The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 28, 1895, Page 8

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, S DAY, APRIL 28, 1895. IpyLs oF T HE FIELDS. BY A NATURALIST AT LARGE. The bagpipers of Cress Creek gave a con- cert last night. The electric lights of the city down on the level were reflected upon the sky and senta pale reflex illumination down upon the bagpipers’ concert hall. The evening star lamped it radiantly, and the occa- sional hoarse biasts of the steam whistles ferries sounded up the heights issoon interjection through higher tones. Sometimes, auses of the chorus, I caught te notes of a thrush from the willows, trilling his evening song to his mate. There s conversation on the bal- vy, where the professor discussed the true basis of wealth, but upon all his wise observations the bagpipers kept up a con- tinuous vocal comment, for all the world like a Greek chorus. Who knows, indeed, but that this was thé original Greek chorus? Did not Aristophanes himself find these bagpipers most useful and inter- esting dramatis persone? ers are neither more nor less than a colony abode in the little pool into which Cress Creek widens just by the willow tree. Even now, though the sun is still sending his last red beams aslant across Tamalpais, - have begun their evening serenade. 1 can see them ranged around the edge of the pool, each one with his nose toward hore and each one puffing out a huge, bubble quite as latge as h bagpipe and which he is ife, anxious not to be out- y one of his brethren. an issue the exqui from small green pipers could find a comfortable seat upon a silver dime, but he can make such a din as migh anse the walls of Jericho to fall unple ) S iom unpleas- ant—but there are times when listening to it one feels that he is getting a great deal of pork for a shilling. Some one told me recently in perfect good faith that the frogs produced their veculiar, shrill music by rubbing their Liml feet together. Absurd as this theory sounds, T have found it to be a not uncom- mon misconception. It doubtless arises from a half knowledge regarding the com- mon house cricket, which produces his familiar shrilling through a peculiar rangement of his wings. The vocal. organ of the frog, bubble to which I have alluded. tached on the inner suri: and 1s distended with croaking. “The Dutch amphibious songster is called ab; the name is suggestive. But our frog isan interesting fellow aside from his curious bagpiping habit. To the olutionist he is of interest as illustrating in his small, squat person a whole series of evolutionary processes. What evolution has taken place through changing ag the upbuilding of our earth we may watch for ourselyes in the develop- ment of the froz. He begins life as a true fish, he intermediate stage of ex- istence as a newt, and becomes an air- thing land-dwelling creature. ow all this happens because of certain laws that, lacking a _better term, we call heredity. Modern science teaches us that the embryo of any creature passes through the various stages of development through which the order that the creature owever, is this transparent It is at- cheek belongs to has passed. The condi- tions surrounding = development, how- ever, are such that we cannot watch the process with all species e can in the Do 3 T is inter- began with the fishes. They are low: e of vertebrate life. Feet, v , they have none; they breathe the oxygen in the water ir blood directly without the of lung action. They lay are a few fishes whose voung are born alive, but only afew. Now between the fishes and the land animals come these grotesque crea- tures called amphibians, of which our frog is the type. There is, however, a series of steps leading upward from the fish to the frog. There are curious life-forms, such as the water- dogs, the newts and salamanders, and that ueer “what is it” of amphibia, the mud- fish, that serve to connect the frog with fish life, just as the lizards, crocodiles, turtles and snakes carry the scale on to i tebrate forms. hild knows the tadpole, but not it in intervention eggs. There s, 10 be found in our way- i Each of the elly-like substance, dotted s egz and the sur- ely the gelatinous en- e in which the eggs are held. It be- ins to decompose in the water long before he eggs are hatched, and the puffy bulk is made up of the gases of decomposition. Within the egg the embryo frog grows un- til it is strong enough to burst its cell and then appear in_public. 1tis now a polly- wog, beloved of childhood. It is really as true a fish as swims. It breathes through gills, it has a fish heart, that is w!th only two cavities or chambers. of fish. Its anatomical structure is exactly analogous to that most ancient of fishes, the lamprey, whose fatal effect upon Brit- ish royalty is known to every schoolboy. By and by the tadpole begins to undergo further change. The heart develops into the three-chambered heart of the reptile; the gills are drawn in and lungs begin to develop. Then appear first the hind legs, then the fore, and the creature is of the newt type, air-breathing, with four legs and a long tail. Now, if it does not look out something dreadful happens toit. I cannot get about in the water so fast as | can its relatives, the tadpoles, and the latter are very apt to eat it up. In this way a pondful of tadpoles have been known to devour each other,aiter the lamentable example of the famous crew of the Nancy Jane, until there was but one survivor to continue the traditions of froghood. The survivors in due time lose their tails. not, as is posed, by shedding them, ing them, and presently hop upon the 1and, full, perfect frogs. There are many varieties of the species. These bagpipers of Cress Creek are a very common variety with pretty green and black backs and yellow throats.” There are three of them 'in the middle of the pool ergaged in a game of leap-frog. I drop a stone on the water, and presto! They have disappeared! You must look closely to detect them, flat in the mud, hardly to be distinguished from the leaves of the young cress just starting along the bottom. Our small batrachian is protectively colored, and he has nee to be, for he has many foes. He isa tender morsel, and there are not wanting any number of creatures only too glad to gobble him down. So in the beginning those frogs that were so colored as to escape detection did mnot get eaten, and reproducing their kind, the protective coloring became still more accentuated in the next generation, until the character- istic green-coated, yellow-vested chap has been evolved as the fittest to sur- vive. See that fellow yonderin the middle of the pond? He has climbed . upon & broad leaf, and is piping away like a veritable Highlander. His bagpipe is dis- tended nearly to the bursting point. His little body is swelled to twice its ordinary size and his eyes are fairly ‘starting out from his head in the ardor of his vocal exertion. He has a very hoarse croak as though he were suffering from a cold. I touch him with this slender stick and he {fairly turns a somersault in his fright. His bagpipe disappears with en alarming cnnvulls)ion that makes one think of nothing but Whitcomb Riley’s “squeechy-cum-squees that swallers their- selves,” " The creature disappears so f frogs, that have their | 5 rtebrate, hich man is the culmination, | liar to most observers is the mass | 1t is not only | a fish, but is related to one particular kind | opularly sup- Eut by hfisor - | utterly that it really seems as though he had swallowed himself. All thisof a commonplace little frog. In reality, however, there is nothing that is commonplace, unless it be the soul of the man who can eonceive the word as apply- ing to anything in this universe of ours. BOLY MIED ON LW The Stranded Treasury Relying on an Act That Is Repeated. Lawyers Trying to Overturn a Pre-~ viously Accepted Constitutional Provision. The distress now being suffered by the officials of this great Ci is something | wholly without precedent. To use a very | common phrase, they do not know | whether they are afoot or on horseback. ; The treasury is empty, and its credit for | supplies is exhausted. Fhe only means of replenishing the treasury and thereby re- | storing credit—which is not then needed— | is to collect taxes. | But the law under which the assessment | has already been made preliminary to g the tax has been repealed. The y and County Attorney has said there | is no doubt about it. But some $40,000 has already been spent in making the assessment under the old law and it is estimated that it would cost about §$25,000 more to go over the ground again, saving what may be possible of the work already done, and there is no money with which to do it. machinery, books and blank forms, ete., to ut it in operation, besides money to pay or the labor. The Supervisors in all their distress have | not furnished the assessor with the ma- chinery and are taking no steps to do so. So the Assessar is going ahead working under the old law, which the City and County Attorney declares has been wiped off the statute book. “What are we to do?” inquired Deputy Assessor Herzer yesterday, in speak- ing of the matter. “The old Jaw offers some chance of getting of our difficulty. The new multiplies our difficulties. Under old law the Supervisors can fix any rate they please on the personal property levy, | and will, of course, fix one which will | produce a revenue sufficient to pay our | debts. “The new law requires that we make the | levy on last year’s rate which was$1 per | $100. The ssment is about $65,000,000. | Suppose we collect balf the levy, which is | about the expectation, at that rate, ‘‘That woula giv )00, which | would not be available until after July and | would then about cover the salaries which | it is proposed to hold back. After that we | would have no other resources until the end of October,during which months treas- | ury would be in its present condition. The | only thing to do is to ignore the new law | for this vear.” | The Supervisors are consulting with ex- Judges McKinstry and Rhrodes as to this | feature of the dilemma, and it is under- | law the stood that they will go to the Supreme | I Court with it in some fashion. In the meantime the utmost confusion | prevails concerning the legal aspect | of the stranded treasury. As has | been repeatedly stated the con- tractors are quite ready to furnish | supplies if the City can show that it will | pay at any time within a reasonable future. | But_the City and County Attorney has been steadfast through _several | years past to the constitutional | doctrine that no money can be paid out of next year's revenue for goods purchased | this year. This doctrine has been rough on the eontractors heretofore under which they are out some $210,000. The City has | preserved a perfect equanimity heretofore in the face of these conditions and only the contractors have walked the floor. Now, however, they are having an in- | ning. the warning of the court that “‘every man | is expected to know the condition of the treasury,” and they quit furnishing sup- plies when the money runs out. Now 1t is the greatest desire of the City authorities to secure an opinion from the Supreme Court which will break down the | fence behind which they have stood off | the creditors heretofore and allowed them to make a promise to pay, which the cred- itors can hold them to under the law. They have been in consultation with ex- Supreme Court Justices McKinstry and Rhodes on this matter, and it is under- stood they will endeavor to bring the mat- ter before the Supreme Court in some man- ner, with the hope of getting such a de- cision. Judge McKinstry, it is understood, de- clares that, inasmuch as the obligations for which the indebtedness is sought to be contracted is for the maintenance of the institutions of the Government, no consti- tutional or tatutory provision can inhibit them. | The Government must be maintained, | and to do so money is necessary, and neither the Legislature nor the constitu- tion can stand in the way. The money was taken from the general fund for purposes beyond control of the Supervisors and by means sanctioned by the court and not to be foreseen by the Supervisors. Therefore, it is held that the constitu- tional provisions do not apply as aiain«t replenishing the treasury for the legiti- | mate needs of the Government. e e . — | Relics of the Past. | In excavating for the foundations of the new house upon the site of the old “‘Horse- shoe,” in Newington causeway, a number of relics of past times have been found. The site has been occupied by an inn bearing the same name for upward of two hundred years. The late Mr. Gallant possessed a tavern token issuned from the house in 1667, vhen John Ives was the host, and probably first landlord, as no building upon the | site is shown in maps of an earlier period. Coins have been found dating from the time of Charles IT to the present century, about twenty of them being together ina small box, says the Westminster Gazette. There are fragments of pottery and glass of the Roman period, a horseshoe, a tusk of the wild boar and a great quantity of bones of the horse. Underthe front of the old building, about six feet from the sur- face, was found the perfect skeleton of a man of great stature, and the remains were lying parallel with the run of the street. Among the other finds were a well-made seventeen-century knife, some pottery of the Elizabethan and other periods, and tobacco-pipes from the period of Charles I. 1t would appear that the old inn was once struck by a thunderbolt, as a portion of a meteoric stone was found embedded in the gravel. The proprietor of the tavern, Mr. Elliott, has at present charge of these relics, which for some time will be on view at the new house. A good deal of interest was taken in the old “Horse Shoe” during the Wilkes and Liberty riots in 1768, because among others who were killed was William Allen son of the then keeper of the *-Horse Shoe.” He was pursued by a soldier into the cowhouse, then at the bottom of the yard, and was shot. The young man was buri in Newington churchyard, where there is a stone with an inseription giving particu- lars of his death. B AR e G Special Baggage Notice. Round-trip transfer tickets on sale at re- duced rates at our office oxLY. One trunk, round trip, 50 cents; single trip, 85 cents. Morton Special Delivery, 31 Geary stree 408 Taylor street and Oakland ferry depot The new law re«}uires certain | | the w out | They take the City at its word and | J, HONCRED BY THE ALUMN, Banquet in Celebration of the University’s Affiliated Colleges. GOVERNOR BUDD PRESENT. A Brilliant Gathering in the Palace. Speeches on the New College. A banquet was given last evening at the Palace Hotel by the Alumni Association of the University of California in honor of Governor Budd. In the fullest sense of the word it was brilliant, and more than that, harmonious good-fellowship among old friends who had been boys together in college waited on the appetites of the f'es- tive party. The Governor’s wife occupied the seat of honor next to Alexander F. Morrison, president of the Alumni Asso- ciation, and next to her sat the State’s chief executive, beaming with smiles and happy with the world and everybody else. Maple Hall was never brighter on a ban- quet night. The rich apartment was ablaze with electric lights, while the tables were beautiful indeed with their decorations and floral adornment. There was a sparkle everywhere, the sil- ver candelabra, pink shaded and shining, contrasting richly against rows of green palms and growing ferns in ornamental pots. Then sirewn along the center of the tables were cut flowers and fern leaves, from ont of which rose silver vessels flow- ing over with luscious fruits. Invitations had been sent to all members of the Legislature, to the board of regents of university and the faculties of the uni- | versity and its affiliatea colleges. A few hundred persons responded and were pres- ent when the Governor arrived last night. The party assembled in the parlors of the | hotel, and entered Maple Hall with Mrs. | Budd and Alexander F. Morrison leading and the Governor with his party | following. President Morrison of the | Alumni Association took the chair at the | head of the table. At his right sat Mrs. Budd, Governor Budd, Mrs. Alexander F. Morrison, John Budd, brother of the Gov- etnor, and Miss Todman, while at his left were seatea Senator Biggy, Dr. R. Beverly Cole, Curtis H. Lindley, Timothy Guy Phelps and Judge Phelps. The guests were as follows: 0.Jacob W. W. Kerr, Dr. Kughler, Rey. w. 1 Kip Louis, Dr. W. B. Louit, A. L. Lanfeld, . Lukens, T. W. B. Leland, Pro- fessor Lawson, Dr. F. F. Lord, Morisdon Manson, Dr. ( n, H, C.McPike, Dr. W. F. MceNutt, O. ] cMurray, Miss L. Mae McLean, Dr. 0. J. Mayer, Dr. J. F. McCone, Dr.R.A. M an, . Moore, g A Mae Treat Morrison Morrison, Mary Dr. D. W. ) Morrison, or B. Moody, I Tl 1, D sker, E. J. Pringle Jr., xotto, Miss J. Peixotto, R. M Price, Profestor F. V. Paget, Dr. Morris Dr. F. H. Payne, J. J. Rivers, Dr. H. § Rucker, Professor G. M. Richardson G. Rothganger, Dr. N. Rogers, A Refnstein, G tzke, H. Ryfkogel, A. Ruef, W. B. Stor Jr., Dr. S8arah I. Shuey, C. H. Shinn, Dr. B. R. Swan, W. M. Searb; tie J. Shute, Judge C.W. Slack, Dr. W, Dr. M. J. Sullivan, C. Reith, W. M. Abbott, H. T. Ardley, J. J. Arginty, E. A. A. P. Blac] . D. Brown, F. Beckett, ell, W. W. Bancroft, Dr. J. H. Barbat, - rry, J. E. Budd, C, Bartlett, P. A. Berg- er C acon. L. S, Burchard, ot, W. J. Brobe L. Bartiett, H. Calvert, ningham, Dr. C. A. Clfnton, N. T. Coulson, Dr. K. L. Cox, Dr. B. Cole, A. A, de Amncona, J. J. Dwyer, W. R. Daingerfield, C. M. Belshaw, H. Dyer, Dr. L. Dunbar, George W. Dufficy, W. R. Davis, Dr. F. W. dEvelyn, Dr. Washing- ton Dodge, Dr. C. Dechmiller, F. Dunn, Professor ‘G. C. Edwards, A. G. Ells, D. W. Edleman, Dr. A. Fine, N. H. Frank, A. M. Fulton. Mi Frances A. Dean, C. E. A. Foorster, Frazer, Dr. J Fotirell, Charles A. , C. W.Goddard, F. D. Gréen, Dr. von uffman, T. He P. Hayne, B. L. Hodgehead, ~ J. Houghton, Catherine M. Hittell, Kate R. Howell, I W. Hellman Jr., J. D. Hodgen, Professor C. A. Seifert, Dr. . R. Swisher, Dr. C. Schiel, Professor Smith, I Seeligsohn, K. B .Shinn, E. R. Thoma- M. Todman, Dr. 8. P. Tuggle. J. H. Edmund Tauszky, L. M. F. Wenzel, Ward, O. A. Weihe, Dr. Wright, Shields, Ryland B. Wallace, W. T. Joseph 8. ¥ M. Wilsen, A. T. M. Wolf, Hon, € D. rren, T. P. Woodward, J. Vogelsine, A, J. Younger, E. Arms, E.'F. Bert, J. L. Beard, 'W. J. Biggy, W. T. Boothby, J. Brusie, Bart_ Burke, James H. Budd, E.S. Denison, M. A. Devine, J. Devitt, H. G, W, nkelspiel, G. W. Dickson, L. H. Dwyer, H. C. Gesford, J. M. Gleayes, A. P. Hail, H. Haley, Tsador Jacobs, M. Kellogg, J. Kahn, C. Lindley, J. H. Mahoney, 1. M. Morrill, John McCarthy, Hart H. North, John ©'Day, T. G. Phelps, E. C. Seamore, R. 1. Thomas, J. H. Thibets, E. S. Tomblin, J. A. Waymire. The following dainty menu was served, while between the courses an orchestra dis- coursed a great variety of popular music, and the university graduates either re- peated the old-time college yell or sang to the music. BANQUET OF THE ALUMNI ASSOCTATION of t ’ UNIVERSITY OF CALTFORNIA in Houor of the AFFILIATED COLLEGES, UC— Hauitres de Californte, Consomme Royale. Cresta Blanca Sauterne. Saucisson, Radis. _Celeri. Filet de Sole, Dieppoise. Pommes Persillade. Quartier d’Agneau, Bretonne. Croquette de Ris de Vean s la Relne. Punch a la Romaine, Everett Ranch Claret. Dinde Rotie Farcie., Salade de Chicoree. Asperges au Beurre Tondu, Creme Glacee Panachee. Gateaux Assortis. Dessert., Cate. Palace Hotel, Samedi le 27 Avril, 1895. The toasts were given and responded to as follows: “State of California,” Gover- nor Budd; “The Legislature,”” Senator Biggy; “Regents of the University,” Timothy Guy Phelps; ‘‘Medical Depart- ment of the University,” Dr. R. Beverly Cole; “The University Faculty,” Professor Bernard Moses; “‘Law Department of the University,” J. J. Dwyer; “The Alumin,” Mrs. Dr. Wanza; ‘“‘I'he College of Phar- macy,” William W. Searby; “The Dental College,” Dr. L. L. Dunbar; “The Poly- clinic,” Dr. George T. Shiels; “Alumni Association,” J. B. Rernstein. The chairman n:ipped for order, and, in a brief address, said: “We have assembled here to-night to celebrate one of the {randest events that ever occurred in Cali- ornia; for what can be grander or greater than the establishment of the seat of edu- cation, the sciences, arts, literature and the professions in our State.” As he continued he ¥rew eloquent in ex- tolling the benefits of the university and its professional schools, but he regretted that the graduates of one of the colleges were not acquainted with those of another one. He teld Governor Budd, amid the most ardent applause, that as the chief ex- ecutive officer of California he used his golden wand when signing the bill that is worthy of being called the new charter of California. The value of this bill to the university was only too well known to ail resent. He introduced the Governor, and instantly the over%rown college boys were on their feet cheering three times for Budd. ‘When their applause ceased the Governor began his address, in which he first thanked the party for their warm reception. The Governor mentioned the bills appro- priating $250,000 for the affiliated colleges Olives. and $350,000 for a State bunilding in San Francisco, known as the Bij ill. He brought Senator Biggy and Dr. Cole to- ether. 5 “‘But when Bifigy found that both bills could not carry he said to me,” continued the Governor, ** “Jim’—for he always calls me ‘Jim’—‘if the two bills cannot go through in the interest ot the university, let mine sleep.” We have given to the State of California—that is the Legislature and myself—this $250,000. and vet decreased THE GREAT SALE =X OF === BARBE, BENEDICT & GOLDMAN' STOCK OF" Cloakis, Capes, Suits, Skirts and Waists, AT 50 CENTS ON THE DOLLAR OF WHOLESALE COST, TO-MORROW AT 9 A. M. -Barbe, Benedict & Gold-| man were the leading man-i ufacturers of Cloaks, Capes, Suits, Skirts and Waists in; Chicago. They went by the| board—are in the hands of & receiver. Their stock con-| sists of the finest goods made | in their line. Selling them at prices we paid is bound to create the greatest furor in| garment - purchasing ever known in San Francisco. oy » PARTMENT ST° Market and Taylor Streets, San Francisco. A MODERN RE Capes. D '0—150 Capes, in_black, blue and 5_.0 tan; Barbe, Benedict & Gold- man’s wholesale price more than $3 50. 3 '0—175 Capes, in black, blue, red S «OU and tan; Barbe, Benedict & Goldman’s wholesale more than $5. I —100 Capes, in black and blue, 80-00 trimmed with lace around col- lar; Barbe, Benedict & Gold- man’s wholesale price more than $7 50. 20 M ()—125 Capes, in black and blue $8-00 trimed with 24 rows of tinsel braid around bottom, a perfect beauty; Barbe, Benedict & Goldman's wholesale price more - than $12 50. Barbe, Benedict & Goldman were the greatest people in the trade. Novelty Jackets and Capes that at wholesale were price be sold by us from $2.50 to $25 apiece. This is a great event. Market and Taylor Streets, San Francisco. from $5 to $50 a garment will | | | l 1 $2.50 Ladies’ Suits. = OO—Barbc, Benedict & Goldman’s Do Ladies’ Tailor-made Suits that they sold at wholesale from $7 50 to $9. ‘59 OOanrbe, Benedict & Goldman’s . Ladies’ Tailor-made Suits in checks, plaids, etc., that they sold at $15. —Barbe, Benedict & Goldman’s Prince Albert Suits that they sold at wholesale from $15 to $17 50. to $14—Barbe, Benedict & Gold- man’s seYarnta Skirts in serge, mohair, cloth, cheviot, that they | sold from $5 to $25. $10.0 —Barbe, Benedict & Goldman's Silk Waists that you can’t buy the material in them for the price. | §2.5 THERE WILL BE ONLY BIG BARGAINS SOLD. A JODERN REPARTMENT ST° Market and Taylor Streets, San Frameisco. T0-MORROW, MONDAY AND REMAINDER OF WEEK, THERE WILL BE ON FREE EXHIBITION AT OUR STORE THE CELEBRATED STATUE —OF— ADA REHAN Which Was at the World’s Fair As the Mineral Exhibit of the State of Montana. The Statue Is of solid silver, © feet high, and contains $64,800 worth of silver. Itrestson a pedestal that contains $224,000 worth of pure gold. This is the greatest masterplece ever cast. Every person visiting it will be pre- sented with a coupon entitling them to anumber. At the close of the ex~ hibition 20 miniatures of the Statue will be given awav. No charge or condition of any kind imposed. Market and Taylor Streets, San Franelsco. the taxes of the State below the Eledges of | both parties. The two parties—the Repub- | lican_represented by the Legislature and | the Democratic by the Governor—have kent their pledges to the people. “We are now one of tl roudest uni- versities of the country. have heard that there are 1300 students in the univer- | sity to-day. When some of my friends here with myself wentin in 1869 there were but twelve students.” He spoke about the Stanford University, saying it is in a precarious condition through litigation, which is very unfortu- nate, Itspurred on the University of Cali- | fornia, which improved under the competi- | tion. In closing, the Governor held it would | be better far to let it be sustained as it is | than that the money on which it was | founded should go into the coffers of the | United States Government. Senator mfigy was 1ntroduced and re- | ceived three hearty cheers. Hesaid: “I am at a loss to express my ieelings this evening. I love the university, beause it | is the people’s university; a place where the poor and the rich can obtain an ad- | vanced education on a footing of equality. | 1 did my duty simply, and I feel to-night | that I've received an honor that can never | be forgotten. 1he Governor referred to me | in glowing terms, and for it all, believe me, | I'm very thankful.” Letters from Arthur Rodgers and Pro- fessor Holden were read, the latter’s bein, confined almost exclusively to the LicE‘ Observatory, which he was proud to state | was the strongest in the world. Timothy Guy Phelps, a regent of the University, said: The regents have felt how much was to be done for the affiliated colleges, realizing how important it was that they should be brought into closer association and nearer to the Uni- versity itsell. All our energies were directed toward securing this appropriotion for & col- lege building, and I doubt not that the hopes | of those men who have struggled for years on | behalf of those colleges have been more than fulfilled. Ihad the honor to be a member of the last Legislature, and found that the legislators | were aware of the wants of the University of | California. We found that it was easy because the alumni had said so much to make the | hind other universities in any of its de-| eolple familiar with the work of their Alma | ater. And they knew that the chief executive was one of those alumni, and hf refusing to sign his name to unnecessary bills he proved himself to be the friend of the people. I doubt not thet in the next four years the University of California will receive double that appro- priation. When the Stanford University was established we thought it might affect our university; but since then the students have | increased in numbers by 400, and I doubt not that before another four years will have passed the brildings will not be large enough accommodate the growing demands. The university is in its infancy, but 1t is z‘nung and strong, supported by the hearts of he people; and Tet me say that no institution can ever fail that is supported by the manhood of this State. Professor Bernard Moses was introduced. ‘When he stood up the applause grew long and uproarious. He refiretted that the head of the university could not be present to speak for it, and continued, saying: In the development of great municipal cor- rations there are outlying parts partaking of heir life, there arises a movement for a reater London, a greater New York, a_greater Chicago. We celebrate this movement to- night—a greater university; the beginning of & movement that tends toward the realization of the destiny of the University of California. Whatever is planted or sown here falls upon fiod ground, and it is to the young men of is State that we have to look forward to the fulfillment of the work we are doing, and the faculty of the university, therefore, looks for- ward o the people of the State for the develop- ment of the greater university. The medical element arose and waved their napkins and cheered when.Dr. R. Beverly Cole was introduced. The doctor thanked his friends, and then alluded to the Governor. He said: I have learned to love that man when I heard he said: “I don’t want to see Cole.” That was when I sougnt his signature to the bill for our colleges. He thought I was a live Cole, and did not want to be burned. But I am prepared to maintain that he is a man who never goes back on his word. Ihsve noambition, how- ever, to be known as the “King of the Lobby,” ramento I met a young man there whom, like the Governor, I learned to love—Biggy. His name ought to be written, “Bigzer.” All honor to you of the Legislature that you should have the intelligence to grasp this situ- ation. The Governor, who pledged himself to economy, was impressed with the merit of what we were asking for, and he proved him- self to be our friend. And now I will ask you not to forget one of our apostles, Senator Biggy. J. J. Dwyer spoke on behalf of the law department of the university. He held that college men should set up a standard of political integrity. The college must continue to be the nursery of statesmen, or the fabric of the country will totter to ruin. The university has set up in her halls the aristocracy of knowledge and virtue, and is destined to become the presiding genius of the West. In an eloquent peroration he said: “Let us carry back to erkeley her trophies and hang them on the walls, as thegreeks of Delphi did upon their temples.” Mrs. Dr. Wanzer, respresenting the alumni of the medical department of the University of California, said: We hail with delight the prospects of & new home, where we shall have the benefit of im- proved appliances and accommodations. We thank, sincerely, Senator Bigey and our honored Governor. We need different accom- Our students must have facilities for scientific study. Let us hope that all of our alumnm will endeavor in the right spirit. Dr. George F. Shiels said that the poly- clinic, which has become the post-gradu- ate college of the medical department of the University of California, invited him to represent it at the banquet. He sketched an outline of the polyclinic until to-day it | has a building of its ‘own for treatment of the poor of San Francisco, and concluded by stating that the polyclinic rejoiced with the affiliated colleges on this occasion. Dr. William M. Searby, representing the College of Pharmacy, said: “I am here to-night to express the joy and congratu- lations in conjunction with the university and its affiliated colleges. The professional departments needed this money very badly that they might be meerly oused and have a place to properly do their work. The university could not afford to be he- portments, and it was behind many. But now that we have this appropriation I feel satisfied we will be equal to any of them. | This means bringing us nearer to the peo- | le and giving usa tremendous stimulus in inducing young men to study in the differ- ent departments of the university. The speaking concluded at midnight with an address by Dr. L. L. Dunbar for the dental college, and Attorney J. B. Reinstein, Governor Budd’s classmate, for the alumni association. How Snow Stops Bullets. Some officers of the French army sta- tioned at Aurillac conceived the idea of making experiments on the penetrative effect of the Lebel rifle in ordinary snow. They made the experiments, and the re- sults took their breath away. Firing from a distance of only 160 feet at masses of snow raised on the rifle ranges at Ombrado and Buls, the riflemen found that their projectiles atngped when they | were but five feet deep in the target. That ball was past belief, yet there was the Tesult. A bullet from the same rifle at this dis- tance has crushed through a tree 31 feet in diameter. Here is the theory of the French officers. It will serve for the pres- ent, and may be the true explanation: They think the rifle ball gets ‘‘battled up,” just asa horse’s hoofs do, only itis all done in the fraction of a second. Enterin§ the snow, as it does, with a high speed and the spinning motion due to the Tifling, it collects the particles about it and drives them back until the accumu- lated mass stops its flight. We may yet see the armies of Europe building snow forts.-—New York Worldl.) Lawyer Highton’s Services. Henr; E. Highton, A.T, has sued A.T. Hatch and though I did missionary work with eifih?’-mne the members of both houses, While in Sac- services, modations than were sufficient a decade ago. | | five feet of snow should stop a Lebel rifle- | J. J. Raner, as assignee of the claims of erkins for $1250 due for professional | | | ITEMS OF INTEREST. Ten editors are members of the English Parliament. The estimated population of the world on January 1, 1895, was 1,500,000,000. There are twenty-five women running country papers in Kansas. Twenty lives lie between the Emperor of Germany and the British throne. The White House of the confederacy is now used for a colored schoolhouse. All officers in the Austro-Hungarian cav- alry must hereafter learn telegraphy. A man named Damet has just passed an examination in theology at Troy, Kans. Two thousand patents have been taken out in this country on the manufacture of paper alone. The lapidary who cut the famous dia- mond Rose of Belgium is now worth $150,000. There are springs of fresh water in the | Persian Gulf that furnish supplies to ves- sels. A German statistician has figured ont that Monday, and not Friday, is the real unlucky day. In India, it is said, the native barber will shave you while you sleep, so light is his touch. | With a population of hardly 2,500,000 | Greece has a debt of $160,000,000, or about $75 per capita. 3 The ancients knew how tocheat. Loaded dice have been found in the ruins of Her- culaneum. | It is said that in some parts of Japan | robbers are convicted on a majority vote of | the community. | Two clergymen in Nebraska are attribut- ing the hard times to the Sunday opening of the Chicago World’s Fair. Up to the present time the NeproEolis‘ Company, the biggest undertakers in Eng- land, have buried 126,000 bodies. FEndeavors are being made in England to establish the Sabbatica year, one year’s rest in seven, for school teachers. The long distance telephone between | Paris and London has over 200 calls a day. At the rate of $2 for each call it pays. The British empire and its dependencies and colonies embrace 11,000, square miles, or about the size of all Africa. Venezuela means ‘‘Little Venice.” The early explorers found the natives living in houses placed on piles in the marshes, The new photograph of the heavens which is being prepared by London, Berlin and Parisian astronomers shows 68,000,000 | stars. The first of the ‘‘canalsof Mars” was discovered in 1877 by Professor Schiapa- relli, astronomer of the Royal Observatory at Milan, Japanese workmen wear, both on their caps and on their backs, an inscription stating their business and the name of their employer. The nearest approach to the north pole was on May 13, 1892, when Lieutenant Lockwood stood within 396 miles of that coveted spot. In the British Isles during the present century seven instances have been recorded in which the bride has married the best man by mistake. The largest woodenware works in the/ world are located in Bay City, Mich. The present ou(t]gut every ten hours is 1800 tubs and 8500 pails. Placed end to end in a continuous line the streets of London would extend from the Mansion House across the entire con- tinent of Europe and beyond the Ural Mountains into Asia. A North Sea codman carries an outfitof lines which extends eight miles in length, and has usually fixed upon it the amazin, number of 4680 hooks, every one of whicE must be baited. In Asolo, southwest of Treviso, opposite the house where Robert Browning wrote ‘*Asolando,”” Barrett Browning has estab- lished, in memory of his father, & lace school, where young girls are taught to weave the old patterns of Venetian lace. Sergeant O'Keefe, who spent five years in the observatory on Pike’s Peak, says that the lowest temperature observed was 50 deg. below zero; the highest, 62 d above. Fifty-five towns and cities in England now destroy garbage by burning, and use the heat to generate electricity for street | lighting. | The Kremlin of Moscow contains the crowns of Poland and all the other king- doms and principalities which Russia has overthrown. A London firm, which has man\ifactured eight of the eleven cables linkifig the United States to England, makes fifty-five miles of cable each twenty-four houss. Frenchmen take the neatest bootsj Seotchmen take the largest, but they can~ not compete with Lobengula, whose size was twelve inches long and eight inches wide. A beggar, who died a few weeks ago 1n Auxerre, France, was found to have 1,000, 000 francs in bonds in a trunk, and in his cellar 400 bottles of wine of the vintage of 1790. A poorly clad woman, who g!cked upa bag_containing £500 in Smithfield, Eng- land, the other day, was rewarded by the owner, to whom she returned it, with a penny. The standard Chinese work on coinage is in twenty volumes, and Chinese money it- self is not less bulky, as a strinf of cash weighing five pounds is worth Iess than 25 cents. A friend advised me to [ try Ely’s Cream Balm and & after using it siz weeks I | believe myself cured of catarrh. 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