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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-10-16
THE NEW TORPEDO BOAT.

The " Vesuyius," the new dynamite gun
boat, which has just demonstrated her
capacity-for the sixth tine-to be greater
than that called for by the contract with
her builders, is a novel vessel. She is of a
type that the United States Government
is very likely to duplicate, and perhaps
there may be constructed four or five of
her class. She was built with an eye
single to the attainment of great speed
and the carrying OF dynamite torpedo-guns,
and appears to have achieved far higher
rate and greater gun-power than was bar
gained for. She is armed with three fifteen
inch pneumatic dynamite guns, placed
abreast at fixed angle Of l60. The muz-
zles project through the deck about thirty
seven feet from the bow. She is hHilt to
carry thirty full-caliber projectiles. Her
engines are of the fonr-cylinder triple
expansion type. In January last, on her
first trial, she exceeded twenty-one knots,
and on her final trial last week is reported
to have repeated the speed and exceeded
il. 1t has developed also that her guns
can be fred in about half the time con-
tracted for. She is thus altogether sue
cess. The pneumatic dynamite guns with
which she is armed were invented BY
Mfr. Msford, and improved and adapted to
naval uses by Captain Zalinski, of the
army. These tifteen-inch guns of the We
suvius are each ffty-fye feet In length.
The projectiles they throw contain from
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-10-16
BOUQUET BEGGING.
Two Little wrens of Girls Play Cute
Game,

Two Little Wrens of Girls Play Cute
Game.
James Fair tells a st. Louis Globe
Democrat: The cutest confdeoce game /
ever heard of was practiced On myself. l
was coming up Broadway few days ago.
with buttonhole bouquet given me by a
friend pinned to my coat, and was accosted
by two ragged little wrens-little girls
who very piteously asked for the flower
trophy, which l had owned but few
hours, and which, by the way, was very
pretty and attractive. With a deal of re-
luctance gave it to them and passed on.
Shortly after that, as l returned, was APP
preached by another little girl, who offered
for sale the same bouquet had parted
with but half hour before. Realizing
that some sort of a combine existed between
the one who offered to sell and those to whom
l had given the flowers. | determined
to buy ard watch developments. For
10 cents bought the bouquet. As soon as
she received the money she broke straight
for newsboy, had dime changed, ran
to the alley across from the Laclede Hotel
and joined the two girls who had done the
beg act, and divided the spoils. Each girl
received 8 cents. which left l cent over
How should they divide the cent? Easy
enough. They tipped for it. How much
they made that day in this way | don't
know, but it is reasonable to suppose that
l was not the only one who was made a
dupe of by those three ragged little
"wrens.n
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-10-16
ELECTRIC FLASHES.
Condensed Te1egraphic Dispatches From
All Parts of the World.

Condensed Te1egraphic Dispatches From
All Parts of tho World.
Sir Daniel Gooch, the well-known Eng
lish engineer, is dead.
1t is officially announced that the condi-
ton of the King of Spain is critical. His
whole body is paralyzed.
John Madison Morton, author of BOX
and Cox" and numerous plays, is danger
ously ill in Sutton's Hospital which is at
tsched to the Charter House, London. He
is suffering from paralytic symptoms.
The President yesterday appointed John
s. Bugbee, of California, United States Dis
trict Judge for the D strict of Alaska, and
George W Barrch, of Utah Territory, Judge
of Probate in the county of Salt Lake. Utah.
An interview with extension Commits
sioner Tanner is published. in which he
justified the increase of Senator Mander-
sons pension, on the ground that it was
bis duty to see equity done, whether the
application was made for re-rating or not.
He points ont similar action taken by Sec
rotary Noble himself in the case of General
Powell.
Advices from Brisbane, Queensland, state
that Sir William McGregor, Administrator
of New Guinea, accompanied by twenty
Two men, recently laEueu on the lsiaDu Oh
Demara. Two hundred and fifty natives
made an attack upon the party, but after
hard fighting were repuised. Eleven ma
tives were killed and wounded. Several
whites were wounded. The party then
burned the village Of the natives.
Harry Franklin, convict, made des-
perate attempt to escape from the jail at
Hillsboro, Ill Monday night. About 6
o'clock Sheriff Griswold let three prisoners
out from the cage into the corridor to wash.
Franklin rushed at the Sheriff with slung-
shot he had made cut of towel stuffed
with salt and broken glass. The Sheriff
knocked him down and drew a revolver,
but Franklin arose and was knocked down
again with the butt end Of the weapon.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-10-16
THE STUDY OF PALMIsTRY.
A professor" of This Art Tells How t
AnaIyze Character.
From the indianapolis News

From the Indianapolis News
Look at your hand. Do you read your
character in it? Or study your girls hand
and be wise.
The science of chironomy, or the mean
ing of the human hand, always excites
curiosity, but few people understand it..
Can mans character be read on his hand
as well as you can read it in his face, or
by the bumps on his head? IT'S so
claimed, and the science by which it is
done is pretty one. 1t has many
branches, all of them well worth studying
"If the palm Of the hand is skinny and
narrow" said Professor" of the science,
sit denotes timidity, feeble mind and
want of moral and intellectual force. If
the palm is too thick, big and strong, it
dAnatAs lou Intelligence and tendency
to brutality. A hollow, deep palm always
signifies misery, ill-luck and failure in life.
Fingers which are smooth denote ten
dency to act upon instinct, impulse or in
tuition rather than reason, calculation or
deduction. Knotty fingers denote a'ten-
dency to order AID arrangement. People
with short fingers are quicker, more i'm
pulsive, act more on the spur of the mo-
ment, than people with long fingers. If
the fingers are very short it signifies
cruelty and want of tact.
'Long fingers denote love of detail.
Such persons are tidy as to their appoint
ments, easily put out and very careful
about triaes. Workers in small things
always have large hands, and the con-
structors of colossal works have small
hands. Small-handed people write large,
whilst large-handed people always write
small.
"Thick fingers denote luxury Twisted
and malformed fingers, with short nails,
denote cruelty, tyranny and worrying,
teasing disposition. If hand is stiff and
hard, opening with difficulty to its fullest
extent, it betrays stubbornness of character
and ayarice. If the fingers are supple,
having tendency to turn back, they de-
note, as rule, cleverness and inquisitive-
ness, nearly always generosity, ending in
extravaganza. If the fingers fit close to-
gether it is a sign of avarice. If twisted
so as to show chinks between them it is a
sign OF curiosity. If they are smooth and
transparent they betray indiscretion and
loquacity.o
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-10-16

A REPUBLICAN primary was held in
Brooklyn, n. Y, recently, and 'blocks Of
five" voters were so numerous and open in
their infamous proceedings as to shock
even the old-liners. The Brooklyn Courts
have now taken hold of the matter, and
on the 18th inst. five of the purchased
gentry were sent to the State Prison for
nine months each. 1t is cheering sign
OF the times that such convictions and
punishment are possible in so great city
as Brooklyn. The "hoater" element may
conclude, if this thing continues, that in
deed its occupation is gone.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-10-16

800 to 600 pounds of gelatine and dyna-
mite, and they can be thrown the full dis
lance of one geographical nile. A lesser
proiectile carrying but 200 pounds of ex-
plosive material can be thrown from these
guns 1000 yards. The projecting or mo-
tive force used is compressed air, the press
ure being equal 10 half ton, and the
initial velocity acquired is 500 feet a
second. The shells are provided with
electric fuses that explode the projectile
on its entering the water, or at greater
depth if SO adjusted. These new arms
with which the Vesuvius is fitted are,
therefore, really torpedo guns, and the
shells are nothing less than the most de-
structiye of torpedoes, carrying the most
deadly and powerful explosive known to
science. 1t is calculated that there is no
vessel ahoat that can withstand the shock
of one of these projectiles exploded beneath
the bow or the stern, and it is probable
that they would break up the heaviest
armored ship, even if the shell fell into the
water amidships. The Vesuvius in fight
ing trim sits very low in the water, show
ing less above the surface than any other
boats except the monitors. She has no
rigging and very little upper works expo
sure, while her decks are the strongest
known, possessing greater resisting power
than any ever laid down. From this very
brief description it may be possible to gain
something like clear idea of the amazing
power of the new boat, aud what great
addition she is to the American navy.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-10-16
TRAFFIC MANAGER srUBBs.
He will be Vice-President of the Chicag
Milwaukee and st. Paul.

He Will be Nice-President OF the Chicago,
Milwaukee and st. Paul.
[San Francisco Alta, October 15th.l
There was genuine sensation yesterday
in railroad circles when it was learned that
J. G. Stubs, Traffic Manager of the South
ern Pacific Company, had accepted posi-
ton with the Chicago, Milwaukee aud st.
Paul Railway. In the Alta of Saturday
last it was stated that Mr.. Stubs had been
offered position with some Eastern road
al salary of S25. 600 year. Mr.. Stubbs
arrived here on Saturday night from the
East, but could not be seen until yesterday
When asked what the rumor really meant
Mr.. Stubs said: "Yes, it is true that am
to leave the Southern Pacific. l will be
the Second Vice President of the Chicago,
Milwaukee and st. Paul Railway. am to
go East as soon as | can settle my affairs so
as turn this office over to my successor
"You will be the General Manager of the
Milwaukee, will you not?n
"The President of the Milwaukee is the
General Manager" was Mr.. Stubs very
non-commital answer.
Further than this Mr.. Stubs would not
speak, either as TO salary or as to his sue
cessor The talk on the street is that Mr.
Stubs will be the General Manager end
that there is little doubt of it. The Office
for the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul,
and as it was created for Mr.. Stubs, it in
dicates how highly his abilities are es-
teemed in the East, where, in the fierce
war of competition, only the fittest survive.
Mr.. Siubbs has been twenty years with the
Southern Pacific in the traffic department.
He was chief clerk in the freight office Of
the Central Pacific then General Freight
Agent, and then Traffic Manager of the
entire Southern Pacific system. HIS pro-
motion, like all such advancement in the
Southern Pacific Company, was won by
actual merit. As it happens, all Of the
chiefs were out of town yesterday, so that
it was not possible to learn who will be
Mr.. Stubs successor. W. G. Curtis, as
sistant TO General Manager Towne, said
that Mr.. Stubs successor had not yet been
named. 1t has always been the policy of
the road to promote some one from its own
ranks rather than to go to foreign road for
material.
The talk on the street is that while the
Southern Pacific people may be very re-
luctant to let Mr.. Stubs go. they cannot
possibly offer him inducements which will
offset the prospects of brilliant future
with the Milwaukee road. 1t is also be-
lieved that Richard Gray, the present Cen
eral Freight Agent of the Southern Pacific,
will succeed Mr.. Stubbs as Traffic Agent.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-10-16

TIME brings all things right-the "Capi-
tai City Club of Atlanta, composed of
leading Democrats, after long inves-
tigation, has passed resolutions exoner-
ating General Lewis, the Postmaster
of Atlanta, who was burned in effigy
not long since for giving colored
citizen a clerkship. The resolution de-
clares that General Lewis was not blame
worthy. How do the Democratic sheets at
the North that Bounced" General Lewis
so roughly feel about it now? 1t turns
out that the young white woman clerk
who resigned in such high dudgeon because
niger was put into the office as clerk
by the new official, had served there four
years under the former Postmaster who
had three negro clerks, and yet she made
no complaint. Political offenses are taken
by favor, evidently, by that young female
Democrat.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-10-16

WONDERS will never end. Here is Yer
mont with an Immigration Commission,
asking for immigrants to settle the farm
ing lands of that State. Connecticut and
some other New England States are pro-
posing to follow the example. One en-
thusiastic journal declares that there are
thousands of acres of fine farm lands in the
six New England States, that can be pur-
chased very cheaply, and which will pro-
duee proftably if titled by skilled agri-
culturists.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-10-16

THE District Attorney of New York
announces that nothing will be done in
the Flack cases until the woman in the
conspiracy appears. This may amount to
perpetual postponement of the criminal
proceedings, as it is equivalent to notice
to Flack and his son to keep the woman IN
hiding. The ways of some prosecutors
are past finding out. Why cannot Flack
be brought to trial for fraudulently pro-
curing divorce from his wife without his
mistress being dragged into the case?
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-10-16

A Miss Chauncy of Columbus, OHIO,
has had fright that will doubtless teach
her a lesson. She used for her complexion
mixture of arsenic and nitrate OF silver.
Then she went to the White Sulphur
Springs and took the baths The sulphur
decomposed the silver salts in her skin and
turned her so black that she has gone into
retirement, and will not be seen again for
year.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-10-16

There is an honest cabman. A day or
two ago cabby, whose stand is at Union
Square, New York, was called to take
home one who had imbibed more than was
good for him, and received So note for a
charge of 81. The cabman did not dis
cover that he had been oyerpaid until the
next morning. Then he went to the man
and rendered him the IS change, and the
man was magnanimous enough to take it
oil
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-10-16

The RECORD UNION. SUNDAY UNION and
WEEKLY UNION are the only papers on the
C5dss. outside Of San Francisco, that receive
The full associated Press dispatche, from all
parts Of the World. Outside Of San Francisco,
they have no competitors either IN influence
home and general circulation throughout the
State.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-10-16

In the election of 1892 Indiana will
have in operation the new ballot system,
when an unpurchased and absolutely fair
election can be had, a thing that has not
occurred in the Hoosier State since the
memory of this generation runneth-at
least, not since modern political bosses
have had the manipulation of thing at the
polls. The Indiana newspapers are al
ready discussing what the result of a
straight, fair and square election is likely
to be.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-10-16

BOTH the Maryland and the Iowa Dem
ocratic platforms declare for high license,
fact that has occasioned CONSERVATION
among members of the party who have
announced that it cannot afford to take a
position upon the question. A party de-
serving the confidence of the people can
always afford to speak out on any topic that
agitates the public mind.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-10-16
San FRANuIsoo AaENoIEs.

This paper is for sale at the following places
L. P. Fishers, room q, Merchants Exchange,
California street. who is also sole Advertising
Agent for San Francisco; the principal News
Stands ana Hotels, and at the Marketstreet
Ferry.
81 Also, for sale on all Trains leaving and
coming into Sacramento
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Chewing gum pu

Chewing gum puzzles the French news
papers. They announce that the most ele-
CANT American ladies, married or unmar-
ried, have developed singular passion for
chewing India rabber, and that forty-two
factories in the United States are devoted
to the preparation Of the article.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-10-16

asked to settle the question as to what sarsa-
parillas were in fact purely vegetable. We
present their report. ave hare made careful
chemical analyses Of several lOetE knocn brands
Of Sdrsaparilla, and hare found them all with
hesiagle exception Of Joys to contain iodidc of
potassium. As a result ace are enabled to pro-
nounce Joys to be the only purely vegetable
Sdrsdpdrilla now on the market, 1iich las come
under our observation" Modern medicine
has proven that all ordinary face eruptions
are caused by indigestion and sluggish circu-
lation, which call for vegetable alternatives,
instead of mineral blood purifiers like iodide
of potassium joys Vegetable sarsaparilla
is the first to discard the old notions and pro-
coed under the modern theory. Its cures are
the talk of the hour.
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Peculiar

To itself in many important particulars, Hoods
Sarsaparilla is different from and superior to any
other medicine.
Peculiar in combination, proportion and prep
aration of Ingredients, Hoods Sarsaparilla pos
sesses the full curative value OF the best known
remedies Of the vegetable kingdom.
Peculiar in its medicinal merit, Hoods Sarsapa-
rilla accomplishes cures hitherto unknown.
Peculiar in strength and economy Hoods Sar-
saparilla is the only medicine of which can truly
be said, 100 doses dollar" Medicines in larger
and smaller bottles require larger doses. and do
not produce good results Hoods Sarsaparilla-
Peculiar in its good name at home there Is
more of Hoods Sarsaparilla sold in Lowell, where
it is made, than of all other blood purifiers.
Peculiar in its phenomenal record of sales
abroad, no other preparation has ever attained
such popularity In SO short time. Do not be In
ducedto take any other preparation. Be sure toget
Hoods SarsaparilIa
Sold by all druggists. 81; six for s.. Prepared only
by c. L HOOD CO., Apothecaries, Lowell. Mass.
100 Doses One Dollar
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-10-16

The women of Berlin use daily 202 kilos
of face powder, III kilos of rouge, Oh of
coioring matter for eyebrows, 80 of lip
pomade, 292 of glycerine, Is of cold cream.
A kiio or kilogram is equal to 1-5 pounds.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-10-16

THRoAr diseases commence with . cold,
coueh or sore threat. Browns Bronchial
Trrches give immediate relief. Sold only
in boxes. Price, % cents.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-10-16
THE QUESTION SETTLED.

This is n faithful pic
ture of the establish
ment of Thomas Price
& Son, at SCI sacra-
mento ST., S. F. As the
leading chemists of
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-10-16
EDWIN K. ALSIP & co.
THE LAST CHANCE!

RANCH OF FIRST AND SECOND SHELF
n bottom land, containing 800 acres; % acres
in bearing grape viLes, best varieties of ship
ping grapes; 40 acres in orchard, from the
earliest to the latest varieties, thereby having
fruit !!or market all summer; one alfalfa field
separately fenced, and the balance of land in
grain: well-fenced in several divisions; dwell
ing of nine rooms, with modern Improvements;
two steam pumps one windmill water tanks;
warehouse on the railroad, paying not less than
$500 per year rental also, large new barn.
Situated on the north line of the Sacramento
and Placerville Railroad, and running to the
river; eleven miles from sacramento.
ca This farm will be sold at q great
sacrifice If called for soon. Price, $780,
900, and $4,000 may remain on
place at low rate of Interest.
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THE WEEKLY UNION

Entered at the Postoffice at Sacramento as
Hecond-class matter.
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SACRAMENTO PUBLISHERS COMPANY,

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THE DAILY RECORD-UNfON.
Published six days In each week, with Double
Sheet on SATURDAYS and

THE SUNDAY UNION,
Published every Sunday morning, making a
splendid sEYES-D1 paper.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-04-21

proved. Prof. Kraft Ebing, an ex-
pert in nervous diseases, who at
tended the Duchess Of Cumberland
while she was insane, has charge Of
the empress. He predicts gradual amelio-
ration of her condition. Meantime, she
passes whole days without speaking or
moving. Ii the empress improves she will
so to Wies Baden, but if her disease be-
comes aggravated, preparations will be
made TO take her to Styria.
VIENNA's CATHOLIC CONGRESS.
The Cotholic congress at Vienna will
open on April 90. There will be three sit
tings. Five committees will be appointed
to consider social. scientific, educational,
press and political questions. Ii is expected
that the congress will proclaim the neces-
.ity of the establishment Of the temporal
power Of the pope and declare the right of
the church to direct schools to the exclusion
of state interference.
A LOSS FOR VIENNA.
The syndicate Of the Vienna corn market
has decided to abandon the international
congress of grain merchants This congress
has been held for fifteen successive yea S,
drawing host of visitors and largo
amount of capital. The syndicate alleges
that the insults which the populace
heaped upon tho large number
VI JoWlSu uehleIS nave TenusTed nee
essary the removal OF the annual market to
Pesth. Count Won Taafe personally went
to Burgomaster Uhl and asked him to in
tervene for the preservation to Vienna of
so important au element of trade activity
Herr Uhl tried to influence the syndicate to
change its decision, but without success.
DIR. PETERS TO RETURN.
The East African Association has elected
Herr Voszen, the German consul at Hanzi-
bar, director in place of Or. Peters. Dr.
Peters, it is said, will soon return Capt.
Wissman refuses TO sanction the Emn relief
expedition, and no porters are obtalnable.
The Supreme Ecclesiastical council has
forbidden Chaplain Stoecker 10 speak at
political meetings.
The queen dowager of Bavaria is dying.