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surest Tranquflizer of the Nerves.

The surest tranquillizer of the nerves is
medicine which remedies their supersen-
sitiveness by invigorating them. over ten
sion of the nerves always weakens them
What they need then, is a tonic. not a sed-
ative The latter is only useful when there
is intense mental excitement, and an i'm
mediate necessity exists for producing
uuietude Of the brain. Hostetter's Stom-
ach Bitters restores tranquility of the
nerves by endowing them with the vigor
requisite to bear, without being Jared or
disturbed unheaIthfully, the ordinary i'm
pressions produced through the media of
sight, hearing and reflection. Nay, it does
more than this--it enables them to sustain
a degree of tension from mental applica-
ton which they would be totally unable to
endure without its assistance Such, at
least, is the Irresistible conclusion to be
drawn from the testimony of business and
professional men, litterateurs, clergymen
and others who have tested the fortifying
and reparative influence of this celebrated
tonic and neryine.
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All Over the World.

The electric railway in Cairo, Egypt
is about twenty miles long. More than
600 miles of American iron and cop
per wire have been used for this line.
The reason why so many British riv
ers are called Avon is said to be that
the term is a Welsh word meaning
river and the word should be pro-
nounced with the ''A'' short, Avon.
Bank Of England notes are made
from new white linen cuttings = never
from anything that has been worn.
So carefully is the paper prepared that
even the numbs of dips into the pulp
made by each workman is registered
on a dial by machinery.
Paris is making the venture of lay
ing down mahogany roads. The Rue
Lafayette has been pulled up and re
laid with real Brazilian mahogany of
a peculiarly fine texture and color. This
will remind old Coloradoans of the
pavements of Leadville which, in the
early days, and perhaps now, would
assay high in silver.
The beauty of American Indian
names has been the cause of congratu-
lations to us from foreigners on many
occasions. Among the Santee Sioux In
dams who petition Congress to prohibit
the sale of "fire-water'' to their tribe
are Julia Goodthunder, Mary Lighting,
Ellen Iron Elk, Nancy Pay Day, G. D.
Redowl, j. Grow, d. Coon and Charles
Standing Soldier.
A large movement originating in
Scotland and spreading to other parts
of the United Kingdom has for it's
object the abolition of the terms Eng
land and English for Britain and
British Many numerously signed
petitions are preparing for presenta-
ton to Queen Victoria, praying her to
decree that this change shall be made
in all official language.
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LOST FOR 1000 YEARS.
"A Great Find of the Highly Prized
Thessalian Marble

The quarries from which the ancients
obtained their highly priced Thessa-
han or verd marble have been discov-
cred and are again being worked by an
English company, says the Philade-
phia Record The quarries. which
have been lost for more than 1000
years, are in the neighborhood of La
rissa, in Thessaly, Greece. The an
clent workings are very extensive
there being no fewer than ten quarries.
each producing a somewhat different
description of marble, proving without
a doubt that every variety of this mar
Bile found in the ruined palaces and
churches of Rome and Constantinople
and likewise in all the mosques and
museums of the world came originally
from these quarries. In fact the very
quarry from which the famous mono
liths of st. Sophia, Constantinople,
were obtained can be identified with
absolute certainty by the matrices from
which they were extracted.
In modern times verd antico marble
has only been obtainable by the de-
struction of some ancient work, and it
has, naturally, commanded extraordi
narily high prices. AS a consequence
number Of ordinary modern greens OF
Greek, French, Italian and American
origin have been described and sold as
verd antique marble No one, however,
who is really acquainted with the dis
tinctive character of the genuine ma
terial could be deceived by these in
ferior marbles. Thessalian green is
easily distinguished from any other
green marble by the following char
acteristics: 1t is a tbreccia' of angu-
lar fragments of light and dark green,
with pure statuary white, the whole
being cemented together with a
brighter green, while the snow-white
patches usually have their edges tinted
off with a delicate fibrous green, radi-
ating to the center of the white. The
cementing material is also of the same
fibrous character.
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LIST OF LETTERS
Remaining in the Postoffice at Sacra
mento, July 26. 1897.
LADIES LIST.

Remaining in the Postoffice at Sacra-
mento. July 26. 1897.
LADIES LIST.
Ager Mrs F M.
der Miss Margaret; Bell Miss Mary E;
Brown Mrs Sarah l.; Burriu Mrs j w;
Burton Mrs Annie.
Carleton Mrs Fannie: Carson Miss
Gertie; Carter Miss Emma; Collier Mrs
Mary; Colman Miss Lilly; Crane Miss
S M; Cross Miss L A; Curry Mrs VIM
Day Mrs c V; During Mrs Mary
John; Gleason Mrs; Graham Miss
Grace; Guth Mrs Mary.
Hall Mrs Fred; Hamilton Mrs NJ:
Halter Miss: Heany Miss Alma; Hen
Jacobs Miss Ethel E.
Lewis Mrs George.
Mason Miss Lucy: McLaughlin Mrs
Mary; Millers Mrs Margaret; Mouser
Miss Eugenia.
Navarth Miss
O'Brien Miss H.
Payen Mrs Justine; Paxon Mrs Liz
zie: Peterson Miss Ella: Phillip Miss
Blanche Piniado Sonora Margarita
Richmond Mrs Anie; Richardson Mrs
Minnie: Robles Dona Marcelina Rob-
Scott Mrs & Miss; Schilling Mrs VIM
Smiley Mrs John; Shook Miss Olo;
Steward Mrs Effie: Stone Mrs Annie
M.
Thacher Mrs Annie: Thacher Miss
Maud; Torince Mrs Belle; Truitt Miss
Tillie.
Wamble Mrs I. E; Wilkes Mrs Helen
GENTLEMEN LIST.
Artwise Jas.
man: Bliss b: Bonatti c j: Bonner
p: Boyd Ben; Brewer George: Burden
Henry; Burke Joshua.
Carson Il Merkeley; Cecchettini O:
f.onTcyn in
Co; Contreras T c. Corbett John: Cou-
sier Samuel; Cragg DR.: Craig Chas H:
Crawford Bay; Crawford Ed j.; Creel-
man K S; Grouse Dan M: CroWell Wal
ter T: Cummings G H.
Decker w Henry: Doty Sic.
Eastman w H; Egan NJ
Fankhauser d G.: Farsi Miss Laura;
Geisler Chris; Goga Chas; Gomez
James; Commit George: Green Clar-
ence.
Erickson DR. W M; Hodge & Merrifield; !;
Hunter P N-3.
Jackson T B: Janowski ] A; Jay
Charlie; Johnston Nat; Jordan E s.
Anton: Lindauist C; Lomax Marshall
V; Luka Sam
MARITIME Harry: Maurice Charles:
Jno A; Mikobutson N: Mullen j. Muir
o'Connor Harry J-2.
Parker E j: Parker L NJ: Pinckley
Walter; Pockman Joseph: Proctor F S;
Ramsey Mr.: Rees Dewitt Richard
son w S: Robinson James.
Sabastiao Antonio Simas; Schumach-
er Major Leo; Shaughnessy W j.:
Shaw 6 j: Sheehan NJ; Shreve & Bar
ber: Smithers Charles ": Smith
Frank; Smith Mr.: Spring John: Stone
l. D; Strachan Tom; Swanson P.
Tyron Arthur
Van Bovy Mr..
Wallace " j; Waldron Charles
Campbell. Watson DR. G S: Watcher
George; Weist Mr.; White II G; Will
liams Robt. WINNER NJ.
ZachS Jake.
FOREIGN
Gaetano Ferrari; Senores de Pacifico
Compania-2
Japanese-K Takahoshi 1 Suzuki;
Mr. Nomura: Tow: Y Hamamoto;
Yamanistu; T F'ukura: Kuhata :;
Thomas K Tomite: Ow May John; Nj
Okata: x Roat: Mr. Hamatas: Miss
Okeyo Naka.
Chinese-Gim Wing Y Co.
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A Bamed Florist.

Now Gladys sends for catalogues
From seedsmen far and near,
And studies them with diligence
AS she does every year.
Most lovingly she turns the leaves,
And lingeringly she looks
AT pictures of plants never seen
Except in seedsmen's books.
A new kind of chrysanthemum
Just fills her with delight
A pictured sweet pea is the thing
To dream about at night.
And so fair Gladys turns the leaves
And makes her mental choice
And when she speaks of flowers you heal
The love tones in her voice.
Cleveland Plain Dealer
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One Thing in Common.

Dinks-Did it ever strike you that
poets, dressmakers and absinthe have
one thing IN common?
Botts-No; what?
Dinks-They all manufacture dreams.
New York Journal.
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I-3 to 1-2 more for them than
we have priced them during this
sale. Now is the time to buy.
White California Blankets,
large enough for the most gen.
erous double bed; / IA size,
weight 5 lbs; pure white wool,
always sold in a regular way for
$5. Clearance Sale Price, So 95.
The record-union., 1897-07-26

Iowa, Ohio and Indiana farmers are
not going to be as easy meat for the
calamity howlers this year as they We're
last, owing to the fact that they are
getting trifie of S5,000,000 more for
their wheat crop this year than they
did in 1896.
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Lace Curtains.

These lots of Lace Curtains to
close represent the short lines
which remain from spring and
summer selling. They are all
new and this seasons patterns,
beautiful in floral designs with
patent overlooked edges. This
is a Lace Curtain opportunity
which should not be overlooked.
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Miscellaneous-Peerl Manufacture
ing Co: Capital Window Cleaning Co:
Wanda.
Third and Fourth Class-John Baz-
len.
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Portland. Or, July

What matters any woman's age.
Rude facts do not reveal.
She's up-to-date If she but rides
A ninety-Seyen wheel.
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Comforts.

Si1kaIine covered Summer
Comforts, new and beautiful
co1ors and patterns; size 72x72,
well filed with pure white cot
ton, zephyr knotted. The ruffled
edge So kind reduced to 81 4S.
The plain edge 81 rs kind re-
duced to 81 %.
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A CHASTITY Jingle.

Twas years ago that Mark Twain wrote
"A line that filled him with despair.
For through his brain it Ions. did float
A plnk-trip-slip for a five-cent fare"
That jingle oft came back to me,
Like to a half forgotten air
It's rhythm, halting though it be.
Long held me with its Jingle rare
But now, at last, have cut loose
From Marks old-fashioned rhythnaic
snare,
Because I'm caught in Kipling'S moose,
A rag, a bone, and a hank of hair
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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Blankets.

This is hardly blanket time as
far as weather counts, but it is
the time to buy blankets in view
of future need, for when it's
blanket time you'll pay from
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Don't you think I have a very lovely
figure?"
said a pretty little maiden that met,
And, remembering she was heiress to a
million,
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Marked to close at 81 35

ues. Marked to close at 81 35
pair.
l Lot-White Irish-point Cur
tains, 81 and 81 so values.
Marked to close at 81 65 pair.
Lot-6 pair only, white Irish
point Curtains, So so values.
Marked to close at Sc IS pair.
l Lotto pair, three styles
Irish-point Curtains, sold for
SO so. Marked to close at
81 95 pair.
] Lot-Ecru Irish-point Cur
tains, the 81 and 81 so kind to
close at $3 Is pair.
i Lot-Ecru Irish-point Cur
tains, the SIS so and Sc kind to
close at 81 35 pair.
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Nottingham
Curtains.

Lot-Ecru Lace Curtains
3 1-2 yards long, "A inches
wide, sold for ST and ST. 25 per
pair. Marked to close at 7Sc
'air.
j Lot-Ecru Lace Curtains,
3 1-2 yards long extra wide, sold
for So 25, So so and So per
pair. Marked to close at ST 62
pair.
Lot-Ecru Lace Curtains,
3 l-2 yards long, extra wide and
fine, sold for So, So 25 and
So so per pair. Marked TO close
at So 3S pair.
/ Lot-White Lace Curtains,
from ! to a pair of a kind in
this lot, worth 81 so to $5 SO
per pair. Marked to close, S3 As
per pair.
1 Lotto pair IN four or five
styles imitation brussels net,
fine, wide and 3 1-2 yards long;
worth Sc per pair. Reduced to
close to 81 Is pair.
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Gaetano Ferrari; Senores de Pacifico
Compania-2.
Japanese-K Takahoshi: l Suzuki;
Mr. Nomura: Tow: Y Hamamoto;
Yamanistu: T Fukura; Kuhata ::
Thomas K Tomite: Ow May John: Nj
Okata; x Roat: Mr. Hamatas: Miss
Okeyo Naka.
ChineSe-Gim Wing Co
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roouy and comparatively comfortable shelter
for engineer and fireman, and the safety or
the train depends on the mental and physician
condition Of the engineer the comfortable CAPS
ave probably had beneficial results. II has bcen
said that the English railroad authorities be-
lieve that cushioned seats would be conducive
TO lounging and idleness and possibly sleep, ana
have studied TO make the engineer comiortdple
only in a limited degree. \ passenger engine
built by Sharp Stewart (; Co for the Duke or
Sutherland has a large and rOomy cab. but IL
has been suggested that this was built IN tha'
way because the owner and his friends probably
wished 10 make locomotive excursions. ana not
for the comfort Of the driver.
The American locomotives built for use on Il
far Western roads have been fitted or late with
fat or plate wheels instead Of the old-time spoke
wheels. which famed the dust too much and
became an element of danger on that account
Although they have no cause 70 fear an acculIu-
lation OF sand along any Of their ROADS, there
being no arid wastes such Us our Western trails
traverse the English have also adopted the plate
wheel and discarded the spoke wheel 10 a great
extent.
The r'ngie-driver engine is by no means obso-
lete. and many Of that pattern are still being
made Some Of the most beautiful specimens OF
these may be seen on the Bound Brook DIVISION
Of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad. The
same company from whose shop the single-drv-
ers me have built double drivers much heavier.
which develop as high as 300 horsepower, and
are capable Of carrying trains Of ten cars fully
loaded on roads where there are grades from
50 to 105 feet 10 every mile. AT the BALDWIN
Locomotive Works. where these locomotiVes
were made X was said that the largest OF the
English engines would be unable to cope with
such load under the same conditions.
THE ENGLIsHMEN HAD TO BE HELPED.
George H. Daniels general passenger agent OF
the New-Yorls Central and Hudson River Rail-
road said that no drawings and no pictures could
illustrate 80 thoroughly the superiority or the
American engine as an incident which he WY
messed and which he said was fitting close 10
the grea. Transportation Exhibit at chicago.
The London and North Western Railroad. he
said had a train Of cars with a compound loco
motive on exhibition there. and at the close OF
IN. Fair started east with their exhibit. prepare.
tory TO taking it back England. The whole
affair was a small train, but on a grade on the
Rome. Watertown and Ogdensburg branch OF
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our road the Engllshman stuck fast. and
couldn't carry his few little dinkey-cars.
We were coming the same way with an
exhibition train. consisting Of a bufet-car.
parlor-car sleeping-car. compartment-car ana
dining-car all vestibuled In addtion 10 three
gondolas and two extra cars ana we hau
No 500 hauling us. There was consterha'ioh on
hoard the English train when we came near
them and the official in charge was iuhny
spectacle as he stood on the platform III nI'
dream clothes. not knowing What W uo w 49,, ~,
We switched around and just hookeh the "n"ie
business TO the tail end Of our tram ana Waih.h
away with It, and | suppose the Enen -, ma,
hasn't got done talking Of II yet-put 10. III Ihl.
road circles The queen Express never naoe
such good time as she did on that "Trip anu sue
Will probably never do so we'll again Unless sr-
is picked up by a locomotive as soou Dis Jul -'''
500" .,.. ,.,,.o.
considerable more crate area. allows the use OF
the smallest size coal and saves the nIc SoH :.
cause q less fierce fire may be emp'oyeu, rs al,
improve rent which has not yet been ih'rouuoeu
in foreign locomotive builcing.
THE COMPOUND ENGINE
To illustrate the speed made by the VAUGHAN Ut
compound locomotives built by them' the Daiu-
win company has prepared series OF taoles'
from which the following figures are TAKEN Dc
tween Winsow Junction and Ple&ssHNHie' u''
lance Of twenty-six miles. fifteen trans Win Yen
each, were run AT an aNeruec 9P'NN "a ''
n lies an hour The average weight OF THESE
trains was 400 tons each. Between Yellowstone
Junction and AtIanti. City. a distance OF thirty
one mllee. seventeen trains with eight TO four
teen cars. averaging l0.1 cars. made the average
specd OF 81. miles an hour The average weight
OF these trains was 1853 tons each. ana some OF
the trains made more than sixty-eight miles an
hour. The great monsters Ike No. W. on the
PHILADELPHIA and Reading road. Which carry
trains of seventeen cars on the BCuhu bIooN
branch. make sixty miles an hour, ana even on
the new and unduating bed Of the Missouri,
Kansas and Texas road the modern engine hauiS
large trains at 4 high speed.
In it's report the Imperial German haliroau
Commission says: THE very considerable work
ing CAPACITY Of the American locomotives IS
matter upon watch they wish TO lay particular
stress. They are used up to their hlghest c'
nacltv and then set aside 70 make way Tor ne"
ones containing ali the best features or modern
progress. , /. ,,,
The superority OF the American enc Ire Is gam
ing recognition in Europe in tangible form aso'
This was demonstrated by the many ORDERS LOT
American engines received from abroad WITHIN
the last year Fifty-two large compound en-
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A NEW TEST FOR OLD P4INTINGS.
THE GENU1NENEss OF AN ALBRIGHT DuEREn
PROVEN BY x RAYS.

THE GENU1NENEss OF AN ALBRIGHT DuEREA
PROVEN BY RAYS
The practical value Of R0ntgen's famous dfscov-
ery lies in its revelations OF the unseen While tho
applications OF this instrument OF research have
hitherto been confined almost entirely 20 surgical
diagnosis. yet there are other important uses 70
which it can be put. The genuineness OF jewels
has frequently been ascertained by means OF the
rays The contents OF suspcious-looking parce.s
in the mails have been similarly investigated by
French postal officials II is rumored that Pttsourg
experts have thus been enabled 10 detect naws
which could not otherwise be perceived In armor
plate. And now interesting story from
Germany about the Identification OF painting oy
Albrecht DGrer.
Herr Friedrich Burger, OF Munich. owns head
of Christ t1ct has been accredited 10 the famous
Nuremburger DR.. Oscar. Baron Lochness Won
Huttenbach and DR.. Nagler. in their critical writ
ings have referred 70 this picture in terms OF high
praise Nevertheless. It's authenticity has been
questioned and. in order 20 remove all doubt df
possible) its possessor recently decided TO submit
IL to examination by rays. The painting was
on wood and believed 10 have been executed
in 1921. II was presumably, 37S years Old Naturally
It was much discoIored and very dingy with age.
Besides like many another old picture. II had prob
ably been retouched by the brush Of the restorer"
What might lie below these obscuring wells who
could tell? A firm OF dealers In electrical appa-
ratus. Friedrich Halter & Sons undertook to make
experiment. Their earlier attempts were
less Finally however. they obtained a photograph
by means of the Y rays which had penetrated both
the pigments and the wooden panel on which they
had been laid
The photograph thus obtained revealed much that
the eye could not perceive The features OF tho
thorn-crOWned Jesus, the drapery about the shoul-
ders ard the hands which grasped the latter ap-
peared much more distinctly than in the painting.
But there also 10 light Latin inscription in
quaint Gothic characters the monogram OF some
Grand-duke Gor whom PERHAPS me picture ,E was
painted the artists initials and the date lo-i.
This last Is the one which had been looked
for but il will Of course. be accepted the correct
II is said that the photograph reveals the grain OF
the wood evergreen oak and the nDre or SIX
handkerchief stretched thereon; These, together
with the paints and varnlsh, make necessary for
the X rays to penetrate 10 depth or two cent?
metres or about four-hfths OF an inch. Artists
collectors and scientists are all greatly Impressed
by the result OF this interesting test copies OF
the photograph have been sent 10 number or dis
tinguished people in Europe The queen Regent OF
Spain having been thus compllmented sne sent ner
specimen 10 one OF the academies OF art in SPAIN
and il was the subject OF favorable comment there
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they are homemade. and DO not como from Eng
land and France. like the latest things IN coats
or oonnsts: and American engineers say that the
improvements made in European locomotives
are all fashioned af..r the recent American
styles This is the more surprising because the
first engine TO be used IN this country came from
England. The John Bull. which was used on
the Hudson River Railroad IN 1881 came from
Newcastle, arc the Stevens was sent from the
same place 10 the Camden and Amboy Railroad
at about the CANA time. Even the De Witt
Clinton, which the pioneer OF American
built locomotives, showed an Improvement over
those which had preceded il II was built at the
West Point foundry IN B4ach-st.. New-York Its
four driving wheels were four feet six inches IN
diameter; the cylinders were five ana har
inches in diameter and sixteea-inch stroke and
ina weight Of the engine and tender about six
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HIGH-SPEED SINGLE-EXPANSION ENGINE.
ION Atlantic Coast Nne.)

great advantage over the three-cylinder pattern
Of engine"
AN ENGLIsIIMAN's ADMIRATION
Mr.. stretton then describes the run Of a train
propelled by this engine from Philadelphia to At
lantio City, a distance Of hfty-hve and half
miles in one hour He says: ITO start and stop.
run hfty-fve and a half miles in one hour and
convey loads Of seven, eight or nine heavy Ameri-
can cars completely filed with passengers is
kind OF locomotive work not 10 be found In Eng
land: and yet. when riding on the engines
timed ten miles together at a speed Of eighty
miles an hour and a few miles at eighty al d
eight -tenths In an hour" He comedies that In
England ordinary passenger trains do rot require
the construction Of engines with more than four
coupled wheels. but the steepness OF the grades
over many parts Of the American lines together