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The ViHeyGrdjst publishes the following
description of what promises to be the
largest grape vine in the world, obtained
from the personal observation of CORES
pondent:
"The Great Vine " is situated at the end
of the Pond Garden, of Hampton Court
(which is probably the largest and finest
Of all the royal palaces of England), and
is the largest grape vine in the world 1t
was planted in 176S from a slip off vine
at Valentines, near Wanstead, in Essex.
The grape is of the Black Hamburger
variety.
In 1900 the stem of this vine was tlir-
teen inches in girth, and the principal
branch / II feet long. Forty years ago its
yield was on an average between 1900
and $500 lunches, weighing about pound
each but latterly both the number and
size of the punches have fallen off, being
in 1874 only 1850, and in 1882, 1850.
This is perhaps due to its having been
previously oyer-cropped, for otherwise it is
doing well.
Various conjectureS have been advanced
to account for the great size to which it
has grown. Some have surmised that its
roots have made their way into the vast
drains Of the Palace, and that it has been
nourished on sewage, This, however, is
not the case. The roots that are found
clinging to the brick walls of the sewers
and which were mistaken for the roots of
the vine, are nothing but a fungus growth
If its luxuriance depends upon any special
circumstance, it most likely is due to the
roots having travelled into the bed of the
river, which is not more than thirty feet
from the end of the vine-house.
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An Average Twenty Acres.

SO much has been said about small
FARMS and especially of colony lots in
Fresno county, that we are always glad to
give any information about them that will
serve to enlighten the public Many per-
sons are at loss to know how the average
family can make a good living on twenty
acres of land. Below we present the re-
suit obtained from a twenty-acre farm in
Nevada colony, about five miles from this
city, during the present year We give
this statement, not because the showing is
an extraordinary one, for it is hardly up
to the average, but because Mr.. Wemple,
the owner, kept a record of his products
and what they sold for. Theresults shown
below are net, no account of what was used
by the family being taken into considera-
ton The actual net sales of produce
from the twenty acres were as follows:
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Eig-Growing,

The expense of growing and curing figs
Is less than that of any other fruit known.
The trees are subject to no disease or in
sect pest, and, once planted, they require
no particular attention. The figs Of the
best varieties are being used in numerous
different ways. 1t viii take 250,0 acres
of fig orchard to supply alone the dried
figs which are now yearly imported into
the United States. But, besides the dried
article, the cryStallizing or icing of figs is
becoming an extensive industry, and many
factories in California have now demand
for many times more than they can sup
ply. MeSsrs. Bernard * Benedict, of Los
Angeles, have for years offered to pay $50
per ton for all fresh white figs shipped 10
them; and they never get near enough for
the supply wanted. Canned and picked
figs are a delicious article, and command q
high price and ready sale in our Eastern
markets, and the juice and syrup of figs
are now extensively used for medical pur-
poses. And the fresh figs can, with proper
care-so-called cold storaee-be shipped 10
distant markets, and marmalades and con-
diments in variety can be made of the
fresh fruit at home This, however. only
applies TO line varieties, not to the poor
one, Of which latter our old Mission fig is
one. If We now add that fig tree eight
to ten years old old may bear ton of fruit.
1t will be seen that the cultivation Of FIGS
cannot but prove highly profitable. Kern
County Californian.
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A mode Of telegraphing was tried bythe
military authorities of Belgium. 1t is a
combination of the electric and optic tele-
graph. The optic station is made up of a
balloon held at any hight above ground.
Inside of the boat foated by the balloon,
or on the bottom of the boat, six electric
lamps were attached, which were connected
with an electric battery on the ground by
means Of wires running along the rope
which held the balloon captive On the
ground there was Morse Geographic APP
paratus. An experienced operator spelled
a message, the characters OF which are reg
istered on a common Morse apparatus bv
shorter and longer strokes upon a running
band of paper. The shorter or longer the
line Is on the paper the shorter or longer is
the time corresponding to it during which
the electric current is working.
Instead of marking time on paper, the
apparatus used at the experiments made
ut Antwerp, keeps the six lamps attached
to the balloon blazingin bright light. ANY
man understanding the Morse alphabet is
able to read the characters given by the
successive flashes of light Of the electric
lamps. 4 number Of messages were thus
spelled and correctly read by posts at dis
tances OF several miles. The balloon was
only some 800 feet above ground. The
higher it is allowed to ascend the greater
is the distance at which its characters can
be seen and understood Gicdqo Ners.
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looking. The wind was strong, blowing
straight up between the lofty sides as
through funnel, with the force of half a
gale, and the yacht raced through the
black water, leaving long wake of white
froth astern; but, being sharp at the stem
and narrow in her lines, she cut the dark
current like a knife, noiselessly. Once l
thought | saw seals head, but it van
ished and was not sure, and in all that
forty miles of flight, wind-driven, with the
August sun shining brightly in the sky.
saw no gull flying overhead, no loon u pom
the water, no hawk or eagle circulating
above the lofty cliffs, nor any animal
whether small or great, moving along its
shores. Surely, it was strange sail, and |
could only look and marvel at the solitude
through which l was so noiselessly passing
". II. II. Murray, in y. Y. World.
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THE NIAGARA ICE BRIDGE.
Thousands of Persons Crossing the Crys-
tai Structure.

NIAGARA FALLS, January 29th.-Thou-
sands OF excursionists crossed the Niagara
ice bridge this afternoon, most of them
coming from Buffalo and vicinity, although
there was large number from New York
and jersey City. They found the fantastic
winter scenery at its best, Luna Island be-
ing arrayed in frosty grandeur. The ice
bridge Is not so large as that of 1859, when
some parts of it assumed iceberg proper
uons but II Is made up of sufficiently large
glaciers to be an interesting sight. The
water poured over the cataract with the
same dull, laundering roar rs it churned
up huge cakes of ice which the swift cur
rent had brought to the rapids from Lake
Erie. The ice foe extends to very near
the foot Of the falls, and goes some distance
down the river. Near the center some Nj
aSara adventures have built wooden sheds,
IN which they sell bad whisky, hot pan
cakes, and other refreshments, and photo
graphs. The photographers formed
gantlet, through which it was hard for anv
except determined folks to escape without
being pictured or victimized by buying ice
scenes at eXtravagant prices To those
who saw nothing but Natures work, the
cataract was an interesting study. The mass
Office dashing cover the precipice changes the
color of the torrent, giving it a weird look
as 1t falls heavily not far from the foot of
the ice bridge. Picturesque as is the
scenery, it is becoming more so every dav,
as the fir trees, rocks and projections on the
cliffs become coated with the frozen spray.
Huge ice mounds have formed near the
base of the falls, which are accessible from
the foot of the inclined railway, and hun
dreds of people to-day enjoyed climbing
and sliding down them. Going up was
difficult, and the descent was far more
dangerous. Down at the end of the bridge
the spectator incurs more peril and expe-
rlences rensations of awe. AT the northern
edge the bridge trembles with the vibra-
tons Of the torrent rushing beneath it. At
the whirlpool this afte. noon an immense
mass of ice that had broken, apparently
from the ice bridge, was carried unshat-
tered through the rocky gorge, only to be
swallowed by the maelstrom when it
seemed likely to enter the DEVILS rapids.
a Buffalo man named Myers was standing
near the place from which the little ice
berg broke away, and had narrow escape
from going with it. The inclined railway
at the State reservation was not running
to-day, making the bridge difficult of ac-
cess. The stability of the structure is I'M
questioned, and timid people need have no
fear. The ice is thick and strongly wedged,
the assures near the center having nearly
all closed and been pressed tirmer into
place by the downward force of the water.
So long as the tower end holds firm there
is no danger of a breakup, and the bridge
may last till spring.
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THE YOUNG MAN TO LOVE- love
a young man who loves his mother 50
fondly that for her sake he is chivalrous to
other women. | love young man who
will step out of his way to avoid crushing a
worm, and will not deem it beneath his
dignity to succor a stray kitten. | love a
young man who is pure-hearted and slow
to laugh at impure stories. | love young
man who believes there is a nobler career
in life than to be good dancer or a sue
cessful society man. | love young man
who is not ashamed of tears for others
sorrows, for a tender song or beautiful
thought. | love a young man who cannot
be laughed out of duty, or ridiculed from
a purpose. l love young man who hates
whisky as angels hate Satan, and
thinks to much of his brain to make
smoked meat Of it. ! despise "goody-
goody'' young man, but love good one.
| would not like to be even third cousin to
dude, but | love young man who is hail
fellow well met with nice girls, and scorns
not the companionship Of his sisters.-Et-
change.
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y young girl was crossing the Public
Garden the other morning upon the main
path which crosses the bridge. She was
accompanied by magnificent mastif, who
strobe along beside her in the most com
Panionable sort of way, looking up into
her face occasionally as if to remark casu-
ally that 1t was very fine morning, or to
ask if there was anything he could do for
her
The two crossed the bridge together and
finally came to the Charles-street gate.
Here the young girl, evidently not wishing
to have the care of the dog in the busy
streets, turned to him and said:
There, that is far enough, Marco. You
need not go with me any farther. but turn
about and go back home"
She did not take her hands out of her
mutt to point the way, and she spoke as
she would to a small brother. in pleasant.
conversational voice
Marco looked at her with his large ewes,
then looked across the common. waggine
his tail slowly as though he was thinking
how very pleasant it would be to 90 the
rest Of the way. Finally he turned bacl,
to her again and with a movement of his
head and eyes asked as plainly as though
the words had come from his mouth
" Please let me go little farther, it is such
fine morning"
"No, dear; Pm going shopping, you
know" answered the girl, explaining the
difficulty, as if Marco were human; " there
will be crowds of people and shall not
know what to do with you. But go along
now; there's good fellow, and I'll be back
very sOon."
Without another word Marco turned
and walked back across the gardens. He
did not stink away, as some dogs do when
sent back, but marched leisurely along
with his head in the air, stopped mo.
ment on the bridge to watch the children
skating below, then trotted on toward
Commonwealth avenue. The Atheniar
watched him until he had disappeared be-
yond the gates then resumed his own way
wondering whether Darwin loved dogs OF
not.-Boston Journal.
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How TO ESTIMATE AN INCOME.-A
capable domestic servant in our cities may
annually lay by a sum equal to the income
upon $4,000 in Government bonds, and an
industrious mechanic, in steady employ
ment, earns sum equal to the interest of
$4,000 at 4per cent. A teamster in Mon
tana or a cowboy in Colorado finds that his
strength and skill are worth to him, in
money each year, as much as would be
$4,000 invested in the same lands, even if
he could buy them at par. The lawyer or
physician in country town, who earns his
$4,000 annually, if suddenly debarred from
practice would require $66,000 in bonds to
yield him the same income; and the editor
in-chief Of great city daily has power
in his brain worth to him, in hard cash,
the capital of $500,000.-YoutFs Com
paniOa.
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Noah's Ark.

In his great work on " Etymologies, y
lsadore took up Augustine's attempt to
bring the creation of insects into satisfac.
tory relations with the book of Genesis.
and, adopting the theory of the ancient
philosophers, declared that bees are gen.
Grated out of decomposed veal, beetles out
Of horsetesh, grasshoppers out of mules,
and scorpions out of crabs. Under the in
iluence of the Biblical account of Nebuch-
adnezzar, which appears to have taken
strong hold upon medieval thought in
science, he declared that human beings
had been changed into animals, especially
swine, wolves and owls. As to fossil re-
mains, he, like Tertullian, thought that
they resulted from the food of Noah. In
the following century Bede developed the
same orthodox traditions in science; but
he held with st. Jerome that the reason
why God did not pronounce the work of the
second day good is to be found in the fact
that there Is something essentially evil in
the number two. As 10 the deluge he dis
cuSsed the question as to the amount of
food taken into the ark, and declared that
there was no need Of supply for more
than one day, since God could throw the
animals into deep sleep, or otherwise mi
raculousIy make one days supply sufficient.
The difficulty in making Noahs ark large
enough to contain all the animals had be-
gun to be seriously felt even at that period.
Origen had dealt with it by supposing that
the ''cubit' in Noahs time was six times
greater. Bede explained Noah's ability to
complete such herculean task by suppl s.
ing that he gave to it hundred years
and he leaned toward diminishing the
number of animals taken into the ark, sup
porting himself upon Augustine's theory
o; the acknowledgment of insects out of
carrion. In this way the strain upon faith
required in believing that all the animals
were literally brought into the ark was
somewhat lessened. - Popular Science
H0nfbLu
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GTATE OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAC
- ramento SIS. In the Superior Court, in and
for said county. The people of the State OF Cali
fornia to J. S. ELLISON, r. d. FERGUSON.
FRANCES p. RYLAND, p. CALLAHAN and
WELLS CLARK, greeting You are hereby
notified that an action was commenced in the
Superior Court of the county of sacramento,
State aforesaid, by filing a complaint in the
Clerks office of said Court on the 10Th day of
NOVEMBER, 1881, in which action HUGO
A. HORNLEIN is Plaintiff and you are
Defendants. That the general nature of the
action, as appears from said complaint, Is as
follows: To obtain a decree of this Court re-
quiring said defendants to set forth their title
in and to that certain piece or parcel of land
situated in the City of Sacramento. County of
Sacramento, State of California, and described
as follows to wit Lots l. 2, ), 6. : and g. and
the east 80 feet of the south 10 feet of lots 3
and g. and the west 20 feet Of lot No 3. all in
the block or square bounded by y and V, and
Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets, OF the City of
Sacramento State OF California. That the
claims of plaintiff and defendants thereto be
settled, and that the court by is decree declare
that plaintiff has valid title to said premises
thereto, and also Tor general relieE And
you are hereby directed 10 appear and
answer said complaint within ten days
from the service OF this writ, exclusive of
theday of service, if served on you in said coun-
ty of Sacramento, and within thirty days, ex-
elusive OF the day OF service, If served else
where; and you are further notified that unless
you So appear and answer within the time
above specified, the plaintiff VIII apply to the
Court or the relief prayed for herein.
In testimony whereof, l. Vim f. Hamilton
Clerk OF the Court Aforesaid, do hereuuto set
my hand sld stliX the seal or said Court this
10th day OF Nov emDer, !. D. 1857.
SEAL WM. B. HAMILTON, Clerk.
By Jos. GCTH. Deputy Clerk.
EOBERT I. DEVILS. Attorney for Plaintiff
fetlHwzmS
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There are six principal business houses
Of these Nictorine Campfire and r. Senter
d Co. are dealers in general merchandise
and the latter are also agents for Wells
Fargo & Co.'S express; Z. B. Christ, gen
eral merchandise; Frank Fisk, groceries
crockery, lamps and general variety store
Sebastian Solori, general merchandise and
liquors: Peter Molspino, Jr, merchandise
Liquor retailers are Frank Picart, Mrs. l.
Castinccia, Fred Sackett and Harry
Thomas.
The hotel is kept by Mrs. Elizabeth
Mitchlor q Sons; restaurant and bakery
by Edison Thorp; meat market by Rufe &
kidbor soda works, Sackett & Mercer
stage and livery stable, T. S. Mattison
lumber yard, John Manuel blacksmith
shops, by Baratina 4 Segale, and Phillip
Hansett.
+. f. Flood is Notary Public David
Baratina is Postmaster, and Miss Beatrice
Mattison, telephone and telegraph oper-
ator, and deputy Postmaster.
THE FAMOUS BIG TREES.
The attractions near Murphys are the
famous Big Trees of Calaveras, fifteen
proprietor. These trees are in two princi-
pal groups, known as the Calaveras and
South Grove. As is well well-known, they
are world-renowned and famous as a favor
tie place Of resort during the summer
months, and will continue to increase in
interest. "A survey Of the Sierra Nevada
narrow-gauge railroad was made to that
point, ostensibly to complete the road to
the grove. There is good reason to be-
lieve that this may yet be carried out. II
it should be, this resort will become the
most popular on the coast.
THE NEW CALAvERAs CAVE,
In the immediate y-three-quarters
of mile distant-is pronounced by all
who visit it a sight of wonderous beauty
The coral chamber, with its delicate floor,
walls and ceiling Of coral, rich in color and
material, is extremely beautiful. The
other chambers are also wonderful, and in
them are the moldering human bones-oi
whom that have lain undisturbed for
unknown years, amid the surrounding
grandeur. until the curious hand of recent
explorers distured their rest. Thousands
of visitors are admitted into the cave every
season y the owner and discoverer, Natto1
Mercer. The story of its discovery has
often been told, and need not be repeated
here
THE NATURAL BRIDGES.
There are two of these, six miles distant
from Murphys, and they also form an at.
tractiye point Of interest, being wonderful
in their creation and structure. They spar
Coyote creek, noisy turbulent stream il
winter, but admits the visitor under the
bridges to examine them in summer.
In short, Californians and tourists are
beginning to realize that Calayeras county
is section of the State which is rich il
undeveloped resources, in natural wonders
and grandeur of scenery; grand in it.
mineral wealth, magnificent forests, un
limited water supply, fertile soil and CHEAP
lands, and that it offers unsurpassed adj
vantages and inducements to those seeking
profitable investments for surplus capital
or desirable and remunerative field fol
happy homes.
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WAvERING BoRDER-LINEs IN Poll
TICs.-General Jackson inhamed the crowd
Of his devotees with the taunt that Henry
Clay, as candid politician as ever lived,
made bargain with John Quincy Adams,
of all statesmen the stifiest and most up
right, in which the Secretaryship of State
and the Chief Magistracy were the pawns
exchanged. The lines that distinguish
spotless from improper services and gifts
are not always easy TO draw. Integrity
and dishonor have their somewhat waver-
ing border-lines Harrison Gray Otis,
famous Mayor of Boston, looking at two
pictures on the wall, Magdalen and a
St. Cecilia, affirmed that his eyes were too
poor to tell the sinner from the saint
Eorlyf1
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THE WOMAN WHO LAUGHs.-FOr a
good, everyday household angel, give me
the woman who laughs. Her biscuits may
not be always Just right, and she may oc-
casionally burn her bread and forget to re-
place dislocated buttons, but for solid com
fort all day and every day she is very
paragon. Home is not a battlefield, nor
life one long, rnending row. The trick of
always seeing the bright side or, if the
matter has no bright side, of shining up the
dark one, is a very important faculty-one
of the things no woman should be with
out. We are not all born with the sun
shine in our hearts, as the Irish prettily
sense Of humor if We only try.-Rurat
Nelr Worker
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ORIGIN OF MUsLIN.-Muslin as it is
now throughout the world, so from the
earliest antiquity has been everywhere in
Asia in favorite use as an article of dress
and as furniture. Its cloud like thinness
and Its lightness were not the only charms
belonging to the stuff 1t was esteemed
equally as much for the taste with which
stripes of gold had been woven in its warp.
As we learn from the travels Of Marco
Polo, the further all wayfarers in Asia
wandered among Eastern nations the
higher they found the point of excellence
which had been reached in weaving. Like
many cities Of Central Asia, Mosul had
earned for itself reputation of old for
the beauty Of its textiles Cotton grew all
around it in plenty, and the inhabitants,
especially the women, were gifted with
such quick feeling of finger that they
could spin thread from cotton of more
than hair-hke fneness. 1t was a very nat
ural thing, for the sake of euphony, to
change the name mosul to that of muslin
name by which the beautiful fabric of
that ancient town has ever since been
known
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No account is given OF the value of
forage grown for COWS or horses. nor of
the family garden, and when it is taken
into consideration that the yield per acre
throughout the entire county was short of
average crops this year it must be ad-
mitted that the above showing is consider
ably below what may reasonably be ex-
pected from an average twenty-acre colony
farm in Fresno county one season taken
with another.-Fresno Republican.
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CARE OF THE TEETH-With the utmost
personal care teeth will decay some, and
they ought to be examined at least once a
year-better every six months-by COM
petent dentist, and if any decay appears
have it filled at once. 1t is a great mistake
to neglect 4 decaysd tooth until it aches,
and then rush off to the dentist to have it
filled The filling viii be far more painful
and expensive than if ii had been done
when the cavity was small. The condition
of the teeth has a great deal to do with
the beauty of the face, and great amount
of ill-health is no doubt caused by decayed
teeth.-Sd.