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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-01-04
RIDING WITH SNAKES.
The BATTLES" Wanted the Saddles ant
They Got Them.


There is man who may be seen in the
Fifth-avenue Hotel on almost any even
ing who can tell a good story at mo-
ments notice. The peculiar merit of his
stories lies in the fact that he never apollo
gizes for them, and never prefaces his mar
ratives with a declaration that they are
true. Here is one of his snake stories, re-
peated here just as it was told to the
writer, for what it was worth, without any
explanation.
when was in Southern Kansas some
years ago, near Wagonbed Springs, on the
Cimarron river, l got letter from my
sister, who lives in New York, asking me
to get her dried skin of a rattlesnake,
which she wanted to have made into a
belt. There were rattlesnakes enough
around the Springs, and had to wait only
until found one big enough to suit her
purpose. While riding into camp one
afternoon / saw Just the one l wanted, and,
getting down from my horse, l pounded
the snake with my cuarte-guirt that's pro-
nounced-until / thought the animal was
dead. To make sure, however, | damned
its head down into the sand and left it
sticking there until | should ride back a
couple of hours later to carry the dead
body back to camp. When [ told Joe
Terrell about the snake he thought he
would like one, too, SO we started to the
place together. My snake was still stick
ing in the sand when we got to the place.
We hunted around for one for Joe, found
it and beat it until it was dead.
"The most convenient way of carrying
Il A. Al L. Al l. ~ L..
strings dangling from the saddle, and,
after doing this, we turned to camp, riding
at sharp gallop to get there in time for
supper. Joe was riding few yards ahead
of me, when suddenly l heard him give a
cry, and the next moment | saw him 60
head foremost from his saddle, rolling over
and over on the prairie. Look at that
snake he yelled when 1 rode up to
him. His snake had reared itself and
its head was directly over the saddle,
the mouth wide open, and the eyes
piercing out from the bruised head
cleaning fiercely. set up loud laugh
at Joe, for he was frightened half to death,
bat while my sides were still shaking, he
cried out: Look out for your own rat
tier Turning my head quickly, 1 saw a
pair of fangs which seemed to be within
six inches of my cheek l went over the
side of my horse like bolt, screaming
louder than Joe had done, while he found
enough amusement this time to crack a
broad smile at nay CONSERVATION.
"But there was a problem for both of US
to solve, and that was how to get the
snakes free without having our horses bit
ten. We were forced, finally, to cut the
cinches of the saddles, and when the sad
dies and snakes fell to the ground, We
whipped the rattlers to jelly and then
filed them with bullets. We had tC
walk back to camp, leading our horses
and when l wrote to my sister | told hsl
that there was not a rattlesnake to be
found in the State of Kansas"
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-01-04
corpulent Moori.h Bea.ties.

The Moors have extraordinary ideas
concerning female beauty They fancy an
oily skin, teeth projecting beyond the lips,
pointed nails an inch long and figure SC
corpulent that two persons putting their
arms around the waist could scarcely make
their fingers touch. A woman of modern
professions to beauty needs a slave under
each arm to support her as she walks, and
perfect belle carries weight enough to
load camel. Mothers are so anxious to
have their daughters attain this unwieldy
size that they make them eat a great guam
tity of millet pudding and drink several
bowls of camers milk day. Mungo
Park said he has seen poor girl sit cry
ing for more than an hour with a bowl Of
milk at her lips, while her mother stood
over her with stick and beat her when
ever she perceived that she was not swal.
lowing.
The Moors marry at very early age
and wives are always purchased. The
father of the girl cannot refuse an offer I'm.
less there is some stain on the young man:
character. If a wife does not become the
mother of son she may be divorced by
the husband. The mother of many son;
is held in the highest respect and is never
suffered to perform any mental Office.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-01-04
Mcrhersen's Nerve.

One of the most composed men while
the balloting for Clerk of the House was
in progress, says the Washington Posi-, was
Mr. Mcpherson, the successful candidate.
Just before the vote was completed Mr..
Mcpherson was called into the members
corridor by one of the Pennsylvania Con-
gressmeH. He passed through the long
line of newspaper men and heard their bits
of pleasantly at his expense without be-
traying the least excitement or nervous
ness. His errand at this time was no
doubt an important one, for when he had
completed his conference with his Con-
gressional friend the latter turned to a
beyy of members who were waiting for
him within the door at the right of the
Speakers stand and communicated some
thing that their faces indicated was en-
tirely satisfactory, and they at once re-
turned to their seats and cast their votes
for Mcpherson when their names were
called. As AIr. Mcpherson came out of
the lobby he was besieged by the newspa-
per men for news of the fight, but man
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-01-04
difference in Fogs.

A correspondent wishing to decide bet
wants to know the difference between a
London fog, a New York fog, Chicago
fog and San Francisco fog. There isn't
any. Fogs are bad things to bet on, but
in the end, like horses, they are all alike.
Some are worse than others, but take
them fog for fog and they are ali vapor.
Some are yapor with just the least dash of
a little something else in them, and these
are the white and feecy sea fogs we New
Workers know best and you Friscoese;
while they of Chicago, what can they
know of such, with salt water dried and
sold in papers at the drug store on the
corner? Theirs is at best vapor from the
great lakes, at less than best the exhala-
ton of the fat black soil. And this, OF
course, they smoke thoroughly as does your
Londoner, and then it is indeed wonder
of the world. According to altitude and
foreign ingredients, such as smoke, Lon
don is accustomed to wearing its fogs in
three shades. Black, as when the smoke
blown slowly seward for three days sud-
denly hanks back with its friend the fog,
and hanging high makes noon itself
blacker than the darkest midnight. Pea
soup, the genuine London particular" is
the most frequent of all and the most an
noying, for it penetrates your very vitals,
while no light can pierce it; this is when
the smoke-laden fog lies low. Then work
men walk off roofs, pedestrians stray into
the Thames or the Surrey canal, and
strong men, even oxen, have been known
to die. Once it killed hippopstamus,
After this the white fog, fresh from the
sea or the exhalation of the damp soil,
seems like nothing; this comes when the
smoke has gone off before brisk wind
and fellows in its wake with lull or calm,
or at least without change. "Are you
answered ~ N. Y. Tribune
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Not a Single Qualification.

These are the days of civil service re-
form. The man who wants to secure a
place under the Government nowadays
must have strong "pull," indeed, to "get
there" The other day Mississippi Re
publican, anxious to serve under the new
Doorkeeper of the House, thought it
worth while to enlist the good will of our
facetious friend, Congressman Allen, in his
behalf. He entered Mr.. Aliens commit
tee room and preferred his request.
81 wish to be employed under the Door
keeper, sir" said he, land if you will be
so good as to"
"Take seat, sir" gravely remarked
Allen, land | will examine you"
"Haye you ever been doorkeeper Y
"No, sir, but think that with your sup
port"
"Have you ever been instructed in the
responsible and arduous duties of door
keeping?'
"Have you ever attended lectures on
doorkeeping?"
n never did, sir, but would, if
"Have you ever conversed with one who
has read such book ?"
"No, sir, but certainly will"
"Then, do you not see" remarked Rep
resentative Allen, solemnly, 'that you
have not single qualification for the
office"
The candidate, from last accounts, is a
candidate still.
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Pve had my eye on these villains for some
time, but needed proof before arresting
them. By chance l overheard plot to
rob George Chalmers the night he should
get paid for his cattle, and | worked out
the rest as you see. This villain, Samuel
jennings" nodding to the now tightly
bound living robber, "must either go to
the State Prison or the gallows."
Neither, you miserable scamp!" cried
the man, with long string of blasphe-
nous oaths.
He never did, for on the day of the
Coroner's inquest on his companion he
was found hanged and dead. On remov-
ing his false hair and beard the tramp de-
tective was found to be a handsome fellow.
A warm friendship sprang up between
him and George Chalmers, and shortly
after still warmer one between him and
Mary Chalmers. 1t seems enough to
merely add that she is now his happy,
grateful and loving wife.-IoIedo Blade.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-01-04
The rhimble in History.

Lady, did you ever take the trouble to
lock up the history of the curious little
bell-shaped, indented piece of metal you
wear on your finger when sewing, and
which you are contented to call your
''thimble p 1t is a Dutch invention and
was first taken to England in 1895 by one
John Lofting. Its name was derived
from the words thumb and bell, being for a
long time worn on that member and
called the thumbel; only within the last
$50 years has the word ''evoluted' into
thimble. All old records say that the
thimble was first worn on the thumb, but
we can scarcely conceive how they would
be of much use there. Formerly they
were made of brass and iron only, but of
late years steel, iron, gold, horn, ivory,
celluloid and even pearl and glass have
been used in their manufacture. A thin
BILE owned by the Queen Consort of Siam
is shaped like a lotus of solid gold,
thickly studied with diamonds, which are
so arranged as to form the lady's name
and the date of her birth and marriage.
Queen Victoria has a very valuable gold
and diamond-set thimble upon which are
engraved many historic scenes from Eng
lish history.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-01-04
Dishes Fit for Queens.

A Frenchman has been collecting data
recently in regard TO the dishes which the
feminine rulers of European countries
prefer upon their tables. According to
his statements, Queen Victoria is espec-
tally fond of the Scotch cuisine Her
meal is invariably begun with plate of
oatmeal porridge, so dear to the palate of
the Highlander. One of her favorite
dishes is smoked ham. She drinks beer
with great gusto, and eats bread baked
especially hard and firm. The Queen of
Sweden eats substantial food, consisting
chiefly of beefsteak, which is an invariable
part of each meals bill-of-fare. She is also
fond of smoked salmon, preserved accord
ing to the method of her country; of meat
balls dressed with beans, and of eggs fried
in milk and oil. The Court of Germany,
strange to say, despite the German names
of the dishes, is addicted to the French
cuisine. The Empress Frederick, how
ever, prefers the English cook
cry and is especially fond of pastry.
The royal family of Italy, al
though in many ways the simplest and
most democratic in Europe, always dine
from dishes of gold. They only drink the
wine of their own country, and show great
preference for the "fritto," dish COM
posed of the hearts of artichokes
and the combs and livers of chickens.
Ex-Queen Isabella loves the "coeido"
of CASTLE, with all its accessories. She
also eats daily a portion of rice. The
Queen Regent of Spain prefers the Aus
trian cuisine. She eats roasts of all kinds,
with jellies, goosberry jelly being one of
her principal favorites. During the earlier
days of her life in Spain she ate only
one kind of bread, which was sent to her
from Vienna Of late years, however,
probably in keeping with her patriotic
endeavors, she eats the bread of the coun-
try.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-01-04

aged to hold them off in very diplomatic
and at the same time good-natured man
ner. Mr.. Mcpherson, by the way, has a
double who was compelled to indulge in
considerable explaining after the vote on
Clerk had been announced and eongratu-
lations were in order.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-01-04

The more knowledge a man has the
more he wishes to know and the more he
sees how little he does know. The more
wealth a man has the more he wishes to
acquire and the more he realizes that he
has at best but small portion of this
earth. The poor and ignorant man is,
perhaps, better satisfied, although he may
not think so. Yet these are not reasons
why knowledge and wealth are not good
things.-Rome Sentinel
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-01-04

"IT Is fact, that Hoods Sarsaparilla
does cure scrofula, salt rheum, and other
diseases or affections arising from impure
state or low condition of the blood, over
comes that tired feeling, creates good
appetite, and gives strength to every part of
the system. Try ii.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-01-04

II you suffer pricking pains on moving
the eyes, or cannot bear bright light, and
find your sight weak and failing. you
should promptly use DR.. J. 81. McIAan's
strengthening Eye Sslve. Twenty-Five
cents box.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-01-04
witness to mark: L. s. TAY.

State of California. County Of sacrsmento-ss.
On this 9th day of December, in the year 1889.
before me, L. S. TAYLOR, a Notary Public in
and for said county. personally appeared SHU
FONG and BOOK FONG, known to me to be the
persons whose names are subscribed to the
within instrument, and acknowledged to me
II. 81 L. S. TAYLOR,
d7-iwS Notary Public.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-01-04

ONE dollar a year will cover your doctors
bill if you take Simmons Liver Regulator.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-01-04

CEND THE WEEKLY UNION 10 YOU
- friends In the East.
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NOTICE OF co-PARTNERsHIP,

WE, THE UNDERSIGNED. DO HEREBY
w certify that we have formed eo-partner-
ship, under the firm name of sHU FOSG & CO.,
for the purpose Of transaeting and carrying on
the business OF q Clothing Store at No 205 l
street. in the City of Sacramento State of Cali
foruia: that SHU FONG, 8 resident Of the City
of Sacramento State of California and BOOK
Yong, a resident of Kirkville, Suffer county,
State OF California are the full names Of all the
members OF said partnership, in full, and the
residences of said members
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STANDARD FOR OVER HALF A CENTURY
PURELY VEGETABLE,
STRICTLY RELIABLE,
AND ABSOLUTELY SAFE

For Sale by all Druggists. Price % cts
per box; 3 boxes for 65 cts; or sent by
mail. postage free, on receipt of price
DR.. J. II. Schenck & Son. Philadelphia, Pa
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-01-04

And all Disorders Of the Di-
gestive Organs. Its likewise
a Corroborstive or Strength
ening Medicine, and may be
taken with benefit in all cases
of Debility. For Sale by all
Druggists. Price, 81 90 per bot.
tie. DR.. Schenck's New Book
on Lungs, Liver and Stomach
mailed free. Address,
0r.J.H.Schenck 4 Son, PhiIa
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-27

Ally told him, s'went 10 our SCHOOL,
that he had very dismal visions of that
school.
But his politeness never failed him,
and l doubt whether Ally suspected in
what tumult of disgust his young guest 8
soul was sometimes, sitting in narrow
boat next to some particularly grimY and
unkempt comrade of Ally's, or forced to
draw up to hospitable board Covered
with brown oil cloth) and trying to eat
strange mixtures OF grease and dirt, the
very sight of which sent cold chills down
his back.
Ally ate like the unfastidious savage he
was, but Cts thought often that the hor-
rors of an ocean voyage were much over
rated, he preferred them to fried pork.
Yet he was by no means unhappy.
There is a constant ripple of small ex-
element on a plantation. Every morn
ing, for instance. the mail rider, who
was boy hardly older than Ally, rode
his white Texan pony up to the store,
and the letters were collected and names
called by the head clerk in the store, as
sistant postmaster. Col. Seaton was the
postmaster, and the postofice was neatly
built into the far corner of the store,
which was not asking much of the store,
either, since it consisted of nothing more
than q writing desk with frame of let
ter boxes.
Twice a week, sometimes oftener,
Cecil heard from his father, short letters,
but how eagerly he read them!
Sally and Alan heard every day, either
from Col. SEXTON or their mother. The
invalid in Little Rock was better; next
week Mrs. Seyton hoped to come home.
"Well,' said Alan, "neXt to her
dying, reckon her getting well is the
best thing that can happen"
ave oughtn to wish anybody dead -
said Sally, cts a great deal nicer for
her TO get well. -
ono, 1t amt" answered Ally,
bluntly, "and you know it, If she was
dead she couldn't be forever tolling
mamma off, could she? or coming here
and shopping round and dying when 1
tried to have ice cream. No, sir. -
Gwen, she amt always mean. She
gave me paper doll once,' Sally inter-
ceded, "and mamma said its like being
a murderer to wish folks dead. -
Ally declined to discuss the moralities.
He proposed instead that they go and
ask Cobbs when the wild hog hunt was
coming of.
because CHS and am to co. said
Ally.
''Oh, Ally, papa wouldn't let you!'
''He said himself last time could go
next time
''But he thought he would be here. -
-"Shaw, Cobbs can take me. He
knows more about pig killing than any,
body; papa says so himself. -
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-27

ing things, plant and enimal-thiugs mi
croscopie and multitudinous, float in
clouds around us and over us. They are
dead Unconstitutional homes Of tiny
creatures which swarm about in the sun
light near the surface. Abandoned,
they are now settling down through the
abodes of midnight and silence, and we
are strewing the cold sea bottom with
white and chalky ooze. We are two
miles beneath dsylight-shut In by g
wall as impervious as if it were granite.
Beyond US stretch the slopes of
the ocean IS floor, down three miles
deeper. These are the abysmal plains.
They cover half the earth IS surface. Our
thermometer has sunk to the freezing
point. It is some degrees below freezing,
yet this sea water does not solIdify. The
pressure is four to five tons on every
square inch of surface. The darkness Is
total; the silence is that of non-exist-
ence. We listen for the roar OF the
waves at the surface above. A storm is
raging there. A stout steamer is creak-
ing with the strains she can not long en-
dure. The mate is crying to the sailors
in an agony of anxiety for the safety of
his iron ship, and the hundreds OF pas
sengers intrusted to its strength. We
ship-not blow of the wild waves sends
a sound into the abysses where we are
buried. Yet but three miles separate US
from the storm. Can three miles create
transitions so vast?
We crawl over the plains. No hills and
valleys are here-no diversity Of peak
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-27

graceful lengths upward toward the
stormy surface, and the stimulating sun
light. No storm is raging here. The
agitations which stir above reach this re-
treat as tender caressess, and the sway
ing froDds nod trustful dalliance with
the rude forces of the waves. Beyond
the fringe of the kelp, along parterres
still more protected, we tread upon the
tender forms of tbs bronze and pink and
yellow MOSES which only the 1ercest
storms have hitherto brought to the
beach for our a6miration-ceramium
grinneilias and delesserias and their fairy
companions. Here they grow un7isited
by adventures from the world of surface
life, which looks enraptured on the man
gled beauties which the terrible tempest
wrenches from their deep security.
We are less than half mile beneath
the upper air and sunlight. But we are
in the dim yestibule to the dark abYsses
which lie beyond and below. The creR-
lures of the shore have scurried about US
on our way-repelled by fear and at
tracted by the novelty of trespassers on
their domain. Within this half mile
far within it-are the homes Of the fishes
with which are familiar. This Is the realm
of the arftul crab and his FASCINATED
aIlies-skulking in the forests of seaweed
to escape the hungry search of the rowing
shark: In this zone hordes Of swimming
and crawling creatures protect their
lives by strategy, and prolong them by
process. Now an autumnal chill per-
vades the element which battles
us. On that summer day
which witnessed our start, the
temperature of the water was perhaps 20
deg now il is 40 deg. A twilight has
settled Down on us. Looking upward to-
ward the day which we have left, it is
but yellowish, dusky haze which over
hangs. Clear as the water appeared to
be, the sediment floated from the land,
seen through the distance of half mile,
shuts out the blue sky. ''The dust of
our continents to be' is settling down
around rs, and in another age the pulpy.
relic freighted sea bottom will be up
lifted into daylight, and other popula-
tions will settle on 1t and call il theirs.
We pass on. Our distance from the
shore becomes such that mile OF water
hangs over US. The sediments from the
land are diminished; but total darkness
shuts US in. We grope. Nothing is vis-
ible. No sound is heard. There seems
to be no life. The species which dwell ia
twilight do not pass the wall of darkness.
There are no more seaweeds-only dis
toms and caIeareous algae-plants with
frames of silica, and the curious power
of unconscious locomotion. swarming in
the depths, and plants like vegetable
limestone, rooted and brauched.
It is fearful realm which we are en-
tering. There are no enemies to enooun-
ter The pitfalls have been buried be-
meath the smooth slime which thou
sands, perhaps millions of years
have thrown down. But it is an unfre-
quented abode. There are no charts TO
show the way. There are no footpaths
to follow. We know not what We shall
meet. Twilight is extinguished. The
sparse sediment from the land can no
longer be detected, but the forms of liv-