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Experiment.. win L,gh..

DR.. o. j. Lodge, a holder of the theory
that light is an electrical vibration of the
ether, has been endeavoring to produce
these waves by direct electric action with
out the Intervention Of heat. The means
adopted was the oscillating discharge of
a Leyden jar, with a rate of vibration as
high as 100000 per second. The waves
thus obtained were about three yards long;
but, according to DIR. Lodge, were light
in every particular except wave-length.
70 reach the wave-length of light, how
ever, they would require to be shortened
from three yards to the hundred
thousandth of an inch. The electrical
waves Of DR.. Lodge travel through space
at the same speed as light, and are re-
fracted and absorbed by material sub
stances according to the same laws. Hence
DIR. Lodge concludes that if we can only
generate electric waves sufficiently small
We may entirely revolutionize our present
modes of obtaining artificial light. In
connection with this subject we NAV
refer to the important discovery
which has been made by DIR. Hertz,
of Vienna, to the effect that blue
light is capable of starting the cleo
trio spark when it otherwise would not
pass between the sparkling points. That is
to say, for example, that if the sparkling
points OF an induction coil be drawn Just
too far apart for the spark to leap across
the intervening air, a ray of violet light
falling on the gap will start the spark.
DIR. Oliver Lodge infers from this discovery
that the mere blaze Of one l~ightning-hash
may p~recipitate other flashes.
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TO CURE
Turpentins aid TO be Almost a pecinc
TO the Disease.

to the Disease.
We have on several occasions referred
to the use of turpentine in diphtheria.
Recommended originally in Germany and
claimed to be almost a specific, it was
there, also, that the employment of the
drug was subjected to the most severe
criticism. Some recent publications have
again drawn attention to the alleged value
of this substance, and most remarkably
among these is an article which appeared
IN the IherGpeatische WonatShete.@ The
author asserts that he has employed
turpentine in diphtheria for the last four
years. In that time he lost only FIVE
cases out Of sixty that came under treat
ment. Two of the fatal cases concerned
infants, who appeared morbund when first
taken, and died a few hours later. The
other fatal cases were also unusually Sc
we're from the start, two diving in thirty
six hours, and one surviving 1--WE DAYS.
This is certainly a noteworthy record. as
diphtheria statistics go. The oil of tur-
pentine was administered in drahm doses
three times a day. Sweet spirits of inter
was used as 4 corrective, in the proper
ton of one part of the spirits TO fifteen
of t~urpentine. Symptoms of intoxication
were never observed by the author.
In addition to the turpentine, a > per cent.
solution of sodium salycilate was given
every two hours in tablespoon doses. a
gargle Of chlorate of potash solution was
likewise employed whenever possible. In
der this plan of treatment rapid ameliora-
ton Of local signs and constitutional symp-
toms was observed. Usually improvements
began at once, and it was rarely necessary
to push the drug beyond five or eight doses.
1t should be remarked in this connection,
however, that a very generous and stimu-
lating fluid diet (strong broth, port Wine,
milk formed a feature Of DIR. Roese's
plan of treatment. Those who are inclined
to be skeptical in regard 10 the utility of
medicines in the severer forms of diph-
liberia land the profession contains many
such will scarcely accept the authors
figures without a challenge. On the other
hand, for the very reason that violent
diphtheria ordinarily i~ustiies so gloomy a
prognosis, We are ever ready to employ any
means which may possibly reducei its fright
ful mortality. There is 10 reason, there
fore, why the turpentine treatment of this
disease should not be given a fair trial
Medical Record.
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n. n. Beketov, of Charkov, has recently
communicated to one of the scientific soei-
cites of St. Petersburg the results of his
experiments on the electrolysis OF common
salt. Engineering says: All the sodium
products are at present obtained by the
Leblanc or ammonium process, and several
manufacturers have, it appears, applied to
Mr.. Beketov for an opinion as 10 the COM
parative advantages Of these processes.
Being of the opinion that neither the Lee
blanc nor the ammonia process was as per-
feet as it ought to be, Mr.. Beketov deter
mined to try electrolysis, though he had
already experimental unsuccessfully in
this direction some years before. This last
set of experiments have, it is stated, been
more promising, though they have not yet
been tried on a commercial scale. The
inventor sends a current through a
mass of fused salt, the temperature of
which is about 500 deg. c. In this
condition it is a fair conductor, and is
rapidly decomposed by the current. With
an electromotive force of FIVE volts and a
current of one ampere, thirty-six pounds
Of salt can be completely deeomposed in
twenty-four hours. From this the author
argues that considerable economy can be
effected by the adoption of the new process.
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LUCKY MRS. BURNETT.
An Authoress Who Gathers in 500 QUO
Per Anuuin.

Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett is lust
moving into an elegant new house she has
recently purchased on Massachusetts
avenue, in Washington, and is fitting it up
in the most sumptuous manner, as she can
well afford to do, says a letter In the Chi
cage Netus. Mrs. Burnett probably earns
more money than any woman in the world.
and gets a higher price for her work. Her
income this year will be from $4,000, to
100000. In the first place, she receives
a percentage of the receipts from the play
Little Lord Fountleroy," which is now
being presented by four companies in Eng
land and one in the United States, and
two more are being organized to travel in
this country.
Her weekly revenues from the play in
England vary from $500 to 81, 200, and
from the managers of the Broadway the
alter in New York she gets about $500 a
week. Fifteen hundred dollars a week is
not an exaggerated estimate for her re-
ceipts from this play alone, while her rev.
enues from the sale of the book are large.
Seventy-fve thousand copies of Little
Lord Fauntleroy have already been sold,
and the publishers say they cannot print
them fast enough to supply the demand.
An edition of 10000 copies was placed in
press December lst, and all were sold be-
fore they left the binders hands. From
this she receives 20 cents a copy, which
leaves the aggregate not a small sum.
Then Mrs. Burnett has been paid $4,000
by the Mcclure syndicate for a serial story
that is just about half finished, and has
received a retainer from the New York
Ledger for another serial, to be delivered
before July lst, when she will receive Sl0,-
600 more in full payment.
Thirty-thousand dollars for stories I'M
written and $4,000 from her plays during
the coming year is not an exaggerated es-
innate of Mrs. Burnett's income. She is
receiving propositions from publishers
constantly which she is compelled to re-
ject, and also applications from lecture bu-
reaus to take the platform, but she is too
timid for this sort of work and has no
taste for it. Last week she received an
offer of a $1,000 a week for eight weeks
from a prominent lecture bureau to read
extracts from her works. Mrs. Burnett
has Just signed a contract to edit a chill
dren's department for a syndicate of news
papers for which she is to receive 81, 800 a
yaar
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between a sword and a scythe, with which
every Central American is provided.
Wearing little more than boots and SOM
breroS the workmen slash right and left
through the dense forests, cutting a path
and making as much mise about it as pos
sible. with a view to frightening away the
snakes and mischievous monkeys. Thus
surrounded by ebony backs that glisten in
the sunshine ike SO many sections of Rus
STA stovepipe, the engineers skirmish
ahead, with aneroid and pocket compass.
establishing the direction of the line. As
| soon as the site for a new stake is selected,
the few men around the engineers
cut back, in the direction of the main
party, a narrow path at first, which is
speedily widened by clearing away trees.
vines and branches. The stake is driven,
and the trans man, being now able to see
the flag, takes a sight. The ehainmen
follow and more stakes are driven at inter
walls of 100 feet.
After these, come the Jewelers., taking
elevations, depressions and cross-sections.
Once more the chief moves on, selects
another spot, and the bareback meckateros
hack away all around him. Thus, day
after day, the work goes on from dawn till
dark. Meals are cooked by camp-ires-
dinners not TO be sneezed at, either, with
their occasional rare bits of bird and
morceaux of roast monkey, and by the even
ing blaze the Americans play chess and
cards, sing songs and tell stories, while the
negroes and N~icaraguans do little but
sleep away the f~atigues of the day, enli-
vened by an occasional fandango or zap,
eteri0.
The photographic work at Graytown
has required no small amount of nerve and
good judgment, for running lines of
soundings in q small boat through this
heavy surf, is both difficult and dangerous.
However, they have steel canoes, fitted up
with alr-tigbt compartments, which ride
the crests of the breakers like so many sea-
birds, and not an accident has been re-
corded Good terminal harbors are indis-
pensible ad%juncts of any canal, and since
the destruction of the old port at this point,
every survey has shown constant and rapid
changes in the river channel.
In working off the bar, a temporary
camp was established on the outer beach.
Here the floods were SO heavy during the
rainy season that often the officers found
their cots under water and were obliged to
take refuge in Graytown: yet, strange to
say, very little sickness has resulted.
After the work at port San Carlos was
completed, the party were transferred to
Brito on the other side of the Isthmus.
Here everything was as different as the
Atlantic differs from the Pacific, though
in this section the two great oceans are
such near neighbors. A worlds canal is
not a question to be decided in a moment.
This piercing Of an isthmus-which will
probably work a greater change in history
than De Lessep's African ditch has accom-
plished-is well worth time, labor and ex-
pense. FANNIE 3. WARD.
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Everything. "Sardines in olive oil' sell
readily as Eastport herring in cottonseed
oil. 'Ocean trout and Alaska mackerel'
are considered far superior 10 the common
menhaden from which they spring. "Pickled
whitefish" are much more satisfactory to
the Imagination than the weakhsl which
representation in the market. God steaks
sound promising, even when cut from the
sayage wolfish. "Kennebec salmonn are
always in demand whether from Maine or
in the guise of reddish aud steelhead
from Oregon. 1t is, therefore, with little
surprise that we hear at this time of the
wonderful dinners provided by a celebrated
restaurateur in Washington with ayoung
halibut" from Norfolk as the chief attrac-
ton. transformed and idealized from the
homely and humble winter fiatish, which
has approached our shores, not to thrin
epicures, but to deposit its eggs peacefully.
We are reminded Of a circumstance in a
noted coffee-house in Melbourne a few
years age, which created a great deal of
excitement. The proprietor introduced a
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REST.
Let us rest ourselves a bit.
Norry7-waye your hand to it
Kiss your tnger-tips, and smile
1t farewell a little while.

Let Us rest ourselves a bit.
Norryf-waye your hand to it
Kiss your inger-tips, and smile
1t farewell a little while.
Weary of the weary way
We have come from yesterday,
Let Us fret not, instead,
OF the weary way ahead.
Let US pause and catch u breath
On the hither side of death,
While we see the tender shoots
Dfthe grasses-not the roots.
While we yet look down-not up
To seek out the buttercup
And the daisy, where they wave
Ger the gleen home of the grave.
Let us launch as smoothly on
listleSs pillows of the lawn
And drsft out across n main
OF ourschildish dreams again.
Voyage of, beneath the trees.
Ger the fields enchanted seas
Where the lilies are u sails,
And the seagulis, nightingaies.
Where no wilder storm shall beat
Than the wind that waves the wheat,
And nc tempests burst above
The old laughs we used to love.
Lose al troubles-gain release,
Languor, aud exceeding peace.
Cruising idsy Ger the vast,
Calm mid-ooean of the past.
Let US rest ourselves a bit.
Worry7-wave your hand to il
Kiss your ~finger-tipS. and smile
II faray-aI a htflp while
-Jcmes Whi;contb Rieg
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TIE French Women.

The French women are proveraal fol
,turniDg their days into night, aud vice
versa, and it q but recently that q few
fashionable Parisienhes have awakea tt
the fact that they sleep away the best par
of their lives. Ii is among them, tkzze.
FORE shat an early-risieg association ba
been formed, called ia Ligne du Malta
the members signing mPers to the esaei
that, except in case Of illness, they vii
arise daily at 7 A. N, aud, after n dip iu
the cold bath, take & hr:sk walk, or, Il
horsewomea, a short cantef. They promise
fHs.her, TO ead their balls aa1 receptions
by midnight. and, on "oS" nights, to re.
tire panctually at Ii. Should this society
flourish, gay Psris will. indeed, he reyolu.
Observation-Disclosures 7a6ic Tai.
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Pull Up a Cheer,

The ceremony of seeing the President
nowadays, says the Pittsburg Dispatch, re-
calls an old time Presidents fashion of re-
c%eiving guests who called at the White
House. When George Jones, who had Just
started the New York Times, called at the
White House, he was informed that Presi-
dent jackson was at home. Thereupon he
went upstairs to the big room on the sec
ond floor, and there obtained a magnificent
view of the back of the Presidents head.
The executive was sitting in front of a
CRATE fire, with his heels on the mantle
piece and his hat balanced over his ewes.
He had slid down on the chair until his
head was almost out Of sight, and he was
smoking a long clay pipe. The Secretary
and the caller approached him from be-
hind, and the Secretary said
"Mr. President, this is Mr.. George
Jones of New York.
Without turning his head or turning
around the President put his hand over
his right shoulder and Mr.. Jones laid his
own palm in it c~onfidingly. The President
gave his hand a hearty shake and said in
a cordial voice:
How DIDO, son? Pull up a cheer ?"
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fish of surprising sweetness and d~eliceey of
flavor, under the name of "Sweet Will
lam" His patrons eagerly deseured
Sweet William" and the fish had / ire
mendous rue. 1t was tender, iuie and
entirely free from bones. All went swim
mingly for Il time. Inquiries failed 10 re-
veal the name of the new favorite, until
one luckless day somebody saw a barrel
full of young sharks 60 into the
establishment, to be translated into Sweet
William" Then the volume of business
suddenly shrunk and the air was black
with threats OF suits for damages bv en-
ragged customers. And so-what's in a
name ?-ForeSt and Stream.
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REAL ESTATE, ETC.
Notice Of Sale Of Real Estate.

NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN BY THE IN
~ derSigned, Administrator of the estate OF
REUBEN JOHNSON, deceased, that, under an
order of Court made on the 18th day of January,
1889, he will sell at public auction, to the high
est and best bidder, for cash in gold coin OF the
United states, in front of the Courthouse in the
city OF Sacramento, on saturday, the NINTH
DAY OF FEBRUARY, 1889, tie following de
scribed real estate belonging to said estate The
or square bounded by 2 and land Sixth and
Seventh streets, in the city of Sacramento,
county of Sacramento, State OF California.
Dated, January 18th, IsS9.
CHARLES II. JOHNSON,
Administrator estate Reuben Johnson, de.
ceased.
GROVE /. JOHNSON. Attorney. iai9-td
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No form of government in France in the
past 100 years has passed the eighteen
year mark, except one. The Orleanist
Kingdom, although given here as continu-
ing eighteen years, in round figures actu-
ally lasted but seventeen years, six and a
half months, while the second Empire was
in existence about seventeen years and
nine months. The only governmental sys-
tenn which has endured longer than eight
cen years is the third Republic, which,
however, has exceeded that span of time
by less than five months.
The eighteen-year period has a fatal
import in French history. The reign of
Louis XVI. was nominally about eighteen
years, as he was crowned in IVA and gull
lotined a few days after the beginning of
1898, although practically he had been out
of power since the fall Of the Bastile in
1879, when the republic virtually came
into existence. Napoleon |. was dominant
IN French affairs about eighteen years, be-
ginning in 1877, just before the establish
ment of the Consulate, and ending at
Waterloo in 1915. Louis Philippe, the
Orieanist, and the third Napoleon, who
established the second empire, each reigned
nearly eighteen years. The duration of
the Bourbon monarchy of LOUIS XVIII.
and of his successor, Charles X, which
ended when Louis Philippe went upon the
throne, lasted within two years of the
eighteen-year period.
The foregoing landmarks in the course
of French history for the last ten or
eleven decades will show the basis on
which the eighteen-year superstition rests.
The cycle is again completed and the
period is fully rounded out. Is France on
the eve of another revolution? Has the
republic reached the limit Of its existence?
Is one more illustration about to be given
that a dozen and c half of years of power
is the maximum which will be allotted in
France to dynasty or governmental sys-
TEN? To these questions the events OF
the mex few days will furnish an answer.
St. Louis Gtobe-D Democrat.
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on SATURDAY, FksaCARY erm, AT 10
" O'Clock A. NJ, BELL < co, A~uctioneers,
will sell, by order of the celebrated artist, T. F.
MATHEWS. two of his elegant Oil Paintings,
Palmer and Idola Lakes. near Idaho Springs,
Colorado. Both of the paintings are in hand
some silver oNidized and plush frames. Also,
two sets Antique OAK and Cher Y Chairs, with
Rockers to match: parloT, Bedroom, Lining
room and Kitchen Furniture: six tne Brussels
Carpets. Also, Horses, BugRies, Wagons, Har-
ness, etc. Also, Twenty-Five Thousand Cigars.
RS- Sale positive. Terms cash. feS9f
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The man who gins a case may always
be depended upon TO express an earnest
and clear opinion that the verdict was a
most Just one.-Ieras Sgspgs.
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THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.
Is it doomed to the short Life of 1t
PredecessOrs2

10 UUUuHtU I'd tHb SHUTl LtIt OF It's
Predecessors?
There is a sort of superstition in France
that no dynasty or form Of government in
that country can endure more than eight
cen years. This belief has been held for a
third of a century or more, and the events
which have occurred within this period
have served to intensity and extend it.
The belief is based on a few important
facts in the French history of the past 100
years. These facts are contained in the
record of the duration Of each govern
mental system in that period, which we
will here present in a convenient form:
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The Height of Adam and Eve

NJ. Henricon, a member of the French
Academy of Sciences, published a work in
the year lis, a larger part of which was
given up to the past and present conditions
of the human family. In the course of his
arguments he proves, to his own s~atisfac-
ton, at least, that We have gradually de-
generated from colossal specimens OF flesh
and sinew to a!saeSt microscopic speeks in
comparison. The dignified position OF the
learned Henrico4 demands for his views
all due respect, bus who of the present
geReration could he induced to believe
that Adam, the first landlord Of creation.
was lbs feet and 9 inches high? Yet, in
the course of his reasoning, he proves this
ia j satisfactory way both to himself and
biz colleague. "Eve,D says this learned NJ.
D., +gas a splendid helpmst for her giant
husband, bat was not nearly 80 tall. being
bat lis feet 9 inches and 9 iines.n-S.
L0qe< Republic.
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just Arrived large shipment of gem
ine German Br~aunSSweiger and Eastern Nett.
worst. tine Italian Salomi. Also. a large variety
OF different kincs OF Cheese, at - J street. +.
BAuALE- Give us a call. 64j-lm
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4SGosruRA BtrTEss, indorssd by phgsi-
cians AID chemists for purity and whole
someone's. Dr. JIG D. 81. gert 4 Sons, sole
m2sgfsei9ress ASK your druggist.
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II WAS about to try a change of climate
10 order to cure my catarrh.n SAYS l. W.
Lillis. of Chicago, when l took Hoods
Sarsaparilla, which entirely curei me.n
Try il yourself
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For y d<st-clsss Carriage or Buggy go
10 HARRY BERNARD'S. sixth snd L stS. Il
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L. ii. Taylor, Civil and Hydraulic En-
cheering. Also Land Surveying. PA ST. If
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TO LEASE.

ION ACRES OF LAND ON THE COSTUMES
.lHU river, Is miles ffom Sacramento, on the
Jackson road, 40 acres OF which is in orchard,
the balance good corn land. Part payment TO
be made in advance. the residue as the parties
can agree. Lja2i-tf&w 5. w. BELCHER.
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GENERAL NOTICES.

John Eltel, AssRyer and Chemist, has re-
turned to S9 J street. Gold bought.
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III afflicted with Sore Eyes use DE-. Isaac
THOMPSON'S EYE WATER, sold at % cents.lyS
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a seyen-dollar o~vereoatis a heap warmer
than the ticket for a fur-trimmed.-Mer-
chant Tfpyeler.
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The hes; place in California to have yoes PsaaaS doae
Al Johnston & Cos 40 ST. saerameusn. Cal
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Don t i~rTitate Your luuss with q stubborn
con- h. whsi, q safe and Certain remedy cen
be hsa 10 Dr.. Jsspe's EzpecfoFant.
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AUCTIONS.
BELL &c 90.

AucrIoNE RS ASD CoNSlssIoS MERCHANTS,
No %: Il street.