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NO COUNTRY LIKE AMERICA,
The Traveller Who Goes Abroad Doesn'
Realize What He Misses.

Inc traveller VINO Goes Abroad DoeSn, t
Realize What He Misses.
1--WE been knocking around the world
a good deal since l was boy" said a
veteran traveller just returned from a
winter in Florida, land of late wears
have confined my peregrinations to the
limits of my own country. l find you
can get any kind of climate in this
country you want winter or summer
You can get it hot or you can get it cold
can get it moist or dry-of low or high
altitude-and you can get it intermediate
all within reach Of the rail or boat, of
pOstot1ice or telegraph. And you can get
and entertainment you can find abroad.
There are healthful natural waters every
where that will compare taYorably with
like waters abroad for medicinal purposes
in alleviating similar suffering.
- on can't name single disease that
yields to foreign treatment that cannot
be equally well treated at home. You
can't name single spring at any Eu-
ropean watering place that we cannot
produce its counterpart of the same prop
critics, and we can produce more wonders
in the curative line of waters in a single
State than can be found in any foreign
country. So far as these magnificent
gifts Of nature are concerned, therefore,
our own land is superior to any other.
should go abroad at all.
1.-The other features-the poetry of the
past, the historic interest, the society
all these we have, but in very limited
way. Compared with the other Eu-
ropean countries in these respects we
have practically nothing. Yet there is
enough historic interest in the United
States to keep a good many of US pretty
busy. | believe in travel. I believe
in travel abroad, but not to the
neglect of our home attractions.
From what l know of the for
eign migratory crowd, nine-tenths of
them never saw anything, and four fifths
of them don't know anything about the
attractions of their native land. Going
abroad is a fad, largely-a fashionable
fad. AS soon as Americans scrape little
money together they begin to go abroad
10 spend it. Mind you, l think every
body who can afford it ought to enlarge
his ideas by foreign travel, but let our
people enlarge their ideas first as TO the
extent and varied grandeur of their own
country"
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PETTY CRIMINALS,
Judge Cravens Disposes of Quite a
Batch of Them.

Judge Cravens Disposes of Quite a
Batch of Them.
In the Police Court yesterday a num-
Der of minor cases came up for hearing
and were disposed of as follows:
Theodore KIebs, charged with being
drunk, could not deny the allegation. He
thought, however, that he had not been
rs drunk as he could have got. The court
thought he had been drunk enough to
earn five days in Jail, in which he could
think it over.
Frank Hold, recently from Knights
Landing, had been drunk, too. He had
had a fine old time, which the Judge
thought was worth at least $40 or five days
in jail.
y. Tilton was arraigned for petty
larceny, IN having stole a bale of hay
from Fong Hop, worth 81 10. Tilton
pleaded not guilty, and had his case con-
unued until to-day.
Charles Johnson, charged with va
grancy, demanded lawyer, a Jury trial,
continuance, and wanted the best citi-
zens of Sacramento summoned to testify
to his character. His motion for Jury
was denied, but he was given until next
W wednesday 10 prepare his defense.
A. James, who acknowledged being
crazy drunk at Second and i streets, did
not remember What he had done. He
was informed that he had disturbed the
peace and quiet OF that free and easy
locality and destroyed considerable glass
ware and other property. He was given
sixty days in the County Jail.
George Ault was arraigned for the en-
beZzlement of $40 from one ~ Spinks
Spinks charges that he gave Ault an or
der to collect the money from the railroad
company for him, and that Ault used the
money and failed TO make a settlement
with him.
City Attorney Hart submitted a bill
from Constable Brissel for ST 80 for the
arrest of Ault. Although he met the man
three miles outside of the city limits on
the Freeport road, his bill called for
mileage for thirty miles, the hire of a
conveyance and other perquisites.
Hart thought that the county would re-
fuse payment of the bill. and stated that
there was no provision for such cases by
which the police could be paid for going
outside OF the city limits.
Judge Cravens thought some one
eli9aia DC psa for making sueh arrests,
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Administrators Sale Of Real Estate.

NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN THAT IN
IN pursuance of an order OF the Superior
Court OF the County of Sacramento, State OF
California, made on the 29th day of April,
1892, IN the matter of the estate of BARNET
BAKER, deceased, the undersigned, the adj
mlnlsuatOr OF the estate of said deceased will
sell at public auction TO the highest bidder or
bidders, Tor cash in gold coin of the United
States, and subject to confirmation by said
superior Court, on SATURDAY, the 2Sth day
OF May, 1892, at O'Clock p. M, on the prem
County OF sacramento, State of California ali
the right, title, interest and estate of said Bar
net Baker at the time of his death and all the
right, title and interest that the said estate
has, by operation of law, or otherwise ac-
CURED since his death, in and to all that GER
tain lot, piece or parcel of land, situate and
being IN the County OF Sacramento State of
California, bounced and described as follows
TO wit: About one acre of land in section five
ana bounded on the north by the lands OF
George A. Smith, on the east by the lands OF
Levi FAINTER, on the south by the lands of
Frank Nunes and on the west by the Sacra-
iaento River being the north half OF the same
land conveyed by deed to Mrs, G. A Baker
from Hilder Char otLe Anderson, and recorded
IN BOOK ii OF Deeds, page 3O4, Sacramento
County Records.
Terms and conditions of sale Cash, gold
coin OF the United States; I o per cent. of the
purchase money to be paid to the undersigned
on the day OF sale, balance on confirmation of
sale by said court Deed at the expense OF
purchaser. GEORGE +. BRONNER
Administrator of the Estate of Barnet baker
deceased.
w. A. GErr, ATTORNEY for Administrator.
Dated April 20. A. y. $50. rnY5-td
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SURGEONS PRBOOOITY.
His First Evangelizing Work Don
When six Years Old.

His First Evangelizipg Work Done
When six Years Old
The Rev. Charles Haddon Spurgeon,
the famous English Baptist divine who
died recently, revealed in his childhood
the characteristics which he showed in his
latter life. Few cases Of such precocity
in religious work are on record.
He became the regular pastor of the
Baptist church or ''chapeln at Water
beach when he was IL years old, and went
to London to take charge of an important
city congregation when he was l9.
His first evangelizing work was done
probably, when he was six years old. At
that tender age he heard his grandfather,
a Congregational minister, lamenting the
habits Of one of his flock, who was often
found drinking beer in public house.
Before long little Charles informed his
grandfather that ''old Rhodes would
never grieye poor grandfather any more"
What do you mean. child?' said the
minister.
81 have not being doing any harm,
grandfather" said the six-year-old; i've
been about the Lords work, that is ALL"
The mystery was presently explained
by 'Old Rhodes himself. He had been
sitting in a public house when a small
child came to him and said:
what doest thou here, Elijah, sitting
with the ungodly? You, member Of
the church, and break your pastors
heart Pm ashamed of you / would not
break my pastors heart, l am sure"
Rhodes was angry for moment, but
came to the conclusion that the child was
right. He went and begged the pastors
pardon, and gave up going to the public
house.
When he was Is years old he was in
yited to preach an anniversary sermon
for q neighboring octogenarian minister
who had heard of him, but who had never
seen him, and who had no idea that he
was so young man.
When the old minister at last saw Spur
geon he lost his temper, for it seemed to
him that the anniversary would be
spoiled.
Tut, tut! a pretty kettle of fish ~ he
exclaimed. Boys going up and down
the country before their mothers milk
is well out of their mouths 90
In the pulpit the boy preacher read the
sixteenth chapter of Proverbs, and upon
the verse, 1.-The hoary head is crown of
glory if it be found in the way OF right
eousness.' delivered a little homiIy upon
uncivil tongues in hoary heads, and de-
clared that rudeness brought no glory.
The aged minister was present, and for
wonder took the rebuke in very good
part. He was indeed delighted and was
thereafter great admirer of Mr.. Spur
geon.-Gouth's Companion.
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and said he would take the bill into cor
sideration.
BRIEF NOTES.


1t was hot enough here yesterday, but
the Eastern visitors got it worse down
south.
TT. Rev. Bishop Wingfeld will visit
sacramento Tomorrow and confirm a
class at st. PauPs Church at the IL A. M.
service.
The issues involved in the case of Paul
n. =, Horst and others against r. j.
merkley and others have been compro-
missed and the case dismissed.
Judgment for 81, 249 was rendered by
the superior Court yesterday in favor of
plaintiff, in the case of Wood IL Co.
VS.. William and Thomas B. Muir.
number of the visitors yesterday
called at the RECORD UNION office and
inspected the new Goss perfecting press,
Bessie" with which they were charmed.
George f. Bronner, the Public Admin
lstrator, has returned from Carbonate,
Amador County, He was obliged to
hasten his return in consequence of hav-
ing been bitten on the hand by spider.
The prevailing spell of weather is re-
sponsible for new meteorological term.
Henceforth this kind of weather will be
referred to as "editorially" hot, and the
new word Will express it just as well as
the one heretofore in use.
a new paper called The Wonder has
made its appearance, edited by A. B. San
born. 1t claims to be devoted to the in
terests OF the Alliance, organized labor
and the Grange, and has absorbed the
1rddeSnlGn. The publishers are an
nounced as @. A. Jenkins and A. A. krull,
Managers; Charles Camp, Secretary
treasurer,
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ROTTEN ROW" AT WASHINGTON.
Two Years. Attempt at It's Establish
ment Not Yet Successful.

The ultra-fashionable people of Wash
ingt0n have been endeavoring for year
or so to establish an American Rotten
Row at the Capital. The idea is to utilize
the broad driveway which encircles the
white lot' and the monument south OF
the executive mansion, and to have the
accompanying and all-neceSsaSy bridal
path on the edge of the road while
the sight-seers perch on the stone
coping of the iron fence surrounding the
White House grounds. The first attempt
to bring the small folks together to see
and be seen was made last fail. President
and Mrs. Harrison were induced TO use
the driveway one afternoon with the big
white horses and roomy carriage at 4
O'clock, and all those who had received
gentle tip were expected to be present
with their tidy turnouts. A large num-
Der responded, and for two Saturday
evenings they made quite brave show
ing. The effect of the exhibition was some
what marred by the presence IN the line
of milk carts, truck wagons, bicycles,
trlcycleS, and other ancient and modern
vehicles, and the fact that less than half q
dozen ladies and gentlemen appeared on
horseback.
Nothing dauuted, however, the leaders
of the movement to afford new diver
sion for the gay world are at it again.
Saturday afternoon a week ago another
meet took place, and while there was
sprinkling Of dogcarts, drags, victorias,
ETC., the outpouring could not by any
courtesy be called a success. Thinking
that possibly Saturday was not a mascot
day, the word was passed that the second
trial of the season should be made last
Saturday afternoon from 4 to o'clock.
Nature was against the devotees of
fashion, however. The thermometer
stood little over So, the sun shone from
the western sky like a big disk of bur-
nished copper straight into the faces of
the occupants of the carriages, the dust
from the red clay roads, unwatered for
lack OF an appropriation, blew about in
clouds, and things were disagreeable
generally. There is very little shade
about the White lot, and the eager spec
tators of the promised display Of hand
some women, fine horses, modern equip
ages and Paris gowns ana bonnets were
driven away by the excessive heat. They
would have been disappointed, however,
had they remained, Tor the number of
stylish turnouts was not large. a few
social leaders bravely faced the adverse
circumstances and drove about at the
conventional English pace, but they did
not seem to be having good time.
The mistake seems to have been made
of setting too early an hour. The sun is
as hot at in the afternoon in Washing
ton during the late spring and early sum-
mer months as it is in July and August,
and the absence of shade makes driY-
ing on the White lot roadway at that
hour anything but pleasant. Another
attempt Will pc made next Saturday
afternoon, but even the leaders most in
terested confess that the prospect of
Washington Rotten Row is not alto
gether tiattering.
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Established the one price and of marking all
goods in plain figures February 2, 1874, which
at the time was god-send to the working
class of Sacramento and hundreds of miles
away after a long struggle over it here in
Sacramento by the merchants to break it, and
found that they could not. 1t was adopted
by the larger ones, and spread over the State
like prairie fire, and to-day stands at the
head of our largest manufactures, wholesalers
and large retailers, and mimicked by the smaller
ones. To-day come before the mass of people
who will read these remarks to say this: am
positively going out of Clothing, Hats, Boots,
Shoes, and greatly reduce my Furnishing Goods
and Dry Goods. Cloaks and Wraps will be dis
posed of entirely; also my Dry Goods. That
which is termed Fancy Goods will be kept up
with my extensive Millinery Department, which
to-day is one of the largest retail departments
Oh the Pacific Coast, and does about as large
volume of business.
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Fnplish Fmbessadors

Lord Dufferin is only the eighth en-
bassador sent by Great Britain to France
since 1914, while the latter power has
been represented at the Court of st. James
by no less than thirty-eight men in that
period. The embassy itself, says the Lon
don NelGs, was bought by the Duke of
Wellington from the Princess Pauline
Rorghese for e24, 600 sterling, and is now
said TO be worth 100000. 1t was then
(in 1910 situated in what was called the
Quarter of the Marshals''-Suchet. Mar
mont, Sebastiani, General BeurnonvilIe.
and others having their houses in the
same street. THE Borghese mansion"
adds the NeJcS, was inhabited by the
Emperor of Austria In that year. With
the Palace of the Elysee il is the oldest
house in the Fauhourg Saint-Honore. On
map of 1870 the only buildings marked
between the Place de la Concorde and
the Round Point of the Champs Elysees
are the mansions of Everaux, now the
Elysee, and Charost, at present the Brit
lsh Embassy. This latter was built at
the beginning of the last century for the
Due de Charost, and in its fine throne
gallery and adjoining rooms Lord Duff
fern will hold his first reception of the
Tor. Dip!onlatique.n
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Little Things,

1t is curious to note that many things
which have turned out most useful dis
coveries for man, having a great in
tiuence upon the lives and destinies of
manklnd, owe their beginning to some
slight accident.
1t is said that the art OF printing took
its origin from some rude impressions
taken tor the amusement of childrenl
from letters carved on the bark of beech
tree.
Gunpowder was discovered from the
falling of a spark on some materials
mixed in a mortar.
The stupenduous results of the steam
engine may all be traced to the boy who
sat watching the steam which came from
the nose of the tea-kettle.
Electricity was discovered by person
observing that piece of rubbed glass at
tracted small bits of paper.
Pendulum clocks were invented after
Calico stood observing the lamp in a
church swinging to and fro
Inc telescope we owe to some children
of a spectacle maker placing two or more
pair Of spectacle glasses before each other,
and looking through them at the distant
sky. Their idea was followed up by
older heads.
Sir Isaac Newton was sitting in his
garden one day when he saw an apple fall
from tree. This common occurrence
set him to thinking why things should
fall down and not up, and this train of
thought led him to the discovery of the
law of gravitation.
Every enc can now appreciate the i'm
portance of the slight matters spoken of.
because the wonderful are now before the
world. But the beginning of these
things were treated with ridicule or con-
tempt. No matter how unimportant a
circumstance appears, it is quite possible
that great results may come from it. In
small building which was once Peter
the Greats workshop in Holland is the
inscription: Nothing is too little for the
attention of great man."-Harper's
Young People.
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THE KRRBS ESTATE.
1t is Ordered Distributed According to
the Deceased's VIII.

1t is Ordered Distributed According to
the Deceased's VIII.
In Department Two of the Superior
Court yesterday the will of the late
Charles II. Krebs was admitted to pro-
bate. w. a. Gett represented the devil
sees. The estate consists of the brick
store building at Seventh and streets,
and the brick building on Seventh street,
between ] and K streets, occupied by the
saloon Of a. d. Bulger, the jewelry store
of Q. Wilke and Guinn's barber shop,
while the upper portion is used for dress
making parlors-all of the value of SZ0,-
600; the residence at Twelfth and II
streets, of the value of 50, 900, and an in
terest in a small lot on Sixth street, be-
tween NJ and y, valued at $500. Also, life
insurance policies in the Pacific Mutual
for $4,000, Brooklyn Life of New York
1000, New England of Boston for IS, coo,
Covenant Mutual Benefit Association of
Illinois for s., l25, and a. o. U. w. for
5000. The deCeased's interest in the
business Of G. II. Krebs II Co., and other
personal property makes the total value
of the estate about $4,000.
The viii provides that, after paying all
the lawful debts of the deceased, the sum
of 81 800 be set apart for the improvement
of the family cemetery lot; that the wild
ow should have all the household goods;
that $500 be paid to Mrs. Eliza Rott of this
city, and 800 to Mrs. Julia BIaufuss of
Germany. The five life insurance poll
cies ($2S, 900 go to the widow and six chill
dren, the proceeds to be shared equally
between them.
The real property, valued at $50 600, was
left.to the children of the deceased, Laura
G. Krebs, Emma Z. Mier, franklin II i.
Krebs, Alice l.. Krebs, Lottie E. Krebs
and Harry @. Krebs, to be divided share
and share alike.
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WAS A QUEER PROCESSION.
Inc Carnival at Lille for the Benefit OF
Sufferers in Russia


A great festival has just been concluded
IN Lille for the benefit of the famine
stricken peasants of Russia. The princi-
pal feature OF the affair was the procession
OF the old giants that were sent there from
towns IN the north of France and in the
south of Belgium. The Gagant family
from Donai is probably the Oldest of all,
The date of the birth of the old fellow
himself is lost in the night ofages, but the
Time OF his marriage is duly recorded, as
are also the nativities Of his children. In
has native town he appears, like his
pfothers IN Flanders, once year during
the carnival. His great age has won for
MN the respect and veneration of all his
toWnsmen. Generation after generation
have admired his martial bearing; but
just where he came from nobody can tell,
because, according to the New York Sun,
the historians present rather contradict
DRY evidence. He is over seven meters
in hight, and holds in his right hand an
immense lance. He appeared in the
grand procession dressed in his old
coat OF mail, with a great purple
CLOAK thrown over his shoulders
and ON his head he wore a helmet
WIN an immense plume. In 1865
he was married, and shortly afterward
ne had the honor Of presenting himself
ana has good lady to Louis XIV, who
was then on visit to Donai. At the
least just ended at Lille the place Of honor
among giants was given to NJ. Gagant on
account OF his great age. In other words
he marched ut the head of the procession.
He was escorted by three delegations
from Donai, accompanied by the Fire
mems band, playing the old march that
often delighted his ears some centuries
ago, "Gagant en- avant!n Then came
Reusse-papa of Dunkerque, seated upon
Roman chariot; Argazon Nivelles,
whose costume embroidered with gold
dates back to the renaissance, and is
really beautiful work of art. The last
IN the procession was the Man Of Lon,
who for the past five hundred years has
figured in the annual carniyals of Soig-
mes. lie was mounted on white horse
and escorted by a hundred dragons.
All the old fellows appeared sound and
healthy. Time has had little or no effect
upon them. Some OF them are made of
oak and some of stone, and their faces
are washed only once year. With most
OF them the coloring was so admirably
done that it still holds its own and shines
as it used TO shine six or seven hundred
years ago.
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SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Sheriff Mulgrew of Sonoma was in the
city yesterday.
Senator Thomas Fraser was down from
Placerviue yesterday.
Y Chief of Police Rodgers is in San Fran
cisco, and will be absent until Sunday.
II. Porter Ashe came up from Fresno
yesterday with the editorial excursion
party.
Mrs. A. D. Tilton and Mrs. S. NJ.
Grimes have gone on visit to Suffer
County.
Mrs. DR.. Harvey went East on Thurs
day evenings train to be present at the
closing exercises of the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology at Boston, where
her son, Fred II. Harvey, will graduate.
She will also visit the Ogontz Young
Ladies' School at Philadelphia, where
her daughter Genevieve is pupil.
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Improved Tforseslloes.

The London General Omnibus Com
pany IS about 10 make a thorough trial of
an improved horseshoe, which is said to
have been subjected to severe tests on the
European Continent with very satisfac-
tory results. The idea, which is the in
yention OF trenchman named Pigot, is
very simple one, consisting merely of
the ahnXlng to the underpart of the shoe
OF two strips of cork, one on each side.
he cork strips" says a printed descrip-
ton, are held in position by two yery
thin sheet-Iron plates firmly fastened to-
gether by riyet. The outer edges of
these plates are slipped between the shoe
ana the hoof. The inner edges are turned
upwards, forming flanges, between which
and the inner edge of the shoe the cork
blocks are tightly fixed. Between these
hanges IS fitted a screwed bolt with nuts
at either end, so that when the nuts are
tightly. screwed against the fianges, the
whole Is perfectly immovable. In order
to hold the cork still firmer in position.
the corners of the fanges are turned
down over it, thus forming a couple of
sockets, into which the cork. which at
hrst slightly projects over the surface of
the shoe, is jammed and compressed more
firmly every day by the Weight of the
horse" These shoes are said to enable
the horse to obtain such grip upon a
slippery surface that slipping is almost
Impossible and straining is greatly di-
mlmshed. Inc Brussels Tramway Com
pany, after trying them for six months,
has adopted them for general use. The
extra expense is estimated at 81 80 a wear
for each horse, against which must be
put saving on the wearing of the shoe
and prolongation Of the life of the ami
mai.
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