anaheim-gazette 1874-06-06

[From the Commercial Herald.] SAN FRANCISCO MARKET. FLOUR—Oregon still continues to send us freely of her supply. The Ajax brought as 1,201 bids and the J.I. Stephens 2,000 bids. Exports for the week on balance 2,500 bids to China per Vasco da Gama, and 4,500 bids to some per Granada. The Golden Gate for Liverpool carried the bulk of 15,600 bids, various brands. The price of all kinds seems to favor the buyer out of sympathy with the decline in Wheat. The freight to China per last steamer is said to have been at $8 ton, against $7.18 ton some months since, thus much for live competition. The Starr Mill, Vallejo is now being greatly enlarged, and its working capacity doubled for next season's traffic. Thus far, the business of this mill for two years past has been greater than that of any other flour mill on the Pacific slope, and its propriators seem to be determined to take the lead in the exporting branch of the trade. At their mill, ship and care are brought alongside, and the loading is done without dragage or other extra expense, thus giving shippers a large advantage. The Golden Gate Mill is the next largest in the State, and is fitted out with all the latest improvements of machinery. This and the Golden Age are the two leading mills in the city, and, with the National, do a very large business. The Genesee Mill is idle—is for sale. The Capital and City Mills each do a large local traffic other than in Extra and Superfine. 1,500 bbls Oregon Extra for export sold at $5.25. Most of the city mills are running day time, having a good export trade for all their product, while the city requirement is considerable at paying rates. Superfine for export may be quoted at $4,900-4,750; Extra Superfine, $605-25; Baker's and Family Extra, $550-25-198-198. The rest Extra still dressed from the Golden Age and Golden Gate Mall is jobbing at $6 bbl. WHEAT—The export demand for the United Kingdom is continued, buyers now having the advantage, as farmers are free sellers being well assured of large crops the present season, and not disposed to hold any longer for extreme prices. Farmers are also shipping one or more cargoes to Liverpool, rather than sell at current low rates of $1.65 after having once refused to sell the very same grain at $2.35 per cental. Something is now being done in new Wheat for July delivery. Contracts have been made in Stockton and other interior points to the extent of one or more cargos, at $1.65. It is quite probable that a few thousand tons could thus be placed for July delivery, but there is no anxiety shown to make any extended operations at this rate. There seems to be much doubt, fear and uncertainty as to the future shading of the market for the summer and fall trade. Maple—very much depends upon the grape in the United Kingdom, as well as upon the European Continent. No war as we are advised, English orders in land are not extensive, while the purchasing limits are below the views of our producers. Hence there is more than the usual indifference shown in the way of preparations for moving the new crop. That it will be considerably larger than ever before, no one disputes, nor do we find any estimate the surplus below 500,000 and 600,000 tons, while others outnot some considerably more. Nuffice it to say, we will harvest all that we can find tonnage to market in the year to come. We hear of an offer made on change to sell 1,200 tons choice new for export, at $1.65-July delivery. Whether the offer was taken up we are not advised at this writing. The offerings of old stock continue liberal, and millers and exporters find no difficulty in securing all needed supplies. Transactions for the week under review may be thus summarized: 3,900 sks extra choice in lots; $1,825-198-198; 5,800 sks choice milling; $1.85-198-198; 10,000 sks for export; $1.825-198-198; 7,000 sks do; $1.900-2,250 sks good coast; $1.65-198-198; The market close already at $1.65-198-198; Liverpool quotations of the 20th instant are: For average California; Ixor 404225d; club; 1248433a which is a slight decline for the week. BARLEY—We note a light traffic for the week; most holders of choice Brewing vets firm, expressing their conFARM AND GARDEN. How to Fatten Cattle—The following communication from H.A. Steele, a prominent stock raiser of Kansas, to the Drovers Journal, is full of good sense, and if stock raisers will follow it, the quality of cattle sent to market will be rapidly changed: The price of cattle fattened for market depends on the symmetry of the animal as well as the fat—"styl'e as shippers term it. I want here to state that good blood is important, but not absolutely necessary, to make what is termed a good seller. In order to fatten a steer to bring the highest market price, he must be kept in a growing condition from a calf, and in no case allowed to go hungry. It is the starving first and second winters which wilts and shrivels up a steer, that causes him to be sold at a reduced price. No amount of feeding will make him a first-class seller, no difference what his color or blood. An animal well fed (I care not what the blood—Texas or not) from a calf until the spring he is three years old, will be smooth, with bones well covered, and will sell at a profit; while a half-starved animal becomes crooked in the back, bone projecting, and shriveled up, takes the best part of the summer to get in condition to live, and will not be in condition for market until he is four years old, and then will bring a price which is unsatisfactory to the producer, and to every one that handles him. This is no theory, but a fact deduced from cloze observation, as I have tested the plan for several years. It will and does pay to feed corn to calves and to yearlings. They start out on grass in the spring, strong and vigorous. You are then able to market your cattle the spring they are three years old, weighing 1,400 pounds, which is heavy enough to bring the first price. The best steer I sold in 1872 was a common native. He had all he could eat from a calf, and was never hungry. He was a handsome animal, and was worth more per pound than anything I shipped in 1872. He weighed in Chicago 1,350 pounds, aged three years. I now have a steer A great man this country ad conditions in life; jority come to their lot with upport portion of taxes duty; and hold them spend in all procte calls which upon them; in tages it is supported entitled to exact immunities; just only to their zization; as a prince become resident country. Theytection of the A here but all may visit their main as long an flag of their adoption them from any sovereign. But of persons, amounting to se aggregate, who fortable subsist take their moor back to Europe joy the competetin America. Tized here not this implies dui but merely for return to their naturalization p proof avoiding any would be liable do nothing to or their old Americans whose legations They are of no country, out of their means of abled by their all responsibility they were born nation of the rizzens that it ex even to these bill now before them to say be suluf of the Unite bly larger than ever before, noone disputes, nor do we find any way to estimate the surplus below $1,000 and $1,000, while others figure out some considerably more. Nuffice it to say, we will harvest all that we can find tonnage to market in the year to come. We hear of an offer made on change to sell 1,200 tons choice new for export, at $15-$July delivery. Whether the offer was taken up we are not advised at this writing. The offerings of old stock continue liberal and millers and exporters find no difficulty in securing all needed supplies. Transactions for the week under review may be thus summarized: 4,000 sks extra choice in lots; $1,600 sks choice milling; $1,800 sks for export; $1,725 sks do; $190 sks good coast; $1,650 sks do; $1,900 sks good coast; $1,650 sks do; $1,900 sks good coast; $1,650 sks do; $1,900 sks good coast; $1,650 sks do; $1,900 sks good coast; $1,650 sks do; $1,900 sks good coast; $1,650 sks do; $1,900 sks good coast; $1,650 sks do; $1,900 sks good coast; $1,650 sks do; $1,900 sks good coast; $1,650 sks do; $1,900 sks good coast; $1,650 sks do; $1,900 sks good coat; $1,650 sks do; $1,900 sks good coat; $1,650 sks do; $1,900 sks good coat; $1,650 sks do; $1,900 sks good coat; $1,650 sks do; $1,900 sks good coat; $1,650 sks do; $1,900 sks good coat; $1,650 sks do; $1,900 sks good coat; $1,650 sks do; $1,900 sks good coat; $1,650 sks do; $1,900 sks good coat; $1,650 sks do; $1,900 sks good coat; $1,650 sks do; $1,900 sks good coat; $1,650 sks do; $1,900 sks good coat; $1,650 sks do; $1,900 sks good coat; $1,650 sks do; $1,900 sks good coat; $1,650 sks do; $1,9 HONEY—A small lot of Los Angeles, new, just at hand, offering at 12 $ b. The market share of Comb. Strained in 2005 is worth $ 23; Comb. in 2008 can be $ 40 doz. BEESWAX—Small quantities now coming in; selling at 27c. HIDES—Receipts of all descriptions are up to the full average, but the market for the week past has not been as active as previously: prices consequently have eased off. We now quote Dry Slaughterers' stock at 19 $ 18c. usual selections: Dry Murrain, 12 $ 13c; Wet Salted, 8 $ 99c. WOOL—The receipts continue large and the demand active, including some very important sales, not only for Eastern account but for local use. The most noteworthy purchase is that of the Holister & Dobles clip, say 20,000 ba. bought by Kosland Brothers upon private terms, but understood to be at 24$ c. a fancy clip. That of Logan, from Colusa, was taken by a Boston buyer, say 73 bales each weighing 220 ba. at 2c; this was a selected lot, buck fleeces and tags thrown out, other purchases Southern in lots, according to condition, at 22$ c. The purchases for the week aggregate 2,000,000 ba. Bright parcels of full staple are in demand at 24$ c., as per length, while extra and very long fancy staple will readily command 27c. Much of the trade done, however, is on the basis of 22$ c. for good to extra medium staple for Eastern account. Heavy and very short kinds meet slow sale at 20$ c. and choice burry parcels at about same rates, running down to 16$ c. for common. POTATOES—The stock of Humboldt is light, and in good demand at $13 $ 12s. for round lots on the wharf; jobbing sales, $15 $ 10s. Ba. New crop Mission are in light supply, selling from wagons at $1 Taxe $ 100 ba. DAIRY PRODUITS—Many of the dairymen are engaged in packing the bulk of their stock, and the present receipts are therefore only equal to the daily consumption. Fresh Roll may now be quoted firm at 24$ c. for good to choice; a few fancy dairies hold higher. Firkin Butter, newly packed, is selling at 26$ c., California Cheese is more plentiful and prices have declined to 12$ c. No Eastern horn. Eggs—Fresh California plenty, 21$ c. Very few Eastern Eggs in market; quotable at 20$ c. The receipts by rail are very light. Oregon receipts, 7,000 dozen by last steamer; selling at 18$ c. POULTRY—In fair demand. Prices for all kinds have advanced slightly, and the market may be quoted firm at the following rates: Hens and Roosters, $7 $ 93 & 85; Broulers, $4 $ 97 & 50; tausch Ducks, $6 $ 96 & 58; doa; tame Geese, $2 $ 97 & 50 pair; Turkeys live, plenty at 17$ c.; for Gobbler, and 18$ c.; for Hens; Hare, $2 $ 96 & 58 doa. CATTLE—Meats of all descriptions are plenty and cheap; quality excellent. Slaughterer's prices are: Beef, quarter size quality, second quality, four kg. Mutton plantiful, fourth grade. Spring Lamb, hickory calves, rather scarce. Hogs in fair supply, modern demand for large and active demand for small. Prices have been advanced to 6$ c.; the latter price for small, which are very scarce, and third price for dressed, the latter for choice small Hogs. FRUIT—There is an Eastern demand for Dried Apples, with sales of ten tons Oregon, say 112 hf earl load) for New York, at 1c. Strawberries show an increase of 1,200 cheets over last week's receipts, and 2,600 cheets over the quantity received the week before. The average per day is nearly 700 cheets of or more ba., selling at $59 to $65 per chest. Cherries are coming in a tride faster. It is hoped all parties interested will avail themselves of the opportunity of drying large quantities this season, as the crop promises to be very abundant, and not let the surplus go to waste from naghest, or from the mistaken idea that it will not pay for the extra trouble. Howe & Hall farnish the following quotations: Strawberries, 40% ba.; Goose-berry apple ba.; Cherries—choice; common apples ba.; Oranges—choice; common apples ba.; Limones—choice; M.Lemon Nelly; M.Lemon Box; Los Angeles; Limones Box; M.Lemon Box; Pine Apples; $38/8 doz. Cocoanutsa; $68/8 doz. HAY TEA FOR CALVES.—A farmer who had a calf of value and no milk to give it was advised to give it hay tea. He did so and the calf is reported as doing finely, though it has neither received hay nor meal since he got it. He cuts the best and finest hay he has about two inches long, and pours boiling water over it; lets it stand until cooled to about the neat of milk from the cow, when the tea is given to the calf and the hay to the cow. Both calf and cow thrive on their feed. We have fed a great deal of hay tea to calves, with good results.—Rural New Yorker. ROLLING LAND.—Some discussion was had at the Union County, N. J., Farmers Club upon rolling grass and grain land. All seemed more or less favorable to Spring rolling. The roller presses the small stones in the ground, flattens out the lumps of dirt, and makes a pleasanter surface to work upon in the harvest time. Against Fall rolling, Mr. James M. Wade said observations led him to believe that the gradual washing down of the lumps around the roots of the plants through the Winter is a great help in sustaining life through that trying season. It has been demonstrated that a beetle is capable of lifting three hundred and fifteen times its own weight. A man of ordinary muscular power is fully one hundred times feebler; and had an elephant such comparative strength, it could run away with a load of 5,000,000 pounds. The flea, too, scarcely three-hundredths of an inch high, manages to leap without difficulty, over a barrier fully five hundred times its own altitude. For a man, six feet is an unusually high leap. SEwing Silk manufactures yards, or over to the ouncreation of this vise to 400 fibres nally spun quired. The which produce do not spin The smallest by the worm ure of its cooure that ever ureured thread nearly 4,000 strand,and th elaborates a tenuity that th e thread,round the w Statistics — 1866, shown matrimony ed figures of is shown that one marriage population was one man eighteen of Begus Americans. A great many Europeans come to this country annually to better their condition in life. Of these a vast majority come to stay. They throw in their lot with us; they bear their proportion of taxes, of civil and military duty, and hold themselves ready to respond in all proper and legal ways to the calls which the Republic may make upon them, in return for the advantages it is supposed to confer. They are entitled to exactly the same privileges and immunities as native citizens, subject only to the requirement of naturalization, as a proof of their intention to become residents and citizens of this country. They are entitled to the protection of the American flag, not only here but all over the world. They may visit their former homes, and remain as long as they please, and the flag of their adopted country will shield them from any demands of their former sovereign. But there is another class of persons, relatively small, but amounting to several thousands in the aggregate, who, having made a comfortable subsistence in this country, take their money and their families back to Europe and settle there to enjoy the competence they have gained in America. They have been naturalized here, not to become citizens, for this implies duties as well as privileges, but merely for convenience when they return to their homes. They use their naturalization papers simply as a means of avoiding any service to which they would be liable without them. They do nothing to prove either their new or their old allegiance. They are Americans when they want the aid of their legations, and at no other time. They are of no use whatever to this country, out of which they have drawn their means of living, and they are enabled by their short visit here to shirk all responsibility to the country where they were born. Yet so jealous is this nation of the rights of its adopted citizens that it extends its full protection even to these useless drones, and the bill now before Congress only requires them to say before a Minister or Consul of the United States that they are Du Pont's. Extensive Gunpowder Works—The Business Throughout the Country. The works of the Du Pont Gunpowder Co., Wilmington, Delaware, and their products, are celebrated all the world over, and the company everywhere recognized as controlling the largest and heaviest interest in this branch of business in the country. With the knowledge of the uses of gunpowder our readers are familiar. In war it is potent as an element necessary to the vigorous prosecution thereof, and in peace its use and power need only be referred to as an important means of developing the mining and other resources of the country. In all of these features the Du Pont powder stands pre-eminent in its claims to superiority over all others. The establishment of the original Du Pont Powder Works on the Brandywine dates back as remote as the beginning of the present century. The founder prosecuted the business with great success for more than thirty years, and at his demise the management of the works devolved upon his children and grandchildren, gentlemen who proved themselves equal to the emergency, not only in preserving the fame of the illustrious originator, but also in developing a capacity that resulted in the increased growth of their business everywhere. To illustrate the progress which has been made in the manufacture of powder in this country, since the foundation of this firm in 1802, it is only necessary to recall the fact that during the Crimean war the Allies, to enable them to prosecute the siege of Sebastopol, were obliged to procure large supplies of gunpowder in the United States, fully one-half of which was supplied by the Brandywine Powder Mills and that the American powder compared favorably with the best they could procure in all Europe. The annual product of these mills is nearly a million of keys. Such is the reputation it has established that scarcely a foreigner of note that visits this country fails to see the works of the Brandywine Powder Mills. Great care is bestowed on its manufacture, arising from the thorough system of supervision displayed in the management. Agencies and magazines are established at all the leading points in the country, and its sale also is carried on in the East and West Indies, the countries of South America, etc. The works at Wilmington are the largest of their kind in the world, and well known capitalists, and have as much as half a million dollars invested in real estate in Oakland alone, they and their pianos may be trusted. However, seeing is believing, and Antisell & Co. will be glad to strengthen the faith of all visitors to No. 614 Washington Street, and 5 Montgomery Avenue, San Francisco, and 1069 Broadway, west side, between Eleventh and Twelfth Streets, Oakland, in both of which establishments a magnificent stock of low-priced pianos of the highest quality may be viewed and tested at pleasure. PRATT'S ABOLITION OIL—God bless it!—has done and is doing more to relieve suffering, and to cure all aches and pains, INTERNAL AND EXTERMAL than any other preparation in use. Use it externally nor Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Gout, Headache, Sprains, Blemishes, Lame Back, and all lameness pain. Take it internally for Colic, Cramps, Cholera Morbane, and Diarrhea. For sale by all druggists and dermatists. WARRANTED. Pour to six bottles of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery are warranted to cure Salt Kneum or Tetter and the worst kind of pimples on the face. Two to four bottles are warranted to clear the system of Boils, Carbuncles and Sores. Pour to six bottles are warranted to cure the worst kind of Erysipelae and Biotisms among the hair. Six to ten bottles are warranted to cure Running of the Easen and Corrupt or Running Ulcers. Eight to ten bottles are warranted to cure Scrofulafoids Sores and Swellings. Two to six bottles are warranted to cure Liver Complaint. A WONDER TO HERSELF. TANKTOWN, Delaware Co., O., March 20, 1873. To Dr. R. V. PRENCE: Your discovery only needs a fair trial, and it will do all you recommend it to do, and more too. When I was fifteen I caught cold, and for twenty-eight years I have been a perfect wreck of disease, and all the medicines and doctors' bills have run up at times two and three hundred dollars, and never any better, but worse, when I gave up all hope after reading it that it was too late to try further, but he did it was too late later. He went and bought two bottles, and I found it was helping me very much. Since 1841 I was troubled with Catarrh and Sore Throat, and was almost entirely deaf in one ear, and my voice was as dull as could be. There was constant pain in my head. Now my head is as sound as a dollar; my voice is clear; and I have used ten bottles of your Discovery. It has cured me of Catarrh, Sore Throat, Heart Disease, Spine Affliction, Torpid Liver. My Liver was very bad. My skin was rough. Now it is as smooth and soft as a child. In conclusion I will say I have been well for three months. I am a wonder to myself and friends. This is but an imperfect statement—half has not been told. Yours, with respect. HESTER LACKEY. DYSPEPSIA And all Diseases of the Stomach and Bowels are wonderfully relieved by LANGLEY'S MAGNESIA APERIENT—a pleasant beverage perfectly harmless,and invaluable as a household remedy. Agents Wanted—$100-a Month. Americans when they want the aid of their legations, and at no other time. They are of no use whatever to this country, out of which they have drawn their means of living, and they are enabled by their short visit here to shirk all responsibility to the country where they were born. Yet so jealous is this nation of the rights of its adopted citizens that it extends its full protection even to these useless drones, and the bill now before Congress only requires them to say before a Minister or Consul of the United States that they are American citizens, and that they intend some time to resume their residence in this country. It is only the eye of a politician, with a lively sense of the value of a vote, that can see any hardship in this. The objection to it on the part of these renegade Americans is that they do not wish to be compelled to state that they are Americans. They wish the matter to remain in abeyance, so that when occasion arises they may profit by their doubtful position and choose whatever nationality will benefit them most. It is no more oppressive to require them to say they are Americans and intend to remain so, than it is to make the rest of us register our names before we can vote. The bill is necessary to define the position of hundreds of families in Europe. Every mail brings to the State Department inquiries as to the status of people claiming American protection, whose nationality it is impossible to determine under existing laws and regulations.—N. Y. Tribune. Memory of the Eye: Artists often train their memories to a remarkable degree of power. Hogarth, the great English painter, used at first to sketch upon his thumb-nail the grotesque faces which he met in his ramblings. But as his memory grew stronger he used to learn them by heart, as the children phrase it, and could reproduce them on paper with undeviating fidelity. William Hart, one of the greatest of American landscape painters, has trained himself in a corresponding manner. At first he used to stop and sketch little scenes that struck his fancy, but now he commits them to memory and draws them at home. Many persons have compared these drawings from memory with the actual scenes and have found an astonishing accuracy, even in matters of unimportant detail. The writer has seen a little sepia reproduction from recollection, and compared it with the place. It was simply a pool of water, with some pollard willows in the foreground, and in the background a low slope of hills, with a cottage or two in the distance. The wonder about the matter was the extraordinary fidelity with which Americans when they want the aid of their legations, and at no other time. They are of no use whatever to this country, out of which they have drawn their means of living, and they are enabled by their short visit here to shirk all responsibility to the country where they were born. Yet so jealous is this nation of the rights of its adopted citizens that it extends its full protection even to these useless drones, and the bill now before Congress only requires them to say before a Minister or Consul of the United States that they are American citizens, and that they intend some time to resume their residence in this country. It is only the eye of a politician, with a lively sense of the value of a vote, that can see any hardship in this. The objection to it on the part of these renegade Americans is that they do not wish to be compelled to state that they are Americans. They wish the matter to remain in abeyance, so that when occasion arises they may profit by their doubtful position and choose whatever nationality will benefit them most. It is no more oppressive to require them to say they are Americans and intend to remain so, than it is to make the rest of us register our names before we can vote. The bill is necessary to define the position of hundreds of families in Europe. Every mail brings to the State Department inquiries as to the status of people claiming American protection, whose nationality it is impossible to determine under existing laws and regulations.—N. Y. Tribune. Memory of the Eye: Artists often train their memories to a remarkable degree of power. Hogarth, the great English painter, used at first to sketch upon his thumb-nail the grotesque faces which he met in his ramblings. But as his memory grew stronger he used to learn them by heart, as the children phrase it, and could reproduce them on paper with undeviating fidelity. William Hart, one of the greatest of American landscape painters, has trained himself in a corresponding manner. At first he used to stop and sketch little scenes that struck his fancy, but now he commits them to memory and draws them at home. Many persons have compared these drawings from memory with the actual scenes and have found an astonishing accuracy, even in matters of unimportant detail. The writer has seen a little sepia reproduction from recollection, and compared it with the place. It was simply a pool of water, with some pollard willows in the foreground, and in the background a low slope of hills, with a cottage or two in the distance. The wonder about the matter was the extraordinary fidelity with which Americans when they want the aid of their legations, and at no other time. They are of no use whatever to this country, out of which they have drawn their means of living, and they are enabled by their short visit here to shirk all responsibility to the country where they were born. Yet so jealous is this nation of the rights of its adopted citizens that it extends its full protection even to these useless drones, and the bill now before Congress only requires them to say before a Minister or Consul of the United States that they are American citizens, and that they intend some time to resume their residence in this country. It is only the eye of a politician, with a lively sense of the value of a vote, that can see any hardship in this. The objection to it on the part of these renegade Americans is that they do not wish to be compelled to state that they are Americans. They wish the matter to remain in abeyance, so that when occasion arises they may profit by their doubtful position and choose whatever nationality will benefit them most. It is no more oppressive to require them to say they are Americans and intend to remain so, than it is to make the rest of us register our names before we can vote. The bill is necessary to define the position of hundreds of families in Europe. Every mail brings to the State Department inquiries as to the status of people claiming American protection, whose nationality it is impossible to determine under existing laws and regulations.—N. Y. Tribune. Memory of the Eye: Artists often train their memories to a remarkable degree of power. Hogarth, the great English painter, used at first to sketch upon his thumb-nail the grotesque faces which he met in his ramblings. But as his memory grew stronger he used to learn them by heart, as the children phrase it, and could reproduce them on paper with undeviating fidelity. William Hart, one of the greatest of American landscape painters, has trained himself in a corresponding manner. At first he used to stop and sketch little scenes that struck his fancy, but now he commits them to memory and draws them at home. Many persons have compared these drawings from memory with the actual scenes and have found an astonishing accuracy, even in matters of unimportant detail. The writer has seen a little sepia reproduction from recollection, and compared it with the place. It was simply a pool of water, with some pollard willows in the foreground, and in the background a low slope of hills, with a cottage or two in the distance. The wonder about the matter was the extraordinary fidelity with which Americans when they want the aid of their legations, and at no other time. They are of no use whatever to this country, out of which they have drawn their means of living, and they are enabled by their short visit here to shirk all responsibility to the country where they were born. Yet so jealous is this nation of the rights of its adopted citizens that it extends its full protection even to these useless drones, and the bill now before Congress only requires them to say before a Minister or Consul of the United States that they are American citizens, and that they intend some time to resume their residence in this country. It is only the eye of a politician, with a lively sense of the value of a vote, that can see any hardship in this. The objection to it on the part of these renegade Americans is that they do not wish to be compelled to state that they are Americans. They wish the matter to remain in abeyance, so that when occasion arises they may profit by their doubtful position and choose whatever nationality will benefit them most. It is no more oppressive to require them to say they are Americans and intend to remain so, than it is to make the rest of us register our names before we can vote. The bill is necessary to define the position of hundreds of families in Europe. Every mail brings to the State Department inquiries as to the status of people claiming American protection, whose nationality it is impossible to determine under existing laws and regulations.—N. Y. Tribune. Memory of the Eye: Artists often train their memories to a remarkable degree of power. Hogarth, the great English painter, used at first to sketch upon his thumb-nail the grotesque faces which he met in his ramblings. But as his memory grew stronger he used to learn them by heart, as the children phrase it, and could reproduce them on paper with undeviating fidelity. William Hart, one of the greatest of American landscape painters, has trained himself in a corresponding manner. At first he used to stop and sketch little scenes that struck his fancy, but now he commits them to memory and draws them at home. Many persons have compared these drawings from memory with the actual scenes and have found an astonishing accuracy, even in matters of unimportant detail. The writer has seen a little sepia reproduction from recollection, and compared it with the place. It was simply a pool of water, with some pollard willows in the foreground, and in the background a low slope of hills, with a cottage or two in the distance. The wonder about the matter was the extraordinary fidelity with which Americans when they want the aid of their legations, and at no other time. They are of no use whatever to this country, out of which they have drawn their means of living, and they are enabled by their short visit here to shirk all responsibility to the country where they were born. Yet so jealous is this nation of the rights of its adopted citizens that it extends its full protection even to these useless drones, and the bill now before Congress only requires them to say they are Americans and intend some time to resume their residence in this country. It is only the eye of a politician, with a lively sense of the value of a vote, that can see any hardship in this. The objection to it on the part of these renegade Americans is that they do not wish to be compelled to state that they are Americans. They wish the matter to remain in abeyance, so that when occasion arises they may profit by their doubtful position and choose whatever nationality will benefit them most. It is no more oppressive to require them to say they are Americans and intend to remain so, than it is to make the rest of us register our names before we can vote. The bill is necessary to define the position of hundreds of families in Europe. A Piano Revolution. From being considered articles of mere luxury, pianos are beginning to be recognized as articles of necessity. In the cases both boys and girls they are now an indispensable adjunct of a liberal education. To be obliged to confess to an ignorance of the piano now, is to be compelled to admit educational deficiencies in other and more important directions; for where higher, or even medium, branches of education are pursued, piano instruction forms a part of the curriculum. But in order that musical education at school may not be only so much waste time, a piano at home is absolutely necessary; for as every player knows, diligent practice is a sine quat non to success; no matter how efficient the instructor may be. The need for a piano at home has been one of the most important stumbling-blocks in man's on those unlightened parents who have compared these drawings from memory with the actual scenes and have found an astonishing accuracy, even in matters of unimportant detail. The writer has seen a little sepia reproduction from recollection, and compared it with the place. It was simply a pool of water, with some pollard willows in the foreground, and in the background a low slope of hills, with a cottage or two in the distance. The wonder about the matter was the extraordinary fidelity with which the limbs of the trees had been remembered. They were abnormally projected in every direction, forming quite a singular and somewhat complicated treillage, so that it seemed strange that any eye could have seen so much in so momentary a glance. But, like Hogarth, Hart has trained his memory and his eye together, and they obey him.—New York Home Journal. SEWING SILK.—The smallest sewing silk manufactured measures 2,220 yards, or over one and one-fourth mile to the ounce. Even in the construction of this variety sometimes from 200 to 400 fibres of the material, as originally spun by the silkworm, are required. The little vermiform artists which produce this beautiful material do not spin threads of a uniform size. The smallest fibre of silk, as wrought by the worm into the exquisite structure of its cocoon, is so infinitely minute that every ounce of the manufactured thread is supposed to contain nearly 4,000 miles of this floss-like strand, and the puny animal sometimes elaborates a fibre of such marvelous tenuity that less than four pounds of the thread, avoirdupois, would reach round the world. Statistics of marriages in Ohio, since 1866, show a remarkable decline in matrimony. According to the published figures of each year, since 1866, it is shown that in that year there was one marriage to every eighty-two of population. In 1873 the proportion was one marriage to one hundred and eighteen of the population. To be obliged to confess to an ignorance of the piano now, is to be compelled to admit educational deficiencies in other and more important directions, for where the higher, or even the medium, branches of education are pursued, piano instruction forms a part of the curriculum. But in order that musical education at school may not be only so much waste time, a piano at home is absolutely necessary; for, as every player knows, diligent practice is a sine qua non to success, no matter how efficient the instructor may be. The need for a piano at home has been one of the most important stumbling-blocks in the way of those enlightened parents who, though comparatively poor, have nevertheless desired to educate their children thoroughly; for a bad piano is worse than useless, and good pianos have been so expensive as to place them beyond the reach of all but the very "well-to-do" classes. A revolution in this respect, however, has taken place in this city, and T. M. Antisell & Co., who have inaugurated it, may fairly take rank as public benefactors. In the course of a recent visit to the Eastern States, where trade was dull not only in the piano line but in every other, Mr. Antisell saw his opportunity, and contracted for immense shipments of first-class pianos at the panic prices there prevailing. The shipments are arriving, and Antisell & Co.'s plan of disposing of some hundreds of them is as follows: Pianos which have usually, ere this, been sold for $550 have been marked down to $300, and will be sold for $100 cash, and the rest in monthly installments of $10 or to suit. Hitherto as much, or almost as much, has been paid as rent for instruments; but the large capital of Antisell & Co., and the confidence which they have in their new movement, enables them thus to "freeze out" the small dealers, to the infinite advantage of buyers. Among the celebrated makers for whom Antisell & Co. are agents, are Marshall & Wendell and Decker & Co. for pianos, and Needham & Co. for parlor organs. The name of either of these firms is a guarantee of the excellence of the instrument upon which it appears. Antisell & Co. have also resolved that their name upon a piano shall be required as its passport to good society, the best of guarantees. Were Antisell & Co. mere irresponsible agents, deprone of obtaining as much commission as possible and regardless of after consequences, their name upon a piano would add but little to its value; but as they are resident and BUILDING PAPER. Plaster Board, plain and ornamental, used as a substitute for plastering. Tamed Stainless Steel Fitting, Moth-proof Carpet Lining, Pat Paper Olecloth, etc. An agent wanted in every town. Send for samples and chemists to BROWN BROR, General Agents, 27 Drumm Street, San Francisco, Cal. HOUSEWORTH IS THE AGENT FOR TRAVEL TO YOSEMITE, BIG TREES AND THE GEYSERS, by all routes. Office, 9 Montgomery Street, under Lick House, San Francisco. 200 PIANOS AT $300 EACH. JUST ARRIVED, with a new stock of Plane Fortes from the East and opened a new warehouse; will first-class instruments cheaper than the advertised rattle traps, or used-up, second-hand planes; lowest New York price. The Great Plano Warehouse, 414 Washington Street, San Francisco. T. M. ANTISELL & CO. T. H. KING & CO. (Successors to J. D. Casebolt & Co.), Importers, Wholesale and Retail Dealers in WAGON MATERIALS AND LUMBER, Muba, Spokes, Rims, Poles, Shafts, Hews, CARRIAGE HARDWARE. Trimming, Mountings and Lamps. Agents for Sarven Patent Wheels. Beale Street, near Market, San Francisco. HOLT BROS. Importers and dealers in all kinds of HARDWOOD LUMBER, CARRIAGE AND WAGON MATERIALS. Prices as low as the lowest. Satisfaction guaranteed Orders by mail or express solicited. 27 and 29 BEALE ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. CASTLE BROthers AGENTS WANTED, In every Town and County on this Court to sell VALUABLE STANDARD SUBSCRIPTION BOOKS. For Terms and Territory, address A. ROMAN & Co., 11 Montgomery Street, San Francisco. NEW MOUNTY IMPORTSUBSCRIPTION BOOKS just coming to hand. Old and as per written consent, please give this notice your special attention. Panels desiring to enter the canvass as beginners will never have a better opportunity. THE Chicago Ledger. SUBSCRIBE FOR IT!! THE CHEAPEST NEWSPAPER IN THE UNITED STATES. Check-till of just such reading matter as will interest everybody. Published weekly. Quarto form. Port-eight columns. Only ONE DOLLAR a year. Club rates and specimens furnished on application. Address THE LEDGER COMPANY, Chicago, IL. PLUCK No. 1. PLUCK No. 2. THE NEW CHROMOS FROM WILLARD'S FA-MOUS PAINTINGS. HOLT BROS. Importers and dealers in all kinds of HARDWOOD LUMBER, CARRIAGE AND WAGON MATERIALS. Prices as low as the lowest. Satisfaction guaranteed Orders by mail or express solicited. 27 and 29 BEALE ST., San Francisco, Cal. CASTLE BROTHERS TRADEMARK IMPORTERS OF TEAM AND WHOLESALE GROCERS, 213 and 215 Front Street, San Francisco. Try their superior brand of Tea; quality guaranteed. GRAND INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION To be held under the auspices of the MECHANICS' INSTITUTE Of San Francisco, California. OPENING ON AUGUST 18th, 1874. The Board of Managers herewith announce that a grand industrial Fair will be held in the City of San Francisco, for 30 days, opening on August 18, 1874. In view of the increasing commercial and manufacturing importance of San Francisco its contingency to and close connection with the various countries bordering on the Pacific, the Manager has made brief attentio to all who are disposed to come and exhibit. All exhibitors will be placed on the same hotting. Motive power will be furnished free. The building will be open day and evening, and every facility will be extended to exhibitors and attendants. Application for space must be made during the day to the Board of Managers. No Post Street, San Francisco, and all inquiries will be answered and information extended promptly. No space can be occupied unless applied for before the 20th of July next. DURYEA'S SATIN GLOSS STARCH AND DURYEA'S Improved Corn Starch! Are the Best in the World. Use it once and von will use no other. The Messrs. Duryea have succeeded in refining Starch to entire parity and development. Its entire strength and clearness, an improvement that will readily be observed in the great street, the superior luster that it possesses and is reliable uniformity. Much of the so-called March contains from one-Earth to one-third FOREIGN MATTER, readily perceived by sourness, ma-tiness, or a golden or yellow tinge peculiar to Interior Starches, a color not desirable for one's linen, but inexpensive from the use of common Starch. The Manager agrees to the public to give a UNIFORMALLY SUPECIAL article, from ONE-THIRD STRONGER THAN ANY OTHER STARCH IN THE WORLD, and at COMMON MARKET RATES. ECERTON, ALLEN & CO., SOLE AGENTS FOR PACIFIC COAST. ARE YOU GOING TO PAINT? PLUCK No. 1. THE NEW CHROMOS, FROM WILLARD'S FAMOUS PAINTINGS. These elegant Chromos are by far the most expressive picture given to the public, being full of high meadow and "Pinck" to the last extent. Size is by 72 inches, mounted upon canvas and strainer. Price, $19 the pair. Send orders to the publisher. J. F. RYDER. 239 Superior Street, Cleveland, O. AMERICAN EXCHANGE HOTEL, SANSOME STREET, (Next adjoining Bank of California, San Francisco.) Prices reduced. First-class: Board, per day, $1 per week, $6 per month, $85. Board and House, per day $1.50 to $2; per week $14; per month $80 to $86. Prices for families reduced. Terms payable in advance. BRYAN BROS., Prominators. THE AMERICAN CYCLOPEDIA, A LIBRARY IN ITSELF. It is the knowledge of centuries bulled down, the essence of all books crystallized. It stands on the shelves ready to answer briefly every conceivable question, to give you answers in detail with ease and accuracy. Is based a volume every two months, and will be completed in 16 volumes, which are PAYABLE ONLY UPON THE DELIVERY OF EACH VOLUME, thus dividing the cost into small installments, which will be hardly noticed. FIRST CLASS CANVASMERN wanted. JAMES T. WHITE & CO., Agent for the Pacific Coast, a Montgomery Street, San Francisco. HOME SEWING MACHINE, Entirely new, with every improvement known to sewing Machines—shuttle, straight needle, two threads, and lock-stitch. The Lightest Running Machine in the World. Send for circulars and samples. Active agents wanted. E.W. HAINES, Agent, 17 New Montgomery St., Grand Hotel Block, San Francisco. We also still continue to sell the HOME SHOTTLE SEWING MACHINE PRICE, $45. Agency for Mine Demographics—reliable CUT PAPER PATTERNS. Send for catalogue. FARMERS AND HORSEMEN, Do you believe that Horse Collars put together with COPPER RIVETS, and which never rip, will wear better than Collars sewed with thread, which rip easily? The principal horse-car lines of San Francisco, and thousands of farmers on this coast, use COPPER RIVETERED HORSE COLLARS. They cost no more than the others. Have you ever seen Horton's Felt Horse Rubber? You should insure your Life in the PACIFIC Mutual Life Insurance Co, OF CALIFORNIA. No. 41 Second St., Sacramento. REVETED HORSE COLLARS. They cost no more than the others. Have you ever seen Horton's Felt Horse Rubber? ECERTON, ALLEN & CO., SOLE AGENTS FOR PACIFIC COAST. ARE YOU GOING TO PAINT? THEN USE THE BEST. THE AVERILL CHEMICAL PAINT Will last THREE times as long as the BEST lead and oil without CHALKING; is of any desired color. It is prepared for immediate application requiring no Oil, Thinner or Brittle and does not spoil by standing any length of time. It is equally as good for inside as outside work; over old work as well as new; in fact, where any paint can be used, the AVERILL CHEMICAL PAINT will be found superior to any other. Any one can apply it who can use a brush, which truly makes it the FARMER'S FRIEND. IT IS NOT THAT PAINT FOR THE AGE. IT IS SOLD BY THE GALLON ONLY. One gallon covers 20 square yards, 2 coats, or 15 yards 2 coats. For further information send for sample card and price list. HEALY & JEWELL, Agents. Office corner Fourth and Townsend St., San Francisco. The Pacific Irrigating Pipe and Pump Co. A. M. JEWELL, Sup't. Office and Factory, SOUTH POINT MILLS, Berry St. between Third and Fourth St., SAN FRANCISCO, CA AN AGENT WANTED IN EVERY TOWN CATEGORY. Would call the attention of Farmers, Stock men and others requiring Wooden Pumps and Pipes to the fact that they are now prepared to furnish Stock, Farm and Custom Lamps, and Wooden Pipes from 19 to 8 inches in diameter, at prices greater than anything heretofore offered in California Pumps from $3 25 to $6. Pipe from 15 to 26 feet.