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The record-union., 1893-09-16
Ia the Matter Of Reclamation District No. 34a

N1HE PETITION FOR TIE FORMATION
L of said district having heretofore been ap-
proved by this board, and the landowners Of
said district having heretofore adopted and
recorded their bylaws;
Now, on the application of JAMES s. FOS-
TER, a landowner OF said district, it is there
fore ordered
Thst an election be held for the purpose OF
eiscting three Trustees Of said district on
FRIDAY, October 6. 1898, commencing at
10 O'Clock A. NJ. and closing at o'clock P. N.
on that day, and that notice thereof be pub
lished N The Sacramento DAILY RECORD
UNION, q newspaper of general circulation in
said county, for one month, and that the
County Clerk sign said notice
And IL is further ordered that said election
be held on the ranoh OF Archibald J. Pack. in
a building thereon suitable for that purpose,
being situate in the south half OF swamp
Land Survey No. 301 OF Yolo County, the
same being on Sntter Island, Sacramento
County. Cal, and that Henry Cook be and he
Is hereby appointed Inspector. and Archibald
j. Peck apd Charles Hustler be and they are
hereby appointed Judges OF said election.
Attest:
TsEAL.l VIM. b. HAMILTON, Clerk
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No Jealousy.

First Chicago Man-Didn't you notice
a good deal of jealousy of Chicago while
in New York?
Second Chicago Man-Jealousy Why,
durn their skins! they amt got sense
enough to be jealous. One feller asked
me if we had street cars.
The record-union., 1893-09-16
OUR MILLINERY CASE.


that have been
exhibition doubt
preferred
goods well New
scotched the styles from those that imported
ners should
They
offer 100 Trimmed Hats
eight Miss
Adeock
The record-union., 1893-09-16
AT ROSTON.

Boston. Sept. / 5.-The Earl Fruit Company
sold California fruit ct auction to-day at the
following prices: Tokay grapes, So 1902 90;
haif-crates Tokay grapes, 81 35@1 70; Muscat
grapes, halfcrates. 81; BartIett pears, green,
So 60@2 so; Bartlett pears, ripe, 81 6092;
Orange Cling peaches, 75c@S1; Lemon Cling
peaches, 7O@S0c.
The record-union., 1893-09-16
CUTICURA WORKS WONDERS

Everything about these wonderful skin cures,
blood purifiers and humor remedies, inspires
confidence. They afford instant relief and speedy
cure of the most torturing and diSiguring OF
itching, burning, scaly, skin and scalp diseases.
They cleanse the blood ald skin of every erup-
ton. impurity and disease, and constitute the
most effective treatment of modern times.
The record-union., 1893-09-16

Sold throughout the world. Price, CUTrcURA.
50c.; SOAP, Csc; REsoLYENT, 81. POTTER DRUG
AND CHEM. Corr, SoAe Proprietors. Boston
R7- How to Cure Skin Diseases" mailed free.
The record-union., 1893-09-16
DREADFUL PSORIASIS
Covering Entire Body with White
Scales. Suffering Fearful.
Cured by Cuticura.

NV disease tpsoriasis) first broke out on my
left cheek, spreading across my nose, and almost
covering my face. 1t ran into my eyes, and the
altogether. 1t spread all over my head. and nv
The record-union., 1893-09-16

HgEEPLES, blackheads, red and oily skin pre-
IITI vented and cured by CUTIcURA SOAP.
The record-union., 1893-09-16
Eastern Grain Market.

NEW YORK, September 18th.
WHEAT-Septembe 1890; October, 1890;
November, 1890; December, 773Sc; May,
sage.
CHICAGO, September 18th.
WHEAT-Septembe 677zc; October, 6S1c;
December, 72c; May, 1876.
The record-union., 1893-09-16

Meat Market.
Following are the rates for whole carcasses
from slaughterers TO dealers:
BEEF-First quality, 5051ac; second quail
ity, 414(05 &c; third quality, 31Sl94c p b.
CALVES-Quotable at 4@5c for large anG
6@7c p D for small.
MUTTON-Quotable at 5@6c . b.
LAMB-Quotable at 6@7c p ID.
PORK-Live Hogs, on foot, grain fed, heavy
and medium, 5@54c; stock Hogs, 45zc;
dressed Hogs, 7@75zc p b.
The record-union., 1893-09-16

joseph Jefferson has written friend in
Cincinnati that he is much annoyed by the
reports in the papers about his illness,
especially about his having cancer, say
ing: II am afraid the public will fancy
that am making bid for its sympathy,
like the prima donna who loses her sum-
mer jewels previous to her fall engage
ment." He adds that he is doing some of
his best painting this summer.
The record-union., 1893-09-16

America, &C. Eastern Creamery, 2Oc; Linn
burger, zoe; Genuine Swiss, 4Oc; American,
25c; Martins Creamery, zoe.
EGGS-Fresh Ranch, Soc p doz.; Eastern,
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-10-21
A Giant Bee Expedition.

The expedition which the Department
of Agriculture contemplated sending out
some time ago to India for the purpose
OF procuring certain giant bees, which
are wild in that country, has not as yet
been dispatched. These are the biggest
species known in the world, and they
build combs in the forests six or seven
feet in length, which are found hanging
from the limbs of lofty trees or from
projecting lodges of rock at high alti-
tude The combs yield enormous guam
titles of wax, which is a valuable COM
mercial article, SO that many skilled men
make business of hunting for them.
The hunters, having superstitious fear
of the insects, attack them by stratagem.
Having smoked them out with bunch
of leaves on the end of long stick, they
cut away the combs, which, when re
duced to wax, find their way eventually
to warehouses in the cities, where tons on
tons of this material may be seen to
gether.
Sooner or later some of these great bees
will be fetched to the United States,
where it is thought that they could be
made to supply large crops of the finest
and most valuable wax. The fact that
the drones are no larger than the males
of ordinary species has led enthusiasts to
believe that they could be crossed with
the females Of stocks already accimated
here. Nevertheless, the practicability of
accomplishing this result must be re-
garded as very doubtful, inasmuch as
they are probably distinct species.
These wonderful insects from India
have longer tongues than are possessed
by other bees, and the belief is entertained
that they could secure from many kinds
of flowers honey that now goes TO waste.
No faith is placed in the remarkable
stories told of their extraordinary feroc-
ity and of attacks which they are alleged
to have made upon whole villages of peo-
pie with direful results. Dr. Frank Ben
ton, the bee expert employed by the De.
partment Of Agriculture, investigated
them in their native forests not long ago
and demonstrated that expert beekeepers
could easily handle them.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-10-21
What Chinese Epicures Eat.

A Chinese mandarin has forwarded
the menu of a banquet given at Picking
to the foreign diplomatists, the menu of
which follows: First came four classic
dishes, namely, swallow nests with
pigeon eggs, shark fins with crabs, dog
fish with wild duck, duck and cauli
flower; then succeed delicacies served
in cups placed before each guest; swal
low nests, shark fins, plain morris, vege-
tables, mushrooms with duck feet, fried
partridge, pigeon in slices then there
appeared four dishes, namely, ham in
honey, a PURGE of peas, vegetables and
dogfsh; four side dishes: haricot cheese
with bamboo buds "a kind of asparagus),
roots of bamboo, chicken, shelltish; four
hors d'euvres in duplicate; ham and
chicken, fish and gizzard, pork tripe
and vermicelli, duck and pork outlets.
Each guest had also placed before him
plates of almonds, pistachio paste, pears
and oranges. Finally, the following
were the roast and boiled meats: Suck
ing pig, roast duck, boiled chicken,
boiled pork. There was profusion of
European and Chinese wines. No opium
was smoked, for official China is not
yet reconciled to the drug which it
owes to the East India Company
[Asiatic Quarterly.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-10-21
Languages of Indians

In the recently issued seventh annual
report of the bureau of ethnology, Ma
j. w. Powell, director, comes to several
new conclusions about the North Ameri-
can Indians He holds that instead of
related dialects, originating in single
parent language, they speak many Ian
guages belonging to distinct families,
with no apparent unity of origin. The
population at the time of Columbus has
been greatly exaggerated. As compared
with the vast territory occupied and the
abundant food supply, it was very small,
and nowhere, save possibly in California,
had it augmented sufficiently to press
upon the food supply. Though the In
dams had overspread the whole of North
America, the Europeans found them in a
state of equilibrium. With the acquisi-
ton Of horses and firearms, but not till
then, many of the tribes became
nomadic Agriculture was generally
followed among the tribes of what are
now the Eastern United States, but
nowhere were its products sufficient to
emaucipate them wholly from the hunter
state
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-10-21

black pcpsin double the amount Of
butter can be made. A teaspoonful of
pepsin added to each gallon of cream
will combine in the form of butter much
that is thrown away in buttermik. But
the butter will not be so good as if made
in the ordinary way
ALEXIS CoLUMBrs, resident of
Buffalo, 1Ol years old, says he is lineal
descendent of Christopher Columbus
He as an interesting history, and the
data on which are based his claims for u
direct descent from the grert navigator
are numerous and convincing. 1t is
claimed that he is the great great great
great great, 'andson of the man who
discovered fmcrica.
EIEcTEIcSpower is already used as u
motor in farm work. An English cleo
trician, Mr. Bonney, says that current
of electricity passing through the soil
breaks up the salts, and i'll that way
nitrate Of potash. nitrate Of soda AVID
phosphate of lime may be brought into
forms easily available as plant food.
COLONEL r. G. Dyrcnforth the rain
maker in whom some Chicago capitalists
placed good deal of confidence, but
who failed to come up to expectations,
is still al enthusiast on the subject.
He maintains that it is possible by scicn-
tic methods to make rain even in the
Desert Of Sahara. He thinks that rain
making will eventually supersede irriga-
ton in arid parts of the country.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-10-21
Slavery In Siam.

Slavery has been abolished in name
in Siam, but it can never be abol-
ished in fact, for the slaves have
no means of supporting themselves
outside their masters houses Every
member of the Siamese upper classes can
fetter his servants or throw them into
prison without any kind of trial or per.
mission being necessary. One morning
| went to call upon one of the ablest and
most enlightened of the Ministers, a man
who has been to Europe, and who once
actually got into serious trouble for try
ing to inaugurate sort of woman,s
rights movement in Siam. made my
way by mistake into a part Of his grounds
where visitors were not expected, and |
found slave fastened down to the
ground in an ingenious kind of pillory
in which he could not move hand or foot,
while another slave tortured him with
severe strokes of bamboo rod at the
word of member of the family in order
to force him to confess to some mlsdeed.
1.-The Contemporary ReYisw.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-10-21

The destructive tornado in Iowa
calls renewed attention to this mystic
rious manifestation of Natures power.
which seems to be almost peculiar to
the West, and suggests to the New
York Tribune thata scientific inyestiga-
tion of its causes might well be under
taken by meteorologists. For it is
possible that if it's causes were known
something might be done to prevent
it, or, at any rate, to guard against it.
This last tornado was one of the worst
that has ever visited the West, and
caused great loss of life and proper
ty. 4 substantial fund has been raised
for the surviving sufferers, most of
whom have lost everything they pos
sessed.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-10-21
POINTS OF VIEW.

ooh, give me time" she, trembling, said,
"a little time to think it over"
He smie ed ard kissed her dropping head,
And yielded like tender lover.
"She's but a child" he unused that night,
s'Who shrinks from fate. afraid to test it;
She really seemed quite ia fight"
He little knew how near he'd guessed it.
"How shall break with Jack?' she noannd
Hes got my letters. Oh, good gracious
And Harry has my ring" she groaned;
"Ho'll keep it. too, he's so audacious.
"Was ever girl in such fix?
must get rid of VIII and Stephen,
And George, aud Archbald; that's six:
And poor, dear cousin Tom makes seven"
As thus she grievod in accents wild,
He said, while joy his features frightened
'Yes, she is nothing but child,
And that is why she seemed so fright
ened."
--lThe Club
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-10-21
Romance of an Orchid Hunter.

Orchid hunting leads to strange advcn-
lures. NJ Hamelin, the collector who
has sent home all the specimens OF the
Eulophiella EliZabcthn that have hlthcr-
to reached these shores, narrates in O
letter how he won a dusky bride and
moreover secured his preserves OF the
famous plant from all poaching on the
part of brother depredators or, more
cuphcmistically, plant collectors. While
searching the woods of Madagascar he
had for guide and hunter the brother of
the chief Mayombosa. This unhappy
guide had the misfortune to be SO
severely mauled by Madagascar lion
that he died and VI. IIamelin returned
alone to tell the tale. After the re-
cital the irate CHIEF gave the survivor thu
ontion of marrying the widow or being
creased and burned. lie chose the lesser
of two evils, but coupled with the mar
rjare contract an undertaking on the
mart of his brother-n law to close those
lands to all other orchid seekers. - Lon
don Telegraph.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-10-21
RELIABLE RECIPES.

BAKED APPLE PupDING.-Take the
yoIks of four eggs, six large pipplns
grated, three tablesponniuls Of butter,
one-half cup of sugar, the Juice and half
the peel OF one lemon. Beat the sugar
and butter to a cream, stir in the yoli
and lemon with the grated apples. Pour
this in deep pudding dish to bake.
Whip the whites, and then last crate
little nutmeg over the top. Eat cold
with cream.
LIvER-A very nice and tasty way OF
cooking liver is to cut it in slices about
an eighth of an inch thick, and to make
the dish look nice stamp the liver in
rounds with a pastry cutter, and season
it with pepper and salt; then entirely
cover with eggs and bread crumbs and
fry in clean, hot grease until nice
golden color. Fry some very thin slices
of bacon and arrange them between the
liver and poura thick brown sauce round
the dish, and unless you prefer the sauce
plain, you will find the addition of u
little gherkin and capers will improve it
very much.
THE PREMIUM SANDWICH IS made az
follows: Break fresh egg IN a bowl
and beat thoroughly; add one and one.
half cupfuls of sweet milk, salt spoon
full of salt and a table spoonful of melted
butter. Beat we'll and add lightly one
and three quarters cupfuls Of sittcd flour
mixed with one and one half teaspoon
fuls of baking powder. Bake in roll
shaped gem pans. When cool cut
lengthwise with sharp knife, which
will not crumble the crusts. Spread
thinlv with butter and cover with finely
chopped roast mutton, slightly salted.
The mutton must not be overdOne, but
3 tritle rare AS they are cut, lay the
two parts of each muffin next each other
so that they may fit when put together
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-10-21

1t has been stated that cheeses, bear.
ing the date of 1860, are still to be
seen in Switzerland. In some parts of
the country cheese forms the staple
food of the people, and the laborers
are often paid with it. There are no
fewer than $500 cheese making facto-
ries, and nearly 1900 tons are ex-
ported annually, the value of which is
over 100000. Exports of cheese to
the United States are about 5000, 900
pounds, at an invoice valuation of
500, 900.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-10-21

Census Bulletin 375 deals with the
white Baptists. The organizations
noticed in the bulletins are the regu-
lar Baptists, north and south, the
Primitive and the Old-Two-Seed-in-
the-Spirit Predestinarians. The mum.
Der Of the regular Baptists, north, is
returned as SCOOPS, while the reg
ular Baptists, south, number, 276,491.
The Primitive Baptists have 94,34s
communicates, and the Predestina-
rians, 9,932. The northern Baptists
have Ala associations, 1902 eongre-
cations and church edifces valued at
$40, 500,000 They are most numer-
GUS in the States of New York, Illi-
nois and Pennsylvania, where they
have, respectively, 129, I'll, 81, 2a7 and
83, 122 members. Massachusetts,. Ohio
and Indiana have each over $4,000
members. Among these are German
churches, which have conferences of
their own. The German churches
number 200, with 1900 members,
and there are about 200 Swedish
churches, with $4,000 members. Un.
der this head are included the regular
Baptists of Delaware and most of those
of West Virginia. The southern Bap-
lists have 565 associations, 2O6 organ
izations and 1912 church edifces.
valued at over $1S,0oO,oOO. Kentucky
has the largest membership, 153, 66S,
but North Carolina is wond erfully
close second with 1873, 64S; Georgia
has 1877, $50; Texas, 129, 1874; Missouri,
121, 1856. and Tennessee, 1885, max.
ing total in these six States of sO3,
SGT, or nearly two-thirds of the whole
number of members in the South.
Besides the Southern States proper,
there are churches in the Indian Ter
ritory, Oklahoma and Kansas. None
is reported from Delaware.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-10-21

Cholera infantuln is said to destroy
annually about forty thousand infants
IN the United States. This disease
stands sixth on the list of fatal dis
eases, and is largely instrumental in
producing the deaths of one half Of
the human race between the time of
birth and five years of age.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-10-21
"Go to Mexico" is the advice of the

$50 to Mexico" is the advice of the
Burlington w.t. Free Press. It says:
Gland is cheap, labor is cheap, and
all that is wanted is enterprise to make
the production of coffee in Mexico a
great industry. In the state of Chi
apas farm Of 10 acres can be bought
for $500, and 1900 quintals of coffee,
worth $35 quintal, can be raised on
it after the trees are three years
old"
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-10-21
Why Trees Attract Lightning.

No tree is entirely protected against
being struck By lightning WhSn the
atmosphere is ovcrcl,argcd with cleo.
tricity all Of item are liable to becoma
the aim Of some bolt, but the beech is
the one in the whole category of trees
that is more rarely struck than any
other.
Professor Holman, in his statistics on
this subject, says that lightning strikes
pine wood trees fifteen times oftener and
oak trees fifty-four times oftener than
the teech. This fact is very well known
to frequenters of timbercd regions.
Traces of lightning bolts are most fire.
Quently found on oak trees, while only
rarely are they found in the beech. Il
was thought at first that the condition Of
the ground had much to do with this I'M
equal distribution of lightning strokes OF
trees, but this is not the case. 1t is the
characteristic condition of the tree is,
self that accounts for it. Trees which
contain oily substances to high degree,
even in the summer, may be regarded al
comparatively lightning proof, whila
those containing glucose matter attract
the lightning more frequently. Dead
branches are very apt to increase this
danger. 1t need only be cited that acorns
are valuable because they contain fifty
five per cent. Of glucose matter and only
four per cent. of fat, while from the nut
of the beech, pig-nut oil is made St.
Louis Post Dispatch
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-10-21

The salary of the office of shipping
commissioner in New York, to which
ex-Judge Maurice J. Power has just
been appointed, is $4,000 year. It's
duties are semi-official. The commits
sioner stands between sailors and ship
masters and owners, supervises con-
tracts, calls upon the United States
district attorney to prosecute injustice
to seamen, and arbitrates certain
classes of disputes.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-10-21

Judge Pryor of New York believes
in jurors who read the newspapers.
In other words, he believes that in
twelve good men and true the law ex-
poets to find twelve men of at least
ordinary intelligence.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-10-21

4 returned tourist from Yucatan
says that he visited q deserted city
there which once had q million resi-
dents. The ruins Of stately buildings
show that the place was once a metro
nn1ia
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-10-21

More than half of the marriages in
Kansas last year were of colored peo-
pie, although this race constitutes only
one-twentieth Of the population.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-10-21
DIR. Keeiy i'm Memphis,

DIR. Keely, the founder of the Kee-
" Institutes, was in Memphis the past
week, and that city did itself proud
In the ovation given the world famous
doctor.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-10-21
St. Landry Democrat,
BY l. A. SANDOZ.
Opelousas, Louisiana.

France has the distinction Of being
the most carefully cultivated a9ricul-
tural country in Europe.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-10-21

The idea that this earth is slowly dry
ing up has quite setback by recent
announcement of the photographic
engineers that the Gulf of Mexico is
bne foot higher now than it was in
1850,
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-10-21

The Propaganda has begun negotia,
tions for the opening of two Catholic
seT::raries in Indie.