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Matrimonial Land scheme.

The young men OF Riverside may be slow
in getting married, but they propose to
get there all the same" There seems
to be large supply of the raw material in
Riverside to consummate many happy
marriages and establish many pleasant
homes, but either the nlaidens are too coy
or the young men too shy and something
will have to be done TO bring about boom
in the matrimonial market, as even our
worthy clergymen's wives sadly miss the
little marriage fees that their husbands
now and then pick up in all well-ordered
and thrifty communities and hand over to
them as their matrimonial perquisites.
There seems to be stagnation in the mar
ket, and even the lawyers are becoming dis
codraged as they view the consequent
dearth of fat fees and stirring times in the
divorce Courts that will follow this state Of
affairs, Tor no marriages, no divorces, and
the consequent lively times for the Courts.
To alleviate this state of affairs, and to
fulfill the divine command to multiply
and replenish the earth, and place River
side right before the world, q syndicate of
young men has been formed, who propose
10 remove the dark cloud that hangs over
our manageable young folks, and star,
the boom in the matrimonial market
Twelve of our prominent young men have
lOilueu d JOINT StCck company Tor tillS pur-
pose, and purchased two aud half acre
block in fashionable portion of the city,
which they have cut up into twelve build
ing lots. The first one Of the twelve who
can secure a mate will receive as wedding
present choice of lots and 81 200 house
which will be built upon it by the COM
pany. The second Benedict will take the
next choice, and so on until the entire
twelve are supplied with wives and
homes. This is one OF the best
schemes for the object intended we have
ever seen. and the result will be to throw
renewed life into the social world of our
city the coming season. Each of the
twelve, before he can join this syndicate,
is compelled to take an iron-clad oath that
he is not engaged and not in any danger,
so as to give the entire twelve q fair start
and prevent stocking the cards at the be-
ginning of the game. One Of our Main
street merchants was ruled out on this
ground, as ne was too far gone" and
liable to draw on the company before the
rest had chance to compete for first choice
This is no fancy sketch, but positive
fact, for which the papers are on file, rules
and bylaws drawn up and signed, and
counting has actually commenced, SO that
we shall look for practical results TO follow
at an early day.-Rircrside Press.
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CULTIVATION OF WoMAN's INDIvIpUAL-
ITY.-The women who inspire admiration
are not always the most beautiful. They
are the women who comprehend their own
needs and study out the best means 10 I'M
prove and make themselves attractive
Only very beautiful woman of a strongly
n a ked individual type can afford to run
dir -ctly against accepted fashion, either in
dress or the arrangement of hair. Every
one however, can modify the prevailing
style sufficiently to meet her own require
ment Plain women can render themselves
attractive BY studying the becomingness of
all portions of their toilet. This can only
be done by comprehension of ones SELF
The highest cultivation of the time is that
of individuality, and in no other way is
this more demonstrated than in the general
attire of women. The plump woman Of
short stature no longer arrays herself in
the modes suitable to her tall, slender sister
simply because they are the latest things
OUT The woman with a high forehead
does not comb her hair straight back be-
cause her dearest friend, who happens to
be blessed with the low, broad, idealistic
forehead that artists love to reproduce,
finds this the most becoming way to ar
range her tresses. Women cannot fail 10
find modes, fabrics and coiors suitable
both TO their individual styles and 10 their
purses, and it is their own fault if their
appearance is not pleasing.-C Chicago Meas.
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DO not Gaze 10 go into this, because it does
not deserve more than passing notice.
Still, some scientists of repute uphold this
theory. | will not assert there is " nothing
in it" but only because the true scientist is
not disposed to be bigcted. But this
can say: | never heard or read the
slightest scientc proof of this theory.
Electricity has taken hold of the popular
imagination, so that any inexplicable
thing is explained by electricity For
example, vital force, nerve force, etc, are
electrical force. So also with earthquakes
electricity is made the scapegoat
They have said we have earthquakes in
California on account of the glorious
climate" and the absence of thunder
storms Others have said our last great
earthquakes were before the railroads
came in 1869; We have none now. As to
cALIFoRSIA EARTHQUAKES,
Fissures and slips OF crust may occur any
where. But there are certain places where
there are lines OF weakness. One of these
places is at the line of the foot of chain
Of mountains on ono side where the bend
ing Of the uplifted earth is great. Another
placeis along the line Of continents. Along
the base OF mountains, say the Sierra Ne
vada, there is chance for frequent shocks
The great Inyo earthquake occurred
at such place. There is a split right
at the base Of the mountain going
for forty miles with Il drop Of twenty feet
The Sierra Nevada, in rising, dragged
up the more level land gradually with
it, but a final readjustment caused
an earthquake, as it always will.
The cliffs at the Wasatch mountains are
of similar formation. and some day Salt
Lake may be destroyed. On this side Of
the Coast Range, near Niles and Haywards,
there is a line which adjusts itself from
time to time, as the foldings of the mount
aims show. On the Atlantic coast there is
a line of weakness extending from New
York to the gulf, the formation being of
tertiary origin, and the consequence is fre-
quent oscillation. When | heard of the
Charleston disaster I made up my mind
that it was an of,shore line. Earth
quakes all over the globe have had
points of resemblance to this one. 1t
is usually a movement of the sea bed off
shore that gives rise to the sea wave and
earthquake. Along the old primordial
continent margin is a place where there is
a bend in the earth, that makes the ocean
bed, and a reimbursement of the old con-
tracted margin makes earthquakes posi-
bic. Sometimes waves occur and some
times not. The old Archfcn rocks are COW
cred by tertiary and other rocks. These
broke and slipped and affected less and
less the sea-bo;tom. My object in speaking
to you tonight is to put your minds in
position to judge Tor yourselves when the
details Of facts of the late earthquakes are
available
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SOIL, CROPS AND MoIsTURE.-The inter
estjng researches in Germany of Professor
e. Wollney have shown that both soil and
crops have a great influence upon the pro-
portion Of moisture in the atmosphere.
Other things being equal, the atmospheric
moisture is greatest over humus soils, least
over sands, and takes an intermediate pest
ton over clays. The ar over fat and con-
cave surfaces is moister than that over adj
jacent slopes. Ground inclining to the
north contributes more to the moisture of
the air than southern slopes, while easteriy
and westerly inclines take an mediate
place. The moisture is greater over plant
covered tract than over bare soil, and in
creases with the density of the vegetation.
Among ordinary crops, meadows impart
most moisture to the air; then follow pc
rennial fodder plants, such as clover and
lucern; then summer crops, which have
prolonged vegetation, such as turnips, oats,
maize, beans and potatoes; then those Of
briefer growth, as flax, rye, barley and
peas and. lastly, winter wheat.
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PAINTING HOUSES AL OSE CoLoR-
q People who build rows 10 rent in this city
are not half sharp" soliioguized Contractor
ChoHen as he olosed bargain to paint
FIVE pairs of twin teEements dirty drab.
: Most folks Ike to have it seem as if they
owned the places they live in, and painting
q whole row of houses all of one color
mskes it evident to the r1erest stranger that
they are all rented. /. would cost no more
10 vary the colors and would increase the
renting capabilities Of houses % per cent?
Minneapolis Journal.
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LAND ELEvArIoE.-Dana finds that the
average hight Of the land above sea-leyel is
about 600 feet, and that this would proba-
bly, cover the bottom of the sea to the depth
of 375 feet so that, taking the average
depth at 5000 feet it would take forty
times as much land as exists above sea-
level to fill the oceanic depressions. The
mean hight of Europe mas been stated TO be
GO feet (Leitpoldt makes II 974 feet); Asia,
1,150; Europe and Asia together, 1,010:
North America, 74S; South America, 1872;
all America, $50; Africa, probably about
1000 feet, and Australia perhaps 500. So
far as now known the extremes of level in
the land are 5000 feet above the level of
the ocean, in Mount Everest Of the Hima-
layas, and 1900 below it. at the Dead sea.
Asia has also a great depressed Caspian
area; Africa, in the Algerian "chotts,
sinks to 100 feet below sea-leyel. while in
America, Deaths Valley, California. reaches
from 100 to 200 feet lower than the ocean
surface
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OFFICIAL PROCLAMATI0y

yxTHEREAs, TIE LEGISLATURE OF THE
" State of California, at its Twenty-sixth
Session, beginning on the fifth day Of January,
A. D. eighteen hundred and eighty-iive, two
thirds of all the members elected TO each of the
two Houses of said Legislature voting in favor
thereof, proposed the following amendment Of
Sections One, Eight, Ten and Eleven of Article
Thirteen, o. the Constitution OF the State OF
California:
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TUNNEL BETWEEN DENMARK AND SWEDEN.
A telegram from Copenhagen, published in
the Journal des DeJdtS says that the Swed-
ish aud Danish newspapers have Tor some
time been discussing schemes for the con-
stFuction of tunnel between Denmark
and Sweden. under the Sound The cues
ton OF s submarine way between the two
countries has been raised several times, but
never so seriously as now. In fact, NJ. A
de Rothe, the engineer, in the name of a
French company. has just presented 10 the
two Governments interested plan for cut
ting tunnel between Copenhagen and
Malmo in Sweden. The tunnel woulG be
seven and half miles long. in two parts
of which two miles world lie between the
Islands OF Amak and Saitholnl, and five
aud 3 hslf between the latter island and the
Swedish coast. NJ De R0the has been for
several years employed as an engineer on
the Panama Canal works
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PROMPT reform of Bodily Evils.

The prompt reform of those bodily evils
enfeebled digestion, incomplete assimila-
ton, inactivity of the liver, kidneys and
bladder, as well as the nervous symptoms
which these ailments are especially prone
to beget, is always accomplished by the use
of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, medicine
accredited by physicians. pronounced pure
by analysis, and eminently wholesome aud
agreeable. Surely such a restorative is
preferable 10 unpalatable and indigestible
mineral drugs and unsanctioned nostrums.
The nation at large assuredly thinks so,
Judging by the unprecedented demand for
the article from Maine TO the Pacific de-
mand now supplemented by immense or
ders for it received from tropical America.
Mexico, the British and Spanish Colonial
possessions and elsewhere. Both at home
and abroad it IS recognized as q standard
remedy and preventive, the decisiyeness of
its effects recommending it everywhere.
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WIN 4 Front SEAT.
Golden Advice of Boston Teacher Q
Metaphysics.


Make up your mind that you will have
a front seat in life, and you attract to you
the powers that carry you TO the front seat
If lin mind you take the back seat, you
get only the back seat. The confident, de-
termined mood of mind. steadily kept mp,
brings TO you other confident people.
Confidence in the business world means
both cash and credit. There is not half
money enough in this country for doing
its daily business. What is lacking in coin
and 5ank-notes is made up by mems names
written on bits of paper promising to pay
certain sums in certain time.
DON'T BE A SCREW.
What keeps thousands of noses on the
grindstone of hard times is that they have
no confidence or courage in themselves to
take risks or responsibilities. They keep
a poor house in their minds and live in it..
They aspire TO be only screw in the bust
ness machine instead Of striking out and
making machine of their own. The
screws are book-keepers, telegraph oper-
ators, clerks, and ali who never plan any
thing beyond a situation and steady wages.
Confidence and brains combined find such
screws ready-nlade by the thousand. 1t
makes the screw do as much work for as
little money as possible. When one screw
is worn out it throws ii aside and gets
another.
The screws find fault with the monopo-
list. Their real slavery is their own minds.
They never think, aspire, plan or demand
in thought to be anything but screws.
They think there is no place for them at
the head of a business. Their first and
great step toward staying permanently at
the tail of business lies in thinking they
must remain at the tail. Because what is
assumed or kept steadily in thought al
ways frames an outward exact like of it.
clean clothes you will always have clean
clothes.
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prOuided, that in all cases actions may be main
tanned against the Tax Collect to recover il
legal taxes paid under protest. All such actions
such illegal taxes have been paid. It shall be
the duty OF the Courts in which such actions
may he brought to try then, upon the request
of either party, in advance Of all other civil ac-
tons, and such taxes so paid under protest shall
be retained by the Tax Collector, or such other
officer as the Legislature may designate, until
such actions shall have been finally decided.
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He is q genealogist and knows the date
of birth and death of all his ancestors, but
was one day ooiiged TO ask the age OF his
lated the nurse, he knows more about
his progenitorS than he does about his own
The Acsi5s,a -felss.
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Tuesday, November 2, 1885.

The amendment is designated Amendment
Number Cne," and the BALLOTS used at such
election must contain the words, FOR THE
AMENDMENT Number One" and the words,
AGAINST THE AMENDMENT Number One"
written or printed thereon.
And do hereby offer reward Of one hundred
dollars for the ares. and conviction of any and
every person violating any of the provisions OF
Title ", Part l. OF the Penal Code; such rewards
to be paid until the total amount expended
hereafter for the purpose reaches the sum Of ten
thousand dollars.
witness ny hand and The Great Zeal OF the
State, the day and year first written.
[sEAL.l GEORGE STONEHIAN,
Governor.
attest: T. L. THOMPSON, Secretary of Stale.
iy3I-isSm
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4 workingman ought never to look at
millionaire's palace without saying: Il
am going to have palace like that" His
saying this in dead earnest is one thought
among many Others which pushes him to-
ward and into bis own palace. Because it
is your thought that pushes you TO do
things. If you are in the apple trade and
thought suddenly comes to you that you
can sell hundred barrels of apples at a
certain place, you can't stay away from
that place. The idea will push you on.
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PAIN is the worlds bane; st. Jacobs Oil
the antidote. The world says so.
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Push is talent as much as skill in any
art You can commence pushing by imag-
lining yourself pusher Keep yourself be-
fore yourself in your mind as a pusher, and
such frame of mind will at length make
You push. There is a power in a continual
Imagination of yourself in any certain
character which does make you more and
more like such character. Imagine that
the best belongs 10 you, and you will find
the best coming to you. Imagine the worst,
see yourself in the poor-house, ana the
poor-hOus comes TO you. Success, like
charity, must commence at home in the
mind. Ifnow you are compelled to live in
a poor room and on poor fare, do SO only
under protest Keep your mind on the
better room and the better fare. Don't
say s'pose l must always take up with
this" Say instead, " am going to have
better things than these" You are then
creating for yourself strength instead of
weakness. You are then ever strengthen
ing this inexplicable mental attraction
which will bring these things to you.
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wELL-DIREcTED INDUSTRY.

Real business does not lie alone in being
industrious. The goody-goody books and
maxims have only told half the story about
industry. a great deal depends on what
you are industrious about. If you spend
all your time and strength in polishing tin
pans or blscking your boots your industry
won't carry you very high. The industrious
mind in rested body plans in an hour
what brings in more money than tin pan
polisher may earn in year. People who
work only or mostly with their bodies have
as good right as the capitalist to work
with their minds. The world always wants
newer things, more curious things, more
improved things, more amusing things.
No workman in any trade, any art, any
profession, should be content with doing
what some one has done before him, even
though he does it we'll He should aim at
doing something better than any one has
done before him. When he can do this,
he must next push it on the worlds notice.
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SCHEDULE.

Nothing in this amendment shall affect any
assessment or tax heretofore made OF levied, or
interest thereon, or any penalty heretofore In
cured or any action or right of action on &C.
ccount of any such assessment tax, interest or
penalty; and all laws in force at the adopi ion of
this amendment, not inconsistent Herewith,
or repealed by the Legislature. The first levy
and payment of taxes against railroad property
hereunder, shall be made in the year eighteen
hundred and eighty-six, and shall be upon the
gross earnings, to be ascertained as herein pro-
vided, for the entire year of eighteen hundred
and eighty-fve. Taxation for the fiscal year
ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and
eighty five, is not affected by this amendment.
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THE FOCAL PoIET

Can be fixed. In the earthquake Of
1884, the subject was discussed largely,
and it was thought that the starting
point OF the shake was 80 to 100 miles
in the interior of the earth. II was moth
ing of the kind, being only about nine
miles. The one in Italy started from Q
depth of six miles. One in Japan was only
three miles One great earthquake re-
corded was found to have its local center
only half mile in depth. This was in
consequence of exceedingly limited charac-
ter. 1t has been shown in many cases that
the focus was not point. but fssure s,
8, or 10 miles in length. This is a most
important discovery. As to immediate
causes of earthquakes, they are the result
of a series of elastic shakes, and like all
waves, subject to refraction, interference, etc
The more remote the cause of the con-
cussions, the more remote the true cause of
the earthquake. The agencies of earth
quake are Of two kinds-the ingeous and the
aqueous. The one rough-hews the features
of the earth, and the other shapes those
features. One makes the great sea-bottoms
and mountain chains, and the other makes
the beautiful scenery and details of form of
the earth. The earth forces we know
about the other is from the sun.
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CoNcEYTRIC WAVES

Similar TO that produced on the surface of
the water when a stone or other substance
is thrown in These concentric waves
move with great rapidly, and it is the
passage Of these waves that constitute what
we call an earthquake. We must keep in
our minds the direction of the wave motion
and the direction OF their propagation.
Another thing we must notice is the veloc-
ity of the earth's motion and the velocity
with which the wave is transmitted. The
latter is by far greater than the former.
By means of the seismograph we shall be
able TO accurately record these motions,
and not only that, but the day, hour, min
ute and second at which they occur. The
pencil, as soon as the earthquake is felt,
will mark the time, the duration and the
rapidity with which it IS travelling, and
even the motion Of the wave will be re-
corded. There are several pencils doing
duty, and these will also tell the direction
of the wave and its angle OF emergence, by
which means the probable point of focus
can be arrived at. Several cases have
proved that
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Now, THEREFORE,, pursuant to the provisions
of the Constitution aud an Act OF the Legisla-
ture, entitled AN Act 20 Provide for the Sub
mission Of Proposed Amendments to the Con-
stiutiou of the State Of California to the Quail
fed Electors for their Approval, approved
March It'll, A. D. 1883" the said amendment is
submitted to be voted upon, by ballot, b. Q
qualified electors of the5. ate on
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EARTHQUAKES AND VOLCANOES.

The association Of earthquakes with vol
canoes is natural. Take any map and you
will note the similarity between the earth
quake and the volcano countries, although
sometimes there is no connection. They
never have volcanic eruptions in the Ha-
waiian Islands without earthquakes. There
are also, of course, earthquakes without
volcanic eruptions. But when volcanic ac-
tivity ceases we are apt to have earth
quakes. After Suomboli stopped its erup-
tons earthquakes were frequent. On The
contrary, where they have had shocks for
years, the sudden opening of volcano
seemed to stop them. Some people think
that there are cavities in the earth filed
with steam, which finally discharge one
into the other, causing earthquakes In my
opinion the fracture is more apt TO produce
them than the escaping steam. 1t is a Gu
rious fact that the Italians and French hold
10 gas being the probable cause, while the
Americans, Germans and English hold diff
ferent views. In 1885 there was an earth
quake on the coast OF South America, after
which the entire coast line was elevated
from ten to twelve feet. There had evil
IDENTIFY been a fracture and slip, or likely
a readjustment of an old slip. It is q we'll
known fact that the interior of the earth is
shrinking faster than the shell and
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SEC. s. The Legislature shall, by law, require
each taxpayer in this State to make and deliver
TO the County Assessor, annually, & statement
under oath, setting forth specifically all prop
as defined in Section Ten of this article, owned
Dy such taxpayer, or in his possession or under
his control st twelve o'clock meridian On the
first Monday in March.