. Her Indignation was at at its hight
when, 10 u o'clock rang forth in clear
tones from the region of Madame's dress
improyer. The expression of consterna-
ton depicted upon the fair piItcr-
er's countenance, together with the
appositencss of the quaint phenomenon,
were too much for the gravity of
the officials, who burst into fit
Of uncomfortable laughter. Five min
utes later 4 female warder returned
the telltale timepiece to It's owner VIII
Mr.. Oscar Wilde still insist upon the
utter useiessness of that hideous monstros-
ity-the hustle ~ Pail Mall Gazette
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the person whose duty il is to see it locked
is sent for. Of course ii does not often hap
pen, and the man who does forget once to
lock his safe does not forget it twice; but
occasionally we do find one OPEN Then,
after the rooms are inspected and the guard
set, the Lieutenant makes his rounds about
every two hours, and the Waterman patrols
his beat every fifteen minutes or oftener
"Has there ever been an attempt, sue
cessful or otherwise, to rob the Treasury -
asked 4 newspaper correspondent.
" Never; it would be an impossibility. )"
Colonel Webster, chief clerk of the
Treasury, is at the head of the watch,
though Captain Cobaugh has the personal
direction Of their movements They are
all inspected, and are liable to visits at
any time of night from the Secretary or
his chief clerk Treasurer Spinner, it is
related, once found himself in very ner-
vous state of mind at night, and unable to
sleep, having an indefnable feeling that
something was wrong al the Treasury. He
tossed about awhile, unable to sleep, and
finally dressed himself and started for the
Treasury, TO be met by a messenger coming
to tell him that safe containing millions
of dollars had been found unlocked. 1t is
said that he always slept in the building
after that, and always visited the safes in
person before retiring, to see that they
were locked Perhaps it was his nervous
ness over the fright that made his sigma
ture so crooked.
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going to marry Miss Madison" he said
Slowly. "Well, take my advice and-don't
Sir Reginalds cheerful face paled.
"What do you mean?" he asked in a
passion.
Il mean that she is too clever for poor,
stupid fellows like you and me. That hoax
was all plant, got up by herself from be
ginning to end The man never existed.
He was myth She took in her own peo-
pie, she took in old Dumbledon, and she
all but took in Scotland yard, into whose
hands poor old Madison at last put the
affair. The only person, fortunately for
you, that she did not take in was old Ro-
DER London Truth
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WIND AGAINST STEAM.


f. Vinton Blake contributes a capital
story of yachting on the Hudson to the
January ST. Nicholas, from which the
following account of a trial of speed between
an ice-yacht and a fast express is given:
There is Il roar and a rush Behind them.
What next2
The down train, The boys look over
their shoulders as the big black monster
shoots past. The whistle blows sharply
there are haudkerchiefs waving from the
windows. Tie ice-yacht is just now hold
ing nearly across the river.
" 4 race q race, boys cries the skipper,
q S he gives quick tuEn OF his hand, and
with a sheer and a spring they are OFF after
the train.
Now the race-the race, boys! Steam
against wind How they fly Everything
is blurred and melted together, and indis-
tinct. The ice is all blush white haze,
with that diamond sparkle from the run
ners blazing up.
The windows of the train are filed with
heads-they seem to shout at the party on
the ice yacht, who hear only the rush and
roar of the wind and the runners. The
wind increases; the boat rears higher; the
windWari runner cuts tiercely through the
air, and the crushed ice flies in a shower
Almost up with the train, now; and creep
ing on
VIII the wind hold? But never fear
this is no flaw, but a steady gale. 1t seems
as if the black train were slowing up; yet
not is the yacht which is flying faster,
literally on the wings OF the wind. And
nova crack in the ice ahead
The skipper raises himself ana scans the
ice with eagle eye. An old hand at ice
yachting is he.
. We can do it, think, he says
Now, brave Rondina And the train
sees the crack, too; the cars seem alive all
their long length with heads and gestures
and warning shouts. Do they think every
body is asleep there on that light, flying,
feathery wanderer?
The upper edge of the crack is higher
by full six inches than the lower; and be-
tween swirlS the black. treacherous waters
They are upon it.
Whiz,-SplaSh AS the edge-ice says and
the runner catches the cold tide There is
a wild, uemuious swing and sway, 4 toss of
the windward runner, and the crack is far
astern. How the trSin cheers And look,
now the black, snorting engine falls be-
hind Wind against steam Give them
three cheers, boys, and swing your caps
and hold fast while you are. about it. The
track is clear ahead; the locomotive wills
ties and snorts and shouts in wild salute at
the yachts victory. Faster-faster-til
there is only the ring of the runners, the
roar and rush of the wind the tremble and
leap and swing and sway Of the hayward
craft
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TERRA GOTTA FOR HOUSE FRoNrs.-
Terra Gotta, when properly burned, is ALSO
lutely impervious to smoke, and is I'M
affected by acid fumes Of any description ;
it is about half the weight of the lightest
building stones, and its resistance, when
burned in solid blocks in compression, is
nearly one-third greater than Portland
stone; ii is not absorbent-a great desider-
alum when damp has to be considered; it
is easily nodded into any shape, for strings,
cornices or window-sills and architraves,
and can be easily modelled for figure or
other enrichment. 1t can be got in good,
warm yellow or red color, and, when
glazed, can be produced in almost any
tones of soft browns, greens, reds or yell
lows; and its strength, durability and i'm
nervousness to all destructive influences
Of town atmospheres recommend it as the
building material most adapted for facing
street frontages- Popular Science.
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THE EARTH-MoLDING WIND.-It APP
pears that the direct action of the wind
during long ages has had some effect in
the shaping of the land. In the plateaus
of Central Asia General Prievalski has
found evidence that violent winds have
moved the small stones about, gradually
pulverizing the fragments by friction, and
that the finer particles thus produced have
been blown to the valleys, where they have
formed a constantly thickening deposit,
On the Puv de Dome, in France, extensive
wind deposits have been noticed, an ancient
temple of Mercury on the top of that
mountain having been covered up in sand
for nearly twenty centuries.
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HARE AND HOUNDS.

The cold, crisp days that make healthy
boy feel like running are here, and it re-
quireS quite an effort for some big folks to
keep from running and jumping these
bright mornings; many times they refrain
because of the number of people in the
streets, and the fear of the big policeman
who might not discover, until too late, that
it was the keen enjoyment of the air and
sunshine that caused such undignitied and
unSeemly behavior. So we big folks have
to walk quietly, though the blood is rush
ing through our veins and let our feet
fairly tingle for a good, free run. We
almost envy the little newsboy, who runs
| and screams through the streets, independ-
ent for the time being and Indifferent TO
the opinion of any passer-by. How we
would enjoy day in the country, away
from the fuss and feathers, brick and
mortar, of this big city. This feeling was
intensified last week when we read de-
scription Of the old game of Hare and
Hounds" Every boy has heard OF the
game, but perhaps every boy does not
know how to play it, and for that reason
we give the description:
One boy represents the hare. and runs
away, while the others act as hounds and
pursue him to a special goal. The proper
management of the game however, requires
Coii0'C. 4""4S 8rNlii' Lo ~ Iii0t 'hiiiS ~ nc
done Is 10 choSe mare. Inc mare should
nor De ,he pest runner out shollu be OAR
ing ana at me same iline prudent, or ne may
trespaSs into forbidden lands. and thereby
cause lTouoie. q hul nj ana wrapper,
IN are theh CHOSEN. Inc huh'Sln3n should
De 'iIe oest payer anu the WhlppeF-lh
second pest, IhlhSS having advanced SO
hare is furnished with a large bag of
White paper cut INTO small squares winch
he scatters on the ground as ne goes. An
arrangement Is made that the hare snail
not cross his pain nor return nome untll
certain ume, IN elther oil which cases
he Is considered caught, The hounds
also are Dound 10 follow the track
or scent implicitly, ana not TO make
snort GUS IL 'iey see tile mare Inc mare
tAeh starts ana mas ABOUT seven minutes
grace at tle expiration Vi Wilc1 tlile tne
auhtsihah blows morn win Wlllch ne Is
l'lfllisileu tliS! se's o. Tue Hcuii'ls Keeping
nearly III Ihulail me, tile Whipper-lh orilig
ing i up ihe rear me hulltstlah Is aiso
FURNISHED WIN Whlte nag, inc "hlpper-ln
WIN req one me slaves oelng pointed
ana shoa win MEAL on they 60 III the
| chase uhtIl the hGhtSman loses the scent.
lie Immediately shouts Lost on which
| the Whlpper-ln sticks MS nag III the ground
where the scent was last seen, and the en-
ere line walks or runs around 1t IN a circle,
| n rN.Fs ftF.NNF ffl ID
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POETRY AND THE POOR.

r" The world is very beautiful % said,
AS yesterday, beside the trimming stream
Glad and alone, l watched the tremulous
CLEAN
Slant thro' the wintry wood green carpeted
With moss and fern and curvlng bramble spray,
And bronze the thousand russell margin-reeds,
And in the sparkling holly CLINT and play,
And kindle all the briers flaming seeds.
g The world is very horribler I sigh,
AS, in my wonted ways, to-day tread
Chill streets, deformed with dim monotony,
Hiding strange mysteries of unknown dread
The reeking court, the breathless fever-den,
The haunts where things unholy throng and
brood
Grim crime, the fierce despair of strong EARNED
Child-infamy, and shameless womanhood.
And men have looked upon this piteous thing
Blank lives unYisited by beauty spell
And said, " Let 1t be; it is not meet to bring
Dreams of sweet freedom to the prison cell
Sing them no songs of things all bright and fair,
Paint them no visions of the glad and free,
Lest with purged sight their miseries they see,
And, through vain longings, pass to blank de-
spair."
o brother treading ever darkening ways;
o sister. Whelmed in eyer-deepening care;
Would God might unfold before your gaze
Some vision of the pure, and true and fair
Better to know, though derthlngs be known
Better to see, though tears half bind the sight,
Than thraldom to the sense, and heart of stone,
And horrible contentment with the night.
O bring we then all sweet and gracious things
To touch the lives that lie so chill and drear,
That they may dream OF some dlyiner sphere,
Whence each soft ray of love and beauty springs,
Each good and perfect gift is from above;
And there is healing for earth's direst woes
God hath unsealed the springs of light and love
To make the desert blossom as the rose.
1.-THE Spectator.
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OUR YOUNG FOLKS.
MorHER's pEAR coNFoRr.

The kitchen is clean and cosy,
And bright with the sunlight gay
And mothers desr comfort for mothers sake
Is busy working away
PAIRING potatoes, and thinking
It's humdrum work to do .
But little Miss Comfort is willing and quick,
And the sunbeams are helping her through.
For mother is sick and is sleeping
And baby is quiet at last;
And fatherll be wanting his dinner soon.
The minutes are flying so fast
On, she knows he VIII kiss her and love her,
And call her his busy bee"
And mothers pet name is the truest of ALL
For mothers dear comfort is she.
Golden ArgoSy
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NATIONALLY TREAT Your Coin FROM THE
START, by using DR.. Jayne's EXpectorant,
and you may escape Lung troubles not so
easily gotten rid of
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LYDIA E. PlNKHAM'S
VEGETABLE COMPOUND Il
= IS A POSITIVE CURE. = X
For all those Painful Complaints and
Weaknesses so common to our best
FEMALE POPULATION.

- FEMALE POPULATION. =
! IT WILL CURE ENTIRELY THE WORST FORM
OF FEMALE COMPLAINTS, ALL OVARIAN TRoU-
BLEs, INFLAMMATION AND LIBERATION.
| FALLING AMP DtsPLAcEMENTs, AND THE CoE-
| sEQUENT SPINAL WEAKNESS, AND Is PARTIc-
ULARLY ADAPTED TO THE CHANGE OF LIFE.
).
/ = IT WILL DISSOLVE AND EXPEL JUNIORS
FROM THE UTERUS IN AN EARLY STAGE OF DE-
vELoPMENT. THE TENDENCY TO DANGEROUS
| HuMoRs THERE Is CHECKED VERY SPEEDILY
IT REMOVES FAINTNEss, FLArJLENcY, DE-
sTRoYs ALL CRAVING FOR STIMULATES, AND
RELIEVES WEAKNESS OF THE STOMACH. IT
CURES BLoATING, HEADACHE, NERVOUS Pros
TRAITOR, GENERAL DEBILITY, DEPRESSION
AND INDIGESTION. =
THAT FEELING OF BEARING Down, CAUSING
PAIN, WEIGHT AND BACKACHE, Is ALWAYS
PERMANENTLY CURED BY ITS USE.
y IT WILL AT ALL TIMES AND UNDER ALL CIR
SUBSTANCES ACT IN HARMONY wTTHTHE LAWS
THAT GOVERN THE FEMALE SYSTEM. = =
MTs~ ITs PURPOSE IS SOLELY FOR THE LE-
CLIMATE HEALING OF DISEASE AND THE RE-
LIEF OF PAIN, AND THAT IT DOES ALL IT
CLAIMS To DO, THOUSANDS OF LADIES CAN
GLADLY TESTIFY. ~
For THE CURE OF KIDNEY COMPLAINTS
IN ETHER SEX THIS REMEDY Is UNSURPASSED.
+ LYDIA f. PINKHAM'S VEGETABLE COM
POUND is prepared at Lynn, Mass Price, 81.
Six bottles for 50. sold By al druggists. Sent by
mail, postage paid, in form Of Pills or Lozenges,
on receipt of price as above. Mrs Pinkhams
Guide to Health" will be mailed free to any
Lady sending stamp. Letters confdentially an
swered.
No family should be without LYDIA f. PINK.
HAMS LIVER PILLS. They cure Constipation,
Billiousness and Torpidity Of the Liver: p cents
per box. m29-1yTuThSGw1y
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SACRAMENTO BANK.
DIVIDEND NOTICE.

AT REGULAR MEETING OF THE
\ Board of Directors of the Sacramento Bank.
held January 6, 1855, a dividend was declared
for the semi-annual term erding December 81,
1881 at the rate of . per cent. per annum on
Pad-up Capital Stock and Term Deposits, and
50 per cent. per annuIn OF Ordinary DEPOSITS,
and payable on AND AFTER JANUARY s,
1885 [iaS-6tl ED. K. HAMILTON, Cashier
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ORDINANCE No. Q.
Fixing the Time of Meeting Of the
Board of Supervisors.

TIME BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF THE
/ county OF Sacramento do ordain us follows:
Section J.
Ordinance No. /, passed JUNE :, 1883, is hereby
amended by striking out the words, And
third, in Section in sad Ordinance.
Section ?.
This Ordinance shall take effect and be in force
fifteen days after its passage.
Signed, l.. II FASSETT Chairman.
TsEALl Attest; ". b. HAMILTON, Clerk.
iaT-1M
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FoR fifty years the Vegetable Pulmonary
Balsam of Cutler Bros q Co, Boston, stands
unriyalled for Colds and Consumption.
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For throat diseases, coughs, colds, etc,
efiectual relief is found in the use of
g Browns Bronchial Troches.n Sold only
in boxes % cents,
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CrOSSman'S Specific Mixture.

With this remedy persons can cure themselves
without the least exposure, change of diet, or
change in application TO business. The medi-
cine contains nothing that is of the least injury
to the constitution. Ask your druggist for it.
Price 81 q bottle. s41yWS
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TRUSTEES SALE.

WHEREAS LEWIS NJ MILLER AND
w CATHERINE MILLER. his wife, made r
certain deed of trust 10 f. r. DRAE and W. p.
COLEMAN, dated the 9th day of May, lSsl, and
recorded on the 18th day Of June, 1851. in Book
Number IS OF Deeds, at page 81 and following.
Records of the county of Sacramento State of
California. said trust conveying the real prop
erty hereinafter described, for the purpose of
securing the payment of certain promiSsory
note of even date Herewith. And whereas,
default has been made in the payment thereof,
now, therefore, by the authority vested in them
by said trust deed, and upon application Of the
Sacramento Bank, holders of said note, the I'M
dersigncd, as such Trustees, will, on SATURDAY,
the 18th day of JANUARY, 1885, between the
hours of 10 and II o'clock a. NJ, AT the front
door of the Courthouse. in the city OF Sacra-
mento State of California, sell at public auc-
ton, to the highest bidder for cash, i'll United
States gold coiu, all the said real estate situate
in the city of Sacramento, county of Sacr3-
mento in the State of California, and described
as follows, To wit: The east thirty feet, of the
west sixty feet, of the south one hundred and
forty feet, of lot Nun Der Nine (9l, in the Block
or Square. bounded Q and K, and Twelfth and
Thirteenth streets, together with the improve
ments and appurtenanceS thereto belonging.
F. X. DRAY. Trustee,
W. p COLEMAN, Trustee.
Sacramento, December p, 1851. d233wTuThS
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HoRsFoRps ACID PHOSPHATE for lemons
or lime juice is superior substitute, and
its use is positively beneficial to health.