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work of his own called "Cosmographia In
troductio," in which he suggests that the
name of America would match we'll with
Europe and Asia, which were also women s
names.
WHENCE CAME THE NAME.
This interestlng little book is yet in ex-
istence, copy of it being in the Harvard
College library and few others being scat
tered among american collections. Quar-
itch, the famous English bookseller, also had
one catalogued during his recent exhibition
in New York. From this we have every
reason to believe that to the random sug-
gestion of an obscure German author, we owe
the name of our country.
The European people seem to have taken
kindly to the idea, for the name came gradu-
ally into general use thereafter. although the
same Waldsee- Muller does not use the name
on chart that he published six years sub
seouently, but mentions Columbus as the
discoverer of a Southern continent which he
calls TERRA Incognita." There is still pre-
served in England, q map drawn by Leon
arda da Vinci about 1513-14, which is proba-
bly, the earliest manuscript map known
containing the name of "America;" also, a
globe made in the year 1920 by Johann
Schooner, which bears the name of Brazil
"America sive (or) Brazilia." This relic is
preserved in Nuremberg. The earliest en-
graved map bearing the name was made In
the same year.
AN EARLIER DISCOVERY.
In connection with the so-called dis
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WHOFOUND AMERICA?
An Interesting Study Apropos Of the
Coming Worlds Fair.
ORIGIN OF THE NAME, AMERICA.
Facts Showing That Amerigo Vespucei
Didn't Know of His Honor.
TRACES OF TIE PREHISTORIC RACES
WRITTEN roR THE DrsrArcH. ]

FTER an inter-
val Of nearly 400
years, the real
truths relating
to the discov-
cry, exploration
and colonization
of America are
just being learn
ed. The his
torical student
is only begin
ming to wipe out
the mists pic
turesque enough
to give place
to incontestable
facts. Recent
Inv vesti cation
has resulted in
some strange rev
elations which
are not gener-
ally known.
Even the orr
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covery of this Continent, there are many
evidences to give room for reasonable doubt
as to the correctness of the word "dis-
>coverers'' as applied to the Spaniards,
Portuguese and English who made voyages
to this country in the fifteenth and six
teenth centuries Waving the fact of dis
covering the Western Hemisphere to the
civilized world, it is merely figure of
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Always Rishf and Never Left.

"what Is it the German philosopher says,
"A handsome woman is always right?'"
THAT Is the way he said it. suppose he
meant that pretty girls are never left"
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WEST INDIAN WOMEN.

Land Where the Fair Sex Garry Immense
Loads on Their Heads.
The erect carriage and swift, steady walk
of burden-carrying women in the West In
dian city Of St. Pierre always impress a
stranger. Nearly all the transportation of
light merchandise, as we'll as of meats, fruits,
vegetables and food stufs, to and from
the interior. is effected upon human heads.
At some of the ports the regular
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two, since his death his reputation has been
clouded over because his name was given to
that country which it was believed the great
Columbus was the first to reach and draw
attention to,
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TIE cHILD's CASE.

This, then, Is what repentance and faith
mean, as connected with baptism. They
are set as tests beside the gate to keep out OF
the church those who are not worthy, or are
mot ready 10 come In. The father comes re-
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her; 1t was Look, grandfather, look!' from
time TO time; most likely she thought no
more of her hand being held than if she
were crossing a meadow in the
less girl companiou-but however
that may be, what must she do but
open her fingers, so that his should
interclasp with hersl Nay, she opened
them again, and shut them again, the better
to adjust that gentle clasp; and every touch
thrilled through him, so that he walked as
one in dream. He dared hardly breathe,
he burst not speak, lest some stray word Of
his might startle her into consciousness, and
shatter this miracle. Yet she did not seem
to be aware: it was (which way, grand
father?" or "Take care, grandfather and
her eyes were turned to the brilliant and
parti-colored devices in front of the Pail
Mall clubs, and not at all to the handsome
lad who walked so close to her that now and
again he could detect some faint trace of
the odor of sandalwood that seemed to hover
around her neck and her hair. What did
he see or hear of the crowd now, or of the
garish lights along the houses? He
walked in an enchanted land: there
were only two people in it: and they
pwere bound together, in subtle interoom-
munion, by this magic grasp. There
was wonder as well as joy in his mind; the
sensation was SO new and strange. Did he
remember that ''palm to palm" was "holy
palmer's kiss?" No, he remembered moth
ing; he only knew that he held Maisrie's
hand interlocked with his, in this secret
fashion; and that all the wild phsntasma-
goria around them was something unreal
and visionary with which neithef be nor she
had any concern.
And even now his cup of bliss and bewil-
derment was not yet full, on this marvellous
night When at last they drew away from
the crowded streets and found themselves in
quieter thoroughfares on their way home.
the old man drew breath OF relief.
This is better, Maisrie," he said. "It
seems as il we had been out on roaring sea,
and had drifted into stiffness and peace"
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But have dreamed dreary dream.
Ayont the Isle o'Skye-
saw deld man win fght
And think that man was /.
Well, that may have been an interpola-
ton; at all events, it is Highland touch;
the strong, brisk, matter-of-fact Border
ballad has seldom anything of that kind in
it. The bold Buccleuch and Kinmont
Willie were too much in the saddle to
have time for wraiths. You remember,
Maisrie, when they brought word to 'the
bauld keeper that Kiumont Willie was
captive in Carlisle Castle?--
He has taen the table VII his hand,
He CARED the red wine spring on HE
Now a curse upon my head he cried,
Bot avenged on Lord Scroop Pll bel
Ois my basnet a widows curch,
Or my lance a wand of the willow tree,
Or my arm lady's lily hand,
That an English lord should LIGHTLY me!
That is more like the ballad of the South:
sharp and vivid, full of action and spirit.
and the audacious delight of life; when YOU
want mystery and Imagination and super
natural terrors you must turn to the brood
ing and darkened regions of the North.
The Demon Lover is clearly of Northern
origin; its he'll is the Scandinavian hell;
not the fiery furnace of the Eastern mind.
% wharn q mountains yon,' she said.
Sac dreary wi frost and snowr
o yon is the mountain o. hell he cried
Where you and maun gor"
"The Demon Lover?" said Maisrie.
inquiringly; and Vincent could not but mo-
tice how skilfully and sedulously she
famed the old mans interest in this
new scheme by herself pretending to be
deeplv interested.
Don't you know Maisrie?" said he. SIT
is the story of two lovers who were parted;
and he returns after seven years to claim
the fulflment of her vows; and finds that
in his absence she has taken someone else
for her husband. 1t is dangerous position
If he wishes her to go away with him; for
q woman never forgets her first lover; what
is more, she attributes all the natural and
inevitable establishment of marriage to
her husband, whilst the romance attaching
to her first love remains undimmed. There
fore, say let Aud Robin Gray bewarel-
the wife is not always SO loyal to the disil-
lusionizer ~ was the Jesnnie of the modern
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1890-10-04

and said, "Come home with me. The babe is
better off it was too bright and beautiful for this
wicked world, Mary"
II believe it was, Mrs. Mead" sobbed little
Mary "but cannot live without it, Indeed, |
cannot!"
No one devined that she was in earnest, and she
promised to go and live with Mrs. Mead again
She hung on at the Home for day or two, and
then she was missing. They found her lfeless
body lying across the baby's grave, and on the
grave bottle labeled with the uncanny skull and
cross-bones. They buried her with the baby, and
with the silver in her purse put up little marble
slab TO her memory.
Poor little Mary Do you think in the eternity,
she will be cast out? No, thousand times no
More divine than the angels themselves is the love
in mothers heart. Whether the sentiment is
harbored in woman's heart or mans, it is the en-
blem of divinity, and when mortality is cleansed
of its dross, it shall cause the soul to shine
But the iconoclast in the West-what of him?
HARYoT Holt.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-04-26
CONGRESSIONAL.
N THE SENATE.


NAsHISGToS, April 25th - Henderson this
morning presented petition from the Farmers
Alliance OF Nebraska fayoring the free coinage
OF silver, urging the defeat of the Window bin
and iavoring an increase of the volume OF cur
rency to $50 per capita.
Allen introduced bill sor the survey OF
Olympia harbor, in Washington.
Dolph presented memorial fton the Cham
Der oil commerce OF San Francisco fsvoring the
passage OF the Fsrguhar bill to SEbSidize the
American merchant marine.
senator Allen introduced the following bill.
Inc secretary of War is hereby authorized and
directed to cause a survey to be made of Olym.
pla harbor, in the State OF Washingtou from
deep water in Budd's Inlet TO the Fourth street
bridge IN Olympia, and separately from said
bridge TO the mouth Of the Des Chutes river at
1Lmwater, and 10 direct the engineer making
such survey to report The most practicable ana
convenient channel and most feasible and eco
nomlcal plan Tor improving the same for navi
CATION by the class of vessels employed on
Puget sound, and also to cause an estimate to
be made of cost OF each improvement
senator Qoiph presented the remonstranee of
against the eismemberment OF the Mexican Re-
public.
At 1890 Plumb called up the land grant for.
teiture bill as unfinished business.
Call took the floor to speak on that portion Of
the bill relating 10 Florida
AT l:SO Call yielded the floor for few
moments and the Senate unanimously passed
House resolution appropriating sl50,C00 for the
relief of the sufferers from overflow on the
Lower Mississippi
Call of Florida and George of Mississippi oe-
eupied the floor until O'Clock, discussing the
Florida railroad land grants.
AT L. in accordance with a resolution, the
Senate paid tributes of respect to the memory of
Gay. the member of the House from Louisiana.
lately deceased. Adjourned.
IN THE HOUSE.
WASHINGTON, April 25th.-After the readingof
the Journal this morning, the House passed
bill appropriaIing $4,000 for the relief of the
Mississippi food sufferers.
The legislative, executive and judicial appro-
priation bill was then taken up and discussed
By sections.
AT 5 o clock the Committee of the Whole arose
and the House adjourned without coming TO a
vote on the appropriation bill.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-04-26
WASHINGTON CULLINGS.
Senate Discussions Upon the Land
Forfeiture Bill.
JACOB sHAEN Is PROVIDED FOR.
Appropriation of S15O,OoO for the
Flood Sufferers in the Mis-
sissippi Valley.
ESPECIAL DIsRArcHEs TO THE EEcoRD-us1os.l
NIcKINLxy,s BILL.
The Republican Senators are Considering
it in Conamittee.

The Republican Senators are Considering
it in Committee.
WASHINGTON, April 25th.-The Repub-
lcans OF the Senate Finance Committee
are at work on the tariff bill to be re.
ported 10 the Senate as a substitute for the
Mckinley bill They expect to have all
the work done and ready to report very
soon after the Mckinley bill passes the
House. The understanding is that the
Mckinley bill is to pass the House prac-
tically as ii is, but there is no expectation
of its becoming a law in that form. The
Senate is expected to amend the bill, and
the whole matter will be settled in confer
ence.
On this agreement between the two
houses it is said there has been no ex-
pectation among the party leaders that the
Mckinley bill would become Law in any.
thing like the form in which it is reported.
1t is understood that this plan was pretty
well settled on from the first, and that with
this end in view there will be no serious
difficulty in passing the bill through the
House.
There Is quite radical difference of
views between the Senate Finance Com
mittee and Mckinley on several points, As
the ideas of the ultra-protectionists are ex-
pressed in the Mckinley bill, protests are
being received by the Ways and Means
Committee from interests in various parts
of the country, many of which conflict
with each other.
Over 800 formal petitions bearing many
hundred signatures have been received
since the bill was reported. Some of the
petitions of protests are very emphatic in
language. but the committee remains COM
placent and content with its work.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-04-26
INSANITY CURED.
La Grippe Proved Blessing to Several
Demented individuals.

BosToS, April 25th.-A new phase of la
grippes mysterious influence is just now
interesting the medical profession OF Massa-
chusetts. Bad as it was in its dreadful
work, ii has at the same time wrought
what seems to be miracle at the State
insane hospital at Westboro. DR.. \. E.
Paine, Superintendent OF the hospital,
says: "One female patient case OF mania
had been in the hospital about nine months
when she became feverish. Her excited
and incoherent speech left her and she be-
came rational. She was discharged on
January 9th as recovered, and | have
heard within few days that she continues
perfectly well. This was her fifth attack
of insanity, the two preceding attacks hay
ing lasted IN one case twenty-three and the
other sixteen months. 1t appears possible
that her mental disease was cured by the
! influenza, and, moreover, in about one
half its anticipated duration.
Another female patient, who was very
| destructive of clothing, furniture. etc., be-
came rational during and after fever, and
continued so until her discharge on March
2ssh. She had remained thirteen months
/ in the hospital, and we feared she would
not recover. In her case also the disease
was acute mania, and was recurrent as in
| the preceding case. This was her third a,
tack of insanity.
"a male patient who had been in tht
hospital eight months had delusions tha
| his food was poisoned and that poison wa
sprinkled on him at night. After the in
fiuenza he lost his delusions and talked
: about them as something that had passed
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-04-26
ELECTRIC WONDERS.
Edison Manufactures Dolls that Can
Talk, Declaim and Sing.


Talk, Declaim and Sing.
New YORK, April 25th.-Every little girl
will soon be able to have little doll that
really talks. Edison has opened an exhi-
bition of his latest inventions at the Len.
nox Lyceum, in this city, and among the
novel features are ten big dolls, which
stand in a row, and when a crank in their
backs is turned they utter various rhymes.
One says Mary Had a Little Lamb an
other Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" and
so on.
The voices, of course, are highly
"squeaky, but the words are plain. An
other doll, in separate part of the house,
give forth with great distinctness in
childish treble: There was little girl
who had little CURL a real perfect doll
now can wink, walk, gesticulate, smoke
and talk. The talking effect is produced
by the revolving of tiny photograph CYL
inder set inside the doll. Each doll can
speak its speech 5000 times.
Another feature of the exhibits is the
chamber known as the beilamy room,
where all the comforts and luxuries of
household are provided by electrical appar-
atus. The visitor has meals served on
table which moves out of the way b. elec-
tricity. A cigar is lit by an electric spark
Not daring to go out to theater. it being
rainy, ne connects telephone with the
Casino and hears Lillian Russell in The
Grand Duchess" and, getting tired of that,
he listens to Patti in Linda at the Metro
politau Opera House.
For intellectual food he turns key and
hears'a speech by Gladstone or a lecture by
Goldwin Smith. Desiring to retire, he
hears prayer by Spurgeon or Canon
Farrar, and crawling into bed gets well
tucked in and presses button which puts
out the lights and locks all the doors.
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The School for Washinston's IrGOr-
risible Children Located.
SHOWER OF SPIDERS AT MERGED.
Charles Turner, Stockton's Colored
Pugilist, Meets With His
First Defeat.
ESPECIAL DISPATCHES TO TIE aEooRD-us,oH.l ]
ROUGH ON JOHN.
A Chinaman Cannot Hold Mining Ground
in Idaho.

in Idaho.
WALLA WALLA (Wash.), April 25th.-
Judge Willis Sweet in the District Court at
Mount Idaho has decided that the Chinese
have no rights whatever on mining lands
in the United States. The decision was
rendered in suit brought by some Chinese
against Patrick Flynn ct al, who last sum-
mer jumped their claims on Moose creek
in Elk City Mining District, held by Chi
nese for many years under bills of sale
given to the Chinese by white men.
In another decision involving the Buffalo
Hill claims in Elk City District, the white
men having leased said claims to the Chi
nese, which were jumped by order of the
whites, the Judge held that lease of min
ing ground to Chinese was invalid and
amounted 10 an abandonment of the claim
unless proven that the Chinese were act
uaily employed to hold and work said
ground on behalf of plaintiffs.
The suit for ejectment was, therefore, de-
MED. Upon the announcement of the de-
cisions parties were Immediately organized
to oust the Chinese miners in Pierce City,
Elk City and other mining camps in
Northern Idaho, which are Chinese strong
holds. The decisions are faf-reaching in
their effects and will lead TO the abandon
ment of much ground where the Chinese
made subsistence.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-04-26
GLADsToNE's THEORY.
He Discusses the Authenticity of :as
Book of Genesis


Book of Genesis.
New YORK. April 25th.-The Naa and
Ea9ress special cable from London saws :.
Gladstone's second article in Good U'o-9s
written in contradiction Of the recent as
saults on the Bible, deals with the creation
in highly characteristic and original
manner. Gladstone contends that the OPEN
ing of the book of Genesis constitutes a
plain and straightforward narrative of the
pre- Adamite period
He maintains that it is neither poetic nor
scientic in meaning, nor can il be considered
so in Interpretation, but it was. he saws.
direct communication from God to
teach primitive man his proper place in
creation, and to give him conception in
broad outline as 10 what his Maker had
been about on his behalf He considers
the days of creation TO De neither solar nor
geological but simply convenient historic
divisions without any occult meaning.
Only IN respect to the creation of light
does Gladstone descend to q rigid scientific
criticism. He discusses the events which
are described with the object of showing
that the book OF Genesis is q true account
OF the evolution of the world, and with a
view of leading up to the conclusion that
the ordainer of nature and giver or guide
of the story of creation are one and the
same.
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He Says He Would Not Interfere with
the May Day Pauades

-NS says nc would Nor Interfere with
the May Day Parades.
LONDON, april 25th.-The Herald to-day
pub!lshes an interesting account of an in
teryiew with Bismarck. The Prince said
II 1t was II bis power be would no, inter.
fere with the workmen on NAV Dav.
neither would he display any anxiety. which
would only increase the aggressi yeness of
the agitators. The antagonisrl between the
employers and the employed was a natural
law and necessity of human progress
Progress would cease should men ever
become satisfied.
He dwelt upon the need of combating
socialism, victory OF which, he said
would mean Government by the least in.
teiligent. He predicted that socialism
would give deal of trouble vet. he said
the man who would weld to the
present manifestation was cow
ard aud it was sometimes, trne
benevolence to shed the blood of a riotous
minority in defense of the aw-abidinc nna-
Jority, He declared May.day was not
dangerous enemy. The naming of the dav
FOR the assault need not be dreaded il
would be merely sham tight like that OF
the Salvation army.
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STRIKING MOLDERs.
One of Them Has Gone Back to Work
Nothing New.

Nothing New.
San FRANCISCO, April 25th.-Yesterdsy
the forces in the foundries were augmented
by two men, and the first detection from
the rsuks of the striking molders occurred.
The first man to go back on the Union is
named Wall, who leal ed his trade in the
Occidental Foundry, in this city. When
the strike was ordered he went out with
the others, but finally weakened under the
stress Of circumstances. He gives his
reason for going back to work that he was
"sick of the strike" The other man se-
cured is named Forsythe, and he was
escorted from Oakland to the Union Iron
Works by private detective. Forsythe is
st. Louis man and paid his own way out
TO this city.
The Founders Association held confer
ence yesterday afternoon, but at its conclu-
sion the members stated that there was
nothing TO be given for publication. One
member, however, hinted that large ship
ment of molders might be expected before
the end of the week.
At the Union Iron Works yesterday a
Union picket named Dixon tried to per-
suade one of the Eastern men working
there to desert. Dixon offered the man
S75 and his fare East if he would consent
to leave, but was met with point blank
refusal.
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OPEN POLAR SEA,
A Northwest Passage to be Made by the
Use of Dynamite.

Lo!DoN, April 25th.-H. A. H. Dunsford,
q prominent civil engineer, in pamphlet
just out, proposes to use dynamite in the
northwest passage through the Arctic. He
says "As for the proposition that we can
open sea, we must remember that the ice
is not of great thickness that we have
powerful explosives that are perfectly
effective when frozen, and that every mass
of ice detached in the course of a stream
flowing southwark will float away itself.
Il don't, CT course, mean TO imply that it
will be easy, but that it is within our power
to make channel wide enough for part
of the warm stream to pass without losing
all its heat on the way.
The main barrier which we will have
TO deal will be the belt of ice north and
northwest of Greenland. OF course until
it is completed the channel will freeze over
every winter, but l do not think that the
removal of the ice thus formed will be so
serious a difficulty as might be expected.
The ice being formed merely by the freez-
ing of the channel will be smooth, not
hummocky, and after the first snowfall can
be traversed easily by sledges or dog trains,
so that surface or submerged mines can be
laid, enabling the ice over any desired
length of section to he broken up instanta-
neously.
The advantages to be gained by the
opening of the sea and the smelioration of
climate can scarcely be overestimated, rem.
dering habitable the shores of the Arctic,
and the growth there of civilized communi.
ties, direct route to the Pacific, and the
immense increase in trade with the Pacific
coasts of America and Asia.
Thus would be opened lands suitable
for colonization within easy reach of Great
Britain, and which, in great part, belong
to the British Empire, valuable fisheries
and considerable and increasing trade in
the Arctic