anaheim-gazette 1880-09-11

Intelligence Items. President Avaellands, of Buenos Ayres, has resigned. President Hayes owns a wheat field of 200 acres in Dakota. Every day in this world the births exceed the deaths by 25,020. The cattle drive from Texas this year will realize about $3,000,000. The excess of exports from this country over the imports during July was $12,000,000. Boston's valuation by the Assessors shows an increase of $25,768,000 over that of last year. The quantity of cotton consumed in the world in 1878 was fifty-four times greater than 1778. The attempt of a young physician of Lyons to fast fifteen days, was abandoned after one week. Gin Sling is the name of a Chinese student who has entered the Freshman class at Yale College. The gross income derived from tobacco by the farmers of the United States is about $22,000,000. New York's wealth in real and personal property has increased nearly $50,000,000 in the last fiscal year. A pigeon recently flew from Columbus, Ohio, to Jersey City Heights—500 miles—in less than five hours. The Cleopatra shaft, brought from Egypt, and to be erected in New York, is seventy feet long and weighs two hundred tons. American exports to China for the years 1877 and 1878 were valued at nearly $7,000,000, and the increase in 1879 was rapid and heavy. The population of Jacksonville, Fla., has long been supposed to be not less than 11,000 or 12,000. The census shows it to be not more than 7,500. Miss Lillie Muler, aged 18, was walking with a gentleman near Mount Joy, when a spark from his cigar set fire to her dress, and she was fatally burned. It costs one dollar per ton to get ice from Lake Winnipisseeogee to Boston. More than twenty-nine thousand tons have been shipped thus far this season. The number of immigrants landing at New York in the first half of 1880 was 177,000—19,000 more than in any previous six months for twenty-five years. At Princeton, Illinois, James H. Luby, for a wager of $500, has commenced a twenty-days' fast. He is allowed all the beer he can drink, but no food or water. Postoffice Department officials estimate the total deficiency for the present fi- Suggestions on Etiquette. The following answers to correspondents contain a good deal of information, and I publish them in order to avoid the constant annoyance of writing the same in substance to so many inquiring friends: "Sweet Sixteen" writes from "Hold-up Hollow:" "I am betrothed to a noble youth from Rice Lake, Minnesota, but he seems to have soured on his betroth." "At first he seemed to love me according to Gunter, but he has grown cold. About the first of the round-up he went away, and I soon afterwards heard that he was afflianced to another." "I understand that he says that I am not of noble lineage enough for him. It is true, I may not be a thoroughbred, but I have a pure, loving nature, which is now running to waste. The name of my betrothed is DeCourtney Van D'Edbete. He comes from the first families, and O, I love him so!" "Can you tell me what to do?" "Sweet Sixteen!" Answer—Yes, I can tell you what to do. I have been there some, too. If you will only do as I tell you, you are safe. You must win him back. I think you can easily do so. Select a base-ball club of about the weight you can handle easily, and then go to him and win him back. You are too proud to give up easily. Do not be discouraged. All will yet be well. He may think now that you are not of noble blood, but you can make him change his mind. Go to him with the love-light in your eye and put a triangular head on him with your base-ball club and tell him that he does not understand the cravings of your nature. Drive him into the ground and sit down on him and then tell him that you are nothing but a poor, friendless girl and need some one to cling to. Then you can cling to him. All depends upon how successful you are as a clinger. I see at a glance that De Courtney needs to be flattened out a few times. Do not kill him, but bring him so-near the New Jerusalem that he can see the dome of the court-house, and he will gradually come back to you and love you, and your life will be one long golden dream of never-fading, joy, and De Courtney will wring out the colored clothes for you and help you do the washing, and he will stay at home evenings and take care of the children while you go to prayer-meeting, and he will not murmur when you work off an expensive meal of cold rice and fricasse codfish on ham. fresh little ancestors guests, looking yearning coffee urn all the while. Sixti—If you have time as soon as you are the jump up suddenly and but make an original about "having to eat beggar," and this will heartly laugh over your eyes you can slip out, select the hall, and be half way the company can restrain. There are some more I have on hand, not only table, but the ball-room croquet-lawn, the train; in fact almost everywhere etty man might be placed give the public from the growing demand se-—Chegenne Sun. The Letter Ca- "Hot enough for you." "Well, I manage said the good-natured boy he mopped his neck and handkerchief, gave his brace-up, and started d side of the street on livery. John was too busy to about the particlars of later, when off duty, of the carriers were willing of their experiences. "Yes, one sees lots of one of the boys, in an quiry," but the law re- in the postoffice,and,the give nothing away in — "What do you mean." "Well, for instance," stop and ask me if I le- such and such a number cline to tell him. Or,M trate here is a circumst- pened yesterday,which I had a letter for Mrs.M Hudson avenue. (Th street, of course,but if Taking the letter there, Mrs.Z——'s house.I that Mr.Z——was morning,and came to handed in the letter." lives here,'said he,'it and handed back the then his wife came to the chirped in 'That isn't course.' Now you see,made it pleasant for tha saying,' Well,y why do Z——take letters so di last three months? But just waltzed away;and nooon down came Mrs. office and demands that It costs one dollar per ton to get ice from Lake Winnipiscogee to Boston. More than twenty-nine thousand tons have been shipped thus far this season. The number of immigrants landing at New York in the first half of 1880 was 177,000—19,000 more than in any previous six months for twenty-five years. At Princeton, Illinois, James H. Luby, for a wager of $500, has commenced a twenty-days' fast. He is allowed all the beer he can drink, but no food or water. Postoffice Department officials estimate the total deficiency for the present fiscal year at $2,600,000, and if it is kept within this amount, it will be less than for any previous year since 1767. The total value of petroleum and petroleum product export for the past year was in round numbers, $34,000,-000, being a falling off of $3,000,000, as compared with the year preceding. A shrewd farm-hand bought for $160 the big meteor which fell in Emmet county, Iowa, last year, and was laughed at by his comrades for what they conceived to be his idioey. He has now sold it to the British Museum for $6,500. The family of a young man, who, six years ago left his home in Pittsburg to visit the White Mountains, heard of the finding of what was left of the skeleton of his body, with a few crumbling papers and clothes. It is supposed he lost his way and perished from cold and exhaustion. The work of prosecuting the spurious medical colleges which have disgraced Philadelphia for some years and flooded the land with quacks, has culminated in the demolition of five swindling concerns with high-sounding names, and the arrest of several members of their "faculties." One of these rascals had papers in his possession which evidenced the sale of 3,000 sheep-skins. One-half ton of bogus diplomas were captured by the police. Fashion Notes. Pompadour silks are growing in popular favor. Many narrow ruffles appear on early fall dresses. Dotted and sprigged dress fabrics grow in favor. It is admissible to go anywhere with a short dress. Ostrich tips and plumes will be in high favor this fall. White evening bonnets will be as fashionable as ever. Side combs of shell, jet, coral and ivory are used again. Plush will take the place of velvet in millinery next winter. Many ruffles or flouncees on skirts will be a feature of fall fashions. Public taste in Paris runs to the revival of directory styles of dress. Chinese Corah silks in flowered designs will form parts of fall toilets. Red pleatings around and under the bottom of dresses increase in number. Wide canvas belts are more fashionable than either leather or ribbon ones. I see at a glance that De Courtney needs to be flattened out a few times. Do not kill him, but bring him so near the New Jerusalem that he can see the dome of the court-house, and he will gradually come back to you and love you, and your life will be one long golden dream of never-fading, joy, and De Courtney will wring out the colored clothes for you and help you do the washing, and he will stay at home evenings and take care of the children while you go to prayer-meeting, and he will not murmur when you work off an expensive meal of cold rice and fricasseed codfish on ham. If he gets to feeling independent and puts on the old air of defiance you can diet him on cold mush and mackerel till he will not feel so robust, and then you can reason with him again, and while he is recovering you can take your base-ball club and your noble self-sacrificing love and win him back some more. "Lalla Bookh" writes from Waukegan, Illinois, as follows, to-wit: "My classmates and I have had quite serious discussions recently on several questions of table etiquette and we have finally agreed to leave the matter with you. First—If one is asked to say grace at the table and does not wish to do so, or is not familiar with the forms, what should he do? Second—If one has anything in his mouth, or gets any foreign substance like a piece of bone or a seed in his mouth, how should he remove it, and what is the proper thing to do with it? Third—Would you kindly add a few general rules of table etiquette, which would be useful to the many admirers of your classic style? Answer—It would be hazardous for a gentleman unaccustomed to asking grace at the table to attempt it unless he be a naturally fluent, extemporaneous speaker. It is more difficult for one unacquainted with it than to address a Sabbath-school or write a letter accepting the nomination for President. It is, therefore, preferable to say in a few terse remarks that you are profoundly grateful for the high compliment, but that your health will not admit of its acceptance. Second—Care should be used while at the table not to get large foreign substances like hairpins, soup-bones or clothes-pins into the mouth with food, as it naturally requires some little sang froid and tact to remove them. One accustomed to the mysteries of parlor magic may slide the article into his sleeve while coughing, and thence into the coat pocket of his host, thus easily getting himself out of an unpleasant situation, and at the same time producing roars of laughter at the expense of the host. If, however, you are not familiar with sleight of hand, you may take in a full breath and expel the object across the room under the whatnot, where it will not be discovered until you have gone away. I will add a few general rules for table etiquette, which I have learned by actual experience to be of untold benefit to the active society man. First—It is proper to take the last of each dress needles before each application. Do not kill him, but bring him so near the New Jerusalem that he can see the dome of the court-house, and he will gradually come back to you and love you, and your life will be one long golden dream of never-fading, joy, and De Courtney will wring out the colored clothes for you and help you do the washing, and he will stay at home evenings and take care of the children while you go to prayer-meeting, and he will not murmur when you work off an expensive meal of cold rice and fricasseed codfish on ham. If he gets to feeling independent and puts on the old air of defiance you can diet him on cold mush and mackerel till he will not feel so robust, and then you can reason with him again, and while he is recovering you can take your base-ball club and your noble self-sacrificing love and win him back some more. "Lalla Bookh" writes from Waukegan, Illinois, as follows, to-wit: "My classmates and I have had quite serious discussions recently on several questions of table etiquette and we have finally agreed to leave the matter with you. First—If one is asked to say grace at the table and does not wish to do so, or is not familiar with the forms, what should he do? Second—If one has anything in his mouth, or gets any foreign substance like a piece of bone or a seed in his mouth, how should he remove it, and what is the proper thing to do with it? Third—Would you kindly add a few general rules of table etiquette, which would be useful to the many admirers of your classic style? Answer—It would be hazardous for a gentleman unaccustomed to asking grace at the table to attempt it unless he be a naturally fluent, extemporaneous speaker. It is more difficult for one unacquainted with it than to address a Sabbath-school or write a letter accepting the nomination for President. It is therefore, preferable to say in a few terse remarks that you are profoundly grateful for the high compliment, but that your health will not admit of its acceptance. Second—Care should be used while at the table not to get large foreign substances like hairpins, soup-bones or clothes-pins into the mouth with food, as it naturally requires some little sang froid and tact to remove them. One accustomed to the mysteries of parlor magic may slide the article into his sleeve while coughing, and thence into the coat pocket of his host, thus easily getting himself out of an unpleasant situation, and at the same time producing roars of laughter at the expense of the host. 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Pompadour silks are growing in popular favor. Many narrow ruffles appear on early fall dresses. Dotted and sprigged dress fabrics grow in favor. It is admissible to go anywhere with a short dress. Ostrich tips and plumes will be in high favor this fall. White evening bonnets will be as fashionable as ever. Side combs of shell, jet, coral and ivory are used again. Plush will take the place of velvet in millinery next winter. Many ruffles or flouncees on skirts will be a feature of fall fashions. Public taste in Paris runs to the revival of directory styles of dress. Chinese Corah silks in flowered designs will form parts of fall toiletts. Red pleatings around and under the bottom of dresses increase in number. Wide canvas belts are more fashionable than either leather or ribbon ones. Side combs of shell, jet, coral and ivory are used again. Plush will take the place of velvet in millinery next winter. Many ruffles or flounces on skirts will be a feature of fall fashions. Public taste in Paris runs to the revival of directory styles of dress. Chinese Corah silks in flowered designs will form parts of fall toilets. Red pleatings around and under the bottom of dresses increase in number. Wide canvas belts are more fashionable than either leather or ribbon ones. The fashions of England and France have very little in common at the present time. Gold lace, gold ribbon, and gold braid will be used to excess in early fall millinery. The fashionable evening color takes the name of Ophelia; it is a dark shade of heliotrope. Corah washing silk in natural undyed shades of cream or corn is found among early fall novelties. Indian washing silk in undyed shades of buff, resembling pongee, is sold for morning chamber robes. Black silk poplin is again in demand. It is used for skirts of black costumes of Surah silk, cashmere or camel's hair. Soft, crumpled India silks are much used in Paris and London in the composition of classic and artistic costumes. Marguerite sleeves, puffed in the arm-bole and at the elbow, appear on some of the lately-imported Parisian costumes. Frank Leslie's Lady's Journal says that the baby stare is considered the pretty thing for a young girl in England just now. The Pilgrim polonaise loosely defines the figure, and is bound with a heavy silk rope, finished with cone, balls, tags, or tassels. Bells of cream white, black, or gray striped middle-girthing, from two to three inches wide, are worn fastened with leather straps and bushles. If, however, you are not familiar with sleight of hand, you may take in a full breath and expel the object across the room under the whatnot, where it will not be discovered until you have gone away. I will add a few general rules for table etiquette, which I have learned by actual experience to be of untold benefit to the active society man. First—It is proper to take the last of anything on the plate if it comes to you, instead of declining it. It is supposed that there is more in the house, or if not, the host may go down town and get some. Do not, therefore, decline anything because it is the last on the dish, unless it looks as though it wouldn't suit you. Second—If by mistake you get your spoon in the gravy so far that the handle is more or less sticky, do not get ill-tempered or show your displeasure, but draw it through your mouth two or three times, laughing a merry laugh all the while. Do not attempt to polish it off with your handkerchief. It might spoil the handkerchief. Third—In drinking wine at table do not hang your eyes up on your cheek, or drink too fast and get it up your nose. Do not drain your glass perfectly dry and then try to draw in what atmosphere there is in the room. This is not only vulgar, but it tends to cast large chunks of three-cornered gloom over the guests. When you have drained your glass, do not bang it violently on the table and ask your host "how much he is out." This gives too much of the air of wild, unfettered freedom and the unrestrained hilarity of the free lunch. Fourth—When you get anything in your mouth that is too hot, do not get mad and swear, because the other guests will only laugh at you, but remove the morsel calmly, and tell the waiter to put it on ice a little while for you. Fifth—When your coffee is out and you desire more, do not pound on your cup with your spoon, but be gentle and ladylike in demeanor, telling some... fresh little anecdote to please the guests, looking yearningly toward the coffee urn all the while. Sixth—If you have to leave the table as soon as you are through, do not jump up suddenly and upset the table, but make an original and spicy remark about "having to eat and run like a beggar," and this will create such a hearty laugh over your sally of wit that you can slip out, select the best hat in the hall, and be half way home before the company can restrain its mirth. There are some more good rules that I have on hand, not only relative to the table, but the ball-room, the parlor, the croquet-lawn, the train, the church, and in fact almost everywhere that the society man might be placed. These I will give the public from time to time, as the growing demand seems to dictate. Cheyenne Sun. The Letter Carriers. "Hot enough for you, John?" "Well, I manage to keep warm," said the good-natured letter-carrier, as he mopped his neck and face with his handkerchief, gave his shoulder bag a brace-up, and started down the sunny side of the street on his second delivery. John was too busy to stop and talk about the particulars of his office, but later, when off duty, he and another of the carriers were willing to tell some of their experiences. "Yes, one sees lots of life," observed one of the boys, in answer to my inquiry, "'but the law requires secrecy in the postoffice, and, therefore, we can give nothing away in —'" "What do you mean by secrecy?" "Well, for instance, if a man should stop and ask me if I left a letter at such and such a number, I would decline to tell him. Or, to better illustrate, here is a circumstance that happened yesterday, which will explain: I had a letter for Mrs. A——No. 777 Hudson avenue. (That wasn't the street, of course, but it will answer.) Taking the letter there, I found it was Mrs. Z——'s house. It so happened that Mr. Z——was home late that morning, and came to the door. I handed in the letter. 'No Mrs. A——lives here,' said he, 'it's a mistake,' and handed back the missive. Just then his wife came to the door, and she chirped in 'That isn't for here, of course.' Now you see, I might have made it pleasant for the pair by just saying, 'Well, why did you, Mrs. Z——take letters so directed for the last three months? But I didn't, and just waltzed away; and in the afternoon down came Mrs. Z——to the office and demands that letter and gets Reliable Testimony. 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Mr. Giles Carter, a well known citizen of Rochester, N.Y., has just given the following card to the public: For about two years my wife has been troubled with something and we could not imagine what: she had frequent flashes of heat followed by severe sweats, both night and day; her back troubled her a great deal, and any exertion seemed to utterly prostrate her. She drank large quantities of water, and kept getting worse and worse all the time. We employed the services of a physician, but without benefit, not even learning what was the matter with her. Finally, noticing a peculiarity in her urine, I had it examined, and by boiling reduced it to molasses, about half in quantity to the amount of water used. At once wrote to her brother, a physician in the East, who pronounced it "sugar" (or saccharine) diabetes. He said he knew of no cure for it, and that she probably could not get well; that she might live for a few years, but would get worse and worse all the time. At this time, and when we were in despair, I saw Warner’s Safe Diabetes Cure advertised, purchased a bottle, and my wife has continued using it until she is now perfectly cured, and as well as she has been in years. I consider Warner’s Safe Diabetes Cure a blessing and boon to humanity. "New Fangled Notions" May not work injury to people when they relate to matters of little consequence, but Taking the letter there, I found it was Mrs. Z—'s house. It so happened that Mr. Z—was home late that morning, and came to the door. I handed in the letter. 'No Mrs. A—lives here,' said he, 'it's a mistake,' and handed back the missive. Just then his wife came to the door, and she chirped in 'That isn't for here, of course.' Now you see, I might have made it pleasant for the pair by just saying, 'Well, why did you, Mrs. Z—, take letters so directed for the last three months? But I didn't, and just waltzed away; and in the afternoon down came Mrs. Z—to the office and demands that letter and gets it, although, in her husband's presence, she denied all knowledge of it a few hours before." "That's the shady side of life?" "Exactly. Then there's girl's who get letters every day, and if they miss a day they are all broken up, and think the young man has gone back on them completely. Sometimes they get postal cards, covered over with written taffy, and the other morning a young lady said: 'That postal brought yesterday wasn't for me I won't you to understand.' Now I suppose there was something on it she did not want me to see, and tried to excuse it—as if the carrier ever bother himself with reading postals! Why, people may write all the blessed secrets they want, the postoffice folks will never read 'em." "How many miles does an average carrier walk a day?" "Weil, that depends. The carriers up in the Paigeville route had to get over fairly twenty-five miles of ground every day before the route was divided. Cain, the carrier, did that for quite a while. What's that? Must be pedestrians? Well, I should smile. And, by the way, we are going to have a walking match between two of the postoffice men on the 5th of July for a purse of $25, the distance to be twenty-five miles. You must come out and see the boys. Van Wie will represent the carriers." "Thank you. Do you have any humorous experiences?" "Yes, plenty, although it wouldn't do to laugh at the people who make funny mistakes, you know. But in the early morning delivery we often see strange sights. The well-dressed, blooming girl of the afternoon mail is frequently the middle-aged sloven of the morning delivery. You wouldn't recognize the extremes, unless you were well acquainted about town, as we are. Sometimes we come across a woman waiting for a letter from her husband, or a mother looking for a letter from her son, which does not come. Why, on my route I had last fall a lady who was expecting a letter. Morning and afternoon she would wait at her door for me in her eager expectancy. But I had nothing for her. After a month or two it used to make me nervous to meet that anxious face, and I hated to pass the house. Poor woman! She was very weary with long waiting, and her gentle face grew wan and sickly. One day in sorting out my mail I came across a letter for my anxious friend. It was thick and neway in appearance and postmarked away out West. Why, I was so glad, do you know, to get that letter that the her urine, I had it examined, and by boiling reduced it to molasses, about half in quantity to the amount of water used. At once wrote to her brother, a physician in the East, who pronounced it "sugar" (or saccharine) diabetes. He said he knew of no cure for it, and that she probably could not get well; that she might live for a few years, but would get worse and worse all the time. At this time, and when we were in despair, I saw Warner's Safe Diabetes Cure advertised, purchased a bottle, and my wife has continued using it until she is now perfectly cured, and as well as she has been in years. I consider Warner's Safe Diabetes Cure a blessing and boon to humanity. "New Fangled Notions" May not work injury to people when they relate to matters of little consequence, but when entertained as to what we shall take when afflicted with serious disease they may lead to dear experience. Don't therefore, trifle with diseases of the blood manifested by eruptions, blotches, serofulous and other swellings and grave symptoms, but take that well tested and efficacious remedy. Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery—the greatest blood-purifier of the age. If the bowels are very costive use also Dr. Pierce's Pellets (little sugar-coated pills). CURES YEVER AND AGUE. PLEASANT VALLEY, JO DAVIET CO., ILL., March 31st, 1879. Dr. PIERCE, Buffalo, N.Y. Dear Sir—I write this to inform you that my child, one year old, has been permanently cured of the fever and ague in a week's time, by the use of but half a bottle of your Golden Medical Discovery. My wife, a long sufferer from liver complaint and billiousness, by the use of the Discovery and Pellets has been entirely relieved. The Discovery has never disappointed us for coughs and colds. Yours truly, JAMES STRICKELL. A lady for the first time listening to the "still small voice" of a telephone, remarked: "Good gracious it sounds like one's conscience." Which is not a bad description. Grateful Women. None receive so much benefit, and none are so profoundly grateful and show such an interest in recommending Hop Bitters as women. It is the only remedy peculiarly adapted to the many fills the sex is almost universally subject to. Chills and fever, indigestion or deranged liver, constant or periodical sick headaches, weakness in the back or kidneys, pain in the shoulders and different parts of the body, a feeling of lassitude and despondency, are all readily removed by these Bitters. The Robertson Process For working rebellious ores is remarkable for its simplicity and cheapness. No other method is known which so completely reduces rebellious gold and silver ores to the same condition as free milling ore. Parties who have the machinery for pulverizing and amalgamating can erect a suitable furnace for using the Robertson Process as a cost of from $1,000 to $1,500, according to capacity required. For full particulars address John A. Robertson, the patentee, P. O. box 552, Oakland, Cal. Voltaite Belt Co., Marshall, Mich. Will send their celebrated Electro-Voltaic Belts to the afflicted upon 31 days' trial. Speedy cures guaranteed. They mean what they say. Write to them without delay. Furniture. New and second-hand at auction prices. H.Schellhaas', 11th St., Odd Fellow's Building, Oakland, Cal. Country orders promptly attended to. The best preparation known in market for restoring gray hair to its original color is Hall's Vegetable Sicilian Hair Renewer. Try it. J.W.Shaffer & Co., 321 and 323 Sac- A Baltimore claimant has just arisen to the authorship of the famous ballads, "Kathleen Mavourneen," and "Dermot Astore." It is Frederick W. N. Crouch, a professor of music sixty years old, who formerly lived at Plymouth, England. He produces the necessary proofs that he composed both melodies, for words written by a woman, and has assigned them to a London publisher for twenty pounds. Mr. Grouch says that "Kathleen Mavourneen" was first sung in public at his former home in Plymouth, July 14, 1836, and "Dermot Astore," at London, in 1840. The reading, thinking farmer is pretty sure to grow more stock than he who "don't want the papers." The one is gaining all the time whilst the other is working the hardest, and if gaining at all, it is so slow as to be imperceptible. No man, says the Oil City Derrick, is capable of gracefully linking a postage stamp in the presence of a pretty postmaster. The girl in Georgia play bass hall. Voltaiie Belt Co., Marshall, Mich. Will send their celebrated Electro-Voltaic Belts to the afflicted upon 31 days' trial. Speedy cures guaranteed. They mean what they say. Write to them without delay. Furniture. New and second-hand at auction prices. H. Schellhaas', 11th St., Odd Fellows' Building, Oakland, Cal. Country orders promptly attended to. The best preparation known in market for restoring gray hair to its original color is Hall's Vegetable Sicilian Hair Renewer. Try it. J. W. Shaffer & Co., 321 and 323 Sacramento St., San Francisco, employ no drummers. Oigars sold very cheap. All Photographs made at the New York Gallery No. 26 Third St., S.F., are guaranteed to be first-class. Prices to suit the times. J. H. Peterson & Co. TROPIC FRUIT LAXATIVE UNLIKE PILLS And the usual Purgatives Is Pleasant to Take, And will parece at once the most potent and humid Nyctam Removemean and Charmenean that has付 have brought to public notice. For Constitutionists, Illuminationists, Philosophees and all disorders arising from an obstructed state of the system, it is inconsparably the best curving crime. TROPIC-FRUIT LAXATIVE is put up in lionand tin boxes only. Prices: 60 Cents. Pressure Descriptive Punishment from your draught, or address the proprietor. J. E. METHEINGTON, New York or San Francisco. ELECTRIC BELTS Bands and Appliances for the cure of Nervousness, Chronic and Special Diseases can be purchased from the PULVINMACHINE GALVAMICO, 532 Montgomery St., San Francisco, Oil Band for Free Pumpkin and The Electric Routier, containing full descriptions claiming electric qualities. P. N. P. Co. (New Jersey). No. 199 WARNER'S SAFE REMEDIES Warner's Gate, Pills are an immediate solution for a Tired Liver, and cure Osteoarthritis. Digestive Enzymes, Bilirubin Dissolves Malaria, Fever and Agen, and are useful at times in nearly all diseases to cause a free and regular action of the House. The best antidote for all Material Poison. Price, $c. a box. Warner's Gate New York gives Best and Gloss to the suffering, causes Hemlock and Neemgale, Preserves Euglyptine Pill, and is the best remedy for Severe Prone Production brought on by excessive drinking, overwork, mental shorts and other causes. If relieves the Pain of All Diseases, and is never injurious to the system. The best of all Nervous. Bottles of two sizes; prism, six and $1.00. Warner's Gate Remedies are sold by Druggists and Dealers in Medicine everywhere. H. H. WARNER & CO., Proprietors, Boston, N. W. Send for Pamphlets and Testimonials. Ask your druggist for it. Sold by all wholesale nurms in San Francisco, Sacramento and Portland. F. W. SPENCER Pianoforte Company. Owing to the increasing demand for our Matchless Sound Plane and Smith American Organs of Boston, we have greatly enlarged our place of business and now have one of the largest and most stocks of instruments on the coast, including the Matchless "Spencer Planos," square and upright; also Steinway's, Knabe, Chickering, Emerson, Miller's, Bradbury's and other makers, at all prices. Mason & Hamlin, George Woods AND "Smith American Organs of Boston," Sold on lastailments if desired. Send for circulars. F. W. SPENCER & Co., 48 and 55 Fifth St., San Francisco, N. B. CONCORD CARRIAGES. Buggies and Express Wagons; E. M. Miller & Co.'s (Quincy, Ill.) Buggies, Phagions and Carriages, Hill's genuine Concord Harness, Whips, Robes and Blankets of every description for sale. BELOW COST. T. N. KARTHAN, Agent, 46 New Montclair. DRIMINTIE'S LIVESTOCK DYSPEPSIA PILL Our WELL AUGER is the champion, bears the fastest. We are the oldest and longest time in Albany. Send for our pictorial collage. United States Myo Co., Chicago, Ill. N. CURRY & BRO. 113 Sammons St., San Francisco, Sole Agents for the SHARPS HIFLE CO., OF BRIDGEPORT, CONN. FOR California, Oregon, Arizona, Nevada, Washington Territory, and Alaska. Also Agents for W. W. Greener's Calibration Wedgeets, Chokehorses, Breath-leading Double Guns; and all kinds of guns, rifles and pistols made by the Landing Manufacturers of England and America. Ammunition of all kinds is guaranteed to suit. CAMELLINE FOR THE COMPLEXION AND TEETH, Supersedes Everything. PRICE, 50c and $1. PHOSPHATE SOAP PHOSPHATE TRADE MANK SOAP A superb article for the toilet, beneficial to the skin, giving it a soft, velvety appearance, and leaving a soothing pleasant sensation after use, imparting a healthy, natural and lea CONCORD CARRIAGES. Buggles and Express Wagons; E.M. Miller & Co.'s (Quinney, Ill.) Baggles, Phlegms and Carriages, Hill's genuine Concord Harness, Whips, Robes and Blankets of every description for sale. BELOW COST. T.N. EARTHAN, Agent, 46 New Montgomery St., next to Palace Hotel, San Francisco, THE OREGON CELEBRATED Diuretic KIDNEY TEA. Kind nature's own remedy—her "last, best gift to man." A plant which grows in mountain fastnesses, seldom trodden by human foot. There are thousands afflicted with diseases of the Kidneys or Urinary Organs who suffer in silence rather than to make known their troubles. Others seek relief by the use of various patent medicines, which, if they do not aggravate the disease at least do not lessen it. When those who secure the advice of physicians often fail to get relief owing to the very complicated and delicate nature of the organ affected. The Oncocone Kidney Tea is a strictly vegetable production, and will not injure the smallest child, nor the most delicate woman, but will cure Pain in the Back and Kidneys, non-retention of Urine, Diabetes, Inflammation of the Bladder or Kidneys, Block Dust Deposit in Urine, Lau-corrhoea, Painful or Suppressed Menstruation, and all complaints arising from a diseased or debilitated state of the kidneys or urinary organs of either sex. Hedge, Davis & Co., Proprietors, PORTLAND, OREGON. FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS. Price: ONE DOLLAR. A superb article for the toilet, beneficial to the skin, giving it a soft, velvety appearance, and leaving a soothing, pleasant sensation after use, imparting a healthy, natural and lasting beauty to the complexion. It eradicates the poisonous effects of cosmetics; preventing skin diseases by acting as a constant purifier and disinfectant; if used constantly will cure skin diseases of long standing; is superior to any other article for bathing infants; cleansing and healing for all eruptions on the scalp or face of children; good for the teeth; produces a soft, creamy lather, nicely adapted to shaving or shampooing, removes dandruff, and gives health to the scalp without injuring the hair. The genuine merits of PHOSPHATE SOAP and persistent advertising will force every druggist, groceryman and general dealer to order it by the gross sooner or later. Ask for it in every store. The retail price is 25 cents per cake. We wish to sell it only at wholesale, but in case you cannot find it we will send a nice box of three cakes by mail, postage paid, on receipt of 85 cents in stamps. If your wife is in the habit of using cosmetics of any kind, advise her to give up the pernicious practice, as the most harmless faces powders obstruct the pores of the skin and sooner or later injure the complexion, while PHOSPHATE SOAP removes all impurities and assists nature in developing a natural, healthy and beautiful skin. It is an old proverb that an ounce of preventive is better than a pound of cure. Twenty-five cents invested in a cake of PHOSPHATE SOAP will save hundreds of dollars in doctors' bills. It acts as a constant disinfectant, preventing Salt Rheum and other skin diseases. If your wife will persist in the use of cosmetics buy her a cake of PHOSPHATE SOAP and tell her to use it every night before retiring. In that way much of the harm will be avoided, as the skin will thereby be able to retain much of its natural vigor and beauty. STAMP CABINET. JUST THE THING For Linen Marking, Etc. STAMP CABINET. JUST THE THING For Linen Marking, Etc. This cut represents a facsimile of the Cabinet (open), which consists of fourteen articles, as follows: 1. Name in Full, any Style Letter desired. 2. Fancy Initial of Surname. 3. Initials of Entire Name. 4. Bottle of Indelible Ink, Blue or Black, warranted. 5. Bottle of Ink, Red, Blue, Violet or Green. 6. Pad and Distributor for Colored Ink. 7. Pad and Distributor for Indelible Ink. 8. Bottle of Gold Bronze. 9. Bottle of Silver Bronze. 10. Camel's hair Brush, for applying Bronze. 11. Twenty-five Transparent Cards, new styles. 12. Twenty-five Superfine Bristol Cards, Assorted Colors. 13. Patent Cabinet. 14. Card Case. PRICE, $9.00. Every man, woman and child should keep one of these Cabinets, as it is something entirely new and useful, neat, clean and compact. If indisputably used, it will do all your Linen Marking, Card Printing, etc., for years. The Indelible Ink is manufactured especially for Old Cabinets, and is warranted not less than up the Stamps or wash out. The Pad, when saturated with ink, canain change for one thousand impressions each. Below we give a few samples of our styles of letters, any other style of letter desired furnished: No. 1. Thomas Smith. Miss Nellie Fisher. No. 2. Hertha R. Spuds. No. 3. Chas. S. Banks. No. 4. Don P. Miller. BUSINESS STAMPS FROM $3.00 TO $5.00 According to Size, Style, &c. In ordering, give the number of the style of letter desired, if any other style is wanted, listing a company with the order. These Cabinets will be sent to any address in the United States on request if paid $2.00 or quarter mans or parcel of china round. Address orders to CARLOS WHITE, his name same degree, (074 Worth Purple & Oil) keyline, San Francisco.