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o Wit ami Humor. The oldest lunatic on record Time out of mind. Something laid up for a rainy day An umbrella. A kitchen proverb Things rubbed against a grater become less. The Circuit Court in Boston Lovers walking around the Common. "What is the pain of which every one makes light? The window-pane. It is a good thing to compose music, but it is often better to compose one self. "What is the relationship between a bubble and a bruise? They both come of a blow. In what part of the country is real es tate the highest? In the Rocky Moun tains region. Politeness is like an air-cushion. There may be nothing solid in it, but it eases jolts wonderfully. "What is your business?' asked a law yer of a witness. "It's none of yours," was the blunt reply. It is said that "artichokes are gdo"d for rheumatism, and there is no doubt that hearty jokes are good for dyspepsia. "That's what I call a monkey wrench," gaid a witty showman, as the big baboon grasped his hair and twisted back his head. An unfortunate man One who is blamed for faults that he has not com mitted, and Draised for qualities of which he is ashamed. It has been averred that a lady with a diamond ring will scratch her nose, in a given period, four times as often as any other woman. The hard times don't make rascals, but only bring them to the surface; just as a prairie fire does not make wolves and snakes, but drives them from their con cealment. A Yankee humorist was giving an ac count of his experience as a hotel-kenper. "Did you clear anything by it?" asked a listener. "I cleared a six-rail fence getting away from the sheriff," was the answer. A clergyman, who had just performed a wedding ceremony, and wa3 rilling out a blank description of the parties, asked the husband what his business was. "1 am a wine merchant and a shoemaker," was the reply. "Yes," chimed in the bride, "bo you can set him down as a "sherry-cobbler." A lively pupil at a seminary asked the preceptress for permission to drive out with a gentleman. "You know the regu lations 01 tne institution," was the an swer. "is he your father?" "No." "Is he your brother?" "No." "Are you en- gageu io mmf ' "jno; Dut I expect to be before I get back." That answer car ried the day. A person who was looking at a house the other day, said he couldn't afford to pay bo much rent. "Well, look at the neighborhood," replied the woman. 4 'You can borrow flat-irons next door, coffee and tea across tne street, flour and sugar on the corner, and there's a bir oile of wood belonging to the echool-house right across the alley !" An athletic specimen of the Emerald Isle called on a wharfinger for a job. "The top o' the mornin' to ye, Muster P. I've been told that ye're in want of help." "I've bat little to do,"replied P. with mercantile gravity. "I'm the very boy for yees t It's but little I care about do ing it's the money I'm atther, sure!" The naive reply procured him a situa tion. "I fear," said a country minister to his flock, "when I explained to you in my lastcharity sermon that philanthropy was the love of our species, you must have misunderstood me to say specie, which may account for the smallness of the collection. You will prove, I hope, by your present contribution, that you are no longer laboring under the same mistake." A German enlisted in the regu lar army ; in the course of a few days he was put on picket duty. Ilia instructions were when anybody approached, to say "Who comes there?" three times and then shoot. Be fore long he perceived a man approach ing; he waited quietly till the man came very near, then he suddenly brought his musket to his shoulder and shouted, "Who comes dero three times?" Bang! An intelligent farmer living in Des Moines County has invented a henophone, modeled on the principle of the telephone, by which one old reliable hen occupying a central office in the hennery, sits on all the nests about the establishments, leav ing other fowls free to lay eggs, scratch and cackle. As fast as a new nest con tains the full compliment of egs, it. is connected with the central cilice by a copper wire and the busiuess is settled. The only trouble with the machine is that it sits so hard it hatches out the por celain nest eggs along with the others, so that one chick in every nest is born with glass eyes, and the farmer has to buy and train a dog to lead it around. This makes it expensive. Burlington Ilavck-Eye. The Ups and Downs op Life. A Chi cago husband came home the other eveu ing, dancing with glee. He kissed his wife, he kissed his children and looked the picture of happiness as he sat down to the supper-table and joyously remarked t6 his better half: "I cleared one hundred and fifty dol lars on a trade to-day." But the very next night that husband and father came into the house like a bear. He growled at his wife, he growled at his children, arid it was only with the greatest difficulty that his worthy spouse got from him the gloomy explanation: "I only made fifty dollars to-day." It is such ups and downs in life as this that drive our citizens iato untimely graves. Chicago Journal. Do You Diet Much? "Do you diet much this hot weather?" asked a friend of old Fuzbuz, as he took off his hat and mopped his brow the other day. "Dye itl dye itl" answered Fuzbuz, running his hand through bis hair, and looking at his fiogtrs. "What do you mean,sir?" "Why, you look good and hearty, and as for celor " "Color, Color! What is it to you, sir, whether I dye my hair or not? Hang it, sir, if I had such an infernal looking red as you've got, I'd dye it sky blue." 4tLok here, oli Fuzzy, what in thunder are you talking about? I asked you if jou dietted, seeing that yu were com plaining of dyspepsia the other day, and jou begin to rave about hair dye." "Dyeldiet! Oh, ahl I see! I didn't uaderstand." "But I do. and find that in rnnr mcp one must never say dye." Boston Com- ..... i4C4 lt. The Courage of Women. It is common to think and not uncom mon to speak of women as the timid sex, and they are likely to afford men a great deal of amusement and not a little gal lant disesteem by reason of their sup posed timidity. Men like to think of them as precious cowards, and often say that fearlessness is a masculine virtue which it would be unfortunate and unat tractive for a woman to possess. They unquestionably enjoy her susceptibility to fright, for it often yields them an op portunity to act as her protector at very small expense of spirit. They can not be with her very long or wry much without finding occasion to show their superiority of nerve by presenting a bold front to a staggering drunkard, or by striking from her garments a whirring insect that has alighted thereon. The timidest man seems braver gonerally than the bravest woman, so that he who is not a whit a hero may by contrast ap pear to be such in her presence one of the many causes, perhaps, of his fondness for her society. A woman is accustomed to think of herself as timorous, just as a man is to think of himself as valiant. She has no shame in her avowal of fear, and is rather inclined than otherwise to exag gerate her fear, imagiuiug, from what men have told her, that her feimmneness and loveliness depend somewhat on its degree, or at least, on its exhibition. She is so easily and constantly alarmed at trifles that she expects to be beside her self when some great danger threatens. And when it does threaten, she is apt to be surprisingly calm and self-collected. Startled by a beetle, frightened by a cow, ready to swoon at the siyht of blood, she dispises death when it menaces those she loves, and under its very win dow is as composed as need be. She sel dom believes herself free from fear, even though she be the embodiment of hero ism, and refers to the scenes through which she has passed so nobly as shock ing and terrible. Looking back, her imagination is far more excited by the retrospect than her mind was by the ex perience, and she wonders how she could have lived through it all. Indeed, her timidity is almost always before and af ter the actual danger, which, confronted lace to iace, is shorn of most of its powers to terrify. Her nerves and her imagination are so much more sensi tive, sympathetic and active than man's that she is scared by anticipation of, and at a distance iroin peril, rather than by peril itseli. With men it is generally different. His nerves, sensibilities and imagination are usually tame compared witli hers. He is stronger, better disciplined, more experienced; he has, from his very sex, far les9 cause to tear; he is taught from his earliest consciousness that faint heartedness of any kind is unmanly, dis creditable, even disgraceful. He is ed ucated to courage, he believes that he possesses it, and if he has any suspicion to the contrary, he would never acknowl edge it, for confession of cowardice is confession of ignominy. Nevertheless, in the presence of imiaeut danger, at the approach ot deatu, lie not intrequently shames his prelcusions and his sex, and reveals a shuddering ignorance ot him self. Neither his will nor his pride will serve him; his nerves prove weak on su preme trial, and he palpably cowers be fore calamity. He falls far below woman. When she remains steady and tranquil, he is unsettled and pusillanimous. Such instances may be deemed exceptional, though they are not uncommon. It may be said that woman, as a rule, is more afraid of remote and possible than of real and near danger, while the converse is true of man, as continual examples bear witness. A just distinction between the sexes may prove that man is the braver; woman be more courageous of the two. Courage is the higher quality, since it is mental and moral, instead of physical, as bravery is prone to be. Bravery is in different to danger through apathy or through temperament; - courage sees and feels all the danger, and may exaggerate it, yet conquers apprehension, preparing aud prepared by a sort of spiritual ex altation, and by wholly determined pur pose to meet the worst that may come. The former is often an accident of blood; the latter is a capacity of the soul, the evi dence of latent if not of conspicuous hero ism. Woman always sees so much more peril than there actually is, that, if man should see what she sees, he would rarely stand firm. If he were one quarter as afraid as she is, his intrepedity aud achievement would be far more seldom sunr. A distinguished trait of women in gen eral is fortitude, which is the better and nobler yea, the essential part of cour age. Man has comparatively a slender stock. He shrinks from and complains bitterly ot paiu tSiat they bear without a murmur, with perfect resignation, with out a thought of doing augtit save their duty. lie is peevish, uudiguified, unjust, well nigh intolerable during a sickuess which they will bear with sweetness, even with grace. Reverses of fortune, calamity, aliliction, anguish of body and of mind, they will sustain with equanim ity, when a tithe of her suffering will drive him to loud outcry, to vicious courses, or to suicide. They will shiver and shriek when the first wave breaks over the vessel, and go down with her in a hell of waters silent, statue-like aud serene. They Mill startle the night at a cry of tire, and perish in the iiames like an Indian bound to the stakes. They will scream at the prick of a needle, aud walk placidly into an open grave. Not so bold as man' to do wrong, they are valient to do right. The timid sex in some things, they are the heroic or heronic sex in others, and these usually the greater thing. In many of the grav est trials of life they are dauntless and distinguished, when man, their boasted superior, is craven and abject. Harpers' Bazar. The Boy Explorer. Ernest Morris, the boy naturalist and explorer, who' showed such precocity in his "South American explorations and bis subse quent lectures a year ago, and who lately returned to New York after another year's adventurers, makes interesting report of his work, lie paddled lar up the Ama zon, accompanied only by Indian guides; was strckeu with the fever; was ship wrecked on one of the large lakes through which the river takes its course, and only with difficulty found the means to return to his home. He has no idea of giving up, but proposes to return, ,as soon as he has recovered, and "explore every inch of Brazil." lie says: " If I can do nothing else I shall take some situation and w ork, I don't care at what, until I have got the $G00 or $700 I need. And then I shall go back to South Amer ica, and won't make another failure, you may depend." Morris appears to be a remarkable plucky- youth. Smger aud Jlis Wives. The career of Isaac Merritt Singer, the millionaire inventor of the Singer Sew ing Machine, although he died three years ago, has not yet lost its interest for the public, owing to the long contest there has been over his will and the ex traordinary facts which have from time to time been brought to light. Mr. Sin ger's life combined romance and infamy to an extraordinary cegree. few men are so successful in amassing wealth, and few ever sin so outrageously against the laws of morality as he did. He began life with nothing, for years he expe rienced the vicissitudes of the deepest poverty, yet when he died he left an es tate valued at $13,000,000 to $15,000,000, twenty-four children, and five women that called him husband. But only two of the latter were married to him, and few of his children were his ligitimate offspring. Singer wa3 a native of Schaghticoke, in this county, where he was born about the beginning of the war of 1812. He early moved to Wayne county, where he married Catherine M. Haley in 1830. At that time he was a wood turner. Two children were born to them. In 1837 they moved to New York," and soon af terward he joined a company of strolling players, his wife remaining in the city. At Baltimore he saw in the audience an attractive looking woman about 18 years of age, whose appearance excited Sin ger's interest. . lie found her out, called upon her and through his representa tions that he was a single man, she ac cepted his attentions and promised to become his wife. Her name was Mary Ann Sponsler. They went to New York, where he had a quarrel with his wife and they separated. Instead of fulfilling his promise to Miss Sponsler to marry her, he put her off with various excuses, and fiually pursuaded her to assume the rela tions of wife to him, assuring her that when his fortunes had improved the legal ceremony should be performed. For thirteen years the two lived the lives of strolling actors,playing temperance pieces in churches, and earning a meagre living. They carried all their effects in a one horse wagon, and they were frequently obliged to leave that behind iu pledge for trifling expenses. When in Chicago, Singer's attention was turned to invention ; aud he devised a reaping machine for harvesting grain. In 1850 he made several valuable im provements, which were embodied iu what is called the "Singer Sewing Ma chine," by which he acquired his collosal fortune, lie returned to New York, and lived on Fifth avenue, where, as wealth now poured in upon him, he maintained a splendid establishment, having ten horse and six carriages. Miss Sponsler still lived with him as his wife, though he had made no effort to get a divorce from Mrs. Singer. From 1837 to 18G7, ten children were born to them, eight of whom are now living. In 18G0, twenty four years after their separation, Singer "obtained a decree of divorce from his wile. In the meantime he had been building up other family relations. One was with Miss Mary McGonigal, by whom he had five children, and Mary E. Walter, who bore him one child. Both women shared in his bounties, and the children looked upon him as their father. These facts coming to light, Miss Spous ler, believing that she was Singer's wife, sued for divorcement. lie denied the marriage, but admitted the accusation of adultery, and a settlement was finally made whereby he purchased her a dwelling-house in New York, the title of which was to be vested in their children on her death. The following month, after 6he had ordered her lawyer to go on with the suit for divorce, she was secretely married to John E. Foster, of Boston, under her maiden name. She kept the marriage secret until January, 1803, expecting to get the deed of her house from Singer. Iu falling from a chair she was severely injured, and be lieving she was about to die, revealed the secret marriage, whi,ch news came to Mr. Singer. He induced her, proba bly by threats of legal prosecution for bigamy, to sign a document which was in fact a renunciation of their former rela tions, and to quit the house iu which she lived. Since that time she has continued to live with Mr. Fostor. In June, 18G3, Singer was married in New York to Isabella E. Somerville, a woman whom he had met in France. Six children was the results of this union. They soon re moved to France, where they remained until 1873, when he resolved to reside permanently in England. He purchased a large estate in South Devon, and started to build a dwelling that should surpass the baronial castles in the vicinity in magu'-ticeuce. But his death ended his career in July, 1875. His will wasolfesed for probate before Surrogate Coffin in White Plaius, West chester county. It divided the property in America, valued at $9,000,000, into sixty portions. There were bequests to his twenty-four children, to women with whom he had cohabited, and to Mrs. Isa bella Singer, Mrs. Mary Ann Sponsler, now Mrs. Foster, receiving nothing, con tested the will. She claimed to be the lawful widow of Mr. Siugejfeut the de cision of the surrogate's court was against her, and the general term of the supreme court affirmed the decision. In the meantime another will turned up in Eug land, which settled his property there, valued at about $5,000,000, upon Mrs. Isabella Singer and her children. The property in America, has been all dis tributed to the legatees; and last Satur day David Hawley, of Tonkers, one of Singer's executors, sailed for Enrope", to arrange the accounts against the English estate, and place it under coutrol of Sin ger's last wife or her representatives. Thus will end one of the most extraordi nary will cases ever brought before a surrogate's court. From the Troy N. V.) Times. Crocodiles. The difference between a crocodile and an alligator is thus set forth by one who evidently knows where of he speaks: "I know the alligator as I know buffalo, and the Nile saurian is no more like the South American alligator than a subsidized, bargain-hunting mis sionary is like a sincere Christian. The reptiles before us were from fifteen to eighteen feet long, sandy-yellow in color, not at all black, thicker and shoiter in the head than the alligator, and so sup ple and lithe as to turn themselves almost double w hen alarmed, with the ease of an acrobat. The alligator when turning moves the whole body. The Nile crocodile is always a dangerous antagonist. The alligator in the southern swamps is, at best, sport for convalescents and boys in Florida. Even in his native element the alligator will flee at the approach of man, whereas I am told by the native hunters that in the water the crocodile invariably attacks, deeming himself its mightiest inhabitant. An idle head is a box for the wind. Milestones 'on the Road to Health. The recovery of digestion and the resump tion of activity by ihe liver, bowels and kid neys are milestones which mark our pro gress on the road to health. They speedily become perceptible when llostetter's Stom ach Bitters is used by the invalid. Nothing so surely and expeditiously consumes the j distance to the desired goal. As no bodily, function can 6UtTer interruption without im pairing the general health of the system, so i the system can never acquire perfect vigor, ! health's synonym, until that function be actively resumed. Take, for instauce, diges tion, u suspension of which is invariably rectified by the Bitters. If the organs upon which it devolves grow weak, biliousness, constipation, headache, poverty of the blood,' and a hundred other symptoms supervene, which indicate unmistakably the baneful general influence of dyspepsia. The disap pearance of all these symptoms through the use of the Bitters shows with what thorough ness it removes their cause. Stiles' Hercules Engine, A Notice of which appeared iu our columns a few weeks since will be on exhibition at the Mechanics' Institute Fair, to be held iu S. F., in August. It will be over 100 horse power. The two cylinders of which will be 'M feet each in length with a base ot 10 inches. Regalias for all Societies. Military goods, Flags, JJanuers, Badges, &c., of every description furnished at prices to suit. Address, SOHEK & UEIMANN, 427 Montgomery St., San Francisco. Wanted. A good Agent in every city, town aud village in the United States, to take subscriptions for the Commercial Ad vocate, the only anti-Calholie and conserva tive labor paper published iu America. Sub scription $3.00 a year, in advuuee. Good in ducements will be otlerij'd to agents. Write for terms and full particulars. Address Com mercial Advocate, 5'JG 5fontgouiery Street, San Francisco, Cal. Phtsiciaxs of high standing unhesitating ly give their indorsement to the use of the Graefeu berg-Marshall's Catholicon forall fe male complaints. The weak and debilitated tind wonderful relief from a constaut use of this valuable remedy. Sold by all druggists. 1.50 per bottle. Thompson's pcre Essence of Jamica Gin ger. The best in use. Recommended by the leading physicians of Suu Fraucisco. Send for circular with testimonials and price list to J. D. Thompson, 414 First street, up stairs, S. F. Harris'jImpkoved.Frcit Drter is really a farmer's Machine, cheap, durable, simple in construction, is unequalled as a raisin Dryer. Price from $75 to $1,000. Scud for circular to Harris & Bradly, 33 Second St., S. F. Meadows Magic Liniment is a sure cure for Neuralgia, Headache, Rheumatism, etc., or money refunded. It is sold by all drug gists, at 60 els. a bottle. Abrams it Carroll, Agents, San Francisco. Uolman's Ague axd Liver Pads cures without medieiue simply by absorption. Worn by millions. Send for Blue book free by mail, to Watson . Co., 313 to 3l'J Battery 6treet, Sau Francisco. J. V. SIIAEFFEK fc CO.'S UKEEN SEAL CIGAKS are made from finest Havana To bacco. 323 Sacramento street, San Francisco 25 Fasuioxable Visiting Cards no two alike, with name 10c. Nassau Card Co., Nas sau, N. Y. Hkiebmann has the finest stuck of hats of any store on this coaxt. Herrmann has all the latest styles Herrmann sells at the lowest Hssible prices. Herr mann never misrepresent. If you want a new hut call on him, at 4ifi Kearny, or at his branch, U10 Market street, San Francisco. Photographs of superior finish at Morse's Palace of Art, 417 Montgomery street, San Francisco. BuTTHRlCK. & Co.'s Patterns, summer styles. Send stamp for catalogue. 1 '1 Post St., San Francisco. Tssra Saved. Filling Teeth a specialty. Sets of Teeth froth tlO upward. Teeth exacted without pain. UK. MuKFFKW, 10 Sutter street, S. F. All Photographs made at the New York Oallery No. 5 Third st.,S. F are guaranteed to be first-class. Prices to suit the times. J. 11. 1'ktkbs, Proprietor. Fob the best Photographs and the lowest prices go. to the old and reliable establishment of WM. SHEW, No. 115 Kearny street, San Francisco, established In 1S51, and formerly located on Montgomery street. llKMOKRnoius ob Pi Las, a treatise on their scien tific and pal n lens treatment and radical cure, by K. J. FRASER, M. 1)., San Francisco. Price, 2o cents. For sale at the book stores and by the author, at 211 Powell street. Sent by mall to any address upon receipt of the price tn coin, currency or postage stamps. Horse Boots, etc., J. O'Kaue 7ti7 Market St., San Francisco. Send for circular. Ladd & Smith, Dealers in Guns, Pistols, etc. Agents Ballard, Kerning ton and Winchester Killes, cheap, ill Kearny St., S. F. Se nd for circulars. f ONTOOMEKY'S TEMPERANCE HOTEL, 2 7 JA- Second St., Sau Francisco. O Meal Tickets, Wl. II IJMAI HA1H! The Cheapest A No. 1 Roods in the city. a. a. MJirsui, iiuijccuuu fctreet,S. F. 50 Mixed Cards, with name, in case, l.V. 24 no 2 a- iKe.ioc. uumtiuc. Atwater uros.fr orestville.Ct. STODDAIiTS new series of choice Music. Terms to agenta unusually liberal. For particulars, auurcss A. ROMAN & CO.. 1 1 .Montgomery St., San Francisco. G'KOItUK II. It A K Kit. LllhoKiaplirr, 11 Clay St., S. F. Bonds, Certificates of Stock, Checks, Drafts, Notes, Corporation Seals, &c, &c. -!. IE. HALL. 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In innUlnjf any iurcliHtc or in wriliiii; in response to iwi atlvertiNeineiit iu tlii pa jut, you will please mention tlie name of the paper. MILLERS Hriid HK'2.no tor Kent ri.Ul It X Itl Kit ev made. Strand Mill no., Cincinnati, 0. FOR SALE. K III XIKK,I ASI FIFTY Head of Thorough-bred Spanish Merino Ewes will sell at a very low price for thirty days from date. Kasldence corner Mission and 14th Sts. B. F, Watkins, San Jose. Cal. AGENTS WANTED. STANLEY'S GREAT WORK, "THROUGH ' the Dark Continent." Anle canvassers wanted everywhere throughout the entire Pacific States and Territories for this truly wonderful book. Apply at once and secure Territory. A. ROMAN & Co., 11 Montgomery St., S. F. general agents for tne Pacific coast. f-. 1. WAItltEN CO., Commission Stock Brokers 5 to California Nt., Man Franrlnco.-, Stocks nought, sold and carried on margins. Money to loan on mining stocks, f ifspecia! attention given to all orders from coun try customers. BENIGIA SCHOOLS ST MARY OF THE PACIFIC Reopens July 30th. THE COLLEGE OF ST. AL'GUSTISE Reopens August 1st, p. m. 18T8. Bishop WisortiLD, Rector. Benlcla, Cal. GO 130 Nl'TTEH STREET, BAN FRANCISCO. Personal Instruction In Businrsa Department by Prot. Karnako. Penmanship by Pkof. EtPiNA French. Spanish, Tele graphy. ' Two day iree of charge. CCS -Vi AVI CA LVERTS' CARROLIC SHEEP WASH per gallon. T. Mr. JACKSON, San Francis co, Sole Agent for the Pacific Coast. 1-2 iu. 3 ply 8 l-2cprft. 3-4 4 3 ' 10 1-2j " 1 " 3 " 14c 3-4 nose cocks 90c " IRON WATER PIPE AND FITTINGS, Brass 'Water Cocks, all sizes. Pumps, Lead Pipe, Sheet Zinc, Bath Tubs, etc. SetodTor Price List. W. R. ALLEN H19 Itfarket Street, 8 AN FBANCI8CO. OPIUM, MORPHINE r LAUDANUM Habit Cured! Without pain, proHtration or loss of business, "all correspondence strictly confidential." Price from to m0 per month money refunded if patient is not relieved. Address Lock Box 1014, or call upon E. P. I.Ummkll. SO- Mason Street. San Francisco. INTERNATIONAL HOTEL, NlaiiI Stlt Krarny .St., Nan Franrlaro. t$l SO and 92 OO PER DAY II. C. PATUIOGE, - - - - - Pbopkiktor. Two 'oi -rl Coarhm, with the name of the Hotel on. will always he i ii waiting at the landing to couvey passengers to the Hotel free. t&He sure yon get into the right Coach; if you do not, they will charge you. DOORS, WINDOWS, BLINDS. WEIGHTS, CORD, PULLET. &o.. at lowest if market rates. Send for Circulars. E. II. KITTUEUGE & CO.. t and 5SS California St., S. F C A M P I N G Ind BIG TREES V DELIGHTFUL, INSTRUCTIVE, HEALTHFUL and Inexpensive trin. Parties take the most direct route for Cniiltrrvllii-, thence by a good road (45 miles) to Voseiuite, passing Bower Cave and Pilot Peak, through Merced drove Big Trees and Merced River Canyon, by and in near view of Cascade, Rib bon, Bridal Veil and Yosemite Falls, and the mighty Oraniie Cliffs and Domes 01 the Canyon and Yosemite Valley the grandest mountain, forest, rock and water scenery in the world. CAN BE MADE Every Day! Using the Tifkiv Wki.l ItouiNo and ltlK'K 1)1UI L1NU Mu fti IV F The labor is all done by horse. Ko Patent Right swindle. You get your money's worlU ia machinery anil tools. 4'i r-uljr l"re. Address. LOO.UIM A X VJ1AX. TIMln. Ohio. ISoots and &lioes. .IOIIW Nl'LLIVAX, X. E. cor. of Buttery and Jackson st.,Sau Francisco, oilers to make to order the best French Calf Leather BOOTS, at from tots: California Leather Boots, $6; Gaiters and Alexis Ties, r to tfi; French Calf Oxford Ties. 4: California. 3 50: Boys' and Children o ijoots and Shoes made to order. Persons iu the country ordering Boots and Shoes to the amount of Twelve Dollars or more will be allowed a reduction of four per cent., so as to make the express charges light. I sell Boots and Shoes of MY OWX MANU FACTL'RK ONLY. Boots and Shoe sent C. O. D. Positively one price. AMERICAN EXCHANGE HOTEL, SAN FRANCISCO. 'PHIS old and popular hotel has for a quarter of a 1 century catered to the wantsof the public Thos. Bbvan, an old Califoruian aud an experienced gen tleman, conducts the house, which is a sulncleut guar antee Unit Comfort, Good Living, Cleanllnrft And the general welfare of guests will be accorded to all. The table will be furnished with the best the market affords. Gentlemanly and obliging clerks and careful waiters In attendance. This house is the most centrally located of any in the city. Street cars pass the door every two minute. The hotel coach will carry passengers to anl trom the hoH-e free of charge. Prices from 1.50 to i$'j.JU per day. WASHINGTON COLLEGE, Islington. Alameda Co., Cal. 'PIIK TIIIRTF.KXTII IKMI-ANMAL 1 TLUM of tills institution will commence ou Xliirl;ij-, AasiiMtl, lt7t. For fidelity anl ability in teachers, for purposes of a ao;id, practical education, and for healthfuluesa aud beauty of surroundings, this Institution will compare favorably with any on the Pacific Coast. For catalogues and further information, address S. S. HARMON, Principal. THE UNIQUE BOON! IADIKS and gentlemen, sare your money. Avoid J btimhuggfry and the chances of being crippled. Ail who are afflicted with hard or soft Corns, Bunions, Warm, Moles.&c.&c.SL'RGKON'S MASS will remove them completely and at once, and without knife, pain, soreness or scurriiicatton. One application only re quired. Recommended by leading families. Price, post-paid, $1.50. N. B. Fetid or offensive Arm-pits. Feet, .. which arises from diseased perspiratory duet. Try the H KKB-DISIN FF.CTOR. an actual and the only remedy of the kind. Price, fi. Orders sent to all parts of the country on receipt of price. Address P. K. LOPFZ. M. 1).. care of M. Doctns Ferdenan derz's S. F. Laboratory, Agent, se 1 5 Kearny St., S. F PACIFIC WATER CURE A2TD Eclectic Health Institute. NORTHWEST CORNER 7th".AND L STS. SACJCAMISXTO, CAL. Being fully prepared to treat all forms of disease on the la' est and most scientific principles, together with good rooms and board, we with confidence ask for public patromijre. For further particulars ad dress 31. K. VLAVTUX. M. !.. Proprietor. Oil For Family Use. NONPAEEIL0".1- A CTPT? A T 150 deg. Fire Test. AJLAi1lJJ in 1, , 2, and 5 gallon cans. DEVOE'S PRATT'S Kill I.I.I AST OIL Faucet and Plain. ItAIHAXT OII NTAXUAKIt OIL CO., Successors to GEORGE M. BLAKK, ItlSCALIFORXfAT., Room 13. - Sa.v Frxncisoo Got tlio Host s TURBINE WINDMILL Simple, Iurablo AND Ornamental. This Mill is (HLF-maut,TiN8, therefore cannot be injured by storms. They ara made of th1 best materials, and warranted to give satisfaction. Manufactorj, Oakland, Cal., Second St., bet. Broadwat AND WASHtNOTO ST. tWThe sndersipned has ntir. chased the Patxmt Right for the Pactac Const. Send for Circulars. A. L. VAN B LA ROOM, P. o. Box B7, Oakland, Cal. CrRellable Agents Wsnted in Kvcry County N. CURRY Sd BRO. 113 Sansome Street, San Francisco SOLE AGENTS FOB TUB Sharps Rifle Co., of Britoort, Conn FOR CALIFORNIA, OREGON, ARIZOXA. NE VADA. WASHINGTON TERRITORY, AND IDAHO. Also, Agentt for W. W. GREENER'S Celebrated Wedgefast, Chokebwre Breech loading DOl'HLE GUNS; and .11 ii.ni. r i : I " V pt L'l l c .1 T1 c. -'i""LsNi TOLS made by the Leading Manufnc.. Hirers of England and America. AM MUNITION of all kinds, in qjautilies to suit. Garflen Hose UNIVERSITY MOUND COLLEGE. SAN" FRANCISCO. Boarding School for Young Men and Boys. fFor Catalogue, app!y to. JOII.X UA3IBLE, B. A., Principal. FIYE THOUSAND DOLLARS A YEAR! Can be Made in getting up Clubs for the GREAT PAPER OF THE COAST this sjnsr Knsrczsco Weekly CTiFOEiicle? 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The WEEKLY CHRONICLE supplies the Intellectual wants of all. the farmer, the laborer, the artisan, the merchant, the miner, the Id, and the young. This GREAT FAMILY PAPER of sixty-four (64) large columns of reading matter o co a week for twelve months Is to be henceforth furnished for .50. in advance. IWSEND FOR CIRCULAR AND SAMPLE COPY. SENT FREE ON APPLICATION. Terms WEEKLY CHRONICLE $2.00 per year. DAILY CHRONICLE $G.70 per year, poptagre paid. Address CHAS. DE YOUNG & COm Publishers, , San Francisco, Cal. ALBKKT HAl' S C.'S Emporor SSct-roxaL Ask yonr Grocer for it and take no other, as it Is the best Soap for family use. - Each bar weijrhs one full pound. We are also Sole A (rents for the Pacitic Coast for CUDDELL TOILET SOAPS. These Toilet Soaps are better than any imported. Remember the name. EMFEROR SAVON. dtfllet'ti Cream Dry Hop Yeast, warrauted to please. (Jillet'tt Double Extracts, the purest and strongest jiillet'H Lemon Sugar makes tha best lemonade. tilllet'H Baking Powder, always sure to please. lllt'M eoods for sale bv ALBERT MAU CO. Wholesale Grocers, tlt! and 'ZIH California Street ban I- ranclsco. DIVIDEND NOTICE. SAN FRANCISCO SAYINGS UNION. 532 California Mt., cor. Wfbb. COIC TIIK II ALP VEAK EXUIXO WITH A. 30th June. 1S78, a Dividend has been declared at the rate of Eitctit (Hi per rent, rier annum on Term Deposits, and fx and Two-thirds it) per luiiu flT Willi' ill uil lruoiitijr I'fpunilB, utvui eral tax, payable ou aud after Tuesday. July lfi. 1875 LOVLL WHITE, Cashier. JOE POHEIM Till: TAILOIt, 203 Montgomery St. and 103 Third, S. F. Business Snlts made to order, In 24 hours, from f28 Pants made to order In 24 hours, from $5 Fine Diagonal. Cassimere and Scotch Cheviot Suits. to order f 25 to $45 Fine Dress Suits to order Ml) to $30 Overcoats, from $20 to $35 Jtulea of Self-Hfasnremnt dent Frr BERKELEY GYMNASIUM. (A Preparatory School to the University.) A FIRST-CLASS BOARDING SCHOOL, KSTAB lished In the interests of higher education, and in contrast to the cramming syvtein of tue small col leges and military academies of the State. The nxt term will commence Julv i4th. Examination of candidates for admission, July V2d and 23d. Ity re quest, instructions have been provided during the Bummer months for stude.ts preparing for the August examinations at the University. For cata logues or particulars, address JullN F. BL'RiilS. Berkeley, California. Notk. We desire to call special attention to the crgnnli'..ition of oufGrammar Department, separate from the academical, aud solicit the patronage of parents and guardians of small boys. NEWSPAPERS Bought and Sold. TE FREQUENTLY HAVE IKQUIRIES ABOUT V papers for sale by nart'es who wiBh to buy, also in reeard to new towns desiring to have a paper eetab lished. All parties who wish to buy or sell, as well as those who wish for any information in regard to the newspaper business on this coast, will do well to com municate with us. Pacific Newspaper Publishing Co.. CARLOS WHITE, Proprietor. SS aud 57 Market St., San Francisco, P. O. Box 3271. lir-Ontsides, Insides, SuppCments, 4c, furnished at a small advance on the price of blank paper . P. & F. G. CONKLIN, 29 Manaome St., S . Franrisco, 7f a n n - (actsrrri a n.d Uralers In all kind of llack akin. Cherokee, Ooaraktn. Kid, CI of li and Com bination Olovrs U 1 a g t and T.nrareHt lov IIoud on act lic Coast. ,'mu and -will aell a better l-love for the Money than Riiyotlirr lloune In Calilorula. ABBOTT DOWNING CO'S Concord Wapns Busies I Carriages, The genuine Conrord IIrnM," Manufac tured by Jams R. Hill & Co.. at Concord, New Hampshire. AlsoE. M. Miller A Co's . Celeorated tuaxtea and Csrrlacrs of Qtiincy. Illinois. A full stock of the above goods, kept constantly on hand, by T. S. EASTMAN. Agent, 41 Battery St., San Fiaucisco, Cal. 100,000 lbs. EXTRA STRONG TOBACCO! fob SIEHIIEIEIIP IDIIE3! E. BRIGGS & CO., 525 and 527 Market Street, THIRD FLOOR. Han rraaelseo. Jlarrh 1. 178..- GOLDEN GATE ACADEMY AND CADET SCHOOL. 'Next year will commence July aoth, 1TTS. For . address D. P. 6ACKET , A. M., Principal, rlrenl 033 dxt TUixrnxnt-A-i-s PATENT ADJUSTABLE BUGGY TOP. ri-ms liCGGT TOP IS LIOHT, 8TRONO AND JL du-able. Adapted to seats or all eltos of vehi cles. Six different sires. i'rlee J5I5. Orders filled by express C. O. U. Liberal discount to the trade. Agents Wanted in California, Oregon. Nevada, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, Washingion, Idaho. Ari zona and New Mexico. Address J. F. PLUM BE, Manufacturer and Proprietor, corner Main and Fol som Streets. San Francisco Cal. BUSINESS COLLEGE. IOST STREET, SAN FRANCISCO. THS ijZdJ oldest and most complete Commercial Col lege on the coast. - Elegant halls: new furniture; thor ough Instruction ; practical teachers; high standing with the public. Students can commence at any time. Day and evening sessions. Circulars may be nad free on application. THE IOOTLIGHT An Illustrated Kieht-page Weekly Dramatic Journal ISSUED EVERY SATURDAY. IWA. Portrait of some Professional Celebrity appears on the First Page of each number, and the columns are devoted to recording the principal events occurring In the Dramatic and MuBical World. Annual Subscription, prepaid, wii-iiln the United states or Canada $3 00 Six Months 1 50 Single Copies 10 tWFor sale by principal newsdealers..! J. D. ROBERTSON, - - - - - Publisher 820 Sansome St., Iialleck Block. Ssn Francisco. O HOIGIE BookS Any of the following books will be sent by mail. post-paid, on receipt of price. In currency, postage stamps cr coin. Money can be sent safely by check, P. O. Money order or registered letter. Books tan be sent by express C, O. D., but wc will not agree to pay express charges, if the cost is more than by nail. Postage on books Is one cent for every two ounces, and purchasers ought to ascertain the charges by ex press ou small packages before ordering books C. O. D. Books will not be exchanged when once ordered Tli( 1.1 rn of Edwin Forrmt, with reminis cences aud persons! recollections. Ky Juis Rees (.Colly Ciuber), witu portrait and autograph ; Uiiio., cloth l.w A.utobioKrailty or William 1(. Howard witti a memoir of his life aud selections frm hi letters, tly Frederic H. Seward, with nine por traits on sieei ; bvo.. eloiu, sheep i.UJ Narrative or Military- Operation Uur liiC tlielals Vnr hetnern Ihe Stairs. By Joseph li. Johnston, General C. S. A., illus trated by steel plates aud maps; bvo., clotn $4.i, sheep. .................................. ......... .j.U1 Life ofSnmnfl F. It. llornf, Inventor of the Electro-magnetic recording Telegraph. By Sam uel Ireneus Prims; vo., cloth W.wJ, sueep....o.o9 Th Uoldril Htale: A History of the Region West ot the Rocky Mountains, embracing Cali fornia, Oregon, Nevada, Ltau, Arizona, ldano. Washington Territory, British Columbia, aud Alaska. By Uuy McCiwIlan, with numerous maps and engravings; bvo sueep .. The l'rlnce of Wales' Tour In India, Urrrrr, Kjtjpl, npain and I'ortunal. By W. H. Rueii. illubl.ated ny Sydney U. Hall. M. A. Crown; bvo., clotii -.M The llrnourcrs or Callforula, comprising the society, climaie, salubrity, sceueiy, couiiurree aud industry ol the State. By John a, iiiileli; Uuio clolu, 1.T5, paper i.A nine and Kau-Ushlii, their lullueace uiiu l.lt li-ae, Ac. By beucral A. J, Pieasoutou; vo., clotn --0 The Oilded Ajfe, a tale of to-day. By MaTk Twaia (ftuinuul L. C'einens;, auluor of "iiiua ceuce Abroad," ' tlouguiug it," aud Charles Dud ley Warner, author ol " My summer in a Garden, .Back Log; otuuies." Funy lliustrlei trom new designs tJ tloppiu, btc'Ueun, Williams, While, die, fcc. ; evo., sueep fxi-dd The AdrriilnrcaofTuui Jtawjfr. By Mark Twain; 8vo., sheep $3.50 xkrtciiri, ev and via. By Mara Twain; Bvo., sheep HJ.oO California PlclnrrS. In Crone and Verne. By Benjamin Park Avery: tvo, cloth, fi.oS. morocco antique .ti'l.ul The llerltase or Langdalr. By M auder, author ot " Tne vwomg o't," " He rt. Alex- Foe.' UUC ML LUC l01JUll Leisure Hour bene " ; .". ftl.1. dolh. The National Ode, tua Memorial Freedom Poem. By Bayard Taylor. I:usirated; to., cloth (4.00, morocco antique ...4.tK Ooinsr to Jeriro Sketches of travel iu Spain ana the East. By Johu Fraukliu swill, author of " Robert uieatiiouno' ; Umo. , cloth (1.50 The Mull Vorhlperi or Asia. By Charles D. Boston; ltiuio., cioiu tacut The KkMrlou iu Armor. By II. W. Longfel low. lllUBLrateU; 8vo cloth morocco an tique lU.t0 The MUtrrss or t he anne. By J. O. Hol iana, with Illustrations by Mary a.. Hailoefc. Thomas Morau, Atira i redtricits, Eawiu A. Aboey, and Helena DeKay: evo., cloth io.iX, mo rocco antique " Silk; and Tea Culture, and other Asiatic in dustries .uapleu lo tue soil and cuiuate of Call forula. By 1. A. Keouo; uiu il-i u Lamsra aud other fotiua. By a nattve Cali - luruian: ltiuio., c.tu-. -. 1.(W Some fbika.- iiy the author of "Ueleu's Hat lea." itie book it an ucutvo volume of over 5oV ki, luily iliuslraieu, printed ou ax.tra caiaUrel paper aud bound in eiegaut binuiug Willi go! aud uifc slump, matting as uauduouiea .Oiuiue aa ever issued by any puoiisalug liou ihescri will meet, with a cordial eieome." SttormmeiUo Kecoxl-Uiiiim.. " To Califoruuuis Uirne steicliM are particularly fascinating." Map C$jt. "Tuay are dramatic, uuuivruiu and tuiti utiuiug. Jtut lutiti. " 1 ne ii,ciucuij! are mil of inteiesi, auu tne ketches artistic." 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