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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-10-30

Silk stockings were first worn by
Henry II. of France, 1547. Howell says,
in 1860 Queen Elizabeth was presented
with pair Of black knit silk stockings
by her silk woman, Mrs. Montague, and
she never wore cloth ores any more.
He adds that Henry VIII, that magniti-
cent and experienced prince, wore or
binary cloth hose, except there came
from Spain, by great chance, a pair OF
silk stockings; for Spain very early
abounded in silk. His son Edward VI.
was presented with pair of Spanish
silk stockings by his merchant, Sir
Thomas Graham, and the present was
then much taken notice of, consequently
the invention of knit silk stockings
came from Spain. Others relate that
William Rider, "a London apprentice,
seeing at the house of an Italian mer-
chant pair of knit worsted stockings
from Mantua, from thence ingeniously
made pair like them, which he pre-
scented to the Earl of Pembroke, and
were the first of the kind made in En-
gland, 1864. The weaving of them was
invented 15S9.-Boston Budget.
"A mother was calling the attention
of her little boy to the moon which was
to be seen clearly but pallidly in the
early afternoon. "Why, you can't see
the moon in the daytime?" replied the
youngster. 80, yes you can-there it is
over the treesr The little fellow looked
and had to admit the fact that he saw
it, but he added, "Taint lighted, any
hoUiD
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-10-30
A Throat
and Lung
Speciality.

1y appreciate what a truly wonder
full medicine it is. The delicious
sensations of healing, easing, clear
ing, strength-gathering and recover
ing are unknown joys. For Ger
man Syrup we do not ask easy cases
Sugar and water may smooth a
throat or stopa tickling-for while.
This is as far as the ordinary cough
medicine goes. Boschee's German
Syrup is a discovery, great Throat
and Lung Speciality. Where for
years there have been constituencies,
pain, coughing, splitting, hemorr-
hage, voice failure, weakness, slip
ping down hill, where doctors and
medicine and advice have been swal-
lowed and followed to the gulf of
despair, where there is the sickening
conviction that all is over and the
end is inevitable, there we place
German Syrup. Itcures. You are
a live man yet if you take it. 8
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-10-30
A Sore Disappointment.

Foreman Vigilance Commit =
Where's the editor? We want him.
Office-boy If you please, sir, he hug
himself in the barn last night.
Foreman Vigilance Communications
found him! he always had a way OF
getting ahead of folks; and just to think
we've walked twelve miles to lynch
aim!-Atianta Cor SitEGion.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-10-30
Won Needn't he a Shaker

To have the shakes that are produced by
chills and fever or bilious remittent fever.
Prevent them and every other form of ma
larial disease with Hostetter's Stomach Bit
tcrs, the grand fOrtitier and defensive medi-
cineof the age Dyspepsia. kidney and liver
complaint constipation, rheumatism and de-
biity are also remedied by this benefcent
medicine.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-10-30
The Only One Ever Printed-Can You Find
the Word?

There is a 3 inch display advertisement
in this paper, this week, which has no two
words alike except one word. The same is
true of each new one APP earring each week,
from The DR.. Hartcr Medicine Co. This
house places Crescent on everything
they make and publish. Look for it, send
them the name of the word and they will
return You book, beautiful Autographs or
samples free.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-10-30

Passengers bound west arriving at Chi
cago on all Eastern Trunk Lines at 90 to
$50 p, m. make good connection with the
new train on the Chicago, Rock Island Il
Pacific called the "Big Five Limited - that
is the only fast tram leaving Chicago at 10
p. N. daily, and arrives at Denver at 40 a.
IN. JNO. SEBASTIAN, q. L. q. L. A.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-10-30

THERE are more women in British India
12l,0IOOOO) than there are mon. women
and children in Great Britain. France ana
Germany put together, with the population
of several minor European states cast in as
well
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-10-30

TIE small boy always looks with envious
admiration at the drum maior leading the
procession with his gold headed baton and
his big bear kin hat, but the little follow
with the correct in the back row of he band
gets the bigger pay.-Somcrvilo Journal
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-10-30

PoNsoNBY - as that Pompano coming
this way, Arthursn De Twiliger-''Y aas.1
Ponsou6y-"Let's dodge down this street.
have every reason to believe that he has
the first photograph of his first baby in his
pocket. "-Harper's Bazaar.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-10-30

MUST not be COMPOUNDED with common cath
artic or purga,ive pills. Carriers Little Liv
er Pills are entirely unlike them in every re-
spect One trial will prove their superiority.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-10-30

WnLIE-"DO YOU like milk, Nr Stay
latc" Staylate-"Not particularly. my lit
tie man; why do you ask" WiIlie-''Sis-
ter says you never leave until the cows
come home."--N Y. Sun
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-10-30

HE-"Young Dudelets says he had hard
pull to deiach himself from Mss Flirt's
fluctuations" She tcontemptuously)-'
must have been monkey them
Baltimore American
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-10-30

"WE are having an epidemic Of fees -
said he city official when it was discovered
that the treasurer was gone--W ashineto
Star.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-10-30

IT has been discovered that music comes
out Of barrel organ in slaves Washing
ton Star.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-10-30

"MY fall trade is getting quite brisk
said the slippery peel as the sixth passcr
by yielded to the exactlOns Of gravity.
timore American.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-10-30

THOSE who wish to practice economy
should buy Carriers Little Liver Pills.
Forty pills ir vial only one pill dose.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-10-30

TIE flowers that bloom in the spring, ira.
la, have a good deal to do with the breach
OF promise case in the fall. 90 Dallas News
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-10-30

THERE is manya dynamiter who is afraid
to give his mother-in law a blowing up
Texas Siftings
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-10-30

If YOU want to be cured Of cough use
Hale's Honey OF Horehound and Tar.
Pike s Toothache Drops Cure in one minute.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-10-30

IT doesn't follow that Il Vcrsificr always
produces fGrvid rcsults.-Boston Courier.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-10-30

AN actors life ought to he fruitful: it is
filled with dates. Yonkcrs Statesman.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-10-30

a FATIGrEuniform-The messenger boys.
Baltimore American
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-10-30

GOES behind the soldicrs-The knapsacb
Mail and Express.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-10-30

"MLLIoNs in 1.-THE treasury.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-10-30
German
Syrup

Those who have not
used Boschee's Ger
man Syrup for some
severe and chronic
trouble of the Throat
andLungs can hard
The record-union., 1891-01-18

Mr.. MoRDECAI has introduced bill in
the Assembly providing for the election
of the Superintendent of State Printing
hereafter. The RECORD UNION long ago
proposed that plan, and is gratified that
it has again taken the form of bill The
office should be filled by election for two
chief reasons: to relieve the Governor of
the opportunities of those who insist that
in appointing he shall mortgage the Office,
and weigh it down with promises wrung
from the Superintendent to appoint Tom,
Dick and Harry to places in the printing
department. Secondly, because the print
ing craft viii see to it that both parties
all parties-nominate competent men for
the position. There are other reasons,
though those stated arc sufficient.
The record-union., 1891-01-18

umns on the official ballot, as is done in
Indiana; it will then be perfect bill.
Mr.. Dibble's bill properly prohibits the
use of pastors, and provides for assist
ance to voters physically unable to pre-
pare their ballots. 1t prohibits disclosure
of the ballot also, and provides that
the ballots the voter receives and does
not vote shall be returned to the Inspec-
tor, who must detach the stubs and cast
them with the Unvoted ballots into the
second ballot-box. At the close of poll
ing these unvoted ballots are to be burned.
We fail to see what virtue resides in this
procedure, but can understand that it
will confuse the matter, impose upon the
Election Boards unnecessary labor, and
tend to involve them in technical details
that will hinder rapid and safe counting.
Under the Dibble bill, cards of instruc-
ton are to be posted for the guidance OF
voters. But the Federated Trades bill
goes further, and requires samples of true
ballots to be printed and furnished to
voters, and the official ballots to be adver-
tised, that electors may thoroughly in
form themselves prior to election con-
cerning the ballots they must mark in
the booth.
The 100-foot anti-electioneering area is
required by both bills, as also the provis-
ions are alike in both bills concerning ex-
posure of prepared ballots within the 100
foot circle, and the asking of voter with
in that limit how he voted or intends to
vote.
The penalties under the Dibble bill do
not rise higher than those attaching to
misdemeanors under the other bill it is
felony to violate the vital features of the
proposed law.
In no respect is the Dibble bill an i'm
provement upon any of the modified
reform ballot methods. 1t does not
contain any of the nominating feat
ures that distinguish genuine reform bal
lot laws, and no provision is made by
which the forgotten man can exercise his
right, free of cost, to run for any Office
for which he is qualified under the law.
The author of the bill is unquestionably
sincere in his scheme, since the effort to
copy the main features of the better laws
is evident. But he has made serious
mistakes, and his bill can only serve to
obstruct the other better one, which, as
we pointed out on Sunday, has two seri-
Gus flaws in it, one of which Mr.. Ames'
bill corrects.
While the purpose of the author of the
new OF Dibble bill may not be questioned,
the effect Of his bill will be precisely what
the enemies of ballot reform desire, and
that is, to destroy the single official bal
lot, and substitute for it the many and
old-time party tickets.
The record-union., 1891-01-18

If it is true, as the San Francisco Call
asserts, that there are men now in Sacra-
mento making every exertion and using
venal means to defeat the adoption of any
ballot reform bill, the Call owes it to the
public to name the men. There may be
sincere opponents TO the bills, but they are
few. We believe a reform ballot bill,
modified from the Australian system,
will be adopted, and that the Governor
will approve it. IF there is venality and
boss money and power in the opposition
to the measure, whoever has information
of the fact shonld make it known that the
The record-union., 1891-01-18
THE WEEKLY UNION,

Entered at the Postoffice at Sacramento as
oecOnd-claSS matter.
The record-union., 1891-01-18
AN OLD JOKE.

There went about the halls of Congress
just before the holidays quaint old joke
that some one resurrected from the tomb
OF the past and managed it SO well as to
put about half the wise men of the houses
to blushing for their rust in classics. Of
course it was a reporter who set the little
hornet ON the war path. That class of
mortals always puzzle their brain to get
joke upon some one, but it is not often
that they venture to play the pranks
upon the grave and reverend below the
galleries. However, someone of the fra
ternity started the inquiry: "What is the
proper translation of the sentence Nun
guam animus sed ignis via?" There are
a good many collegians III the reporters
gallery, and some of them were sharp
enough to shrug their shoulders and
tell the inquirer to seek further.
Others, however, though fresh from
college had either never been burned
with the sentence or had forgotten
their experience and tried with
much assumption of wisdom to re-
solve the bad Latin into good English.
Finally the jekers sent an appeal to the
learned men of the House to help them
out. One Western Congressman gravely
told the reporters that it was from Caesar's
Commentaries, but he really could not
recall the paragraph in which it might be
| found, and that it meant, 'Let not your
spirit be troubled, but keep i'll the way"
The seeker after knowledge kept his
countenance, and the thing went the
rounds with many quaint response and
many frank acknowledgment that the
Congressman knew no Latin, and did not
wish to, either. Finally Representative
| Wilcox of Connecticut was appealed to,
he being Yale man. He replied that the
sentence was incomplete, and he could
not therefore translate it. And he was in
dead earnest. Representative Buchan-
nan, who claims two colleges as Alma
Mater, wrestled with the sentence and
gave it up. Representative Wilson of
| Vermont, recognized as one of the ablest
men of the House, could not recall the
quotation nor grasp its meaning. He
thought, however, that it might be read,
Never the mind [spiritl, but the FIRE
makes the way Representative Dalzell
of Pennsylvania and Judge Stewart of
Virginia struggled with the sentence, and
suspected that some fool reporter was
playing joke on the members Mr.. Dali
zell finally suggested that the sentence
might read, "Never mind, but fire along. y
The thing went the rounds, and no one
came nearer than that. But that was
near enough, for in fact it is an old college
reading of slang, with its point in literal
translation, Nunquam, never; animus,
mind; sed, but; ignis, fire; via, way
never mind, but fire away 1t is said
that there are couple of score of col
legians, more or less, on the floor of the
House each one of whom has rod in
pickle for the reporter who put the old
joke afloat and made them laughing
stocks.
The record-union., 1891-01-18

ASSEMBLY Joint Resolution No. 2 calls
upon Congress urgently to appropriate
81, ,000 600 for the restoration and mainten-
ance of the nayigability of the Sacra-
mento River. 1t should pass. The river
is free highway the heritage of all the
people; the Federal Government main
tains jurisdiction over it, and it ought to
conserve its navigability and prevent its
destruction by the wasting Of its banks
or the filing up of lis channel
The record-union., 1891-01-18

THE story comes by wire that the Gar
has ordered the anti-Semitic laws to be
suspended for three years. This action is
due to the fact Russia is compelled to lean
heavily upon Jewish bankers. But what
value is there in an extension of mercy
that is quickened only by the pocket
nerve, and that has no heart in it? What
will the Car do at the end Of the three
years truce? His concession is little bet
ter than his persecution.
The record-union., 1891-01-18

a smaller proportion OF imports and ex-
ports of the country than ever before
was transported last year in American
vessels. In 1870 we carried one-third of
our commerce, in 1890 we carried but a
little over one-eighth. This single fact is
shipping bill.
The record-union., 1891-01-18

The REcoRD-UNIoN, SUNDAY UNION
and WEEKLY UNION are the only papers
on the Coast, outside of San francisco,
that receiUe the full associated Press dis
patches from alI parts Of the auo9.ld. Out
side Of San Francisco they haze no COM
petitors either IN influence or home and
general circulation throughout the State.
The record-union., 1891-01-18

WE believe that the American people
are prepared to maintain broad policy
of putting the American flag in the lead
of American trade, and therefore desire
the passage Of the shipping bill.
The record-union., 1891-01-18

MECHANICAL CLOTHING STORE,
II. MARKS Iroprietor
The record-union., 1891-01-18

THAT the Bourbons are so hostile to
the Federal election bill is conclusive
evidence that they fear it would free a
vote that would be Independent to large
degree, Of tyrannical domination.
The record-union., 1891-01-18

rascality may be laid bare before the peo-
pie. If ballot reform is to be again de-
feated, let it be done fairly, squarely and
openly, and in manly contest npon
lines of honest disagreement.
The record-union., 1891-01-18

BECAUSE a Federal election bill must
be universal in its application and in
tended only to secure honest results in
elections, are reasons that commend it to
all who favor the integrity OF the ballot
The record-union., 1891-01-18
san Francisco Agencies.

This paper is for sale at the following places:
l.. 7. Fishers, room 21, Merchants Exchange,
California street; the principal News Stands
end Hotels and at the Market-street Ferry.
E1- Also, for sale on all Trains leaving and
coming into Sacramento
The record-union., 1891-01-18
Weather Forecast.

Forecast till p NJ. Sunday: For Northern
Caiifornia-Fair weather; cooler in the in
terror.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-02-14
4 Proof of Gallantry.

Those vinegary persons who think po-
likeness is a lost science because they
sometimes see ladies standing in the
cars while tired men are seated can see
the refinement Of gallantry any and
svry Gay IN the General postoftice.
There is never an hour while the long
line of men tails away from the retail
stamp window that some woman does
not insist upon taking her place at the
head Of the line instead of tho foot. to
buy stamp or get package weighed.
Time IL precious TO most of the men in
the line, but no one has ever been known
to object to the peculiarly feminine ir.
regularity, whereas if man tries to do
the same thing oaths and violence are
sometimes used to right the injustice
New York Sun.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-02-14
MoSIEa ou the Ice.
To Protect Lamp ChiInneys.

The season is Just on us when lamp
chimneys break in spite of all precau-
tons, and cause people TO use Dad Ian
guago who are usually above such weak,
ness. The usual remedy or preventive
recommended is to chip fragment out
of the glass to'allow for expansion. Nine
times out of ten the glass Is cracked by
the process and destruction expedited,
II the chi mney is washed in coal oil and
never even wiped with damp cloth il
will be practically indestructibie, and
will smoke jet black before il viii crack
have recommended this remedy 10 GUS
toners for years, and have never heard
Of its failing. Interview in St. Louis
Globe Democrat.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-02-14
ghe daily Eight.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY IA. 1891.
Accident on an Elevator.

In one of New York's largest hoi,l. they
have three elevators aud OF course require
very powerful machinery to run them. One
Of the guests who had gone to the theatre,
fingered for a nice little private spread at
Del's, and as the steak as par tcularly good,
you know" and his best irl in lovely
humor twho by the way was his wifeI the
gentleman remained so long with his charm
he reached his hott the colored attendant of
,he elevator had gone up stairs and falleninto
the arms of Murphy or Morpley, I'm not
sure which. Our friend believed in fresh cir
dna lived on the floor nearest the sky, so of
course he was disappointed TO ind the elevator
closed for the night He muttered something
to his wife and gave a wrench at the iron
door leading to the elevator car. 1t opened
and he laughed, and although his wife AT nrst
refused TO enter, he finally prevailed and
chuckled to himself as the elevator started
upwards, to thins how he outdone the mouse,
and how the darkey's eyes would stand OUT IA
the morning, when he found the elevator at
the top of the house. When they got 10 tne
second floor from the top our frleno tnougnI
he might as well try to slow up a II TIE, QUIZ 70
his astonlshment he found he could uot
eheck the unmanageable elevator. me pres
poet OF drop of nine stories hashed before
his mind, also his wife's at the same IustaIh:
result, tremendous yell onsne gen. nS
shril scream from the lady. the attention OF
Q gentleman on the floor below was attracted:
he jumbed to the elevator and giasped the
wire rope, holding with all his strength tana
Se was strong, as he had lived in Texas Tor
tive We years and he finally brought the ele-
ystor to stop Just in time. as 1t was FOUND
"a the following Gay that only one small
~ct INIT our nsignbors were saved. They Il
we're profuse in their thanks aud when they
net the rentlemsn recognized their old
friend, J. N. Emerson, of San Antonio, Texas,
xutfo
1dence in Mr.. Emerson's firm that he would
Wait until he went to San Antonio for the Il
earrings and baby buggy. Moral: II you
scp's. Emerson keeps everything and you
yin be q customer for life il you deal with
ham once.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-02-14
New Mode g y5,rrnvinr.

A French scien,oo has lately intro
duced a process for the engraving Of de-
signs OIL wood, leather or similar ma
terials by means of pencil or tool, the
point of which is constantly at red heat.
After a series of experiments with hot
irons ard platinum wire heated by cleo
tricity, special tool was finally devised
by the inventor OF this process whici]
renders tho opera ton extremely simple.
The tool in question is another applica.
ton of the cautery instrument used by
surgeons. The pencil has a wooden han
die upon which is mounted small plat.
mum tube with fine point. Two sepa.
rate receptacles communicate with the
tool by means of rubber tube; one OF
these contains q hydro-carbou, such o.
alcohol, benzine CT wood spirit, and the
other contains compressed air.
A constant flow of tho hydro-carb Dor
vapor is maintained at the point % thu
tool, which is thereby kept in q state d
intense heat. Both recsptacles are pro
vided with regulating apparatus. b,
which the supply of ink can be adjusted
or cut of, as desired The operation O
tracing designs on wood work and leathe.
is thus simpli6ed to the utmost possibIt
extent. A tracing of the design is mad,
on the article TO be ornnnented. and an
degree of relief is instantly effected. YER
little skill on the part OF the operate
being REQUIRED. The new process will h
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-02-14
The Average Death Rate.

In England the average number of
deaths each year is out of each IS in-
habitants; in France, out of each 80,
snd in the United States, out of each
81. In this country the rate in the
northwestern states is 1 in each 100; in
the middle states, l in each 80; in the
southern states, 1 in each 20; in the Gulf
states, in each 63.-St. Louis Republic.
Moving ou the Lee.
Ono OF the queer sights at East Machias
last month was crew Of men moving
on the meadow of Mr.. Jacob Foster
Mr.. Z. P. Gardner had the work done
and put into his stable eleven loads of
we'll made hay. This meadow was not
moved last summer, and the solid foun-
dation of ice gave the men good chance
to work. Lewiston journal