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WIT AND HUMOR.
Best thing out A conflagration.
In the picture gallery. Young girl
Say, mamma, when shall we come to
another of those pictures where I must
shut my eyes?
Doctor 'Now tell me, colonel, how
do you feel when you've killed a man ?"
Colonel "Oh, very well, thank you,
doctor how do you ?"
We have received an exchange called
the Christian at Work. Ah, ah! Gone
back at the old prices, we presume.
f Burlington Hawkeye.
A swan, who stuttered horribly paid
court to a very pretty actress. "Ah! sir,"
said she, " life is too short. I haven't
time to listen to you."
An Iowa youth tried to take home a
widow and three swarms of bees at one
load. He and the widow walked it.was
so pleasant, you know.
When a man fools with stocks, he gen
erally gets his foot in it. In the old
times thoy had stocks that people some
times got both feet into.
"You're a smart fellow," sneered a
lawyer to a witness, the other day. "I'd
return the compliment if I wasn't under
oam, repnea tne witness.
Thk first step toward wealth used to
be considered the choice of a good wife;
but now-a-days wealth is the first step
A 1 A 1 - .
luwaru xue cnoice oi a wiie.
A NEWARK bfcllp xehn r.r.1.1 her ilAai-flst
friend that she was going to fly like a
Dim to tuo mountains, took seventeen
trunks with her when she went.
There are three banks in the United
States having ladies as tellers, and it is
wonderful how quick they change a fifty
dollar bill for a good-looking man.
First New Yorker "I consider him a
man of first-class business talent." Sec
ond New Yorker "Ah, indeed ! "What
was the amount of his defalcation ?"
A scientific authority states that " a
single female house fly will produce in
one season 20,080,320 eggs." Great guns!
What must the married ones do. Ex.
Sign at a tavern near the cemetery of
St. Oaen : " The Mourner's Return !
Choice wines and liquors. Private rooms
for guests who wish to weep in private."
An envious paragrapher remarks: "It
has been observed that the lady with the
diamond ring will scratch her nose, in a
given period, four times as often as any
other woman. '
It was a Vassar girl who, when a sai
lor of forty years' voyaging had been
pointed out to her as an "old salt," sub
sequently alluded tohim as "nn ancient
chloride of sodium."
It is said that the Nez I'erces took
their style of ringing the nose from see
ing the hook so often in a salmon's nose.
We thought they usually speared salmon
and hooked horses. Ex.
"Well, my love, what do you think of
the gentleman who rooms next to you ?"
" Oh, he's an idiot. But then he isn't a
bit egotistical not a bit proud. When
he's alone he speaks to himself."
Irish boatman (to timid Teuton)
" Och, never mind what they've been
telling ye about the boat. She doe3 cap
size aisy, it's true, but that's nothing ;
she rights herself again in a jiffy."
" In the sentence, 'John strikes Wil
liam,' " remarked a school teacher yes
terday, " What is the object of strikes?"
"Iligher wages and shorter runs,"
promptly replied the intelligent pupil.
They were at a picnic . On the ground
was a small stand for the sale of watch
charms. "Oh, George," she said, "buy
me a charm." "Sarah," siid he, "you
have too many already." Lowell Cour.
The minister was talking of purity of
heart, and the boy was dreaming of fruit
cake. So when the good man said,
" What more can we have ?" the boy re
plied, "You've had two pieces already."-
"Are you a professional or an ama
teur ?" asked a lady of a young journal
ist at Long Branch. " Both, madame,"
he replied. " I am a journalist by pro
fession, and I amateur service as well."
Thompson is not going to do anything
more in conundrums. He recently asked
his wife the difference between his head
and a hogshead, and she said there was
none. He says that is not the right an
swer. When a young woman makes up her
mind that a hen Bhall not set, and the
hen makes up her mind that she will,
the irresistible meets the immovable,
and every law of nature is broken or per
verted. " Increase your receipts and decrease
your expenditures," is the valuable in
formation sent to the fools who forward
twenty-five cents to a New Yorker in an
swer to the advertisement " How to be
come rich."
Therm is a hint of outspoken pathos,
a hint of patient suffering and resigna
tion in this birth notice from the Marvs
vilie " Appeal :" " In this city, August
9th, to the wife of William Lea, a son.
Not twins this time."
A rash fu l young man applied to his
village paper for information on the im
portant subject, "How to win a woman's
love." The reply was : "Kis the babies,
caress the tomcat, and pay strict atten
tion to the old lady."
Thh United States army is being rap
idly put upon a war footing. Two more
soldiers have reported for duty, and a
man in the hospital with a sore leg will
be ready for business in less than a fort
night. Bridgeport Standard.
" Wht," asked a teacher in the Bap
tist Sunday-school, did Solomon tell
the sluggard to go to the ant?" " Be
cause," said a thirteen-year-old boy, "he
knew his aunt would have him out at the
wood-pile or in the onion-bed every af
ternoon as soon as school was out."
A man much addicted to drinking be
ing extremely ill with a fever, a consul
tation was" held in his bedchamber by
three physicians how to "cure the fever
and abate the thirst." " Gentlemen,"
said he, "I will take half the trouble off
your hands. You cure the fever, and
I'll abate the thirst myself."
TffE other day, as an undertaker Avas
walking along, accompanied by his son,
he took off his hat and made a low bow
to a man whom they saw across the street.
" Father, why do you take off your hat
to such an old codger?" inquired the
son. " My son, that man has ten chil
dren, some of whom will die before the
summer's out, and he pays cash down
for everything," was the reply.
An Ohio political stumper, while mak
ing a high-flown speech recently, paused
in the midst of it and exclaimed: "Now,
gentlemen, what do you think In
stantly a man in the assembly rose, and,
with one eye partly closed, said, with a
Scotch brogue: "Mr. Speaker, I think,
sir I dae, indeed, sir I think that, if
you and I were to stump the country to
gether, we could tell mair lies than ony
it her twa men in the country, sir ; and
I'd no say a word mysel' a' the time, sir."
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Growing Plump.
certain indications that the ttpical
. american woman is taking on flesh.
Europeans generally concede that our
American women are handsome, though
they say they are so fragile that they
early lose their freshness, and with it
much of their beauty. They particularly
remark the tendency of our women to
grow thin with years, while we remark
the tendency of their women to the ac
cumulation of flesh as soon as they have
passed their youth, and often even be
fore that period. While we must allow
that our women are, for the most part,
lacking in roundness, there are' few of
us, we imagine, who would not infinite
ly prefer the New World slenderness
to the Old World stoutness. A medi
um between the two might be the stand
ard of the becoming, and this medium
we seem to be approaching, slowly per
haps, but steadily. The opinion of the
thinness of the feminine part of the na
tion is pased rather on what has been
than on what is. The majority of our
women are still too thin for beauty, but
they are less lean than they were twenty
five or even fifteen years ago.
This fact for fact it unquestionably
is can scarcely have escaped observa
tion. It is noticeable everywhere, par
ticularly in large towns and cities, and
is due to different causes, all of which
are easily recognized. The fleshiness of
a people depends largely on the age and
development of their country. Where
everything is new, and, in a certain
sense, raw, as is this land, their is very
little leisure or repose. Our entire en
ergies are directed to our advancement;
our minds are absorbed by thought of
the future and what it promises. We
hardly take time to get flesh; we think
and fret off that which we have acquir
ed, instead of acquiring more. Our
women do not perform so much physical
labor as our men, but they work longer
in their way,' and worry more; and anx
iety or any other form of mental disturb
ance insures meagerness as nothing else
doe3. These live too much through
the mind to live quite comfortable
through the body, and the body suffers
in consequence. In the Old World
everything is fixed. The inture is not
likely to be different from the present;
there is email occasion for wistf ulness
or solicitude. Material conditions aro
not usually so favorable as here, but
they aro permanent, and by their perma
nence, especially by the clear under
standing that they are so, they beget
content, whence adipose matter. Ameri
can women neither work nor worry as
they used. The republic is more devel
oped, things are more settled, somewhat
of the European feeling is creeping into
the national miDd, and less thinness is
the result.
American women take vastly better
caro of themselves than formerly. They
have more acquaintance with hygienic
laws, and hold them in far higher es
teem. The days when they exposed
themselves to dampness and wintry cold
in thin slippers and silk stockings; when
they abstained from their flannels
next the skin; when they pinched their
waists to semi-suflbcation; when they
sacrificed comfort and health to what
they conceivod to bo their appearances
those foolish and unhappy days aro
gone forever, have barely been known
to the raising generation. Our women
now have no mawkish, morbid notions
as to themselves; they no longer think
that to be unhealthy is to be attactive;
that individualism and intercstiugncss
are synonymous; that pale faces and
compressed lungs are tokens of beauty.
They dress seasonably; they wear thick
boots and warm clothes in bad and cold
weather; they allow themselves to im
proved, not injured, by the wholesome
change. There are exceptions, many of
them, doubtlesss, but the rule is as we
have described, and the exceptions' are
constantly diminished. It may be safely
said that sensible women are becoming,
if they have not become, converts to na
ture, and that they heed her behests, re
cognizing the great principle that what
is not natural cannot be beautiful.
Little more than a quarter of a cent
ury ago young American women were
ashamed to show a hearty appetite in
public. They were affected with the
Byronic philosophy; wanted to be
spiritual as if all true spirituality did
not rest on sound physical conditions
and to look elegantly wretched. Many
of them had half their wish; they
looked wretched, but not elegant. They
were charged with drinking vinegar, eat
ing slate-pencils, and committing other
monstrous absurdities. They may have
been nnjnstly accused, but their theories
warrant the accusation. All such non
sense belongs to the past. American
women to-day eat as much as they want,
and more wholesome food than they
once ate ; they walk more, court the open
air, cultivate their bodies as well as their
minds, believe in perfect digestion, un
broken sleep, the glow and glory of un
blemished health. No wonder their
proportions are fuller, their cheeks more
blooming, their eyes brighter, their
steps more elastic. The growth of the
country and their common sense are
serving them generously.
The scrawny, sallow.'peaked woman,
if she be educated and fairly placed, will
ere long cease to be the type of the middle-aged
American woman. With the
steady growth of the republic, the in
creased ease of circumstances, and their
complete health, American women will
be comelier and rounder than they have
been. External and internal conditions
assure this. They are not likely to be
come gross, as so many of their Euro
pean sisters are; the character of the
country, its institutions and its atmos
phere, with their own temperament, will
preserve them from that.
Physiology protests against the
strained and artificial attitude which
the horse is compelled to assume, and
which must certainly lessen his power
of drawing weights. Humanity and
common-sense protest against the in
fliction of this constant gagging strain
upon the sensitive mouth of an animal
whose mouth is used by the driver as
the principal means of guiding and di
recting him. Nor can any one who has
any real knowledge of or pleasure in
the study of animal foruisfeel otherwise
than gratified at the free an .1 n nf- re
strained attitude of ahorse driven with
out bearing-reins. No good coachman
uses bearing-reins for a horse from which
he desires to get the full amount of
work, or which he desires to leave at
ease. Their employment is, indeed
mearlya senseless fashion which has
absolutely nothing to recommend it
and in favor of abolition there are rea
sons so many and decided that we hope
that not many years will pass before
they are not only disused but forgotten.
British Medical Journal.
Better to have loved a short girl than
never to have loved a tall.
Bismarck at Home.
A century ago, when Berlin was sur
rounded by walls which continued to
exist until about 1800, the upper portion
of the Wilhemstrasse was the quarter
of the town chiefly afflicted by adminis
ters and diplomatists. Bismarck s resi
dence, laying exactly half-way between
the Leipziger and Wilhelmstrasse, is a
one-storied building, devoid of every
external ornament. The frontage is ex
tensive, and embraces about twelve win
dows The entrance to the house is on
the ri"-ht-hand side. After having cross
ed through the large portico, one ar
rives at a staircase, symbolically guard
ed by two sphinxes' heads. On the
ground-floor are official bureaus, and
up-stairs the private rooms of the Chan
cellor. These apartments, furnished at
the beginning of the century, consisting
of a large dancing-room over the gate
way and four large drawing-rooms, re
served for the reception of guests and
other social purposes, look out upon the
street. The large lofty library or study
of the Chancellor is situated at the back,
and commands a view of the magnifi
cent garden. Since Bismarck left in
tercourse with foreign diplomatists to
Baron Bulow, the Secretary of the State,
he seldom appears within the Cham
bers really constituting the Foreign Of
fice. Private telegraph wires keep him
informed of the course of affairs, and he
issues his instructions accordingly.
Formerly the hours chiefly devoted by
Bismarck to work were in the night.
Latterly, however, an increase of his
neuralgic pains has warned him not to
turn night into day. Imperatively ad
monished by his doctors, ho no longer
indulges in heavy drinks notably, por
ter mixed with champagne, which used
to be his favorite beverages. At his
meals only the lightest and most diges
table dishes make their appearance.
He himself draws up every morning
with his chef de cuisine the menu for
the day; and even if ambassadors are
waiting in the anti-chamber, the cook
is received without delay. At table he
notes down such critical expressions on
the dishes as "frop exit," "pas tendre"
for instruction or reproof of his . cook.
His kitchen is overwhelmed by his ad
mires with special delicacies of the sea
son, and productions in which various
provinces excel, such as Weatphalian
ham.Zaueror Frankfort sausages, Stras
burg paes. A lively and entertaining
host, ho possesses the gift, rare in Ger
mans, of causerie', and whilst in Parlia
ment on public occasions his speeches
are delivered with manifest effort, he
is in private an easy and unconstrained
conversationalist.
Bismarck 1 saves Berlin for a spar on
hia favorite country seat, Varzin, which
he pnrchased after the war of 18GC. In
the capital he is rarely met beyond the
precincts of the Foreign Office gardens.
His constant companion in his walks is
Sultan, a splendid Danish mastiff, pre
sented to him by a friend in South Ger
many. His growing corpulence not,
however.disproportionate to his height
has compelled him to give up riding.
His personal presence is almost too well
known to need description. Small feet
and hands, bald head, lofty brow, small
gray eyes in deep sockets, almost hid
den by bushy eyebrows and martial
moustache, now really white, which
covers his month, are the features chief
ly noticeable in tho man. He usually
wears uniform for tho most part that
of the 7th Cuirassiers which consists
either of a while coat, with a cuirass and
a large helmet, or a blue undress coat,
with a yellow collar. He only appears
at Court on stato occasions, alleging, as
excuse for his absence, that standing
fatigues him. The more correct expla
nation is that among the leading person
ages in the encourage of his Majesty are
several of his bitterest personal and po
litical foes. More than once he has al
most come to blows with some of his
fellow-courtiers in the imperial ante
chamber, and an altercation three years
ago witli Count Nesselrode. the Lord
IIigh Chamberlin of the Empress, a
stanch Catholic, was followed by mu
tual challenges to a duel, which the in
terference of the Emperor alone pre
vented. Jj)udon World.
A wood teamster yesterday had some
business to transact with the occupant
of a room in the top story of a block on
Griswold street, and as he reached the
landing of the last flight of stairs his
heel caught and down he rolled, bump
ing from stair to stair, and unable to
catch hold of anything. A lawyer lean
ed over the stairs as he heard the noise,
and shouted:
"You'll strike bottom pretty quick
don't get discouraged !"
" Oh, I know just where I am; I count
ed the stairs when I went up,"- replied
the teamster.
As he landed he rubbed his bruised
back, and looking up the stairs he mus
ed: " I counted fourteen steps going
up and fifteen bumps coming down.
Something wrong with the architecture
of this building." Free Press.
The story of an Oshkosh man who
took up a collection at the funeral of
his wife, which is going the rounds as
illustrating a mean man, says the La
Crosse Sun, is explained by the fact that
the bereaved man is a church deacon,
and for twenty years he had always
taken up a collection while the choir was
singing the second time. At the funer
al, when the choir struck up " Old
Hundred," before he thought what he
was doing he got up and passed the hat
as usual, to raise money to defray the
necessary expenses. When his atten
tion was called to it after the funeral,
and he thought how his motive would
be misconstrued, he felt as bad about it
as anybody. It was not an evidence of
meanness, but a case of absence of
mind.
At a funeral a mourner with a passion
for games of chance finds himself in the
carriage with the heart-broken parents
of the corpse. The procession moves at
a snail's pace, and there is evidently a
long hour's ride before the cemetry is
reached. The mourner stands it as
long as he can, then, placing his hands
in his pocket, rattles a few coins signifi
cantly, and, turning to the sorrow
striken father, whispers: "This is
slow, isn't it? I will flip you just once
for a five." Paris wit.
This is the season of the year when
the average clerks talks carelessly for
a few days about Saratoga, Long Branch
and other fashionable watering places,
buys another 23-cent white tie, packs
his valise, bids all his friends adieu,
and slides carefully up the back streets
and takes the stage up to the country
to help the old folks to get in hay for a
week or two. Bridgeport Standard.
An old bachelor says that the talk of
women is usually about men; even their
laugh is but " He! he! he!"
COURTESY OF BANCROFT LIBRARY,
The Centre of Vitality.
The life of tho flesh and the brain, the
bones and the muscles, is the blood. It is the
centre of vitality, the nutriment of the system.
Not only must it be pure, but rich, in order to
retain health. In the feeble and devitalized, the
life current is watery and its circulation sluggish.
The niiTscles of such persons lack solidity, the
nerves are weak, the visage haggard, and the eye
lustreless. A course of Hostetter's Stomach fil
ters, however, improves not only the health but
the appearance of the debilitated and nervous.
Nutrition then becomes complete becanse diges
tion receives an impetus from this benignant
tonic, which fertilizes the blood, brings back
"the rose tint of health" to the wan cheek,
brightness to the eve, and gives power of endur
ance to the muscle. Invalids, hasten to use it !
Kli4Hrau ltesort.
The necessity of adding a department
for the accommodation of ladies visiting the
United States liestaurant has been met by fitting
up one of the most tasty and convenient parlors
for that purpose in the city. Cleanliness being
the first and most pleasing invitation to the ap
petite, no labor shall be spared in that direction.
The most polite and attentive waiters shall al
wavs be in attendance. We shall serve the
choicest the season and market afford, in a man
ner to please the most exuetiug, at prices ena
bling all to gratify their wishes. An invitation
is extended to the ladies, and it is hoped they
will avail themselves of the pleasant quarters
fitted to their convenience. J. 31. Pike s U. S.
liestaurant, corner Clay and Montgomery sts.,
San Francisco.
'What Shall be Done Willi Our Irl
oners T"
A short time since this question was
propounded by the Kan Francisco Evening Bul
letin, but as vet no satisfactory answers have
been given. It is not alone that the 1300 or
1400 convicts at present confined atSan Quen
tin should be employed, but provision should
be made- for as many more, for, taking tho in
crease for the last two years as a basis, in ten
years time the number will be doubled. Tho
State is just now about completing two hundred
more cells, whose tenants are now waiting to
occupy them. The clay for bricks seems to be
pretty nearly exhausted, and it never has been
made profitable either to the contractor or to
the State.
There have been a number of attempts made
to employ the prisoners at different kinds of me
chanical work, which have utterly failed. Con
tractors cannot afford to risk so much upon un
certainties, conseqnent upon changes in admin
istration, Increased insurance rates and addi
tional risks of all kinds. True, the State offers
great inducements to those that are willing to
embark in the enterprise, but very few have
hitherto availed themselves of the offer. The
California Manufacturing Company have been
successful. They work a large number of men,
part of them upon furniture for the million,
which looks well and is sold so cheap that the
poor can afford to buy it. They have a large
number of free men and some prisoners that
work on the finest work, which is said to be the
only furniture niude in tho State that will stand
the climate of the interior. They have samples
of both at their warerooms, 221" and 226 liush
street, and G41 and G51 Market stret, San Fran
cisco the cheap is infinitely superior to the
common class manufactured in the city, and de
serves the preference it receives.
DivoitcES Specially Obtained terms
moderate; advice and consultation free. Call
or address J. li. Grey & Co's Law office, room
4, No. 00 Kearny street, San Francisco, Cal.
From Hon, W. II. Jour, of H'fut Dot rr,
Vrtiuonl.
" I have bee 11 troubled from my boy
hood with chronic or hereditary lungconiplaiiit.
Some years since, early in tho winter, I took cold,
which as usual settled into a severe cough, whicli
continued to increase as the season advanced, al
though I made use of all the cough remedies I
had Knowledge of. My family physician also
prescribed for me, but I experienced no relief,
burins ail this timo I was" gradually running
down, i Ming flesh and strength, until my friends
as well as myself became very jnucli alarmed,
thinking I should waste away in consumption.
Whilo in Dot-ton, during the Spring following, I
was induced to try YI stab's Balsam of Yild
Cherry. After ono day's trial I was sensible
that it was relieving me; in ten days time my
cough had entirely ceased, and I was soon res
tored to health and strength. I have ever since
kept the Balsam in my house, aud whenever any
mcmlier of my family has a cougli or cold, it is
immediately resorted" to. io family should lie
without it. Sold by all druggists."
The Machine Wai Worn Out.
Why? Not because it was not well
built, but it was wrongly run. Thousands of
men who have run down long before their three
score and ten years are accomplished, might
have been renewed into sprightliness and vim
if they had tried the v ell-known Peruvian .Sy
rup, w hich contains among its compounds the
l'rotoxide of iron, so combined that it assimi
lates with the blood and invigorates the whole
system. This Syrup has proved efficacious in
thousands of cases, and will do everybody good
who uses it. All drugtpsts keep it.
Rlieunmtinm (Illicitly Cured.
" Purang'g Rheumatic Remedy," the great Inter
nal Medicine, will positively cure any case of rheu
matism on the face of the earth. Price ft a bottle,
six bottles, $!. Sold by all Druggists. Send for
circular to Helphenstine k Bentley, Druggists,
Washington, D. C. Sold wholesale by H. C. Kirk
& Co., Sacramento, Cal.
A Chaxce fob Everybody-. Extraordinary
Cash Premiums offered for subscribers to the
Weekly Kkscte $10 per dav can be made.
Address Russell, GRson & Co.,518 Clay st., S.F.
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Stkkkt, Room 46 Sau Francisco.
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Physical debility, indiscretions and excesses, send
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OR ihe successful treatment of excessive fatness
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EVERY MORNING.
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A Cheai' and Effective
Dip Fon SCAB, and all
otheu Sheep Diseases.
We earnestly recommend
all Wool Growers to try it
CHRISTY & WISE,
eT Front Street, Sax Frascisco.
specialty
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baa removed
to sal Clay utreet. Dis
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receive especial attention.
Medical and Surgical treatt
men t given in all dlseaaea.
Much experience in Throat
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Majrnetism ncientillcallv ap
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urinary diseases much attei Mou Is given. May be
consulted by letter. Address iV. J. PAL'OH, M. O.,
621 ctay Htreet, San Francisco, (over Clay street
Savings Bank), Rooms 1. 2 and 3.
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EXTRACT FROM REPORT OF BOARD OF
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of Trusses in accordance with an Act of Congress
approved May 2S. 172 :
The Board is of the opinion that the above pun
ciples, viz., those which belong to a proper Truss
are best carried out by the ' Common Sense Truss,'
manufactured by liar tie tt, Putmau A Parker, Bos
ton and Chicago, aud are therefore recommended
by the Board as the best."
BAZII. NORRIS, Surgeon U. S. A., President
J , C. ROKSK. Assist't-iaurgeon U. 8. A., Secretary.
J. J. WOODWARD, Assistant-Surgeon. U. 8 A.
OKORGK A. OTIS, Assistant-Surgeon V. K. A.
The above recommendation of the Board of Medi
cal Ollicers with regard to Trusses is approved.
.1. K. 11ARNKH. Surgeon-General V. S. A
Send for our special circulars Willi prices, etc.. at
the office of V. K. K F.N YX A '.. Sole Agents,
Montgomery sireet, opposite Oci1ental Hotel,
San Francisco.
Klnnllr N(ocLIiiic one or our kieHaItle,
Letter from Dr. J". Sinxms,
thk
RENOWNED PHYSIOGNOMIST
or NEW YORK.
Coi.rSA, Cal , August 2(, 177.
MKSfKS. PtKKI'K fe 8o.v,
eo Sacramento Street, San Francisco :
I take great pleasure in informing you that the
Truss I purchased of your firm last November lias
COM PLKTELY CURED the Rupture with whicli I
had suffered FOUR1KKN YEARS. Within three
years past my Ilerni or Hunture had grown rapidly
worse, while wearing an ordinary truss, and the In
testine passed down whenever I coughed, blowed
mv nose or strained toiifi; no common truss could
prevent it: aud then the pain was torture.
After I wore one of vour PAT EST MAGNETIC
ELASTIC TRUSSES for FOUR MONTHS, I no
ticed that the intestine did not puss down in the
least, even when 1 strained to my utmost, and what
was mv troublesome Hernia was ENTIRELY
CURED, and so remains to this day.
I freely write yon concerning my cure because
I feel it to be a duly I owe to you aud to other fellow
kind who are similarly alllicted.
Yiu are at liberty to print this letter should von
think proper, and if inquirers desire further partic
ulars, they may address me for one month at Wood
land, Yolo County, Cal.
I am. most respectftOlv vnurs,
.1. SIMMS, M. D
PIERCE'S
Patent Magnetic Elastic Truss
Can be obtained onlv of the
MAGNETIC ELASTIC TRUSS CO.,
. MACK.t 51 KNTO STHKKT,
SAN FRANCISCO.
JOHN T. LITTLE,
niorount Broker, Kml ftlMnlr Acriikand
Drnlrr in Vnited Slatm, Ml ate. City nml
County Iinl. Vak, Matter, ttauk.
ft n i I road iu,l Oilier Keeurili-.
412 Montgomery Street.
$400,000
To Loan on CITY and COUNTRY
REAL. ESTATE.
$250,000
To Loan on Gas, Water, Bank, Rail
road and Other Securities.
MERCANTILE PAPER
Discounted, and Money Loaned upon
all kinds of Collaterals.
JOIOT T. LITTLE,
41 Montgomery Street.
SAN FRANCISCO.
Msmey to ILoan
OX FIRST CLAWS FARMING LANDS. IN
large sum, at low rates. Uniis nought unci
sold, l'arties having money to loan can always find
good securitiea, by applying to
W'M. LKFI'IXWi:U.
So. IS Stevenson's Building, S. W. for. Montgom
ery aiid California streets. Sun Francisco.
Save Your Money
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Old letures enlarged to any hiz.e and Beautifully
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cheap at HOWI.A D'S KV OALLERY.
Please call and see our work and get our prices be
fore sitting elsewhere, and be sure and remember
the number, 3 Third Ktreet. corner of Jessie.
It. f. IIUH LAXn, Artiat.
Sajt Francisco, Cal
OREGON STEAMSHIP COMPANY.
The Only Direct Line to Portland.
Cabin Pawuize, SiO Nteerse Pnaaase. 83
nE(il'l,Alt J X K A M E R fi TO
PRTL..N1) leaving San Francisco ev
ery 11VK DAYS until further notice Steamships
City of Chester, George W.
Elder and Ajax,
Connecting with Steamers to SITKA and Pl'GET
SOCND, and O. and C. R. R. Co. and Oregon and C.
R. R. Co. through Willamette, Umpqua and Kogue
River Valleys, Oregon.
TICKETS TO ALL POINTS ON THE O. and C. R.
K. SOLD AT REDUCED RATES.
K. VAN OTERENDORP, Agent,
aio Battery street. Sail Francisco.
PACIFIC COAST STEAMSHIP CO.
Carrying; the V. H. ytail and tUe Kiprru.
f4tfK The Eletcant Steamera, of III is
'LnVtAT f-omnnnv leave Broadway Wharf, San
Imucia'u, Every Week for
PORTLAND, OREGON, DIRECT,
And for Santa Cruz, San Luis Obispo, Snuta Bar
bara, Ventura, Los Angeles, and San Diego and
other ports alout EVERY THIRD DAY.
Tickets sold to all the principal places ou tbe Pa
cific Slope at
miE LOWEST KATEH. '
Don't lln.r Tiekel tr any other Line
until you rail at our Tleket Olllre.
Nan Fraariiro Tieltet Ofllee ai t Mont
gomery Mtreet.
GOODALL, PERKINS & CO.
General Acents, No. 10 Market Street,
San Francisco.
Sau Francisco, May 30, 18T7.
We. the uuderaignea Wholesale Uro-
eer. take pleasure In remarking the In
ereaaed demand for Btwtn'i Premium
Yeast Powder, and of testirylnjr to the
general satisfaction given by this brand
Sajj Francisco WELLMAN, PECK CO.,
ROOT & SANDERSON,
LEDDEN, WHIPPLE & CO.,
HAAS DUOS.,
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CASTLE BROS.,
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i ONES k CO.,
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M. & C. MANGELS.
TILLMAN k BENDEL.
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Sacramento ADAMS. McNEILL & CO
MEBIUS & CO.,
BOOTH & CO.,
MILLIKKN BROS.
W. K. CHAMBERLAIN' JR. TWOS. A. KOBINHnv
BUSINESS
COLLEGE,
820 Post Street,
fit ID a trsBo-v
OPPOSITE UNION SQUARE. TnE OLDEST
i-Da08t Popo't Commercial College on the
coast. Elegant halls ; new furniture: thorough ln
Sns:,E fa'K" standing wlfh the
public. Htudents can commence at any tfine. Day
aud Evening eesslous. Circulars free ou application.
PACIFIC
BLOOD
(KH'IIKSSR IT
IF YOU ARE PALE,
IT WILL GIVE COLOR TO YOUR CHEEKS.
IF YOU ARE WEAK,
IT WILL GIVE YOU STRENGTH.
IF YOU FEEL DULL AND GLOOMY
IT WILL MAKE YOU CHEERFUL.
IF INCAPABLE OF EXERTION,
IT WILL GIVE YOU ACTIVITY.
IF THE
LEAST THING PUTS YOU OUT,
IT WILL GIVE YOU TLUCK AND ENERGY.
i:v woni),
If Your Blood is Thin
IT WILL MAKE IT RICH.
A LARGE NUMBER OF MEN
AND OVER
J. hnlf of the women suffer from Aneaiy or Thin
lt.i- : that is tosay, that tbe quantity of red grioo
ul", wau-h predominate lu a healthy and vigorous
bloit i is in their cases too small. The basis of these
red Kiohuies is I RON. which their internal ecf-nomy
fails to furnish in sufficient quantity.
The basi of this new and wonderful medicine is
also IRON, which is easily assimilated by the sys
tem, and pives to the Blood that vitality and strength
which it so much wants, and which is so iiinipensi
Me to that real enjovment of life, commonly called
Pkrkf.cti.y Goon 1 1 &a r.Tit.
One of the (treat qualities which will maice this
precious preparatiou largely popular is that oii'-e
the Blood has obtained the quantity of Iron it neei's
it will not absoi b any more of it: there is therefoi
no fear of bad consequences to tie entertain- d
Hhoiild a person use it when not needed.
Therefore, if you perceive any of the symptoms
above described, or in any way have the least cause
to think that your Blood is thin, do not hesitate a
moment lo have recourse to our RKD BLOOD, and
stick to it until you feel a radical change; unuer i-s
iuiluence you will perceive your cheeks pradna!iv
redden; your energy, moral aud physical, will be
strengthened, aud you will discover what a good
thing it m to live when one is healthy.
Anemy or Thin itlood is not only a disease by it
self, but it preCisposes one to any other diseases,
prevalent or under whose influence you may be
unconsciously Ljwowu why, then, uot get rid at
once of such a terrible enemy t
We owe this great discovery to Dr. Bartkowhkv.
j a distinguished French Chemist, who, under certain
considerations, has entrusted the uudersignen with
his v cret to act for him as bis A cent for the United
States.
N. B. Unlike any other preparation, this do- s not
affect the teeth.
To he lutil from all the iriii-iil lieui
isl. I'rire, Kl.ri.". i
Agent for the United States.
C. MELQTJIOND,
4 IS SANSOMK STllKI-.T.
Corner of Commercial, Sax Fs an-Cisco, Cal.
A
FTER YOU HAVE TRIED EVERYTHING
in vain, I bK
IIt. SAI.FIKI.1VS
RejuvenatoR
And a thorough, ftpeedy and Prrmaneal
ure will be your Reward.
It is the only great remedy, immediate relief, and
fMwitive cure for Wenktirxx ftreuliar to nten . such as
Nervous, Mental and Physical Debility, Premature
Decline, and Broken-down Constitution, from what
ever cause. Jt wiil restore Exhausted Mtatity ami
Manhood vhen all othfr remedie have failed. 1 1 will
fnirify the blood and supply 1c with the necessarv
ife-givlng principle, and thereby eradicate all mor
bid eruptions of the skin. It is an immediate ralief
and sure cure for all KIDNEY AND BLADDER
COM PLAINTS.
Price, fiSO per bottle, or five bottles in case (which
In most every instance haseffected a complete cure)
for $10 00 Sent to any address upon receipt of
price, or P. O. D. Prorurable only direct of DR,
MALKIKLD, 31 Kearny Ntreet. San Francisco,
Cal , where you should call or address your letters.
All communications strictly confidential.
Offick Hours : a. m. "till 4 r. m. and 6 till 8 r.
m. Sundays from 10 till 1 only. Consultation by
letter or personally Free.
USE the Hierapicra or f ig BitterR. Cures Fever
and Ague. Biliousness. Constipation, Impure
Blood, Kidnej- Weakness, Worms. Uiinaj-y Disor
ders, Female Complaints, etc. Druggists have It.
Agents. ltKOiNTO.v & Co, Wholesale Druggists,
San Francisco, Cal.
DR. STEINHART'S
Essence of Life
A Positive Cure g-iinrauteetl Jn nil eawew
or Nervous nnd 1'h.ysirnl Debility.
Premature Ieeline and KxhanM
el Vitality, no matter or how
long: standing; or from w hat
eanve Produced.
Price HZ per bottle, or 4 bottles fin case) MO.
ii-Seiit to any address, secure from observation,
upon receipt of price r C o. 1.
To be had only of DR. WKLLK, 4X6 Kkabny
Strekt, San Francisco.
Consultation and Advice, personally at office, or
by letter, Free.
DR. X,. J. CZAPKAY'S
Private 3Ielioal Institute,
ao Kearny tit., San Franciseo. Established in
1HS4, ftir the Itnnatient Cirre of all Hitccial and
fhronic lUxeates. a alsn all i'emule Complaints and
Viscoses of the A'trvou System.
rpiIE IMMENSE DESTRUCTION OFnCMAN
JL life annually from secret and chronic diseases,
caused this old and reliable institution to be estab
lished first in Philadelphia, Penn., ia ISTjO, and after
wards In !an Francisco, Cal., in 154, as a private dis
pensary, in order to afford the afflicted the best med
ical and surKical treatment, for the above and all
other affections and complainti. Consultations at
the institute or by letter, FREE.
Ptwraieal aud Mental Ieblliiy.
Vital weakness, nervousness, low npirits, lassitude
weakness of tbe limbs and back, loss of muscular
power, indisposition and incapability for labor and
study, a weak, exhausted feeling; no energy or cour.
ae, palpitation of the heart, dullness of apprehen
sion, loss of memory, aversion to society, love of
solitude, timidity, self-distrust, loss of manhood diz
ziness, headache, pains In the side, atfections of the
eye, pimples on tbe face, sexual or other infirmities
in man or woman, are cured bv tbe justly celehrat.'i
physician. 1 J. tZAPKAV, M. I. ,eorBleu
His method of curing disease is peculiarly his own
(unknown to others) and hence the great success.
Rbeomatic affections, chronic catarrh, diseases of
the stomach and kidneys, liver complains, etc
successfully treated. '
OR. CZAPKA Y, one of tbe most successful medi
cal practitioners on the Pacific coast, mav be con
suited confidentially In reference to the above and
all other complaints at the institute,
So. SOB HEARST ST., Han Frnnelaeo, Cal.
. Tne Doctor offers Free Consultations, and asks
no remuneration unless he effects a cure (W
moderate. Communications strictly confidential
Medicines sent by Express. Address L J. Czapka V
M. D.. Postoffice Box 64, San Francisco -AKKA,r
SPINNEY.
Wo. II KEARXV STREET,
Teasel8 AUj CHROI"c ANB SPECIAL, DIS-
MIDDLE-AGED MEN.
bladdeJ fe,-LW,th 100 'W'11' evacuation of . t e
hno.en.fCCOmpJnled y "MDt "martlug or
in I ioa' a,nd a eklnt oi the system
L"?!"1.'.' tn? Patient cannot account for. On ex
ra''"f J" urinary deposits a ropy sediment win
h., e 'oiind, and sometime, small particles of al
liiS? 1 ?r" --PP-"-. the color be of a thin and
muktsh hue, again changing to a dark and torpid
2RiraTan?- Tbere are many nun who die of this
difficulty Ignorant of the cause, wld. h is the second
stage or seminal weakness. Dr. Hpluuey will guar
antee a perfect cure In all such cases, and a healthy
n?Ar2ratlon of th Kenito-urlnary organs.
OfHce Hours 10 to 4 and 6 to 8. Sundays from
to 1 1 a. at. - Consultation free.
Call Or address DR. A. B. SPINNEY,
No. 11 aTearuy Street, bau Francisco.
MANHOOD
RESTORED
IJIPORTAXT TO
MS PAPER
RUSSELL, GIBSON & Co.
Are now prepared to offer extraordinary in.i,,
ments to Newspaper Publishers: auce"
OCTSIDES, IVSIDES. KCPFLF.JI KXTs
(For Dailies, Semi-Weeklies or Weeklies
Or entire newspapers, printed with or without
Co-operative Advertisements, on more favrLi"'
terms than ever before offered. ".ne
. io Advertisements of our ow-,
inserted nnuinv .- i :
so that patrons can alwayS'kno
how much they should becredj. ..j
tfer Our selections of reading matter toppti
with our San Francisco Letter, Market Krttvn .,e
Weekly Compendium of News, are ackuowleiW .
features, and give entire satisfaction. s '
Notwithstanding the misrepresentations and fa so.
I oods of a certain party who has vainly attempt, ii
to hluckmait us, our business has neadily increa.j
and our list of papers is now larger than ever iieior-
-AI-TIOX.-Nwspapf.r Publish
ers, in writing, should b careful ,,,
shrewdly tries to mislead, by a.lopi ini"a "s'l'rrw?
name. Address all your communications to '
Western Xewspaper Union
3IH I I. IV ST., Kan Fraariwa.
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IIai all the ootl Points:
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Matchless .Shuttle!
Vnequaletl Working Capacit vc
NAOLKR A BARROWS. General Agent.,.
112 Markkt Strkkt, San Francisro,
aud 4 Twe f tb Street, Oaklau.l
Pacific tut Agents f.r the Celnhrated Excels',,,
Cold Swaged Sewing Mjicliino Needles, and Jo.,
bers of Oil. luiead. Siik. and ail klti.is of Atu,ij
ments.
MS EICA
SEWING MACHINE.
Tlirce-qnnrler.it Less Friction llinnanv
other Machine.
IT BEATS THEM ALL !
Seir-TtireHding
Miutile:
Keir-Threading
Keedle :
Lightest
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ft-Tbis machine
is fast becoming
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BEST in IhvlVOKLD!
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AMERICAN SEWING MACHINE 03
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fi FIFTH STRKKT. - - - SAN KK.XSl'IM'M
t(Slool Asrulk Wauled lu all uuocru
pied Territory.
Information to Country Residents.
The ST. GEORGE HOTEL, 812 Kearny SL.
CAN FRANCISCO. New four-story brj. k. con
O tabling: KM beautiful litht sunny rooms, newly
furnished, to rent t.y the liny, W-k or Month. In
biiiteor single, at 'ii"e-ha'f the usual rates, enabling
one to live in tbe citv in Iin stvle for the Miiall srnu
of One Ki.llar per daw TRY IT.
International Hotel,
824 and 02G KEARNY ST.,
SAN FRANCISCO. CAL
81.- iul 2. Her !, - le by
(tie Week.
"Joaches with the uame of the Hulrl on bring
Q'lesm to the Hotel Free. Beware of other Coach-"
id Runners.
H. C. PATRIDGE,
V ----tor
AMERICAN EXCHANGE HOTEL,
..- FRAXCISt'O.
fllHIS OLD AND POPULAR HOTE1 WHICH
-1. has for the last twenty-four years extended M
the traveling public a cordiai welcome aud comfort
of a home, and sofavorablv known to old Califo.
nians and the traveling public, that it require uo
comment on my part further than loxav that THOw.
Br van, who is an old C&liforuian, and knows bow to
cater to ttie wants of the traveling public, has takeii
the full proprietorship nf the above hotel, aud will
leave nothing undone to make this hotel second to
noue In San Francisco for
Comfort. Good Livine and Cleanliness.
My sole aim shall be to the comfort and welfare of
my guests. The table is furnlsbed with the best the
market affords: the house has been thoroughly reu
ovated and newly furnished throughout; two buu
dred rooms well ventilated.
Gentlemanly and obliging clerks, and olean and at
tentive waiters will always be found In my Hotel.
The Motel is the mint ceutrall i,wu(ni in
the city, being in tho centre of the bi sin ess portiju
i of the city: the Street litrs pass th-j dt or every two
minutes to ait parts r the citv. The Hotel Coach
with red lights, will be at the railroad depots aud
wharfs to convey passengers te the bouse free ot
charge: my Runners wear Silver Radges on Ir't
breast with the name of the house on.
m-Brfare nf r'her R,tnnert. Hotel Prices are
from 81.SO to ft.2.00 per Day. Give me a call a a
tudge for yourselves, T tM'H. RKVAS,
lKnvHi kttck
GRAND REDUCTION IN PRICES.
Having Just received a Large Invoice of
WEST OF Mil GOODS,
Therefore informs his patrons that he will make
CLOTHING TO ORDER at the Lowest i'ASH
PRICK for the next Sixty Days:
Business Suits to Order, - $25
Pants to Order, - - $6
Dress Suits to Order, $35 to $50
Commercial St., cor. Leidesdorff,
ajhD
2VJ"o. O Koftiny Stroct,
FRA NCI CO,
Hoots and ft I iocs.
JH- sl'LLirA.V, N. E. cor. Bat
terv and Jat-ksou Sts., Sau Francisco.
xflVrs to make to order the best Frencn
Calf Leather BOOTS at from S to J
California Leather Roots, - -
French Calf Oxford Ties, - - t
.nfr...,iu . Ji
nva a r. H rhlldran'. llnntn anil l,wA IllUtf tO OI"! r-
Persons in the country ordering Boots and Shoes to
the amount of 12 or more will be allowed a reduc
tion of four percent., to make the express charges
ilght. I sell Boots and Shoes of MY OWN MA t
FACTURK ONI. V. Boots aud Shoes sent c. O. v
Ponitivelv one price.
s CALVERT'S h
CARBOLIC
Sheep "Wash.
S3"
VICTOR SEMG MCffll
fRAOE MARX
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