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been healed of all manner of diseases by
bread pills. Three-fourths, or perhaps it
would be nearer the mark to say nineteen
twentieths, of the stories of cures of the re-
igious class are undoubtedly myths, frauds,
exaggerations, fallacies of memory or of re-
porting. But there is a certain percentage
of cures which can be safely attributed
simply to the mind force; probably the
mind had great deal to do with original
diseases, and therefore was potent in do
ing away with it. For instance, woman
who imagines that she has cancer inside
of her, when there is no cancer, could be
perfectly cured when persuaded that no
cancer actually existed. Will-power is
tremendous force, of which all physicians
are perfectly cognizant, and much of the
success of certain physicians is due to their
control or success in awakening will-power
in the patient. Without the slightest
question, from this modicum of truth has
grown the mountain of fraud with which
the community is now confronted.
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magrums at abou: 92c. All appearances
seem to point to an increased price
soon, though opinions differ widely as to
the highest prices that will be reached. If
this rise takes place, however, large i'm
portations from the Provinces may be ex-
pected as the crop there was good one,
and dealers are only waiting slight rise
to be able to bring them in at a profit.
Outside of Canada, Ireland and Scotland,
however, no foreign country is likely to
furnish any considerable amount of pota-
toes for the American market Another
element which will do much to
keep potatoes high for some time
is the need for seed potatoes with
the opening of the spring season. A
well-known dealer of this city quotes early
seedlings as follows: Early Pearl of
Savoy, S2ssa bushel aHmpden beauty,
81 90; stray beauty, 81 so; early king,
SO; Charles Downing, So; thorburn, 81 !;
rural blush, 81; early Maine, So early
beauty of Hebron, 81; early Essex, 81;
and Seneca and red jacket, 81 So
The South depends largely upon Northern
growers for its potatoes for planting, and is
already ordering in large quantities. Early
growers in the Middle States will plant
earlier and more heavily than usual The
demand for potatoes for the table and the
counter demand for potatoes for planting
will very soon exhaust the meager sup
plies, and early new potatoes will com
mand a high premium. Potato growers
in this region are likely to raise early
crops in the spring. and thus realize the
benefits of the prevailing prices. The
first early potatoes in the market will
doubtless come from the Bermudas but
will fail to supply the demand The South
cannot produce potatoes that are suitable
for transportation, and growers of the
North and East will practically monop-
Ollie the market, at least so far as choice
potatoes are concerned.-Springfeld Moss. }
Republican,
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-02-18
The Christian SCIENCE craus

The latest craze in the art of healing is
Christian science. 1t follows faith-heal-
ers, mind-curers, Gods doctors, and many
other similar Affections A New York
correspondent of the Globe Democrat writes
as follows:
Like all such crazes, it has come upon
this city with a rush, and is talked about
everywhere just as the Salvation craze
dwindles away. We had no less than seven
fiourishing stations or barracks of the Sal
walton army here six years ago; to-day
there is but one, and that one is in des-
perate plight. Before that our Eighty
people were given over to spiritualism.
For the last six months it has been Christ
ian science under one of its many phases,
and as no less than half dozen deaths
have occurred during the last fortnight,
which are supposed by the community to
have been brought about, possibly, by
these fanatics, it is high time to consider
the matter seriously. Unquestionably there
is much in the notion that the mind does
effect the body We have endless in
stances of the strange results of bread pills,
holy water, etc Dr. luke, in his Infiu-
ence of the Mind on the Body London,
1884, says that nothing is more certain
than that large number Of persons have
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-02-18
A Dish of RattIesnakes.

Captain Clinton Packard has spent his
winters in Florida, and will shortly return
there in charge Of d. A. Lor;ng's steam
yacht Last night speaking of some of his
experiences in Florida, he said: Like
most men who have followed the sea more
or less for living, ! have had some queer
experiences in eating, butif live hundred
years | will never forget dish of rattle
snake | had few years ago. / was in
charge Of camp of tourists in South Flor
ida, and one evening one of the party a
Brooklyn broker, who is something of an
amateur naturalist, shot a rattlesnake with
a rife. the ball cutting off the reptiles
head as clean as though it had been a
knife. Going up to it, he said:
81 have heard that people on the
plains eat rattlesnakes, and I'll cook this
fellow and find out what he tastes like, if
it's the last act OF my life
g He took the snake to the camp, skinned
and cleaned it and then cut into pieces,
which he dredged in a fine batter and then
fried to turn There were about fifteen
in the party, and all but one of US partook
of the snake ate Just enough of it to
say that had done so, but | found the
meat very palatable and nicer tasting than
eel cooked in the same manner. The
broker and his son made hearty meal OF
the unusual food, and no unpleasant re-
suits followed the strange meal. Phila-
deiphia american.
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A CALIFORNIA YEAR.

How do we know when the spring has come
In this pleasant land by the Western sea ?
Why the rd1nv days grow further apart
And the clouds tetore the north wind flee
The gardens are blue with forget-me -nots,
And pepper trees scatter their berries red;
The hills with poppies are all ahame,
And llnnetS and meadow laIks sing o erhead.
How do we know when summer is here?
The sky is one vast, deep vault of blue,
Whence the sun pours down his golden flood
Unchecked by cloud the whole day through
Grain fields are waving and orchards bend low
Roses and JASMINE hold Tiotous sway
While tents are unfolding on mountain and
shore,
And the life OF the camper is blithe and gay.
What is the sigh of the autumn time?
Oh then the vineyards their splendor show
Muscats and Hamburgs and Flaming Tokays-
Never were clusters like these, trow
But the roadside trees with dust are gray;
Yellow and sere lie the hills and the plain
The water courses are parched and dry:
All patiently waiting for the beautiful rain
But the winter-Ah, that's the strangest of all
Instead OF the north, the south wind blows
The sweet south wind that brings the rain
The pattering rain, not wintry SHOWS;
And then the rivules sing once more,
The hills turn green and the dear wild flowers
Awake from their sleep, while the furrowed
earth
Grows young again meath the welcome
showers. Mrs. ". II. Field.
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HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Strong vinegar will cure the hiccough
give teaspoonful.
Alum or vinegar will set the colors Of
red, green or yellow.
Hams can be kept wrapped in paper and
packed in barrel of ashes.
Wash out oil stains on clothes in cold
water; ink stains dip in milk
Flannels should be dried in the shade
and, if possible, ironed while damp.
For coffee stains put thick glycerine on
the wrong side, and wash out in lukewarm
water.
Between the hotel squash and pumpkin
pie there is rarely any difference and nc
distinction.
busting cloths must be washed often Oh
they will carry more dirt into the rooms
than they take out.
A severe but sure cure for corns is said
to be creosote. Wet the corns several
nights in succession.
Disease often turks in dirty dishclotb
a greasy sink, an unclean tea-kettle and {
poorly ventilated oven.
To scour knives easily, mix small
quantity of baking soda with your brick
dust, and see if your knives do not polish
better.
Always have three or four bricks about
the house, neatly covered with carpet, fol
placing against the doors to keep then
open.
Salad eggs" are hard boiled, then cut
in two, and the yellow mixed with mus
tard, pepper, herbs, vinegar and salt, anC
then served cold
At Newport they serve baked stuffed
tomatoes for breakfast, and eat curran
jelly on dry toast, possibly for the same
reason that cheap Englishman calls 8
cab keb"
Do not let growing children wear shoe,
with high heels; it is better for them tC
wear none at all, or only such an increase
of thickness as is seen at the heels of com.
nonsense flat-soled shoes.
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The scarcity of Potatoes,

The short crop of potatoes in large sec
tions of New York, Pennsylvania and this
State last fall promises to have very i'm
portant bearing on prices the coming
spring. Local dealers in produce seem to
agree that the present high prices of
potatoes are likely to continue Indefinitely.
Native, and especially New England,
potatoes are comparatively scarce now,
while the imported article is more COM
mon than usual. Ireland and Scotland
furnish most of the potatoes imported, and
Germany has also been sending over large
quantities, but her stock for expectation is
now running low and viii soon be ex-
hausted. Natives are now quoted at 9oc
and Csc bushel, and Irish and Scotch
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A CONSCIENTIOUS CUSTOMER.
He Wasn't Going to Begin to Rob People
SO Early in the Year.


Customer" The coat is too large, tell
you, Isaac. Why, man, it hangs on me
like sack"
Clio hing Dealer Second hand =" Do
YOU drinks this vas coal yard or grocery
sdore, Ell? Veil, it wasn't | gifts you
goot measure, mine vriends. | gifts you
the worth of your money. Vat you wants
NIT goat dot fit you like de paint on a
parper's bole, preezes blowing through nit
your whiskers, Ell? guess node. | gifts
You plenty of cloth to keep the cold wind
ovid"
But, hang it, man wants to be as
near the fashion as possible. don't want
to look like clothes pole wrapped in a
blanket"
"Hol no! you wants 10 be dude Ho!
hol hor'
"No, 1 simply want to be decently
dressed
We'll, mine vriendt, dot goat makes you
so. Let me see; turn rount. Ha. you
looks like PRESIDENT Cleveland in dot goat.
No, you vas node so tall as PRESIDENT
Cleveland. You vas aloud the heighd of
the Brince of Wales, und Ply shiminy you
looks shoost like the Brince in dot goat.
Not kvide so sdoud, but shoost aloud id.
Vot did | say vas de brice of dot goat?"
"Seven dollars"
"By shiminy gracious, was rob mine
seluf if | sells dot goat for seffen tolar Dat
vas a fifteen tolar goat
"But you offered it to me for seven
dollars"
"Vell, veil, dake it. dake it. dond 90
back on mine wort. But / vas rob mine
seluf so helup me gracious"
You are robbing yourself by giving it
to me for seven dollars ?'
So helup me graciousm
"Well, then, | will rob no man.
swore off all evil on New Years Day and |
am not going to begin to rob people as
early as this won't take the coat
You wond dake dot goat Dot goat
dot make you look like the Brince OF
Wales ?"
"Not if it made me look like John L.
Sullivan. will rob no man."
Say, mine vriendt, vat you gif for dot
goat?1
"I'll give you three dollars"
"Tree tolarl Hal ha ha, Perhaps
you dink keep sharity bureau
Three dollars" Preparing to take
the coat Off
Say fife tolar."
Three dollars"
Say four tolar"
Three"
Dake it, dake it, dake it."-Boston
Courier.
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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-02-18
THE FASHIONS,
AS REPORTED IN VOGUE AT
GOTHAM.
Styles in Outdoor Garments-Spring
Materials-New Kinds OF Trim
minss -Millinery-Etc.
From the REooHD-uvroN's Correspondent

From the REooRD-USIoS's Correspondent
Departures more or less marked from
the Newmarket and Raglan types are
shown in light quality, mixed CLOTH
trimmed for the most part with fancy
braid patterns of darker shade, or applique
work set in with embroidery stitch. In
shape, the most notable innovation is that
of angel sleeves, which appear in much
variety of contour Here comes in a
potent element of mischief for stout per-
sons. Angel sleeves, for them, will be the
reverse of angelic; they are enough in
themselves, and need no superfuities.
Equally Objectionable for the stout are
garments of Newmarket shape, which are
the special property of the slender; but
the persistence with which stout people
appropriate what was never meant for
them is only equaled by the readiness with
which thin people seize upon what causes
them to look thinner Mantelets and
shoulder wraps do not greatly differ from
winter outlines, but new features are given
by new material and trimmings. The
handsomest are trimmed by metallic mix
lures that take the lead in every DEPART
ment of dress. Jet is also EMPLOYED to
great extent, and fine, fancy silk braid
ings, crochet work, appears as noteworthy
element. Some attractive little shoulder
capes are made entirely of it, and, with or
without jet additions or elegant GRO
cheted trimmings, are richly interspersed
with jet sparkle. Cloth mantelets, trimmed
with braid or applique, will be very fash
ionable. For young ladies, there are nu-
merous tight Jackets of cloth In
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-02-18

THE DOOMED Mans REsIGNATIoN-
Sheriff" Well, poor fellow, Pm sorry to
say that your hour has arrived" Don't
feel bad about it. I'd Just as soon die as
live; in fact, had rather die" "Your
resignation this morning is quite remarka-
bic. During the past few days | thought
that YOU were weakening" 81 did feel
quite respondent until last night" "What
braced you up" Why, the Ersniag Bar
ab5ds printed picture OF me, so Death has
been robbed of his terrors. "-Nebrdska State
L0urnnl
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DRUNK E.NnESS
Or the Liquor Habit Positively Cured
by Administering DIR. Haines'
Golden Specific.

It can be given in a cup of coffee or tea with.
out the knowledge OF the person taking it; is alb
solutely harmless, and win effect a permanent
and speedy cure, whether the patient is a mod
crate drinker or an alcoholic wreck. Thousands
of drunkards have been made temperate men
who have taken Golden Specific in their coffee
without their knowledge, and to-day believe
they quit drinking of their own free will. 1T
NEVER FAILS. The system once impregnated
with the Specific it becomes an utter impossi-
bility for the liquor appetite to exist For sale
by JOS. HAHN 81 CO.. Druggists, corner
Fifth and streets, Sacramento, Cal. dS-TThSly
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AUCTION SALE
BELL &Co......AUCTIONEERS,
WILL SELL
TUESDAY, February p. 1858.

10 O'CLOCK A. NJ. SHARP, ON THE
IN premises, the elegant ana almost new Fur
niture and Carpets of residence No. 1916 Fourth
street, between NJ and n on account of de-
partuIe from city, consisting in part rs follows:
One elegant Plush Parlor SCI, la style: Center
Tables Lace CurtaiDs and Cornice>; Engrav-
ings and Parlor Ornaments; elegant Bedroom
Sets cherry, Walnut. Ash Marble top late
style with + l4te-glass Mirrors; Spring ana Top
Mattresses; Feather Pillows and holSters
Blankets, Comforts, SpTea0s, Sheets, Pillow
shams; Wardrobes elegant Body Brussels,
Tapestry ana Ingram Carpets 5 fine Toilet Sets;
l Walnut Hat-tree; Hall aud stair Carpets Also
Dining-room and Kitchen Furniture; Crockery,
Glassware, etc. The above goods being late
style and almost new and without reserve,
should command the attention f all buyers
RS- Sale Positive. Terms Cash. ga
fel7-td B. G.. BELL ~ CO.. Auctioneers.
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REss GOODS

The combinations of color are very no.
ticeable, this being due to the peculiar
shades Of the time, which show little pos
tive but rather those blendings derived
from the East. When placed together,
therefore, in curious variety, the effect is
Oriental rather than discordant, as would
be the case were the colors more glaring.
Cheviots are woven in stripes and bars of
unwonted tone; light cameps hair goods
evince similar peculiarities, while the large
and beautiful family of challies present an
especial field for coloring, stamped as they
are with extremely varied patterns. Some
| are extremely bold, others are striped, or
partake of the bizarre, as where palm
leaf fans, bells, groups of spades, etc, are
portrayed; or again, the stiff and careless
are united by graceful vines that Chamber
about bars or columns. Satteens, with
silky simmer, display almost identical
ideas; ginghams are woven with lace eff
fleets, either simulated or genuine-the
latter of course in thick threads, and, ac-
cording to Lord & Taylor-who also af-
ford information on other points-last
seasons idea of plated skirts, with plain
waist, will be repeated this summer, but
satteens will not, as formerly, be combined
with plain goods.
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IE Lowell, Mass, where Hoods Sarsapa-
rilla is made, there is more of this medicine
sold than of all other blood purifiers. This
is certainly valuable home Endorsement.
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- Satan finds some mischief still
For IDLE hands 10 do"

The work pursued by the conviets at
Folsom maintains them in good moral
health no less than it does in good physical
health. 1t is open to none of the objec-
tions which are urged with only too much
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-02-18

For allaying hoarseness and irritation of
the throat, it is daily proved that Browns
Bronchial Troches" are a mild remedy, yet
very effieacious.
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Here it is that especial opportunity is
found for a display of metallic mixtures.
the three kinds most used being gilt, silver
and steel, though colored spangles are
wrought in as effective adjuncts Splendid
passementaries, marked $50 the yard, are
composed of metal threads and the designs
are pointed, with long metallic fringe, so
that if desired they can be cut apart and
worn independently. From such limit
they graduate down to bands at moderate
prices. Other metallic trimmings are
worked on foundations CT fine, white
wooden cloth, and pretty Eastern designs
are portrayed with the aid of colored
spangles, while other bands, on a ground
work of thin gold thread, show unmistak-
ably Oriental unions of color. Silk braid
in fancy patterns is also extremely fash
ionable, and in black will be placed on
colored fabrics. Handsome braids are of
fine cord, curiously interviewer, and feat
ure Of the season will be a wide, fiat trim
ming around the bottom of skirts, with
narrower for belt, corsage and drapery
trimmings. Plain woods are brought out,
with border on the edges, intended for
similar purposes. In
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Metallic mixtures are the leading feat
ure. Large and finely worked flat orna-
ments resemble rich passementeries, and
will illumine the sides of bonuets, while
metal in every other imaginable way IS
conspicuous. Fine crepe lisse, plated and
heavily embroidered on the edges, is made
into bonnets, and metal in the material
sparkleS with varied luster. Such features
in general, however, belong to the more
expensive styles. In medium-priced MILL
merry there are Milan straws, but to a lin
tied extent when compared with chip,
which in all stylish shades-mahogany,
terra Gotta, old rose, old red, reseda, me
tallic and gobelin blue, golden brown, and
the conservative, dark colors-will be very
largely worn. Leading shapes are capotes
and small pokes with low crowns and high
trimmings. Ribbon will be in demand, OF
course, but less novel than strings of col
ored tulle crossed at the back and tied in
front. Roses and foliage are most popular
RosALIND MAY.
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WONDERS OF CANADA.
SOME OF HER GREAT INLAND
SEAS AND RIVERS.
Marvellous Distances in the North.
ern Dominion-The Watershed
that Drains to the North.

The Earl of Dutferin thus combats some
false impressions about Canada and its ex.
tent. He says:
Perhaps the best way of correcting such
universal misrepresentation would be by
a summary of the rivers which flow
through them, for we know that, as poor
man cannot afford to live in big house
so small country cannot support big
river. Now, to an Englishman or a French.
man, the Severn or the Thames, the Seine
or the Rhone would appear considerable
streams, but in the Ottawa, mere af
fluent of the st. Lawrence, an afiluent
moreover, which reaches the parent stream
Geo miles from its mouth, we have river
nearly $50 miles long, and three or foul
times as big as any of them
But even after having assembled the St
Lawrence itself to Lake Ontario, and pur
sued 1t across Lake Huron, St. Clair, and
Lake Superior to Thunder Bay, a distance
of !, 800 miles,
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During wheat-growing season is Of enor-
nous importance, and gives to these re-
gions an advantage which the frost and
cold of the balance of the year in no way
lessen. But even the frost ard cold,
strange to say, afford IN advantage in the
production of the delicate wheat plant
This advantage is found in the fact that
owing to the depth in the ground which
the frost penetrates, the earth is never en-
tirely free from its influence, and deep
down in the rich alluvial soil there re-
mains well-spring OF moisture, which,
under the long and strong suns rays, con-
stantly exudes, and keeps moist the tender
roots of the plant Hence droughts and
absence of rain have no terror to the
wheat-producer of the great Northwest.
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"Dake it, dake it, dake it."-Boston
Courier.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-06-17
Chicago's Convention Hall.

Chicago has made very extensive prepa-
rations for the republican convention. Out
side of a natural desire to do herself credit,
the old-time rivalry with st. Louis has been
awakened, if it was ever allowed TO slum-
Der, and she is determined to go her rival
one better, so to speak. When the demo-
cratic convention assembled, an agent from
Chicago was ON the ground, with both eyes
and a note book open, and if there was
anything wanting in st. Louis it is ex-
pected to be supplied at Chicago.
The new opera house in which the dele
gates will deliberate, if such a dignified
term may be applied to the scenes which
will DO enacted, is one of the handsomest
and best appointed in the world 1t will
not be completed for the purpose for which
it is intended until next February. but its
present condition is such as to meet all the
requirements upon it next week. The
rapidity with which it has been erected will
be appreciated when it is stated that
month or two ago tho republican commit
tee seriously limited at holding the conven-
ton in another city, because the audito-
rum had not been begun. Its acoustics
are said to be very fine, and its ventilation
excellent, while the decorations will be on
magnificent scale, and novelty in electric
lights, to be attempted for the first time,
will be an enormous shield suspended back
Of the platform. The seating capacity of
the St Louis hail. however, Is several thou
sand greater than that in Chicago.