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The morning times., 1896-01-26

early in life the study of human affairs. We
must be where libraries are accessible;
where intellectual people assemble; where
talents are plentiful and varied. We have
not two or three highly intelligent beings to
cope with on each round of the ladder, but
thousands. We need the discipline or strife,
not bodily but intellectual, for physical wars
are nearly over, despite the Venezuelan bug
aboo, but mental ones will go on forever.
The great advantages of our cities, and
the enormous sums spent TO keep them in a
healthful condition are portrayed in figures
in the latest census monograph now ready
for distribution. 1t is an aftermath of the
regular reports, but the information con-
tained therein has not been given to the
public in any form. 1t relates to the social
statistics OF the 345 largest cities in the
United States.
IN RELATION TO CITY STREETS.
A vital factor in a city's welfare is the
size and condition Of its streets. AT present
they may be called the very lungs OF civiliza-
ton; therefore, too much time and money
cannot be spent upon them.
Two hundred and seventy-seven cities
sent fairly complete returns In regard to
alleys and streets, which extended over
43,s55 miles; 262 cities reported the
total of their paving, the aggregate amount
ing to 12,4 ,453 miles. New York city spent
an average annually during the last decade
of S1,024,161 for construction and re-
pair of her streets, and 81 ,075, 200 for
cleaning; 51.22 per cent of the money was
paid for cleaning. In this respect New
York ranks next to Newark, N. j., which
spent a larger per cent, 60, for cleaning
streets than any other city. Some imag-
-inative soul might turn from the record
of her death rate, the largest, proper
tionately, OF any large city-29.04 to each
1000 of population-to the picture of her
street brooms turning dirt and bacili from
the middle of the street to the borders,
where passersby get Il generous sprinkling,
and then strike an equation.
Chicago, Memphis, and Richmond pay the
smallest per cent for cleaning-2.46, 1.18,
and 1.51, respectively. They stand toward
Newark and New York somewhat in the
relation of svengali to Little Billee when
the former said TO the latter: what, you
bathei What fur you git dirty?' -
New Orleans spends $50. GOO for con.
The morning times., 1896-01-26
SHOP WINDOW LADIES.
Merchants Insist That Lay Figures
Shall Resemble Actresses.

The hIgh-5orn wax ladies in the shops
from Vienna TIE natives were compara-
lively plebeian; their complexious were
inferior and their hair wig-lise.
But within the last two years the art
and trade OF making wax figures has
been brought to a high degree OF perfec-
of them are used in the show windows,
and the fine, full-iength ones, even when
homemade, cost from S15O to $500 each.
The fine figures for the museums are still
more expensive.
Inferior figures were formerly copied
from one another or modelled according
to any slipshod device that suggested
itself. But now the two or three first
class wax EloGeicrs in the country all
roughly shaped first in a plaster mold.
worS from the living model. The head Is
its general proportions thus fixed, and
then the artist works up details with his
eye on the pretty girl he has hired to
pose for him. He does not patronize the
models that serve Academicians; painters
go in for the suggestive, the expressive,
what he wants FIRST and iiSt >ihool.
contours and graceful features. The young
Italian girls OF the east side furnish most
of his favorite types. He says they are
the most regularly pretty class in New
York. The hair in good figures is put
in hair by hair with a hot needle; it can
then be combed and washed and dressed
Just like human locks.
The dry goods SHOPS often like their fig
ures to resemble popular actresses. Ada
Rehan is n favnri;e with them. The artist
gets his likeness from photographs used
with the best model FER the purpose he eau
fe, F,.s
she markedly resepbles MoGjeska- Each
different manufacturer has private recipe
for compouuding his wax, and that secret
he will divuige to no one.
Papicr machc figures are much cheaper
than WAX. but are alsn much less admired
By the passing cruwds. Their woodeny hair
is their hopeless inferioriay, ard man is
now trying TO invent some way to put real
hair on them. The big dry goods dealers
pay large aud regular hair-dressing bills
for professional combing of the hair OF
their lay figures.
The morning times., 1896-01-26
STEERING A BOB SLED.

Women Now Wear BlOOmers and
Heavy Canadian Blanket Coats.
The big bob sled has this winter cut the
well-patronized toboggan off two years
of growth in popularity: at least. that is the
opinion of the new athletic woman.
She used 10 think tobogganing about the
bestfu TO be had in the way of sliding dowu
a snowy incline, and some OF her adven-
turous kind even tried to take these Indian
flyers over the most reckless looking hills,
hanging on behind and steering with the
right foot, but bloomers have changed all
that.
Boomers have made 1t possible for a
woman who likes outdoor fun to take the
captains seat on an eight-foot long bob
sled aud carry load OF screaming, excited
passengers down the longest incline at
Tuxedo Park. OF course, no woman can
do this who is weak Of wrist, uncertain OF
The morning times., 1896-01-26
INEXPLICABLE FOLLY.

So common has this sort OF folly become
About sa awmills that we have the homely
maxim, Don't monkey withth buzz-saw."
A couDtryman sits by the whirling circle
OF steel. 1t tmoves SO fast and so smoothly
that he scarcely believes that it moves at
all. The noise comes from the heavier
machinery that he sees moving slowly about
It. He knows better, but as if by fasci-
patton he is impelied to try the thing and
The morning times., 1896-01-26
Brooklyn.s saplent Policemen.

Some of the answers in the examinations
OF persons who wished to be policemen in
Brooklyn show that the applicants have
gathered together a vastamount of varied
misinformation. To the question, "Who is
Governor of New York; one OF the appli-
cants made answer, ''Grover Cleyeiand;;'
and to the query, "Who is mayor of New
York city," the ready answer was Richard
Croker" africa" was also in the opinion
OF this sapent candidate, the most north
eastern State in the Union.
The morning times., 1896-01-26
Monnco's Newspaper.

About the queerest newspaper is LIE Mo-
haco. 1t is issued weekly is admirably
printed on expensive paper and its news
consists almost exclusively OF figures ar
ranged In long columns. These figures tell
in what compartment Of the roulette wheels
at Monte Carlo and Spa the little balls have
come to rest during a weeks Cuisines" :"
The morning times., 1896-01-26

No Wonder They Are Wearing.
Mrs. Cawker-It is said that the falls at
Niagara are wearing away rapidly.
Mr.. Cawker-I don't wonder at that. A
great many people take a hack at Niagara
Falls-Harper's Rszar.
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The Difference.

Maudc-Hass sieEe6siss i, is to hear men
paying Compliments to wOueni
E'he'-To other womea. YES Boston
Transcript
The record-union., 1896-12-01

seen coming out, no one has ever been
able to see a single fish swim into the
cave. Whether they are bred under
ground, or where they come from, is a
mystery that has never been fathomed
Another remarkable spring is in
Huntington County, near the old fur
mace by that name. There the cavern
winch is the outlet of the spring is of
such dimensions that a team of horses
can be driven into it for considerable
distance Ten rods from it's source the
spring gives stream of sufficient
power to run a large grist mill, and it
was never known to be too low for this
use Then there is the Blue Spring"
IN Bald Eagle valley. named so because
when looked into the water seems as
plue as indigo. This is because of its
great depth, matter which to this day
is an unsettled question The spring,
Whlch IN appearance is like a we'll about
four feet in diameter. has been sounded
10 depth of several hundred feet with
out finding any bottom. The water is
near enough to the top, so that a man
can lie down and drink from the spring.
IN the same section of country are
many caves, some of which are as yet
uheXpIored. One of the most recent dis
coveries in this direction is an undr-ee
ground cavern near Hecla Park on the
line of the Central Railroad of Penn
syiVanla. Although the cave has not
yet been fully investigated, it has been
explored sufficiently to warrant the
assertion that it will prove a very fair
rival to the famous cave in Pennsvalley,
Center County.-Pittsburg Dispatch.
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French Social Life.

"The saucy charge of M. Paul
Bourget, in his recent work on America,
says The Medical Times that society
in New York spent it's leisure time in
looking up their grandparents, called
forth the retort from Mark Twain that
in this way they differed from the
French, who spent most of their time
in looking up their parents. This clash
of wit has directed the attention of
The Medical Record to statistics
which show decrease of marriage
in France and a very much larger per-
centage of illegitimate children there
than in America. Twenty-eight per
cent Of Partisan children, says The
Record are illegitimate, and out of
every 100 families 33 have no children,
unless they are still-born. Out of
10000 babies born in Paris yearly
10000 are sent to nurse, and of these
- per cent. die the first year.
These startling facts look to a gradual
whitening of national life and strength.
and in process of time a slow but sure
ex xtinction of national existence NJ
Bourgeois sneer is more than offset by
Mark Twain's spicy rejoinder, and The
Records array of sharply telling
facts"
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QUEER SPRINGS AND CAVES
Pennsylvania Possesses a Number of
Natural CuriOsities.

Pennsylvania possesses a number Of
remarkable springs. The spring of
Bellefonte. the Beautiful Fount," from
which the town derived it's name, and
which pours forth 2SO,OOO gallons per
minute. has had it's story repeatedly
told. But almost within the limits of
Bellefonte is another spring. never men
toned, almost unknown because of it's
rival in the borough, which for purity
and outpour is as large as the one in
town. A pure crystal stream Of water
two feet deep and ten wide, gushes forth
all the year yound. and the temperature
varies but two degrees, being that much
warmer in the winter than in the sum-
mer. Then there Is the spring at Axe
Mann, another very large one: but
among the marvellous springs in this
section is the famous Rock spring.
There the water gushes forth from a
cave in the rock, fully ten feet high and
twenty feet wide, with a clearness that
rivals even the crystal No rain has ever
been severe enough to even make the
water OF murky color. From out OF
the depths of the cavernous rock come
various specimens of the finest fish.
among them being the delicious noun
tain trout. and, though they can be
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House of Commons Manners

1t is striking to what an extent the
manners of the House of Commons have
changed within the lifetime of Mr.. Glad
stone and Mr.. ViIliers. When Mr. Fer
rand. the member for Knaresborough,
was making furious attack on Golden,
according to the latter's description,
"Col. Sibthorpe piled the fellow with
oranges to suck, in an affectionate way
that resembled a monkey fondling a
bear" Fancy Mr.. Tommy" Bowles
plying Sir Ellis Ashmead-B Bartlett with
oranges during one of the latter's fiery
attacks on Mr.. Chamberlain. No
doubt 1T was only after Sir Robert Peel
reformed the tariff that the oranges be-
came cheap and vulgar source of re-
freshment. In Burke's day honorable
members used to lie full length along
the benches in ridingboots and amuse
themselves. not only by sucking or
anges, but by cracking nuts.-Ilondon
Saturday Review
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CONSOLING HER INTENDED.
Georges Unnecessary Fears Were
Dissipated by One Word.

She had agreed to become his wife.
For a long time he had sat in silence,
too full of emotion to say anything, so
great was his happiness at having at
last achieved the fondest dream of his
life. At length his face, hitherto
wreathed with smiles, became clouded.
scowl Of annoyance settled upon it.
She, who had been attentively watching
his countenance, was quick to observe
the change.
What is the matter, George?" she
asked in alarm. You are not sorry
you asked me to marry you and that
l consented? Oh, George, 1 hope that
is not it.''
mo dear; you know that / love you
as never woman was loved before"
Then what is it that causes you dis
tress? Tell me that 1 may console you.
1t is the duty of a little wife to COM
fort her husband in affliction, and l am
going to be your little wife, amt I
George?"
Yes, darling, you are.
And there.was silence during which
no sound fell upon the air except
noise like the popping Of champagne
corks.
well, George, now tell me all about
it,
We'll, DEAR I was wondering what
your father will say when I ask him
for your hand. You are such precious
jewel that 1 dare not ask him for you.
1 feel as if 1 were robbing him of the
greatest and most precious thing in the
world"
WELL" she replied, 'if that's all
that's the matter with you I might as
well tell you that father and ] re-
hearsed the whole act last night after
you left, and 1 am sure he will reflect
credit upon my lessons when you speak
to him.
And a great load was lifted from his
heart, while he Immediately deposited
another in his lap.-Chicago Inter-
Ocean
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Electric Dredging Plant.

A firm in Rotterdam, according to the
Electric Age" have made encourage
experiments with an electric dredging
plant which has been ordered by an en-
gineer formerly engaged on the Panama
Canal for the Elsa River, in Spain
''The power is produced on shore. where
a $50 horse power engine is driving a
three phase generator whose currents
of 2,0TD volts are sent over to the
dredger by a cable. On board the cur
rents are converted down to 200 volts
to drive the various electric motors
The obvious advantage Of the arrange
ment is that the power plant on board
becomes much simpler, that less men
are required and that the chaining of
the dredger becomes easier than when
a pipe connection has to be maintained
between the dredger and shore. Whether
the electric motor is fitted for the ex-
ceedingly rough work is different
question. which would, however, only
be a tempory bar. Electric centrifugal
apparatus have for some time been
working on the continent; they had to
be specially constructed, but they per-
form their duty.
The record-union., 1896-12-01
LOng-Lived Lawyers.

The law seems to be a healthy pro-
fesson. A correspondent of the Lon
don Law Times" gives a list of living
members of the bar who were Called
before 1Si0. Of these there are no
fewer than 1G6. and twentyfour of them
them were called before 1880. Lincoln 8
Inn has twenty-four, Inner Temple
forty three, Middle Temple eighty-f five,
Grays Inn thirteen, Doctors Commons
one. Among those called before 1880
is the Right Hon. c. p Villiers, NJ. P.
(May "a, 1920. Among those called be-
fore 1S4O are the Right Hon. S. H.
Walpole, 9. c.. ex-Home Secretary;
Sir j. +. Deane, Q. c.; Mr.. W. Forsyth,
q. c., and Mr.. ]. Vaughan. police mag
istrate. The earliest on the list is Mr.
c. PARROT Carter, called to the Bar Of
the Inner Temple February 8, 1921.
The oldest solicitor on the rolls is three
years junior to Mr.. Carter. The lon
gcvity of the Middle Temple is remark
able. II is noticeable that very few Of
the list are Benchers
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large fruit grower and make profit
at prices that will force the man who
is under the enormous expense neces-
Sary to running a large orchard to the
wall.
OF EXPECTORATION.
Stockton Independent: An ordinance
before the Sacramento Trustees pro-
poses to forbid expectoration on side
walks. floors of public buildings and
street cars under penalty of a fine of
50 or Imprisonment. That ordinance
should be passed and every city and
town in the State should have one like
unto it and they should be rigidly en-
forced. Then the Legislature should
pass a similar law for the protection
of travellers on steam or electric roads
on which people travel outside of mu-
inequalities.
DISHONEST PACKING.
Pomona Times: At the instigation of
California fruit packers, four prominent
Baltimore packers of fruit have been in
dicted by the Grand Jury in that city.
The law Of Maryland makes it crime
to pack hermetically sealed fruit with
out the name and address of the packer
and quality of the fruit plainly indicated
on the label or brand. Baltimore pack
ers had been packing inferior fruit and
selling it for California stuff. 1t don't
pay to be dishonest.
PHILOSOPHY.
Mountain Democrat: In Sand Lot
lingo, what's yours is mine and what's
mine is my own. What ever belongs to
another is a monopoly and hold-up is
the rightful remedy. To acquire riches
by luck or labor is to rob the loafer who
would be rich without either. The safe
beater outranks the banker and sets up
for financier. Brains go out and the
Sandbag comes in
The record-union., 1896-12-01

Mr.. Garland was born in 1860 in the
La Crosse Valley and spent his early
boyhood days in a coule of the sort de-
scribed in his stories. Later his family
removed to the prairies of Iowa, where
he grew up on horseback, herding and
driving cattle. He was educated at a
small seminary, and after some expert
ence as a teacher entered the pubic
library of Boston, Mass, and began to
study the development of American
ideals. Since then his pen has been
busy Besides his numerous contribu-
tions to fiction he has published vol
ume of essays, "Crumbling Idols and
a book of poetry, Prairie Songs MI.
Garland is also noted lecturer.
The record-union., 1896-12-01
GARCIA MERON.
The New Minister From Argentine to
the United States.

Senor Garcia Meron, the new Minis
ter from the Argentine Republic to the
United States, has successful diplo-
matte record and has also gained envia-
BILE distinction as poet. He is rather
reserved in manner. His wife is certain
of social success. She is young, with
much brunette beauty, accomplished in
music and as linguist and full Of
vivacity. Their family consists of three
little girls.
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SOMETfMES

have a dizzy feeling.
your brain whirls.
you hold yourself up t.
the nearest pillar or
post. 1t may also hap
pen that you have
gases in the stomach,
your heart will hutter
and beat rapidly, a
sinking feeling comes
upon you, your hands
and feet are too hot or
too cold. Your back
aches. there is a sense
of weakness across the
spine. You may have
felt many or all of
these symptoms and
sensations. You will
ask yourself, What am
/ to do? The answer
is, Use the wonder
working remedio treat
Inent,
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From Bad to Worse.

Say, Chumpey, what in the deuce
made you have your hair cut so short?"
Because my girl said looked like
football player. Now she says / look
like a ze-f1ghter.'-Detroit Free
Press
The record-union., 1896-12-01
Eyading the Inv.

'Dickie, amt it queer that little new
babies allus comes down tn CHM
neys?"
Nav. they knows that janitors dom
low 'em in fiats."-Chicago Record.
The record-union., 1896-12-01
NOTICE OF STREET WORK.

PUBLIC NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN
that the Board of Trustees of the city of
Sacramento on the 23d day of November
1896. adopted Resolution No. 331 of it's in
tention to order the following street work
to be done. viz:
That the alley between F and streets,
from the east line of Fifteenth to the CEN
fer line of Seventeenth street be improved
by constructing therein a vitrified IRON
stone pipe sewer eight (S) inches in di-
ameter with two brick nanholes.
For further particulars reference is here
bv made to said resolution on file in the
office of the City Clerk.
Sacramento, November %. 1896.
e. ]. CROLY,
n3o-6t Superintendent of Streets.
The record-union., 1896-12-01

The word library is derived from a
Greek expression signifying the inner
bark of a tree on which ancient writ
ing was sometimes done.
The record-union., 1896-12-01
HAMLIN GARLAND.
A Writer Whose Stories Have At
tracted Wide Attention.

Hamlin Garland, whose stories of life
In the great Northwest have attracted
wide attention, has clothed the region
in which he writes with a singular in
tereSt and charm.
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Easy to Tell.

How do you know that anonymous
letter was written by a woman?"
TT hasn't any date"
The record-union., 1896-12-01

Kftty-Harry won't take no for an
answer. kate-How do you know?
Kitty-Because shan't give it to him.
Odds and Ends.
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Dizziness Hudyan.

This remarkable dis
c0yery was made by
the Hudsonian doctors,
whom so many people
know, and who are
highly recommended.
These doctors are the
only doctors to whom
you can apply for the
great
The record-union., 1896-12-01
little girls,

Senior Meron has long been one Of the
leaders Of affairs in the Argentine Re-
public and will no doubt prove a pop
ular Minister here. His family is one
of the most interesting of the foreign
Ministers to this country
The record-union., 1896-12-01

large fruit grower and make a profit
at prices that will force the man who
is under the enormous expense neces-
sary to running large orchard to the
The record-union., 1896-12-01
Hudyan.

You can get Hud-
yan only from the doc
tors of the Hudson
M edical Institute.
Hudyan cures Narico-
cele, Hydrocele and
those delicate organic
troubles. Hudyan Is a
sure and positive cure.
1t is administered by
reliable practitioners.
It is a harmless but
solvent remedio treat
ment. If you want to
know about the cures
write or call for
The record-union., 1896-12-01

meats, and therefore
pre- eminently THE
FAMILY JOURNAL.
The best paper for the
Homeseeker, for the
Merchant, Farmer, Me-
chanic and all who
desire the full news OF
the day presented 10 .
cleanly manner.
The record-union., 1896-12-01
ART NEEDLEWORK.
BOOTS AND SHOES.

A. CASSELLI MANUFACTURER
and importer of Mems Fine Boots, Shoes
and U7ppers Three-doliar Working Shoes
absolutely guaranteed. Repairing a spe-
ciaty. Agent for Viseol Oil. 527 K st.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-03-12
NruS FROM VARIOUS PLACES.

FIeptngton March II 'SpeciaD.-lhe lAise o"' !"
belonging 10 Daniel Stlres, near N"''"'''
burned yesterday. Ten COWS ana one "o''' - sn,..
-, ,t e ,rhe building Is supposed 10 nave
been fired by tfamps. II
Elizabeth Ma .ch LEX Freehoider lhohas H.
Smith one or ihe bes,knowh hofseneh !" mon
County lies dangerously III from phe"'"o'"" "
home In this city lie is seventy three years ON
'rons River March il.-Judge Enoch H. Jones
died nj Waretown y j. To-day from bright u'S-
ease at the age OF scveniy-twO year. lie ""S !"
Law Judge OF ocean Count, from lt'' 10 io'f a.l1
represented ocean TOwnship IN the county bo"'u Vi
ro, Io,hn, ,itv March 1.-THE dwelling OF {.
g. Thompson AT Elwood. was DESTROYED oy ,iT
late Lass night started by rinjers from "d"in'i'
Tn. nous Vas handsomely furnished NJ.
cape May March ll.-Postmaster E'w,n - ,Tn,o
colt OF South Seave. one or the pfs, ~, ~,
cratic politlcal In South Jersey di'd ''S' "'s"'
from heart disease. . ..,.,. q nail
"a nden March II George H. Natfir~. wei
known stenographer OF Dudley. ha- nee' mn m
from his home Tor the last three weeks. nsh ne
was last sxen he had $50 In money ana a meek TOT
81 and this has led some or MS it'nuS ~ ''"'''
that he has met with foul pay