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Year: 1874

Sargent, by cum ing and hard labor, sue


ceeded. just before the adjournment Of Con


gress, in getting an amendment to the rive


and harbor bill, appropriating 500, 900 t.


help make harbor for the railroad company


at Oakland. However people may regart
| it, the act is an insult to this State. 1t i.


sickening to watch the maneuvring of these


monopoly Representatives. Wherever they


can find question of interest to the PEE pie


but unimportant to the monopoly. they take


u bold stand on the popular side; for no
other purpose than to deract the public eye
from their actions in favor of the monopoly


Page has harpcd on the China-evil. He
knows it's popular with the people, and what
does Stanford care whether the Chinese
stay or are sent home. He is done with
them. Sargent goes after the miners inter
e.ts. He knows the miners will like him
for it, and what does Stanford care whether
this or that becomes The law in reference to
the mines. Thus they contrve to ingratiate
themselves with the people. But let meas
ure vitality concerning Stanford or the railroad
company come mp, and then see where they
are. As in the case sighted above. Sar-
gent has been dnllying along, most of the
time, on the popular side, only stepping out
TO guard his masters interests in extreme
cases, and at the last hour, when Congress
was confused with the rush of business, con-
sequent on the near approach Of adjournment,
he saw a chance to take. Of the peoples
money. $l00 900 and put it where it would
help them who had helped him, he did it,
And thus in this one little and final act put
money enough out of the nations ire; sury
into the hands of the monopoly, to corrupt
half dozen States, suisent to elect to
Congress who they please. Thus it is these
monopoly hirelings may go on whole ses-
sion of Congress, and perhaps not be required
to show their hands but once or twice. The
rest of the time they can keep on the popu-
lar side, currying favor with the people, in
hopes of going before them again, and claim
that they meant well, and what little they
did for the monopoly was mistake. These
mistakes, the people will please notice, often
cost great deal Of money; as this little mis-
take which Sargent accidentally made on
purpose, just at the last moment, will cost
the country, to begin with, 500. 900. and
there is no one on this coast so ignorant but
what knows that the Central Pacific Rail DAD
Company are the only ones who will receive
any benefit from it. We just throw these
remarks out as precursor TO what we shall
have to say on this class Of Representatives
when Page comes before the people again,
AS a candidate for reelection. We want tn,
people to think as we do, that we would be
much safer with Congressman who are no,
prone to make these accidental mistakes.
Year: 1874

1t is reported by IL Washington correspon-
dent that strong efforts are being made it
revive the scheme of securing Cuba for the
United States. They argue that her situa-
tion preven.s her from resisting the laws OF
political gravitation. 1t is only strange thar
this grivitaiion was not discovered when the
domestic institutions Of the South were more
m harmony with those of Cuba. This polit-
ical gravity theory is about as plausible as
the fellows argument who stole the money
and tried to defend himself on the groul,u
that he could not help it. as the money caur
TO him on account Of the magnetic power 4
his own system.
Year: 1874

1T now turns out That lhe Reason the ma
jorty report. adverse TO Luit ellis resolu-
ton for an investigation of the Contract and
Finance Committee. was not subn tied, be-
cause the corruptionists found out the House
would reject it. and adopt the one which
the minority had prepared. favoring an in
vestigation. As the telegram correctly an
nounces, "no minority report could be made,
until the majority report had been presented
to the House. Thus the day of doom waI
postponed by cowardly lick. The raj
road men dare not stand up and be knocked
down"
Year: 1874

Flour will extinguish the flames of
burning coal oil, according to somebody in
Wisconsin. AS soon as it becomes general
ly understood that coal oil is dangerous,
this discovery may prove Of great service.
Year: 1874

The Bulls Crap Convention,
composed of the colored Repu5li-
cans of the 1st District, was not
the triumph for Gillcnwaters which
his friends had predicted. The
Convention it seems was organized
II the interest of Butler, and the
GillenwatcrS men withdrew and
orglnizeC All opposition one Of their
own The Gillenwaters faction say
they had the numbers, but the
Butler men deny the proposition.
LIN this case it seems that the man
who holds on to the bench could
not get the chair, and thus it will
DE next fall. The man who holds
llis iudgeship will fail to snatch the
seat in Congress. Butler has lots
OF aces in his sieve and on his tin>
gers more wax than has Gillenwa-
ters on the seat of his breeches.
Year: 1874

Established less than three years ago
as Representative Republican Paper,
pledged To maintain and defend the prin-
ciples and organization of tine National
Republican party, the INTER OCEAN
was early pushed to the forefront OF
Journal, IN and achieved success unpre-
ceGented in the history of such enter
prises. BY universal assent it has been
assinged position as the
Year: 1874

To Get Tight Ring off a Finger.


Thread needle fat in the eye with
strong thread: pass the head of the
needle, with care, under the ring, and
pull the thread through a few inches
towards the hand; wrap the long end
of the thread tightly around the finger,
regularly all down to the nail, to re-
duce its size. Then lay hold of the
short end of the thread and unwind it.
The thread pressing against the ring
will gradually remove it from the fin
ger. This never-failing method will re-
move the tightest ring without difficult
ty, however much swollen the finger
may be.
Year: 1874

them jump over the bars twice; but
once is usually sufficient. A Western
man relieves his choked cattle by simply
taking up hind foot and hitting few
smart blows with hammer or stick,
or whatever comes handy.
Year: 1874

Loss Of money made me relinquish
experiments with small fruits, and
plant for commercial purposes; but
this, the first year that could have
made something the grasshoppers came,
and have stripped the leaves from fruit
trees and grape vines, leaving the fruit
bare. 1t was no use to fight them, but
I discovered that little smoke drove
them away. 1t is not large fire, but
smoke that sends them off: Had
known this four days ago could have
saved $500 worth Of plants and fruit.
As the grasshoppers will visit other
places, send this note on postal card,
as l have not any stamps, hoping that
it may enable some poor fellow to save
q few dollars. 1t is not practicable on
a large field, but is on few acres.
Hope this note may be the instrument
of saving some gardens and vineyards.
My seeding raspberry was not injured
in the least, nor blackberry.
Year: 1874

The most perfect home ever saw WAS in Il
little house into the incense of whose fires
went no costly things. A thousand dollars
served for years living of father, mother,
and three children. But the mother was tic
creator of home her relations with her
children was the most beautiful have ever
seen; even a dull and commonplace man
was lifted up and enabled to do good work
for souls by the atmosphere which this wo-
man created: every inmate of her house in
voluntarily looked into her face for the key
note of the day and it always rang clear.
From the rosebud or clovcr-lcaf which, in
spite of her hard house-work, she always
found time to put by our plates ut breakfast.
down to the story she had on hand to be read
in the evening, there was no intermission of
her influence. She has always been and
always will bc my ideal of a mother, wife,
and homc-maker. If to her quick brain,
loving heart and exquisite face had been
added the appliances of wealth and the en-
laIgements of wider culture, hers would have
been the ideal of home. As it was, it was
the best I have ever secn.-HeIen Hxnt.
Year: 1874

We arr accustomed to use our toes very
little that, for all the practical purposes Of
life, we might almost rs well be without any.
They were intended in the first place to give
flexibility to the foot, and to help us in our
walking, but the modern euston of cramping
them up in tight shoes makes them almost as
immovable as if they grew together. So the
help they give us in walking is not so much
after all. And ~ for putting them to any
other use, We never think of it.


We abuse them dreadfullv sometimes !;
cra,nD and torture them, and pinch them out
of all likeness to their original shape, until
they would never bc known for the pretty,
perfect little baby toes that we like to cuddle
and count and go to market with, grown up
Who, for instance, would ever imagine that
the second toe is intended to I've longer than
the first: And yet in II perfect foot it always
is, though we arc obliged to go to statues and
paintings 10 find it out. And who, putting q
modern, narrOw-toed shoe side by side would,
ever suspect that they were intended for each
other: The fact is, our toes arc our most
abused members, and so we don't get half the
good from them that VIC might.


The Chinese and Japanese and the Bcdouin
Arabs. it is said, from continued practice,
use their toes nearly IS we'll as their hands.
They can pick up their tools with them, and
even work with them while they do some
thing else with their hands Arabs braid
ropes with their fingers and toes working to-
gethcr in conccrt.-7nc 44dcunct
Year: 1874

1t was told of old that the cackle
of q goose once saved Rome. 1t Is
now stated that swallow won a suit
in court away down in Texas. A
poor widow and her daughter had q
suit for damages before a court in
i Houston. The counsel for the plain
tiff introduced into his pleading
the fable of the swallow that
built her nest and reared her
young under the caves Of the temple
Of justice. The lawyer enlarged upon
the swallows trust in the protection


OF her home the place afforded, and
very aptly made the application to
Ghe case before the court. When
the counsel was about finishing his
Illustration a swallow actually flew
into the room and alghted upon the
judges desk. 1t then hoped away
and found rest for the soIes of its
feet on the railing of the iury-box.
In its circuit of the room It halted
for while upon a pile of law books,
then lowered moment over the
heads of the plaintiffs, and few out
of the window and away, The law
yer concluded by saying: Behold
the Witness" and as the witness
could not be called back by the op-
posing counsel, the case was given
to the jury pretty much as the swal-
low left it. The jury could not ig-
more the birds evidence, and gave a
verdict for the widow. The story
is q little birdy, but not in the least
fishy. If it was a preconcerted plan
of the lawyer it was very happily
arranged and nicely carried out, and
deserves a place among court re-
ports and curious pleadings.
Year: 1874

A previous narratives of intelli-
gent proceedings or the part Of an
imals are thrown in the shade by
the following account of a medical
monkey, described by the Oriental
correspondent Of q London journal:
He one day saw a monkey holding
a snake by the throat and rubbing
its head in the dirt, but, as the
ground was moist and damp, the
snake was not readily killed by this
mode of punishment. Every now
and then the monkey would look
most knowingly in the face of the
reptile to see if it was dead, and in
the course of one of these inyesti


cations the monkey received q Sc
we're bite, This angered him and
he speedily dispatched the snake,
but its coils had hardly relaxed be-
fore the monkey fell PROSTATE, ap-


parently in all the agOnies Of death
| by poison. By this time an aged
looking monkey arrived on the


scene, and after examining the body
| of the snake and the victim he i'm


mediately started for some neigh
lboring bushes, where he collected


some leaves Of the plant known a
1.-THE cherchita. These he rapidly
fashioned into a sort of pill, which


he administered to his snake bitter
Icompanion, who speedily revived


and walked off with mis- physician
The story is declared to come from
Trustworthy sources.
Year: 1874




An esteemed friend of ours heard
of the medical properties of GER
tain spring some distance rom where
she resided. She had read PAM
phlet which enumerated many dis
eases, among which she recognized
at least half dozen with which she
was afflicted. To her great joy she
was told that her son had to call at
the very town where the spring was
located, and five-gallon keg and a
sstrict Injunction were laid upon him
to bring back some of the water.


The keg was put in the wagon,
and slipping under the seat was quite
overlooked. He had got near home
| in the evening, when feeling down
under the seat for something, his
hand struck the keg. He therefore
drew I'D his horse by the side Of a
wall. near which was the old sweep
well from which the family had drank
| for a century, and filling the keg
went home. The first question put
to him was:


"Did you get that water?"


eyes" said he, 'but darned if see
anv difference in it from any other
water" And forthwith the keg was
brought in.


A cup was handed to the invalid
who drank with infinite relish, and
said she was surprised at her sons
not seeing a difference. There wa:
undoubtedly q medical taste about
lit, and it dried up as other watel
did, which she had always heard o
mineral water.


Her son hoped it would do hel
some good, and by the time the keg
was exhausted she was ready to give
q certificate of the value of the water
it having relieved her of all her nu
lmerous ills.
Year: 1874

1t is understood that q portion of
the Western wheat growers are hold


ing back their crop for higher prices,
and some think this fact is one cause
for the present depression Of bust
ness. That the policy is a bad one,


as a rule, no careful observer can


question. When waste and interest


on the capital required to carry 3


crop is considered, it is not difficult


to see that chances to profit from


the hold-back policy are few and far


between. The interest on this cap


ital is of as much importance to the


farmers as the banker. The steadily


declining price of wheat at London


and Liverpool, together with the


small shipments from here, evidence


that this only foreign market is slip


ping away from US and being sup
piled from other sources mot unlike
" by tho same nations which were
last year its competitors in the buy
ing from US. We see it published
that there are in store in New York,
at this time, some 100000 bushels
of wheat, against only 100000 bush
els one year ago; and if shipments
do not soon increase there is a prob
ability that by the close of naviga-
ton that city will hold the extraor-
binary stock of over 3, 100000 bush
els, against the average of less than
/, 100000 bushels. This state of af-
fairs does not indicate any perma-
nent improvement in the price of
wheat for the remainder of the year,
but rather tends toward even lower
prices for such as will find its way
to market at any price; this in turn,
will only tighten the grip Of the
"holding-on class" So that depres-
sion and prostration of all the in
terests depending on and connected


with the wheat growing section may


as well be acce oted as the rule for


another twelve months. Had this
crop of wheat been promptly mark
| eted until Great Britain would take
| no more, it would have infused new
life into all the industries and trades


of the country and have contributed
, toward the liquidation of our for
eign debt. As it is, except for our
own need, the whole crop might as
well have been grasshoppered so far


as it is of any benefit to the country


1t is the locking up of just so muct
, capital, which should be freely cir


culated, imparting life and yigo
{ through all the veins of commerce.
Year: 1874

CAUTIONS N VISITING THE Sick
DO not visit the sick when you are
fatigued, or when in q state Of per-
spiration, or with the stomach empty
for in such conditions you are
liable to take the infection. When
the disease is very contagious, take
the side of the patient which is near
the window. Do not enter the room
ea-ly in the morning, before it has
been aired; and when you come
away take some food, change your
clothing. and expose the latter to
the air for several days. Tobacco
smoke is a preventive Of malaria
Year: 1874

The time Of the year has now
come when fires are to be -kindled.
Old cracked stoves will be brought
out suddenly and put up the first
cold snap. Unsafe and soot-filled
chimneys are crowded with two or
three stove pipes. The consequen-
ces to some body will be disastrous.
The house, store or shop will take
fire some day and burn up before
you are aware of it. And then
some one will find when too late,
tkey had no insurance. Be wise be-
fore the fire. Look to your stoves,
know they are whole. Examine
your stove pipes, clean your chin
ney. See that all cracks and holes
therein are securely plastered up,
Put up your stoves well, and then
come to


l. III. KEELER,


and get an Insurance Policy on
your building and all its contents.
/ have a splendid line Of Companies.
There are none better. Many rep
resented in this city will not stand
the test. Look at the following:
Year: 1874

COUNTRY JOURNALISM. - Since
writing a paragraph on this subject,
which appears elsewhere, we have
read an editorial on the same sub
ject in this mornings Chronicle. The
lesson which it seeks to draw from
the death of the Benicia Tribune
seems to be that since the establish
ment of railroads a paper in a coun-
try town is unnecessary. Inferen-
TALLY the inhabitants ought to sub
local organ die. The fact of the
matter is that there is not paper in
San Francisco that will assist in any
way to build up an interior town.
On the other hand a bright editor
properly sustained by the inhabi-
tants can MAKE town. Does any
one deny that the amusing nonsense
published by Bailey has had an
effect on the prosperity Of Danbury?
Danbury is known to great many
as the place where the Danbury
Ne,cs is published. Not long ago
man worth considerably over mill
lion in money and land, pulled a
Kansas paper out of his pocket, and
pointing to the name at the head of
the column, said: "I depend en-
tirely on that man to make the
property I own in this place valua-
ble." A country paper might be as
pleasing to the inhabitants of San
Mateo, San Jose, Grass Valley, Ma
rysville, Placerville, Los Angeles, or
other interior towns as one filled
with the scandal of the metropolis
can be. The natural advantages of
the surrounding country afford as
pleasing a text as murder in dive
or the latest discoveries of fraud
among city officials. The country
newspaper is a great advertisement
for the town in which it is published,
and it is to the interest of every in
habitant to contribute to its support.
Year: 1874

A WORD ABOUT MARRIAGE.-Our
experience has thrown us among
women of all classes, and it teaches
us that the good Father never gave
a man a greater proof of his love
than to place woman here with him.
Our advice is: Go, propose to the
most sensible girl you know. If she
says yes, tell her how much your in
come is-from what source derived
and tell her you will divide the last
dollar with her, and love her with
all your heart in the bargain. Our
word for it, she will live within your
income, and to your last hour you
will regret that you did not marry
sooner. Gentlemen, don't worry
about feminine extravaganza and
feminine untruth. Just you be true
to her sincerely, and tell her of it
frequently, and a more fond, faithful,
foolish slave you will never meet
anywhere. You won't deserve her,
we know, bat she would never see
it. Now, throw aside pride and sell
fishness, and see what will become
of it,-LYoN COUNTY TIMES.


That's all very nice, Frank-or
would be, if it were not for the pes
tiferous habit the darlings have OF
saying "no," just when fellow
don't want them to; but how did
YOU find out all of those things?
That's what we'd like to know
Idaho World.


Like all sensible men, we have
been there, and speak from exper-
ience. We trust Sutton will try 1t
on ere it is too late. "The years
are creeping slowly bye"
Year: 1874

BEWARE OF ALMOND RoCK.-Ma-
nv and many are the shoals and
ouicksands which beset the ocean of
life; many and dangerous the hid
den rocks lying in wait for the
badly-steered or tempest-tossed ves-
sci. There are the rocks of our
childhood, of our youth, our man
hood, and our old age, and lucky is
he who runs his course with a fair
wind and never scrapes his keel.
Lucky, for the most deadly of all
dangers awaits him at the very out
set of his voyage.


The rock of his childhood is fair
and tempting structure which lures
him to his fate with a power rarely
to be resisted.


The rock of his childhood-the
celebrated almond rock has ust
been declared to be a deadly poison,
a villainous compound of prussH
acid. Ina case recently, before a
London magistrate, the awful tact
was proved, and from the stern lips
of the presiding functionary there
went forth warning to children-a
warning they will do we'll to heed:.


"Beware of almond rock"


Well may some nursery SWIM
burne exclaim, while sobbing IN MS
pinafore-


Thy mouth is made of death and heat


Thy sweet lips poison whom they KISS


Down, false deceiving deadly sweet


That may crush beneath my feet


Thy fatal bliss.


We trust the future compilers OF
English history will not forget to IN
clude among famous events ga. d.
1874, almond rock first discovered
to be deadly poison"
Year: 1874

THE ACORN.
An acorn swung
On an oak-tree bough;
So long 1t had hung,


1t would fain fall now
To the kindly earth,


That its germ within
Might burst into birth,
And its life begin.
And the autumn came
With its burning hand;
And each leaf grew fame,
And each bough a brand.
And worm came up
And began to eat
Through the hard, dry cup
To the acorn sweet.
And the acorn thought,
81 shall soon see now
The life have sought,
When l fall from the bough:
For the worm gnaws through
Each tendon slight,
That about me grew.
And bound me tight"
And with dying day
Came the zephyr's sound;
And the acorn lay


Next morn on the ground;
But its germ was gone
By the worms sharp teeth;
And the ground it had won
Was its grave in death.
Year: 1874

Will soon convince you of its wonderful merits in
curing this vile disorder; disease which, when seat
ed, produces Consumption, from which there is no
escapes one little box of the German Snuff will
your Catarrh and then the foul matter will disappear
out trouble; in fact you will be cured and then and
not till then, will you look like the following: