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petition with that from otlier sources, and 

 ■while, at the beginning of 1874 the price 

 of refined borax in the English market 

 •was £100 per ton, it can at the present 

 time bo bought for £56. The pottery dis- 

 tricts, -where large quantities of borax are 

 consumed, are perhaps the chief gainers 

 on this side the Atlantic by the discovery 

 adverted to. — Br. Jorcrnal. 



Fine Feuit. — We were shown this week 

 some of the finest specimens of lemons and 

 oranges that we have ever seen in the State. 

 They were raised by H. M. White, on Upper 

 Tule river, in this county. The lemon meas- 

 ured twelve inches around one way and nine 

 the other, and the oranges ten inches in cir- 

 cumference, and were fine, rich-looking. The 

 trees are twelve years old, and yielded over 

 500 to the tree this year. No doubt Tulare 

 county will become famous for its flue produc- 

 tions of fruit. All that is required is an ef- 

 fort. — Tulare Titncs. 



The Foot and Mouth Disease Among 

 Animals in Dorsetshire, England. — A tele- 

 gram of date London, August 21 says : The 

 foot and mouth disease has broken out with 

 great violence in Dorsetshire, where twelve 

 thousand animals are down with it. The 

 distemper is spreading rapidly. 



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Young wife (to George, who arrived home 

 in the small hours of the morning) — "We 

 are one, dear, now that we're married, are we 

 not?" George — "certainly, my darling, why?" 

 Young Mafe — "Oh, I only wanted to know; 

 because, if wo are, I must have been dread- 

 fully inebriated last night. ' ' 



Harry, after looking on while his new little 

 sister cried at being washed and dressed the 

 other day, turned away, saying, ' ' If she 

 screamed like that in heaven, I don't wonder 

 they sent her off." 



Said a colored Georgia preacher: "Dar's 

 robbin' and stealin' everywhere. Dar's de 

 Beeoher business, de WoodhuU business, 

 Sumner is dead, tornadoes come whoopin' 

 around, de Freedman's band has busted, and 

 it 'pears as if do end was nigh, mighty clus 

 at haud !" . 



One of the cardinal principles of the 

 Grange is to buy nothing you don't want, 

 and nothing you can't pay for. No m.in al- 

 ways living up to this principle over died in 

 the poorhouse. 



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Thare is advice enuff now layin' around 

 loose to ruin just three such worlds az this. 

 What we are sutferiug most for iz sum good 

 examples. — Josk BUlings. 



"My lecture," said a California orator, 

 " will be brief." A turnip hit him at that 

 instant, and ho announced; "The meeting 

 stands adjourned." 



It is said Egyjjt is the home of the fragrant 

 onion. There is this about the onion — you 

 can always tell where it is. 



A LAZY school-boy, who spelled Andrew 

 Jackson " iVru Jaxcin," has been equalh^d by 

 a student who marked the first, of a half-doz- 

 en shirts John Johnson, and the rest "do." 



f^ The California Glove Manufactory is 

 now located opposite the Auzerais House, 

 Santa Clara Street, San Jose. The jiroprie- 

 tor does good honest work, on good material, 

 and sells at prices to suit. Do not confound 

 this with Lions establishment, but examine 

 the work and prii^es ami you will Cud every- 

 thing to be as represented. 



SAN JOSE INSTITUTE AND BUSINESS 

 COLLEGE. 



A Day 



and Boarding School for 

 Both Sexes. 



I desire to call spedial attention to this 

 School. Education is none the less thorough 

 because practical. Knowledge is not super- 

 ficial because its theories find illustration in 

 the work of every day life. The mineralogy 

 of mining, the chemistry of agriculture, and 

 the finance of business are as hkely to go to 

 the depths of their resijective subjects as when 

 taught merely as theories with no respect to 

 their practical application. 



Gradually the Institute is raising its educa- 

 tional standard and inqiroving its facilities to 

 teach, confidently expecting that, with the 

 increased capacity for usefulness, will come a 

 corre si^ouding increase of patronage. 



Students desiring board will find com- 

 fortable rooms and, as we shall endeavor to 

 make it, a pleasant home, in the Institute 

 buildings. 



Isaac Kinley, 

 Sup't. San Jose Institute, 



13?° Any family within reach of San Joso 

 should bring their pictures to be framed to 

 Geo. S. Holmes, 43b First Street. Low rents, 

 large purchases for cash, and the best facili- 

 ties for mounting and framing, together with 

 a disposition to suit everybody, gives him 

 such a rush of custom that his prices are 

 astonishingly low. Don't fail to call at his 

 store and see for yourself. 



Cy We have just received from Sherman 

 & Hyde, music pubUshers of San Francisco, 

 two beautiful songs, entitled " Is my Darling 

 true to me ?" and " Would you answer yes 

 or no ?" both composed by Chas. E. Pratt, 

 Conductor of the De Murska Concert troupe, 

 and dedicated to Alice Dunning Liugard and 

 Dickie Lingard, respectively. These songs 

 bid fair to become immensely pojiular, as 

 their sale has already reached several thou- 

 sand. So say the publishers, who are receiv- 

 ing large orders from the East. Copies will 

 be sent by mail, post-paid, to any address by 

 the above firm, upon receipt of the 

 marked price (35 cents each) in currency or 

 postage stamps. 



It is not until we have passed throiigh the 

 furnace that we are made to know how much 

 dross was in our composition. 



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The two large tin and stove stores in San 

 Jose, carried on by C. E. Campbell and Milton 

 Campbell, have been combined under the 

 proprietorship of C. E. Campbell. The 

 fine large store under the Odd Fellows Uall 

 now occupied by him, is proliably the most 

 complete store of the kind on this Coast. 

 Give them a call. 



The Alden Fruit Drying Factory will make 

 a run on grapes this season, Mr. C. T. Set- 

 tle, the Superintendent, says he knows that 

 he can make superior raisins. We shall take 

 pains to investigate the matter and rei)ort 

 what we think about it, whether favorable or 

 otherwise. 



IO. O. T.— OUANUER LODGE, No. 2'.'5, mcots 

 • <'vt;aj' MONIJAV *;vi-'iiiug, jit 8 o'ciook, in tlu'ir 

 Hull, No 2K1 Siiiita Olnra Ktrcut, uvur tlui S.J. Siivln«K 

 Jtjiiik. MriiibcrH of Bistor LotlycH iliitl sojouruiut; 

 iiieiitboi-B iu {i;oiMl BtiiiuLiiit; uro iuvitucl tu atteuU. 

 Juu.N li. BiiiVEMa, W. bec'y. 



Every Intelligent Farmer knows that 

 neither boys nor hired men are always to 

 be relied upon, in his abseuco from Lome, 

 for watering stock. 



Every Stock Raiser will admit that a 

 constant supply of water kce^is his stock 

 in an easy and contented condition, and 

 they will consequently fatten faster. By 

 the use of the ECLIPSE SELF-GOV- 

 EKNING WIND-MILLS water can be 

 abundantly furnished at any desired 

 place. 



By making a tank IC ft. long, 8 ft. 'wide 

 and 2 ft. deep, you Lave a reservoir of 

 nearly GO barrels of water, which the 

 ECLIPSE MILL will keep filled, for 

 occasional calms. 



We do not build the ECLIPSE for a 

 cheap mill. We make it for service, and 

 our castings alone weigh 107 lbs. more 

 than those of other mills. Our wood- 

 work is too well known for comment, as 

 all acknowledge our wide, heavy fans su- 

 perior to the thin, narrow slats. 



Having over 3,000 mills in Buocessful 

 operation, a purchaser knows just what 

 he is buying. 



Should you desire a windmill for any 

 purpose, or pumps, address Charles P. 

 Hoag, 118 Beale St. San Francisco, Cal,, 

 for descriptive circulars. 



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A^jriculturist and Live Stock Journal, 



SAN JOSE, CAL. 



