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Do Snakes Climb Tress9

Perhaps not all kinds of snakes climb
trees, but there are at least some kinds
| that DO. A communication was recently
| addressed to the RECORD UNION upon this
| subject, but as snake stories are general
| ~ regarded as questionable, it is not a COM
| fCrsable theme upon which 10 state facts,
| expecting them to be received without
| quite margin of allowance as to the prob
| able truth. The question arose as to black
| snakes, whether they are in q habit of
| actually ascending standing timber As to
| the water snake, there is no information at
! first hand upon the subject, but the writer
| once saw what is known in the East as q
woods blacksnake upon the side of a large
| whiteWOod or yellow popular tree, some
| forty or fifty feet from the ground The
| tree was some four feet III diameter.
| and stood perfectly erect. The snake was
| lying against the side of the tree upon the
| rough bark, and no limbs branched out
| from the trunk Of the tree until some dis
! lance above the point where the enemy of
| mankind was located. 4 ball was fired
| from rifle at the snake. which struck the
| bark underneath il and threw the reptile to
! the ground. Hunters at the East state that
| it is not an uncommon thing to see this
| kind Of blacksnake high up on the sides of
large trees. When you ask how they get
there, g that's a question: as the Irishman
said, "of your own asking" Forest and
Strcaa, in its issue Of May d, 1885, has the
| following item, which testities also to the
climbing propensities of the blacksnake:
Everybody knows that the blacksnake is
| not a poisonous reptile. Few know, how
ever, how destructive they are among birds
and young animals such as squirrels, rab-
bits, etc. Last year killed one which had
just swallowed two old birds and their five
young ones. Yesterday J. w Cow shot
large blacksnake which had climbed a large
oak. Noticing u bunch about the center
Of The snakes body, he cut him open, and
there was half-grown gray squirrel which
his craftsmanship had just swallowed
Kill the blacllsnales boys.-rA Z. NJ
Steubenvil!e, Ohio"
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TEE " HOME SEEKER. "

1--WE THOUSAND COPIES OF THE
L HONE SEEKER" were published last
month and placed in the hands of those coming
into the state in search Of homes Cur agent at
Ogden goes into The cars and places q copy in
the hands Of each head of family and single
person. The HOME SEEKER" is the best
advertising medium ever offered TO those who
wish 70 extend their business 10 new settlers
To hotel men and real estate agents il il invRlu-
able. An advertisement In an ordinary publ
cation, prOmiscuOusly distributed, does not meet
with more than one customer out Of every nun
drcd people which II reaches. TIE "HOME
SEEKER is distributed only TO those who are
coming here with a desire Of buying immcdi
ately. Not single copy Is wasted. We have
received a solid support from the business COM
munity of the northern halt Of the state. The
continuous publication oftbe " HONESEEKER', .
is an assured fact. More land can be sold by en-
advertisement with US than any other way
known. We shall meEethe "HOAE SEEKER"
subseTve the best interests OF the northern
half of the State. It is issued to promote immi-
grafton and to locate the settlers fnthe northern
counties. We ask the support Of the business
men of that region which we are laboring to
build up. Our work is important 20 every
branch Of business. If you wanttO help your
selves, help Us. ap7-tf
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Why MIN Don't WED.-The reluctance
Of young men 10 marry is rapidly taking
the shape Of one Of the most perplexing
social problems of our time. In sections
where the women outnumber the men by
about ten per cent. the situation presents
many difficulties. But the Discrimination
of young men to marry seems to be in the
nature Of q contagious epidemic 1t is
spreading all over the country, except in
agricultural regions, where people hold
fast TO the old-tashiOned ways The trouble
IS too many of our young men are deter
mined to marry rich women, or to accumu-
late wealth themselves before entering into
the welded state. This state Of affairs is
unhappy and dem0ra'iZing Il Is difficult
70 point ont q remedy for this growing evil
IAtlanta Constitution
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4 Bear story.

| From Theodore R0oseveIt's account Of
! " SHll-huntinE the Grizzlv,n in the June
! Century, we quote The following: Sure
| enough, there were two bears (which after
! wards proved ia he an Old she and a Il carIv
/ full-srown cub travelling up at the bottom
! of the valley, much too far for us to shoot.
! Grasping orr rifles and throwing of our
hats, we started OFF as hard as we could run
| diaCOnally down the hillside, SO as 10 cut
( them OIL. II was some little time before
/ they saw u.s. when they made of at luu-
! 5cring gaiiop up the valley. 1t would seem
impossible 10 run into two grizzlies in the
! open, bat they were going up hin and we
down, and moreover the old one kent
stopping. The cue would forge ahead. and
could probably have escaped Us. but
line mother now and then stopped TO sit
down on her launches and look round Al
us when the cub wopld run back to her.
/ The upshot was that VIC got ahead Of them.
when they turned and went straight up one
hillside as we ran straight down the other
behind them. BY this time | was pretty
nearly done out, for running along the
steep ground through the sage-brush was
/ most cNhaustinE work and Merri!ield
kept gaining on ne and was web in front
Just.as he disappeared over bank. almost
at the bottom Of the valley, tripped over
a bush and fell full length When
I got up I knew I could never make
up the ground | had lost, and be-
sides coa!d hardly run any longer.
MerriEeld was out Of sight below, and the
bears were laboring up the steep hillside
directly opposite and about three hundred
yards oil; 50 sat down and began to shoot
over MerTitieli'S head, aiming at the big
bear. She was going very steadily and in a
straight line and each bullet sentup puff
of dust when it struck the dry soil. SO that
I could keep correcting my aim and the
fourth ball crashed into the old bears flank.
She lurChed heavily forward but recovered
herself and reached the timber, while Mer-
rifeld, who had put on squirt, was not far
Behind.
a toiled up the hill at sort of trot.
fairly gasping and soDbing for breath, but
before I got to the top heard q couple of
shots and q shout The old bear had turned
as soon as she was n the timber, and
come towards Mortified, but he gave her
the death~wound by firing into her chestand
then shot at the young one, knocking it
over When | came up he was Just
walking towards the latter to finish il with
the revolver, but it suddenly jumped up as
Lively as ever and made of 81 great pace
for it was nearly full-gTown. 4 was impos
slble TO fire where the tree-trunks were SO
thick, bat there WIS small opening across
whichit would have 10 pass and collecting
all my energies l made a last run, got into
position and covered the opening with my
nhe: The instant the bear appeared l
nred, and il turned dozen somersaults
down hill, rolling over and over; the ball
nad struck It near tbs tail and had ranged !
Iof ward through the hollow of the body. !
Each OF us had thus given the fatal wound |
to the bear into which the other had fred !
the first bullet"
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NOTICE.-sTATE OF CALIFORNIA, COUN-
~ ~ of SGCrara entO. In the Superior Court
In the matter of the estate of WILLIAM HICKS,
deceased. Pursuant to an order Of this Court
made the 18th day of May, 1885. noticefs hereby
given that MONDAY the EIGHTH day OF
JUNE, A. D. 1855, at 10 o'clock A. NJ. of that day
and the Courtroom of Department One Of this
Court. at the Courthouse, In the city of Sacra-
mento. have been appointed as the time and
place for making q return to this Court of the
proceedings OF the Executors of said estate, IN
der order of this Court dated the Dist day of
April, a. d. 1885, authorizing the sale of certain
real estate, situate, lying and being in the
county OF Sacramento, State of California and
described US follows, TO wit: About LOCO acres
OF land on the Costumes river. near Hicksyille
and commonly known rs the Hicks Ranch, and
including tracts Nos. 81 and 81 of the Rancho
San Jon de los Noquelumnes, and described at
length in the return of sales of real estate on
file in my Office, which said Executors have
sold at public sale to JAMES p. HICKS. for the
sum Of twentyfour thousand five hundred
lS2,50) dollars, in gold coin. And notice is
hereby given that Gny person interested in the
said estate may appear at the time and place
above mentioned, and file written objections to
the confirmation of the said sale and may be
heard and may produce witnesses III support Of
DIS ooIectlons. w 4. HAMILTON, Clerk.
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LEpROsY.-It Is calculated that IN India
alone there are I0s,o0 lepers. with very
few asylums for refuge. and hardly any
recognized medical nd In Madagascar
throughout Africa, in Greece, along the
Italian coast in Spain sad Portugal. ana as
far as Norway, the same hideoQs scourge
prevails. The general feeling amongst
expert investigators is tdat, like a good
many other scourges, Ieprosy IS either to
great extent caused 81 Intensified by food
conditions and insanitary habits and Gus
toms The writer in the Hjaetee7lth Ccntury
remarks that, though the disease has been
prevalent from the earliest days, no certain
cure has yet been discovered for il, and
With men OF science its communicable
character is still an open question, or
whether il is contagious or hereditary, due
to insufficient, bad food climate or dirt, to
lack of meat, absence of vegetable diet,
to use of salt-tish food, or to want Of salt.
II once desolated Europe, but now, except
in isolated districts, is unknown here
lLondoD Sanitary World
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The BENEFITS FROM Observation-Disclosures
Goodwin, editor Of the Salt Lake Tribune,
and former Californian, in recent issue
of his paper says: California especially
needs something more than manufactures
BY utilizing the water which is running TO
waste, California could bring $1,000 square
miles OF land under cultivation which is
not being cultivated now, and that land is
as fine to grow grapes on as any in France.
It will grow apricots, which are wanted
for canning, and which are produced only
IN two or three restricted spots in the
world. That would mean employment
for more people than Califor-
MIA has at present; ii would mean
a revenue of from $100000,000 TO
500, 100000 per annum; with nearly all
the world for 4 market AL that would
not disturb the wheat area, or the wool, or
the gold area of the Incompatible State"
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LIFE IN OTHER Wort 3s.--'' IN the pres
ence Of time-interyals,' says one Of the
ablest Of modern astronomers, " seen to be
at once infinitely great and infinitely little
infinitely great compared with the dura-
ton of our earth, infinitely little by COM
parisOn with the cteruiticS amidst which
they are Iost-what reason can We have
when viewing any orb in space from our
little earth, for saying u2Jy IS the time when
that ORC Is. like our earth. the abode of
life2 Why should life on that earth syn
chronic with life on the earth? Are not,
on the contrary, the chances infinitely
great against such q coincidence IT, as
Helmholtz has well said, the duration
of life on orr earth is but the min
utest ripple in the infinite ocean Of
time. and the duration Of life on any
other planet of like miuutcness, what
reason can We have for supposing that
those remote, minute ana no way associated
waves of life must needs be abreast Of each
other on tie infinite ocean whose surface
they scarcely RIPPLE Whether
we tu.n our thoughts to planet sun or
galaxy, the law OF nature recognized as
universal within the domain as vet exam
ined), that the duration of life n the indi-
yidual Is indefinitely short compared with
the duration of The type 10 which the inli-
Yidual belongs, assures US, or At least rem
dcrs it highly probable that = any member
OF any of these orders taken 1T random. it
Is more probable that life IS wanting than
that life exists AZ this presenttimc Never
theieSs, II is az least as probable that every
member OF every orier-ulanet, sun, gal
axy and so onward 10 h:-her and higher
orders cndleSsly-Aaa been, is now, or Will
hereafter be- life supporting after its
kind
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BErrINGio THEIR BABEEs,-Anovel wager
was made in Middietown the other day,
between a young lawyer and a gentleman
engaged i'll business in New York Each is
the father Of boy baby, Of which he IS
very proud, and the conversation happen
ing to turn upon the youngsters. each
father was emphatic in his assertions that
his offspring was larger and more pr0nis-
Of the talk was an agreement that each
should deposit 500 in the savings bank,
there 10 remain. with principal and inter
est untouched, until both the babies have
attained the age of p years On attaining
his majority each OF the babies IS to be
weighed, and the one tipping the scales at
the greatest weight is to be entitled 10 the
5000 and INTEREST," Kingston Freeman.
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American California
Refinery. Refinery.

sYRuI'-Froduct OF the American Refinery is
quoted at 3ac in hbls, 3215c in hf bbls, S7t%c in
5-gallon kegs and axe Ia l-galon tins. Product
OF California Refinery * quoted al BE in bbls
SIG in hi bbls, 4214c in 5-gallon kegs and 521zc
in l-gallcII tins
sTARCH-Buryea's Superior 715991%c: 10,
OitunWa, GGsl e; Niagara, 1896; Johnson S,
&C; Cuis.user :, G59713c: Peerless, 81 csc; Er6-
enbrccher's 6hG %. kyerdiugs nc.
TEA-ThC first lot Cf New Japan this season
arrived ON the 10Th May. The steamer which
arrived on the 23th May brought considerable
consignment OF new crop Much ofthis was il
transit for the East, and vas hurried forward
to New York promptly by rail. We quote
crop of 1854 atolJws, as per the usual ClGSsifca-
ti0us: Japau-COmmOn, ISd20c; good, 25G130c !;
superior, 35c; extra fine, 5OgGQc; GUupOwder
and lnperlHI-COmmDu, SOC superior 81 5d-J0c;
extra fine, t-n1pe COugOu and S0uchOnE-Corn-
mon, 8c. superior 371ql545c extra tine, 500,
I5c; Pouchong-Canton, IN papers, I5@25c;
Foochow-Ooioug. &5645c in papers; Come. do,
sc; Fo1nosa, 25@35c fnc do, 4ta55c finest do,
GJd,7Gc = n.
WQ0DENWARF--The Coos Bay stavo and
Lumber Cumpany's price list Quotes > hoop
Painted Pals At 3. vanished do. black
hoop, g %; vanished do galvanized hoop,
- -, white do. galvanized hoop, s. 1906, and
brass bound do, g J0G9 per dozen.
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PACIFIC COAST IVEaIs.

Diphtheria is reported prevalent il Car
son, New.
Waterinelons have made their appearance
i'll Los Angeles.
A carload of Kansas people are or their
way to settle in San Diego county.
Francis Jeffries was arrested at HALEY, /.
T., recently, for the theft IF Bible.
The hay crop on the Glenn ranch, in
COlUsa county, amounted to 5000 tons.
The Kootenay, B. c., Railroad Company
has authorized Il mortgage OF 81 100000
A cannery is called for at Pomona to save
the large crop of fruit promised this sea
son.
Large quantities of alewives, a fish re-
sembhng 4 herring, are caught in Monterey
bay.
The British-American Cannery property
Mt Victoria has been sold by auction for
S., $50.
Grants Pass has been chosen by popu-
lar vote for the county seat Of Josephine
county, Or.
Persons who have been cutting timber
on Government land in Caiayera5 are to be
prosecuted.
The recent troubles at the Olivenham
colony, San Diego county, are to be settled
by arbitration.
The British Columbia Chinese refuse to
pay the $40 head tax and will contest its
legality in the Courts.
The fish wheels in the Columbia river, at
the Cascades, have ceased operations on
account Of low water.
The School Census Marshal for Oakland
reports 10 1914 children under II years of
age, a gain of 425 on last year.
The plan of making prisoners work on
the roads has been successful IN driving
tramps almost entirely out Of santa Clara
county.
There are five lumber mills in San Der
nardino county. They saw yearly $780,
0G0 feet. All the lumber IS used in the
county
The preliminary examination of Henry
I. Prndle, accused of the murder of Dr.
n. l.. Buck, was held in the Police Court of
Oakland Wednesday.
Two little ostrich chicks emerged from
the shell at the ostrich farm near Fall
Brook, last week. They are the first Matched
On this San Diego farm.
A new watering place, called Del Mar,
has been established on the coast north Of
San Diego. A pier 700 feet long has been
built and other improvements made.
The Waliapai Indians in Arizona com
plain that certain springs of water used by
them are being taken up by white men, but
as they are outside the reservation limits,
nothing can be done.
Caroline Ruder, German woman. started
to walk from Portland on the railroad to
her old home in Wisconsin, but had only
passed Wasco station when train threw
her from trestle thirty fecy high, inflicting
serious injuries.
Two walters in hotel at Lascaster. Los
Angeles county, robbed their employer of
number Of articles and left the place on
foot. While one of them was taking nap
the other stole q revolver and $39 from
aim and went on his way northward
a very large but partially explored cave
exists in Josephine county, Or, on the
headwater5 of Williams creek twenty
miles south Of Grants Pass. As far Us
this cavern has been entered, only about
five hundred feet. sufficient sUbterranean
wonders have been discovered to indicate
the existence of = very large and interest
ing cave.
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THE GREAT ENGLISH REMBDY

H - = 5lsiss-5 Is EeTer-fsiiing cure
+ -, S--s-=>@5 for Nervous Debility,
tflsF>| %$a-tl15 Exhausted Vitality
W. l. y I,sI- 3 ON tnQI Weakness,
~ = 80 s. Ny SpeTmatouhnE, Lost
tEIi yff@t.sSl.s III Manhood, ImpOtenCy,
kSt4iC ss2- - Paralysis, and all the
~ - .5tr terrible effects OF self
SSeS. %tI-.+Ss5@. Es!3 abuse, youthful fCiltcS
49, ltlsfssse 49, gnG excuses il mature
a5,N'$SSss| z ;G2ss3fS yeGTs-such as Loss of
ElssI5: - 49, : = $3.50 nj Z T. DRY, ISSSttuGe
tRsE.. 49, Nocturnal EInisSic rs
aversion 10 society, Dimness Of VISION, Noises
IL the t.cei the vital 5uii psSslDE uuoDseryed
IN the urine. and many Osacr diseases fasU lead
10 insanity ard death.
DIR. esi&'sEE, who is 8 regular physician
tSI7CuatG Of the University Of 2ennsy lTauiG) will
GgT =e 10 forfeit Five Hundred Dollars fSf
case OF this sind the VITAL Il IIsE Or a TIT Il
(under his special advice and treatmept viii
rot cure, or for anything impure 0: Injurious
found in l.. DIR hEE$ZIE treats aIl Priyate
Diseases successfully without mercury. Con-
s11tario1 Free Thorough examination ard
advice, including analysis Of urine, gs5. Price
OF Vital iSe3tOrstiVe, 81 sc bottle or four
tines the quantity, SO sent 70 any address
upon Tecaipt OF price Or G. @. D, secured from
observation, AVID in private name Il desired, be
a. u. M1HGIE, NJ. u. No. Il Eearuy
street, San EranciscGr Gal.
SAMPLE BOTTLE FREE
VII ee sent 10 any one applying by letter. stat
ing sy-nrtOms, EEK and GGe. strict seCfcCy in
regard 70 au business transactions.
DR.. hgNGlE'S KIDNEY REMEDY, p E
Bladder Complaints, Gouorrhea, elect, LauCor-
rhfea. For sale BY al Druggists 81 p bottle six
bottles for s..
DIR. EfTNTIE'S DANDELION PILLS ara
BILIOUS cure in tho market For sale By su
Druggists.
KIRK, GEART s. co, sacramento. Wholesale
Agents myG-iply&oGwly
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Cheeseman's Specific Mixture.

With this remedy persons can cure themselves
without the least exposure, change of die, or
change IN application to business The nedt
cine contains nothing that is Of the least injury
70 the constitution. Ask your druggist for K,
Price, 81 bottle. s2t1yWS
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MEDICAL.
| WILL PROVE

ITO THE SATISFACTION OF ALL INTELLI.
s gent people that my practice and system
in treating Diseases of the kye Cancer and all
Cancerous Affections are the most successful
known. invite inquiry and refer to hundreds
OF eases of CUES effected little less than miracu-
lous. DR. II. j. COOESLEY.
9-S o street, corner Of Tenth, Sacramento.
IN,
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LEGAL EOTTCES,

TN THE SUPERIOR COURT, STATE OF
! California, county Of Sacramento. IN the
matter OF the estate Of JOHN WALDIE, de-
ceased Notice is hereby given that MONDAY,
the 18th day Of JUNE, 1885, at 10 0 o'clock A. n. OF
said day, and the Court room of said Court. at
the Courthouse, in the city of Sacramento,
county of Sacramento, ard State of California,
have been appointed as the time and place for
proving the viii Of said JOHN WALDIE, de
ceased, and for hearing the application OF
MATTHEW LENNON for the issuance to him
of letters of administration with viii annexed
thereon.
Witness my hand and the seal of said Court
this list day of June, 1885.
[sEAL. WI. &. HAMILTON, Clerk.
TAYLOR & HoIL, Attorneys for Petitioner.
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PAVILION PRIVILEGES
State Fail 1885 opens September 7th;
closes September 18Th.

DIDS FOR THE FOLLOWING WILL BE
- received by he Committee on Privileges
until JUNE 10Th, nj = P d:
The exclusive right 10 publish q Daily Paper
and advertise in Park and Pavilion; Pep.rte be
printed in the Pavilion.
The exclusive right to sell Ice Cream.
The exclusive right TO sell Candy
The exclusive right 10 sell Soda Water
The exclusive right 10 sell Cider.
The exclusive right 10 sell Root Beer.
The exclusive right to sell Pop Corn.
The exclusive right TO sell Perfumery.
The exclusive right to keep a Restaurant
No Bar privilege viii be let, nor will any in
to1lcatin5 beverages be allow ed in the building
The right Is reserved to reject any or all bids
any further information may be obtained from
the secretary at the Exposition Building. All
bids NUT be accompanied by certified check
covering amount bid
m27-2w 3. CT EDWIN z. SMITH, Secretary.
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ODORLESS EXCAVATOR.

OESSPo0LS AND VAULTS CLEANED
" cheap ard free from sill offensive odors.
Orders lef: at Carpenters Wood and Coal Yard.
426 K street; or at Pacific Market, rs s street,
viii be promptly attended to-
ml64pSm J. n CAMPBELL 4 Co
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HORSESHOEINC

d \. JOHNSON IS BACK IN HIS OLD
IL. stand, Fifth street, between andEN
L, and will be glad TO see his old friendsN II
and customers. All Shooting done In mod. y q
EN- style, latest and most scientific principles
I'm
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DISEASES OF the kidneys, liver or primary
organs are 1Te. speedily cured by the intalEble
Hunts Kidney and LiYerl Remedy.