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ANNUAL oPENING

EXHIBITION OF XMAS NOVELTIES
II and fancy necdleworlS, MONDAY, TUES
DAY and WEDNESDAY, November 10th,
17tn and 18th at MISS L. SCHUBERTS
1014 Eighth street. 1t*
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RrrrtuI 3ltnffrea. .

To SHIPPERS via SUNSET RoUTE.-Here-
after SUNSET SPECIAL service from san
francisco will be tri- weekly, leaving TUES
DAYS, THURSDAYS and SATURDAYS.
Shipments from sacramento made on same
days viii make close connection with specials.
c. j. ELLIS, Agent.
Sacramento, November 5, 1891. n6-tf
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PAINLESS EXTRACTION OF TEETH by
use OF local anesthetic. DIR. WELDON, Den
tist, Eighth and streets.
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PACIFIC HOTEL

Corner K and Fifth Streets, Sacramento.
CENTRALLY LOCATED AND CONVF.N.
~ lent TO all places OF amusement The best
family hotel in the city. The table always
supplied with the best the market affords.
Street cars from the depot pass the door every
five minutes. Meals 80 cents
@. z. SINGI ,ETON PrOprietnr
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ztc,u Advertisements.

WATCHES, Diamonds and Jewelrv.
UNCLE IKES. 3o2 street.
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A CLOTHESPIN PARTY.-A CLOTHES
"A pin party will be given by Sumner Re
lief Corps, No. IL, THURSDAY EVENING
November 10th. at Changers Hall. Short lit
erary entertainment; dancing at s 30 n11-2t
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DR.. PARKINSON

TTAS REMOVED HIS RESIDENCE TO
II southwest corner Fifteenth and II streets.
Telephone III. n1o-1m
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SKATING RINK,
Did Pavilion, cor. sixth and Nj Streets.
now OPEN FOR THE WINTER SEASON.

THERE WILL BE EXHIBITIONS DUR
i ing the afternoon and evening. Music
every Wednesday and Saturday evenings.
The Rink has been entirely renovated, re-
fitted, refurnished and supplied with new
skates. Disreputable characters not admitted.
The Rink will be open all day.
o21-tf j. NJ. SULLIVAN. Proprietor.
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AN UNFINISHED PORTRAIT.
An Omission That Was Supplied by Kin


An Omission That Was Supplied by King
Philip of Spain.
The most important painting executed by
Velasquez toward the end of his career. and
by some considered his masterpiece, was
the large group at Madrid known as "The
Maids of Honor" Into this painting We
lasauez introduced a portrait of himself
working at an easel. King Philip was
nightly interested in the progress of this
picture, and visited the painter daily dur
ing its production. At length. during one
of these visits, ValasQuez laid downs palette
and brushes and declared the painting fin
ished.
Not quite" said the King; lone detail
is lacking" and taking up brush he began
to work on the portrait of the painter.
With a few touches he Sketched on his
breast the cross OF the order of the order OF
knighth0Od OF Santiag0, one Of the highest
hon0rs it was in his power to bestow.
The life of Velasquez was one singularly
devoid of adventure, almost of event. he
was born, be married. he came to Madrid
and was well received by the King, he made
two journeys to Italy, and he died. Ii
there was much more than this to tell of
him, it has not been told, and the catalogue
of his paintings is the most important part
OF his biography. Still. if the record is
slight one, the man 1t discl0ses is Of an
eminently pleasing and complete person.
atty.
His close friendship with the whimsical
King, which extended over a period of
thirty years, and was seemingly unshadowed
by any difference, except Philips unwilling
ness to part with him when he wished TO
sail for Italy, suggests a quite exceptional
discretion and loya6leness in him. When
the ambitious arrogance of Olyares became
too much for Philip TO bear and the great
Minister was degraded, the Court painter
insisted on keeping up friendly relations
with the man who had befriended him in
early life, probably not without risk to him
self of loss of royal favor. Though his
powers were, from the first, admitted with
out question, Velasquez. when criticism
came his way, took it with modesty rare
in any age.
"Some of the painters tell me-" said
Philip to him one day, that your pictures
are unequal, and that you only paint heads
really well"
'"They are mistaken, SIRE" replied Velas-
Quez; no one paints heads really well.
One of his signed portraits of the King
received some rather severe criticism, and
was pronounced a falling off. Neasquez
calmly painted the figure out and altered
the inscription to "YelasqueZ implanted
this" He died at the age of 81, after brief
illness. The Kings confessor attended him
in his last moments, and his body lay in
state in the gorgeous robes OF the Order OF
Santiago. His wife, the companion Of
nearly forty years Of his life. survived him
only eight days, as though his strong and
sweet personality had sustained her life
The Nineteenth Century.
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THE SILK SPIDER.

A Web So Strong That a Thread of 1t
VIII Hold Mans Hat.
DR.. Walsh reeounts that in his travels
through Brazil he came across spider which
he named Arenca macalata, and which Is adj
miraby adapted for siIk-produeing pur-
poses. Far from deyouriug one another,
after the voracious manner of their Euro
pean relatives, these spiders live in little
communities apparently on the best of
terms. They are of enormous size and
spin a yellOwish web, the threads OF which
are fully as thick as ordinary silk. The
size and strength of these webs are shown
by the following statement made by DIR.
Walsh: SIN passing in an opening between
some trees felt my head entange in some
obstruction, and on Withdrawing it my
light straw hat remained behind. When
looked I'D / SAW 1t suspended ia the air en-
tangled III the meshes of an immense cob
web, which was drawn like veil of thick
gauze across the opening, and was ex-.
banded from branch to branch Of the OPP
pUsite trees as large as a sheet ten or
twelve feet in diameter" The doctors ac-
count of the huge web spun by this spider
has been confirmed by observations OF
other travellers, one of whom states that he
has seen single web which completely en-
veloped a large lemon tree. Spider SILK
such as this is produced in other parts Of
the world besides Brazil
OptdhlnS VI TIC SfiOtIS III ttlIOHp OH D.
E. Tenant says: "Their webs, stretched
from tree to tree, are SO strong as TO cause
painful check against the face when nov
ing quickly against them, and more than
once in riding have had my hat lifted off
by single thread" Presumably the spider
of whose web Sir j. L. Tenuant speaks in
these terms is the same one that is described
by Sir Samuel Baker in one of his writings
about Ceylpn. He says that it is two inches
in length, and spins web two or three feet
in diameter, the threads of which are SO
strong that if a ~alking-stick is thrown
among them il remains suspended. Mr.. f.
w. Burbidge tells Of another spider, black.
yello spotted, and measuring six or even
eight inches across the extended legs, which
spins silk of the thickness of ordinary sew
ing cotton. Though nothing is said about
the socisbility of this creature or of the
spiders of Ceylon, it seems we'll within the
bounds of possibility that at no very dis
tant date spider silk may become recog-
nized material in the textile market. Per-
haps the enormous success which Mr.. Lis
ter made of alpaca may be emulated by
some one who manages TO acclimatize these
silk-produeing spiders.-Longman's Maya
zine
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THE ORIENTAL
CITY OF DELHI.
Scenes and CuTioSitGS That Attract
Attention Of Strangers.
The Walls With Gircuit of Seven Miles.
The Seven Great Gates = The Imperial
Palace at the End of the Boulevard

The present city of Delhi is built in
Oriental style. with narrow streets and such
houses as one will see throughout the East,
writes contributor to the ST. Louis Globe
Democrat. The circuit OF the walls is over
seven miles. and there are seven great gates
and five smaller entrances through the walls
into the city.
In general. the streets are not proposes
ing, being, with two exceptions, narrow and
overshadowed by the projecting second
stories Of the houses. There are, howe
two bouleyards wider than even most Eu-
ropean or American streets, and On these
some of the principal buildings of the
METROPOLIS are located. The leading at
traction to the stranger is the imperial
palace, at the end of the principal bOule-
ward. Jehan's palace was a vast mass of
buildings constructed at an enormous cost,
for the walls were first built of granite and
then overland with marble, at every avail
able point carved into lace work of Won
drous beauty. The imperial quarters served
the purpose OF citadel as well as of a
palace for the principal buildings We're in
closed by a great wall, the gateways through
which were protected by outworks, towers,
bridges and moat. Though at present in
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TENNYSON AND THE BIRDS.
The Way Ee Refers to Them in Hi
Poems and Sonnets,

The Way He Refers to Them in His
Poems and Sonnets.
Among birds which occur most fire.
quently may be mentioned the cock, the
dove. the swan, s. in among the stars" or
flutng wild carol ere her DEATH" the
hawk and the eagle. The latter is. as usual
in poetry. employed to symbolic dominion
and lofty aims and we do not know that
there is any thing special in the poets
treatment of the king of birds. He is re-
ferred 10 in sonorous verses, such as:
The crane. said may chatter of the crane,
The dove may murmur of the dove but l.
An eagle, claug an eagle to the sphere.
And again:
Shall eagles not be eagles wrens be wrens?
Ii all the world were falcons, what of that:
Passing from the king of birds to the
king of beasts. we are at once reminded of
that tremendous smile:
Slowly comes hungry people. as a lion creeping
Glares at one that mods and winks behind a
slowly dying fire.
And it is interesting 10 note that long after
Lock sley Hall was written in Tire
sias " the Demon is eontemptuously conf
pared by that seer once again to the lion:
To cast wise words among the multitude
Was hingng fruit TO lions.
This may or may not be a faneied perma-
ntnee of the poets impressions. Before we
leave mountain and desert we may hear,
with Jephthah's daughter. ''the lion roaring
from his den," and then, descending with
the anonymous darling of the shepherd. We
may ''let the wild, lean-headed eagles yelp
alone"
The lion appears in heraldry on Launce-
lots shield, and ''elasped by a passion
flower" on Maud's gate; we hear of French
eagles flying over the Pyrenees, and of
Roman eagles barked at by the British
raven. And. lastly. the term ''liOn" is ap-
piled to Sir Richard Granville in The Re-
yenge";
The lion there lay dying, and they yielded to the
foe.
Other persons, however, are not quite so
complimentary referred to by the names
of animals. Maud's brother is the ''oiled
and curled Assyrian bull, )" and her father Il
lean, gray wolf; the Spaniard are dogs
of Seville; the sepoy pioneer, "a murder
Gus mole" tbut not in this case -four
handed one); robbers are in the 'ldyls"
called wild bees" and wolves, Of woman
born; and we find a minstrel referred TO as
gray cricket" ehirping by the hearth
The Cornhill Magazine.
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CHAPTER III.


A subdued and lOng-drawn half sigh,
half groan. burst from the assembly. An
ton PetrOvitch had not come. knew it be-
fore all the others, for the wrinkled hand
of the intruder with Its strangely shaped
nails was rs well known to me as my own.
needed not to await the appearance of the
mans body wrapped in its rude and torn
sheepskin.
Uncle Fedia," murmured to myself as
the peddler stepped quite within the court
room and closed the door behind him. l
was closer to him than any one in that great
hall, so close that my sensitive nOstriIs
caught that same odor of which Eve already
spoken. He saw me and his lips moved,
and although | whispered Uncle Fedia,"
yet lie seemed not to hear me. His small,
deep-set, sparkling eyes were riYeted upon
the three Judges for a moment, and then
they glanced timdly at Akoulina and her
children, and as was looking him straight
in the face | could see that his scanned and
bearded c0untenaDce softeled and that his
eyes we're lighted up with the same kindly
CLEAN with which he had SO often looked
upon me when l spoke friendly word to
him.
The voice of the presiding Justice now
sounded deep and full throughout the court
room, warning the asSemblage to keep ST.
lent, and then the magistrate took up pa
per. He was about 10 pronounce sentence
upon Akoulina. My quick, keen sight de-
tected the tremor of his hand, and / even
saw him tighten his grasp upon TIE d0cu-
ment as il TO check this telltale display of
feeling.
Then turned to Uncle Fedia. Cap in
hand he stood, there, with open mouth and
vacant stare, anxious, irresolute, aba shed.
One instant his eyes were fixed upon the
eruetix, the next they wandered to Akou-
lina's children.
Then, 10 my amaZement, he stepped for
ward, slowly and carefully, with notions of
stealth, bending this way and that to avoid
jostling any one AT length he reached the
clear space IN the aisle leading to the rallied
inclosure. AS lie did so, he quickened his
pace, bounding forward with the same bend
in bis body that l had often observed when
he WAS escaping from the insults and mis-
sileS of the street urchins. As he reached
the railing. he fell upon his knees, crossed
himself devoutly, and, then rising. stood
boldly upright with his eyes fixed upon the
face of the presiding Justice.
The magistrate had begun to pass sentence,
but the murmur and stir of the assembiage
at this strange interruption brought him to
a sudden standstill He looked up, he laid
the paper down and his face hardened In
frown as he recognized tie peddler.
What do you wish?" were the words
which the Judge spoke in slow and solemn
cadence.
Uncle Fedia twisted his cap in silence for
au instant, then moistened his lips with his
tongue. as If trying to golp down something
which clggged his speech.
Your H0Dors. crave your forgiveness.
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learning of the scholars, but proved. when
finally decphered, to be the records OF the
empire. The finest object on the plain Is
the Mausoleum of HoumayOuu, consisting
of great central dome surrounded Dy
groups of little domeS mounted on pill
lars. the whole inclosed by corridors
and arches. 1t stands in the center Of
vast cemetery. For miles around one NAV
wander among tombs and monuments. end
it is interesting to read on plain SLABS OF
marble or granite The most ilustrious names
in Indian history. Not far from the cemetery
are the remains of the observatory OF Jay
Sing. 1t is a cluster of buildings of i'm
mense extent and of every form known to
the geometrician. Many there are whose
use at the present time is merely connect
ural, but on the ground are laid off in
colofed marbles, squares, hexagonS. TIL
angles, and ali kinds of genmetrical figures,
which confuse the observer and cause him
TO wonder to what use these curious con-
struetions were placed. A volume would
not contain an account of the Interesting
objects TO be seen in the neighborh0od. The
Knutab Minar. a square tower overhaul with
coloied marbles, the palaces oil long line
of Enperors, the summer houses, the artl--
fetal grott0es, the caves, the tombs, the
mosques-ihe list is endless.
The Delhi of the present is ike any olner
Indian city; its streets are full VI busy life,
artisans and craftsmen plying their trade IN
the omen air
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bnt this woman is not guilty. | am the
criminal. 1t was l who set fire to the man
SION
A deep, full. long-drawn sigh OF relief
burst from the assem- blage as the peddler
spoke these words This NANTES alton
seemed to encourage Uncle Fedia, and he
repeated in louder and frmer voices
"Akoulina is innocent! | am the Grim
inalp'
The Judges held hurried consultation,
pausiDg ever and anon to glance at the
strange figure there before them. 1t was
apparent that they were inclined to regard
him at first as some harmless lunatic, but his
manner, his voice. both so strangely impress
sive, made such a theory impossible. They
called upon him to repeat his confession
and TO state his residence, his calling bls
name. AS Uncle Fedia calmly testified to
his own outlawry the sensation in the court
room was such as to call forth a warning
from the bench.
When summoned to give the details of his
crime Uncle Fedia's readiness, his frank
ness and his cOmDOSure carried conviction
| to the minds Of all. On the evening preced-
| ing the destruction of the mansion he had
| gone to the barn near the mill pond to seek
| shelter, and had met Akoulina with her load
of straw on her way to the house of Antoine
| Petrovitcb. Somewhat after midnight he
| had left the barn, and passing through the
| forest had crossed the fields and come to the
| rear Of the outbuildngs of the mansion, to
which he had set fire, knowing that the wind
! would throw the flames against the mansion
ITSELF He had long meditated this piece of
| revenge on account OF cruel beating which
| the owner of the estate had caused to be in
| ficted upon him. When confronted with
| the records of the preliminary examination,
| from which the clerk of the court now read
to him his repeated denials of guilt, Uncle
| Fedia for sole reply asked il pot of tar
had not been found on spot which he des-
| ignated with great particularly. He speci-
| fed the name of the manufacturer upon the
| label, and informed the court when, where
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SILVER COLLARS.

Two Centuries Ago They Were Put
Around the Necks of Slaves.
In the London Gazette for March, 1856,
there is an advertisement to the effect that
a black boy of about 10 years of age, named
John White, ran away from Colonel Krke
on the 18th inst. He has silver collar
about his neck upon which is the Colone's
coat of arms and cipher. He has upon his
throat a great scar" etc. a reward is
offered for bringing him back. In the Daily
Post of August 4, 1920, is a similar notice {:
Went away the 22d July last, from the
house of William Webb in Limehouse Hole,
a negro man, about 20years old. called Dick,
yellow complexion, wool hair. ABOUT five feet
six inches high, having on his right breast
the word Hare burned. Whoever brings
him to the said Mr.. Webb's shall have half
a guinea reward and reasonable charges"
Again, in the Daily Journal for September
%. 172S. is an advertisement for runaway
black boy. 1t is added that he had the
words My Lady Bromfield's black in Lin
coins Inn Fields" engraved on collar
round his neck.
The degrading custom of decorating male
and female slaves in England with collar
bearing the name and designation Of their
owners had the example set for ii in high
quarter. There still exists at Hampton
Court the bust of fayorite slave OF King
William III, the head of which is of black
marble and the drapery round the shoulders
and chest of veined yellow marble, while
encircling the throat is a carved white mar
BILE collar with paddock. in every respect
like dogs metal collar. In the Museum
of the ANTIQUARIAN Society in Edinburgh
there is specimen of those slave collars,
although in this case the wearer of the col
lar was not black man, but a white. The
collar bears the following inscriptions cal
exander Stewart. found guilty Of death for
theft, at Perth, December 8, 1701. Gifted
by tile Justiciaries as a perpetual servant to
Sir John Erskine of Alya." That a collar
was considered as essential for black
slave as for dog is shown by an advertise
ment in the London Advertiser for 1856, in
which Matthew Dyer, working. goldsmith
Westminster, intimates to the public that
he makes "silver padloeks for blacks or
dogs, collars" etc.-Chambers' Journal.
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liar tone of voice on the evening that my
father had turned him away from our door.
The officer now hurried his prisoner along,
and the door closed behind him.
Months, years, went by. L was spending
my summer vacation at home, when one
day as we were drinking tea in the garden,
the village priest was announced. The good
man didt't wait to see whether his visit was
agreeable or not, but followed the servant
into my fathers presence. He was laboring
under great excitement, and the moment he
could get his breath cried out:
Its Gods own actl oh, what won
derful thing has happenedW
81 know, | KNOW" replied my father in
his brsque manner, "the miller has been
killed by fall from his ladderr'
Yes, yes" exclaimed the priest, ''but
that's not the most terrible feature of it,
This man sent for me just before his death
and confessed an awful secret to me.
Father, said he, Pm miserable sinner.
1t was who burned the Iyanofka mansion
six years ago. TO revenge myself upon the
owner for having compelled my son to en-
list in the army
"'Why, my son. l exclaimed, 1t was the
peddler, Fedia, who committed that crime,
and who Is now serving his sentence In the
mines of Siberia
'"No. father answered the dying man !;
it was L. Uncle Fedia had slept in my
barn and had sold me the pot of tar which L
used to start the fire. think Fedia had his
suspicious, for on the morning Of the trial
he came TO my mill and said with a knowing
air: "a terrible misfortune will happen to-
day. They are going to condemn poor
Akoulina, who is no doubt innocent of this
crime" | breathed a fearful threat against
the peddler, and as he stood in great dread
of me he withdrew all in tremble. That
man was Gods own. Akoulina's awful
plight touched his heart, and he surrendered
himself to save her and her children. and /
-wretched sinner that l AMI held NV
peace. Father, try to have this awful
my soul. Will the good Lord pardon me p
Before | had time to grant him absoluton."
added the priest, "the wretch breathed his
last in an agony of dread at the fearful
peril threatening his SOUL
My father and l at once conducted the
priest to the Governor of the province. Let
tiers were dispatched to all the prison author
tiles OF Siberia, but after months of useless
correspondence the search for Uncle Fedia