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DIED PROM Hls wouNps.

Henry Rieck, who, on last Sunday. was
during q quarrel stabbed by Peter Don.
nelly, died this evening from the effects of
the wound. Deceased was native of this
city, 2I years old. Donnelly was rearrested
and charged with murder. He says it was
done in self-defense.
DOWN AN ELEVATOR SHAFT.
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The bes. plsns in c,szGsS - yo-r printing done
:. Johnston b So's 80 Sc. ;seramcn.o. Cal.
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TN THE SUPERIOR COURT, STATE OF CAL
ter of the estate of WILLIAM MAXWELL de-
ceased. Notice is hereby gwen that FRIDAY,
the Both day OF AUGUST, 1859, at 10 o. clock An OF
said day and the Courtroom Of said Court at the
Court House, in the City of sacramento, County
OF sacramento, and State of California, has been
appointed as the time and place for proving the
VIII OF said William Maxwell. deceased and for
hearing the application of MATHEW LENOX
for the issuance TO him of letters testament
airy thereon.
Witness my hand and the seal OF said Court
this 18th day of August, 1859.
SEAL WIN. b. HAMILTON, Clerk.
By L. P. ScoTT. Deputy Clerk.
TAYLOR & HoLL, Attorneys for Petitioner.
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To I.aunch the Philadelphia.

WASHINGTON, August 2lst.-Informstion
has reached the Navy Department TO the
effect that the new cruiser Philadelphia
will probably be launched at Cramps
works, Philadelphia, on Saturday.
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CrOSSman'S Specific Mixture.

XJITH THIS REMEDY PERSONS CAN CURE
w themselves without the least exposure,
change of diet. or change in application TO busi-
ness. The medicine contains nothing that is of
the least injury TO the constitution. Ask your
druggist for il. Price, 81 bottle. jy9-lyTuF
CUMMoNs. = STATE OF. CALIFORNIA,
~ County Of Sacramento, SIS. In the Superior
Court In and for said county. The People
OF the state of California to JOHN II. GAS5,
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 Clerk Office OF said
Court, on the 22d day of June 1859, in which
action FRANCES N. McKEEVER is plaintiff
and you are defendant That the general
nature Of the action, as appears from said
complaint, is as follows: To obtain a decree
ouieting plaintiffs title to the west half OF lot
four, block bounded by and J and Sixteenth
and Seventeenth stree S, of the city OF Sacra-
mento, in county of Sacramento. State of Cali
fornia- and requiring you to set forth the nature
Of your claim thereto, and to declare that plain
tn's title IS good and that yours is invalid, all
ofwhich is fully set forth in the complaint on
file herein, 10 which you are referred. And you
are hereby directed TO appear and answer said
complaint within ten days from the service of
this writ. exclusive of the day CO Jervice, II
served on you in said County of Sacramento;
and within thirty days, exclusive of the day OF
service, If served elsewhere; ard you are fur
ther notified that unless you 50 appear and an
swer within the time above specified the
plaintiff will apply to the Court for the relief
demanded in her complaint.
In testimony whereof, /, VIM. B. Hamilton,
Clerk of the Court aforesaid do hereunto SET
my hand and afhx the seal of said Court. this
I'd day Of June, A. d. 1889.
isEAL. w. B. HAMILTON. Clerk.
MATT, F. JOHNSON, Attorney for Plaintiff
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James Tierney. night watchman at the
Baldwin Hotel, fell down the elevator shaft
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Sumner Relief Corps, No I.-Reguiar
THIS AFTERNOON at 80. Initiation
NJ. ALICE STEPHENSON, Pres.
CAROLINE G. HANCOCK. Secretary. Its
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Regular meeting of Circle No. 2, this
(1hursday) evening. August 22d, at 7:3O, at
Changers Hall. By order of
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-10-03
Very Fine Linen.

One of the most delicate exhibits of
long skilled handicraft, at the present
French exhibition, is from the linen
looms of Ireland, in the form of damask
napkins out of set of two dozen doilies,
made for Jubilee gift to Queen Victoria
by Belfast manufacturer. These
doilies are woven from the finest linen
yarn which has ever yet been spun from
flax fibre. The napkin is exhibited in
its unbleached state, and also its
bleached and finished condition. Upon
each is strikingly faithful delineation
of the factory from which it comes.
The building is photographed, MS it
were, in the linen web.
One of these damask doilies, about
sixteen inches square, contains three
thousand and sixty threads of warp and
four thousand and twelve threads of
woof, and these threads, joined together,
would extend stance of more than
two miles. Yet the napkin seems to be
the merest figment of gossamer-a fabric
of lightest gauZe, q thing one might
blow away with breath. The draughts-
man was engaged for seven months in
the preparation of the enlarged design
about twelve feet square-upon paper.
This plan or map, so to speak, of the
napkin, was divided by fine machine
rulings into twelve million squares, ca III
line standing for one thread OF the web
On the damask work are represented
forty-four different species of ferns,
birds, butterflies and flowers. Irish lace,
hand made, at one hundred guineas n
yard, handkerchiefs at two hundred and
fifty dollars each, and many other sam
pies of exquis te skill and patient toll,
from the north of Ireland looms, are in
cluded in the display.
In further illustration of this great
industry, there is display of haxseed,
the flax plant with its blue flower, flax
straw, scutched flax and fax spun into
yarn and wound upon bobbins ready
for weaving. There are also illustra ed
plans of the different processes of MAX
ing damask, and the entire exhibit is
very appropriately surmounted by one
of the most ancient specimens of an
Irish flax wheel for spinning linen
thread Youths Companion.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-10-03
Diamonds and Gold.

From recent African exchanges it is
CLEANED that the diamond trust is not
centred among the dealers in Europe,
but at the diamond fields in South
Africa, where the consolidation of all
the important min under the title of
the "De Beers Consolidated Mines +"
has had the effect of raising the whole
sale prices of diamonds from twenty
shillings per carat in 1888 to thirty
shillings in 1889. AS the chairman of
the new company has publicly stated, it
now "has absolute control of the dia-
mond industry" !" and is producing less
and still receiving the same returns. At
present the company shows a profit of
fifty to sixty per cent. per annum, and
if, as it is very likely, prices will be
forced higher, it will do better still.
This great consolidation or trust was
largely the work of Mr. Rhodes, popular
ly known as the "Diamond King"
The gold mining interests in the
Transval are also prosperous, but honest
and intelligent management is needed
to ray dividends on the heavy capital
izations of the companies. The news of
the finding of an immense nugget of
gold at Zontpansberg has BEEN officially
confirmed. 1t weighed 130 pounds
troy and comes from region of rotten
quartz reefs rich with alluvial gold-in
fact, what is termed q "poor man s
diggings," and great hopes are enter
tanned that South Africa may yet benefit
by crush" like those i'll the palmy
days of Australia a and California. - New
York Herald.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-10-03
About Honey Bees.

l have seen, writes G. w. Demaree,
single bee clinging to smoothly
dressed board with its front feet, and
supporting a living chain of TWEEN ty five
bees, thus supporting twenty-five times
her own weight, for an indefinite time.
There was time when | was puzzled to
know how the bee could hold on to the
smooth board and sustain such weight.
But the magnifying glass reveals finely
curved claw at the extremity of each of
the front pair of legs, and these enable
the bee to cling to the wood in any posi-
ton, with its back down as we'll as
otherwise. But how does the bee man
age to run up pane of glass or sheet
of polished metal? Her sharp claws
will not serve her in this case. Well,
nature has provided for that in won
derful way. l once had theory to ac-
count for this wonderful feat. But
omy of the bee under the magnifying
glass my theory was found to be wide of
the mark The glass shows an infini-
tesimal gland in the soles of the feet,
VIII ich secrete mucilaginous substance
of sufficient tenacity to enable the bee
to cling to the smoothest surface that it
is Ikely 10 come IN contact WIN.
Ihe mandlpie (law) OF the money pee'
when seen under the glass, is real curl
osity. Ihey not only open ana shut
IKE the Jaws OF any otnef animal, out
they nave backward ana forward move
ment, ana each OF the par is lndepemd-
en1 OF the other IN It's movements. Inc
1io ciass Oh hatufaiists peheved that the
money pee, US an artist ana builder,
wasn W n, masoh' o 56, Bnt sach is not the 1act
in la tle :l ), caso. Inc money pee Is
shlitn' one draws out hef work. US
ing her manalpioS IN pace OF the smiths
hammer hammer ~ would DC simple lmposal.
uiiiey to puiio wall US tlin as that OF
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-10-03
How He ConceaIs Himself.

Those who have seen animals only in
a menagerie can have little idea how
differently they appear in their native
forests. The giraffe, for example,
eludes observation to degree almost
incredible, as is shown by the follow
ing:
When we come to the giraffe, we
cannot at first understand that the size,
height, and bold coloring that make it
30 conspicuous on open ground should
become its most effectual means of
concealment when among trees. The
animal feeds mostly upon the leaves of
species of acacia called by the
Beers "kameeldorn," or giraffe thorn
stretching its long neck among the
branches, and with its 1.-THE, slender
tongue plucking the pendent leaves
from the twigs.
When it is standing among the
acacias, it can with difficulty be distin-
guished from them, its long slender
legs resembling the trunk, and the
head and neck being lost among the
branches; while the spots, which are
so conspicuous in the open country,
harmonize so faithfully with the broken
patches of light and shade thrown by
the leaves, that even the huge body is
indistinguishable at little distance.
Not even the native hunters, with their
highly trained vision, can decide
whether little clump Of three or four
acacias be tenanted by the giraffe or
whether it be empty. Even a tele-
scope or feld-glass will fail to ascer-
tain the presence of the giraffe
The anaconda, also, can lie unseen
in the forest, the beautiful diamond
shaped patterns of the body resembling
the lichens, MOSES, and heckings of
light and shade upon the tree trunks
So close is the resemblance that man
has been known to seat himself upon
the body of gorged and sleeping ana
conda, mistaking it for the object which
it simulated. Similarly, the spotted
jaguar of the New World, and the
leopard in the Old World, are practi-
cally invisible among the branches of
trees, and depend on this fact for their
ability to capture the wary and active
monkeys,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-10-03

My heroine, whom we will call Mar
garet, was slim, fair girl Of II, shy
and retiring to excess. She lived with
young married couple, Mr.. and Mrs.
Field, and was treated by them as one
of the family.
One evening Mrs. Field was out
driving with a friend, and as they were
passing Mrs. Smiths house, SLAM
derous report that was current in the
neighborhood concerning this Mrs,
Smith came into Mrs. Fields mind,
and she carelessly repeated it to her
friend IN the ordinary conversational
tone. Mrs. Smith happened to be out
in her garden, and owing to the late
ness of the hour, and to the shrubbery,
she was not seen by the ladies in the
carriage. She overheard greater
part of what they were saying. Boiling
with anger, she sent word early the
next morning to Mr.. Field that his
wife had spread an evil story about
her, and that she intended to have the
matter taken to court.
The first thing Margaret heard on
coming from her room that morning
was the bitter sobbing of Mrs. Field.
She inquired the cause, and was over
whelmed to learn the direful effects
that would follow if Mrs. Smith per-
sisted in her determination to take the
affair to court, for Mr.. Field was al
ready heavily in debt, having gone into
an extensive business, and if he were
forced to go to law about this difficulty
his prospects might be ruined.
Then this brave little girl came to
the rescue. As it was late in the even
ing she said Mrs. Smith had probably
only recognized the horse and carriage
and not Mrs. Field, and that she, Mar
garet. would bear the burden, and say
it was she who had uttered the slauder.
If the matter should then be carried to
the court there was no one in the world
but herself to suffer, and although the
thought of staining her fair reputation
was very bitter, she was determined to
take the blame upon herself sooner
than see her friends suffer so greatly.
AT first they would not hear of it,
but she finally succeeded in having her
own way, and then donning a hat,
started at once for Mrs Smiths home
She explained to that lady that she
and not Mrs. Field was the one to bear
the blame, but that she was very sorry,
and that the report should go no fur
ther, as far as lay in her power to pre-
vent it, and at last begged the lady to
forgive and to forget. And Mrs. Smith
did so, finding it was only Margaret,
instead of Mrs. Field, for whom she
had always entertained a violent dis
like PLiI11eI1lLin procc
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-10-03

One OF the most effective inducors to
sleep, said a well-known New York ply
sician, is warm saltwater bath taken
before retiring. This will almost always
put q restless child to slumber If it i.
well, and if it is well fed after its bath
Sleeplessness in all adult is more diff
cult to contend with. A warm salt bath
may not always act rs quickly, but it is
worth trying. If there is any tendency
to cold feet, put warm bottle to the
feet after bathing, and in many cases q
restful sleep will follow. 1t is far better
to resort to every subterfuge to induce
sleep before resorting to any sleeping
draught. Sometimes few crackers or
something else eaten just before retiring
will induce sleep when nothing else will.
For this purpose many people keep
cracker jar in their rooms. The thin
wafer crackers are excellent for this pur-
pose.
For the dry, burning sensation in the
palms of the hands and soles of the feet
which induces sleeplessness, sponge
them in ammonia and water, or vinegar
and water. The continued dwelling ON
a certain thought may be of value. A
frequent remedy of this kind is to
imagine an endless flock of sheep STEP
ping one by one-over stile. The con-
tinual monotony of the imaginary
movement will soon put wide-awake
person asleep. A famous physician put
his sleepless patients to drowsy slumber
by any arrangement by which they list
ened to the constant dropping of water,
drop by drop, on metal. If person is
habitually wakeful at night it is wise to
give up tea and coffee at night, and
drink in their place bowl of fresh milk
heated quite hot.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-10-03
The Human Brain.

The average human brain weighs
forty nine or fifty ounces in the malo
and about forty-five ounces in the fe'
male. Great brain weight is not always
associated with intellectual vigor, as is
shown by the fact that an idiot is known
to have had brain of over sixty ounces
in weight. But Notwithstanding the
evidence of such cases as that of the
idiot referred to, great mental power is
generally associated with brain weight
exceeding the average. Cuvier's brain
weighed sixty -four ounces but Gam
betta's brain weighed less than the
average woman's brain, which is, of
course, peculiar because of his great in
tellectuality. A strange problem is de-
veloped By comparison of the average
weight of the male and female brains
with the minimum weight of each with
in the range of intelligence. The
average weight of the female brain is
about five ounces less than the average
weight of mans brains. If the weight
of the brain were an infallible gauge of
intellect the average woman would, so
to speak. have five ounces less intellect
than the average man. But the weight
of brain in a man below which idiocy
exists is about five ounces higher that it
is in woman. That is what presents
the prob EN-. If, say thirty ounces of
brain in woman saves her from idiocy,
and thirty-fve are requisite in man,
what becomes of mans average OF five
ounces of brain weight in excess OF the
average in womanl The conclusion
seems to be that smaller quantity OF
fem lie brain is essential to intellec-
tuality than of the male brain. This is
equivalent to saying that the female
brain is of superior quality. In con-
tradiction of this the fact may be cited
that in comparison with men but few
women of great intellectual vigor have
appeared in the world If this held
tue, woman with brain of fifty
ounces ought to be equal to a man with
brain of tiftyfive ounces. New York
Dispatch
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-10-03
Children and Stories.

Nothing appeals 50 strongly to the i'm
agination, the sensibilities, the moral
nature of child as well told tale, says
the Philadelphia Tines. They rebel
against what is commonly called
preaching" bu the greatest rebel of
them all will yield to the soften ng in
fuences of tale that carries its lesson
with it. Is not that enough2 But the
story does more. 1t broadens their
views, cultivates the finer feelings, de-
stroys selfishness, teaches them to ap.
preciate their relations with others and
planes down the rough places that
would fill their lives with fric.ion.
Thus much it does to them morally.
But it is equally helpful to them mental
ly. A young mind must have recreation
as well as young body. The story
brightens and rcfreshes it, brushes away
the cobwebs that will gather even at u
tender nge, and fits it to return with
new vigor to its more serious work.
NJ ore than that it adds to the child's
information by acquainting him or her
with certain phases of life, with manners
and customs that arc not taught by
mere history. By all means, then, lot
the children read good and clenn
stories.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-10-03

we noticed with pleasure certain familiar
forms; the original plaster model of the
Young David. reproductions of the Gloria
Nicts," "Quand Meme" etc. 1t CHANGED
that there was no sculptural work of i'm
portance under way at the time, NJ. Mercie
explaining with an apologetic smile that he
had fits of painting fever" which he could
not resist. He then called our attention to
the large canvas upon which he was en-
gagged: Il single nude figure, beautifully
composed. but which believe was never
finished. The Venus now in the LuXum-
bourg, n painting which won him high hon
crs at the following Salon. proves that the
painting fever" was not with him the fire.
quent fruitess yearning of talented men to
do something that they can not do.
OF far less elevated type and motive
than his sculpture. this painting shows a
perfection of technical ability wonderful in
the work OF novice. Its flesh is so real
that a usually conservative critic forthwith
dubbed the amateT painter the Modern
Correggio."
NJ. Mercie has had little leisure to
"amuse" himself with the brush since that
time.
Leaving it to Mr.. Brownell to discuss the
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-10-03

40 occupied Dy majestic noatlng
form-the artists symbolic presentation,
of Truth. She is enveloped In the folds of
an airy mantle the peculiar treatment of
which is characteristic of M. Mercie. With
her uplifted right hand she points to the in
scription. "L'histoire est une resurrection"
the words OF him who sleeps below.
In 1884, NJ. Mercie was hard ut work on
his portrait group OF Louis Philippe and
wife, destined for their tomb. This we saw
develop from day to day: first the bare rods
and wires. then the outlines of the erect
bourgeois King. and the kneeling figure of
his devoted spouse. Behind the two sat an
angel Of indeed most angelic mien. even in
the indistinct ebauche The change from
week to week was astonishing, and though
the masters hands could not possibly do so
much alone. his mind was guiding every
stroke. Sometimes he would descend and
with an almost imperceptible gesture guide
the efforts of an assistant upon the high
scaifold; n nod or "a move of the finger
would indicate whore the clay was to be
added or scraped off; an eye brow to be
lowered or an ear to be moved forward.
Meanwhile two American boys looked on in
open mouthed admiration. and wondered
II they would ever have chance to do such
big work. They are still wondering.
In the salon of 'S5. M. Mercie exhibited
what seems to me his most beautiful work.
this sleeping female figure which he calls
lie Souvenir" chiseled from an immense
block of blush marble.
Upon recent visit to Paris found my
old friend fairly overwhelmed with impor-
tant orders. Among other things under
way. nearly filling the two large studies
which he now requires. there was the be-
ginning in clay of n monument to Baudry.
the painter; colored models for the decora-
tion of the new Sarbonne; tomb for Con-
stantinople, etc. 1t was with feeling Of
real pleasure that / congratulated him on
the award OF two important works by our
nation-the Robert Lee monument. of Rich
mond. and the Lafayette for the city of
Washington. l was glad for him; was par
ticularly glad for Americas sake.