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LV V y. - ' - ! -a- mm a I Wit and Humor. Take away women, and what would follow t The men. A rural inventor has patented a pad ded gate top to facilitate courtship. A young lady being asked by a rich bachelor, "If not yourself, who would you rather be?" replied, sweetly, and modestly, "Yours truly." A tiny thread of gold supporting a solitaire diamond is the latest style of engagement ring. It is so everlastingly bweet and so easily broken. The woman and all of the sex do who glances under the bed at night be fore retiring, evidently has in rriid the proverb, "Liook before you sleep." Philadelphia Bulletin. In the case of Massachusetts it may be said: "Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest of these: It might have Ben." Bridgeport Standard. Science says that it took millions of years to evolve man from the oyster; observation shows that it takes less than a minute to transfer the oyster to the man. Hip-pockets are a comparatively mod ern invention, -i- Indianapolis Xeics. "Wrong again. Hip-pocket were in vented .by Hippocrates. Louisville Courier-Journal. The grand and awful difference be tween a tree and a bore is hurrah, now I the tree leaves in spring, and the bore, why, he never leaves. Syracuse Sunday Times. This from the Philadelphia Chroni cle: " 'It feels decidedly like fall,' said an old citizen yesterday as his foot strucK a watermelon-rind and his head struck the bricks." She: "What age do you think I am?" He (gallantly) : "I don't know: but you don't look it." Frank Leslie's La dies Journal. Coachman in the employ of million aires have not been doing very well this year in marrying ine ricuana romantic young daughters of the family, and wages will probably go up. Detroit tree I ress. Tailors sit cross-legged just to be ob stinate. Any one of them could do twice as much work with his feet hang ing off a box. Detroit Free Press. An honest ignoramus who had escap ed a great peril by an act of heroism was much complimented for his brav ery. "One lady said, "I wish I could have seen your feat." Whereupon he blushed and stammered, and finally pointing to his pedal extremities, said, "Well, there they be mum." An intelligent and sensitive journal imparts this bit of delicate and useful imformation to its 14,000,000 readers: "It is not polite to bite corn from the cob in the presence of people who have false teeth." It was probably a young man from Middle Maddam who made his first ad vent to the metropolis by the midnight train, and respectfully asked the night clerk of the Astor n6use "if it would be any trouble to Mrs. Astor to keep V .11 .1 i nti r r . - , him all night ?" Hartford Times. One of the best cures we know of for small-pox is to have a fellow poke his head in at the door of the patient's room and whisper in stage aside, "is he ueaa yet i I'm after that ulster ! We have been there, and know what it is to live just to spite a fellow. X. Y. Com mercial Advertiser. Intelligence Item?. Five ladies passed the Harvard ex animations in Cincinnati in June. T: T-IT i , . divers western scnoois are using newspapers instead of readers in their reading classes. Smith College for women, at North ampton, Mass., has begun its fourth year with 144 students, of whom sixty- nve are in tne entering class. The income of the Peabody Educa tional x una lias laiien oil 40 per cent youner Jan anese girls as students. They have been preparing to enter the College for tne last nve years in Connecticut Indiana has a school fund larger than that of any other State in the Union. It has increased $40,000 within a year, ana now amounts to $o,vvt ,i)'Jo. iiis pastor oi me i'resoy terian cnurcii iugpo, imna, is a native wno lias promised to provide lor Ms salary without aid from the missionaries. Mahomet, says a priest in the mosque at lueuina, paid mm a visit not long ago and, deploring the degeneracy of his followers, announced that Allah had decided to let the sun rise in the vest instead of the East on July 11, Io7y. At that day those who reckon themselves true believers will become blind and final ruin will follow there after at once. Oral instruction illustrated by ob ject lessons is now the chief work of the lioston primary schools. No spell ing books are to be used; the words will be chosen from the reading lessons or from familiar objects. Lessons in English composition are to take the place ot grammar, and easy lessons in natural history and the sciences will be m - given iu interesting ways. mere is good judgment in these changes, but ucn methods require the best instruct ors those who are at once natural and well-trained teachers. In the ancient town of Coventry, England, was a gathering lately of bi cyclists, to whom Canon Baynes said that the poorer clergy who had large districts to travel over would, he be lieved, derive great benefit from the use of the bicycle. He added that the Church of England was "thorouerhlv alive now." and that with the heln of th T . , . . -, . . uieycie ne oeueved she would win. An Independent minister, who was nresent. thereupon challenged Canon Bavnes . ... ' 4o a race, which was accented, but whether the race ever came off reports -do not claims to have travelled 700 miles on a bicycle Of Bibles and parts of Bibles sold at the I'aris Lxhibition there have been a1 r ir ru vau iar ouo,ouu copies. They were mostly in French, but a great number were in German, English, Arabic, oreeic, Hwedish, Uanish, Dutch, Por inguese, apanisu. Italian, Polish, Bus sian and Hungarian, and not a few in Chinese and Japanese. To meet the demands which will be made before the Exhibition closes, it was expected two weeks ago that 500,000 copies more wouid he needed. The French peas antry, for the most part, have delayed tueir vibix 10 me Exhibition until Sep r. m n . 1 .1 , wueu i no Harvests are com- iueiea. feasants hvins? in distant provinces have been assisted in the ex penses of their visit by a grant of 50,- . vw iiaiwa rum me vrovernment. J-weive Hundred dollars have just been ceived a telegram mtormiug him that v". i i """"s appropriated to North Carolina. hia wife was lying at the point of death llke, "J a11 m7 b,n dav8:' Yaasar has received two vounff Jan- Buffalo. Monday morning he left ' el1' we tlon fc know wLat raav baP" The United States Senate. On March 3, 1S79, the terms of 24 members of the United States Senate will expire, the following list showing the names of the gentlemen who will then retire, together with the names of the States they represent, their politics, and the-length of the time they will have served: George E. Spencer, of Alabama, Re publican, ten years and eight months. Stephen W. Dorsey, of Arkansas, Republican, six years. Aaron A. Sargent, of California, Re publican, six years. Jerome 13. Chaffee, of Colorado, Re publican, tw years and three months. William H. Barnum, of Connecticut, Democrat, two years and ten months. Simon B. Conover, of Florida, Re publican, six years. John B. Gordon, of Georgia, Demo crat, six years. Richard J. Olesby, of Illinois, Re publican, six years. Daniel W. Vorhees, of Indiana, Dem ocrat, one year and six months. John James Ingalls, of Kansas, Re publican, six years. Thomas C. McCreery, of Kentucky, Democrat, six years. James B. Eustis, of Louisiana, Dem ocrat, one year and three months. George R. Dennis, of Maryland, Democrat, six years. David II. Armstrong of Missouri, Deniocrit, two years. John P. Jones, of Nevada, Republi can, six years. Bainbridge Wadleigh, of New Hamp shire, Republican, six years. Roscoe Conkling, of New York, Re publican, twelve years. Augustus S. Merrimon,of North Car olina, Democrat, six years. Stanley Matthews, of Ohio, Republi can, two years. John II. Mitchell, of Oregon, Re publican, six y-sars. Jrtmes Donald Cameron, of Pennsyl vania, Republican, one year and five months. John James Patterson, of Sout Caro lina, Republican, six years. Justin S. Morrill, of Vermont, Re publican, twelve years. Timothy O. Howe, of Wisconsin, Re publican, eighteen years. lroni the above it will be seen, that twenty of the twenty-four are now serv ing their first term, two are in the sec ond term, and one, Mr. Howe, of Wis consin, is a third term Senator. Politi cally the out-goers comprise sixteen Republicans, eight Democrats. The Senate stands at present thirtv-eight Republicans, one Anti-Monopolist (Mr. Booth, of California), two Conserva tives (the Virginia Senators) , and thir ty five Democrats. Counting Mr. Booth with the Republicans and the Virginia Senators with the Democrats, makes the figures thirty-nine Republi cans and thirty seven Democrats, If the Democrats, therefore, make a gain of only one in the elections which will be held to nil the vacant places, the Senate will be tied politically, while the Democrats need a gain of two only in order to have a majority. A Fearful Journey. On the arrival of the 1:50 New York express at the Great Western Railway here, Tuesday morning, the men en gaged in testing the car wheels and run ning gear of the cars were surprised to see a man stowed away upon the trucks of one of the sleeping cars a position in which it is as much as any one s life is worth to ride even the shortest dis tance. The policeman in charge of the station, Mr. l'arr, was informed of the circumstance, and at once arrested and searched the man, finding only six cents in money, and some papers on his per son. On being questioned as tv his motive for placing himself in such a dangerous position, the man said his name was .Lenox ana that he had been working in Emmett, where he had re- Emmett, paying his fare to London, be yond which point his money ran out. Being determined to reach Buffalo I somehow, and not knowing of any means of doing the journey so quickly except by rail, he stowed himself away on the truck under the car. and there he had remained until discovered at ! Hamilton. Let the reader if it is pos- Uible, form a conception, the faintest idea, of the perils of such a journey, and then it mav be nossible to nmlor. I stand what the poor, grief-stricken Oer- l man must nave suffered. Xlie distance between London and Hamilton, by the Great Western Railway, is eighty-five and a quarter miles, and the , slightest change of position on Lenox s part. or the least obstruction on the track. would have launched the poor fellow into eternity at once. And then think of the agonv he must have suffered from the dust, sand and derbis thrown up by the swiftlv nviug train, and the crreat tension on the nerves and sinews by being compelled to maintain his hold on the truck. The policeman said he would not risk a journey of 1UU yards in the position Lenox was for the I 1 S- i 1 ' - A II ..I whole Great Western liailway, and where is there another who would do so for what is commonly called "mere love?" Hamilton (Ont.) Spectator. The Journal of Chemistry assert that tea is not the simple, harmless bever age that is generally supposed, but that its effects, in their character, may right ly claim to be classed with those of to bacco and alcohol. J. he paper also adds: Many disorders of the nervous system are the direct result of excess ive tea drinking. Tea is a "narcotic poison;" its essential principle, theme, is allied in composition with such poi I . ..1 - 1 . 1 . I , Tl i! i. 1 sons as sirjituumo uuu muimii. at ursi I excites tire nervous system and tuen ex I . ... -n - t i i 1 i . i hausta it. Jixperimenis snow mat ootc in man and other animals it imparts J power in the lower extremities; so that it affects the understa ading" in a double sense literally as well as figuratively. It is not the harmless exhilarant it is supposed to be, but a powerful agent, whose .fleets are often serious. Here is a genuine advertisement from an English paper. "To Clergy men A university graduate will be glad to furnish sermons on reasonabla terms. Theological views as may be desired. Warranted original, and never previously supplied. Evangeli cal, Iiitualistic, or Latitudinarian. Al ways on hand, a choice selection of ef- - fective quotations, suitable either for I the pulpit or the platform. Terms ex- - ceedmgly moderate. Strictest conn dence observed. For further particu lars, apply," etc. Over one-third of the oil produced in Pennsylvania comes from McKean Co. f Midnight Sun iu Norway. And now from Tromsoe we are started direct for North Cape and the midnight x.i i i. m 1A Koro ! sun. ... . r seen mm out ior me mns on iub ujh- , mm out lor tne mns on tne non- , zon. for he is visible at lromsoe until duly Zi, ana at tne isortn vape uu iuo -a- 1 M 1 a 1 T . l 1 rf-t i.'ll 11. - ' . oist. up to nammeriesi, . wuicu we made Wednesday afternoon, the scenery is fine and -wild, with snow-streaked mountains and fine fiords, but less fine and wild than the scenery south of Tromsoe. Hammerfest is the most northern town, of Europe, in latitude 70 deg. 40 mm. It is a small wooden town of about 2.000 inhabitants, with a good church and excellent schoolhouse. We do not stop long, for the captain will show us his Midnight Majesty off the North Cape, and six or seven hours are needed to bring us to the rock, which looks out directly to the Pole; and at 11 p. m. we are gazing up at the stupendous cliff, which rises, almost a sheer precipice of black rock, 900 feet out of the Arctic Ocean. We gaze off toward the north, where the east and west meet in the simultaneous rising and setting of the sun. But his Mid night Majesty was coy. He shined, but he didnotshow. "We saw his glory, which he could not wholly hide, mak ing the cloud drapery which he drew about him, beautiful by his presence, and laying the pavement of the sea with fair colors. The glow deepened to the hour of hi3 pause on the horizon and heightened into the morning light as he turned to mount the heavens, refus ing to take rest. We saw the trailing of his garments, but could not look upon the brightness of his countenance, and while we were gazing at the continu ous glory of the clouds, """one moment marked the death of the old and the birth of the new day. We were five days within V e possi bility of seeing the midnight iun, and did not see it, unless a glimpse of him at 1 a. si., might be so called. But it was not all disappointment. Hands cannot paint, I doubt if colors can, the beauty of the serene morning ligl yesieruay merges into to-morrow, on some night "when the heavens are bare," and the atmosphere is clear and still. Bright as day. the hours have a cool, pure charm of their own, which transmits the prose of daylight into poetry. Every night mountain, sea and sky are bathed in a crystaline clearness, which is the sun's light without the sun's passion, and the heavens and earth seem born anew, basking in a celestial brightness, from which the heat of the world's steam has passed away. This land of the north wind shows equally the power of the atmos phere with Egypt and the East. It is equally the Mount of the earth's trans figuration. The majesty of its forms takes in a new and strange beauty from its skies, and awakens the ''sense sub lime of something far more deeply in terfused," which teaches the impressive lesson and remains a perpetual joy. Dr. Tiffany in N't w York Tribune. Delaware "Peach Prospect." "I have to confess," said a Delaware fruit grower, when hard pressed by a reporter, "that the peach crop has not been frost bitten or killed by the dry weather this year" "And the crop will aggregate 1,000,- 000 baskets, wont it? " "Well, I don't know "Oh, yes; it will be a million baskets; evey body says so; I can't put it any low er. Immense eh, farmer?" "Well, I'm a little dubious" "i'riees will be way down, won't they? big crop, you know; dead loads of money in it. Market ought to be lower than it ever was before." Well, now, I can't eee" "Trees all loaded to the guards." said the reporter, looking around over the orchard; "beautiful sight; never saw anything to equal it, and Iv'e lived in Delaware for twenty years; just so all pen "Crop's out of all danger now, ain't it ? Be all gathered and sold long be fore frost, you know; wet weather will only make the fruit larger, and a dry spell would add to its flavor and color. " Well, but" "Of course you don't apprehend trouble from grasshoppers; no grass hoppers, you know, within a thousand miles of Delaware. "Yes. but" The reporter made redy to note it down. "Well, if you must have it," yelled the farmer, "look at the doggoned trees! Look at them! They re so blamed full that you can't tell what umute they'll smash right down flat on the ground and leave you without a peach this side the grave." Oil City Derrick. The Piirajrraplier of the Picayune. While the fever has been taking away the people of New Orleans by hundreds, and the death wagon has been going through the streets, the humorous col umn of the Picayune has never failed, nor has it assumed the tone of grief. Every day the faithful paragraphist has had his little joke about the people who ask SCO for a ton of ice. lie has said that they will some time find a place where it cannot he got for even twice the money, and has warned them not to come to New Orleans at present. He has had his little joke at the country villages that have established a quar antine against New Orleans, a3 the on ly means of letting the people know that such a place existed. When lie learned that the Buffalo police had sent $2G0 he said: "Let us hear no more of the clubbing together of policemen." Later on he advised the doctors "to pool their issues; the yeljow fever must go." And with a tinge of sarcasm he notices the fact that the "season at fashionable Northern watering places is ubout to close, and then our poor refugees will be obliged to enjoy them selves in the crowded citigs." When the roll of .the stand-bys is made up, let us place high oa the list the name of the brave paragrapher o" the New Or leans jgicaiUrt, From the London World : "Sarah Bernhardt has made the discovery of a new cure for delicate lungs and health, She passes hours now daily in succes sive ascensions in the ballon eapliol theTulleries Gardens, finding more and more healing for her shattered health and delicate lungs, as well as general reinvigoration, the higher she rises," It is interesting to note that cotton mills in the South are constantly in creasing in success. Keep the bodj undercut the spirit up. COURTESY OF BANCROFT LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, Well-Toned Systems. Systems toned and renovated with Hostet ter's Stomach Bitters are most effectually de fended from disease. That supreme invieror- ant soon overcomes that distressing leenie- npR9 rfinncniiHiit u non ailments wnicn im- - 'nll rftax the -uk i.ioori nd relax muscles. v'iiror. anneiite. sleeD return to the wasted irame, ana every pnysicm ' r - a ! 1 faculty sains greater activity through ?ls oeuirn in fluence. Nor is this all, for the Bitters have a most genial and cheering effect upon the mind of the despondent invalid, wuien is me natural effect of the Increased bodily vitality which they produce. Nervous systems dis appear in consequence ot the use of this med icine, and the evil consequences 6ure tore suit from a premature decay of the physical energies are averted. Dyspepsia, liver com plaints, rheumatic ailments, urinary and uterine irregularities, malarial diseases, and many other disordered conditions of the eys tera, are remedied by the Bitters. An Immense Art Sale. Nearly all visitors to San Francisco since the days of '49 and '50 are familiar wiih the Art Gallery of Snow & May, which has been for the pa&t ten years located at 21 Keurny street, near Market. Here they keep in stock every variety of pictures from the small ruint which retails at lioe per dozen to the costly Painting varying into the thousands in value. Their immeuse stock of pictures, artists and wax materials, picture frame?, &c, is now being offered at cost preparatory to tlosing business on the first of January next. Par ties who do not propose visiting San Fran cisco this fall, can send their orders and have the same promptly tilled at astonishingly low prices. The price of any picture will be furnished on application by mail. Hermann, the Hatter of San Francisco, has issued a beautiful cata logue with the illustrations of the latest fall styles of hats, which he sends free by mall to any one desiring a copj; he -always has a splendid stock of hats, keeps the best of goods and sells at the lowest possible prices, hence Ins success. Send for Catalogue. His store is 3315 Kearney street, between Bush and Pine, and his branch at 010 Market street, above Stockton, Sah Francisco. New Era Coffee. The thousands who have experienced the detrimental effects of strong coll'ee upon the nervous system will hail with vltfasure the introduction of this most excellent substitute fori;. The universal favor with which it is received by all classes, especially physicians, and peisons in feeble health is the bt evi dence of its merits. We advice our readers to seud for a sample tw-C K. Hawks, general agent, 25S Market St., S. F. Koumi . s. Valuable commodities and important dia coveries are sure to be imitated, and coun terfeited. Mr. A. Myers of 8)5 Capp St , S. F., had scarcely announced the introduction of the celebrated Russian Koumiss than a spurious article made its appearance claim ing a 1 of the curative qualities of the genu ine. Don't buy any article that has not the trade mark of A. Myers. No other is genu ine. The Western Manufacturing Co. Manufacturer of Writing and Printing Inks, Extracts, Esseuces, Mucilage, Blacking, etc. Sole proprietors of Talcolt's Pure Es sence of Jamaica Gine'-, Edwards' Superior Laundry Bluing, and Boland's Sopenica. Olfice and manufactor'. No. 71J Sausoiue St., San Francisco. Samples and price lists fur nished upou application. Medical Specialist. Dr. J. A Hunter, No 321 Sutter street, San Francisco, devotes especial attention to dis eases of the head, throat, and chest, embrac ing Catarrh, Deafness, etc. All letters of in quiry will receive attention. Wanted. A i;ood Aj;ent In every city. town and village iu the United btates, to take subscriptions for the Commercial Ad vocate, the only anti-Catholic and conserva tive labor paper published iu America. Sub scription :i.(X) a year, iu advance. Good in ducements will be oll'ered to agrents. Writ for terms and full particulars. Address Com. mkrciaL' dvocate, 5245 Montgomery Street, Han f niDciico, (Jai. J. W. SIIAEFFEK & CO.'S GKEEN SEAL CIGARS are made from finest Havana To bacco. 313 Sacramenlo street, San Fraueisco I'wrclinnliijc Agrnrr. Any Hi'tlcs desirous of having good purchased for tliem In bun FrucIco can do to by adilrrming AIrt W. H, Ashley, who will tend uhiiiIn of o-.d for Ihfir inspection. To the ladle I would y tht I have flrt-clB8 establishment for Drea-inakiiK, aid am prepared to execute country orders with dispatch. Ce ng engaged la business here I hsr the adractage of bujing goods direct from the Importers at whole sale, and would give my patrons the heneflt of same. Goods purchased and sent C. O.D. Send for Circular. Address Mas. W, II. ASHLEY, 10 Sutter streef, Iioom 51. San Krancluco. Fi.xust Photobbaphs. Prices greatly reduced. Homevtrorth. Photographer. 13 Montgtnery St., S. F. Butticicx Co. 'a Patterns, fall styles. Send stamp for catalogue. I-- Post St., San Francisco. Now ready rail styles " Domestic " Paper Fash Ions. Sead sump for Catalogue, 29 Post St., S. F. Sfkctacles and Eyb Olassks. Prices greatly re duced. Uouseworth, Optician. lfl.Montgoiiiery at. S. F. PHOTOflRAPiis ot superior finish at Morse's Palace of Art, 4 1 7 Montgomery street, San Francisco. H. Wachhobst, watchmaker and Jeweler, Importer of Diamonds, watches. Jewelry, silver and silver plated ware' 79 J St.. Sacramento, Cal. Great inducements to Agents. All the best selling Novelties. Send ttanip for reduced price list. Sad lii Co., 110 Post street. San Francisco. J.F. HILL, manufacturer of Carriages, Buggies Hx prowi. Thorough Brace and Quartz Wagons. Cor ner J and 13th Sls. P. O. box 288, Sacramento, Cal. All Photographs made at the New York Gallery No. 3 Third st., 8. F are guaranteed to be Drst-ciass. Prices to suit the times. J. H. Pstkks, Proprietor. Tlu Sacramento WEEKLY t.VO.V publish! Ill column! each ceek. Single copies per annum M. In Clubs as loie as $J. DtcKBY's Cbkmk db Lis. For Preserving and Beautifying the Complexion ana Teeth. It possesses all the advantages of French Cremes without their Injurious qualities. Sold by all drugcjsti. Wot Is U that every person tljat uses Walcott's Pain Paint reuominends It to their afflicted neigh bors? Beuaune it lias done fur then) al that It has promised to do. Address I. FJ.JfL.ET. 10iS Market St., San FrncloQ. FOR ALL LAMENESS AXD PAIN. Gout, Rheu matism, Partial Paralysis, Sprains, Brubsti, bflff and Swollen Joints, Sore Throat, Headache, Toothache, Neuralgia and Lame Back use the never-failing remedy, PRATT'S ABOLITION OIL. fold by all druggists. Woolen Suits $15 io Woolen Suits (very nice ) ou woolen wrappers 3 50 Woolen Wrappers 5 00 Woolen Wrappers 7 30 Black Silk Skirts 7 50 At SULLIVAN'S, 1 iO Kearny St., San Francisco. JlUMiiUMBKI'5 TEMfKRAMCK HOTEL, I4- Second st,, Sai Fraqeltco. Meaf TtefcuH, Mn ftr on. far, to bsgln war at i.e alar? Ki. uiia.M first .las. M.iTan. Wm.,CuemiTl.6io. pEOROK n. ft A It H re , Lithographer, VI 40 Clay St.. S. Checks, Drafts, r. uuuui, tycruncatrs or stock. Notes, Corporation Seals, 4c. 4c. Twlrrt Street, ftn rranelaeo. SCARCE COOOS, nonka. Photos, . Ram ble A Catalogue, Or. Paris Book Co. Chicago, IlL MO . ,Cartls-Orlntl, Flowera.1 Bristol, etc OVtvilh nan... iw C 2. mat.s. Summit, N. V. niAPAY,-With Stencil Ontflts What costs 4 cts Kllvsells rapidly for 50 ct. Catalogue free. Sraapaa, 111 Waebo St., Boston, Mass, S Al fsll A DTT DDF1CTBII1 AND EARRINGS VUHnili BnCHainil California made Htt complete tor 9'iU.OOat H. Mite as & Son's Loss Office, &ii,Vt3 and 408 Kearny St. San Francisco. A BOOK POR THE TIMES. xitj-; aitisi or Finn. AN A UTO B IOG KAPHICALSK ETC H , BY LUCIFER. COSTKNTS: Early Tear A Wanderer Money Power Affinity Ju.tice Love Co-O deration I mmo-t ility Mar rlige Destiny Liberty Law Conclusion. Pric 30 cents. Sent by mail on receipt of pric. J. BALL. 3i sixth St., an ranclsco. Liberal terms to agents ana uooKkeiiera, 7 WANTED CALVERT'S CAKBULIC SHEEP WASH 9 per gallon. T. W. JACKSON, San Francls co. Bole Agent for the Pacific Coast. BETHESDA WATER Waukesha, "Wis. Famous for the cure of BlidLiioy Disoaee, Dropsy, Torhid Liver and Indirection. Send for Circular to J. O. Lav Bar. General Agent, 107 Stockton street, San Francisco. HORSE SHOE POUND CROSS ISAltltKIK The best Tobacco In the market. JAWlF.KSO' tt II OK ST. ST-39 Front Ht Man Frsmelaeo. AGENTS WANTED Encyclopedia," " Hand Boole of Medicine," Transmis.lon or Life." ' Physi cal Life of Women. " and " Sew Cyclopedia of Domes tic Economy." These worVs sell readilv and money can be made by aor agent. Send lor circulars of these and other boaks. I'. Uivrixa & Co., 207 Dupont street. tan r ranclsco. MONEY COINED. LADT AND GENTLEMEN CAN VASSEF.3 wanted Immediately fur the fastest selling work ever published. Kiaployratiut (ivrn 10 alt Quick sales and lame profits. Choice of territory eiven to first a, plicant. Address, J AVKb T. Whitk & Co., 728 Montgomery street, San Francisco. CAL. BELLOWS MANF'G CO. Fremont St. San Francisco. Sole Man 11 fii. Hirers Patent Keveislble Noz zle and Safety Valve. Bellows of every description made to order. Pt- ror.age ol me iraaa most teapecuuiiy Send for descriptive circular and price J A3. CAMrUB.UL.Supi. m. i. wais. it ;::' & go., Commission Stock Brokers 540 California Mt.. Man I'rancisco, Stocks bouiiht, sold and carried on margins. Money to loan on mining stocks. trbpecia! attention Klven to all orders from coun try customers. LADI) S 91 IV Iff. DEALEKS IX GUNS, PISTOLS, ETC. Aeent Ballard. Remington and wuifhester Hiflea, cheiip. I Kearny St..S. Jr Send for circular. IfttERHATIQHAL HOTEL, S and Hta Kearny Jt., Stan FrancUce. VI SO and Vt OO PElt DAY H. C. PATK1DGE, ----- I'bopbiktob. TfcH Concord Coelie, with the nume of the HoikT, will alway be In waitinx at the Unding to conv?ypiB!enr8 10 the Hotel free. gBIie sure ou tret Into the right Coach; tr you do not, they will chaivx von. CALIFORNIA PAPER CO. MIU.S AT STOCKTON'. CAL: OFFICE NO. IO California St. San Francisco. MauuiactQre News I'rint Paper, Straw Wrappintr Paner, box and Hinders' lloardn, et. Any size and weight made to ord- r. Usual aizea In stock. Q rIENZO SPRING, y f5ini5fi-fti rtr nf ggf ARTIFICIAL LIUES grfi k Otflre and address, t Geary Descriptive circular, Manke for iiietbureiiictitx. wiih lnmruc tlons. and price list frceou appli cation. DOORS, WINDOWS, BLINDS. lT EIGHTS, COICD. Pl'LLEV. AO., at lowest market rates. .Send l'-r Circulars. E. H. KITTKElKiE & CO.. Hand California St.. 8. F GAME BIRDS THEIR HABITS. HAUNTS and HOW TO SHOOT THEM. Hy Thomas Al kxa.vdku, author Tichand Fishiap,' Ac. ew BhootiiiB-coKtuine: a new method of learn ing how to shoot "on the wiaii,' with improved Siht for the purpoar; upland vhooti.K: wild fowl Khooling: new decoy, to niui, II v and ltve; boat Hands, new Portabie Jilind ; trai'aluK the doff: the Iiitle aud its use. wit-i new fcltfhts. Ac over ti Illustrations. The let book on the sutij.ct. J'rli e post paid, only 20 cents. Sold by all Newidealers. or nddret-a Itoiiiirllry, (iaonrtir Jk l.oyd, The Lakeside Library, Chicago. (at.iloue tree. ISoots and Shoes. .IO MX Nl'LLIVAS, N. E. cor. Bat .ery and Jackson Sts.. San Franclsco.offers to make to order the best French Calf Leitiier BOOTS, at from H to 9; Califor 11 a Lnather Buota, $6; Gaiters mid Alexis Ties, titotfi: k'rone.h t'.ulf ',, r. Ti,.o 4: California, tii Ski: U vs' nnd Childrt 'nA iUuttjl ami Shoe made to order. Persons In Ihe country order ing Boots and Shoes to the amount of Twelve Dollars or more will lie allowed a reduction of four per cent so as to make the express ehanres Unlit. I sell Boots Boots and Shoes eent C. O. D. Positively one nrlce. uu DlliJCB 01 nil wiic IA9Ur AU UKK tJ.M.V KELLY BARBED FENCE WIRE The Best and Cheapest. Send; for Circular. San Francisco and Snernuieuto. General Aueni rnr Pacific Coast. RUPTURE CURED! THE CALIFORNIA ELASTIC TRUSS I "4,, "ecu worn by my little boy "night and dav witn perfect ease. Oi.e side is 'entirely cured, and I be lieve it will effect a cure in btii cases Mks. M et stewart, Oak Grovs Avenue, San Francisco TBI-JM ELASTIC TRUSS m Kivma ki u satUluction to the u:irtic Wh.. them for) without t, cy 5ouId bo r !:... -.V- earnikc t hem. hcv rv ihtr 1.1 . V UUIU u rr.11 Adams, Toddsville, OUegq cvuuty, N. V HE CALIFORNIA ELASTIC TRUSS i'.,,W.V.r," hy V'e (or two I would not I bos n e r u "" "uu K V"V 10 tlmo dated Truss lor tm. I rt(J jlMiimiuleii It to a banker wl, iiii 1... Francico W,lh U E' VWm. San THE CALIFORNIA ELASTIC- TRUSS I is as near perl.ition as modem science can make 11 w. i,,uln8 ,lle PTW P'ce at all times. r eardlesa or the motion of ti.e bodv. It Oombiues THE CALIFORNIA ELASTIC TRUSS I has proved a go,hen,l to joiV entirely cured my painful rupture iu nine week, from which I have Miffeid for tK'e years. I took v -r advice and wore it day and night. 'oa hare conferred a inxUna favor on me, tor which, accept my arvti .,- Mas II. E. S. Latukoi. San Jose, cl. THE I baa f CALIFORNIA ELASTIC TRUSS substantially cured me of a bd cjse ofniD- tUre Ol :H1 VAxra BtHltHtncr r havn IrinH ull Irfnri. of trussf. bit"i ft- el and Pbwtic, and never received ny permanent relief until I tried vour. I l'el that I am perfectly cored. ALFRitpJ. i) i; bk e. Chief mail clera 6. F. Daily Evening I'-osv. end for illustrated CaHogus u d Price List, Giving full information) and Rules for Measuring. CALIFORNIA ELASTIC TRUSS CO Removed to 720 Marmot St., N. CURRY & BRO. 113 Sans e Street. Ban Fr&ncisoo SOI.E AGENTS 0 TBI Sharps Rifie Co., of Bridgeport, Conn FOR CALIFORNIA, ORTOOV. R17nv. VADA. WASHINGTON TKIJRITOKr. AND IDAHO in.ef.T?ce b7 th. Le!" Mannfac: MUNITION o all kinds. in qjanUOestos, solicited, list to 3o ' iiir i . ami c i DONNOLLY'S PREMIUM YEAST POWDER. u now taking the lead of all other Powder on this Coast. ASZ FOB DO!TlTOIiI-'Z",3 -- - - . , , v.n- n,nan msrktt! D? C AL.LA(i tLAN as CO., Manufacturers. 11 " SELLING OUT ALL THE TIME ! " The Cal'a Furniture MFg Co. HAVE 5 AS MUCH FURNITURE AS ANT OTHER HOUSE ON THE COAST ! Ts HavoaiiEletraiit Assortment of tlio Latest IeHlgns ot Which wet'AS ! WILL sell at Much prices that the ivlabes and the rlcli their taite. At the Old Stand, 224 and 225 WATER "!: G'y.anized ,r.?n pipe PIPE ) i " " " " 1 ' c: H0SEI Ho.?e Coc.1s ?SCC DUUh.) i 81.25 3-4 In 3 ply tiardrn lo lOe per foot. beua lor price iiaia. W. R. ALLEN 819 Market street, SAN FRANCISCO. P. N. P. Co. (New Series), No. 34 EXCSIiSIOR FUM THEOLD KELIABLK! Anil Bieniet 1uiui ill the MarKet. UOLBROOK. MERRILL & STETSOX f o e agents 113 Callforn a atreet, San Franclaco. PACIFIC WATER CURE AND Eclectic Health Institute, N0KTHWEST C0ENEB 7th AND L STS. SACKAMKXTO, CAI. Being fuliy prepared to treat all formn of diseaxeon tne la ea and most scientific principles, together with gixtd rooms and board, we with confidence ask for puiillc patronnire. For further p-irticulars ad dress 31. K. t'LAVTUX. 31. !.. rroprietor. 3.00.000 llos. CHOICE SMOKING TOBACCO, Packed in two, four and eight ounce backs from Forty to Sixty-five Cents per Pouad. Theee Tobuccoa v. 111 b found superior to any In tliu market lor the price. We will send them to anyone address in lota of not less than live (5) pounds, C. O U Address, E. BRIGGS & CO., Tobacconist. 53 and 54 7 Market St.. San r ranclsco. FZjAZA STOIIES. GEO. IOOMIS, SUCCESSOR TO C, P VAN SCHAACK & CO. Open R ick White Shirts. .... 50 cents AX PI. AX A NTOKEt, Open Back White Shiru. I.0O. The Iaet Styles and Patterns iu Calico, I'erculeand Cheviot Shins 75 cent to ti 50. AT I'll 1ZA HTOHKS. Heavy Ovcrghlrts, - - . 50 cents to $1.0 AT PLA7.A HTOKKM. The best assortment of Tobaceo, Clftin, Clgiirotfeo, Pipes, etc., in aii Francisco, at prices loss tlinn job ber's rates. t(M to 71 Kearny t., H. JK. BUSINESS COLLEGE 320 POST BTREKT, SAN FRANCISCO. THE oldest and moal comnlef-e Cominercial Col lege on the censt. KleHUt halls; new furniture; thor osj2h lastrnotlan ; practical teachers; high standi" with the public. Student c eummence at c frae. Day and evneinz atilona. Oircnlars war had rr on anr.Mcorlon. AMERICAN EXCHANGE HOTEL, SAJf FRANCISCO. 'I'MlB oiu and popular hotel has for a quarter of a 1 century catered to the wants of the public Iroi. HBTAX.au old Callforniaa and an experienced gen tleman, conduct tbe hoube, whldi Is a sufficient guar antee that Comfort, (lood Living, CUaullncn And the general welfare of guests will be accorded to all. The table will ba furnished with the best the market affords. Gent'eiuanlv and obliging clerks and careful wallers In attendance. This house is the most centrally located of any In the city. Street cars pass the door every two minutes. The hotel coach Will carry paasenticrs to and from the house free of cuartce. Prices from &1.SO to W4.54) per day. NEWSPAPERS Bought and Sold. WK FREQUENTLY HAVE INQUIRIES ABOUT papers for sale by parties Who wish to buy. also JTeard. new, towns desiring to have a paper estab !(.,! ...1 A 11 n t i iv. . . A 1 inose wno wish tor any information in rc,ir,i ir. tK " -k 1 n co w ii vj w mu lo ony tr sell. as well as newspaper business on this coast, will tn ..n ,n municate with ua. KadBc Newspaper Publishlne Co.. CARLOS WRITE, Proprietor 445 and sf Market St.. H&a Francisco. P. O. Bo i tar-Outsldes. Insldes, Suplemente, Ac," furnished at a small advance on the price cf blsjji paper. . STANDARD OIL CO. San Francisco, Cleveland and New Tort. Largest lntVra of Illuminating Oils iu th world. C'onarqurntly tli Cli.ajfs; Keller. Reject all s'ateinenU by lufererjted dealers and In sist on hiving one otthe following brands: PFARI fill "0 FIRK TFST made hy ourselves " !. never known to came an acciden. DEVOE'S BRILLIANT PRATT ASTRAL ,5 FIPE TE3T PRATT'S RADIANT """test. 0LE0PHEf.EMWtlUETE3T ft A TTTTl'sV DeTParcof Inferior Oils nut un In vn. U I Ivii scond-hiiid cans or abov brands. Report all offers of such Oils to u, at 13 California Street. an"raotp.i. ARRTILK REST PIANOS FVEH.MADE, PKICE from tJ40 to $I,.YU a'44 for a R4endnl llo-o-wond Hlai -o,, HHaratiteed 10 yar. irual price wjn ioj icaiU w.th order a"d 10 moiiihly instal ments. If n. icitis'aotory money returned. Stand ard Pian- mn ! tl to uloee coiinli-niiK'nt. Oriran fO. frT5nd $133. Secondhand Pianos $5, $VI. -,L Utl, $i$ian4 f ax). Four Kound Square Grands $.' usual orice 1.0J0. By ordering from us, t);;ing manu facturers, you Sive mid'llemens' nrof.ts. of about 'JlH oo each Instrument. T. M. AKTlbKL.L A Co., 8ia Market t.. Pan Franclscu. WAT5RHOUSE & LESTER, I3AN FRANCISCO AND SACRAMENTO, IMPORTERS ot Vsrni and C.rrlags Ma- e 'r,l.-'Ttage Hardware, Trlmmlnira, Bodip, Sarf.u ralentand Wood Huh Wheel Ilarrt AVofij Lumber Half Patent. Concord and Cnmoi Axles Carriage Lamps. Mountlnga, Cloths, Leather, et. if oynjfi Aur,.vis For TU iev llnven Patml Ailiuatable I'srrlacr Tup. Prlreof lap, all 4. Jacast, . . S) puichved of T. Q Taylor A n. fmtork fecenUv fans q. W 1 7 ?S-mi tnT. u; ml Lll H i I I I l I I iJ N MOS '-l;.--- "" l",iw ,3. M TEA3T 5"0-77-3JEB. an,l Una; Pull -whan' " strict! v mra Cr. Tirtar In Front street, Saa Francisco TIMES .poor -ti ratify their Bush St., San Francisco. a a Q7'5 Fir.e Upholstery, Cabinet & Frame Work A SPECIALTY. Orn cAnPETixc, rpiioLSTKnY ami LEDDIXG MATERIA L aro all of the firstqusl ty. Having increased our facilities and enlarsed our I- iirnU ture Manufactory, we are prewired to execute or-.U-rs f iit ANTIQL'K, Ml iH.-KVALand MuDEIOi FUKKITUlUt froiu Original Dufeitfna. CHARLES EVa. PLUIV3. ABBOTT DOWNIN'j COrg Concord Wagons Bm i cerriap The genuine "o tured by James It. Hill k- Co.. at Concord, New Hampshire, aisok. Uiusle. and Car .f, " tT,'8 vVf ler a r.rii st.wir f ih. 0' Qui ncy, II lnots. UO'a. Ce enratad Ba.ccry 3"L. Sen Fiancisco. CalT -i Established 1S33, Gargling Oil Liniment Yellow Wrapper for Animal and White for Jiuinan t lcsh. IS GOOD FOR Burns and Scalds, Sprains and B.uises, Chilblains, Frost Bitcs.Strinhait, Windfalls. Scratches or Grease, Foot Hot in Sheen, Chapped Hands, Foundered Feet. r icsn minds, External Poisons, Sand Crocks, G-iils of all kinds, Sitfast, lting'oouc, Poll Evil, Swell inps. Tumors, Garget n Cows, Cntckcd Teats, Callous, Lameness, Horn Distenier, Crownscab, tJiittor, Foul Ulcers, r arcv, Atx-ess of the Udder, Swelled Legs, Thrush, Iloup in Poultry, Cracked Heclsj Hack, Hemorrhoids or Piles, Toothache, Kheuinntism, Spavins, Sweeney, Fistula, Maiic,' Caked Ki.als, Sore Nipples, Curb, Ola Sores, , Corns, Whitlows, Cramps, Boils, Weakness of the Joints Contraction ot .Muscles. Merchant' Garrllna- Oil is the sUndard Liniment of the United States. Larjre size, $1; medium, joe; small, 25c. Small size lor family use, 25c. Manufactured at Lockport, N V., by Merchant's Gargling Oil Company. N. JOnX HODGE, Sec'y. n Get la-o X3eHt : TURBINE WIKSlLfc, Simple, I)iraLl Ornamental. . This Mill Is SKLF-KKeri. vflife therefore cannot be lii3urct'i)v" storms. They arj maie, tif t'i best materials, and wjt-eiUsd uj glv satisfacUon. Kanufactory, Oaklini, CaI, Becoxb. St.. bkt. Broadwat 1KD "WAbHlJIOTOJt &Ti, l The ndersirne, Wjm clianad the Patent moii u r Pacific Count. S4ei.i fijt. iV lie A L. VAN BkL,tXU,vt u)am. 3C7, Oa.kUBdr -a; r .: O. Box Atrentc Wnuid; i-i .very t"ounfv THE FOOrLlGHT WkJyOramatic Journal ISSUER EVERY SATURDAY. ar!baf,th.,,t-'80D Professional Celebrity coI.iH-'Pl-4 01 ch n'nler,and the OC.7h2 iS d,evitetl to recording the principal evenu occurring in the Lmmatic and MusIcaI World, Anntial Subscription, prepaid, wirtiin the United States or Canada -t 00 Six Months i 50 Single Copies 10 iyPor sale by principal newsdealera. j-f J. D. ROBERTSON, - - - - ... Publisher 80 Sansnme St-. Halleck Block. Sn Francisco. BOWDOIN'S Rotary Top Kitchen Cabinet TaWe PATEXTKD AfGCST, 1877. This invention is emphatically a xew. departure in Work Tables,, In all onlln.ir iry methods, the contents r r. mn(a . 1 hfchbave to be pulled n?J!'li In drawers anrtliimr i wanted In tli in. all contents accessible bv irivinir r.KMAix r..i.,,..,. ., which uncovers the whole. 01 vultr tabic a turn. When thus moved around t?ie ttn ported bv a s-df-actincr l...J' Is firmly sup- Withiu Hie h-Mly cr V.,e tbie --e compwrtmentu for mlinm.A?','l '"Jh-ntra.JTISeUi used in 1nix.1v. A kueadin board U tWf-H In -kw to-be n-mr, trnderncath ,a ,ueU for b?i flat iroti and Ironing slieets. . tn. ane,'packeri,ind,rRrti th A represents tne top ot the Itable, opeu. the liody of the table. the space for mixim; Initredienta." n K F "ice i-r mixinK utensils the tpace fir25 lbs. tn:tl. me space for 50 lbs. flour. Jt lie tray, spices and essences, the kneadimr luinl 1 me aneii. iroisic. ' Ui,K'" trunm-rariMc. nt K the door to close un th .,,- , P,mXS!SZ1?irlt to .he slm an saWrtV manufncfin, .1.1 titan tnma rV.- ...T- For further oarti 7,-,iZ,. "f ."f s e v. WIHTK. 5 Market sin TrXLcT " JAitU'S R J5 M o v-x. TU. J ( 7, VrKAV. OVR OF TIIK rr WM-rRaful MticU praetiMoners on the Pclfl coast- eaiabiihed as prot;ins VhjMcHn la San f "nel-ro si ace 154. aad In the TJ'.lto I etatM ulnce 18.XI, bee-; to inform nnmerons parienta. jiad those who propose plnoier themselves milsr liia ci, Um maylx-ooiisu'Kd at hi" new Medic' Apartments 7 'oafar nrrr ir. ipo.l aH 0wlrni llotrl.San FranctrrA. MlTK.- J)tMTOR (7.APK A Y In an Honoi-ary Mmn h?r of several tjcientide and Medical SiM-ietita-1 4 the Anstro-Hum-arian Empire, and lie his been lately IMplomatIc.AKent and Consul of tbe Ceiled isuita fr Kaumani. J ... . 9m y--, 'V (V r 1: t 4. i