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DEATH AT a RIPE OLD AG1
\ Pioneer Lady of Marin County Passes
Away.

\ Pioneer Lady of Marin County Passes
Away.
SAN RAFAEL. Sept. 6.-Manuella NJ g.
Saes, one of the oldest residents of Marin
County, died this morning at Fairfax,
aged so. Her husband, Domingo Saes.
was a soldier at the Presidio in San Fran
cisco, and in 1886 was granted by the
Mexican Government tract of land one
and one-half leagues square, situated in
San Geronimo Valley. Soon after the
grant Mrs. Saes and her children crossed
the bay on raft improvised for the pur-
pose, landing ut San Quentin. The party
remained at san Quentin some davs and
then started across the hills to their desti-
nation, what is now known as Fairfax.
Mrs Saes had resided on the ranch since
she first reached it. In 1858 her husband
died, and she has since remained a
widow. The deceased left three daughters
and two sons, all well known and re-
Spected III this community, where thev
have continued to reside. She left an es-
tate valued at about 100000.
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CLEARINGHOUSE STATISTICS.
business Transacted in the Principa
Cities During the Past Week.

business Transacted in the Principal
Cities During the Past Week.
BosToN, Sept. G.-Clearings: New
York, $753, ,533, 600, an increase Of 29.6 per
cent; Chicago, Sl0O, ,946, 900, an increase of
2o.3 per cent; Boston, $50, Al, 600, an in
crease of 1874 per cent; Philadelphia,
S60,902, 900, a decrease of SO per cent;
st. Louis, SO, ,065, ,000, decrease of "a per
cent; San Francisco, Sl9,3l0,000, a de
crease of 40 per cent; Baltimore, Sl5,-
$4,000, an increase of rs per cent; Gin
cinnati, 81, ,253, 900, an increase of 3.4 per
cent; Pittsburg, Sll ,66S,0 900, a decrease of
I6.l per cent; Kansas City, 81 $4,000, an
increase of 80 per cent; Minneapolis,
IS, ,0Go, a decrease of 23.4 per cent.
Milwaukee, S6,973, ,O00 decrease of 1871
per cent; Omaha, s., $50, 900, decrease of
1875 per cent; Denver, S4,353,000, a de-
crease of l2.9 per cent; st. Paul, 81, 49,,
600, a decrease of ~ per cent; Calves
ton, IS, $40, goo, a decrease of "a per cent.
Portland, Or, Sl,9l5,00O, an increase of
Ii per cent; Salt Lake, 81, 10000, de-
crease of 1873 per cent. Tacoma. S9I4,-
900 a decrease of SIS; Seattle, SS25, 200.
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Good Advice.

andfather-Tommy, what did you do
with the two nickels gave you yester
day?
TOMMY spent one of them for candy
and the other 1 gave to poor blind
man.
andfather-Johnnie, what did you do
with the two nickels / gave your
johnnie have got them yet.
Grandfather-Now let me give you two
little boys some good advice. Tommy,
you had better keep on the good side Of
Johnnie, as you'll need his assistance be-
fore you die. And Johnnie, you had bet
ter have as little to do as possible with
Tommy when you grow up, or else he
will always be borrowing money from
you.-Texas Siftings.
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FRENCH WAR VESSEL WRECKED.
his Own Prescrintion.

Doctor-I feel very thirsty, Mrs. Pa
tron. Won't you please let me have a
glass of water?
Mrs. P.-Certainly. Here it is.
Doctor sipping)-Um-ugh This is
certainly not city water, Mrs. Patron?
Mrs. P.-Yes, it is.
Doctor-Humph! Phew! Bah! That's
the fiattest, most vapid stuff 1 ever got
hold of. Why, madam, this isn't fit to
drink.
Mrs. PIT has been fixed the way you
said city water should be. 1t has been
boiled.-New York Weekly.
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a decrease of 3s.7 per cent; Los An
geles, S793,944, an increase of 11.3 per
cent. Total for the leading cities of the
United States and Canada: 81 %, AS $40,
an increase of 1871 per cent, as compared
with corresponding week last wear.
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with storm of cheers. Emperor Will
lam thanked the company heartily, and
proposed the health of Emperor Francis
Joseph, Archduke Albrecht and the
Commanders-in-C Chief
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BLEW A HURRICANE.
A French Steamer Encounters a
Violent Gale at Sea.
WAVES RUN FORTY-FIVE FEET IN
HIGHT.

hcstdents in Norristown, Pa, Much
Alarmed Over tho Presence of
Contagious Skin Disease. Which
Affects People OF All Classes Alike
Death of Hon. Benjamin Hall,
Chief Justice OF Colorado During
the Pcrilous Days of tho Rebellion.
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Conspired to Depose the Sultan.

CoNsTANTINoPLE, Sept. 9. - Achmed
Eyab has been appointed Governor of
Crete to succeed Djenod Pasha, who has
just been promoted from the Governor
ship to be Grand Vizier A rumor, which
it is impossible to confirm, is current to
the effect that Kiamil Pasha, recently de-
posed Grand Nizier, is suffering impris-
onment. His dismissal is now under
stood to be due to completely III plot for
the deposition of the Sultan.
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A Philadelphia preacher announced
that he would more than redouble his
work during the heated term, making
his sermons longer and holding meet
ings every night in the week. Within
two days his congregation had made up
a purse to send him to Europe for three
months
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as Grasrneye. wherein Wordsworth lived
so long with his sweet sister Dorothy,
and wrote much of his best work-and
where De Quincy lived afterward and
wrote the "Opium Eater''-is now the
property of the British nation. 1t is to
be restored and kept in perfect order.
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drawer, containing a quantity of money
and $500 in notes. The safe was perfect
Country Residence Burned

ORovILLB, Sept. 6.-The residence of
Mrs. Huntington, two miles from Oro-
vile, was destroyed to-day by fire. The
loss is about 81, coo.
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burglary ut Redding.

REDDING, Sept. 6.-Safe crackers blew
open Klemmer & Etter's safe last night
with dynamite and distracted the
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CHILEAN AFFAIRS.
The Junta Engaged in ReOrganiz-
ing the Public Service.
STORIES OF RIOTING At COQUIMBO
DENIED

The New Government Reappoints the
Judicial O6icers Displaced by Bal
maceda-The Baltimore Sails for n
Neutral Port With. the Refugees
Who Sought Safety on Board When
The CongressionaIists Achieved
Success.
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HON. BENJAMIN HALL.
A Former Chief Justice of Colorado
Dies After Lingering Illness.

A Former Chief Justice OF Colorado
Dies After Lingering Illness.
AUBURN On. ", Sept. 6.-Hon. Benia-
min Hall died here this morning, after a
lingering illness. He was born in 1914.
In 1850, by appointment of President
Fillmore, he made compilation and re-
vision of the accumulated official decis-
ions of the Attorney-Genoral of the
United States. In 1861 President Lin
coin appointed him Chief Justice of Colo
rado. position of great peril in the days
OF the breaking out of the rebellion. A
conspiracy was formed to kill him and
other federal officers, and secure the Ter
rltory for the secessionists. The scheme
failed, and nothing went further to de-
feat the plans of the rebels than the rul-
ing of Judge Hall, originating with him,
to the effect than in cases of an armed re-
bellion against the Government, tho
courts could suspend the issue of writs of
habeaS cDrpuS
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The Labor Party In England.

LONDON, Sept. Elm communication
just made public, Mr.. Gladstone writes
in favor of increased representation of
labor in Parliament, but deprecates the
formation of labor party. His objection
to such party, in his words, is on the
ground that ''if every class of the COM
munity exercised the rights to form a
party, we should have queer Parlia-
ment"
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Sa1nuels Train Robbers.

SAN ANTONIO (Tex.), Sept. 6.-Super-
intendent lines Of the Southern Pacific
has returned from the scene of the train
robbery at Samuels Siding, and reports
that five of the robbers have been
hemmend in by rangers and Mexican
troops on the Texas Peninsula and can
not escape.
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Senator HawIey for Secretary of War.
WAsHINGToN, Sept 6.-Private advices
received here to-day state that Senator
Hawley Of Connecticut has been offered
the war office to succeed Secretary Proc
tor, and that General HawIey is at Cape
May comforting with the President about
the matter
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Bees attacked funeral party in Ken
nett square, Pa, the other day and upset
all the proprieties Of the occasion.
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Contagious Skin Disease.

NoRRIsTowN pa, Sept. 6.-People
here are alarmed at the rapid spread of a
contagious skin disease called Italian
itch" 1t is occasioned by the presence
of a minnie parasite traced to imported
German laborers recently employed III
this neighborhood, and affects all classes
alike in neighborhoods where aliens
have worked. Notes and coin are said to
be the most frequent medium for trans
mission, first from Italians to shop
keepers, and then to the public generally.
The soft parts of the skin between the
fingers and about the wrists and elbows
are most frequently affected. In adults
it is never found on the face or scalp.
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ROASTED TO DEATH.
WOrkmen Surrounded by a Wall
of Blazing Naphtha.
TWO OF THEM BURNED IN 4
FRIGHTFUL MANNER.

The Board of Lady Managers of the
Worlds Fair Pass a Resolution De-
cIaring in Favor of the Closing of
the Fxposition on Sundays-Heavy
Storm Reported Along the New
Jersey Coast.
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mountain of coal in Wild Horse Val
ley, Wyo., has been burning for more
than thirty years.
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American Goods Carry the Day.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 6.-The Consul
General Of Germany at San Jose, Costa
Rica, has made an official report to his
Government, in which he says: ''There
is no doubt but that the extraordinary
endeavors which the American industrial
world, backed by the Government, is
making to increase trade with the Span
ish-American countries is meeting with
success. The difference in price, if any,
is more than compensated Tor by the at
tractive and handy get-up of the Ameri-
can goods.''
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Germany win Protect italians

BERLIN, Sept. 6.-The North German
Gazette says that at the request of the
Italian Government, Germany has under
taken to protect the Italians resident in
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A peculiar glossy and transparent cloth
is made from the fiber of nettles.
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Heavy storm on the New .Jersey Coast.

AsBURY PARK, Sept. Ga heavy rain
storm and high sea has caused much
damage along the New Jersey coast. The
bluff at Long Branch has been eaten
away in many places. At Seabrignt the
Highland Beach Railroad tracks are in
undated. In this village the streets were
washed out, and on the lowlands near
here the first floors of dwellings, were
flooded
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Absent-NIIuded. A

An absent-minded man created quite a sensation on Sixth street few even- ings ago, says the Cincinnati Enquirer. He was in store making purchase. The clerk who waited on him went down into the cellar where the goods were stored, taking a lighted candle with him. After securing it he returned and placed the lighted candle on the counter while he tied up the goods. He had hardly begun when the man threw down the money, and grabbing the can de, dashed out of the store to catch a passing cable car. He had almost caught it when the shouts of several boys made him aware of the ludicrous picture he presented, and he hastily returned to the store and profusely apologized to the clerk for the mistake he had made.
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Terrible Siberia.

Siberia has uo less a bad name for lawlessnesS than for climate. for con- victS escape from confinement during summer and prowl about preying upon the inhabitants. This is often done with the connivance of the police au- thorities. it is said. who not merely draw the allowance for the escaped convict but accept part of the spoil when he returns with the approach of winter. when no robber can live in the woods or on the road through the long months of severe frost. An attempt is about to be made to reform the adminis- tration, chiefly with the view Of sep arating the office of juge d'instruction, or examining judge, from police func- tionS. In each town and village of Western Siberia there is to be, accord ing to the proposal coming before the imperial council, a creation of justices of the peace. The present provincial tribunals will fulfill the functions Of court Of appeal, --
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4 SINGULAR WARFARE.

It Is Waged by the Nobility on Walters E.. Who Wear Mustaches.
 A Vienna dispatch to London paper says: A curious wager is at present oc- cupying the attention of such widely separated classes as our young noblemen and the Association of Hotel and Res- taurant Walters in this capital. Several of the young scions of the highest Aus trian aristocracy, who were accustomed to dine in an old hotel of high repute in the Karnthner Strasse, took exception to the practice of the walters, most of whom have seen twenty or thirty years service, in dressing their mustaches in just the same fashion as the noble swells" they had to serve. One of the high-born customers accordingly laid wager, which was immediately accept ed, that within a given time the Ob- jectionable adornment should disap- pear from the upper lips of the wait CTS in all the fashionable hotels and restaurants in Vienna, otherwise the proposer himself was to shave off his own establishment for given period.
 In order to effect his purpose, the latter commenced by trying to persuade the hotel-keeper in the Karnthner Strasse to forbid all his servants wearing mus. taches, on penalty of losing his aristo- cratic customers. In this case he suc' ceeded, but the walters, who were mostly married men, one after another gave notice to leave their places. They were at once replaced by younger men who, for consideration, submit ted to the imposed humiliation. The same thing happened in number ot other hotels and restaurants, and the wager was nearly won by the layer, when the proprietor of the Hotel Impe- rial, the first hotel in Vienna, fatly re. fused to comply with the whim of the Vienna jeunesse doree, whom he told outright that if they deserted his house he should readily find better customers. The case was also taken up ''as matter of right and honor," by the Association of Walters, which threatened to eXpel from the society any member degrad- ing himself by humoring aristOcratic caprice in this matter. Thus the matter stands at the present moment. The bet appears likely to be lost, and then will come the triumph of the walters, who expect soon to have the satisfaction of seeing their would-be dictatOrs, instead of themselves, going about with shaven lips,
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READS UPSIDE DOWN.
Curious Case of Perverted Vision in
 Pennsylvania Girl.

Curious ease CT ICrVcrteI ttSlOn m a
 Pennsylvania Girl.
 A very peculiar case of perverted vision has been presented to an oculist of York, Pa, says the New York Journal. X little girl of ten years, tic daughter of one of this city's most respected citi- zens, was discovered by her school teacher t. be unable to read her read ing exercise unless the book was helG upside down. The teacher immediate ly communicated the fact to the par ents, and they became very much worried.
 The oculist was called in and an eX- animation made of the child's eyes. They were found to be entirely normal. Tho only conclusion arrived at was that the strange freak of vision was the result of a habit of trying to read with the book pages in an unnatural position, habit contracted some years ago when the child was first sent to school.
 At this time the child in writing numbers upon slate always made them upside down. and as it was never observed or corrected she gradually drifted into the habit of reading the same way.
 The only means of cure possible is to teach the child every thing over again as tlou.ea she never lolew any thing before. This will be carefully done and cure of this really paeaom- enal case is aaxiously looked fer in the pear future.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-05-07
HEADS OF FAMOUS FReNCHMEN

How Some Great Characters Arc Judged
 by Scientific Measurement
 Scientific Paris is just at present en- thused over new fad, well known in America-the shapes and measurements of the heads of famous people, says the New York Journal. Among the recent experiments, made with measure such as is used by natter to shape hats to order, are some extremely curious re- suits. Of course the exact dimensions of the craniums of historic personages have to be secured from pictures and busts.
 One of the most irregular is that of Voltaire, which is almost pear-shaped, bulging out suddenly and offering curi- ous number of indentations. If this is the philosophical head-philosophy not unmixed with poignant satire and cynic- ism-then the legal cranium differs rad ically from it.
 Nj. Demange, one of the ablest crim- inal lawyers in Paris, the man who con- ducted with the most consummate skill the defense of the murderer Pranzini, has perfectly round head.
 General Le Brun might represent the military head, almost Oblong, but Gen. eral Ferron's, brave and capable French commander, is entirely round. The latter is prudent and cautious in his movements.
 Gambetta had very ordinary head, coming slightly to a point in the rear. This is the French political cranium.
 NJ. de Cassagnac has an enormous head, almost perfectly round, and quite ample enough to harbor all the differ ent feuds to which he has been party. If his head is to be taken as an illustra- ton of mbativeneSs, as shown in the numerous duels in which he has been a principal, then M. Henri Rochefort's, his rival in that regard, is almost the opposite type-rather long, narrow and of very irregular shape.
 The head that wears a crown, or rather should wear crown, if the Roy alists are to be believed, is narrow in forehead and almost regular in shape. The Due D'Aumale and the Due de Montpensier are similar in regard to the shape of the forehead, but the latter's is enormous in it's proportions. Marshal MacMahon is a combination of the military and the political-a nar- row forehead, small oblong head, a it- tie like Voltaire's, but of much smaller proportions. It is almost the same as that of Gambetta, but not so regular. A very small head is that of the Prince of Monaco, who has never distinguished himself in any particular; while a reg ularly long and narrow one, almost the fac-simile of foot, belongs to Osman Pasha.
 The French scientists believe that race and nationality have much to do with the shape of the head. The same military genius who in one part of the world has long, narrow head, in another part will be small and round. According to them the North Germans, Swedes, Norwegians and Russians are long-headed, deriving their origin from Eastern sources, while the South Ger mans, the Austrians, the Hungarians, the Swiss, the Irish, the French, being of Celtic origin, are round and broad in the shane of their oraniuDS
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TO CONVERT THE NoMADs.
A New Religious Order for Special Work in the Sahara Region.

A New Religious order TOT Speclal NOrk in the Sahara Region.
 Cardinal Lavigerie, who has done so much to abolish African slavery, has given his sanction to the formation of q new religious order having for it's special object the conversion to Christianity of the peoples in and around the Sahara Desert. The name of the new order, says the Chicago Post, is the Brothers of the Sahara. It is the purpose of this brotherhood to advance as fast as they can safely do so from oasis to oasis across the desert, and thus to be the advance guard iu pushing French in- fuence through the great regions which she has recently acquired. Thus far the Catholic church has been very unfortu- nate in it's endeavors to extend its mis- sionary work across the desert. Quite a number of it's missionaries who started to cross the Soudan have been killed by fierce nomads. This time the mission aries will not attempt to push forward any faster than it seems safe to advance.
 Their first religious establishment has been opened at Bisi1ra, in southern AL geria, where the members of the order are receiving preliminary training in languages and native usages so that they may easily carry on their work. They intend to receive under their roof all wayfarers, fugitive slaves, sick and infrm people who require either shel- ter, hospitality or medical care. It is hoped before very long to found branches of the order in Tugurt and Wargla, the next stages on the desert route.
 It is probable that the fierce Tuaregs who killed Mme. Time, the celebrated Dutch traveller, several other well known explorers and every missionary who has ventured into their territory, will soon cease to be the plague of the desert. Between the persistent mis- sionary influences that are constantly making headway, and the purpose of the French, in one way or another, to overcome the hostility of the Tuaregs, these fierce nomads will have an ex- ceedingly hard time of it if they do not cease their attitude of persistent hos tility toward every white enterprise that is pushed toward their country.
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IMPRISONED scHooLMAsTER.
The Hard Lot of an Aged German Pen
 Sioner.

SlOnCEs
 A Schoolmastern named HandOrf, sixty eight years old, was pensioned from a Mecl1lenburg estate twelve years ago, after having taught there twenty-seven years. His pension consisted of COW, a shaky little cottage, small parcel of ground on which to raise few bushels of potatoes and few small measures of rye The old man received nothing, however, toward the defraying of his daily expenditure for food, heat and light, and so it came about that he was obliged to go out on the highway as laborer for twelve and one-haf cents a day. In the heat of summer and the raw, wet days of fall he has for many years worked patiently and uncom- plainingiy among rough men who were formerly his scholars, enduring without q word the taunts and reproaches of an unfriendly inspector, On the second and fourth Saturday of every month he mas stood in line with the other labor CTS, his wage-book in his hand, and waited his turn to receive the paltry sum due him. Twelve years of the old mans life have passed thus. He has passed his eightieth year, and is without a prospect of better fortune,
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INDIAN AND COMET.
The Former Accounts for the Latter to
 His Entire Satisfaction.

The Former Accounts for the Latter to
 His Entire Satisfaction.
 During the year the last comet was streaming in the sky l was camping one night in canyon near the foot of Cooks Peak, N. NJ. In the party was an old acd-for an Indiana fairly in- telligent Ute named Sam. Sam had been attached to some cavalry troop at Fort Cummings as a scout, says the Kansas City Star, but his day of leav- :1g the service being reached, he at tached himself to me-for a considera- tion. Pointing to the comet, I asked Sam what he could say in its defense frcn the standpoint of a Ute. Sam was, unlike most Indians, a good single handed talker, and could speak English very we'll He was ambitious to perfect himself in tho language and readily seized on every chance for ''tallz." h. decd, discovered him on one or two oc- casions all alone end talking vigorously at mark lie q savage Demosthenes sans the pebbles.
 Tell about that?" said Sam, pointing toward tlC comet. Sam do 1t heap easy. you bet. The sun is the man and he have moon for squaw. The stars big stars and little stars-all are their children. The sun don't like 'em and classes 'cm. If he catch ono he eats it. This makes the stars heap 'fraid, and when tAc sun has his sleep over and comes cut the stars run and hide. When the sun comes stars 90; creep into holes and hide Eyt the moon is good. She loves her children, the stars, and when the sun sleeps she comes out in the sky and the stars are glad, and they come out of the places they hide in and for get to be 'fraid and play. But when the sun wakes again they run. He is al- ways after them, and he catches them sometimes. This one," continued Sam, again pointing at the comet, ''the sun catch one time. He got away, though, but the sun bit him and hurt him. That's why he bleed so. Now he's heap scared, and so he keeps his face always toward the place where the sun is sleeping"