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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-08-18
Prices of wild Animals.

4 reporter for daily paper has recently
looked up the prices of wild beasts and
birds in the showman's market. He
learned that well-trained elephant will
bring from $4,000 to $4,000, though in
Ceylon the beast just captured cost per-
haps 81 900. The reporter was shown five
elephants whose aggregate cost was $780,
600. "a fine lioness" cost $500, while
male lions cost from $1,000 to $4,000.
Tigers cost from $500 all the way no to
$4,000. The difficulty of catching tigers
keeps the prices up" then they fret and
die in captivity, while the king of beasts,
the lion, endures and enjoys slavery. A
good triek-bear will cost $500, but
an ordinary show bear costs $3.50.
Leopards are valued from $1,000
to $4,000. The giraffe is delicate
and sensitive creature, and no one ever
lived longer than two years in captivity.
" 1t is difficult to teach them to put their
heads down to eat and drink" They are
worth from $4,000 to $4,000. Cameis are
cheap; from $500 to $4,000. The hippo
potamus used to cost $4,000, but he is
now cheaper; how much cheaper the show
man did not say. Monkeys cost S25; but
any Snowman would give $4,000 for a
live gorilla-so there is some use in rising
in the scale of being" A large ostrich
will bring from $1,000 to $4,000. The
Snowman pauses to say that the ostrich is
a short-lived and vicious bird, and worries
himself to death. Alaska seals were de-
clared to be worth from $1,000 to $1,000.
Snakes cost as much as 81, 200 each in some
cases. The Snowman estimated that there
were S5,O000O0 worth of wild animals
owned in this country.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-08-18
a Wage-Esrner's Prospect.

The South Bend, Ind. Tribune Successor
to the Register, Schuyler Colfax's old paper
of August 18th has the following:
Many years ago William Broadhead es-
tablished at Jamestown, n. Y, near the
beautiful Lake Chautauqua, the first alpaca
mills in the United States. Recently the
Democratic papers have been announcing
that Mr.. Broadhead had become q free
trader because the free wool of the Mills
bill would benefit him. Mr.. Broadhead
has written a letter denying this, and it
will be seen he takes broader view of the
matter than simply free wool. He believes
in good wages for his employees instead OF
the low wages in free trade England. The
following extract from his letter is worth
reading by all who are interested in the
subject of wages:
Such statements and reports Chat ]
have become q free trader in bellef) are
absolutely false. While travel
one Year ago, visiting many manufactures
in most of the principal cities, and viewing
the agricultural interests in many localities
there, | was more firmly convinced of the
wisdom Of our American system Of protec-
ton. | visited the village IN which | was
raised, and there found men laboring for
from ten to twelve English shillings per
week, which, in our money, would amount
to 81 so to 50. For this same labor | was
then and am now paying 81 % per day. l
found men doing there for from four to
five English shillings per day, which was
less than one-half what we were and are
now paying for precisely the same work
Many laboring men in England came 10
me while there and wanted / should hire
them and bring them to this country.
All the reply l could make to this was
that if they came TO America l would en-
deavor to give or find them employment.
The reply was invariably that they were
working for from ten to twelve shiiliugs
per week, all OF which was necessarily con-
sumed in bare living expenses, and that it
was impossible for them to accumulate
enough to pay their transportation to this
country. | came to this country wage
Garner myself. ! have watched with inter-
est its material growth and prosperity
under high protective tariff. Under this
system have seen it grow to be the richest
aud most powerful nation on the globe
No, l am not in favor of free trade, neither
am in favor of a tariff for revenue only
an a stronger protectionist than ever. l
am entirely in sympathy with the platform
adopted by the Republican party at the
Chicago Convention. / admire the ticket
our chosen delegates have placed ia nomi-
nation, and shall do what l Can honorably
to secure its election in November next
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-08-18
MARRIAGE A BUSINESS.
The Three Glasses Who Now Marry-A
mics of Unmarried Girls


mics of Unmarried Girls
Marriage seems to have been given up as
an amusement-a recourse against ennui.
1t has become business, as much SO as in
PariS-yastly more so than in London.
There are only three classes of men that
now marry-or contemplate matrimony.
One is the very poor workingman, for
whom wife furnishes the cheapest form
of service. Another is the rich bachelor
or widower, who has exhausted single
blessedness, and wants house, home in
which he can entertain; and a third. the
struggling, but ambitious young man. who
knows how much solid, social footing and
connections" help man, and influence
the bearing of other people toward him,
and wants wife as a stepping-stone to for
tune. If there is "stuff" in the young
man-if he is not piece of pure, incar-
nate selfishness-there is usually little OBJ
lection to helping" him by bestowing
upon him wife, her family and her for
tune or expectations. But the popular
party is the rich bachelor, or the rich
wldower, who has outlived his illusions.
who does not expect too much, who has a
hne house ready made, money enough to
NAAND iAAA W 81 deli Ills luCllUdtlOnS ana
place of honor which the fortunate
chosen one has only to walk in and occupy.
What pity there are not rich bachelors
and widowers enough to go round!
In the mean time it is becoming seri-
Gus question, What will become of the
armies of unmarried girls? The stage
and story writing, or penny-a-lining, can
not solve the problem for them all and
only very small percentage can, after all,
get to Europe, which is the panacea for
young American disappointment and
buried hopes. A few resort to aesthetic
wit, a few to aesthetic literature, and a few.
whose necessities are more pressing, to
" business the lighter departments of
which they will in time monopolize here
as women have done for many years in
Paris and the large English cities. A
book was written lately with the title,
divorce Abolished" one upon marriage
abolished would seem to have been more
apropoS-,Jennu June.
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NOTICE TO VOTERS !

NOTICE IS hereby GIVEN TO ALL
~ parties interested, that at regular meet
ing of the Board of Supervisors OF Sacramento
County, California, he'd on the 5th day Of
MARCH, 1885, an order was duly xaade and en-
tered canceLAng the Great Register Of said
county, and ordering reregistrstion Of the
voters thersof. Said order was made pursuant
to Section 1924 OF the Political Code and all
persons desiring to vo'e 1t the next enssing
general election are nonned that they Will Aave
to be <ergistered, as provided In said section
and IA conformity with this order.
Attest: lsEAL.l W. B. HAMILTON,
Clerk OF Board Of Supervisors Sacramento
, County, California. mr6-6Ia
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-08-18
Thursday. September 20. 1sss.

At 100 P. NJ, for furnishing Paper and other
year beginning on the first Monday in
october, 1888. and ending on the first Monday
in October, 1889, in qualities and quantities
as per schedule, TO be furnished on application
to the Superintendent of State Printing.
Bidders will furnish samples, with price per
pound or per ream, for the different weights
and also names OF makers whose stock they pro-
pose to supply.
Payments to be made in warrants upon the
State Treasury.
Section So of the Political Code provides that
mo bids shall be considered unless accomps-
MED by certified check in the sum Of two
thousand dollars gold coin, payable to the Gov
ernor, for the use of the people OF the State or
California conditioned that If the bidder re-
ceives the award of the contract lie will, within
thirty days, enter into bonds in the sum Of ten
thousand dollars, with two or more sureties to be
approved by the Governor OF the State, shat he
win faithfully perform the condition of his con-
tract. AL bids must be for The furnishing and
delivery Of the paper and materials at abe state
Printing Office, in the City of Sacramento, SO
that the State shall not be charged with any cost
of transportation OF delivery.
Section 1926, Political Code: No supplies of
any kind or character, for the benefit OF the
State. or TO be paid for by any moneys appro-
priate6 or. to be appropriated by me State,
manufactured u grown in this state, which
are N whole, or III part, TIE product
of N0ngolian labor, shall be puochased by
the officials for the State having the control
of any public Institution under Ike control OF
the State, or OK any county, city ara county, city
or town thereof
Bidders VIII understand that al of the paper
of the Dimensions CT 30x41, sob Book Paper
m.nst be pus in cases of about Esams each.
The Board reserves the right to reject an
and sill BIDS, and - accept all OF any portion OF
any bid.
Proposals to be Endorsed: Proposals foS Paper
and Maserial foz she State Printing Office"
j u. YOUNG,
au1e2p3ot Superintendent State Printing.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-08-18

Do YOU have distress in the stomach
after eating, or faininsss, heartburn, head
ache or other dyspeptic symptoms? Hoods
Sarsaparilla will tone The stomach, give an
appetite, and cure you
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-08-18

Black plums may eat as sweet as white.
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INVALUABLE FOR

INVALUABLE FOR
BURNS, SUNBURES, DIARRHG,A. CHAFINGS,
STIEGS OF INSECTS, PILES, SORE
EYES. SORE FEET.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-05-17
CURIOUS THINGS OF LIFE

Wichita baker displays the sign: eight
loves for ST."
New England constable, who has had
great experience with tramps, says that be
has never Yet seen one with a bald head.
The latest Arkansas sensation is a nero
baby with two heads and faces, one arm and,
three legs, upon which it stands tripod fash
ion.
y Louisville man called ON a botelkeeper
in Buliitt county, Ky, the other day and
paid seventy-fve cents for meals he had eaten
fifteen years ago.
An old lady Of 70, living in Dooly county,
Ga, is able 70 perform the feat of dancing O.
jig with tumbler OF water balanced on her
head without spilling a drop
A parishioner stood up in St Georges.
church, Bolton, England, recently and for
babe the bans of a couple intending to be
married. The ohiector was quietly requested
TO go to the veStry at the close of the service,
when it was learned that he grounded his op
position on the alleged fact that the man
was in debt, and consequently not in posi-
ton to be married
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-05-17

The tariff debate in congress Is drag
cling IFS weary length along. The limit
for this tedious discussion has been ex-
tended from Wednesday to Saturday. At
all events some action will be taken on
the pending measure, the Mills bill, before
the democratic national convention as
sembles. The democratic party, through
its representatives 10 congress, should put
itself fairly and squarely on record before
that time, that the democratic platform
may be shaped accordingly and the com
ing contest be made on a clearly defaed
and distinct issue.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-05-17
PROHIBITION AND THE DEMOCRACY.

The refusal o; the democratic county
convention last Saturday to touch the
prohibition question is certainly matter
for sincere congratul alton by every demo
crat in this county, and the fact tina. the
convention was composed largely of gen
tlemen who opposed prohibition during
the late prohibition canvass in this state,
shows those gentlemen love party har-
mony better than they love party proscrio-
ton, and the additional fact that this
convention selected as one of the delegates
to the Fort Worth state convention, DR..
R. NJ. Swesriugen, the most conspicuous
leader in Travis on the side of prohibition
during the late canvass, only the more
strongly emphasizes the will and wish of
the democracy of this county for har-
mony and unity of action. The dee
cation is strong one, and one of the
most representative that will be at Fort
Worth. The Travis county convention
performed its work we'll, and shonld re-
ceive the thanks of all true Democrats.
The spirit displayed by the democracy
of Travis county appears to very largely
predominant in the party throughout the
state, and We believe will rule in the Fort
Worth convention. The numerous county
democratic conventions, held in different
sections on Saturday last, aud published
in our yesteriays's issue, with oae dr two
exceptions, either ignored prohibition al
together, or, when mentioned, it was 10
oppose any re-opening of the question.
This is as it should be. Let US have
harmony and strength in the democratic
party of Texas. The people themselves
have settled prohibition, and taking it up
again in the party would be supeIhuous.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-05-17
THE CAPITOL BUILDING OCCUPIED.

There was rejoicing written on the face
of every legislator last night, and there
was cause for such rejoicing, for it was
the event of lifetime to be allowed the
privilege of participating as legislator
in the christening of the grandest state
house in the union. Then and there was
the occasion of lifetime. Who was not
tnthused with the idea of the grandeur
and magnihcene of the state as he stood
in those legislative halls last night and
thought Of what the state was and had
accomplished, and what she would yet
achieve. The empire state last night
had placed upon it the everlasting
seal of state unity. That mammoth struct-
ure, towering to the sky and tipped with
the lone star, emblematic Of the single
and indivisible life and being of the state,
is pledge and guarantee that in its halls
and beneath its dome the children of
Texas, for generations and centuries to
come, will meet and rule the interests of
their empire state. Last night will live in
the memory of the Twentieth legislature
it will live in the history of Texas.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-05-17
Another immigration Convention
Called For.
COLORADO, Tex, May l, 1888

COLORADO, Tex, May l, 1888.
The enthusiasm which animated the
people of Texas prior to and at the time
of the Dallas immigration convention was
almost phenomenal in its universal char
acter. The people, as with one voice, had
proclaimed their hearty approval. From
city, town, village, hamlet, forest, prairie
and mountain top there had come one
spontaneous and laundering proclamation
that Texas wish d and invited immi-
grafton"
Thu convention was largely attended by
representative men, enthusiastic to an ex
IRENE degree upon that subject which had
so completely captured popular favor.
The conflicting opinions expressed
concerning the DETAILS of the business
carried conviction to all that the conven-
ton had not analysed and mastered the
subject. Enthusiasm had to confess its
ignorance, and boldness gave way to
timidity. In the midst of doubt and
hesitation the convention resolved to
adopt conservative policy as the sIfest
way of handling delicate question. 1t
would not assume the responsibility of
collecting large sum of money ard
placing it in the hands of officers who
might betray the trUst or use it unwisely,
| But they would provide state committee
and authorize it in modest way, to beg
small amount from voluntary subscrip.
ton. With that humble sum it must per
| form miracles and open the food-gates
| by which millions of capital and millions
of immigrants should be poured out
upon the rich lands of Texas.
Being now free from responsibility it
appealed to the railroads TO come to its
assistance. To its surprise, it found those
powerful and practical agents ready to do
even more than was asked for. They
we're willing at once to enter upon bust.
ness like methods for promoting immi-
grafton; they were willing 10 ploy both
effort and money. The convention could
not resist its admiration and applauded
to the echo such liberal and intelligent
offers of assistance. Then the con vention
adjourned. Its members repaired to their
several homes to report to their reighbors
how prudent and conservative they had
been.
No convention had ever ga hered from a
more enthusiastic or unanimous people.
No convention had ever a more worthy
subject for consideration. No conven-
ton could more certainly rely upon
the approval and support of its
constituents. Any bold, practical and az
propriate effort to promote immigration
would have been endorsed by grateful and
liberal people. Any reasonable SUN of
money, called for in business-like way,
would have been promptly supplied. But
the opportunity was lost. Combination of
effort and concert of action had been de.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-05-17
The Mouth of the BRACES.

FROM the houston fOSt.
The prof 9ctors of the improvement at
the mouth of the Brazos river for deep
water port for Texas, ia the absence of
any appropriation by congress for that
purpose, have concluded to do the work
at their own expense, and to that end
there has been introduced in both houses
Of congress bill authorizing the syndi-
cate to erect jetties from the mouth of
the river into the Gulf of Mexico. This
bill does not ass the government for any
money, but provides that congress can, at
any time before or after the completion
of the work, elect to take it off of the
hands of the syndicate by reimbursing
them for the amount expended for the
construction of said works. Conse-
quently, if the project is not a success
the government loses nothing. The pro-
jectors have thu utmost faith in their abil-
lty to secure deep water at this point, at
less cost than at any other place on the
Iexas coast, and are willing to expend
their own money to carry it out and
give the government the right to take it
off their hands and control it at any time.
Certainly this movement must receive the
hearty approval of every citizen of Texas,
and of every member of congress from
Maine to California who desires to see
deep water on the gulf coast.
The best engineering talent in the
country has been employed, Mr.. E. L..
Cortheil, the successor of Captain Esds,
being the chief engineer, who pronounces
it entirely feasible and practicable. The
projectors say that with the means at their
command they have no doubt but what
they will secure twenty five feet of water
at this point within the next two years if
the government will grant them the privi-
lege of spending their own money for that
purpose. 1t behooves the press and every
citizen of the country to urge congress to
pass this bill at once. If these men are
willing to spend their own money in the
project, there certainly ought to be no
opposition. 1t will interfere with TO other
point on the coast, and we can't have too
many deep water ports.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-05-17
BASEBALL TALK.

Utica mas a female baseball nine.
Won der Abe has offered Louisville $3.50
Tor tile release .: Pitcher Strat:on.
Arson is sald to be only ~ wears of age,
Out he acts Ike sixty on the ball field.
Boston has offered $4,000 for the release
OF Hardy Richardson Tue Detroit CLUB re-
fuses to sell
With proper training Catcher Bushons
hopes TO make fine pitcaer OUT Of Hughes,
OF the BrooklynS
Mike Kelly's batting average is now a little
over 800 This is considerably more than
any other man in the League.
Manager John Kelly, Of the Iouisvilles,
has engaged the baseball grounds at the Hos
Springs next season, and will organic q
team of twenty players for games there next
spring.
Some Of the Southern lgarue nlavers
worked on the management to let the reserve
privilege go by default They wanted to be
lett Tree to skip out at the end of the season
Inc Southern league, however, is paving as
org salaries as any other, and it would Do
louy TO carry expensive teams this season
without the reserve privilege
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-05-17
DAUGHTERS OF EVE.

Queen Victoria will not hold levee thi,
year
Lillian Russell is getting thin and pretty
again
The late Nine. Boucicaut's diamonds have
lust been sold at auction.
Eleven-year-old Laura Jones has invented
a flour and grain elevator.
Mrs. Elizabeta Strong, of San Francisco, is
the Rosa Bonheur of America.
Mrs. Theresa Fair travels on palace car
with her own steward and cook
The mother of Gen. Lew Wallace lectures
on woman suffrage and temperance.
Miss Paddock, daughter of the United
States senator, wants to be an actress.
Mrs. Laura Webster is the only woman in
America who performs professionally upon
the violoncello.
Vanderbilt once paid Miss May Tillinghast
$50, 900 for inventing new kind of tapestry
hanging for his house.
Mrs. John A Logan rents pilot of ground.
on which she has small flower garden, from
John Sherman, for $50 year.
WOuldn uNluS III AShitt, W. las not
spoken to her brother in thirty-five years,
although she sees him almost daily.
Amelie Rves has never been known to
keep an engagement at the hour named, but
is nevertheless a great favorite among her
friends.
Haruka, empress of Japan, will visit
America next winter, travelling in state
with dozen maids of honor, numberless
officials and every incident of luxury.
Mrs. P. L. Collins, who is employed at the
dead letter office at Washington at large
salary to decipher "blind" handwriting, can
read every known language except Russian
and Chinese.
Mrs Quincy A. Shaw, of Boston, daugh-
ter of Louis Agassiz, has for eight years sup
ported free kindergartens III the poorest
quarters of Boston and Cambridge, at per-
sonal expense Of $4,000
Miss Linda Gilbert has devoted fifteen
years and most of her fortune to prison re-
form. She has established twenty-five
libraries in the prisons of different states and
found employment for 5000 ex -convicts
Mrs Paran Stevens, the American mil.
ionaire who has just come to London, began
life as a waiter girl in restaurant, while her
husband started out as a stable boy" is the
way an English newspaper alludes to New
Works prominent society leader
Insurance statistics show that the expecta-
ton of life of American women at 20 years
of age is 40.S years, and of English women
precisely the same. After the age of 20 the
eynectation of life amoup An,eripan woman,
exceeds considerably that of English women.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-05-17

predicted for the Atlantic and Texas coast
several years ago, frightening thousands
of credulous people out of their senses
Notwithstanding previous failures. Wig
gins now predicts a great earthquake in
California between now and fall. He has
given himself plenty of time, knowing as
he did that nothing is more possible in
the Rocky mountains than an earthquake,
several of which occurred in that region
last year. The reasons given by Virgins
in his former predictions we're proof to
scientific people of the real charlatanism
of the man, and his California prophecy
but strengthens the proof that Virgins
is a miserable imposter.