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January 2, 1900 (4 pages)

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39T= BA :AR—NO _ te THE AF RANSORIPT. BROYA. —-.nil¥S, : Proprietors, mesa SUBSCRIPTION RATES. bil, $6 a Year. mBy Carrier, 12 1-2 Cts a Week. ADVERTISING RATES : Made = on application. _ A Cs Naeeer cy Marvel. . a . A nineteen’ -year old lad of [New Gaven ed Artha! ‘r F. Griffith was examinJast wee “by, some. professors of ematics @24 he amazed them. . rhat is. thi cube’ root. of 1,867,681?” aked suddg2ly: pot 1.807, 0517” retorted a “Why, that’s 111.” be complicated opera= eg ed. what 8584 times ve the answer ina twink“reo Yale professors tried him in ‘addition, substraction, tnultiplication ‘and division, fractions, factoring _ and ‘.decitnals. He could do all their probMlems in a second without pencil or ypaper. He multiplied six numbers by ‘five numbers and gave the . answer corhrectly in a jiffy. He could add three . Lecolumns of ‘any length at the same ‘time, and subtract long numbers with ‘consummate ease. The mathematicians ‘and psychologists present pronounced Fthe youth the greatest arithmetical . ” wonder of the country. . The Live . Hill for many years, says the.A . pretty e nly alth ae 7 OR ae an ccemrae Tamo nese mere kee Pome wh T STRBOTING ‘POINT ‘Southern. horn. Torminus., of the Narrow: Gauge; Raliroad, . Dolfax by reason: of its. location has been a distribut ing p at to Grass Valley, Nevada City end jowa Lf %y a Herald, The completion of. the 0 and Forest Hill toll road in the eighties opened another avenue, freighting. Fora nambei iy . for ore ming persnaded that. its: reduction. of rates in favor of Colfax was a disgriminati against.Auburn,’.pat the rate to tbe former place back to the .old figure. . Since. then the two oa shared years greater part of thé freight for, the est Hill divide was hauled from C ) but the railroad com _heoo! ome figh! has had a larger share. The business . of the company this ee On larger than.ever and Colfaxhas also enjoyed an increase. For the eleye én . months of the. present year ending’ vember 80th, 2146 carloads ,of ba L pees Colfax . 1¢ 9 most of it pe At:Boca gran i egin raroff been:. the snow Saturday: and ning be ice Sunday . um the re ge fair,” They: Have t twelve 6-}Ynoh'ive there.. . None of the ponds. ai ‘the. viver were . .pu: have been. received, and 377,carloads bave been sent, out. The number of carloads for, Decem-. © ber compares fairly well with that of, the ‘other months.Ten men on an. average . have been employed during: the season. 2@e-+Hood’s Pills are the tavteibe family. thartie. 2 . FOR_A_ QUARTER OF_A CENTURY.. The peanlact > Neyada county have pecognised the store of Brand, the Pioneer aqverre elér, as. the ay Goods. choice Hol showing of Diamonds set rnd unset. Quartz Jewelry of our own make, ‘Everything in Jewelry gold and plated. Silverware—useful and ornamental, ean eS ENGRAVING. FREE._ GF We fill country mail orders and guarantee satisfaction. ———— headquarters of all the headquarters. for year we euxpane all past récords im our h . J. BRAND MANUFACTURING JEWELER ikapdows Ww. 14, ‘BROAD st. MAYAES: CITY. hae tags ot pine Batarday. They all did some ne Mountain ous last weak and Donner Iog Sper sont ott « big! crew to scrape snow from the pond . Saturday. . P. Henry had stored about 1000 tons; on his Jower pond hen athe, stogm,be. , gen. He is now walling for the weather to change. Ball Player Perrow Killed. ‘Ed, Pertow, the well known baseball . pitcher who was born on the Comstock. . _. and resided, ther Mil .two years ager} and was for awhile year before, last). pitcher for the Adin of Grass Valley, was killed Friday in the-Parrot+mine at Butte City, ‘Montana. Virginia Gity Obronicle says: leaving ‘here he went to Arizona where The “\ he was employed in the copper mine at Bisbee and whilathere-married adangb= ter of. ‘Maledon. of this tity. He he employed in -themine in which he was killed-in Butte several ménths, Besides a widow, he leaves a father and brother, both of the latter residing at Bisbee, Arizona.. He ‘wee! about 88 years of age. belo vas peleons before the ublic Its sales hare ublig, many ihe for its t _ been falthtolly meinalned ve ~~ It Is: DifferentFrom any other you aed used. It is 4% neither green nor black—simply a naore Test: O of the. pein leaf that draws a canary color, eet and of a se fragrance. It nds eayely well ‘Teapot And the “Ice Pitcher. It was to meet the demand. for. an Moderate Price. GAYLORD & SON, Sole Agent for Nevada City. : Bah. the, subu EON. the openi é FAMILY ‘CRESTS. i ae Strange Symbots Adoptea by Families in This, untry and i he Bigniavance. ; 4 m, A Philadephia family of Huguenot descent preserve a curious story, of one of their ancestors. During the persecution of the French Huguenots, 12-0f theleading.citizens ofadisaffected town were-forced into a small prick house re pia walled up, oners were, ett starve. ; After three weeks a body of Hugue-not soldiers gaptured the town, and the walls) of this prison. “were torn dawn: . . Inside they found 11 dead bodies and rone living man. . When asked how he.had survived, he showed a smail.hoJe in the foundation of the buildingy, pear, which he lay; . . Every day a hen had “crept into this hole and there laidvan egg. , The eggs, and, the, air thus,admitted,, had kept) him alive. His descendants have taken for a crest a brooding hen. . . Another family: in the same city have adopted for their symbol. the.figure ofa, —} eat-holding s.rabbit.in its mouth, One_ of their. ancestors, a ‘widow living ina cave on the banks of the Delawdre with. other early settlets of Philadelphia, was . reduced to starvation by a long, hard winter, She knelt.and prayed for food for her children, and soon after-hericat . . brought in a rabbit which it had killed, Another American family have taken the india-rubber tree as. their crest, they. being the descendants ofthe man .who was eminent among thewmen. who . haye made its sap one of thé most useful . servants of mankind. Henry M. Stanley is said to have adopted a map of Africa as his. crest, There can -be-no objection to the use which recalls some striking instance-of Divine merey,to their, ancestons, » or some great achievement by one of their ancestors for the benefit. of their fellowmen; but for an American, family whose progenitors. have-been simply worthy traders or: méchanies, to borrow or steal the crests of old, noble European . houses.is not only an ethical offense— +it ig an. inexcusable blunder.—Youth’s Companion. Catarch, Canmot-he. Cured, ;.. with LooaL APPLICATIONS, as they canae the seat of the disease. lly, a ik directly ae mn and —— sur‘aces: ‘s tarrh . ‘ Sneed ne. ‘It was. spreonibed 3 by) teed Loa wl cating ‘directly on the mucons surfaces, The serie combination of ee ee angen heater vet such wond FSettgontas, tres in. oe toled ee ) a for pet ea the book. . WO; aed ee ‘Te"inid 9 4 grand edifice “to J by. the,-buildi After . Me vi by any family of a sign, .or: symbol,;. , y », Me. pee oe i Moen of the Mor. oh. ae The Cathedral of the Incarnation at ‘City, L, L—A Grand > Rdifice and Its FenReo? Sei tures, b With. tthe recent: death: of . former Judge ‘Hepry Hilton. that’portion of so‘eiety which is interested.in. church Pecently had its attention reto a very dicturesque. stretch of n Hempstead Plains, L. 1. made tetirendtie through the erection of the e' memory of Alex. ander Turnér Stewart and-his wife, Cornelia M. Stewart, at Garden City, and of. the-schools at his “desire s expressed throughout the latter part of his. life, ,. 1: It had been. a ‘dream. early in A. T. . Stewart's “life .to erect a model city + where:he, could:doi good among poor ". people, and: when he commenced to accumulate his vast fortune. he: began to put his dreamsinto some.tangible shape. At the time of his death he had purShaped amore more than 8,000 acres of land trom the township of Hempstead at a walne estimateg at, from $5,000,000 to tant Episcopal church in the United States; had begun the erection of a handsome military school and girls’ seminary, and: negotiations were pend"ing for the putting up of several factories to supply a means of support to the residents of his ‘ideal city. Shortly after the death of-Mr. Stewart, in. 1876, some of these plans were changed, and instead of making this a Lbusy industrial city, as he bad wished, no factories.or manufacturing places of any description were allowed. on the estate, property was restricted and Garden City ‘became a residentia] town for society. ‘ St. Pawl’s-church:sehoo] was completed September: 14;,1880, arid opened with a large scholarship. Great: suecess was achieved, and a lieutenant was Lappointed, by°the United States governtics. sm The cathedral” is probably one of. the grandest. monuments that’ has been H erected, ito, the;memory of a man in private . life for: centuries. “It cost: more” than $2;500,000. The style of the building is gothic; the plan is cruciform,with a Bi le. tower oyer the front entrance. ‘The spizerig, 19% feet high, surmounted by a cross ten feet-high. This cross Lis-of glass and. fitted with gas burners to be lighted, although it is never used, One of the features of the cathedral is the set of centennial. chimes which oce athgt Ee penclraly ‘jn the belfry. Another: grand: piece of work is the m, At,the, time.it was built it was in several respects one of the most remarkable.in:the world; and at the present has but two or three rivals. P (Th a small octagonal-shaped room off the chancel stands the. baptismal font, which: ig without doubt-one of the richest: in the world,.The base and basin are of marble and the cover is of carved, rosewood, -Surmounting this is
“a crown, said to be of virgin gold, ang it is claimed that every precious stone méiitioped. in the Bible is represented in the settings of this crown. Directly, beneath the altar is the _crypt,.in.which rest.the bodies of Mr. and. Mrs, Stewart.. The crypt is of ocPad up with tained glass windows and theother four.being a marble fence with brassigates. In the center of the crypt stand& a large marble urn, bearing the memorial of Alexander T. Stewart and Cornelia M. Stewart, There has always been & great deal of donbt.expnressed: as:to whether the body of Alexander T, Stewart really a in the crypt, but.one who was near pos se officigt capacity one-night early "808 gives assurance that the vedy was transferred to Garden City fter its recovery and. now rests in the ald. : White Sheep: of Alaska. This rare, wild’ white sheep is found ‘gowhere in: the world but-Alaska, and few specimens for mounting whole have evér, been obtained.. This species,, named Ovis. dalli.by Prof. Dall, differs from its cousin, the Rocky mountain big horn (Ovis montana), in color, O. “montana-béing a:dull-brown in mid+summer, changing to a grayish drab in winter, with a light, ashy-colored patch over the rump all the year, while the Oo, idalli is. snow: white at all seasons--in fact, there is_not.a colored ‘hair on any part of his body. He is not quite so stockily built. as our “big érn,” yet more trim and shapely. the shoulder. His limbs are no? quite so heavy, and his horns willnot a. .everage as large at, the base, although iquité. as long, -The horns of my largest 8 of 1897 measured 41% inches length and 141, inches in circumfer¢nee'at the baer. -The flesh is the most Gelicious of all wild game. In the summer this sheep lives chiefly on the rich, succulent growth of the Asplenium sepyer grows in the crevices rock on the/sunny slopes of this “range. This beautiful animal ee cece nin, to survive . the eet, of. this Jernorth.—-Outing. SS to. cure foviating the or any ; planned and started to. builk Vthe firet cathedral in the Protes-" ment to teach military science and. tactagonal shape, four sides being taken . : place: built for it ice Times-Her. 8 o of: By specimens stood 42 inches . : : ee eee toe Errecr for the } e.” That is what the person does ;} ~ ABSURD ni ean Pagans They Show Belief in ie Gea Higher Power. ° , When Sir Charles, Napier had conquered. Mehemet Ali he fonnd it, im: possible to force or toax the wily Egyp inn into signing the treaty, which only . Wu. wold make his victory effective. He had 19 interviews with Mehemet, which. the ‘Englishman by turns argued; flattered and threatened hia “an the same immovable, smiling countenance. One day Sir Charles, in speaking ‘of England, said, casually. that it “was governed by a iucky woman.’ flash passed over the pasha’s countenance, but he made no answer. As soon as Napier was gone. Mehemet sent for the. English consul, who was an Egyptian, and demanded: lish queen ,was crowned. Were .the omens bad ‘Or good ?” “All good.” ~ *You think that good luck fs wHittes on her forehead?” “I did not think upon the diated believe that it isq: When she asked Allah to help her in her work her eyes ran over. Allah:loves the innocent.” anxiously. “She must~belucky.”: Early ‘the. next morning he-sent for lish power,and English cannon he could brave, but not “the luck” written upon the forehead of a good: woman whom he had never seen. Gen. Gordon’s remarkable influence due, it is stated, to their belief in his Ping rebellion he was followed by an army who did not comprehend either his ability or his religious zeal, but who. believed: that’ he was ‘protected by an invisible Being who led him to victory. kill. A certain black ebony cane which he carried was supposedté be the magic talisman: whieh brought him victory, ways to carry this’ cane. when he led them into battle, These superstitions seem absurd to us, but.they at least show that theignorant men who hold them believe in an invisible-Power who camgive good: or. ill fortune’ at.Hig will. Are they more foolish than the educated, busy man who recognizes no power,in life —Dondon Truth, Sick Headaches, are quickly and surely: cured by Katl’s Olover Root ‘ fier and tissue b ed. if not satisfactory.. Price 25 and 50 cts. 2 at Sopdden's. . tf gists, 25. v4 = be onist, who listened’ day after ap sesh a ’ Astrange . ct “You were in London when the Eng» fore, but now: that: you ask me,.I be. ’ Sir Charles and signed the treaty. Eng-. ° over the Chinese was in a large degree. extraordinary: luck. During the ;Tae. No sword\could-wound him nor bullet’ and Gen.Gordon was shrewd enough al-. stronger than his own. will and effort? ‘The curse of overworked ‘womankind thegreat blood : puri‘ilder. Money: wefeud: cts, For sale by H. Dickerman, 1 the druggist. tf The loveliest Seedless Raisins..ever brought to this market, are now, on sale, hi Sade. Pills.do net-nripe. All drag: ‘Although duteresine’ by Ignorant . ft ene On your Sewer Work if you want to have a first-class job and:save money: We sell Pipe at the lowest market prices, if you want todo your own work in’ makiug connections with the new city system. Or we will take contracts to furnish the pipe, put it down and make all connections. ‘We employ none but. first-class workmen. : ‘A —— Stoves _ . oO : George E. You may: need B new “heating or cooking stove. ~etook: is‘one of the largest In this: part of the State. ‘ave the ‘best makes sold anywhere, and the prices’ alco surprisingly moderate for such stoves. Pioneer Hardware Dealer. Our We He cll Turner, “No doubt of that,"-said. Mehemet, . Had.. NEVADA CITY. PEERED NEVADA: CITY, wvWAKL Jd. MORGAN BROWN & MORGAN, Real Estate and Insurance Agents, ? CALIFORNIA . Companies. Many Nevada Countvans ‘. $top at the Ocerdeniat Hotel Agents for Papi States Savings, Loan. and Building Co., of San Francisto, Cal Will do.a general Real Estate business. © Houses ' bought-and sold on commission, Honses rented and rents collected. Negotiations made for loans. Agents for'some ofthe best Fire and Life Insurance References— The business men of Nevada City. pi) When visiting San. Francisco The Glenbrook, we NY ¥ We have gathered for ‘the deapla a stock of Footwear which is not alone tina stylish but particularly / @demand for -Slippers, inise and small;.is anticipated, and ng is. ‘ready tosupply that; deRepairing promptly and neatly done at reasonable prices. Also Machines. Needles, Oil and parts for} pa makes of machines supplied ‘to order. BOVEY BROTHERS, Broad Street, Quarters.The office of the NEVADA _ ©O. ELECTRIC POWER * COMPANY is now at. the Gas Works on Coyote St. Electricity For lighting and. For. the Holiday.’ Requirements. for the Singer Sewing! q Ralph Maitland .. Choicest ot Wines, Liquors and Cigars. .. «Proprietor Givé me call. and.yon’ll never regret ;:) Pine Street, Nevada City. id aa 5 Cents. The Referee, te week M(KE WHEELINAN, Prop’r-. ‘ FINEST ; 3 : ‘Wines, Liquors and Cigars Astet forthe amous’ Ruhstaller Quit * Bdge Beer=: COMMERCIAL STREBT. The Best Liquors; The Best Cigars. . These are the attractions you can always find at “THE. COUNCIL CHAMBER.” Beer.5.Cents a Glass, an the favorite brands of Whiskies kept on sue as: “Kentucky ' Taylor,” “ “Thomas Taylor,’ “Oscar a Pepper,” Wim J. Britiand. GULL; EDGE \ SALOON, Coewee Broad and Pine streets. CHAS. McDEVITT, Prop. sort ‘ Successor to Lanmmon Bros, " Finest Wines;Liquorsand Cigars Constantly on hand. S1EAM BEBR-ON DRAUGHT 5. CTS. GEO. RICHARDSON, UNSEETARIT . EMBALMER. Bone age It’s Rightly Named —That’s what everybody in Nevada City says about the POPULAR BAKERY in the Transcript block on Commercial street. You can always depend upon it that the Bread, Pies, Cakes, Fancy Pastry, Plain Pastry, Htc., From this Bakery are all right in every respect. HEADQUARTERS FOR WEDDING CAKES. All orders: promptly filled aud delivered at your doors, \Howard Loveland, Telephoue West 8. NEW YORK HOTEL. BROAD ST., NEVADA CITY, MRS. W. S. RICHARDS, Proprietor UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT —A home-like up. ate house, situated in on of the pleasantest portions of the Queen C! Fifty Dice rooms; electric lights t roughout, THE TABLE is not surp din the oc for variety, cooking and serviee. Twith He Ab uy cee CLASS BAT. . cee pigar® ent Fancy Mixed Drinks @ specia Ratés moderate. Best.accommodations in the eounty for the money, FRANK’S PLACE FRED BILERMAN, Proprietor Broad Street, above Pine,: Nevada City. ENTERPRISE LAGER BEEP On draught. Best brands of Wines, Liquors and Cigars. PAY US A CALL. ¥ Nevada City Transfer Co. anny AND HAULING, ~ ttention to the transpor ¥ des deere moving: » Telephone : ° met