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ttwa...-, t , .r .. , r. ..... i) i i i, , 1 , .j"" T"" .... J ..... :. '1 ' " ii . . limniiiM' - f i r ' ' - --g'f i ---.-.j. - '. . : : : L p ' ' ' T t o WIT AND HUMOR. In lore, aa in letters engagements al ways begins with a-vowel. A UkZT man is like Ichabod, because he is wedded to his idles. Bocksellkes report a marked wane in the sale of Mark Twain's writings. IiAZT me are long-lived. Think of this, and be resigned to the abuse you receive. "Fibst in wore, first in piece" siad a man when the patch in the bay window of his trousers wore through. " That banker of mine" has the best run of anything out. The edition rare ly stops short of Europe. How long can a man live without brains?" asked professor of a rustic. "I don't know," replied the latter."How Id are you? What is tne umerenee Detween a man struck with amazement, and a leop ard's tail? One is rooted to the spot and the other is spotted to the root. If you were going to make a collect ion of simpletons, would you go to the colored baby show and take your pick o -ninnies? Ababy has been born inSalena, Ala bama, with a back bone so much longer than necessary that it can wag the end of it. Mr. Darwin! Mr. Darwin!! Hi, there, quick, Mr. Darwin!!! " ' 1 - . -a xsjs man wuu is curious to Bee now the world could get along without him can find out by sticking a cambric-needle into a mill-pond, and then withdraw ing it and looking at the hole. There is nothing more mortifying to a man who is anxious to be published as a hero, than to seize a drowning wo man by the hair and then Lave the hair come off. "See Mamma!" exclaimed a little one, as puss, with arching spine and el evated rudder, strutted around the ta ble; "see, Kitty's eat so much she can't shut her tail down." The great loving heart of man will now be startled just as soon as his tired and exhausted body touches the bed, by that old familiar cry of, " Goodness gracious, what cold feet you've got!" In an Irish provincial journal there was an advertisement running thus: "Wanted, a handy laborer, who can plow a married man and a Protestant, with a son or daughter." A BEPOitiEB on a Chicago newspaper was dismissed lastjweek for speaking of a Chicago business-house as "the larg est in the West," instead of "the largest .in the world." Husband, pointing to a chimney sweep, and addressing his wife, "You have been at me to take you to Switzer land to go up something! Here's a chance. Go up with this fellow." Allow me to be your beau," aaiJ a gentleman, placing nis umbrella over a lady in a shower. Thank you : I've plenty of fair-weather beaux, so I sup pose I must call you my rain -beaux," she replied archly. The "Wonderful Thixo. A propos of the recent voyage across the Atlantic of Capt. Crape and wife, in a whale boat, a cynic Bays that the most wonder- ful thing about it was that man and wife should not have fallen out. Kentucky now comes to the front, unblushing with a growth of human hair on a doll. There is a temporary dearth of snake stories at present, ow ing to the great loss of whisky in the o Louisville fire. Gypsies drive a profitable buainess in the South by telling fortunes for the negroes. When a prophetic gypsy has predicted that a negro will be success ful in life, and in his old age be clothed with honors and a boiled shirt, there is a grand rush for the tent of the f ortell er. In private, Mark Twain is full of jests, keeping them up even at home. His wife asked him one day, when he was fouding his first born, "You do love the little thing, do you not, Samuel?" " I can't say I love it, but I respect it most sincerely for its noble father's sake." " Shall I pay you now, or whan I call for the certificate?" blandly said a unaegroom to the clergyman who manied him. " Oh, when you call for the certificate," answered the clergy man. He has had the certificate ready from that day to this, but tho bride groom has never called for it. In tho following love-couplet there is a great paucity of words, but as much meaning as there is in most many mov ing love-songs that have a fashionable run: " I looked and loved, and loved and looked, and loved and looked again: But looked and loved, and loved and looked and loaked and loved in vain?" Apittle Hlinois girl had been ban ished to the hall for disobedience. Pres ently a curious stamping of little feet was heard there, followed by peremp tory knock at the door by little fingers. "Who's there?" was asked. " Dodl" was the stout reply from the hall, " He want's to turn right in, too, for it's told." A five-yeab-old tot, who had always elosed her prayers at night with " And God help Katy to be a good girl," open ed her eyes on that point one night in green apple time, and said, verv decid edly, " I aint a going to say the rest, for I don't want to be a dood girl ; I want to eat green apples and swallow em." He'd been driving the dasher vigor ously for an hour, and yet the butter wouldn't "come." He softly laid down the article, and was creeping quietly out of doors, when a watchful mother swooped down on him and harnessed him anew to his task, remarking, very pointedly, that "One good chum de serves another." Afebeib called at a house not nineteen miles from Boston, the other day, and asked of Mrs. Letters was in. " No such lady lives here." "When did she move." " She never lived here." "Well, how do you pronounce that name on the door? That is the lady I am lookiag for." "Oh! That is a letter-box." Exit peddler. It is a beautiful, starry night, and the seniors are out star-gazing. First senior (who studies as tromony ) : "Look up there and see how beautiful Orion looks!" Second senior (who does not study astromony ; but who has to speak of Irish blood): "Is that OTiian? -mans neaven, you admit mere s one Irishman in heaven, anyhow." Miss Claba, daughter of Leonard Jerome, is to marry the Earl of Wick low, who is also Viscount Wicklow and Baron Clanmore. He is one of the reprefentative'.Irish peers, in the British Parliament. The Karl is 38, and was once an officer of the Ninth Lancers. XT? Encourage Your Wife. Praise your wife, man; for pity's sake, give her a little encouragement; it won't hurt her. She made your home comfortable, your heart bright and shinning, food agreeable; for pity's sake tell her you thank her, if nothing more. She don't expect it; it will make her eyes open wider than they have these ten years, but it will do her good, and you, too. There are many women to day thirst ing for words of praise, the language of encouragement. Through summer's heat, through winter's toil, they have drudged uncomplainingly, and so ac customed have their fathers, brothers and husbands become to their monot onous labors they have looked for and upon them as they do the daily rising of the sun, and its daily going down. Home every day may be made beauti tiful by an appreciation of its holiness. You know if the flour is clean, manual labor has been performed to make it so. Y'ou know if you can take from your drawer a clean shirt whenever you want it, that somebody's fingers have ached in the toil of making it fresh and agreeable, so smooth and lnstrous. Everything that pleases the eye and scene has been produced by constant work, much thought, great care, and untiring efforts, bodily and mentally. It is not that many men do not ap preciate these things, and feel a glow of gratitude for numberless attentions bestowed upon them in sickness and in health, but they don't come with a hear ty "Why, how pleasant you make things, wife!" or "I am much obliged to ypa for taking so much pains." They thank the tailor for their "fits;" they thank a man in a full omnibus who gives them a seat; they thank a young lady who moves along in a concert room in short, they thank everybody outof doors, because it id the custom; and come home, tip the chairs back and their heels up, and pull out tho newspaper; grumble if their wife asks them to take the baby, scold if the fire has gone down, or if anvthinir is just rignc, snut tneir montus, witu a snap of satisfaction, but never say, "I thank you. 1 will tell you what, nisn, younfr and old. if you do but show ordinary civility to those common articles of housekeeping, your wives, if you would give them the one hundredth and six teenth part of the compliments you al most choked them with before you were married, fewer women would seek for other sources of affection. Praise your wife, then, for all tho good qualities she has, and you may rest assured that her deficiencies are counter-balanced by your own. One View on the Matter. A Ger man professor who visited our country a few years since, seems to have been greatly shocked by the conduct of Am erican wives. He seriously declares that on more than one occasion he heard an" American woman say to her husband, "Dear, will you bring me my shawl?" and the husband brought it! And fur ther, that he had seen a man come home and find his wife sitting in the best chair in the parlor, and not only did she not rise to get his dressing-gown and slip pers, but she did not rise at all, and let him find his own chair as well as other comforts! The professor thinks that in stances like these show a terrible lack of wifely reverence for their husbands on the part of American wives. It is hard to overestimate the value of this well weighed criticism from so eminent a source, basod as it is, on undeniable fects. The female woman in this coun try has unquestionably arrived at a de gree of individualism which places her in many things on a level with man. She cannot be depended upon to get out of bed at four o'clock of a winter morning to make a fire and get break fast, while her lord and master takes a beauty nap, with anything like the cer tainty that she once could. She ob jects to fill her husband's pipe, and start it with a few gentle puffs, as any professor's sponse ought to. She opens her husband s letters on the same ground that he opens hers. A man has no right here to whip his wife, or to harness her to a plow, as the German farmers do. In fact, it's getting so in our country mat a wiie nas almost as many rights as a husband, and the con viction is slowly gaining ground that marriage is a matter of mutual service and attention. If tho professor pays us A J 1 A ' m v another visit, ten years from now, he will be doubly shocked, according to present prospects. A Yearning for Information. An unmarried man being left in charge of a six-year-old boy by his- parents says ne was plied with questions, of which these are a fractional part. What was my name, and my brother's and my fa- Al ,1 TIT1 . . . iiicr a uuu ujr v nai was me reason, if I didn't have any little boys I didn't have any little girls? All this put in one question, with no stops and a grad ual inflection. Was them buttons gold on my sleeve, and why? Did they cost one hundred and fifty dollars? If they didn't cost one hundred and fifty dollars, what would be the price of a gold house with gold furniture and a gold staircase? Did I ever see a house with these auriferous pecnlarities? No! What then, would be tho cost of a lead en carriage and iron harness? And why? Did I know why the flies walked on the ceiling? Could I walk on the ceiling? Not if I had one man to hold my head and the other my legs? Why couldn't I? Not if I was a giant? Was I personnally acquainted with any? Did I know any stories and what were they? Tho victim caught on this, and crammed the youth with extracts from the"Abrabian Nights" and "Bar on Munchausen," until he is certain a pent-up torrent of geopraphical ques tions will burst on that father regarding the location of the "Floating Island" aed the "Valley of Cream Cakes'.' that will make his life miserable. The Cincinnati Gazette describes a strange scene at the recent execution of a mullato who had been convicted of murdering two men. The barbar ous attack upon the Chisholm family last April is still fresh in the minds of all our readers, and a great rabble of sympathizers with that murderous mob boasted that the confession of this mu latto, Biley, would implicate Judge Chisholm. They resolved to force him to confess thas he had been hired by the judge to do the bloody deed. But the doomed man steadily adhered to the simple statement that he commuted the murders without aid or consul from any man. In vain the crowd urged that he be again and again questioned; he per sisted in reiterating that he told the truth, his last words being: "One m,1.nntf' and 1 shsdl Btanl before God. All I have said is true." The Household. For Stabchino Lincn. Use one tea spoonful of Borax to one quart of boil ing starch; it will improve the stiffen ing and gloss. Cleaning Wall Paper, To clean wall-paper, take about two quarts of wheat bran, tie it in a bundle of coarse flannel, and mb it over the paper. It will clean the papor nicely. Boiled Eggs..--To boil rggs and have the yellow cooked and the white not too hard, put them on in a basin of hot water and let them stand ten to fifteen minutes on the stove. This method of cooking eggs gives the very least trouble of all. . To Wash Navy-Blue Woolen STOck ings. Set the color before washingby soaking ten minutes in a pail of cold water containing one teaspoonful of sugar of lead; then wash in water made soft by borax; use no soap for the first time, "and very little at any time; it hardens the woo?. Cure for Hoarseness. Spikenard root, sliced and bruised, and then steeped in a teapot containing equal parts of water and spirits, and the va por inhaled, when sufficiently cooled, will relieve the soreness and hoarseness of the throat or lungs, when arising from a cough or cold. English Bread Sauce. Cut some light bread in small pieces; boil suffi cient milk with a good -sized onion in it: thoroughly soak it; inix and let stand awhile, then boil and add butter, pep per, and salt and a few black pepper corns; take out the onions before serv ing. Ego or Butter Gravy. Put into a tin dish one-fourth of a cup of butter and a large tablespoonfnl of flour. Set on the stove and a3 the butter melts stir in the flonr until smooth or free from lumps; then pour on nearly a pint of boiling water. Slice into the gravy bowl two hard boiled eggs, pour the gravy on them and serve, oait ana pepper. English Plum Pudding. One bowl ful suet, two bowlsful bread crumbs, one bowlful of raisins measured after having been chopped fine seeded; half a bowlful citron, cut in small pieces; six eggs, two large wineglassfuls brandy; two nutmegs; boil four hours and serve with wine suuee. It i3 better to boil two hours on one day, and the remain ing time the day on which it is to be eaten. This receipt has been used in our family for twenty -five years. White Mountain Cake. Use 1 cup ful of butter, 2 of sugar, 3 of flour, with 2 teaspoonsful of baking powder and a little salt, 1 cupful of milk, and the whites of S well beaten eggs; bake in layers of different sizes, decreasing in size as it is built up. Icing Use 2 cupf uls white sugar, with just enough water to moisten; boil ton. thick syrup, pour boiling hot on tho white of 2 well bealen eggs; add Y teaspoonful citrio acid, and stir until cold; flavor to taste and ice on top. A Pretty Vase. A cheap vase for autumn leaves or crystalized grasses may be made as follows: Take apiece of pasteboard five inches wide; wet and press it around the sides of a tumbler so the ends will just meet nicely; tie a thread around each end, and when dry fit in a bottom, and cover with a tinfoi or some kind of fancy jjaper. If it is not sufficiently stiff, press a layer of putty around the inside. now to Improve the Complexion. Make a linen bag large enough to hold a quart of bran ; put in a vessel and pour two quarts of boiling water on it; let it stand all day, and at night on going to bed take the bag out and wash tho face with the bran water; in the morning wash it off entirelv with distilled rain water. In a very short time, it wil make a coarse skin feel like velvet. Eye-Glass Wiper, A useful, little piece of fancy work is a wqer for spec tacles. Cut two pieces of velvet about the size and shape of the glasses, and line each piece with doeskin or wash leather (such as is used by jewelers), binding them together around the edge with narrow ribbon. Join . tho two pieces with a bow of ribbon. Grand mama will tell you they are very con venient polishers. Tart Urust. lhe white ot an egg beaten to a stiff froth, one tablespoon of white sugsr, one cup of lard, a little salt, five tablespoons of water; roll quite thin for tarts; cut out with a cookv cut ter a scolloped one will look best; take an open-top thimble, make five holes in one, lay on a whole one, which makes one tart: proceed wilh all the dough in tho same way; bake lightly, when done split open the tart and lay a slice of nice jell between the layers; squeeze up the jell through the holes; place them on the table rn a plate and you have a splendid looking dish for the tea-table, and something that will last two months. Do not put your jell iu till you wish them for the table. A writer who says that one good cow gives all the milk that was needed in a family of eight persons, and from which cow was made 260 pounds of butter last year, gives the following as his treat ment: "If you desire to get a large yield of rich milk, give your cow every day water slightly warm and slightly salted, in which bran has been stirred at the rate of one quart to two gallons of water. Y'ou will find, if you have not tried this daily practice, that your cow will give 23 per cent more immedi ately under the effects of it, and she will become so attached to it that she will refuse to drink clear water unless very thirsty; but this mess she will drink most any time and ask for more. The amount of the drink necessary is an ordinary water pail full eac h time, morning, noon and Farmer. night. SoutJiem Removing Stumps. It is said the easiest way to get rid of stumps ia to bore a hole in the top, say one or two inches in diameter, and eighteen inches deep. Put in the hole from one to two ounces of saltpetre, fill the hole with water, and plug up tight. In the spring take out the plug, pour in a half gill of kerosene oil, and Bet fire to it. The stump will burn entirely up, even to the smallest rootf . Hex Manure. In the hen-house, un der the roost, there is a tight floor, and over this floor I spread dry, fine earth or muck, and occasionally as the manure accumulates, more earth is spread over it. My practice is to clean out in spring and fall, and by having a supply of dirt to use when wanted, I manufacture and save, with very little labor or expense, a very valuable fertilizer. The truths that we least wish to hear are those which it is most to our advan tage to know. 1 COURTESY CF BANCROFT LIBRARY. UNIVERSITY CF CALIFORNIA, The Parent of Insomnia. The parent of insomnia or wakefulness if in nine caes out of ten a dyspeptic stomach, yooa digestion gives sound sleep, indigestion inter feres with it. The brain and and stomach sym pathize. One of the prominent symptoms of a weak state of the gastric organs is a disturbance of the great nerve entrepot, the brain. Invig orate the stomach, and you restore equilibrium to the great centre. A most reliable medicine for the purpose is llostetter's Stomach Bitters, which is far oreferable to mineral aedativea and powerful narcotics which, though they may for a time exert a soporific influence upon the brain, soon cease to act, and invariaLly injure the tone of the stomach. The Bitters, ou tne coutrary, restore activity to the operations of that all im portant organ, and their benincent influence is reflected in sound sleep and a tranquil state of the nervous system. A wholesome impetus is likewise given to the action of the liver and bowels bv its use. Stop that C'lMijfli, or it will terminate in that dreadful disease, consumption. We are aware that a predjudice exists among many persons against medicines which profess to cure a cough or cold when bor dering on consumption, or even when the lungs are affected, but we can assure nur readers that Wistab's Balsam of Wild Chebky will do all this; and in making this assertion we speak from experience, having suffered lor months from a cough, which after using many remedies with out any relief, threatened to wi inmate serious ly. We were, however, so fortunate as to se cure several bottles' of Wistah's Balsam of Wild Chebby, and are now entirely rid of tho coiie-h. and restored to our former health. To those suffering in a like manner we would rt ommeud this excellent reparation. John O. Westafek, editor of the Chronicle, Elizibethtown. Pa.. March 2G. 1874. 51) cents and $1 a bottle. SoU by all drug gists: Subsckibe for the Commercial Advo cate, the only paper published devoted to the T.dlmr Question on the true principle. Price, 3 a vear. A 32-column weekly journal. It contains all the latest market reports. Address Commercial Advocate, 02G Montgomery street. San Francisco. Cal. ;ik 3 H . 3 H . 3 H . This is a couerh mixture that cures Coughs, Colds, Throat and Lung diseases. Give it a trial and be no lontrer troubled. It is a sure cure for all Throat and Lung troubles. Pre pared by lihodes & Lewis, San Jose, Cal., and sold by all Uruggists and dealors. Ask your Drug gist for "88 Cough Mixture and take no other Rheumatism luichly 'urel. "Durang's Rheumatic Kemedy," the great Inter nal M'dicint, will positively cure any case or rheu iiiatisin on the face of the earth. Price SI a bottle, air bottles. $5. Sold by all Pruutiists. Send for circular to HelphenBtine & Beutley, Druggists, Waahinirton. D. C. Hold wholesale by H. 0. Kirk & Co., Sacrameuto. Cal. 31 -PAOK UATALOOUK FRKK TO AGENTS Wikstkk A Co., 17 Jew Montgomery Ht...r. 25 .T'aihtouable Cards. no 2 alike, xritu nauie 10c miHt naiil. Geo. I. Rked & Co.. Nassau. N. V 25 Elkoant Cakes, uo two alike, witu iinim- 10c. post paid. J. B JJcstkd, NaRsau. N. V, HfKK. I- V. KTKIXKK. M I I.LI X Kit. OF i.VI No. IH KourtU (Street. fraii Francisco, Is now prepared to till orders lor elegant Hats at prices which defy com petition. Country orders promptly attended to How to Become Xean ! rR ihe successful treatment of excessive fatness. without Injury to the health, hr the use or Ult. OKR'.-t KI.IXIK Of "UULP WKKO." which can be obtained of all respectable Driiirvists a id tt the Wkolksale Dkkot, N. K. Cor. 1'ostami Manon Hth.. Shii K- k-Ih.-o. Irlr. prr hnlllr OPIUM, MORPHiNEor LAUDANUM Habit Cured! Without pain, prostration or loss of business, "all correspondence strictly confidential." Price from SS t' per uiontn money retunded if patient t not relieved. Address lick llox IOI 1. or cull up on t.. I'. Kchski.l, aus Mason M. Mil rranc sco. R. THOMPSON, ATTOKXKY AT I, A l lOOM KO. MONTOOMKKY BLOCK, corner J of MontKOinery and Washington streets, San Francisco. P. O. Box, l'.tl'J. Special attention given to Xl-A- 3XT I H UPTC Y, And general practice in Tho TJnltel KtnloH 0iivtei, FIG BITTERS USE the Hleraploraor Fig Bitters. Cures Fever and Ague, Biliousness. Constipation, Impure Blood, Kidney Weakness, Worms, Urinary Disor ders, Female Complaints, etc. Druggists have it. Agents. ItKHlNHTof dt Co. Wholesale Di ugi.tls San Francisco. Cal. IiOOKI BURBANK & MYERS, Im porters and Breeders of Fancy Fowls. Pigeons, Rabbits, lxigs. etc. Also rggs for hatching from the finest of Imported Stock. Eggs auil Fowls at re duced prices. It UK HANK A JIYKRN. 43 and 41 California Market. Yards. cor. Lou and McAllister streets S. F. Enclose stamp for Pkick List. FteatK slate wnere you saw this Advertisement. EATING'S COUGH LOZENGES! XV 'l he Ureat British Remedy. There Is umiues lionsb'y no -ther remedr so certain in its efTects. AXTUMA, WI NTER COUOH. BKOXCHITIS and DISfiRDhS OF THE THROATaiike yield to its Influence. The highest medical testimony utit-s no bettr cure for these complaints ex:st (now proved bv over half a century's experience). They cmtain no Opium, Morphia or nnv violent drug KEATING'S Col'tJIt LOZENGES, prepared hy THOMAS KEATING, London. Britain, are sold by all druggists. Agents for the Pacific CVuisf.. KED I.VO A C. and CilARLE-S LANGLEY A CO.. San Francisco. I. M. COOPER, stock buokeh N. W. Cor. Pine and Snnnnnir Kta.. SAX FRANCISCO. Stooks Bought and Sold on Commission STOCKS ROUOHT AND CARRIED OX MAR Rlna at the following rates : Leading- stocks. 25 to 35 per cent.: Outside Stocks. 40 to 50 per cent. Orders sent through Wells Fargo fc Co's Exprens frfim puy aiieiHieu 10. Dividend Notice San Francisco Savings Union, 5.13 California St., Corner Webb. For 111 linlfyrnr outline: wilh nrrember 81. t77, a dividend has been declared at the rate ot eight and one-tenth (8 1 10) per cnt. per annum on term deposits, and six and three-fourths i6t ner cen ou ordinary deposits, free ofiFederal tax. pay able on and after TUESDAY. 15tn January, 1S7S. LOVELi. WHITE, Cashier. ISoots and Shoes. JOHN SCMIVAX, N. E. cor. Rat tery and Jackson Sts., San Francisco, offers to make to order the best French Calf Leather BOOTS at from 8 to 9 00 California Leather Boots, - - f 6 00 French Calf Oxford Ties, - - f4 00 California ... .3 50 Rovs' and Children'a 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 Boots and Shoes of M Y OWN MA N U FACTURE ONLY. Boots and Shoes sent C. O. D positively one price. PILES! PILES ! ! IIEMORRIIOI 1N orPILES can HK(Titi:i! Haiiicali.y, spbkiiily and Without Pai.v! Dr. Pierce's Pile Truss and Rem edy " give instant relief in all cases. By means of this new ap pliance the Piles have a constant and agreeable support and will entirety disappear it the Truss is worn and the Rem edy applied as directed. For particulars cal! or ad dress JIAUNKTIt; ELASTIC TltCW O.. ttOV Sacramento St. (upstairs), San Francisco. BdftState In what paper you saw tbls notice. CALVERT'S 5 CARBOLIC "Sheep Wash. PRESCRIPTION FREE. FOR TIIKNrEEDTCVREOIMmlnil wcatc uess. Lost Manhood aud all disorders brought on by Indtacretieu or excess. Any druggist bas tbe ID' gredieots. Da. W. JAQUES fc CO., 130 W. xU street, Clnciunatl. ObU.. 1 rv Pianos Organs ItiiAbe, Irvine: and Decker Pianos I'riuoe and Waters Orsans, LARGE STOCK. MODERATE PRICES. 8EB" Call and examine before purchasing elsewhere- BANCROFT, KNIGHT Music Dealers, 13:1 Market street. San Francisco SAFE DEPOSIT I.OAX OFFICE, Driek lluilliii, 321 Kearny Street, between Bush atil Pine, San Francisco. Private Entrance ou Belden Place, bet. Mont gomery ami liearny, Itusli anil Pine Streets. Emporium of Clioice ami ELIKJAXT JEW HI.Il Y, all ot recent manufacture ami most nrtiMtic fliiisih anil nesifru, comiwittinjc varieties to suit the most fast ill iou tastes. Hloney Eoaucil on Collateral Security and trtt redeemed Pledges Tor sale. MAX OOLDIIEKU. B 7oitol'Q,e 9 922 IomC Street f San Kraiidro, FRENCH, GERMAN AND ENGLISH Boarding and. Say School FOE, -5rOTJ35r(3- LADIES. The neit term will commence January :id 1378. i-or particulars aujress. .HAIkAMi: It. ZKITKK.4. Principal Water Pipe ! -KOR- CITfKS, TOWNS, MIN'KS. KWt'UES AND ALL WATKR COUUSKiS. For descriptive books send to AMERICAN PIPE CO., 2 California Mrrel. Man Frasrlnrit EYE and EAR sTM'MLTY. REMOVAL. "lT - PAClf.M.I. T to LXay Sr. 1 realm entot lhe Kye and Kitr bus been my specialty lor the last 27 years. 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MMOM, Having J Jst received a Large Invoice of 1 I Therefore informs his patrons that he will make CLOTH I NO TO OHDKR at the Lowest C ASH PRICE for th next Sisty Days: Business Suits to Order. - $25 Pants to Order, - - - $S Dress Suits to Order, $35 to $50 Commercial St., cor. Leidesdorff, PJo. c$ Stroot SAN FRANUlsCO IJII'OKTAXT TO ttf: PUBLISHERS. S15OI & CO. Are now prepared to offer extraordinary induce ments to Newspaper Publishers : OIITKIIIKN, ISSIDEN. NIPI'LEJIKXTS, f For Dallies, Semi-Weeklies or Weeklies), Or entire newspapers, printed with or without our Co operative Advertisements, on more favorable terms than ever before orTered. ereIS' Aavertisements of our own 03rZl inserted among reading matter, fiflf 150 that patrons can always know jJf-J how much they should be credited Western Xewspaper Union 518 (LAY ST., San Franelnro. GIBSON fc CO.. Pkopbictobs. THE "COMMON TETJSS. Adopted by V.S. (iorcriimen t. c u D IN USE BY EMPERORS HKCOMMEXDED SURGEONS. From RANSOM DEXTER, M. A.. M. . ProfrMor of Zoolojy. Com parali le and Unman Anatomy and IMi. Moloiry In llie I'nlrerNily of Iilco. Hl.l Indiana Av enue. Chioaoo, Nov. IS. 1ST7. Messrs. BARTLKTT. HITMAN ife PAKKKR: Having used your "Common-Sense Truss" in my practice for over ten years, having known of its adoption by tbe Board of Surgeons of the t'nited states Army, of its baving received the highest award at the American CentennUI .Exhibition, of its adoption and use by several of the Koyal Families of Kurope, and having examined almost. every de vice of the kind, I feel at liberty to say that its pivot and ball and socket joints, set screws, correct re taining force, superior workmanship, etc., are all a competent surgeon could wish, and it Is worthy the term " Common-Sense Truss." KANSOM DEXTER, K-W Descriptive circulars, with prices. ma:led free The Ruptured will rind it to their interest to write ns. Trusses at all prices. .Supporters, Braces, Klas tic stockings a specialty. 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Tickets sold to all the principal places on the Pa cific Slope at Tin: LOWEST ltATi:8. Don't Rar Tlebef by any other I.fne a nil I you rail at our TIeket Ottare. Nan Franelaeo Ticket Ottfee 211 Mont Koiuery Ktreet. GOODAI.L, PERKINS & CO. General Agents, No. 10 Market stre-.t, San Francisco. OREGON STEAMSHIP COMPANY. Tho Only Direct Lino to Portland. t'-jbl n Paua(. IO Nteeraare I'asaare. 6' S-pPt R K V t. A R NTEA.tfERM TO 'IiiV """ - ' 1 leaving Kan Francisco ev ery J-MVK DAYS Until further notice steamships City of Chester, Elder and George w. Ajax, Connecting with Steamers to SII'KA and PTOET SOUS D. and O. and J. R. R. Co. and Oregon and C H. K. Co. through Willamette, Urapqua and Rogue River Valleys, Oregon. TICKETS TO ALL POINTS OX THK O. and K. SOLD AT KEDUCED KATES. K. VAN OTERENDORP, Agent. 819 Battery street. San Francisco. OPIUM OR MORPHINE HABIT 1)ADII ALLY (UREDIXA FKfVOAVN. A without pain or publicity. No charge u"til a cure Is completed. Call at 319 Bush Street: San Francisco. Cal., or send for pamphlet. DR. SAXriELD'S wvenawr: . JL culiar to tui K3IEDY FORJi;AKNE50 PE- KlHftr j;. "tiu.co ut-E-vus aua pnysicai oe m'in7h P??Jj2&fy strength ' w e If q i , k , f "Jajin i-om four to tlx 52? .?rtTT th anfailirerflljuty; sure euro for kid nt?'E$fi?r ?.'lKlder coa&nints; price, X OO fh.,Iir ,n WnKrSIO; Isent every. SSWT !rom observation f?iamnnlcations 112:y0mlxdua:l' consultations bkmerlor In fJIWy street. an Franiam ,iu u w Llil 9 r, M. AND Inducements f CJironicle A CX-UB "nstr.uwi Descriptive fata'oL-ue !ld wstlcues, l.i irj i i s r tale ear. of va'U'ibie Prenii I'ltiwn etc. A "re ALL pos'jvastj:i:s ARK AU- MARK -THE- I' IP V 1. KTT'S ATMOSPHEKIO LETTER COPYING PRESS, t'oiupart, P.rliiblc Ilnrable, ant 1-3 l'tM-fMr than mi Iron I'rfKK. Something new. 'lhe be?t thing yeL B sure to see it before purchasing an iron press HOPKINS, TAYLOR & CO., ! JSansomk Stkekt. - - Nan Krauclsco. Rights for Sale on L'beral Terms. First-Class Agents Wanted. TO TBSfi: AFFLICTED. Dr. Wm. K. Doherty, l'lnSICIAX AMI SI KUKOX. MAY BE COXFIDKNTIALLY COXSVLTKD on every variety of Disease f the I. lines. Liver, Kidneys. I)i restive and Genito-l.',rinarv Or gans, Nervous ami Physical Debility, and all special rtiseases ressulting from ignorance, or fully. Twen ty years special practice in curing these diseases lias developed a Kvsleni of treatment exclusively his own by which he is enahled to dipense with mineral and other poi-ions, and to warrant thorough cures in quick time without interrupt on to busi ness. Indies stilfering from Uterine Affections or any of the diseases peculiar to their aex. promptly relieved. His large experience In Female Com plaints guarantees successful treatment. Terms moderate. Consn'tation free. Otllce hours from tt a.m. to H p. v. office 7! MAKKET STRKET, between Third and Fourth streets. Patients In the country cured at hem-i. Call or write for his pamph let on special diseess. Kvery man nbou.d have a copy of this lilt e work. Address DK. WM. K. DOHF.RTV. I'ostoftlce Box l:i73, .Van Francisco. No. 11, Kearny Street T'REAT ALL CHRONIC AND SPECIAL Diseases. YOUNG Who may be suffering from the effectsof youthful follies or indeecretions. will do well to avail them selves of this the greatest boon ever laid at tliealur of suffering humanity. DK. SPINNEY will guaran tee to forfeit five hundred dollars for every case of seminal weakness or private aisease of any kind or character which he undertakes and falls to cure. He would therefore say to the unfortunate sufferei who may read this notice, that you are treading upon dangerous ground when vou longer delay In seeking the proper remedy for your complaint. You may be in the fttst stage remember you are approaching the last. If you are bordering upon the last and are suffering some of lis 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 tbe door of hope w Hi be closed against yon; when uo angel of mercy can bring you relief, iu no case has the Doctor failed of success. Then let not despair work itself upon your imaglnati n. but avail yourself of li e beneficial ruits of his treat ment before your case H tieyond the reach of med ical skill, or before grim death hurries you to a pre mature grave. MIIIr.E-AC2EI 31 KX ! There are many of the age of thirty to sixty who are troubled with to frequent evacuation ot mr bladder, often accompanied by a slight smarting or burning sensation, and a weakening of the system iu a manner the patientcanno account for. There are many men who die of this difficulty, ignorant of the cause, which is the second stage of aeniina weakness. Dr. M. Co. will guarantee a perfeci cum in all sucb cases, and a healthy restoration of the genito-urlnary organs. Office hours 10 to 4 and 6 to 8. Sundays from 10 to 11 A. M. Consultation Free Thorough Kxamlnllon and advice, 15. Call or address DR. SPINNEY ft CO., No. 11 Kearny street, tian Francisco. o Mi