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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-05-15
BOYS WAISTS.

An Eastern manufacturer took our order in the
winter for over 200 dozen. They have just
rived Yesterday a lady while selecting few for
her boys, remarked IS Those Penang (o turkey
red) Waists are worth dollar" She is right as
the world goes. But, after all, an article is worth
TO us only what it will bring and sell rapidly. OUR
PRICE WAS 70 CENTS.
Good judges would place the price at 40 cents
for Waists we have marked 25 cents. We are
satisfied to take 25 cents but the bargains YOU
get ars OUR Satisfaction. All qualities run sizes
to IL years.
Boys Percae selected
~
Boys navy blue Pecae indigo dye) desirable
Boys ChsFO {great
Boys French ChevOt, plated front and
Boys fancy Flannete, lace 'front.' with
Boys fancy Flannee (better) French patterns
fenang oil urkey-red figured Waists fnh plated
- 40
White Cambria, auadried, neatly plated
ETC., ETC.,
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-05-15
Sacramento City Bonds.

rJyHE COMMISSIONERS OF THE FUNDED
Debt Sinking Fund of the City of sacra-
mento Will have on hand by the 9th day OF
June about Sixty Thousand Dollars for the pur-
chase of Sacramento City Bonds, which they
will pay to the lowest and best bidders for the
respective classes of bonds due in 1885, 1895 1898
and 1898. They invite sealed proposals for the
sale of these bonds. and viii consider all bids
placed with the Commissioners on or before 10
o'clock A. NJ on JUNE ?, 1890. The different
series of bonds must be offered separately. as
they are of different values, according to the
period at which they fall due. All bids should be
directed to the Commissioners of the Funded
Debt OF Sacramento and marked on the out
side. bids for Bonds" The Commissioners re-
serve the right TO reject any or all bids.
II. O. BEATTY. President,
NEW ron BOOTH,
SPARROW SMITH,
sp226w Commissioners.
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GENERAL NOTICES.
In window. for your information. 4os J..

Don't say there is NO help for cAtarrh,
hay fever and cold in head, since thousands
testify that Ely Cream Balm has entirely cured
them. 1t superTedes the dangerous use OF
liquids and snuffs. It is easily applied into the
nostrils and gives relief at once. Price, soc.
Subscription Books General Agency,
mystf Ed. C. HUMPHREY.
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geant Nash. When 1 entered room 4
Arnold said: Hold on Hold on but did
not show any opposition. He said black
mail or 'olackmailer' or something OF the
kind. When l took him into my private
office, stood guard at the door and would
not allow anybody to enter until proper
officer came. Permitted Harry Lask to use
the telephone to send for doctor. Arnold
asked; How is Garness ?'' a reply was
made: He is dead Thereupon Arnold
dropped his head and said: L am sorry.' /"
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-05-15

Y: M; l., No. 11.-Resular meeting this
EVENING. Important
VIM. +. GORMLEY, President.
]. ]. o. CoNNoR, Secretary It's
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WANTED-LUST-FOUND.

WANTED by SINGLE GENTLEMAN,
dress B., this office. myl4-2ts
UyANTED-A COMPLETE sECoNp-HAND
w blacksmith kit for all kinds of repairs
about forty-inch bellows or corresponding
blower; all tools must be in good order; also a
hand drilling machine. Address A., Penryn,
Cal. my14-4t
M ANTED "A YOUNG GIRL TO TAKE CARE
MRS N Dasy tkS5GHgS ss Reo@ day No. Ipqg5e 1as of
Eagle Hotel. my14-2t*
A TEACHER EXPERIENCED IN GRADED
"A school work desires private pupils MISS
ELEANOR NJ. SMITH, 920 NJ street. my1s-3t*
WANTED = COPYING TO DO ON TYPE
" writer or position as typewriter. Address
Ills Twelfth street. myI3-tf
NOTICE TO HOTEL.KEEPERs-JUs AR.
IN rived from the East, a first-class cook or
steward; Will work at a hotel or restaurant,
city or country: sober and reliable and will
work on trial. Address COOK. this office mlS-S*
DOTH MALE AND FEMALE HELP WANTED
ID at 3l9 ] street. E. L. FUNK e. CO., EN-
poyment Agency. ap29tf
A LII ORDERS FOR HELP PROMPTLY
"A filled at 319 street. E. L. FUNK e. CO.,
Employment Agency. ap29-tf
EREE EMPLOYMENT OFFICE, NO. 1919
T. Eighth street. Skilled and unskilled male
and female help Of all kinds Tree to employer
and employe. By order of the COUNCIL OF
FEDERATED TRADES fe5-lm
NTANTED-PARTIES TO BORROW MONEY
w on their city and country property Plenty
OF money to loan. Address MONEY tOANER,
p. o. BOX SO, Sacramento. nS-tf
WANTED-MEN FOR FARMS, VINEYARDS,
w dairies and all kinds of labor. Women
and girls for cooking and general housework.
Plenty of work for desirable help. Apply at
EMPLOYMENT OFFICE, Fourth st., K and L.
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GoTnAM's LOVELY BLONDES.

The most lovely women in New York
to-day are blondes. The Gothamite
loves blonde; it is to him the very
highest form of beauty. A girl whose
coloring is intensely fair by nature-not
made by ALTHOUGH she may not be very
pretty, can easily get herself known as
beauty if she dresses herself in pale
colors and poses and gets herself al
luded to in the papers as ga delicate
blonde" Fair, yellow hair, a white
skin, slender figure, small hands, and
q general air of fragility are, quite suffi
cient to give their owner the crown of
beauty, where brown haired Venus at
her elbow is ignored. Miss Amy Bend
is now supposed to be the prettiest girl
in the younger set, mainly through the
fawless perfection of her exquisite color
ing. She is as finished as a flower, rep
resenting the absolute ideal of the fragile
blonde type Everything is in perfect
harmony; there is not one feature or one
shade in the coloring that does not bal
ance with the rest. Wrists too thick,
or ears too large would spoil the whole,
but all accords as perfectly as the notes
of q nocturne. 1t is this harmonious
completeness, this perfection of finish,
that has endeared the pale blonde type
to the New Yorker, who every time pre-
fers an inferior article highly finished, to
to superior article that may be crude
and rough.-4ry0naut.
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To Tame O Bird.

No creature is more jealous or sensi-
tive than bird, says Oliver Thorne Mil
ler. 1t is easy, however, to win the
heat of almost any bird, and without
starving him or making him think he
has mastered you. Simply talk to him
a good deal. Place his cage near you
on your desk or work table, and letain
his choicest dainty to give to him with
your own fingers. Let him know that
be can never have that particular thing
unless he takes it from you, and he will
soon learn, if you are patient and do not
disconcert him by fixing your eyes upon
him. After this he will more readily
take it from your lips; and then, when
you let him out OF his cage, after the
first excitement is over, he will come to
you, especially if you have q call you
have accustomed him to, and accept the
the dainty from you while free. AS
soon as he becomes really convinced that
you will not hurt him or try to catch
him, or interfere in any way with his
liberty, he will give way to his bound
less curiosity about you; he will pull
your hair, pick at your eyes, and give
you as much of his company as you de-
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Paid in His Own Coin.

A remarkable case of "diamond cut
diamond" occurred in Boston recently,
not far from the Providence Railroad
station. A druggist had fitted up neat
corner store and had established at once
q fine trade. One day another druggist
entered his store and said: ~ want to
buy you out. How much will you takeT'
~ do not want to sell" was the reply.
~ expected that answer" said the en-
croaching person, "and I am prepared
for it. No, if you don't sell out to me,
/ will open drug store in opposition on
the opposite corner. How much will
you take2" The druggist, offended at
this species of brow-beating, said he
would sleep on it and report the next
morning. At the appointed hour the as
pirant was in the store and a large price
was named. The bargain was bound.
The druggist who had been thus ousted
from q corner which he had fitted up
with view to years of peace and profit,
sought the owners of the opposite corner
which had been held out to him as q
threat, secured from them long lease,
worked night and day, and now has q
drug store in which any community
might take satisfaction and repose conf
dence. What is more, he is doing q bet
ter business than he did in the former
locality.-Boston Gazette.
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LEAD IN LACE.

Philip De Clarmont gives an account,
in lie Ko0iteur dc la Ieant,sss, of white
satin dress totally ruined by its trim
ming with English lace. The dress had
been worn but once, had then been
packed into trunk which was deposited
In damp place and exposed to emana-
tions of hydrosulphuric acid from gas.
When taken out, it was found that the
pattern of the Lace, particularly of its
sulle ground, had been printed in indeh-
BILE black upon the white satin. The ac-
cident was not difficult to explain. Eng
lish lace is habitually charged with sui
phate of lead, which in this case had alb
sorbed hydrogen and hydrosulphuric
acid from the atmosphere, forming sui.
phide of lead, which had been imprinted
and fixed upon the white satin, which
naturally had also absorbed hydrogen
and hydrosulphuric acid. The seller of
the lace showed that charging English
lace with white lead (sulphate of lead)
was commercial usage, and thereby es-
capped paying the damage. An objec-
tionable usage it is at any rate, as the
absorption of lead through the skin
from such lace may become dangerous to
health. american.
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Building by Night.

Buildings and other works are now
constructed at such express speed that 1t
becomes necessary for the workmen en-
gagged to labor at night, as we'll as dur
ing the day. Especially is this the case
in London, England, where ground is
valuable and where, during building oFe-
rations, heavy rent is running and no
return is coming in. This custom has
rendered necessary some form Of brilliant
artificial light, and many ingenious lamps
have been contrived, which generally owe
their radiance to some fern of cheap
crude oil, which is forced under pressure
into spray, or vaporized, and then lg-
nited in a special form of burner. A
new lamp of this description, called "the
Comet" has recently been introduced,
and it embodies one or two new features.
1t consists of tank, above which IS
fixed on standard the coal burner IN
which the oil is vaporized. The liquid
is forced up to this level by means OF an
air pump attached to the tank. A light
oil is used, as it has been found, in other
systems, that those of heavy descrip-
ton are apt to leave heavy deposit OF
carbon in the connections, and so i'm
pede the action of the apparatus. --Ne~
YorE Telegram.
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Fun in the Alps.

Mountain climbing has its diversions
as we'll as its terrors and excitements.
Victor Tissot, in La Suiese Iaconnue, de-
scribes an amusing experience in Swift
zerland while descending the Pic Ian
guard:
The descent was accomplished in an
hour. It was a pleasure party, fete. l
found myself with a gay party of Austrian
tourists, with whom l speedily became
acquainted. Arriving at the top Of
great declivity of frozen snow, the guide
stopped and asked. addressing himself to
the ladies: "Should you like to amuse
yourselves little2" "We should not be
Viennese if we refused. Yes, let US
amusc yourselves. The snow is so de-
lightful." Impatient and curious, they
quickly grouped themselves about the
guide. "Well, we will descend this
beautiful, snowy slope in few Aainutes
without the smallest danger. 1t is only
necessary that the ladies should have
courage. This is how we proceed. Each
gentleman must seat himself and take a
lady behind him, holding her firmly. at
my signal you must oil let yourselves
slide down. 1t is not difficult and we
we shall gain half an hour" This man
ner of descending, much used in the
Alps, was new to the ladies, and seemed
to them both droll and original. Each
of us seated ourselves on an overccat.
folded in four. and the ladies on their
shawls, which were drawn over their
knees. At the word of command we set
off, dragging our companions, laughing
and utterlng little shrieki. Some awkward
couples came to grief, but not seriously,
and the adventure terminated without
further incident. At the foot Of the
slope the travellers, little giddy from
the headlong journey, rose, powdered
with snow, and shook themselves like
water-dogs which had just crossed
river,
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ENGLASD's REAL BEAUTIES.

In fact, the far-famed beauty-and it
still exists--of England is only to be found
in the middle and lower classes. The
aristocracy are absolutely ugly, in gen.
eral sense, and the ugliest of the lot are
the maids of honor generally in attend
ance on Her Majesty. On the otherhand,
the shop girls, the mattresses and bar
maids of London are often absolutely
beautiful in both face and figure. The
trim black dresses which they wear, free
from trimming and adornment of any
kind, and their snowy aprons, only en-
hance their charms. The contrast some
times of bevy of waiting women in at
tendance at one of the great mansions is
so strange that one begins to wonder
how it is the lady cannot discover the
secrets which enable her waiting maid
to possess and preserve her good looks.
Philadelphia Press.
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A HEROIC GIRL.

At the wreck of the Quetta in the In
dian Ocean, last March, Miss Emily Lacy,
girl under sixteen, rescued her younger
sister from the submerged cabin, and
then swan and foated herself for thirty
six hours before she was picked up. AS
the chief officer, Gray, could not swim,
she attempted to tow the raft on which
be had tried to save her to land, which
seemed near. The sea being too high,
she then tried to reach the shore alone to
procure food and water for both, but the
cross-currents baf1ed her, and when she
was rescued by the Albatross, she was
drifting out to sea. The heroic girl was
burned black by the tropical sun, and
had suffered so much that sho said she
should have chosen to drown but for the
thought of the agony her parents would
suffer in her death.-4rqoaam.
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ABOUT the equivalent Of six cords to the
acre for the four years 1t had been re.
claimed for pasture; to this was applied
four cords of barn manure in which
rather over ton of fish had been well
mixed. The piece was planted toward
the close of May with the Michigan
mammoth pumpkin, in hills twelve by
twelve, the vines being finally reduced to
two to each hill. They had three cult
vations, though at one period of their
growth the weeds got the start, and there
had to be some hard pulling. In the
fall, after the leaves of the vines had
mostly died down, the field, COW
cred with its huge fruit, weigh
ing from twenty to forty pounds
each, and almost every one
of the richest orange color, was certainly
very striking sight. One load being
weighed, and the quantity of the rest OF
the loads being estimated from that
weight, we found the entire crop, in
cluding two loads not fully ripe, was
rising ten tons. It is not necessary that
a farmer should plant this variety to get
twenty tons to the acre. I have known
q crop at the rate of twenty-five tons to
the acre to be raised from pumpkins
whose average weight was not over
eight pounds. This crop was remark
ably large, for the fact that the seed was
taken from several varieties which grew
side by side, for mongrel crop Of eth
er pumpkins or squashes, if but one step
removed from it parents, will yield
heavier than did either of the parents.
This is on tho same principal whereby
grade cow will usually do better than the
average of the two pure-bred parents of
which she is cross. Now does the
pumpkin play any part in the farm econ
omy that would make it profitable to
raise them' I find in my experience as
o milk producer that there is a period
between the coming of the first frost suf-
ficiently severe to destroy fodder corn
and the date when we open our silo
where there is blank in green fodder;
this blank the pumpkin will fill. The
objections sometimes made to feeding
the seed is not always we'll taken, but If
the cows are observed to urinate more
freely after being fed with seed and all,
then the bulk of the seed should be re-
moved, otherwise as this contains far
richer nutriment than the flesh, indeed
are especially rich when that is deficient,
I advise feeding them.
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Seryian Military Drums.

A curious thing connected with the
servian army is the manner in which
nearly all the regiments carry the big
drum. Instead of being slung ia front
of the man who plays it this instrument
is put upon a small two.wheeled cart
drawn BY large dog, the latter being so
trained that he keeps his place even
through the longest marches. The drum
mer walks behind the cart and performs
on the instrument as it goes along. Each
regiment has two or three drums, but
scarcely any of the regiments have a
band.--London TH-Bits.
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A NOVEL AID INGENIOUS SKIRT.

A novel and most ingenious skirt, made
without any foundation, has been intro
duccd for the benefit of ladies who ride
bicycles, shoot, 60 yachting, climbing,
or touring. The bottom of the skirt is
closed, tue feet passing through two
holes, and the garment drawn on leaves
the ankles and limbs encased in pair of
tight-ftting CATERS. This contlivance
is intended to be buttoned to an ordi-
uary dress. The material used is water
proof, and the weareI is shut in from all.
exposure to cold and dampness. 1t can
be worn with any sort of shoes, but it is
clumsy and ugly, two very good reasons
why it will not be favorably received
NeU York World.
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Latlles for Big Naval Guns.

The first of the series of immense gun
lathes to be used at the Government
Works at Troy, N. Y, in turning the
monster guns for the United States Navy
has been cast at the Pond Machine Tool
Works at Plainfeld, N. ]. The Pond
Company was last spring awarded the
contract for the construction of the
lathes, which are to cost S25, 900 each,
and since then preparations for the first
casting have been continuous.
The flow of molten metal into the in
tricately- y-designed matrices, with oil their
complex niceties of construction, was
witnessed by several persons interested in
naval affairs and the officers Of the works.
Such of the castings as are imperfect will
be broken into fragments and remelted.
The perfect ones will be polished down
and adjusted. It's expected that the
first lathe will be completed and perfected
within few months: The company has
three years in which to- complete its con-
tract.-New York Times:
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THE FARM FIELD OF THE FUTURE.

4A-3<1
There may be symmetry about square
fields pleasing to the eye and gratifying
to the prejudices of birth and custom,
but in the interest of utility and economy
they cannot too quickly become obsolete.
The length of the farm field should be at
least twice its width. An old farmer
,?ho some years since adopted that shape
in laying out his fields insists that he
does not ezaggerate when he says that
man and team can do twenty-five per
cent. more work in the same time in q
long, narrow field than in square one.
The time taken to turn plow, for in
stance, is sufficient to plow from fifty
to 100 feet, and hence the oftener the
turning the less plowing is done in
day. The plowman often approaches
the end of furrow with regret, for his
plow is running so smoothly and stead
lily, and he dislikes to contemplate an in
terruption, to say nothing of the extra
exertion on his part that will be required
when the furrow's end is reached. But
1t Is not necessary to describe in detail
the advantages of long furrows, long
rows, or long swaths in blowing, plant
ing, cultivating, moving, or reaping;
their bare suggestion is enough for the
thoughtful farmer. The farm field of the
future will be long and narrow, simply
because that is the best form.-Farm,
Stock and Home.
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PUMPKINS.

Farmers whose experience with the
pumpkin has been confined to what it
will yield when planted among corn
would be surprised to see the crop that
can be grown when raised BY itself, with
liberal application of the kind of
manure best adapted toi it. James ]. H.
Gregory, Marblehcad, Mass, in the Ne,o
England Farmer, says: The kind of
manure best for the corn crop is not the
kind which is TIE best for the pumpkin
crop. Corn requires loan rich in phos-
phoric acid and potash, and certainly but
asnall per cent. of nitrogen. The vine
class, such as pumpkins, squashes and
melons require, on the contrary, loan
that shall be especially rich in nitrogen,
and the quantity of the crop is almost in
proportion to the liberallty of the use of
this element. While it might not pay to
purchase the high priced forms of nitro
gen for this crop, yet where the farmer
has access to that very cheap source, fish
waste, if he has dairy it may be made
to pay well.
Last spring I measured of half acre
Of !air loan that had been manured at
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PAwgrNa AT vAssAR COLLEGE.

The pawning habit is comparatively
new feature of Vassar life. At least one
cannot find that it was ever heard of un-
til within the past four or five years.
How it originated is not known positively,
but the story goes that once upon time
q well-known and very popular girl, who
generally had plenty of money to spend,
and who, for that reason as well as sew
eral others, was queen of her select circle,
found herself very "hard up" and as
this condition was due to extravaganza
that her teachers or parents would hardly
have considered legitimate, she did not
dare appeal to them.
Finding herself in Poughkeepsie, and
being about to spend her last ten cents in
buying sweeimeats of the old woman who
had supplied her with these dainties for
nearly three years, she became ,confden-
tial, and told the sympathetic cakeToman
everything.
The old woman really feeling that it
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wo;l,d be an honor to have such "lovely
young lady" accept loan from her so ex-
pressed herself, and her offer, after some
demurring on the part of the young lady,
was accepted. Of course, it was only
week or so before she was supplied with
money from home, and in paying the
debt she insisted upon giving q little
bonus on the actual sum, perhaps merely
in gratitude, perhaps knowing that to be
the best way of keeping the transaction
secret.
The tradition goes on to say that find
ing that such an easy way Of getting
money she resorted to itquite frequently,
and after while told friend, who told
a friend, and so on.-Boston Globe.