December 28, 1898 (4 pages)

NORD iad 33 88539 Mi BP ZF ited j before nhuary at the applil com. z, Ne. th apiS, Dols, THAT of th ion of which al in f NeY the , that 1ands ublic trucewer f the t the pubCity pubt on vote: ctor , ard. yem, tees ess, rks, eeton ess per t of in h at omhall ary; for lent y of eSSing cy t THE TRANSCRIPT. Hi Gree aS _ 38TH YEAR—No, a # 1794 any yor LROWN & CALKINS, : Proprietors. _ By Carrier 121-2 Cts. a Week, "ADVERTISING RATES,” ‘Cor. Sutter and Montgomery. Sts., Is. the only one that should receive recognition. A’pair of Shoes or Slippers from the many handsome. shapes in our stock make a really worthy present. The ‘Fecipient will derive lasting pleasure and satisfaction from such a gift, and YOUR MONEY © will be well expended. Can’t do better than surreund the feet in your own or some one else’s stockings with a pair of these Shoes. We have Fine Footwear for Men, Women and Children. Bovey Bros. Broad Street, Nevada City. 7 m) J] Diy WAZ SUAS = Geo. Richardson, UNDERTAKER AND 2 & EMBALMER. lors, Broad Sreet, opposite City Hall. Residence Spring street, three doors oe Nevada Foundry. Strict attention to all “ga mre noted or night. Lady attendant. “LICK HOUSE,Telephone, West 5. Center of Business District, SAN FRANCISCO, CAL, ‘ G. W. KINGSBURY, Manager. *y —ae Special Accommodations For Traveling Men. HEADQUARTERS FOR MINING MEN. Convenient to All Car Lines. Modern Hotel Newly Fitted Throughout. d improvements are being made in ante ane ulnk bowed: and when completed the Lick will be second to no houseon the Pacific Coast. . nil THE “POPULAR” BAKERY In the Transcript Block, on Commercial street, is now BETTER PREPARED THAN EVER To serve the public with First-class Bread, Pies and Cakes, FANCY PASTRY OF ALL KINDS TO ORDE! Wedding Cakesa Speclalty. @@-Fresh Compressed Yeast Cakes Cor. stantly on hand. Chas, B. Tegler, Prop't TELEPHONE 37. A. JISOARD & SON Wholesale and Retail Dealers in ° Wines and Liquors OF ALL KINDS. Z Sole Agents for the Celebrate: Enterprise Beer, the best in the market. Sold i: blag age mag ed half pints and kegs. Also on sale Enterprise Bock Beer. Wine for family and medic A nce ial selection of Fine, Win. nal par, 3. for family use. Gen rted Swiss, Limburger and . Bosectors apres the finest ever brongiit President Kellogg Points Out Difficulties _ Of the Present System. . For anyone who wants a history of the University of California during the past tw8 years, the biennial report of the president will be most opportune. The-book is just. from the University Press and is a resume of the work of the past twenty-four months. It is distributed to those who ask for it. It contains the report of President Kellogg and subsidiary reports. Altogether the work isa valuable one and is worth the sending for. One interesting ‘matter of note is the statement of the president in regard to the present system of accrediting schools and its deficiencies: He states that the humber of schools has gradually increased, but the funds given from the State have not been sufficient todo the work properly. ‘The work is far too important to be given up,” he says. “But if it is to be continued, and is to meet the increasing demands of the schools, it ought to be more thoroughly provided for. Objections have been methods of carrying it out. We see just where the chief trouble lies; viz, in.insufficient appropriation for the work. Our examiners must travel from one end of the State to another, and visit about a hundred schools, Ifthe five or six examiners should each spend a day or two with each school the midway in their travels. Moreover, if at this slow rate they completed their rounds, they would be gone so long from their classes as to necessitate the employment of substitutes at home. As it is, they snatch bits of time for a given section of the State, and the examining is partly deferred till the long summer vacation—too late for the best good of the schools. The faculty earn-estly recommend the appointment of a commission of experts from their number, who for a given year should go over the whole State, leisurely enough to become acquainted with the organization and inner spirit of the schools. ‘Their absence from the University will necessitate the employment of temporary substitutes. Three places, at least, would have to be supplied for half of the year. This ideal plan it is simply impossible to carry out with an appropriation of $1,500, though the railways should continue their generous help of: reduced fares. “More money is therefore a pressing need. We cannot ask the schools to pay the expenses of visiting them, when there is one chancé: in three that the verdict of the eXatminers will be adACCREDITING HIGH SCHOOLS, raised, not, to our.system, but to our, fands at their disposal would give out. verse; and it would,. really or suppendence of the examitiérs. We hesttate to ask a special appropriation from the Legislature, although this expenditure is chiefly for the benefit the State’school system, . There is n that the situation be fully canvassed, and that. we.all come. to see the. absolute necessity of larger means for this nost important work. — ; 4 stay in each section of the State, it would be possible for them to give short courses of extension ” lectures, and thus respond to calls which they are. now unable to. meet. It would seem that the special province of the Uuiversity, in contributing to the gencral culture demands of the people of the State, is tomake use of the lines of influence opened to us through the schools. It is a pity to neglect these many open doors for the sake of saving .a very small sum of money.” A Brasilian Indian Story. Here is'a Brazilian Indian story, says the New York Times. The jaguar and . the monkey met. ‘The jaguar had a lus, cious bunch of plantains which the monkey craved. ‘‘I will gladly give you the plantains,’’ said the jaguar, ‘‘pro. @iding you catch a fawn for me.” . ‘*Agreed,’’ cried the monkey. ‘‘But,’’ . added the jaguar, ‘if yon don’t get the . fawn you must promise to let me bite a mouthful out of you.’’ ‘*Agreed,’’ once more cried the gleeful monkey. The monkey ate the plantains, and the little matter about the fawn quite slipped his memory. . Then one day the jaguar met the monkey and insisted on taking his pay out of the monkey’s hide. Thé business, becoming serious, was left to the peccari to decide. ‘‘It seems all right enough,’’ said the peccari, ‘‘only this: How am I to determine what is the exact size of a jaguar’s mouthful and alse where is he to bite? He had better refer the matter to the big snake.” The big snake took the subject under consideration: His judgment was that he would have to swallow the jaguar, the monkey and the peccari. The jaguar and peccari he did at once assimilate, but the monkey, being nimble, escaped. Ways and Means. Home Seeker (inspecting a flat)— How in the world are people to live in such little cubby holes as these? * Agent—Easy enough, mum. All you need is folding beds and camp chairs and self doubling up tables and a few things like that. in these rooms myself.” afflicted, mum. You should take antifat.’’—New York Weekly. —t2 e+ —— Homann does his own baking. 4d5-tf © FOR THE Heintz’s Catsup, eeoeooees: G0:00000000008000 A. B. WOLF © Has a Special iitne of © FANCY: GROCERIES Of All Kinds, HOLIDAY TRADE. Choice Canned Goods, Fancy Crackers in Cartoons, First-Class Mince Meat, Ripe and Green Olives, Fancy Cheese, Etc. — AT LOWEST PRICES. QOGOOQOOOGOOOOO®) © QOOOOOOO In Bulk or Packages. ©O0O660000 © 2 Special Goods 4 PPPS PPPH FOR THE HOLIDAYS. JAPANESE Goys of all Kinds. Our HANDKERCHIEFS are unexcelled for BEAUTY AND PRIOR. PERFUMERY, KID GLOVES, — PURSRS, Work Baskets, Games, GooDs, ETc. here. Particular attention paid to’ family orders, ii % WM. H. CRAWEORD, Main Street,j,Nevada City. “*T see, mum. It’s too bad to be so}: WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 28, 1808. ~~ EST. IN 1860 BY N. P. BROWN & CO, A AME i Wherever it is impossible to get ater for placer minitig, and the conditions are such. that a “dty washer” can be used, such apparatus is omployed, The Mining “and Scientific Press says that this devise is based apon the same principle'as the “farmer’s mill,” which separates the grain from the chaff, with such changes as are reqaired by the differénce in’ the material to be handled. Many “different styles of dry washers are in usé in desert mining regions: One general desuription fits them all, ‘since: their difference consists merely in peculiarities of adjusting their several constituent parts, as the angle of the apron, mesh of the-screen, height and number of riffles, etc. A dry washer consists of a strong wooden frame, to the bottom.of which is attached a’ bellows, ered, across which the riffles are nailed. Above the riffle board is the apron, and above it the screen. A simple crank and gear sets the bellows in .motion, and, by percussion, gives a shaking movement to the apron, While one man is turning the crank, another shovels the pay dirt onto the screen, through which it falls on the apron and from it on the riffle board. The intermittent blast blows thé light /particles of dust and sand away, while the heavier ones, and with them the gold, are caught by the riffies. After a number of shovelfulls of dirt (from 50 to 100) have been run through the machine, the rifle board is taken’ out by hand, and the rest is dumped on a sheet of canvas, to be once nicre run through the machine at the close of day, or wher a sufficient quantity of the concentrated pay dirt has been collected. Such a method entails loss; still it has been demonstrated:that experienced men can save, under certain circumistances, up to 85 per cent of the gold contained in the material worked. Homann’s business is daily. increasing d5-tf the top of which forms the riffle board, ' consisting of wire netting canvas. cov-! Clothespins. ' Clothespirs are an American commodity. Some clothespins are made in Sweden and in Scotland, but they are ‘hig und clumsy, twice the size of the American pins and whittled out by band. Olothespins are made chiefly of beech and of maple, but some are made of tupelo wood. They are made entirely by machinery, counted into boxes containing 720 eack by machinery, and the boxes are nailed up by machinery. It might almost be said that blocks. of wood fed to machines at one end come out boxed clothespins at the other. They are made and sold wonderfully cheap. There are two grades of clotbespins, firsts and seconds. First grade pins can be bought for 85 cents a box. The pro duction of clothespins is enormons, millions of boxes annually. The consumption in this country keeps pace with the growth of the population, and great numbers are exported. Even pecple in the trade wonder what becomes of all the clothespins. : What Bothered Him. “When I wasa young man,’ says a well known civil engineer, ‘‘I was sur veying the route of a proposed railway An old farmer with whom I stopped for a time admitted ohe day, when he saw me figuring in the field, that mathematics always seemed a wonderful thing to him. Being young and enthusiastic, 1 began to enlarge its wonders, telling him how we could measure the distances to different planets, and even weigh them; how we could ascertain the height of mountains without scaling them and many other things which I meant should astonish him. **You can imagine how he set me back when he replied to this brilliant array of facts by saying: ‘Yes, yes, them things does seem kinder cur‘us, but what allus bothered me was to understand why yon have to carry one fur ev’ry ten, but if you'don’t the durned thing won’t come out right.’’* 2 ‘Prices to Suit. White Silk Initial Handkerchiefs, from 25 cents up to $1.50 each, at Carter & Johnston’s. ven tf pene QA iene stl At Bedrock Prices. We have a choice lot of very FINE Diamonds which we are selling at a very low figure. If you want one it will pay you to see our prices. di5-:f Luetse & Branp: WOODPECKER CIA Jor the. Holidays. Che best present for your gentlemen friend. Wade by “Sitt’’Y. S. of Wa. the celebrated sides STOVES and For economy in Fuel, Good Cooking, Durability and all Desirable Features, Westwood Stoves and Ranges, EXCEL ALL OTHERS. GEO. E. TURNE He also carries a large stock of Stoves of other makes, beSTEEL RANGES AND HEATING STOVES Of various patterns.and sizes, from the CHEAPEST TO THE MOST EXPENSIVE. Handsome Lamps Of All Kinds and at Beautiful China and Glassware. Everything In The Line of Hardware and Tinware Agent for the BEST CUTTLERY IN THE UNITED STATES. GEO. E. TURNER, Pine Street. RANGES. IS SOLE AGENT For Nevada City. Way-Down Prices. We mM. L. & DEIMARSH. OFFICE AND YARD, Boulder Street, Nevada City. Call on us before GRIZZLY RIDGE MINES, An Encouraging Outlook For That Yery Promising Quartz Section. Grizzly Ridge district on the Middle Yuba above Columbia Hill is gradually coming to the front, and when sufficient capital goes in there to properly open up the country it will doubtless sections of the county. Phil Curnow continues the work of developing his claim, and he has some excellent ore, J.A. Jones, who is just south of Mr, Curnow, has his shaft down a good distance and is now preparing to continue sinking with a horse whiin. By extending their tannel the Grizzly Ridge Company have’ encountered a new ledge coming in from the footwall and now have the union of three veins. A fourth will come in further under the hill. The Company has reached with its tunnel a vertical depth of 300 feet. The Delhi Company’s twenty-stamp mill which was shut down for a few days on account of the water freezing is now running steadily again. The mine continues to show up well. At the Goleonda Helm, Hothersall & Co. have recently sunk sixty feet and run sixty feet of drifts. The upraise from tunnel No. 8 to tunnel No. 2 of the Live Oak is just completed. Some good ore is being taken from the ledge which is three to four feet thick. Poorman & Hastings now have a créw of men working the bed of the Middle Yuba river opposite the Delhi. a Wild Roses Decorated on SemiPorcelain. Sugar and Cream Sets, Tea and Coffee Cups, Oat Meal and Oyster Bowls. Given away free with AMERICAN’S BEST TEAS, COFFEES, SPICES Great American Importing. Tea Co, COMMERCIAL ST.. Nevada City MONEY SAVING STORE. We also sell China, Crockery, Glassware, Cheapest Prices in America. Write for Catalogue. How Natural a! ioe It is for nearly everybody to admire fine pictures of every kind, and. especially is this true of the photographs taken by Whose work is of M O O R E the finest quality, >“ 9 and up to date. Studio on York Street. prove one of the best quartz mining thet oliday trade. Call and See Them. Remember that you will find one of the best Holiday Stocks in the county at Luetje & Brand’s, and they are always pleased to show their goods whether you wisH to purchase or not. —~+ 0 eo Holiday Specialties at Tam’s. Tam, the pioneer restaurateur and confectioner on Piue street, is better prepared this year than ever before for He is Nevada City’s agent for the celebrated Berswick Bay oysters—the best in the market—which he sells at 50 cents the large can. He also has on sale a fine assortment of “penny goods” candies for the Christmas trade. d-20tf. Homann’s 25 cent fruit cakes sell fine. eee Fine Opal Rings. Luetje & Brand have received. some of the finest Opal Rings that ever came to town. Just take a look at them in the window. ; tf eee In Various Colors. Everybody needs a fine Umbrella and we have them in different colors with the Latest Handles: Call and see them at Luetje & Brand’s. distr Opera Glasses Are uscful and make excellent presents for the ladies. We have a fine assortment. [tf] Lurtyse & Brann. HOLIDAY GROCERIES. NONE TUO SOON to think of Holiday Groceries. The good house-keeper is already figuring on the pies and cakes and other goods to be prepared for the feast and perhaps has in mind the filling of a basket for some neighbor. Cases of all sorts of delicacies are arriving here daily. Also large quantites of the staple articles which we carry at all times and sell at prices which are low for the value given. We will appreciate your holiday orders. P. G. SCADDEN, Commercial St. F loor Director 2 = W. G. RICHARDS, J. V. SNYDER, D. D. MUER, J. H. ROGERS, CO. E. TEGLER, NEW YEAR BALL GIVEN BY Laurel Parlor, N. D. G. W., AT ARMORY HALL: Monday Evening, Jan. 2, 1899. —<-000000-—— Herman W. Brand. ———000000——— FLOOR COMMITTEE. A. HARTUNG, E. B. POWER, GEO. F. ADAIR, G. W. DUNSTER, Jr. E, A. MOORE, FRED E. BROWN. Admission, per couple, $1 50. Ladies 25 Cents. Gallery, Gentlemen 50 Cents, Ladies 25 Cents. STYLES CHANGE IN PRINTING Pri judges going elsewhere. ; . When You Buy Job Printing You naturally want to get the best for your money, The quality of Paper, Type and Ink all eut a tigure in determining the merit of the production. only the best of these. But no matter how superior they may be, atill the Printing may prove inferior if proper regard is not paid to the Composition and the Presswork. We claim to excel in these respects also. We use The same as in clothing, and the Tansckipr keeps up with the decrees of Dame Fashion iu the Art Preservative. We have the newest and most complete Job. 1 in the county, and we have the petent pttths work ¥ are now turning out to be the best. best of workmen. Con: Our Prices Are Fully as Low as Anybody’s. See our work and get our figures. They will satisfy you. . ¢ BROWN & CALKINS, Job Printers, Commercial street, NEVADA CITY, CAL,

NORD iad 33 88539 Mi BP ZF ited j before nhuary at the applil com. z, Ne. th apiS, Dols, THAT of th ion of which al in f NeY the , that 1ands ublic trucewer f the t the pubCity pubt on vote: ctor , ard. yem, tees ess, rks, eeton ess per t of in h at omhall ary; for lent y of eSSing cy t THE TRANSCRIPT. Hi Gree aS _ 38TH YEAR—No, a # 1794 any yor LROWN & CALKINS, : Proprietors. _ By Carrier 121-2 Cts. a Week, "ADVERTISING RATES,” ‘Cor. Sutter and Montgomery. Sts., Is. the only one that should receive recognition. A’pair of Shoes or Slippers from the many handsome. shapes in our stock make a really worthy present. The ‘Fecipient will derive lasting pleasure and satisfaction from such a gift, and YOUR MONEY © will be well expended. Can’t do better than surreund the feet in your own or some one else’s stockings with a pair of these Shoes. We have Fine Footwear for Men, Women and Children. Bovey Bros. Broad Street, Nevada City. 7 m) J] Diy WAZ SUAS = Geo. Richardson, UNDERTAKER AND 2 & EMBALMER. lors, Broad Sreet, opposite City Hall. Residence Spring street, three doors oe Nevada Foundry. Strict attention to all “ga mre noted or night. Lady attendant.. “LICK HOUSE,Telephone, West 5. Center of Business District, SAN FRANCISCO, CAL, ‘ G. W. KINGSBURY, Manager. *y —ae Special Accommodations For Traveling Men. HEADQUARTERS FOR MINING MEN. Convenient to All Car Lines. Modern Hotel Newly Fitted Throughout. d improvements are being made in ante ane ulnk bowed: and when completed the Lick will be second to no houseon the Pacific Coast. . nil THE “POPULAR” BAKERY In the Transcript Block, on Commercial street, is now BETTER PREPARED THAN EVER To serve the public with First-class Bread, Pies and Cakes, FANCY PASTRY OF ALL KINDS TO ORDE! Wedding Cakesa Speclalty. @@-Fresh Compressed Yeast Cakes Cor. stantly on hand. Chas, B. Tegler, Prop't TELEPHONE 37. A. JISOARD & SON Wholesale and Retail Dealers in ° Wines and Liquors OF ALL KINDS. Z Sole Agents for the Celebrate: Enterprise Beer, the best in the market. Sold i: blag age mag ed half pints and kegs. Also on sale Enterprise Bock Beer. Wine for family and medic A nce ial selection of Fine, Win. nal par, 3. for family use. Gen rted Swiss, Limburger and . Bosectors apres the finest ever brongiit President Kellogg Points Out Difficulties _ Of the Present System. . For anyone who wants a history of the University of California during the past tw8 years, the biennial report of the president will be most opportune. The-book is just. from the University Press and is a resume of the work of the past twenty-four months. It is distributed to those who ask for it. It contains the report of President Kellogg and subsidiary reports. Altogether the work isa valuable one and is worth the sending for. One interesting ‘matter of note is the statement of the president in regard to the present system of accrediting schools and its deficiencies: He states that the humber of schools has gradually increased, but the funds given from the State have not been sufficient todo the work properly. ‘The work is far too important to be given up,” he says. “But if it is to be continued, and is to meet the increasing demands of the schools, it ought to be more thoroughly provided for. Objections have been methods of carrying it out. We see just where the chief trouble lies; viz, in.insufficient appropriation for the work.. Our examiners must travel from one end of the State to another, and visit about a hundred schools, Ifthe five or six examiners should each spend a day or two with each school the midway in their travels. Moreover, if at this slow rate they completed their rounds, they would be gone so long from their classes as to necessitate the employment of substitutes at home. As it is, they snatch bits of time for a given section of the State, and the examining is partly deferred till the long summer vacation—too late for the best good of the schools. The faculty earn-estly recommend the appointment of a commission of experts from their number, who for a given year should go over the whole State, leisurely enough to become acquainted with the organization and inner spirit of the schools. ‘Their absence from the University will necessitate the employment of temporary substitutes. Three places, at least, would have to be supplied for half of the year. This ideal plan it is simply impossible to carry out with an appropriation of $1,500, though the railways should continue their generous help of: reduced fares. “More money is therefore a pressing need. We cannot ask the schools to pay the expenses of visiting them, when there is one chancé: in three that the verdict of the eXatminers will be adACCREDITING HIGH SCHOOLS, raised, not, to our.system, but to our, fands at their disposal would give out. verse; and it would,. really or suppendence of the examitiérs. We hesttate to ask a special appropriation from the Legislature, although this expenditure is chiefly for the benefit the State’school system, . There is n that the situation be fully canvassed, and that. we.all come. to see the. absolute necessity of larger means for this nost important work. — ; 4 stay in each section of the State, it would be possible for them to give short courses of extension ” lectures, and thus respond to calls which they are. now unable to. meet. It would seem that the special province of the Uuiversity, in contributing to the gencral culture demands of the people of the State, is tomake use of the lines of influence opened to us through the schools. It is a pity to neglect these many open doors for the sake of saving .a very small sum of money.” A Brasilian Indian Story. Here is'a Brazilian Indian story, says the New York Times. The jaguar and . the monkey met. ‘The jaguar had a lus, cious bunch of plantains which the monkey craved. ‘‘I will gladly give you the plantains,’’ said the jaguar, ‘‘pro. @iding you catch a fawn for me.” . ‘*Agreed,’’ cried the monkey. ‘‘But,’’ . added the jaguar, ‘if yon don’t get the . fawn you must promise to let me bite a mouthful out of you.’’ ‘*Agreed,’’ once more cried the gleeful monkey. The monkey ate the plantains, and the little matter about the fawn quite slipped his memory. . Then one day the jaguar met the monkey and insisted on taking his pay out of the monkey’s hide. Thé business, becoming serious, was left to the peccari to decide. ‘‘It seems all right enough,’’ said the peccari, ‘‘only this: How am I to determine what is the exact size of a jaguar’s mouthful and alse where is he to bite? He had better refer the matter to the big snake.” The big snake took the subject under consideration: His judgment was that he would have to swallow the jaguar, the monkey and the peccari. The jaguar and peccari he did at once assimilate, but the monkey, being nimble, escaped. Ways and Means. Home Seeker (inspecting a flat)— How in the world are people to live in such little cubby holes as these? * Agent—Easy enough, mum. All you need is folding beds and camp chairs and self doubling up tables and a few things like that. in these rooms myself.” afflicted, mum. You should take antifat.’’—New York Weekly. —t2 e+ —— Homann does his own baking. 4d5-tf © FOR THE Heintz’s Catsup, eeoeooees: G0:00000000008000 A. B. WOLF © Has a Special iitne of © FANCY: GROCERIES Of All Kinds, HOLIDAY TRADE. Choice Canned Goods, Fancy Crackers in Cartoons, First-Class Mince Meat, Ripe and Green Olives, Fancy Cheese, Etc. — AT LOWEST PRICES. QOGOOQOOOGOOOOO®) © QOOOOOOO In Bulk or Packages. ©O0O660000 © 2 Special Goods 4 PPPS PPPH FOR THE HOLIDAYS. JAPANESE Goys of all Kinds. Our HANDKERCHIEFS are unexcelled for BEAUTY AND PRIOR. PERFUMERY, KID GLOVES, — PURSRS, Work Baskets, Games, GooDs, ETc. here. Particular attention paid to’ family orders, ii % WM. H. CRAWEORD, Main Street,j,Nevada City. “*T see, mum. It’s too bad to be so}: WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 28, 1808. ~~ EST. IN 1860 BY N. P. BROWN & CO, A AME i

Wherever it is impossible to get ater for placer minitig, and the conditions are such. that a “dty washer” can be used, such apparatus is omployed, The Mining “and Scientific Press says that this devise is based apon the same principle'as the “farmer’s mill,” which separates the grain from the chaff, with such changes as are reqaired by the differénce in’ the material to be handled. Many “different styles of dry washers are in usé in desert mining regions: One general desuription fits them all, ‘since: their difference consists merely in peculiarities of adjusting their several constituent parts, as the angle of the apron, mesh of the-screen, height and number of riffles, etc. A dry washer consists of a strong wooden frame, to the bottom.of which is attached a’ bellows, ered, across which the riffles are nailed. Above the riffle board is the apron, and above it the screen. A simple crank and gear sets the bellows in .motion, and, by percussion, gives a shaking movement to the apron, While one man is turning the crank, another shovels the pay dirt onto the screen, through which it falls on the apron and from it on the riffle board. The intermittent blast blows thé light /particles of dust and sand away, while the heavier ones, and with them the gold, are caught by the riffies. After a number of shovelfulls of dirt (from 50 to 100) have been run through the machine, the rifle board is taken’ out by hand, and the rest is dumped on a sheet of canvas, to be once nicre run through the machine at the close of day, or wher a sufficient quantity of the concentrated pay dirt has been collected. Such a method entails loss; still it has been demonstrated:that experienced men can save, under certain circumistances, up to 85 per cent of the gold contained in the material worked. Homann’s business is daily. increasing d5-tf the top of which forms the riffle board, ' consisting of wire netting canvas. cov-! Clothespins. ' Clothespirs are an American commodity. Some clothespins are made in Sweden and in Scotland, but they are ‘hig und clumsy, twice the size of the American pins and whittled out by band. Olothespins are made chiefly of beech and of maple, but some are made of tupelo wood. They are made entirely by machinery, counted into boxes containing 720 eack by machinery, and the boxes are nailed up by machinery. It might almost be said that blocks. of wood fed to machines at one end come out boxed clothespins at the other. They are made and sold wonderfully cheap. There are two grades of clotbespins, firsts and seconds. First grade pins can be bought for 85 cents a box. The pro duction of clothespins is enormons, millions of boxes annually. The consumption in this country keeps pace with the growth of the population, and great numbers are exported. Even pecple in the trade wonder what becomes of all the clothespins. : What Bothered Him. “When I wasa young man,’ says a well known civil engineer, ‘‘I was sur veying the route of a proposed railway An old farmer with whom I stopped for a time admitted ohe day, when he saw me figuring in the field, that mathematics always seemed a wonderful thing to him. Being young and enthusiastic, 1 began to enlarge its wonders, telling him how we could measure the distances to different planets, and even weigh them; how we could ascertain the height of mountains without scaling them and many other things which I meant should astonish him. **You can imagine how he set me back when he replied to this brilliant array of facts by saying: ‘Yes, yes, them things does seem kinder cur‘us, but what allus bothered me was to understand why yon have to carry one fur ev’ry ten, but if you'don’t the durned thing won’t come out right.’’* 2 ‘Prices to Suit. White Silk Initial Handkerchiefs, from 25 cents up to $1.50 each, at Carter & Johnston’s. ven tf pene QA iene stl At Bedrock Prices. We have a choice lot of very FINE Diamonds which we are selling at a very low figure. If you want one it will pay you to see our prices. di5-:f Luetse & Branp: WOODPECKER CIA Jor the. Holidays. Che best present for your gentlemen friend. Wade by “Sitt’’Y. S. of Wa. the celebrated sides STOVES and For economy in Fuel, Good Cooking, Durability and all Desirable Features, Westwood Stoves and Ranges, EXCEL ALL OTHERS. GEO. E. TURNE He also carries a large stock of Stoves of other makes, beSTEEL RANGES AND HEATING STOVES Of various patterns.and sizes, from the CHEAPEST TO THE MOST EXPENSIVE. Handsome Lamps Of All Kinds and at Beautiful China and Glassware. Everything In The Line of Hardware and Tinware Agent for the BEST CUTTLERY IN THE UNITED STATES. GEO. E. TURNER, Pine Street. RANGES. IS SOLE AGENT For Nevada City. Way-Down Prices. We mM. L. & DEIMARSH. OFFICE AND YARD, Boulder Street, Nevada City. Call on us before GRIZZLY RIDGE MINES, An Encouraging Outlook For That Yery Promising Quartz Section. Grizzly Ridge district on the Middle Yuba above Columbia Hill is gradually coming to the front, and when sufficient capital goes in there to properly open up the country it will doubtless sections of the county. Phil Curnow continues the work of developing his claim, and he has some excellent ore, J.A. Jones, who is just south of Mr, Curnow, has his shaft down a good distance and is now preparing to continue sinking with a horse whiin. By extending their tannel the Grizzly Ridge Company have’ encountered a new ledge coming in from the footwall and now have the union of three veins. A fourth will come in further under the hill. The Company has reached with its tunnel a vertical depth of 300 feet. The Delhi Company’s twenty-stamp mill which was shut down for a few days on account of the water freezing is now running steadily again. The mine continues to show up well. At the Goleonda Helm, Hothersall & Co. have recently sunk sixty feet and run sixty feet of drifts. The upraise from tunnel No. 8 to tunnel No. 2 of the Live Oak is just completed. Some good ore is being taken from the ledge which is three to four feet thick. Poorman & Hastings now have a créw of men working the bed of the Middle Yuba river opposite the Delhi. a Wild Roses Decorated on SemiPorcelain. Sugar and Cream Sets, Tea and Coffee Cups, Oat Meal and Oyster Bowls. Given away free with AMERICAN’S BEST TEAS, COFFEES, SPICES Great American Importing. Tea Co, COMMERCIAL ST.... Nevada City MONEY SAVING STORE. We also sell China, Crockery, Glassware, Cheapest Prices in America. Write for Catalogue. How Natural a! ioe It is for nearly everybody to admire fine pictures of every kind, and. especially is this true of the photographs taken by Whose work is of M O O R E the finest quality, >“ 9 and up to date. Studio on York Street. prove one of the best quartz mining thet oliday trade. Call and See Them. Remember that you will find one of the best Holiday Stocks in the county at Luetje & Brand’s, and they are always pleased to show their goods whether you wisH to purchase or not. —~+ 0 eo Holiday Specialties at Tam’s. Tam, the pioneer restaurateur and confectioner on Piue street, is better prepared this year than ever before for He is Nevada City’s agent for the celebrated Berswick Bay oysters—the best in the market—which he sells at 50 cents the large can. He also has on sale a fine assortment of “penny goods” candies for the Christmas trade. d-20tf. Homann’s 25 cent fruit cakes sell fine. eee Fine Opal Rings. Luetje & Brand have received. some of the finest Opal Rings that ever came to town. Just take a look at them in the window. ; tf eee In Various Colors. Everybody needs a fine Umbrella and we have them in different colors with the Latest Handles: Call and see them at Luetje & Brand’s. distr Opera Glasses Are uscful and make excellent presents for the ladies. We have a fine assortment. [tf] Lurtyse & Brann. HOLIDAY GROCERIES. NONE TUO SOON to think of Holiday Groceries. The good house-keeper is already figuring on the pies and cakes and other goods to be prepared for the feast and perhaps has in mind the filling of a basket for some neighbor. Cases of all sorts of delicacies are arriving here daily. Also large quantites of the staple articles which we carry at all times and sell at prices which are low for the value given. We will appreciate your holiday orders. P. G. SCADDEN, Commercial St. F loor Director 2 = W. G. RICHARDS, J. V. SNYDER, D. D. MUER, J. H. ROGERS, CO. E. TEGLER, NEW YEAR BALL GIVEN BY Laurel Parlor, N. D. G. W., AT ARMORY HALL: Monday Evening, Jan. 2, 1899. —<-000000-—— Herman W. Brand. ———000000——— FLOOR COMMITTEE. A. HARTUNG, E. B. POWER, GEO. F. ADAIR, G. W. DUNSTER, Jr. E, A. MOORE, FRED E. BROWN. Admission, per couple, $1 50. Ladies 25 Cents. Gallery, Gentlemen 50 Cents, Ladies 25 Cents. STYLES CHANGE IN PRINTING Pri judges going elsewhere. ; . When You Buy Job Printing You naturally want to get the best for your money, The quality of Paper, Type and Ink all eut a tigure in determining the merit of the production. only the best of these. But no matter how superior they may be, atill the Printing may prove inferior if proper regard is not paid to the Composition and the Presswork. We claim to excel in these respects also. We use The same as in clothing, and the Tansckipr keeps up with the decrees of Dame Fashion iu the Art Preservative. We have the newest and most complete Job. 1 in the county, and we have the petent pttths work ¥ are now turning out to be the best. best of workmen. Con: Our Prices Are Fully as Low as Anybody’s. See our work and get our figures. They will satisfy you. . ¢ BROWN & CALKINS, Job Printers, Commercial street, NEVADA CITY, CAL,