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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1890-07-30

Let st. Paul and Minneapolis unite. and
then at the next census sach will be the
boomer OF the others population with view
to the grand total.
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The Year 5000 In volapuL,a.

lTdngdted.l
"Do you enter college this year. wiIliS :"
- hope to-
Are you up in English ?"
"lsr I've read six books OF sAltus two OF Glider
and I'm now reading tue Oratiuns Of 4epew"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1890-07-30
duly snow In the Cnt.kill..

From the Albdnv 'rguS.
HuNTER July % The weather during Saturday and
sunday was uncomtortaby cool A few Makes OF sno W
ie.I on Saturday AFTERNOON.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1890-07-30
Dolby In ComnlstIng th sInrooklyn Seminar,

Tho ne" Brooklyn diocesan seminary IN Lewis ave
nue, tho opening of which was 10 be feature Of the
celebration Il Bwhop Loughlns golden jubilee on Oct
H. will not DO ready IN time Tho building will not
completed before February. The Very Rev r. V. KAY.
Angels Niagara n, Y, is now III Europe in search OF
tho LALArilL FstbOrL
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1890-07-30

nAssI.amLs l!Sabl.s and EorspSIS of the Iungs or
!nIoat are usually overcome BY DR. d. JAyleG ESpOo.
S%ASE-ASWs curative for all eold5.-AdH
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1890-07-30
They GO the Other Way.

From he Denver Republican
The population OF tho state OF Kansas will probably
be found to be but little II any than IL was in
1883 There 10 not tho least doubt that tho growth OF
tho State has been checked by prohibition
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1890-07-30

An English gentleman, who. with an American friend
watching the procession OF fashionable turnouts on
a Newport drive recently. commented upon tho skill
with which several wellknown New Workers handled
their ia dam teams. alt is surprising" the English.
man said "how few otherwise really excellent whips
drive taudem we'll"
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-01-01
Reading Ruins the Sight.

Bernard H. Blank, the Maiden Lane
optician, has Just returned from England,
where he has been studying the question
of defective vision, and has some pro-
nounced views on the subject.
"We are rapidly" said Mr.. Blank to a
New York Star reporter, becoming a
specialized nation like the Germans, and
presumably from the same cause-too
much reading. Walk along Broadway
from the Battery to Harlem: and you will
find every 18th young man you meet, and
every tive mig woman wearing
glasses. x .-dore OF them worn
now than were worn ten years ago, and
there will be more ten years hence. In
deed, no one who shall live till then need
be surprised if in fifty years from now peo-
pie with glasses will be as much the rule
as they are at present the exception.
"The cause for this has been stated in
newspapers and magazines time and az ain
it is, in fact, told regularly once a week,
and yet people will persist in read
ing in the cars, reading by gaslight
and reading too much. The eternal read
ing wears what, for plain talking's sake, |
shall call the sight, as well as the bright
ness of the eyes. You don't see savages or
illiterate nations with defective sight 1t
stands to reason that the Jogging and jolt
ing of the cars-the street-cars especially
strain the vision, which tries to grasp
small letters and keep them in view, and
it is absolutely lunacy to read on the cars
by poor gasight. Still, people do it, and
people at that who are shrewd and clever
in the ordinary affairs of life"
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-01-01

| is a unique little thing. 1t is about foot
and a half in length, the head and body
somewhat human like-but with long,
scrawny arms and ingers-and its lower
part of the body being that of fish. 1t is
ANYTHING but the beautiful creature pic
| tured to US in fairy stories, and even to
those who are credulous as TO such things
ever existing, it is sore disappointment.
Especially were they adverse to learning of
| its smallness. But then the japanese may
have smaller ideas in this regard than
| others.
| This mermaid is, to use popular slang
| term, fake" pure and simple, as are all
others which are exhibited.
The japanese make them up more for
ornaments than anything else. Considera-
| Bile work and skill are required in order to
get up one of these representations. The
head is the skull of small monkey or ape
of some sort altered considerably with
clayish substance, and the body and arms
are usually those of species of large lizard
| found in Japan, preserved and hardened.
| The lower portion or tail is, of course,
contribution from the fnny kingdom.
These sections are all stuck together in
| their proper places, and then the head,
| body and arms are painted a brownish
color, while the tail remains in its natural
color, with scales and fins. So cleverly are
these mermaids made up that even the
closest observer cannot tell how or where
the various portions are Joined together.
The specimen referred to was presented
| to the Bureau by ]. z. Davis, the we'll
known San Francisco antiquarian. Mr..
Davis says he has always hao laundering
| for anything in the mermaid line, and
| never rested until he obtained this one.
About nine years ago he had occasion to
visit Philadelphia One day friend came
| to him, and, with great earnestness, min
babe him "come with him if he wanted to
see something Mr.. Davis accompanied
his friend and the latter piloted him to
cigar store few blocks away. After Dur
chasing a couple of cigars, and treating the
proprietor of the place also to one, Mr..
Davis friend leaned over the counter and
told the cigar man that he would like TO
show his friend that mermaid"
The proprietor assumed very mysteri-
Gus air, and, cautiously opening back
door, babe the visitors enter. There on a
table was jlst such an object as has been
described above.
There, now, what do you think of
that ?" said Mr. Davis friend with sort
of triumphant smile.
Mr. Davis ga=ed at the object for some
time. rs it real p he finally ventured to
ask. But the indignant proprietor only
replied with look OF witbering scorn and
contempt and the friend didn't happen to
hear the foolish question.
OF course it was real.
Finally Mr. Davis and the cigar-dealer
became reconciled, aud the latter conde-
scended to inform him how he came into
the possession of such wonder. 1t ap
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-01-01

This gubernatorial favor was not shown
to Miner. who was the leader of the gang,
and, thinking that it was probably mere
oversight and that it was intended that he
should once more enjoy the luxury Of
breathing "fIeen air, he resolved to pardon
himself out
Shortly after finishing his second year,
he made q dummy to represent himself (he
having secured an extra suit of convicts
apparel) and stood il in his CELL That
night when the other prisoners were taken
to their quarters he managed to elude the
vigilance of the guards and remained Sc
creted in the lower yard to await the
friendly cover Of night, climbe over the
wall and escape.
A guard happened to address the sup
posed convict in his CELL and getting no
response from the man of straw, iHvesti-
gated and gave the alarm.
In short order the fugitive was found
in his hiding place and reinstated in his old
lodgings. The escapade cost him all his
credits for good behavior, amounting to ten
years of his term.
81 never lost so much time in so short a
time" said Billy; but l have behaved
myself well ever since, and | hope that by
being real good the balance of my term
shall get my credits back, and that will get
| me out in about seven years.
And when get out" he continued, Il
shall take to some other business. Toe
many railroads and too many people in the
country for my old profession now. and, to
tell you the truth, the business has degen.
| Grated so that it's no honor to an old hand
| to be mixed up in it. Such clumsy work
as the greenhorns do nowadays is a dis
| grace TO the profession. Bah !" And the
old-time bandit hesved sigh. as if in
memory of the golden days long buried il
| the past.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-01-01
TETHERED TRAESsaESSORS.
CHATS WITH eLD-TIMERs IN SAN
QUENTIN PRISON.
Horse Thieves and Observation-Disclosures
and Other Noted Desperadoes
Interviewed.

81 will send you to the penitentiary !"
said the managing editor of the RECORD
UYroN, addressing one of the staff at a
"cebinet meeting" a couple Of days ago.
''Itll serve him well right" laconically
observed the city editor.
Society will be the gainerl" the tele-
graph editor cheerfuRy Clipped in.
The reporter, wife had Just been reHec-
ting upon what dull life really good
man led, was staggering beneath the uR-
expected fusilade as his chief resumed:
go to San Quentin and take haaty
glance at some Of the more noted prison
ers-especially the old timers See if you
can get them to talk about their history,
and get from them any points of interest
TO the reading public
Armed with the proper credentials. the
writer proceeded to the great reformatory
institution to holdbrief converse with repre-
sentatiyes of the worst classes of human
nature-society's natural deadly foes.
Arrived az the prison, the scribe called
upon General John McComb, the Warden,
presented his letters of introduction and
requested the privilege OF Intervening GER
tain ones among the eonvicts. The request
was cheerfahy granted, and the interviewer
was turned over to Captain B. f. Dough-
erty, who, with Captain c. n. Fish and Cap
tain Malcolm Mclean, has the immediate
oversight of the prisoners.
And before going any further, the writer
desires to express his appreciation of the
extreme courtesy and obliging assistance OF
these three officers. They did everything
in their power to aid the undertaking in
hand and did it IN a manner which clearly
entitled them to the reward due to all who
are coed to newspaper men.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-01-01

my previous soiourn in the pen. and | was
given ten years. The property stolen was
$40 il money, and l thus learned that my
time was appraised by the State at 81
year. served every day of that term.
"In 1864 enlisted in the Second Cavalry,
California Volunteers. l served seventeen
months, and was honorably discharged.
then served fifteen months in the Eighth
Cavalry, and was mustered out with my
hide full of bullets. l concluded l had de-
voted enough time to patriotism and went
back toto private life.
After leaving the army | went to
San Beznardino, and in July, 1865 was
sentenced to two years at this establish
ment in a matter intimately associated
with mule.
'<N ell, to shorten long story, I've been
in and out more or less ever since ana gen
orally through an absurd molten which
seems to prevail TO the effect that am too
fcnd of other peoples horses.
| When my present sentence IS hnisned
/ will have spent twenty-six and one-hali
4 years in this prison. am due TO reappear
4 on earth June Is, iS92--in time for the
| Worlds Fair But if you meet me there
you won't know it"
Bryant is man little above the aver
age hight, with gray hair, and not bad
| looking face He declares veEemently that
the present shall be his last term in prison,
but there be some of the officials who gen.
uy drop one eyelid whenever the announce
| ment is made
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-01-01
WALLACE GREEN.
A Man With an AIl-consuming Fondness

A Man With an All-Consuming Fondness
for Equine Traffic.
would you like to see another horse
man. asked Captain Dougherty of the
correspondent. The latter remarked that
he always enjoyed talking TO connoisseurs
in that line, and the Captain dispatched a
guard to bring Wallace Green to the REC
ORD UNION pumping works.
Green is q very ordinary looking man,
about As years of age, with features show
ing weak character and an intellect none
too strong. He has not spent so much
time in prison as some men, but that may
be accounted for by the fact that he is not
so old as some. He has made showing
sufficient to give him undoubted standing
among Crimes Four Hundred, however
as his present term is the seventh in this
prison and since 1866. when his first term
began, he has never been outside of San
Quentin more than two and one half years
at time, and so long as that only once.
Hewas convicted at Suisun in December
1866, of stealing horse. For this he got
two-year sentence, which he served oct in
full.
Early in 1869 he was sent from Wood.
land for three years to reflect upon the i'm
propriety of running off other mems
horses.
Six months after the completion of his
second term Green essayed to give little
variety to his plan of working, and when
next he appeared at the bar of justice it
was to answer to the charge of highway
robbery. With a couple of others of his
| ilk he stopped stage near Knights Ferry.
did you get much by that haul?" he
was asked.
Yes; five years." answered he, with an
air of supreme disgust.
! Siuce then he has spent his time in and
out of the penitentiary, but principally in,
and mostly through his mania for horses.
1t is said that he is never happy out of
trouble, unless 1t be when he is on the sure
road to il, and he is one of the men who
bid fair to be buried at the States expense.
| I'm gettin' used to it, he said, in speak
ing of his long incarceration, land there
isn't no use in Teller tryin to live square
when be goes out O. here. No matter how
well he behaves himself. some dirty dogll
point him out as jail-bird before long, an
then there won't nobody have nothin' to
do with him, an he's got to go back TO the
old thing. Tn goin' to try it outside once
more, though, an if they don't give me no
better show than they have yet, I'll do some
| job which II throw me on the State till
croakn
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-01-01
WILLIAM MINER.
A Model Prisoner Who Regrets the Good
Old Days of the Stage Coach.

A Model Prisoner Who Regrets the Good
Old Days of the Stage Coach.
There are in the prison number of men
convicted Of the grave error of interrupting
the peaceful progress of that now compare
lively unknown vehicle, the stage coach.
Among the number, however. probably the
only one who is an "old-ti and whose
exploits have been sufficiently interesting
to entitle him to place in this galaxy OF
prison birds is William Miner man now
in the prime of life and q very decent look
ing fellow, withal.
Billy commenced business in the heyday
of roseate youth, and there is a legend to
the effect that he held up stsge-a small
one, Just as a starter-bsfore be was II
years old. This may be only rumor, as
there is no sufficient naturalization in the
matter. and in conversation William in
sisted upon combining the discussion solely
to matters which connected him, en-
tirely.wiihout his sanction, TO his present
abode.
Tue present is his second term in San
Quentin. The first commenced in 1871.
when be got eight years for robbing stage
in Calaverss county
81 had partner in that job, said Billy.
He was Jim Harrington, commonly
known as OUTLAW Jim-you see l did get
into bad company, sometimes : and it
didn't pan out very well, for tcontempiu-
ously) we only got about $1,000 jim got
away with most of the swag and | was
sorry had tackled the iOb-for financial
reasons | always thought it was g good
deal better for man to be honest, so long
as be didn't lose any money By it.
In December, 1881 Miner vas sentenced
for twenty-five years for taking hand in
holding up a sage near S nora in October
of the same year He had two partners in
the enterprise. and tie haul amounted, he
says. TO about So coo.
His partners we're sentsnced to twelve
years each, aud were both pardoned ont
after serving two years.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-01-01
MARY Won.
A Lady Who Exhibits Some Thoroughly
Developed Traits of Character.

A Lady Who Exhibits Some Thoroug bly,
Developed Traits of Character.
Mary Won is not yet what one would call
an ''old-timer" in the sense of long service
within prison walls, but she may be so con-
sidered forty or fifty years hence, if she
lives without breaking out of her present
comfortable quarters, as she is now active
ly engaged on life sentence for murder.
About two years ago Mary shot and
killed man by the name of Bishop on an
Australian steamer in the hsrbor at San
Francisco.
For this imprudent act she was accorded
the fate which she is now enduring, it
must be said, with not very good grace.
Mary is what is commonly known in the
vernacular as "a holy terror" and if she
thinks that any of the San Quentin people
thrown in her society are in love with her
she makes great mistake.
She makes life miserable for the officials
and everyone else within sight, or within
sound of her voice. for although she looks
mighty bad she acts much worse. Her
conduct is really naughty.
About q year ago, for instance, she made
desperate effort to kill the matron of the
prison, since which occasion she has been
kept locked up all the time. Nor does she
try by decent behavior to merit great lib
critics. She swears in a fashion which
would make Barbsry Coaster blush, and
heaps the vilest abuse upon anyone who
comes near her. Even the innocent writer
of these harmless lines had to take it-and
he confesses to a sort of malicious glee in de-
claring to the world that Mary is rude
thing, forty years old if day, and not bit
good-looking.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-01-01
FELIPE MORENO.
A Frank Acknowledgment of Innocence
On the Part of Life Man."

A Frank Acknowledgment of Innocence
On the Part of Life Man."
As anyone knows who has had any ex-
perience with the convict gentry, major
ity of the prisoners maintain their limo
cence on all possible occasions. Such a
one is Felipe Moreno. "life man." who
does not look as though he would tell lie
about it, but who probably has. He is a
Mexican, about fifty years of age.
In the latter part of 1856 a man was
murdered at Contra Costa. Moreno says he
knew who did it (which is probably true),
and that he helped the guilty man to es-
cape from the country. Fearing lest an
indiscriminate and hasty public might
suspect that he had some hand in the mat
ter himself, he also concluded to decamp
and went to Mexico. He tarried among
the Gressers until 1856, when, thinking
the matter had blown over, he returned to
California. He was arrested in Sacra-
mento, taken to Martinez, tried for the
murder committed ten years before, and
sentenced to end his days in San Quentin.
Senior Moreno, who is las mild man
nered man as ever cut throat or scuttled
a ship" emphatically declares his ipno-
cence. He says he wouldn't hurt a fly.
Nevertheless, when the writer meets him
outside" the swarthy gentleman may
have as much of the road as he may re-
quire for his own private use.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-01-01
GEORGE JACKSON.
Another Stage Robber Who Claims to be
Disguised With Bis Old Calling.

Another Stage Robber Who Claims to be
Disguised With Bis Old Calling.
George Jackson, alias George Lester, alias
George Lane, aged fifty three, is another
man who owes his present troubles las
well as his former ones) to the old days Of
stage coaching.
His first term in this prison, however, he
got for horse stealing, he having come up
from San Bernardino for that offense in
April, 1886, with five years to his debit, al
twenty-five years of age.
He was convicted at Nevada City on June
5, 1874, of robbing a stage near Grass
Valley on the 9TH of July of the previous
year. About $1,000 was taken from the
express-box. This time he got fifteen
years, and he was liberated in nine year:
and five months, having finished his term
with credit, if not with positive ecldt
In January, 1885, Jackson was convicted
at San Francisco of robbing the United
States mail. This was another case Of
stage-coacn, and the biggest thing the
operator GOT out of it was a ten-year term
in the Penitentiary.
He, too, expresses himself as thoroughly
disgusted with the avocation Of stage-rob
bling in these degenerate days, and affirms
moreover, that when he "gets out" again
he will turn over new leaf Which
moved Captain Dougherty to observe: IN
bet that leaf will have picture of stage
coach on it."
Most of the trouble I've got into
Jackson declared, was through my part.
ners. They turned States evidence on me
A partners bad thing to have in such g
JOB, anyway. Hereafter, I'll go into some,
thing where l can run things alone-say
into the Governors chair, for instance"
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-01-01
BETWEEN sNEEzEs.

1t is a sneezy thing to get the influenza.
Chicago Journal.
Evidently the new disease is nothing to
be sneezed at.-New Hauen NeuS.
1t is downright mean for Europe to give
Uncle Sam her influenza for a Christmas
present.-Ddyton Herald.
The soundest advice is not to have anx-
iety and you are not likely to have any in
fiuenza to hurt-Bost0n TrdcelIer.
An influenza victim may not have a
relative in the world, but still he lives
with his s'niece.-BinghamtOn Republican.
The smart Yankees in MarseilIes who
took quinine proved that the influenza
wasn't "up to snuff.."-BmghamtOn RepubE-
can
Now that the influenza is in the wicked
city of New York every citizen will be ex-
pected to get on his sneeze at onee.-Bu6alo
Times.
Doubt as to whether the genuine article
has been consigned by European shippers
or only "leetle" ktcheoyou is expressed.
= Washington Star.
1t is not necessary for every one who
gets sharp cold nowadays to fancy that
he has the Russian Influenza" Let us
protect the home product Cincinnati En-
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-01-01
MBRMaIDS.
SOMETHING OF INTEREST ABOUT THE
FABLED SIRENS OF THE SEA.
Ingenious Japanese Worl<-HOw the
State Mining Bureau Got
Mermaid.

o train me not, sweet mermaid, with thy note
To drown me in tiny sister flood Of tears.
Shakespeare
The Mermaid Alb, who has not pic
tured her in his imagination, dressing her
wealth of golden hair. with comb OF pearl
and singing her soft, enchanting songs?"
Who has not felt the pangs of disappoint-
ment upon learning that there positively is
no such thing as a mermaid or norman
like the little boy or girl who learns for
the first time that dear old generous Santa
Claus is, after all, only myth
"Mermaids and mermen, says the CYCLIC
pedla, ''are fabulous beings dwelling in the
sea, having the head and body of man or
woman, and the tail of fish"
Pliny, Elan and Paussnias gave par
ticular accounts of their being seen by
sailors and others (more frequently, OF
course, by the former, in the seas around
the Island of Taprobane, Ceylon. Julius
Cesar Scalinger, in his commentary on
Aristotle, maintains their existence. Rom
delet gave picture OF singular
norman, seen in Poland, which was
clothed by nature with the garb
of a Bishop The most formidable
animal of this kind is said to be the devil
norman, "a specimen of which,it is claimed,
was captured on the shore of Illyria, seen
alive at Antwerp, and described by Aldro-
vanus. The merrows of Irish legend an
swer TO the same description as our mer-
maids. So do the ktowoos of japanese
legend. Under various jaw dislocating APP
pellations, the same being is described and
written of by most every nationality on the
face of the earth, and has been from time
immemorial.
Among the numerous curiosities and
rareties on exhibition in the rooms of the
State Mining Bureau in San Francisco is
one which never fails to attract the eye OF
the visitor. 1t is the remains, or rather q
representation of the remains of a mer-
| maid. 1t came from Japan, and it is said
! that in the land of the Mikado similar pro-
| auctions are quite common. But this one