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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-03-21

100 Acres, Miles from the city: dwelling,
six rooms; Stable to accommodate 80 head of
Horses or Cows; 2 acres in Blackberries;
Grapes; a few Trees, etc. This is a very cheap
piece of property; sos per acre.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-03-21

nor SALE-5,OG0 HOP POLES. APPLY AT
T. GtO. PARKE, 1907 Fourth street. mrlS-1w@
ITO LET-ONE SUITE FURNISHED ROOMS,
| suitable for housekeeping; also, one Front
Room. Apply at 925 Front street mr171w*
ORGAN FOR SALE, CHEAP COST S2s5).
" Also, Twenty Dozen New Cane and Wood
Seat CHAIRS, just bought at forced sale;
lot CARPETS, MATING, ETC., all cheap for
Cash. Call at once. CHAS. NJ. CAMPBELL, No.
400 street. apl9-lptf
TWO UNFINISHED ROOMS, SUITABLE
| for housekeeping, on first floor; price, So
per month. Apply to D. GARDNER, No 4Ol l
street, for particulars. mrI-u
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1885-06-24
jackson and Longstreet

Nv. u 4. IN NhcAgO IuhcsI
Possibly no two corps of either army
made their entrance on the field more
differently than those of Jackson and
Longstreet A lieutenant of artillery
who was at one time in Longstreet 5
corps says. You might be marching
along, not dreaming that you were in
i've miles of a corporals guard OF the
enemy, and the first thing that you
knew Longstreet would gallop past, get
in the shade Of tree, anu pull out a
pocket map. He would look at this
for about five minutes, and turn to an
officer and tell him to deploy his men to
the right, or left, as the ease might he.
II you happened 10 be one Of those de-
ployed men you wanted TO look out;
the probabilities were that you would
be in-in less than ten minutes. And
If you were in the infantry, You would
want TO shoot long time before you
got the order. Longstreet's men went
into action like a dress-parade; they
didn't waste any ammunition; not
shot did they fire until they got close
up. They left the long range shooting
lOT tue dIlllleTl,
But Jackson men They used TO re-
mind me of parcel Of boys chasing a
rabbit: they would commence to shoot
and veil as soon as a blue-coat got in
sight: and they generally kept it up un'
til they could tell the color OF their eyes.
They would string themselves out over
thirty acres, yelling like fury. and all Of
a sudden they would get into some sort
of form and fire a volley or two, and
then charge again in that strungout
fashion. 4 blind man could tell when
Jackson's men were in two miles of
him If they were fighting. Aud that's
the way our men, and the Others, found
out at first Cold Harbor that Jackson
wasn't where good many thought he
uas -
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1885-06-24
A settlement Of Lepers.

lIiphoiuiu WI AhihuctHbiiN
At Kalawao, on the island of Molokai,
is settlement of lepers, about 800 in
number. This dreadful disease, which
is considered to be ineurable, is believed
to have been brought 10 the island by
the Chinese. IL is almost entirely con-
fined 10 the native population, though
there are a few whites at the settle
ment. TN the first indication OF lep-
rosy the victim is hurried off TO kala-
wac, from whence they are never again
permitted TO return. II is one of the
saddest sights ever beheld TO see o
schooner load of these unfortunate be-
ings taking leave of their friends and
relatives, knowing that, although the
distance which separates them will be
but few miles, yet they are parting
never TO meet again this side of the
grave.
This course is taken by the govern
ment in hopes that, by isolating the
lepers, the dread seourge may be finally
be stamped out. The contagious charac.
ter Of this disease, however, has not
been satisfactorily determined, though
many efforts have been made to that
end. A murderer, under sentence of
death, was promised his life If be would
consent to be inocolated with leprosy,
the physicians hoping by this to settle
this important question. This was done
a few months ago, but the disease has
not yet shown itself. But this signifies
nothing, az its appearance may be de-
layed from two to seven years.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1885-06-24
Improving a Girls Gait

New l"rk Cor. chicago journal.
Here is something about a fair walker
that you may believe if you wish to. |
don't. And yet ! can't prove that ii is
a lie. The shoes were there to substan-
tiate it, anyhow, and it really isn't rea-
sonable that shoemaker would 90 to
the trouble and expense of constructing
a pair of good CATERS for the mere pur-
pose of dece,ying a correspondent. They
stood on his counter, and, taking them
up, | found that they were singularly
weighted. In each toe was slip of
lead, like those sometimes put on trot.
ting horses TO make them throw out
their feet freely, while on the inside Of
the ankles were small hunks of leather,
similar TO the devices for curing horses
of the habit of interfering.
The shoemaker said: THE girl for
whom | made those shoes TO order ex-
poets that they will improve her gait.
She has studied the treatment Of horses
as to faults of step, and her notion is
that tOe-weights and interferers are
what will impart freedom and
springiness to her walk"
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1885-06-24
A Million Millions.
Chicago Herald


The English billion-a million mill
ions-has set Sir Henry Bessemer TO
calculating. He reckons that billion
seconds have not elapsed since the world
began, as they would reckon 3l,67s
years, II days, 90 hours, As minutes
> seconds. A chain of a billion SOW
erelgns would pass 738 times around
the globe, or, lying side by side, would
form about the earth a golden zone
twenty-six feet six inches wide. This
same chain, were il stretched out
straight, would make line a fraction
over 1929, 45j miles in extent. For
measuring height, Sir Henry chose for a
unit single sheet Of paper of about
l-333d Of an inch in thickness. A billion
Of these thin sheets, pressed out fiat
and piled vertically upon each other,
would attain an altitudeof A., 3Is miles.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1885-06-24
Goldfish for the Pacific Coast.
Chicago Times.


The Pacific coast people obtain their
supply of Goldfish from the Chaumogin
islands, nine schooners being about to
sail from san Francisco. The various
firms engaged in the trade have differ.
ent places, known only TO themselves,
to which they annually send their YES
sells, and the greatest care is taken to
keep the good fishing spots a secret for
their own benefit. On every voyage
each vessel locates the best fishing
grounds. In some years the fish are
abundant in one place, and, being mi
gratory. are scarce in the next year.
The feet remains in Alaska waters from
two months and half TO three months,
visiting all the islands along the south
ern shore of Alaska. The men leave
the schooners in small boats, and fish
from 4 o cock in the morning until 4
o'clock in the afternoon. The greatest
obstacle 10 cod.fshing is the dense, cold
fogs that during the season hang over
the island.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1885-06-24
wor,is worth and byron.
EXCHANGE

An imprinted letter of Charles Lamb
has come to light, giving his opinions
IN the relative value of Wo.dsworth's
and Byron's work. Il reads thus "T
neya relished his lordships mind.
; Why, a line Of Wordsworth's
Is lever to lift the immortal spirit;
Byron's can only move the spleen. He
was at best q satirist; 10 any other way
he was mean enough. dare say I do
him injustice, but I cannot love him nor
squeeze q tear 10 his memory"
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1885-06-24
The Motioniess Giraffe.
hicago Herald.

The giraffe has perhaps the most aston.
ishing mimicry Of any animal It's great
size, which enables II to live on lofty tree
boughs in lis native African forests. makes
il also a most conspicuous object to It's
enemies, OF which the most dreaded are
the lion and man. Such is its mimicry,
however, that the most practiced eye has
failed 10 distinguish the giraffe from one
Of the dead and blasted trees which
abound In the haunts Of this animal Re
liable evidence assures us that the lions
have been known to gaze long and earn
estly al motionless giraffe, and. being
unable 10 decide that i was not tree, 10
turn and skulk away.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1885-06-24
Naseline In Pastry.
Chicago Times

French bakers are making large use
of vaseline 10 cake and other pastry.
Its advantage over lard or butter lies in
the fact that, however stale the pastry
may be, II will not become rancid The
council Of hygiene disapproves of the
practice. on the ground that the deriv-
atives Of petroleum contain no nutri.
ment. II does not say directly, how
ever, that they are injurious TO health
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1885-06-24

Tuning forks and grindstones are now
made OF glass. Rails and sleepers are
manufactured from the same trans
parent material. The new process Is q
simple one, and produces hard glass
astlngs at cost Of q. B2 a hundred-
weight II iron docs not reform ia
oxydizing habit il may be replaced by
this temperate and attractive rival
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1885-06-24
,sl,gtty of sound.

Sound travels through the air at the
rate Of lac feet in a second, or mile
in about four and two-third seconds.
Metal conducts sound at the rate Of
IL, 1855 feet per second.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1885-06-24

The stomach Of an ostrich ia located
In It's back, between the wings, and The
food can be sem moving sround inulhs
OF its neck 70 get ~ ibis siranxsly
located receptacle
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1885-06-24
The Sealplng knife.
lChlcagn HerAldl

lShicago heraldl
The practice Of scalping Is not monop-
oily Of the American abonginies. In his
Recent Origin Of Man. Southall quotes
from Herodotas TO show that the Scyth.
iHns used 20 scnip their fallen enemies In
the present time the wild tribes Of north.
eastern Bengal use the scalping knife.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1885-06-24
Lol,st.rs sestIngler,s

Prof Beckmore says that the Holsters
ere now taken almost entirely from deep
water. and At the present rate Of decrease
wili shortly become curiosities. 10 be
found in the museums
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1885-06-24

As rule Ion seviy Is less frequent than
psople think The age Of 10 Is reached
eniy by person In Is. the age Of 100 by
! IN $500 and the age OF 10 by In l..
600. 900.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1885-06-24
TN. creoeliIle' Jaw.

Expenmeuts MAIDS In Paris shos that
the crocodile can hiring lts jaws togsther
with thofcce OF over 800 pounds
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-07-10
The Planchette.

There are some indications that the
mysterious little planchette board, like
roller skating, is coming into fashion
again. No adequate explanation of it
has ever been received, though many
have been offered. The construction
is as you see, plain, heart-shaped
cedar board fixed upon two metal legs.
to which are adjusted wheels that
move easily and lightly in all direc-
tions. At the point of the heart hole
is made, and sort of round case is
fixed to hold an ordinary pencil firmly.
That is all there is of it.
Put pencil at the point, as you see,
put two hands upon the board, as you
also see. After keeping the hands
lightly and quietly in their places few
minutes, planchette will often begin
te write. 1t usually scribbles out yes
and no, and senseless gable of one
sort or another, to which no import
nnce must be attached. 1t is claimed
positively, however, that the board
has written intelligent answers to
questions, which those holding their
hands upon it could not possibly be
aware of. 1t may be. But, before
believing this is true, ask some ques-
tions and see for yourself. 1t is one
Of those cases in which the word of no
second person must be taken. Above
all. do not have any supers:itions |
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-07-10
about the thing, taking for granted

about the thing, taking for granted
that the writing is done by spirits.
Planchette is merely a puzzle, to be
Investigated as any other scientific sub
ject would be, on the same sort of
evidence, and weighed by the same
Judgment. Don't admit the element
of humbug and witchcraft and nom
sense and superstition into your soul.
Thus you will not be likely to lose
your head, even when amusing your
self with planchette. 1t is fascinat-
ing study in psychological science, moth
ing more. 1t may be that there are pow
ers and forces in the human org aniza-
ton that have hitherto been undevelop-
ed in all but few exceptional cases.
1t may be that we are on the verge of
some marvellous discoveries in mental
science. So much it is safe to admit.
Tho board writes best in the position
shown, with two hands, a right and
left, upon it. What does the writing
nobody knows. The best authorities
have concluded that it is done uncon-
sciously by the person whose hands
are upon the board. A nervous fluid
is supposed to pass from the hands
and form a current that moves the
board. The explanation at best is a
lame one. But this much is certain:
Planchette writing as an entertain
ment can do no harm as long as the
experimenter does not let go his COM
mon sense and put a superstitious
faith in its revelations.-Utica Observer.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-07-10
Flowers on the Kansas Prairies.

Barbaric splendor of the scenes in
Aidd and L'Africatne seemed repeated
as the glorious panorama of blossom
ing prairie unrolled day after day.
Can you picture to yourself ten acres
of portulacaP or whole hillsides cur
tanned with what seems superb
variety of wistaria, except that it
grows on stalk instead OF hanging
from a vinep Do you know how it
feels not to be able to step without
crushing flower, so that the little
pTalrie-dogs, sitting contentedly with
their intimate friends the owls on the
little heaps of earth thrown up around
their holes, have every appearance of
having planted their own front yards
with the choicest floral varieties?
Think of driving into a great field of
suntlowers, the horses trampling down
the tall stalks, that spring up again
behind the carriage, so that one out
side the field would never know that
a carriage-load of people were any
where in 1t; or riding through
"grove" of them, the blossoms tower
ing out of reach as you sit on horse
back, and tall hedge of them grown
up as a barrier between you and your
companion! Not daisy, or butteI-
cup, or a clover, or dandelion, will
you see all summer; but new flowers
too exquisite for belief; the great
white prickly poppies, and the sensi-
tive rose, with its leaves delicate as
maiden-hair fern. and its blossom a
countless mass of crimson stamens
tipped with gold, and family fragrant.
Even familiar flowers are unfamiliar
in size and profusion and color. What
at home would be daisy, is here the
size of small sun1ower, with petals
of delicate rose-pink, raying from a
cone-shaped centre of rich maroon
shot with gold. A--had brought
with her numerous packages of seeds
and slips, nobly bent on having rib
bon flower beds and mosaic pdrterres
about the house; but she sat on the
steps and threw them broadcast, never
knowing, in the profusion OF flowers
that would have been there anyway,
whether hers ever came up or not.
And how beautiful where the grasses
the most useful one the most beauti-
full of all; the delicate little ''buffalo-
grass" for which the prairie is ia
nous, waving its tiny ourled sicle of
feathery daintiness as if its beauty
were its only excuse for being, yet
bravely ''curing' itself into dry hay
as it stands, when the autumn winds
begin 10 blow, that the happy flocks
may 'nible, sharp-toothed, the rich,
thick-growing blades" all through
the winter, without their being gath
cred into barns.-Alice Wellington
IN Harper's Magazine for June.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-07-10
Showing Him the SIGHTS.

The passion of the true Californian
is to show the stranger around and
make the most Of San Francisco.
Sometimes it does not matter how
poorly grounded the enthusiast may
be in the geography of the city or the
personality of its prominent men. If
live son of the climate, he will never
give in. Yesterday a gentleman, who
hailed from south market street. wan
dered with new arrival over Mob hill,
and was giving his friend from the
ould dart cords of fine, free, nontaxa-
BILE information.
why, in some parts It's a foiner
city than Waterford" remarked the
new arrival, admiringly. "And who
lives there, DinisP'
Dinis did hot know, bnt he was
equal to the occasion. ''What house
do you mean, MickeyP" he asked,
sparring for time.
THAT big house over there" said
the new arrival, indicating the Cotton
mansion.
"Oh, Dave MacClure lives there"
said Dinis promptly. "He's a great
politician and very rich. "
Faith, then, rich he must be to
live in such great house, said the
stranger unctuously. can whose
place is that, DinisP" pointing to the
Hopkins house.
That's Coroner O'Donnell's" said
Dinis confidently, zen that place there
that brown-stCne house, is building
for Judge Toohy, en- that Qeveling his
finger at Mr.. Crocker's house) is Tom
Scanlan's lot"
'sEn who's Tom Scanlan?'
"Won of our countromen. Micky-
He runs the water front"
The stranger was silent for some
moments. doubtless contemplating the
greatness of the owners of these lordly
palaces.
..'En how does this compare with
Waterford, MickyP" asked his friend,
evidently disappointed at the absence
of any expression of wonder
Fairly, only fairly, Dinnis," said
the new arrival calmly. The honor of
Waterford was safe in his hands. AS
the pair passed down California street,
Dinis, driven to desperation at the
nil admirari condition of his friend,
was telling him that there was tele-
scope in the Telegraph hill Observable
ry through wich people could tell the
color of the whiskers of the man in
the moon.
"Arrs, what good would that do
'um, DinisP" said the incorrigible-
s'What good would that do 'um if
they could not spake to himP" This
was too much for the cicerone. He
lapsed into gloomy silence and let
Micky have it all his own way, dis
coursing of the ''power of the quality
in Waterford. San francisco alta.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-07-10
The Mississippi Problem.

Capt Cowdon says in a late letter:
The city of New Orleans, geography
cally, is the best located city on the
sphere. She is near the gulf, and has
all the Mississippi basin at her back.
She has an area of land 1000 miles
north of her by 1.500 miles wide, all
of which has untold facilities for agri-
culture, manufacturing, grazing, and
commerce. She, like New York, has
water lines IN her rear that reach out
and drain the numerous tributaries to
her main ditch, the great Father of
Waters. Perhaps you haye noticed
that Boston has deep water in front
and railways in the rear; and, practi-
cally, it is the same with Baltimore;
while New York has the six by seventy
foot Erie canal and lakes behind her
Hudson river, and to the fact of the
cheap water transportation of New
York, she owes her success as rival
city to Boston and Baltimore; and,
now, then, should New Orleans have
deeper ocean vessels than either of
those three cites, and with water flow
ing to her doors, why wouldn't she
increase enormously in her CONNER
cial powerp
But there are two great problems
which yearly, monthly, weekly. daily.
and hourly confront the people of
and they are these:
l. Can Louisiana get rid of her
)verfowsP
q Can New Orleans harbor ships of
fifty feet depthP
Not long since crossed the river at
Jew Orleans mile above Canal street,
o "Harvey's Canal" The mile-wide,
muddy, turbid stream was moving to
be gulf at about the rate of three miles
er hour, and, when full, it has to run
own a slope OF about seventeen feet
a going to the gulf, at the rivers
louth, 120 miles distant. l landed at
Iarvey's canal-dock, which is not
ct opened to the Mississippi river on
IS north end, by some few rods.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-07-10
Ruskin on Labor and Intellect.

1t is no less fatal error to despise
labor, when regulated by intellect,
than to value it for its own sake. We
are always in these days trying to sep
arate the two; we want one man to
be always working, and we call enc a
gentleman and the other an operative;
whereas the workman ought often to
be thinking and the thinker often to be
working, and both should be gentle
men in the best sense. AS it is, we
make both ungentle, the one envying,
the other despising his brother, and
the mass of society is made up of NOR
bid thinkers and miserable workers.
Now, it is only by labor that thought
can be made happy; and the profes-
sional should be liberal, and there
should be less pride felt in popularity
of employment and more in excellence
of achievement.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-07-10

walked south for less than 400 feet,
when, down there in the canal, | saw
gulf water just twelve feet lower than
the river, only few rods north of
where l stood. You ask why don, I
they cut the bank two miles wide and
fifteen feet deep, straight to the gulf
only fifty-five miles south, and thereby
drain the flood waters of the river,
and so increase the outflow that the
bottom of the river will deepen up to
its rocky bottom or shoalsp Well, now.
ancient citizen, you have me. sure.
Why don't theyp
But, now, while this could be done,
there perhaps Is Il better place. 1t is
Just ten miles southeast of New Or
leans, on the east side of the river, at
the Lake Borgne canal outlet There
the gulf is six miles east, while where
stood it was iifty-five miles away,
and were a side mouth made there at
the Lake Borgne outlet, two miles
wide and fifteen feet deep, at most,
the outflow of the surface water of the
river would be so great that there
could not be any overflow, and, con-
seqnently, the problem of how to dry
Louisiana is easily solved. When
that is done, then the Harvey or Bara-
taria gulf-water ship canal could easily
be made five hundred feet wide, fifty
feet deep, and straight as pole, due
south to the gulf. fifty five miles, and
through which could pass the biggest
ship that could be made. Gulf water
should be used, and thus keep out the
settings of the Mississippi river.
These settings now drop, after meet
ing the gulf water. three miles out
from the river mouth, and are roach
ed up on the sea bottom just like the
thread in weaving cloth. and the shi ps
can't plow through it when drawing
more than, say, twenty-five feet, and
were it not for the constant dredging
or passing of the screw propellers Of
depth. the depth would be but about
twenty feet; so the rlvermen told me
in New Orleans quite recently.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-07-10
Jaw Gould's Abstemious Habits.

Any wide ava Ike newspaper man.
whose duty it has been to report public
banquets, and who has in the discharge
of his duty taken the trouble to keep
an eye on Jay Gould at such of the ban
quets as the mony king has attended,
must have noticed how sparingly he
eats. He leaves many OF the daintiest
dishes untouched, and contents himself
with soup, a piece of roast or bit OF
game, and glass of claret. l am told
that he lives equally plain at home:
Complex dishes muddle the brain, "
he says, ''and have to keep my brain
clear" There are good many specu-
lators who wish he ate more heartily.
-MeU York Cor. CHICAGO Herald
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-07-10
Boiling Water In a Sheet of Paper.

Take piece Of paper and fold it up,
as schoolboys do, into square box
without lid. Hang this up to walk
ing stick by four threads, and support
the stick on books or other convenient
props. Then lamp or taper must be
placed under this dainty cauldron. In
a few moments the water will boil.
The only fear is lest the threads
should catch fire and let the water
spill into the lamp and over the table.
The flame must therefore not be toe
large. The paper does not burn be-
cause it is wet, and even if it resisted
the wet it would not be burned through.
because the heat impaired to one side
by the flame would be very rapidly
conducted away by the other.-Nats4rs.