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The record-union., 1899-12-18
CHANCE FOR A JOB.
Sacramento Federal Building to
Have a Civil Service Fireman.

The United States Civil Service Com
mission announces that 1t is desired to
establish an eligible register from which
a selection may be made to fill an exist
ing vacancy in the grade Of fireman, at
a salary of $720 per annum, in the
custodian service at Sacramento.
Eligibility for appointment will be
determined from an examination into
each applicants experience, ability and
character as a workman, and physical
qualifications for the work to be per-
formed
Applicants must be citizens OF the
United States, and under the regula-
lions of the Treasury Department.
must be between the ages Of p and 60
years.
Persons who have suffered the loss of
an arm or leg, who are ruptured, or
who have other serious disability, are
considered physically disqualified for
appointment to the custodian service.
This examination is open to all citi-
zens of the United States who may de-
sire to enter the service, and who COM
ply with the requirements, without re-
gard to race or to political or religious
affiliations. All such citizens are in
vited to apply; but attention is invited
to the fact that it is the practice of the
department in filling vacancies in the
custodian service to give preference to
eligibles who are legal residents of the
place or vicinity where the vacancy ex-
lists. Applicants will be examined,
graded and certified, with entire i'm
partially and wholly without regard to
any consideration save their ability as
shown by the grade given them.
Persons desiring to enter this exami-
nation should apply to the Secretary Of
the Board of Examiners at the POST
office in this city for application blank
(Form 1,052), which should be prop
erly executed and at once forwarded to
the commission at Washington, D. c.
Applications for this position must be
filed by January 2, 1900, with the COM
mission at Washington.
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Denies the Story.

The Marin County Tocsin'' publishes
Head Master Of the Mount Tamalpais
Military Academy, denouncing as "a
grotesque and characteristic fabrica-
ton from beginning to end, a sensa-
tional story published In San Fran
cisco newspaper in regard to the al
legged cruel punishment of a boy at the
school. 1t seems that the only founda-
ton for the story was the fact that a
persistently troublesome boy had his
face slapped with the fiat Of a teachers
hand. DR.. Head says that while the
boy richly deserved it, the teacher
ought not to have slapped him, because
it is against an absolute rule of the
school for the masters to inf1ict any
kind of corporal punishment.
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RHooRDUNIoN sAoRAoENro DncElfBER 49,

ing and an intelligent appreciation of
the possible development of the arid
and semi-humid regions of the West,
general knowledge of the progress
actually made is of vital Importance.
An accurate census of irrigation will
impart SUCH general knowledge, and
will be Of great benefit to all those con-
cerned in redeeming arid lands. The
future development of this vast portion
of our domain win be greatly advanced
by a comprehensive compilation of
facts relating to its irrigation, such an
contemplated by the twelfth census.
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BOTH LEGS CRUSHED.
Terrible Accident to Charles RYAN
on the Railraad

About 800 o'clock yesterday morning
man named Charles Ryan, who was
beating his way on a freight train fell
While leaving it at Keswick, Shasta
County, and the wheels of the car
passed over both legs between the
ankles and knees.
He was taken to Redding for treat
r,oopf
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THE LATE STORM.
Five Feet of Snow at Summit-The
Storm at an End.

When the storm broke yesterday
morning five feet of snow lay on the
level at Summit Station on the Cen
tral Pacific line, while at Blue Can
yon 1t measured two feet in depth.
Inc storm was heavy in the northern
part OF the State, and a thick coating
OF snow covers the territory drained by
the upper Sacramento River Before
noon the storm had left the mountains
and. clear weather was reported from
all points
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All Chow, an Isleton Chinaman, was
drowned in the river at that point yes
terday morning. The body was recov-
cred in a short time, and Coroner Nc
Mullen was notified. The Coroner, or
q deputy, will go down the river this
morning to conduct an inquest.
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Government. when compared with the
condition said to have existed during
Spanish rule.
The climate of the Orient did NOS
agree with Mr.. Blair, and he left about
hfty pounds of his adipose tissue be-
hind him He is. nevertheless, hale and
hearty.
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Rifle Club Scores.

The Sacramento Rife Club held it's
regular monthly bullseye shoot yester-
day for cash prizes. The attendance
was good, but the weather was too cold
for good shooting.
The first prize was won by the vet
eran, Captain Ruhstaller. with a dead
center; second, by ]. Meyer; third, by
A Griesel; fourth, by A. Meister; fifth,
by F. Zberg; sixth, by C. OFT; seventh,
by A Buergi; eighth, by F. Book.
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NEW TO-DAY.

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT, COUNTY
of Sacramento, State of California. In
the matter of the estate of MARY A.
STAFFORD, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that FRIDAY,
the 29th day of December, 1899. at 10
o'clock a m. of said day, and the court
room of said court, at the Courthouse, in
the City of Sacramento, County of Sacra
mento, and State of California, has been
ing the will of said Mary A. Stafford, de-
ceased, and for hearing the application of
Mary D. Kleinsorge for the issuance to
her of letters testamentary thereon.
Witness my hand and the seal of said
court this 18th day of December, 1899.
(Seal) w. B. HAMILTON, Clerk.
BY B. H. Gallup, Deputy Clerk.
L. T. Hatfield and VIM. E. Kleinsorge,
attorneys for petitioner
Endorsed: Filed December Is, 1899
w. B. HAMILTON, Clerk.
BY b H Gallup. Deputy d1S&d&
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sacramento. Monday December. 1892
Open tonight until o'clock.
'HaYiland' hints

Holiday "Haviland" The only extensive
china stock Of genuine
sHaviland' china in
Sacramento is to be found here Following are
a few hints from the stock, all pieces handsome
ly decorated of course
Salad bowls, $2.25, $3.50, $3.50.
Nut bowls, $I.oo, $2.oo $225.
Ice relish dishes, Is cts, s. Cts $I.oo.
Olive dishes, so cts, IS cts, SI.oo.
Individual sugars, $Io5, $I.2o.
Individual creamers, so cts, Is cts.
Bread and butter plates, $2oo, $500 and $500
the Dozen
Fruit plates, $345, $3.50 and So. so the dozen.
Sauce plates, $780, $285 and 1870 the Dozen
Cold meat trays i'll round and half oval shapes,
$I.75 and $2.75 EACH
Bread trays, $I.75 and $2.oo each.
Spoon trays, Is cts $I.oo and $I.45 each.
lea caddes, 90 cts and $I.25 each.
Jelly jars, $I.75 and sI.85 each.
Cracker jars, $500 anG $2.25 EACH
Chocolate pots, 5000, So. so and So. so EACH
Jugs, $I.65, $I.S5 and $2oo.
Bouillon cups 65 cents, o5 cents and $500.
Cups and saucers, 50 cts to $500.
Chocolate sets (pot and 6 cups, $3.50.
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The Cigar Season

More cigars are smoked at Christ
mas time than at any other. La
Primerencia cigars are good all the
year round, but are especially appro-
pirate by the box for Christmas gifts.
A. Coolot, distributor.
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Most everyone who has whisky for
sale compares it's virtues to Jesse
Moore "AA" whisky.
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MRS. WINSLOW'S SOOTHING SYRUP
has been used for over fifty years by mill
ions of mothers for their children while
teething with perfect success. 1t soothes
the child. softens the gums, allays pain.
is the best remedy for diarrhea, whether
arising from teething or other causes. For
sale by druggists in every part Of the
world. Be sure and ask for Mrs Wins
lows Soothing Syrup. Twenty-Five cents
n bottle. MWE
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SPECIAL NOTICES.

hardware, bicycles. carts. buggies car
riages. phaetons. Balm farm and header
wagons. Send for catalogue.
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A curio among motor carriages is now
being constructed. 1t Is smaller and
rather heater in design than many
of it's class now seen in use, for prac-
The St. Johns herald., 1899-11-18
Ingersou and Delaware.

'The late Colonel IngerSoll had but little use for the state of Delaware ' said MT. F. Y. Turner of Wilmington.
 His aversion had its origin in a statement made by Chief Justice Jo- Seph r. COmegys, now deceased. Some years ago IngerSOll delivered in Will. mingtOn one of his most scatching lee lures against Christianity. its delivery stirred up the preachers and the reli- giOus people nightly, and the chief justice, who was man of deep piety, made public statement that if tue great agnOstic came there any more he would arrest and try him for blas- phemy. The justice also called the at tentiOn of the grand jury to the lee lures.
 "IngersOll was, of course, ready with his retOrt when he heard of what the jurist had said. He stigmatized DeIa- ware as state that had but three counties at low water and only one at high tide; that it was inhabited chiefly by oysters and clans, whose only req son for not migrating was that they had no legs. But, all the same, Colonel Bob didn't come to our town to lee ture again. Washington Post.
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be fed with asses milk. The lady spoke to native officer of the district, and receiving a satisfactory reply drove with man-Servant to the station where the ass was to be in waiting.
 To her amaZement there, tied to a post, all ready to be milked, stood a huge she bear. It seems that in the native dialect, the words ass and bear are so nearly alike as to be scarcely distinguishable in the mouth of a Flu ropean.
 A variation of the milk problem was presented to F. G. Jackson, the Arctic explorer, when he found and adopted the infant cub of a polar bear. There seemed no way to feed the poor little beast until MT. Jackson hit upon the following ingenious method:
 Taking a bit of sponge, he covered 1t with chamois leather and fastened it to a rubber tube which had previously been inserted in a bottle. Fixed into the cork of this bottle was piece of glass tubing through which air might be blown to make the milk run freely.
 The cub took to the bottle like any other baby, and sucked away in most ravenous fashion, with a contented look upon her face, as if the last of her troubles were ended.
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XaIue Of a Laugh.

The value of a good-natured laugh may be rated low by some people, but many writers have atteSted its worth in no measured terms.
 It is not surprising that the merry Charles Lamb should have said. "A laugh is worth a hundred grOanS ill any market" but from the lips of the somber Carlyle one is scarcely prepar- ed to hear, ''No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be al- together or irreclaimably bad"
 It was Douglas Jerrold who boldly stated that What was talked of as the golden chain of love was nothing but a succession of laughs, a chromatic scale of merriment reaching from earth to Olympus"
 T am persuaded" wrote Lawrarce Sterne, that every time a man smiles but much more so when he laughs 1t adds something to his fragment of life.''
 Last of all comes the verdict of pr. Holmes, given with lis own inimitable humor: ''The riotous tumult of a laugh, take it, is the mob law of the fea lures, and propriety the magistrate who reads the riot act"
The St. Johns herald., 1899-11-18
Hearn's Vivid Imagination.

Many years ago Lafcadio Hearn was reporter on the staff of a Cincinnati newspaper. One day a famous steeple climber was going to scale the spire of the cathedral to repair the cross that topped the spire 200 feet above the side walk. The afternoon he first scaled the spire thousands of people watched him breathlessly as he slowly made his way up the outside of the steeple. Of course he was interviewed, and he said boast ingly that the task was so easy that he could just as we'll carry man up on his back
 That noon Hearn said timidly to his city editor that he had read of the Eteeple climbers offer and would be glad to ascend the spire on his back The editor tried to point out to Hearn the peril of the thing, tut he would not listen. Finally the steeple climhP~ and Hearn arranged their end of the feat.
 At tue appointed time Hearn mounr ed the steeple climbers shoulders, and the dizzy journey began. Tens of thou sands of people watched the foolhardy pair. At last the cross was reached, and Hearn left his perch on the climbers shoulders. The mob in the streets be- low cheered, and then the two men re- turned to the ground safely.
 Hearn went back to the office and sat down and wrote.two columns of a story describing his sensations. and the glo- ries of the view he had obtained from the steeple top Such a glowing de- scription of a city seen from a great height has never been read before or since The most interesting thing about it was the fact that Hearn was so near sighted he could not see five feet beyond the tip of his nose.-San Francisco ArgOnaut.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-11-18

The Jains of India agree with the Buddhists in disallowlng those Brah- manical ceremonies which involve the destruction of life. Being rigid veg etarians. they take extreme pains not to injure any living creature. They may drive snake out of the house, but they spare its life. A rajah or prince of this persuasion says: We endeaYOr to avoid even green vegetables, under the idea that cutting the plant may hurt 1t. We would not needleSsly pluck a leaf from a tree, lest the tree should possi- bly feel pain" Similar was the super stitOn of kindergartner. who taught the children that when it was neces- sary to pull up garden weeds, they should be carefully replanted in some other placeis
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capital which had been invested in the Collins line was transferred to the h. man line, for years one of the most sue cessful. and it subsequently, became the American line.
 The Scotia, the last paddle-wheel steamer built for the Cunard line. was the first to make the passage in less than nine days, her time being days 8 hours in 1863. The City of Brussels of the 1nman line brought it under eight days in 1869, with a record of : days 9 hours and minutes. The sev- en-day limit was reduced by the Alaska of the GuiOn line, which crossed in 6 days 9 hours in 1882. The City of Paris of the Inman line, afterward the Paris of the American line, reduced it under six days, making the westward passage in , days 19 hours and IS min utes in 1889. The Lucania of the Cunard line holds the present record of days hours and g minutes.
 The Southampton record is held by the big Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse of the North German Lloyd line, which re- duced the westward time to 5 days IS hours and 15 minutes on her last voy- age to this port, which ended last week. She covered 3,049 knots at an average speed of 22.0S knots an hour.
 But the present-day ship must look to her Iaurels, for the bigness of the Oceanic proclaims her speed. Certainly great things may be expected from her powerful engines.
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Couldn't Keep Him Out.

"The brightest reporter 1 ever knew, said a newspaper man, twas Billy Gaykor, who died at Hot Springs in 1895. He was a most persistent fel- low after an item, and that reminds me of a little story, about the last incident of his carea-. He had been assigned hy a certain Chicago daily to interview an eminent ,ishop about a schism in the church. The bishop didn't want to talk md woui It see him. but GaylOr bribed a servant to let him into the hall and waylaid the dignitary as he was coming through. He was ordered out for his pains, but next day he pene- trated the house again on some pretext pr other and was again fired
 He repeated the exploit three or fonr times with similar results, and at last the bishop coming home late at night. found Billy sitting in his study reading the Bible. Nobody could ex- plain how he got in, but the prelate wilted and told him what he wanted to know on condition that he would go away and stay away.
 Shortly after poor Gaylor got gal loping consumption and died. and. hap pening to meet the bishop at a church conference, I told him that the young man who had once so molested him would never do it again
 ''Let us hope that he is in heaven. said clergyman standing by.
 ''The bishops eyes twinkled he loved a joke. No doubt he is, he re- piled gently. I don't think they could keep him out. Exchange.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-11-18
GREAT SHIP OCEANIC.
LATEST OF MONSTER ATLANTIC
 STEAMSHIPS.
Evolution in Naval Construction Since Launch of the First Oceanic History of Transatlantic Maritime Development of the Century.

The new steamship Oceanic of the
 White Star Line has broken all mari time records and her appearance on
 the Atlantic marks an epoch in the
 history of ocean steamship building.
 The advent commentaries develop ment of upward of eighty years. The Oceanic is the largest steamship in the
 world, larger even than that fabled failure, the Great Eastern. The enor-
 nous dimensions of the Oceanic ap- peal to the imagination. She is an un- precedented feat in engineering, but aside from this her appointments are on a scale of magnificence made poSsi- ble only by her size. This is concealed largely by her graceful line. The Great Eastern, with her great height above the water line and her enormous paddle boxes, looked more than her size, while in the Oceanic the long, trim fOrecastle deck and poop turtleback deck and the central arrangement of the deckhOuses, all tend to relieve her of the appear ance of mere bulk. The Great Eastern's length was 691 feet The Oceanic's is 704 feet. The formers light draught was 15 feet; the later's is % feet. The displacements are 11,S44 tons and 12,500 tons, and when laden it is estimated that the Oceanic will weigh 2S,00O tons, as against the Great Eastern's 25,000 tons. The Oceanic is well able to steam 23,40O knots at cruis- ing speed twelve knots an hour) with out cOaling, or about the earth's girdle. Her saloon is so feet by 64 feet and 9 feet high, with a dome in the center of great beauty. Some of the state
The St. Johns herald., 1899-11-18
To Get a Vacuum.

Professor Dewar'S achievement in liq- uefying hydrogen has led to the dis covery of an easy method for obtain ing an almost perfect vacuum. and that in a single minute. When a glass tube. filled with air and closed at one end, has its open end dipped into a cup of liquid hydrogen. the intense cold condenses the air into kind of snow which settles to the bottom. If then, the upper part of the tube, from which the soliditied air has fallen, is removed by heating and sealing it off, it be- comes vacuum chamber so free from air that it is difficult to force an elec- tric current through it.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-11-18

A curious instance of the westward drift of the country's population ap- pears in the latest report of the Pen sion bureau. The official reports of the War Department for 1S61'65 show that New York led in the number of troops furnished; 1 ennsylvania came second, ana Ohio third. The quotas of the respective States in the order named were 467 ,047. 366, 107, and 319.
 659 men. On the pension list this or
 der is exactly reversed. Ohio has the most pensioners, Pennsylvania stands next, and New York is third. There are 105,527 pensioners in Ohio, draw ing S15,456,OOO; 1O4,6S1 in Pennsylva- mia, drawing $12,470, ,795; and 87,527 in New York, drawing $12,O03, ,S54. Hi nois stood fourth in the number of soldiers furnished, and it also stands fourth in the number of pensioners, though Indiana Is fourth in the amount received for pensions. These changes may be traced entirely to natural and legitimate causes. It is nothing against Ohio that it leads in the number of its pensioners. If 1t has usurped the place that apparently belonged to New York it is because there has been a steady drift westward of population since the war, and enough of the veterans or soldiers widows have moved from New York and Pennsylvania into Ohio to cause the change. The westward movement of the veterans explains why Kansas has now twice as many pensioners as it furnished soldiers.
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and doubtless will continue to sepa- rate fools from their money for years to come. Everybody should know Of it, yet if there be any reader who does not let us advise him to beware of letters purporting to come from 3 Spanish priest, telling Of great treas ures to be found at such and such a place provided a small sum Of money be advanced for necessary expenses. If he yield to tne pTomptings of ava rice he will never see the color of n.s money again. Like the ghinkO tree, the Spanish priest and his buried treas ure are non-existent. They belong to the green goods and gold brick order of architecture. The downy bird will none of them.
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Chinese Parental Authoritv

4 remarkable event has occurred at TSing kiang-pu. A man by the name of King had son who made his father and mother lose face" because of the wild, raklSh life he led He gambleG, loafed, smoked opium, etc. If he stole his father would be taken to the va men and the whole family would suf- fer for the sons villalny. and the vital question was, How could the family be protected? At last they arrived at the conclusion that the only way to protect the father and mother was to take ex- treme measures with the son. which they did with vengeance. The fla ther and uncle took him out among the graves, followed by a curious crowd of neighbors and friends, and. putting a rope around his neck. each relative pulled on the end. and the son was put beyond ruining the family in this world.-North China Herald.
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According to Chambers Journal NJ. Jaubert has solved tha problem how to provide a person placed in con- fined space with the practical means of preparing a respirable artificial air necessary for life. The chemical sub stance which he has discovered will purify the vitiated air of its carbonic acid, its watery vapOr, and all the other impurities of eXhalation, and will also restore to him in exchange just the quantity of oxygen he requires. Experiments by the French Admiralty nave confirmed his assertions. Six to eight pounds of the new chemical will insure life to an adult for twenty-four hours in 8 diving bell or submarine boat.