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WIT AND HUMOR.
A babe spot The Northern Pole.
The fourth of a man A quarter-masters
The worst bank to be wrecked on is
one of the savings variety.
The Japanese say the first inhabitant
of the world was a woman.
As old bachelor in Boston wasnt to
adopt a girl baby eighteen years old.
Mr. Gladstone has been making
speeches in Ireland that are worth
'Erin'.
There is no doubt bnt.the dollars of
our fathers would be useful in a pay
rental sense.
"Life is made up ov sunshine and
shadow" about fiveshaddos to ono sun
shine. Josh Billings.
The man who writes an illegible hand
never reads his own letters. "That is
the other fellow's business," he says.
A neighbor explains that when he
advises his readers to lay in their coal,
he does not mean that they are to sleep
in it.
"What is a dollar ?" asks the Graphic.
-It's just the same as gratitude: some
thing of which we owe more than wo
have. "
A down East editor announces through
tue columns of nis paper tno loss 01 "a
cloth cloak, belonging to a gentleman
lined with blue.
German experimenters assert that a
silver spoon wears out in IMS years,
Now, we never could keep any of ours
ball that time.
"Is it proper to say, 'I see the risiDg
sun. or 'I see the turn rise?'" asks
"Balto." Sir, the proper thing is to get
home before it rises.
They, tell of a South Boston woman
so stingy that the only thing she is
known to give away are shoes to her
neighbors' chickens.
A physician advertised that he had
moved nearer to the churchj'ard, and
trusted that his removal would accom
modate his patients.
Mosquito, fold thy weary wings and
cross thy legs upon thy breast; put
up thy bill and horns and things, and
sink into thy final rest !
A little girl whose father refused
her a second tart, said thereupon: "Pa
pa, why do you sing, " Feed me till I
want no more?" She got the tart.
The following lines were sung at a
colored camp-meeting in Barks county:
"A floating down de narrow stream ! O !
sin is milk, religion cream. Sing glory
hallelujah!"
A Dutchman was about to make a
journey to his fatherland, and wishing
to say " good-bye" to a friend, extend
ed his hand and said : " Well, oif I don't
come back, hullo."
English is the court language of
Germany. It is a proud moment when
a Briton or American, visiting the pal
aoe, is saluted with, "Dot vos a pooty
sehplentit morning, ain't it?"
In struggling to make a dull -brained
boy understand what conscience is, a
teacher finally asked , "What makes you
feel uncomfortable after j ou have done
wrong?" "The big leather strap," feel
ingly replied the boy.
A gentleman wrote a letter for his
black servant who was unable to read or
write himself. Having finished the let
ter, tha gentleman asked, "Is that all,
Tom?" "Yes," Baid Tom, "only just
say, 'Please excuse bad spelling an'
writin.'"
A meddlesome old woman was sneer
ing at a young mother's awkwardness
with her infant, and said, "I declare, a
woman ought never to have a baby un
less she knows how to hold it." "Nor
a tongue either," quietly responded the
young mother.
My friend, have you a sulking wife ?
uon t go ana worry on it, out try ana
use diplomacy; 'tis best depend upon
it. Don't beg and coax don't go and
write a poem or a sonnet. No; rouse
her drooping spirits with a brand-new
winter bonnet.
" What do you charge for a quart of
your milk here ?' asked a man, as he
put his head in the door of a milk
shop. " Eight cents," was the reply.
" Ain't you got any for seven cents?"
"No," said the proprietor; "but," he
added, " wo can make some."
An elderly Jady much interested in
th progress of events in the East, hav
ing hitherto been unable to assign any
cause for the Husso-Turkish war, was
liear 1 to exclaim, triumphantly, on see
ing a telegram headed " From Sophia."
"Ahl knew there must be a woman at
the bottom of it !" Punch.
A lady whose cook went to a wake
was given notice a fortnight afterward
tkat she was going to be married. "To
whom?" asked the mistress. "Plase,
ma'am, to the husband of the corpse."
"Why, does he love you?" was the next
question. "Oh, yes, ma'am; he said I
was the light of the funeral."
There are queer nooks and corners"
left in Old England. A visitor to a
country parson tells how, when he ac
companied him lately to take the duty
in a remote parish, the sexton said :
" Perhaps your reverence won't mind
preaching from the chancel, for we've
got a duck a-sittin'in the pulpit."
It is said that nature intended that
persoms should sleep with their feet to
the equator. But when your wife
comes back from starting the fire on a
December morning and deposits her
cold feet against your equator, doesn't
it seem as though the intention of na
ture in this respect must have been mis
interpreted ?
The Rev. Matthew Hale Smith avers
that "the Bible is chock full of wit,
from Genesis to Revelations." We have
long known that, but what was the uso
of telling other editors ? In a few weeks
this country from Maine to California,
will be littered with mutilated Bible
leaves attesting the indomitable indus
try of the paragrapher of the period.
But hold ! isn't the work copyrighted.
Argonaut.
The Egg Trade of the United States.
The egg trade of the country is im
mense. It is estimated that the inhab
itants of the United States consume
45,000,000 eggs per day. The city of
New York alone, it is estimated, con
sumes 40.000,000 dozen annually, and
Boston 16,000,000 dozen. Fifty-seven
dealers in Chicago alone, last year, re
ceived 4,660,000 dozen of eggs.
A Saponaceous Insecticide.- A soap,
insoluble in water, may be made by
mixing castile soap with a solution of
sulphate of alumina, sulphate of iron,
or sulphate of copper; copper making
the mixture green, iron leather-colored,
alumina colorless. It may be applied
by melting, or by solution in pertrole
nm or other volatile hydrocarbons. If
the solution is not perfectly rluid, it
should be warmed.
V,
Tbe Merchant's Story.
Yes, it was rather a curious start that
I had in business. The first thing I did,
after having saved a little pile of money,
was to set up a shanty in bioux City. I
had all sorts of traps to allure Indians,
and I wanted to buy any kind of pel
tries, scaips excepted, uut l was a new
arrival, and the noble red men couldn't
believe in me without help, and I found
trade rather dull. Late one night, how
ever, as I was sleeping among my stock,
there came a tremendous banging at my
door, and when I unbarred it, there was
a tall fellow who seemed a little drunk;
and said he, I want a butcher-knife."
"All right. Come in," said I. " I
want a reliable one," said he. " I want
it to kill a man with. Give me a good
strong handle. I want a knife that I
can put in and turn round." Says I,
" I think I can suit you. Walk in" and
take a look." I knew him by that time.
He wes a Virginian a splendid looking
fellow and belonged to a good family,
as I understood, but he had gone wild
on the frontier, and done a great many
illegal things and been forced to herd
with the Indians. The consequence
was that he spoke their language and
was a person of influence among them.
Well, I felt a little doubtful about his
intentions, not knowing but what I was
the man he was after; but all the same I
got out my stock of tools and showed
them. There was one, nearly two feet
long, which I had bought for a cheese
knife. Says I," I think this would answer
your purpose." -Yes, I should think it
might," says he. " How much is it?"
I told him the price about four shil
lings, I think. " I'll take it," says he.
"But I haven't any money." Under
the circumstances, seeing he had the
knife in his fist and was ready to turn it
around, I thought I had better offer to
trust him. "You'd better not," says he.
"You don't know me from any other
gentleman." "But I've got to trust
you," says I. "You've got the butcher
knife by the handle, and I'm at the
sharp end of it. Besides I believe I
can trust you." Off he went, and I
heard no more of him for a time, not
even whether he had killed a man. But
some weeks later he had put in an ap
pearance and paid for the knife. "And
now, youngster," says he, " I like the
way you treated me when I roused yon
out for trade. Yott didn't show the
white feather. Some men hustled up
at that time of night, would have been
scared. But you behaved every way
like a gentleman, and now I want to be
have to you as one. There are some
Indians coming in to-day and I'll bring
them to your shanty to trade. Have
you got any rum?" I hadn't any rum;
I didn't keep it. "Well," says he, "we
must have some rum. No rum, no in
jun. Give me a couple of dollars." I
gave him the money and he went off.
When he came back he had a demijohn
full of drink, and some tumblers. An
hour or so later the Indians appeared,
some 200 of them. First came the war
riors with their rifles, bows and toma
hawks; then followed the squaws, stoop
ing almost to the ground with their
loads. My man hailed them, but they
did not want to trade with me; they
didn't know me. There was a long pal
aver; arid at last he threatened to kill
some of them if they didn't follow' his
friendly advice; and the end of it was
that they gave in to save a quarrel.
They crowded into my little shop, and
drank my demijohn empty, and bought
my stock clean out, and filled me full of
peltries. 1 made 2,500 that season,
went off in high spirits to lose it some
where else to pick it no again. As for
the Virginian, I lest sight of him,
and never learned how he ended. I
didn't even inquire whether he put his
butcher knife in ami turned it
around. It seemed to me too delicate
a subject, Atlantic Monthly.
Bees and Grapes. A correspondent
of the Lancaster Fanner says: Reading
the broad charges that honey bees
j pierced grape skins, we began a close
investigation oi ine question, lasting
through a series of days. On the grapes
of a vine growing in our yard hundreds
of bees were literally swarming, their
homo beingin a neighbor's yard, not
20 paces distant. We sat hour after
hour watching closely the proceedings
of the industrious insects. There was
not a single raceme on the whole vine
but was visited by dozans of bees, who
examined every grape on it in search of
a bursted one whose juices Were accessi
ble. After a most careful search and
finding r?ono such, they would imme
diately leave and continue their search
elsewhere, until the berry they desired
was found. On all the defective fruit
clusters bees were gathered, but we
failed utterly in detecting in a single in
stance anything liko an attempt at try
ing to tear open a perfect berry; their
investigations were hasty but thorough
and when the desired spoil was not found
no time was wasted in useless delay.
There can be no mistake about this
matter; our observations were careful
and prolonged and must certainly have
resulted in detecting the harm com
plained of had any been done. That
none was done we are positively cer
tain, and we feel that these hard work
ers deserve a good word in return for
the odium cast upon them by theorists
and carelass observers.
The following is told of the Rev. Dr.
Backus, -who was the first President of
Hamilton College, at Clinton, New
York. It appears that while he was
preaching in a country village before
he became President, his salary was
,'$200 and fire wood," but during one
cold period his wood ran out, and he
bought a cord of a neighbor, who rec
commended hisfuelhighly. The doctor
made up a fire, and put on the new wood
to find that after the bark had sputtered
furiously and quickly burned out, the
birch itself would burn no more than
so much iron. He hastened to his
neighbor and said: " I want 20 cords
more of that wood. " Twenty cords
doctor? What can you do with so
much?" "Smother the flames of hell;
that's all it's good for!"
Johnson's Papers. Andrew John
son, it is said, preserved all his papers
and died loaving them in upper story of
a shop in Greenville. Throughout his
life he carefully saved all tho papers
and even took to Greenville complete
files of three daily newspapers of New
York, covering his Presidental term,
Of telegrams alone he must have left
more than abushel in a compact form. He
saved them all, none was considered of
so little importance as not be worth sav
ing. He remarked onoe how little space
a folded letter took up, and what small
trouble to save them, and how impor
tant they sometimes became. His only
surviving son now lives quietlv in
Greenville; he has only once sought
office as a candidate for the Legislature
and wos defeated.
'Sex in
Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes has been
writing a most kindly and appreciative
letter about his friend, the Late Dr.
Edward H. Clarke a gentleman whose
book on "Sex in Education" planted
thorns in the minds of m my excellent
women, and called down upon his head
much impatient criticism. He has suf
fered for the past few years from a hope
less internal disease which was full of
anguish. He was never free from pain
except when under the influence of ano
dynes, and from time to time was racked
with agony. Dr. Holmes says that it
was only a few weeks before his death
that Dr. Clarke spoke to him of the end
as rapidly approaching, and then said
that the trial at parting with his wife
had been long over, even from the time
when he had first sought the surgeon's
opinion. One sleepless night, in which
he walked his chamber alone with his
fatal sentence; a letter preparing the one
nearest to him for the inevitable ap
proaching future; after that struggle he
felt as if the darkest passage of the val
ley of the Shadow of Death had been
left behind him, and walked serenely
forward from that day to the end. He
seemed to enjoy discussing nice and dif
cult questions with some of his visit
ors, and it was pleasant following his
lead , to see him forget himself in the
analysis of mental operations, in which
he showed a power of study and penet
rating thought which would have giv
en him a name in metaphysical specula
tion if he had concentrated his efforts
in that direction. He had the great ad
vantage of having studied the working
of the mind under various exceptional
conditions, and had many strange
things to tell from his own experience,
all of which he had disposed to account
for without invoking any of the vulgar
machinery commonly called in to ex
plain such phenomena. Ex.
Decrease of Population in France.
In a work just published by Dr. A.
Proust of Paris, some remarkable fig
ures are given, showing the progressive
decline in the number of births in his
country. Beginning with the present
century, the number of births per thous
and of the population has ranged stead
ily downward; tabulated is successive
periods of ten vears each, the figures
are, 32,9, 31.7,30.6, 28.7;27.5, 26.1,26.3,
Most other European countries show, in
the same period, a small but steady in
crease, the corresponding figures for
Prussia are now 38.1; for England, 35.
The rate of births for the United States
is doubtless higher. On the other hand,
France is not among the nations least
successful in saving the lives of yo ung
infants, and occupies a position in this
respect better than midway. In a table
of death of infants (per thousand born)
occurring before they were one year old,
Bavaria is at one extreme, with 372
deaths; Scotland, at the other, with only
156. England has 170; Belgium, 186;
France, 216; Italy, 254; Russia, 311.
Probably 'the record for Turkey, if it
could be obtained, would exceed that of
Bavaria; the reasons for the excessive
mortality of infants in the last-named
country are not however, definitely as
certained. It is surmised that a nation
al custom of wrapping babes very tight
ly in bandages may bo among the
causes.
A Loafers' Paradise. The Ohio
State Journal publishes a letter from
Gen. Comly, in which Honolula is
sketched with a free-and-easy hand, as a
loafers' paradise. The natives, he writes,
are the most careless, improvident,
laughter-loving people in the world.
They have no w inter to lay by for even
the proverbial rainy day needs nothing
there; so they danco and sing, and deck
themselves with garlands, all the day
long.. Men go here with great garlands
of the lovliest flowers and green leaves
hanging in festoens around the neckand
shoulders down tho body, around the
hat, everywhere. These men aro not
the fops and loafers of the race, but the
hard-working fellows the herdsman,
the hackman, even the draymen, go
about adorned in the most exqu isite taste,
with flowers and leaves wreathed into
forms of beauty which come to an Amer
can like a revelation in art. They have
no wealth nothing that would satisfy
an American but they are always
laughing, singing, playing jewsharps,
or making floral wreaths. The Hawaiian
knows that there will never be a winter's
day to provide for, and that it will al
ways be the same yesterday, to-day,
and forever.
The Sunday Law in Germany. The
Berlin police well illustrate the differ
ence between the State and the indiv
idual, for, while the Emperor of Ger
many set all the men at Krupp's foun
dry to work on a Sunday, the Berlin
shopkeepers are being vigorously fined
for not pulling down their shop blinds
on the Sabbath. And they make a fine
distinction in the moral culpability of
the cases. Thus, a man who had pull
ed down his blind three-quarters of the
way thus showing that he knew what
his duty was, yet trying to criminally
compound the matter was fined five
marks; while another, who did not
pull it down at all, and thus showed
that his conscience did not acknowledge
the duty, was fined only one mark. If
this goes on, Berlin wili soon be as dull
as London on the Sabbath. Lodonn
Exmniner.
In the State prison at Charlestown,
is a man named Dunnahin who has had
an eventful career. He was there when
the war broke out, serving a sentence of
thirty years, but, expressing a desire
to enlist, he was pardoned on condition
that he would do so. His bravery speed
ily won the good will of his officers,
who knew nothing of his antecedents,
and after the battle of Fredericksburg
he acted as a spy, gaining information
which probably saved the Union army
from destruction. He was afterward
captured and tent to Libby prison, and
paroled. Ho broke his parole, re-enlisted,
deserted, and committed a bur
glary, and is back in his old quarters
again, with twelve more years to serve.
A Venerable Rosebush. At Hildes
heim Cathedral there is a rosebush
which is believed to be over a thousand
years old. In recent years it seems to
have been getting into descrepitude,
and fears have been entertained that it
was going to die. The help of the most
reribwned gardeners has been called in to
prevent this, if possible, and several
foreigners have been on the spot for
this purpose. Whether it be due to their
endeavors or not, the old thing seems
to have taken fresh heart again. Out
of the root knobs of the bush a new
sprout has appeared which is growing so
vigorously that there is good hope that
this venerable rose stock may vet "re
new its youth." " "
Suffering of the Anther of
Education."
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Depression.
Who are the gainers and who are the
losers? The continual shrinkage in values has
been going on in this country for two years at
least, and somebody most be hurt by the enor
mous decline in goods within that time, and
have none been benefited by having nearly. all
commodities at such greatly reduced rates? The
actual necessaries of life have not of course
suffered in comparison with what might be
termrd luxuries or dispensible comforts. Dia
monds were never as low as at present and dry
goods are actually less than they were before
the war. While unaccountably labor is much
MgW, and still with tho admitted advance in
the price of labor, workmen rind it more diffi
cult to get along now than thoy did then. We
are informed that the California Furniture
Manufacturing Company have reduced their
prices almost one-half on certain kinds of goods,
and we are glad to know that a great many are
taking advantage of the favorable opportunity
to supply themselves. So tho old adage holds
good that there are no large lasses without some
small gains. The above company occupy two
of the largest stores in the city of San Fran
cisco, viz: 224 and 226 Bush street, four stories,
and 649 and 651 Market street, six stories, where
maybe found everything in the line of furniture.
A Sense or Wearluess
Is often felt by persons who cannot Iocato any
particular disease. If they work it becomes la
bor; if they walk they soon tire; mental efforts
become a burden, and even joys aro dimmed
by the shadow of thw weakness which is cast
over their lives. Itecourse is had sometimes to
stimulants of a dangerous character. The ad
vice of physicians to refrain from active labor
produces no happy results. Why? The sys
tem is debilitated and needs to be built up pro-
E?rly. Pehcviax Syhup will do this very tiling,
ike the electric current, it permeates tho en
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brings the color to t le cheek again, and hope to
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aw as. :h. :w.
This is a cough mixture that cures
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ask your Lrug
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gist for "38 Cough Mixture"
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six bottles, $5. Sold by all Druggists. Send for
circular to Helphenstine ft Beutley. Druggists,
Washington, D. C. Sold wholesale by U. C. Kirk
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OR MORPHINE HABIT
KADIFALLY Cl'RED IX A FEW DATS,
without pain or publicity. No charge uutll a
cure Is completed. Call at 319 Bush street, San
Francisco. Cal., or send for pamphlet.
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THE
"COMMON
TRUSS.
Adopted by V.S.
Uavernmeut,
RECOMMENDED
SURGEONS.
From RASiSOH DEXTER, yt. A.. M. I).
Profruor of Zoologjy. Comparative and
Human Anatomy and Phj aloloiry In the
(Jnlvrralty or Chicago. 1415 Indiana Av
riur,
Chicago, Nov. IS. 1877.
Messrs. BARTLKTT. BUTMAN A PARKKK:
Having used your 'Common-Sense Trusa" in my
practice for over ten years, having known of its
adoption by the Board of Surgeons of the I'nlted
States Army, of its having received the highest
award at the American CentennUI Exhibition, of its
adoption and use by several of the Kovul Families
of Europe, and having examined almost every d
vloe of the kind, I feel at liberty to say that its pivot
and bull and socket Joints, set screws, correct re
taining force, superior workmanship, etc., are all a
competent surgt-on could wish, and it is worthy the
term Commou-'Seuse Truss."
RANSOM DEXTER.
Q&-Descriptive circulars, with prices, mailed free.
The Ruptured will rind it to their interest to write
us. Trusses at nil prices. Supporters, Braces, Elas
tic Stockings a specialty.
Oilice of
COMMON-SENSE TRUSS CO.,
10 nOM'UUMKKY STKEET,
Sax Francisco.
DR. V. T. BOOERT, Manager.
EYE and EAR
SPECIALTY.
REMOVAL.
WJ. IACII. 91.
1.. Ci.ay St.
Treatment ot the Kye and
Ear lias been my specialty
lor the last 27 years.
CATARRH
Positively cured by Consti
tutional Treatment tor the
Blood, with the aid of my
NASA f i TUBES for the
treatment of the Nostril. The Throat. Lungs, Liv
er. Dyspepsia. Scrofula and skin Diseases: also dis
ease of the Kldnr.i. and enll-l'rlnry or
gans treated successfully. KLMTUU'IT sci
entifically and successfully applied III all Nkkvoiih
Akctions and Rhki'MaTIsm. Medical and Sur
gical Treatment in all Diseases.
Call or address W. J. PA CUM. M. D- fil Clay
Nlrrrt. San Francisco. Cstl. (over the Clay Street
Savings Bank Kooms 1, 2 and 3i.
N. B. ARTIFICIAL. EYES large assortment al
ways on band.
PACIFIC COAST STEAMSHIP CO.
Carry Ins: the IT. t. 31 ail and the Kxprnn.
The Elearant Nleaiurr of thla
i Company leave Broad way Wharf, Sau
Pi-auciMco, Evkry W'kkk for
PORTLAND, OREGON, DIRECT,
And for Santa Cruz. San I,u1s Obispo, Santa Bar
bara, Ventura, Ixts Angeles, and Sau Diego and
other ports about EVERY THIRD DAY.
Tickets sold to all the principal places on the Pa
cific slope at
THE LOAVEHT IIATKH.
Bnii'l Rut Tlrliel. by mm.v other I.f tiv
until you rail at our TlrUet Ollire.
rfau rranrlM-o Tleliet Ollire 211 Mont
KOmery Ntrret.
GOODALL, PERKINS & CO.
General Agents, No. 10 Market Street,
San Francisco.
OREGON STEAMSHIP COMPANY.
The Only Direct Line to Portland.
Cabin laaag;e. 9IO I Steerage Paiagr.
fjfL KKUUIiAK NTEAMERN TO
2aUnnnPOHTI,.ND leaving San Francisco ev
ery FIVE DAYS until further notice Steamships
City of Chester, George W.
Elder and Ajax,
Connecting with Steamers to SITKA and PUG ET
SOUND, and O. and c. R. R. Co. and Oregoii and C.
R. R. Co. through Willamette, Umpqua and Rogue
River Valleys, Oregon.
TICKETS TO AT.I, POINTS ON TH K O. aud C. R
K. SOLD AT REDUCED RATES.
K. VAN OTERENDORP, Agent.
aiO Battery street, San Francisco.
HAI'K IEIOSIT I.OAX OFFICE, Itriok
lltiilriingr, 321 Kearny .Street, between
Ilusli mid 11 ne. San Frmielweo. I'rivate
Entrance on Kelilen I'lnee. bet. .Mont
gomery and Kearny, Itnwli and Pine
Streets.
Kninorlum of Choice ami r.I.F.t.AMT
J F. WEI.lt Y, all of recent maiiitfacttire
antl iiiowt artistic liuiNli and (lesion,
comprising varieties to suit the most
fastidious tastes.
Money Loaned on Collateral Security
aud I'll redeemed IMciljccs for Kale.
MAX (iULDliCKU,
"Water Pipe !
FOB-
CITIES. TOWN. MINES. RANCHES AND ALL
WATER COURSES.
For descriptive books send to
AMERICAN PIPE CO.,
S2 California Klreel. Nan Franclaeo.
V. CALVERT'S
3
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Mi
CARBOLIC
Sheep W ash.
fl
International Hotel.
824 and 826 KEARNY ST.,
SAN FRANCISCO. CAL.
91.50 anil 9-2.OO I'er Oay, and less by
the Week.
BM Coaches with the name of the Hotel on bring
Guests to the Hotel Free. Beware of other Coaches
and Runners.
H. C. PATRIDGE,
Proprietor
SILVER SHOW GASES,
OF K VERY DESCRIPTION, MANTTFACTU
red by H. RKKNNTKIK, M03 Larkln St..
Man Frnnriiro. tr-All work guaranteed. Send
for Price List.
MRS. DEXTER S
COUGH AND BLOOD PURIFIER
TTA8 a magical effect In curing Colds, Coiuths or
IF Consumption of the Blood ; is a Liver Invigo
rator and Blood Purifier: pleasant In taste and
purely vegetable; 3W X KEJIKDV FOB CA
TARRH cu-s the worst ca.ies In a hhort time.
Oflice. Hi and 3 St. Ann's building, corner Pow
ell and Eddy. Consultations Free.
3
How to Become JLean !
OR the successful treatment of excessive fatness,
without Injury to the health, by the use of DR.
ORR'H ELIXIR OF "GUI.F WEED." which can
he obtained of all respectable Druggists and at tho
Wholksalh Df.pot, N. E. Cor. Postaxd Mason
8ts.. Han Francisco. lriee. S2.00 per bottle.
Boot and Shoes.
JOHN MirLUVAN, N. K. cor. Bat
tery and Jackson Sts., San Francisco,
offers to make to order the best French
Calf Leather BOOTS at from S3 to 9 00
California leather Boots, - - 00
French Calf Oxford Ties, - - $4 00
California - . . 3 fin
Boys' and Children's Boots and Shoes made to order.
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 charge
ilght I sell Boot aod Shoes of MY OWN MANU
FACTURE ONLY. Boots and Shoes seut C. O. D.
Positively one price.
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IN USK BY JTF -
A REVOLUTION
IX THIS
SOAP BUSINESS
A San Francisco Manufacturing firm to the readers
of the Rl'ssiax KlVKK LAfl :
JADIES AND GENTLEMEN We address you
-J in the hope that our statement may result in
mutual advantage. In past vears the Soup busliifts
on this coast has been conducted In a wiiy which
attacned more Importance to large manufacturing
profits than to honest weight and irooil quality, ren
dering corn petition in the Soap trade little less than
a rivalry In
KASCAIilTY.
Boxes containing less than eleven pounds of worse
than worthless trash, are boldly marked and sold an
"SO Buri-lt found k." and wretched combi
nation of caustic soda and putrid grease, taken from
he diseased carcases of dead animals are uiiblush
ingly pressed upon the trade and the people as "the
b-st family soaps," and to supply the dlicleucy re
Milllnif from incompetence and the us of r-fUK
materials, mineral substances of the most hurtful
character are added, and whiiesucb Mild nmy, after
a fashion, supply the place of
EEAIi SOAP,
It does so at the expense of the fabrics, kandii
und health of those who use suck compounds.
Medical men tell us that the skin is a powerful ab
sorbent, and poisonous compounds in soaps have
been known to spread from Hie hatidt over the eu
tire body. Just a a t.uch of poison oalc In one place
will be carried from head to foot of the person poi
soned, and many women who MirTer constantly
from a dry, burring skin, aud who find their per
sonal appearance disligured by discoloration, will
frequently find the pred'sposlng cause of their mis
fortune in the compounds which are made to sup-
pi v the place or i ft U K hOAl" lor Jaunury. Kitcueii,
bath aud other household purposes.
THINK OF IT.
Think of tender Infants, children and delicate w-
men being constantly swathed in garments, every
thread of which is permeated with the putrid poi
sons of diseased fat and dangerous mineral hub
static, s, which are taken up by perspiration and b-f-orl.
d into the hkm and circulation, endangering
lien it and the very life of alt! Yes, think of this.
a l ti..ii decide whether you will pay a fair price
for a i'LTRE ARTICLE or teu times the value of an
apparently cheap one, the use of which is ever at
tended with actual loss und danger to health ami
comfort.
mh'Ii are thedangers to be apprehended In the use
of the cheap" HOMps with which the markets are
Hooded, but none theless dangerous are many wh ch
are heralded forth atd sold at even extravagant
prices, under attractive names, lending people to
believe that they will wash well wittiout rubbing,
in Ice-cold water, or bleach clothing as white iu
snow by tragical qualities, unknown to the science
of soap. The very fact of soaps possessing tle
so-called magical qualities. Is conclusive evidence
that thev con tain substances which are Injurious to
clothing and dangerous to health, and should fie
avoided uuder all circumstances. To speak in
ir,v i :v ti:ioi.-,
Good, honest, reliable soup can only be made frc.pi
pure materials, combined after proper methods, by
those skilled in the art of sosp-uiaking, uud we now
offer to consumeis, through the trade, an article
which we guarantee to be strictly pure and made
only from the very best refined materials. Ask
your Grocer for
STIITIf, IaIjX'Y fc COS
Peerless Soap !
A nd take no other. The price Is as low as a pure ar
ticle can be supplied for. and its use will alwavs se
cure the best results aud remove all danger of con
tamination. DESCRIPTION :
To guard purchasers against Imposition, we des
cribe our soap as follows : It Is a boiled soap, made
on the most approved chemical principles, from the
best refined materials. It is of that rich llghtsfaw
color, obtained only by the most skillful combina
tion of the finest raw materials. It is well seasoned
aort compactly pressed into cakes of of a pound
each, with "SMITH. I.L'CY A CO.. PEERLESS
1SOAP." pressed Into the cake on one side, and
"SMITH. LVC'V & CO., 405 FRONT ST., S. F.."
on lhf oilier. Each cake Is enclosed in a neat red
wrapper, with appropriate printed matter thereon,
and every care has been taken to turn out an arti
cle which cannot fail to give full satisfaction, lo
KNOW ITS VALUE,
It must be used. So ask your Grocer for " Snirrir,
l.rcv A t'o's Pekki.khh Soap," hi d do not be put
off with otluers which are said to be as good. 1 1 can
lie retailed for less than the wholesale cost of East
ern soups of equal quality and weucht. mul as tioni.
manufacturers we confidently ex pert that the trade
and the consuming public will give us their orders
and hearty co-operation in our efforts to cupply the
1 best and purest soap for the very lowest possible
price. KespeiUfully,
SMITH, LUCY & CO.,
40. I KONT KTIIKKT. S. F.
HOT BISCUIT
I
EVERY MORNING.
DOOM YEAST POWDER
HILL IM IT.
ItllV IT.
GRAND REDUCTION IN PRICES.
Having just received a Large Invoice of
WEST OF ENGLAND GOODS,
Therefore Informs bis patrons that he will make
CLOTHING TO ORDER at the Lowest CAJSII
PRH E for the next sixty Days:
Business Suits to Order, - $25
Pants to Order, - - $6
Dress Suits to Order, $35 to $50
Commercial St., cor. Lreidesdorff,
AMD
JJ"o. O KeArziy Stroot.
BAN FRANCISCO.
San Francisco, May 30, 1877.
We. the nndertlfnrd Wholesale tiro
eera. take pleasure In rraiarklng the la.
ereaaed demand fur Bonrn'i I'rrnlam
Yeast Powder, and of testifying to tue
Keneral satlsfaetlon (Ura by this brand
Ban Fbahcisco WELLMAN. PECK CO.,
ROOT k SANDERSON,
LEDDES, WHIPPLE & CO.,,
HAAS BROS.,
TABER, HARKER & CO.,
J. M. PIKE CO.,
1. A. FOLGER CO..
NEWTON BROS. & CO..
CASTLE BROS..
KRCSE k EULER,
JONES CO.,
M. EHRMAN k CO..
F. DANERI k CO.,
M. C. MANGELS.
TILLMAN & BENDEL,
ALBERT MAU & CO..
W. W. DODGE k CO.
SaOame!.-TO ADAMS. MCNEILL k CO..
MEBIC8 k CO..
BOOTH k CO.,
MILLIKEN BROS.
Dr. Tort's New Discovery:
TIIK tlRK.lTF.NT AODrTIO.V TO MOD
K. MEDICAL MIKNCK.
TAR. H. TOUCARD, late of Europe, having de
J voted many years of study in the mom cele
brated bonpitais of Europe and America, and hav
Iiik gained au extensive reputation on both conti
nents for the successful treatment of all kinds of
Private Diseases, now offers to the public the result
of his researches. He has made an entirely new
discovery In the treatment ef Gonorrhoea, Hvphilis
and Heminal Weakness, bv which he can positively
cure the most complicated cases in half the time re-
Jiuired by the old methods. Medicine and directions
or any private disease, sent to any address on re
ceipt of 20 and lull statement ot case a written
? guarantee accompanying medicine If desired. 1300
orfeit will b paid for any case the Dr. undertakes
and fails to cure. The Dr's new mode of treating
discaxesof this nature can he conducted privately
and without interfering with the patient's businefs.
Peraons wishing a personal interview, can do no by
communicating their desire by letter. Medicines
packed secure from observation. Address, writing
name. city, county and State. DR II. TO CCA R D
P. O. Box 1TU5. Kan Francisco. Cal.
FIG BITTERS
USE the Hieraplcra or f ig Bitters. Cures Fever
and Ague, Biliousness. Constipation. Impure
Blood, Kidney Weakness, Worms, Urinary Disor
ders, Female Complaints, etc. Druggists have it.
Agen'ji, Kkoinhtos fc Co, Wholesale Druggists,
Sau Francisco, Cal.
POWIETT'S
ATMOSPHERIC LETTEE
COPYING PRESS,
Compact, Portable. I arable, and
1-3 Cheaper than an Iron Pren.
Something new. The best thing yet. Be
sure to see It before purchasing an Iron press
HOPKINS, TAYLOR & CO.,
41VSAKMSK Stbext, - - Han Francisco.
Rights for Sale on Liberal Terms.
BA-Flrst-Class Ageuts Wanted.
I3IPORTAXT TO
fj EVIfS P A P B
RUSSELL, GIBSON 6c Co.
Are now prepared to offer extraordinary Indu -e-ments
to Newspaper Publishers :
Ol'TNIUKK. I.S1DI:V Jil'PI'LEMI.MH.
(For Dallies, Semi-Weeklies or Weeklies),
Or entire newspapers, printed with or without our
Co-operative Advertisement", o' more favorable
terms tban ever before tiffereil.
So Aivprtiwnipnls or oir own
Inserted among reading matter,
so that patron can always know
how much they ahoul-t beta-edited
8
with.
Our neleciir.ua of read hi if matter, toirellier
witu our San Francisco Iiter. Market Report and
Weekly Compendium of News, are kuuihibwi
features, and give entire satisfaction.-
Notwithstanding the misrepresentafloi.sand fi.le
hoods of a certain party who has vainly attetui I
to hlnckmuil us, our business lias M.-u lilS' Incrcu-
and our list of papers is now laraer tln.ii ever bi-f e
tip-Z" CAlfTIOST. Newspaper Puhlit,U
Cittt. 2 ers, in writing, should be careful nol
-3 ' i i. f,ceived by ant pemn wl:o
shrewdly triea to mislead, by adop lng a hlmi ar
name. Address all your communications to
Western Xch spaper Union
SIM CI.AY ST.. Sinn rrauritro.
KUi-USEI.L. ItlftKOX & I: PaHRIKTOUH
BLOOD
IF YOU ARE PALE,
IT WILL GIVE COLOIl TO YOUlt 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.
I? A. AVOU1),
If Your Blood is Thin
IT WILL MAKE IT RICH.
VLARGK NUMBER OF MEN AND UVKI!
half of the women sufTifr from Anemy or Thin
ICooO; that is to say. thai tiie quantity of red glob
ul en, winch predominate In a healthy aud vigorous
blood. Is In theircaxes too small. Ttiehasisnf lliese
red glorioles is I KoN. which ilie r int r-.al ec nouiy
fails t furnish Pi surtirieiit quantity.
The hasN of this new ami wonderful medicine Ii
also IRON, which Is easily bKsiinl ated by the sys
tem, and gA-es lo the Blood t hat vitality anil st ent'tli
which It so mu li wants, aud vvhrli is o l:i i-pei
Me to that real elijovment of l.fe. ci uitiionly culled
Pkrkeitly Good Hkaltii.
One of tb threat qualities which will n-HKe tin
precious preparation larKely poimlur Im that c"e
tiie Blood tins obianied tue qcantity if Iron It need
It will not ftbw b any niore of it: there is therefore
no fear of had consequences to he enterUii 10 d
should a person use it when md needed.
Therefore, if you perceive any of the M iujiti.mn
above described, or In any way have the leant cause
to think that your P.lood is thin, do not besltale a
moment to have recourse to our Ile.D BLOOll. and
stick to it until you feel a radical change; miner its
influence you will p-rceive 1 our cheeks gradually
redden ; your energy, moral and physical, wilt he
strengthened, and you will iMscover what a good
thing it is to live when one is healthy.
Anemy or Thin Klood is not only a disease by it
self, but it prei Imposes one lo any other diseases,
prevalent or under tvh e Influence you may he
unconsciously thiow-i why, flier, not get rid at
once of such a terrible enemy ?
V owe this great dic very t- Dr. Baktkowmkv.
a distinguished Preiich Chemist, w ho. under certain
considerations, has entrusted the undersigned with
his s-oret to act f r him as h s Agent iur the Uuitcd
States.
N. B. Unlike any other preparation, this do- s nut
affect the teeth.
To l linil from hII tlie r ln lnl lieiu
ists. Irice, 1.2-.
Agent for the United Stales,
C. MELQUIOND,
4l5sAVSOMKSTKItX
Corner of Commercial, Sax Fkancikco. Cal
DR. la. J. CZAPKAY'S
Prlvnto rjdioal IiiHtltuIc,
SOS Kearny St.. San FrancLseo. Kstabllshed in
ISM, f'ir the Jirnnaiieiit Ot re of all NpeeiaX and
Chronic lUgfutfn, as aim all female. Vomplaintt antl
IHtfasei of the A'ervout System.
rpiIK IMMKXSK DESTRUCTION OF HUMAN
1- life annually from xecret and chronic diseases
caused this old and reliable institution to be estab
lished first In Philadelphia, Penn., In ISM, and after
wards In San Francisco, Cal., in ISM, as a pnvale dl
pensary, In order to afford the sfljicted the best med
leal and surgical treatment, for the above and all
other affections and complaints. Consultations at
tue institute or bv letter. FKKE.
PfaTslrml and Slental IX-blllly.
Vital weakness, nervousness, low spirits, lassitude,
weakness ot the limbs and back, loss of tnuscular
power, indisposition and incapability for labor ami
study, a weak, exhausted feelinK. no energy or cour
age, palpitation of the heart, dullness of apprehen
sion, loss of memory, aversion to society, love of
solitude, timidity, self-distrust, loss of manhood, dir-
Elness, neaoacue, pains in tne sine, aneciions or the
eye, pimples on the face, sexual or other Infirmities
In man or woman, are cured by the Justly celebrated
physician. L. J.t'ZAPHAY,)!. I.
His method of curing disease is peculiarly his own
(unknown to others) and hence the great success.
Rheumatic affections, chronic catarrh, diseases of
the stomach and kidneys, liver complaints, etc..
Buccessfnlly treated.
Dli. CZAPKA V", one of the most successful medi
cal practitioners on the Pacific coast, may be con
sulted confidentially in reference to the above aud
all other complaints at the institute,
Xo. 0J KKAII.W lT. Ka Franrlico, fml.
M-The Doctor offers Free Consultations, and asks
no remuneration unless he effects a cure. CbarC-B
moderate. Oomniunicalioua etricUr onriJvt.ii!.
Medicines sent by Kx press. Address L. J. Czapkav.
M. li.. .Postofficv Box 6-1. Han Francisco.
Ir. SPIOEY & CO.,
No. 11 Kearny Street.
fPRKAT ALL CHRONIC AND SPECIAL
-i- Diseases.
YOUXG MEX
Who may besuffering from the effectsof youthful
follies or Indeecretions. will do well to avail them
selves of this the greatest boon ever laid st the altar
of suffering humanity. DR. KPINNKV wlil guaran
tee to forfeit five hundred dollars for every case of
seminal weakness or private olsease of any kind or
character which he undertakes and fails to cure.
He would therefore say to the unfortunate sufferer
who may read this notice, that you are treading
upon dangerous ground when vou longer delay lu
seeking the proper remedy for your complaint.
You may be in the flist stage remember you are
approaching the last. If you are bordering upon
the last and are suffering some of its evil effects,
remember that if you obstinately persist in pro
crastination, the time must come when the most
skillful physician can render you no assistance;
when the door of hope will be closed against you;
when uo angel of merer can bring you relief, lu
no rase has the Doctor failed of success. Then let
not despair work itself upon your imagination, but
avail yourself of the beneficial results of his treat
ment before your case Is beyond the reach of med
ical skill, or before grim death hurries you to a pre
mature grave.
MIIIJE-AiEI HEX!
There are many of the age of thirty to sixty who
are troubled with too frequent evacuation ot tiie
bladder, often accompanied by a slight smarting or
burning sensation, and a weakening of the system
in a manner the patientcanno account lor. 1 her
aremauy men who die of this difficulty, ignorant
of the cause, which Is the second stage ot serutna
weakness? Dr. 8. fe Co. will guarantee a perfect
cure in all such cases, and a healthy resturailou of
the genlto-urinary organs, Ofice hours 10 to 4 and
6 to S. Sundays from 10 to It A. Cousultattou
Free Thorough Kxamintion and advice. .S.
Call or address DR. HPINNKY fc CO., No. 11
Kearny street, Han Francisco.
PRESCRIPTION FREE.
FOB Til E NPF.EDT CURE of Seminal Weak
i) ess. Lost Manhood and ail disorders brought cn
ny Indiscretion or excess. Any druggist has the ;.s
gredients. Dr. W. JAQUES & CO., i: W. Sixtl
street. Ciacluuati, Ohio.