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WHEAT CROP OF THE WoRLD.-The
total wheat crop of the world is about
2,000,000,000 bushels, and at least l,500,-
100000 bushels are consumed in the coun-
tries in which it is grown, leaving bal
ance of 500,000000 to supply countries
growing no wheat or growing less than
they consume. Speculation deals only
with this balance that goes into general
trade, and the spectators of the world in
a single year will sell or transfer in their
peculiar way forty or fifty times 500,000,0 900
bushels of wheat. In New York single
day sometimes witnesses a sale or transfer
of 30,000,000 bushels of wheat. The dam
ages done by speculation consists in lower
ing the price of the whole amount of actual
wheat by this enormous imitation of "paper
wheat" not bushel in thousand of
which is ever delivered. Milling World.
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PRUNING NOTES.
How and When to Trim Fruit Trees In
California,

A well informed fruitest, saws the Santa
Rosa Democrat, thus gives his experience
in pruning, which NAV be found valuable:
Some persons object to having their fruit
trees cut back" or the long, slender limbs
shortened in" alleging that multitude
OF sprouts will start from the ends of the
limbs, giving the tree q thick, bushy,
broomy top. The cause of this is not
chargeable TO the mode of pruning, but to
the time when it is done. If limb is cut
off near its extremity at the time its sap is
ascending, which, in this climate. is dur
ing the months of January and February,
there will be more or less sprouts pushed
out, where the limb was cut off, nature
thus making an effort to reproduce the
part cut OFF. After the sap has performed
Its first office Of developing the leaf and
fruit buds, 4 portion Of the sap descends
between the bark and wood to form new
layer of wood. A limb cut off ut this time
Will not throw out any suckers, but will
commence to heal over, and if the wound
be not large it will heal over the first sea-
son. When the sap ascends it is drawn
up by capillary attraction through the
pores of the outer layers of wood, which
remains porous until this important office
Is performed, and then it becomes dense
like all the other layers of wood. When
the sap descends it is of a thick, Shiny
consistency, and its specific gravity carries
1t down between the bark and the wood.
there IN time to be hardened into an an
nular layer of wood.
If fruit be the main object to be attained,
prune when the sap is ascending Long
terminal branches cut off at this time will
check the rise of sap to the extremities,
and many dormant fruit buds will be de-
veloped which otherwise would not show
themselves. On the contrary, if the good
of the tree be considered of prime import
ance, which is really the case, then prune
when the sap is descending. A rule of
universal application is to prune when the
bark peals. But better prune when the
sap is ascending, at the risk of having
suckers start from the ends of the limbs,
than not prune at all by cutting off these
long, slender limbs which are sure to bend
and frequently break with the load of
fruit, thus greetly iniuring if not entirely
running the tree. BY cutting off these
long slender limbs fruit spurs and buds
will be developed lower down within
| reach, the sap will not be forced ten or fif-
teen feet into the extremities to become
unduly heated in the sun, thus doing a
great injury to the limb and depriving it
of much of its virtue which ought to be
expended in perfecting tinelyfavored and
nicely-colored fruit.
Should one advocate and practice prun-
| ing only when the leaves and blossoms are
fully developed, which is the true time, he
would not be likely to get much work of this
kind to do, and quite likely he would be
sat down on" as an idiot or lunatic
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For the RECoRD-UNIoN.I
THE WRECK.

1t was midnight on the water,
And the darkness was intense,
Moon and stars alike were hidden
In the murky armament;
While the storm ragged DER the billow,
Lashiug sea to whitest foam,
And the vivid lightning flashes
On ship dismantled shone.
She who once had sailed so proudly
Ger the oceau's crested wave
Bent before the storm-king's fury,
Powerless herself to save;
And the manly forms that gathered
ON the vessels heaving deck
knew the coming morn would witness
fearful scenes of fearful wreck.
They could only look to heaven
For the aid man could not give;
Human help was helpless to tbs M
In that sea no boat could live:
surging waters all around them,
Jagged rocks, all towering high,
Left them scarce hope of rescue
FROM some chance ship passing by.
Slowly passed the fearful hours,
AS they vanished one by one,
While across the waste of waters
Doomed the solemn signal gun;
1t would tell a tale of anguish,
OF ship in dire distress;
But the echo only answered.
Bringing with it hOpelessness.
Daylight broke upon the water,
Lighting up the dismal scene,
Hardy hearts were filed with sadness
At the sight that it revealed.
Where were they who faced the danger
On the vessels heaviDg deck?
Ask the waves that roll above them
Waves that swept them from the wreck.
Few were left to tell the story
OF the perils of the night;
OF the hardships they endured
Ere the stanch ship hove in sight
That should rescue them from danger,
save them from watery grave;
For their prayers sent up to heaven
Had been answered-they were saved.
MISS NELLIE BLOOM
West Oakland. December 26. 1857.
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These Asiatic importations are very
happy in Trinidad they save money, and
many of them do not return home when
their time is out, but stay where they are,
buy land or go into trade They are
proud, however, and will not intermarry
with the Africans. Few bring their
families with them; and women being
scanty among them, there arises inconven-
fences and sometimes serious crimes.
1t were to be wished that there was
more prospects of the race becoming per-
manent than feel there is. They work
excellently. They are picturesque addi-
tions to the landscape, as they keep to the
bright coiors and graceful drapery of
India. The grave dignity of their faces
contrasts remarkably with the broad, good
humored, but common features of the
African. The black women look with
envy at the straight hair of Asia, and twist
their unhappy wool into knots and ropes
in vain hope of being mistaken for the
purer race; but this is all. The African
and the Asiatic will not mix, and the
African being the stronger will and must
prevail in Trinidad as elsewhere in the
West Indies. Out of total population
of 10000 there is $4,000 whites and
mulattoes, 10000 coolies, the rest negroes.
The English part of the Europeans shows
no tendency to increase. The English
come as birds of passage, and depart when
they have made their fortunes. The
French and Spaniards may hold on to
Trinidad as home. Our people do not
make homes there, and must be looked on
as transient element.-Jdmes 4athoay
Fronde
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A FARMERS Cow-The Guernsey COW
Is good strong farmers COW, weighing
usually from 900 to 1000 pounds. have
one weight ng 1,400 pounds and over
They have good bones aud muscles. Their
calves are good size and make good veal
they have good, hardy constitutions, are
good feeders, and will bear forcing when
butter brings remunerative prices. They
have beautiful yellow skin, consequently
they produce yellow butter even in winter.
Their butter needs no artificial coloring at
any season of the year, relieving ones
conscience from the burden of deceit.
They have quiet, even disposition Their
teats are of good size; they give good
flow of milk nearly TO calving time, and
frequently they cannot be dried off even
for the good of the COW or the calf they
are carrying. Their butter product is
equal to if not better than any COW that
the writer has had anything to do with.
The bulls are quite tractable; l have
never had a cross one. Now, when such a
COW is brought before the farmers of this
country it does not seem strange that she
has her admirers.-Portlqnd paper.
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TRANSATLANTIC TREEs-In a recent
number of the Scientific American we find
the following hints which we are sure will
be new to many of our readers, and may
prove of benefit. At any rate here it is
THE south side of a tree is exposed to the
direct rays of the sun, while the north side
is more or less protected from them. Ma
ture accommodates itself to this changed
condition, and the difference in develop
ment in many trees on the south and north
sides is obvious to ordinary observation.
When the south side of tree is turned to
the north, each side finds itself in a posi-
ton for which nature has made no prepa-
ration, and death follows almost as certainly
as if the top were put in the ground and
the roots turned up to the sky. The willow
and some other trees will grow if planted
upside down, and many trees will grow
with the south side turned to the north
but with the trees difficult to transplant at
best, it is a mistake very apt to be fatal to
turn the south side to the north, and the
older the tree, the greater the damage
from changing sides in transplanting."
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found. DR.. Workman, comparative anato-
mist of the Medical Museum at Washing
ton, and II. B. Mcdowell, of San Fran
cisco, arrived here two days ago and have
gone to investigate the find. They nave
recently been on the Heminway Southwest
archaeological expedition, which, under the
leadership Of Lieutenant Cushing, has
been prosecuting chronological researches
among the Zuni and Pueblo Indians, of
Arizona, and has discovered an ancient
city buried beneath the sands of the des-
ert. Among the objects said to have been
found in the cave are the remains of a
human being Of giant size, bone needles
six inches long, and fragments of broken
pottery. The cave is in the midst of a
district rich in copper and silver ore
Engineering and MiaiHg Journal, Jan. 2lst.
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The great glory of Jerusalem was the
Temple, monument rather of wealth
than of artistic skill. Like all Solomons
buildings, it was designed by a Phenician
architect and the skilled workmen who
carved the wood and stone, and wrought
the gold, and founded the brass, were citi-
zens of Tyre and Sidon, only the rough
labor being provided by the hundred and
fifty thousand Canaanitesettle who
were drafted off to the forests of Lebanon
to hew timber, and to the port of Joppa to
carry the materials from the seaboard to
Jerusalem
OF the architecture of the Temple we
know little except its proportions, and that,
like most temples of antiquity, it was di-
vided into three courts, called, in this case,
the porch, the holy place, and the holy of
holes. 1t was extremely small, measur-
ing only 80 feet in width, while the total
length was only los feet so that its i'm
pressiveness depended on its golden walls
and pillars, floor and ceiling, its precious
jewels, and the richness of the embroidered
hangings that curtained off the sanctuary.
And mingled with all this gold we read of
brass, compound that seems to have been
scarcely less esteemed in those days, when
the tin mines of Spain and Cornwall were
| among the recent discoveries of the Phe-
nicians and the brass made at Tyre from
the tin of Tarshish or Spain, and the cop
per from Cyprus was still rare article
commanding very high price.
The cost of this golden Temple was de-
frayed by the moneys left by David and by
the offerings of the people; but heavy
taxes were levied to create funds for the
palaces, towns and fortresses that arose in
such ruinously rapid succession. No ex-
chequer could long endure such a drain,
no nation support so vast and sumptuous a
court without murmuring; and though we
do not know what was the relative value
of gold and of the commodities of life, the
stress laid upon the fact that all the vessels
in the palaces were of gold, points to the
conclusion that this provision was as
sumptuous in those days as it would be in
our own-.Scientifc Press.
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THE Use OF TooTHPIcKs.-A CORE
spondent of Leaf River, ILL.,, asks whether
it is in good taste for company of young
people to sit at table after meals and in
dulge in general tooth-picking. Most
decidedly not. Such practice is ex-
tremely coarse and vulgar. Doubtless, the
young people mentioned have made this
mistake through the practice of putting
toothpicks on the table at hotels and res
taurants, where guests come and go indie
pendently and sometimes desire this ac-
commodation. But even in such cases, the
toothpicks thus furnished should be put in
the pocket and used afterward as privately
as possible. They should no more be used
at the table or in the presence of others
than the toothbrush. One may be ex-
cused for this breach of good manners,
however, in case he gets a seed or some
unpleasant object between his teeth which
must be removed, but he should use his
toothpick behind his napkin, that the SEN
sibilities of others may not be offended
And if the operation is difficult he should
quietly request permission of the hostess
to retire from the table for few minutes.
To sit at a table and deliberately pick the
teeth after eating is gross offense against
good manners.-Ihe Housekeepcr.
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The Beauty of Woman

Is her crown of glory. But, alas how
quickly does the nervous debility and
chronic weakness of the sex cause the
bloom of youth to pass away, sharpen the
lovely features and emacia,e the rounded
form There is but one remedy which
will restore the faded roses and bring back
the grace of youth. 1t is DR.. Pierce's "Fa-
vorite Prescr ption," sovereign remedy
for the diseases peculiar to females. 1t is
one of the greatest boons ever conferred
upon the human race, for it preserves that
which is fairest and dearest to all mankind
the beauty and the health of woman.
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LEMONS AND FELoNs.-Those of our
readers who may have been ANNOYED with
a felon cannot fail to have painful recol-
lection of the unpleasantness usually ac-
companying disturbance of this nature.
When felons first begins to make its APP
pearance, take a lemon, cut off one end,
put the finger in, and the longer it Is kept
there the better. The combat between the
lemon and the felon is fight to the death,
and the lemon always comes out yIctorioas
so says one of our exchanges. 1t will not
cost much to try It.
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Too MUCH MEAT EATEN-Is assimila-
ton of large quantity of albuminoids of
benefit to our system at large? Having
regard to the fact that the ptomaines of
our food are mainly obtained from album
inoids, most certainly it cannot be and in
this meat-eating country, where, from
climatic influences, rheumatism and its
congeners are endemic, great liability to
cardiac affections necessarily ensues. AS
most of the albuminoid waste passes
through the kidneys, have we not direct
connection between our food and the pre-
valence of Bright's disease british lfed-
zeal Journal
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Smokers CANcER.-Of seve,

SMOKERS CANCER.-Of seventy-seven
cancer cases of the lip that were treated
in the Massachusetts General Hospital,
during Il period of forty years, seventy
three occurred in men and only four in
women DIR. +. Mason Warren, in his SIR
gical Observations.) Why it should so
frequently attack the lower lip, and why
it shows such decided preference for the
male sex can only be explained by the
fact that the lower lip is much more liable
to irritation, and that in men this liability
is much increased by the prevalent habit
of smoking. | have never seen a case OF
epithelioma of the lip in non-smoker,
and from conversation with others having
equal opportunities of observation, l find
the experience to be quite universal. OF
the seventy-seven cases quoted above,
forty-four smoked pipes (others smoked in
other ways,) and of the four women num-
bered in this record three were known to
have smoked pipes.-Geo. Z. Shears, IT. d.,
in Medical Visitor
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PREsERv1NG GnArEs.-The Michiga

PRESERVING GRAPES. The Michigan
Farmer says grapes are kept by taking
them when perfectly dry, sealing the stems
with wax, and then packing them in ten
gallon casks, placing a layer of fine, dry
and so till the cask is full. Then paste
stout paper over the casks and hang them
up in the cellar. In this way grapes will
keep till the season comes in again. The
Salem, Vergennes and Pocklington are
mentioned as good varieties for keeping
the Isabella also keeps fairly well.
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LrTHoSIA, Ga, August II, 1851.
THE SWIFT SPECIFIC Co.. Atlanta, Ga:
Gentlemen-I have been afflicted with
Riceratton or the legs ever since | was q
child, the disease undoubtedly being here
ditary, as my mother suffered from scroful-
Gus symptoms. As advanced to manhood
my affiiction increased until the malady
became harrassing and painful beyond the
power OF words to describe. My right leg
left leg being less painfully affected. Finally,
about fourteen years ago, the ulcers on my
right leg had eaten through the flesh into
the bone. In order to save my life the doc
sors determined to amputate my leg below
She knee. The ope ration was successfully
and DR.. W. P. Bond, of Lithonia But the
loss of my leg gave me only temporary re.
lief The poison was still in my system and
time after large ulce RS appeared on my left
leg, covering it from the knee to the instep.
Frequently while at work could be tracked
by the blood which oozed from the huge
ulcers, and the sores and rotteniEg holes
were so offensive that my fellow-workmen
could not stand the stencil and would move
away from me.
Last. winter Yves persuaded to try S. S. s.
As last effort l consented to do so, and
about seven months ago i began taking the
Specific. soon bega n to feel the good effects
OF the medicine, the offensive running began
to grow less and less and finally ceased, the
ulcers healed, my flesh became firm and
solid, and to day. after using twenty one
bottles am as hale and stout man OF my
age as there IS in &c orgia. am seventyone
years old. but feel now younger and stronger
than did when I was twenty five. weigh
about l10 pounds. Nothing is to he seen of
the terrible disease, or to remind me OF the
torture | suffered for many years, except
the scars Of the perfectly healed ulcers:
l want the world to know of the almost
miraculous cure effected on me by s. S. s,
and call upon those who wish to know the
particulars directly from me to write and
VIII consider IL a pleasure as well as duty
TO answer their letters. l refer to DR.. W. z.
Bond, of l.ithonia. as to the truth Of my
statement. Very gratefully yours
B. DRAKE
Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases natleS
free. The SWIFT SPECIFIC Co.,
On
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A PLANT.

The rose upon the wildwood spray,
Its dew half honey, and its hue
-, Rejecting heaven when dawn is new,
Sheds sorrow on the summer day
So soon it fades and fails away.
The child that in the cradle lies,
Its smiles mere sunshine. and its breath
Sweeter than all things this side death,
Brings anguish with its dearest cries
so soon it drOops, 50 soon it dies.
Yet what without that blossom wild,
Its rapturOus mir, its lovely leaf
Were summer? And despite the grief
Without those lips that kissed, that smiled
What what were life without the child?
HdTrict Prescott SpOfOrd
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C0URTING A WIDOW.
How 1T Differs from Keeping Company
with an Angel.

Win an angel.
There is any amount of fun in counting
Il young girl who has not become used to it.
She swallows all the soft things a fellow
says, but when it comes to popping the
question, or something of that kind, she
gets frightened more or less, and wants
time to consider until there are enough
loOpholes for her lover to slip out through
without the least bit of trouble, if he hap
pens to see some one he thinks he could
love a shade or two better. Young girls
are timid and shy in earnest, and if a fell
low is not pretty certain he has found pre-
cisely the angel he is looking for, he can
manage so as to have the refusal of her
for a year or more, and at the same time
manage to keep his neck out of the reach
of breach of promise suit when he happens
to meet some other sweet-faced angel that
seems to him to be better suited to his
tastes.
1t is different with a widow. She gets
rid of all her shyness at the earliest con-
venient opportunity, and finds out the
principal things she desires to know OF
him before she allows him to get ac-
quainted- The schoolgirl of 16 trusts
herself to fine young fellow on sixty or
ninety days sight without security but
the widow, like a thrifty wholesale house,
goes out and examines the mercantile re-
ports concerning him, and then sells to
him on her own terms for cash. She has
him sized up before he comes to market
and when she looks as if she were very
artless creature, and fights shy of him when
ever he happens to sit a little close to
her on the sofa, there are ten chances to
one that he will never look any further
but will buckle right up to her and put the
question fairly and squarely, and when he
has done so she is not going to tremble all
over and blush and ask for week or
month in which to make up her mind
She will just wind her arms around his
neck aud look up into his face with one Of
Ella Wheeler's fiery yearns, and before he
has had time to catch his breath he will
find himself nailed to the cross with a
YES that pierces him to the very SOUL
Through Mail.
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PEOPLES SAYINGS BANK !

Omee-Ho. 400 } street, Sacramento.
S-g
Capital Stock PAID Up...-S225, 237 co
Term aud ordinary deposits received.
Dividends Paid Seni-Anaually.
4s- Money LOANED on Real Estate Only.
WM. hECKMAN, President.
WIN =. HUNTooN Secretary 6m
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PREHISTORIC HUMAN REMAINS IN a
TEXAS Gavin a cave near the summit
of the Diablo mountain, about two hun
dred miles east of FL Paso, valuable
archaeological remains have recently been
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a Mortal Cut!
FATAL TO HIGH PRICES !

NOV Is YOUR TINE TO PROCURE THE
IN greatest bargains at the MECHANICAL
CLOTHING STORE. No. All K street as the nro-
prietor, H. MARKS has concluded TO sell his
entire Winter Stock of CLOTHING at % per
cent. less than any other house in Sacramento
on account of making room fir his enormous
spring stock of Clothing and Furnishing Goods
which will shortly arrive direct from the East
ern markets. To convince the public, / wiz give
the following prices:
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SACRAMENTO BANK.

The OLDEST SAVINGS BANK IN TBE CITY,
Corner ) AID Fifth streets. Sacramento.
GUARANTEED CAPITAL, $500. 900. PAID
" up Capital, s200t1. Loans on Real Estate,
January l, 1857, g l24.605. Term and Ordinary
Deposits, January l. 1857 S2,O61. O25. Term and
Ordinary DEPOSIT received, ard Dividends paid
in January aud Iuly. Honey Loaned upon Real
EAtate 9Gly. This Bank does exclusively q
Savings BsuB business. Information furnished
on Application 20 W. P. COLEMAN, President.
Ed & HAMILTON Cashier. If
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sundays excepted. A-For morning. R-TOE

a. N TOWNE, General Manager.
T. d. GOODMAN, General Passenger end Ticket
Agent. II