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National Republican., 1885-03-24
French BOnnetS and Hats.

Our Prices viii impress all who
will favor us with an inspection OF
our stock.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-02-07

]. W. WILSON, Tax Collector.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-02-07
SCIENTIFIC NOTES.

Liquefed oxygen is lighter than water
and little heavier than alcohol, according
t. a French chemist, who has calculated
lis specific gravity at 0.SoS.
In Cape Colony the extensive planting
Of the common tomato Is recommended, as
il IS alleged that insects shun She land on
which it Is grown. The suggestion Is
made. however, that the same effect may
not be produced in cooler countries.
A French archeologist, NJ Sailiard, has
discovered the workshop Of a prehistoric
armorer in steep rock on the coast Of
Brittany. The workman lived in the stone
age. and his skeleton was found among the
various stone weapons and implements
rpou which he had been working.
A German mining engineer, Herr J.
Muller. brings light coins up to the stan
dard weight by the elecro-deposition Of
metal upon them. Unless it Is necessary
10 add considerable to the weight, this
pvocess-simply forming a thin and uni
form Coating-dOes not detace the char
acters upon the coin.
Most experiments with hydrochlorate Of
cocaine have been confined to mucous sur
faces like the eye and the mouth. BY APP
piving it under the skin, however Mons. j.
Grasset has found that the new anesthetic
nav be made to produce local insensibility
in any part Of the body. the duration
being sufficient for various surgical opera
lions.
An English observer has reached the
conclusion that the musk beetle Aromia
moschatal has the power of emitting or
surprising It's odor at pleasure but that
when diving the scent is continuous and
VERY powerful He mentions case in
which Il scent Of roses has been known to
proceed from the human body in fatigue
and weakness. Similar instances are known
by another writer.
The total length of the proposed Mica
ra2ua canal from the Atlantic 10 the Pa
cifc Is 1887 miles. This Is composed Of
l127 miles OF canal, from the Pacific at
Brito Harbor 10 the Lake OF Nicaragua,
$3.50 miles of lake navigation, $3.50 miles
of navigation of the river San Juan, and
$500 miles Of canal from this river to
Greytown. The estimated cost Of this
work is 4l193,S39
Some remarkable photographs of pistol
bullet in its fight, under the illumination
of an electric spark have been secured by
Prot. L. Mach, of Prague. He has also
photographed the air streams which one
may see over a Bunsen burner placed in
sunshine and has even obtained pictures
ST waves of sound, these last being made
visible by method in which advantage
Is taken of the irregular refraction Of light
5. y -s.J set in vibration 10y sound.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-02-07
Lots and Blocks in Town of Folsom,
Assessed to Unknown Owners.

Against lots l to s, block u. State and
county tax, u cents; costs, 81 cents; total
against lots 9 to 16, block IS. State and
county tax, y cents; costs, 81 cents; total
tax ana o.
against lots l to s. block II. State and
county tax u cents; costs, 81 cents; total
TAX ana o.
Against lots II to 16, block a. State and
county tax, - cents; costs, 81 cents; total
tax ana o.
S-Against lots 9 to 10, block Is State and
county tax, Is cents; costs, 81 cents total
tax ana o.
against lots ) to s. block II state and
county tax, 81 cents; costs, 81 cents; total
TAX ana 70
10-Against lots to Is, block II. State and
county tax, is cents; costs, 81 cents total
tax ana 90
n-Against lots and ,. block As State and
county tax, As cents; costs, 50 cents; total
tax and coSts..... .......,. .S 81 90
12-Against lots to l6, block IS. State and
county tax, As cents costs 81 cents: total
13-Against lots l to 4, block rs. State and
county tax, 60 cents; costs, IS cents; fetal
lax ana ...--Sl 10
jaS1 ]. W. WILSON, Tax Collector.
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Unknown Owners.

Against fractional northwest quarter of
northeast quarter of section 9, township ,
north, range , east % acres State and
county tax, 80 cents costs, 81 cents; total
tax and
Against lot IL in ]. II. Kerr Tract Elk
Grove. State and county tax, 81 20; costs,
81 cents; total tax and
Against lot s, block 6, Isieton. State and
county tax, so cents; costs. 81 cents total
tax and
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COUNTRY ROLL.

4O2l-Against Jacob Adams and improve
ments on lot A. block >, Isleton. State and
county tax, 81 20: costs, II cents; total tax
and 81
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DELINQUENT TAX LIST.
DELINQUENT
AK LIST
FOR 1854.
FOR 1854.

CTATE OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAC
Oramento-ss. BY virtue of and in accord
ance with the provisions of Sections 3764 S165,
S766 and 1867 of the Political Code, will sell
all the property, real and personal, hereinafter
described and delinquent for State and County
and other Taxes for the year 1854, in front of the
Courthouse door, at the hour of 10 a. NJ,
Monday, the Esd day of February,
"A. u. 1885,
For gold coin of the United States, each piece
or parcel so described for the amount of taxes
thereto annexed, together with five per cent.
and fifty cents on each lot, piece or tract of
land separately assessed. and on each assess
ment OF personal property additional thereto,
and accruing costs.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-02-07

az have not seen their equal." Louise
Kellogg d22-lmMWF
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-09-11
Agricultural Miscellany.

In some parts of the country corn
stalks are never stacked or taken into
account. In few places yet the corn
itself is never husked or harvested, but
left standing. while cattle and hogs are
turned into the fields in Winter to help
themselves. In Virginia 10 per cent of
the crop, or NEARLY 100000 buseels,
was left in the field over Winter last
year; in Tennessee, per cent, or
3,296, 600 bushels. Kentucky and Ohio
had each nearly 6. .00O. 900 bushels, while
Illinois left 17,11S,OOO bushels uahar-
vested. Thrifty Kansas left % per cent
of her crop, or 2a, ,9O5, 600 bushels, un-
gathered, while In the whole United
States 110, S11. 600 bushels we're left to
mercy of Winter weather under this
primitive form of Lusbandry.
The food exerts great influence up
on the quality of the butter. Cotton
seed meal makes hard butter with a
good color but a diszgreeable flavor;
linseed meal makes soft, greasy, light
colored butter. The best quality of
butter is made from yellow cornmeal
with third its bulk of coarse mid
dliags with the bran in it. Glover hay
should be fed for butter, and pea meal
is thought to be the richest food for
making butter. No doubt if it were
mixed in equal proportions with fine
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-09-11
The Plague OF '93.

The terrors of the yellow fever
plague at Philadelphia, in 1893 are
thus graphically described in the
second volume of Prof. McMast9's
History of the United States:
"The patients died by scores Them
medicines was rarely administered,
their food was scanty and ill-preparetl,
their persons were never washed, thksa'
filth was suffered to stand for &Egs; zta
the very rooms where they lay: Such
was the popular horror of the pest
house that, rather than GO into it. thss-
afflicted hid the first symptoms at
their maiady as long as. they coUa2-
and, when unable longer to do. SO,
locked themselves i'll their rooms: OF
rushed out of the city, and peristia2
under haystacks and i'm bitches St3E
did those who quilted the city in rssr-
feet health fare much better For,
once out, it was almost impossible to
go on. At every seaport along the
whole coast quarantine was laid On
packets and sloops from Philadelphia
Some towns forbade tine stages to Hagss
through them. The, inhabitants OF
one burned a wagon, loaded with
furniture, on the highway. Those gS
another fired on a stage-coach. Others
put up rude huts on the outskirts,
where each stranger was carefully ex-
amined before he wassuffered to go On
AT every ferry stood an armed guard
to keep back suspected persons. II Il
hungry fugitive begged for food at u.
farmers door, he was given a crust asn
the end of pitchfork and bidder to-
hurry away. Postmasters wcrsld
handle no letters till they had been
seized with q tongs and stepped in
vinegar. Inkeepers would admit no
traveller till he had shown beyond a
doubt that he did not come from the
infected city. But the saddest of ali
sights were the little children wkso,
hungry, orphaned, and homeless WAN
dered through the streets. No 1ne~
would feed them. None wouldgo near
them. One, half dead from starvation,
was found in a deserted blacksmith
shop"
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-09-11
Invest on the Home Farm.

Many a ruralist would greatly aug
ment his prosperity by devoting more
means to personal and other improve
ments upon his farmstead. Somebody
has said, and we think sensiblv, that
one of the greatest leaks on farm is
the practice of robbing it to get money
to put into savings bank. In such q
bank of deposit four or five per cent.
interest may be secured-if the cashier
don't happen to be operating in Wall
street or specializing elsewhere-while
the same money put back on the farm
in the way of improved stock, machin-
cry. better buildings, understanding.
fences, orchards, etc, would, after a
very few years, return dividends of fifty
per cent. Money in the banks don't
usually show until it comes up in the
administrators hands, but in good stock
and well cultivated farms it will give
returns speedily and with certainty.
There is another way in which some, !,
if OF many, farmers "miss it" by in
vesting in the wrong place. For ex-
ample, many grasping and ambitious
family of decent home and various
Soi1LO1 uos Ill oaNCI w PaLShooC Ailoi .
acres. Possessed with the insane idea
that he must "own all the land that
joins him." or as much thereof as posi-
BILE, he governs himself accordingly.
To accomplish this selfish purpose he
lives in the old house long after it is un-
fit for occupancy, makes slaves of him
self and family and negleets the proper
education of his children. We're he to
invest the money thus boarded to buy
more land (Which he does not neeO up
on his home farm-his rural home and
its occupants himself and family would
soon be the gamers in both prosperity
and happiness. By expending his hard
earned and miserly kept surplus in i'm
proving his farm, stock, ETC., and max
ing home comfortable and attractive, he
would not only be quite as prosperous.
but enjoy life far better and keep his
children from leaving the roof-tree,
disgusted with slavish, miserly mode
of farming, to seek other and uncertain
employApents.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-09-11
A Dreaded Plague,

Few persons are aware that ieprosv
still prevails to certain extent in var
ious parts of the world. The Chinese
are popularity believed to be the only
people especially subject to it. Medi-
cal writings show. however, that it IS
not only widely distributed in India,
China, some portions of Europe, the
Sandwich islands, and the West Indies.
but that in this country there are sew
eral centers where cases have been OBJ
served. One of these leprous centers
is Louisiana, where the disease has ex-
isted for over century. 1t was at
one time SO prevalent that in 1885 a
leper hospital was erected at New
Orleans. Within a few years past
quite a number of cases have been ne
ported in lower Louisiana, and five or
six years ago an official investigation
was ordered by the legislature.
tOn the Bay of Chaleurs, in New
Brunswick, there has been leper
hospital for many years. The disease
has been considerably restricted by
governmental supervision, and seems
in fair way of soon disappearing
there altogether
The disease has been imported into
Minnesota by Norwegian .emigrants,
but is said to be ON the decline in that
state. In California it is reported to
be frequently among the Chinese. No
reliable statistics of it's prevalence
there are, however. available
In this city several cases of the dis
ease haze developed within the past
ten years. Cases have been reported
in the medical journals by two of our
tahvsiciaRS, who have made a careful
Investigation into the subject. One of
tie cases has never been away from
the city, showing that the disease was
acquired here.
Whether leprosy is Contagious OF not
is mooted question. Physicians dis
agree upon this point, as they do on
SO many others The weight of evil
dence Is to the effect that there is great
danger from eontagion. Leprosy is
absolutely incurabie by any method of
treatment known to the medical facul-
ty, and it is fortunate that it is as rare
as it is Baltimore Times.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-09-11

yellow corn meal and coarse middlings
the mixture would make the finest and
most butter. IL one doubts the effect
of food upon milk, and necessarily upon
butter, he may feed some wild onions,
cabbages, turnips, or ragweed hay,
when he will soon be convinced of the
fact.
AS rule it is best to plow in manure,
but not deeply SO as to buryit. It does
the most good when it is mixed with
the soil, as it is absorbent of moisture
and helps to keep the soil from drying.
It is also then in the best condition for
decomposing and helping to exert IA
vorable effect upon the soil to far
greater extent than if it were spread on
the surface and dried by the wind and
sun, and therefore inert in every way
Besides, when it is we'll mixed with the
soil by plowing and narrowing it fur
nishes food to the roots of plants in
precisely the place where they can find
it. while if it is on the surface it is out
of their reach, as the roots as a rule do
not try to go that way.
DIR. John R. Woods, of Virginia, tells
how he makes extra fine hams. At the
outset there must be the right sort of
hog, perfectly fattened. This does not
mean any hog fed on corn, but one
which has we'll developed ham to start
with, and then the animal must be kept
healthy. The Doctor gives plenty of
charcoal, which keeps the stomach in
order and the digestion perfect. Then
he believes in sulphur and ashes to
cleanse the blood, and salt also, as the
hogs seem to crave it. Hams made from
hogs selected and fattened in this way,
and all of the flesh, twill be greatly su-
perior to that of hogs carelessly fatten-
ed" and when corn is the principal
food sit is better worth 60 cents
bushel than 20 or 25 fed in the usual
mode.-Franklin D. Curtis, Kirby
Homestead, N. Y.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-09-11

this fashion is on the wane. Fashion
able hairdressers' stores are filled with
different styles of ornamental hair goods,
all intended to save the ladies the trou-
BILE of arranging their own hair. Never
was additional hair so much worn as at
present, although it does not appear so,
as it is not fashionable to wear bulky
chignons. But the front coiffures which
often cover almost all the head, are so
artistically made that no one would
suppose that they are mere conveniences,
removable at will. A fashionable lady
can thus appear as blonde or bru-
nette, or with golden auburn locks, as
it may please her fancy, as many do.
Shell pins, plain, are used altogether
for arranging the loops of hair. Fancy
shell pins, silver and Rhine stone orna-
ments in endless variety, are worn in the
back hair. For evening wear, puffs oi
flowers and feathers. For young ladies,
knots of flowing ribbons.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-09-11
Low Water in Wells q Cause Of Typh old
Fever.

DR.. Henry B. Baker, Secretary Of
the Michigan State Board of Health,
has collected statistics throughout the
State regarding the cause of the great
prevalence of typhoid fever during part
of 1SS1-S2. He finds close relation
between the prevalence of this disease
and low water in wells. The theory is
that when the water is low it is less
pure, and the germs of typhoid fever
develop more abundantly and become
more concentrated in the we'll. The
remedy would seem to be thorough fl
tration and other publication. Shall
low wells are equally as dangerous as
where the water is low. Some facts
regarding the impurity of shallow we'll
water have been made known by the
analysis of the water in Ais of them in
England. They certainly show, as a
rule, frightful state of contamination,
the organic nitrogen to .O7O, in 100 600
parts of the water. One Of the purest
shallow wells contains only .053 organic
carbon, and .003 organic nitrogen,
whilst very bad specimen contains as
much as .sal organic carbon and $40
large proportion of the latter points
distinctly to animal contamination, and
this sample is. indeed, great deal
worse than any one of the seventy-six
samples of land drainage from sewage
farms. In many places in our own
country shallow wells are to be found,
and there can be no doubt they are a
frequent cause of disease.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-09-11
Brother Gardner on Matrimony-

ri should like to spoke a few re-
marks to Brudder Skinner" observed
the President, as the dust began to set
tie in Paradise Hall.
Brother Skinner, a young man of %,
with a mild eye and a lilac necktie, ad-
vanced to the front, and the Presidents
continued:
"Brudder Skinner, de news has
reached my ears dat you am about to
mar'd. L trus' dat de report am true,
bekase believe it am de dooty of cherry
young man who kin support a wife to
take one."
cit am true, sah."
"Den let me compliment you wild one
hand, an spoke few remarks to you
wild de odder Gittin' mar'd has It's;
very serious side. Fur instance, ami
de gal gwihe to marry you bekase she
loves you, or to spite her folks bekase
dey kept her away from de skatin' rink2
Am you gwine to marry de galfur love,
or bekase her father has some wealth
which you hope he'll shell out for ryour
benefit?
"Love am a powerful emoshuny
Brudder Skinner, but love widout
pork and 'tatars to keep it goin' am
like de froth on top of sodawater.
"Doan' marry gal hopin' dat her
father will set you up in de barber
bizness. Most fadder-in-laws not only
want all dey has got, but am willin' to
struggle fur another 100000.
"Doan' sot down an fgger dat 70"
taters, a loaf of bread, halfa pound
of meat, an quart of applesas arr
goin' to run you for week. You wilH
want all the salary you kin aim, am
you had better look aroun' am
find somebody who will lend you Il.
dollar now an then.
"Doan' fatter yerselves dat all YOU
hev got to do am to hug in de house
an kiss ober de gate. You'll he hum
cry fur con beef an baked beans; yotr
cloze will war out; your flour an but
ter will waste away, an a bill fur two
months rent will send chill down
yer back. De man or woman who
spects dat mar'd life am a green an
shady lane, lined wild orange blossoms:
on one side an $40 bills on de oddeE-
am gwine to wake up some day an
find de rats leavin' de place in disgust
''Think of desc things, Brudder Skim
ner. You kin get wife in about FIVE
minutes, but it takes five Y ars to git,
sned OF some OF em. EXpeck aDCtt'
one days sunshine fur week of cloudy
weather. Reckon on house rent comm
due de fust of ebery month an de gro
Ger an butcher keepin' an eye out fur
you each Saturday night. 1t viii
amaze you how de woodpile decides
an how de -four gifts outen de bar'lso,
soon. Doan' walk into matrimony
like lobster into a box, but fgger OH
whether de bait am wuth de risks Ii
you conclude to mary you kin depend
on dis club attendin' de obsequies IN a
body, bringin' along bounteous sup
ply of ham sandwiches. If you decide
not to, it am probable dat you viii
soon be promoted to some posishun OF
trust an responsibility"
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-09-11
Good Rules.

The following rules are commonplace
enough, but we can assure our readers
that if they will observe every one of
the rules, they will be anything but
commonplace men and women:
Don't stop to tell stories in business
hours.
Ifyou have a place of business, be
found there when wanted.
No man can get rich sitting around
stores and saloons.
Have order, system, regularity, and
also promptness.
Do not meddle with business you
know nothing of.
Pay as you go.
A man of honor respects his word as
he does his bond.
Help others, but never give what you
cannot afford to, simply because it is
fashionable to give,
Learn to think and act for yourself.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-09-11
Seeding to Grass.

As the seeding to grass is costly
operation, and also an important one, it
should be done in the best manner. It
is not the best way to SOW the seed on
Fall grain and leave it to grow or die as
it may happen. It is the best way to
prepare the soil we'll and SOW the seed
by itself, and this may be done after a
grain crop is removed in July or early
in August. Glover thus sown with tim
othy OF orchard grass will be strong
enough before the Winter to stand the
exposure, and will be equally forward
the next year as if it had been sown in
the Spring on the grain. The old
fashioned way of seeding to grass and
clover should be abandoned and every
possible care be taken to get the soil in
the best condition for the seed, and to
put the seed in in the best manner,
covering it with brush harrow and by
rolling.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-09-11

St. Louis is getting the love-making:
business down pretty fine. A young
man who was caught flirting with the
female pupils of Kirkwood Seminary
has been fined $50 and costs, notwlth-
standing some of the young ladies ap-
peared as voluntary witnesses III his
behalf and testified that the fttn OF
seeing him dressed in swallow-tail.
coat and crawling through a hole in
the back fence afforded them so much.
merriment that it lightened the labors-
of the school-room for full month
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-09-11
A RefOrmer.

A slim man with a canning face G@d
been found guilty in New York court
of picking pockets. The Judge said
This is your second offense. &
will give yos three years in the peRi-
tentiary."
II deserve 1T, judge; 1 want to have
chance to reform"
".You will get it,
Il will come out of the penitentiary
better man than when j went in.
Do have to GO there at onceP'
s'Certainly."
That's bad. Ihate to be skGt up Just
ut the time when this BarthoEdi circus
is in full blast. II had fair chance
you bet I'd work the crowd for all it
wSs worth. ."-7e1as Siflinqs.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-09-11

The Atlanta Constitution says tnat
the temperance reform has made more
substantial progress in the South than
any other section of the country. "It
is far easier to buy drink in total
prohibition State like Maine than in the
local option counties of the South.
Our planters were carried along with
the temperance wave, and many who
stood out against it, as matter of prin-
ciple, finally yielded because they found
that liquor demoralized their labor
system. The testimony of all Northern
travellers and correspondents places the
South at the head of the temperance
procession These statements seem
almost Incredible but they are well
substantiated.