The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 5, 1895, Page 24

24 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MAY 5, 1895. P LACE DEPARTMENT! At 30 Cents FPer Yard. BUTTER AND IVORY NET TOP POINT VENISE LACE, 7 to 10 inches wide, regular value 50c. | At 35 Cents Pexr Yard. | BUTTER AND IVORY NET TOP POINT VENISE LACE, 8 to 10 inches wide,l rular value 65c. i At 5O Cents Per Yard. BUTTER AND IVORY NET TOP POINT VENISE LACE, 9 to 12 inches wide, regular value 90c. | At 20 Cents Per Yard. BI'T'I']ICII IMITATION NET TOP VENISE LACE, 8 to 9 inches wide, regular value 30c. At 25 Cents Fer Yard. BUTTER POINT VENISE LACE, 3 inches wide, regular value 50c. { ‘ At 35 Cents Per Yard. BUTTER POINT VENISE LACE, 5 inches wide, regular value 65c. At SO Cents FPer Yard. TER POINT VEN LACE, 6 inches wide, regular value $1. At 20 Cents FPer Yard. BLACK BOURDON LACE inches wide, regular value 35c. At 35 Cents FPer Yard. ] BLACK BOURDON LACE, 8inches wide, regular value 65c. | | B i | { ! i | ) LADIES’ HANDKERCHIEFS! At 10 Cents Each. f WHITE HEMSTITCHED HANDKERCHIEFS, embroidered in delicate colorings, regular value 20c. | | | i 1 ’ SHEER WHITE HEMSTITCHED HANDKERCHIEFS, with Valenci ennes lace insertion and hand-embroidered in ¢ ate colors, regular value 25¢ | | i At 15 Cents Each. | ' EMBROIDERIES! EMBROIDERIES | At 85 Conts Per Yard. WHITE HEMSTITCH SWISS EMBROIDERED DEMI-FLOUNCIN wide, regular value 60c. 3 inches | GLOVES! GLOVES! At $1.00. 100 dozen LADIES’ 4BUTTON ENGLISH WALKING GLOVES in brown and En; lish red shades, regular value $1 50, will be offered at $1 a pair. | I | | | | i PRODIGIOUS INDUCEMENTS T0 REDUCE SURPLUS STOCK! ST Notwithstanding our IMMENSE SALES since the season opened, our purchases were so UNUSUALLY ENORMOUS that the beginning of May finds us with A STOCK OF NEARLY DOUBLE THE MAGNITUDE USUALLY CARRIED AT THIS TIME OF THE YEAR and THE RAPIDLY ADVANCING SEASON impels us to put forth our most STRENUOUS EF=- FORTS to reduce it to its normal condition before the end of the month. In pursuance of our efforts we have thoroughly overhauled this vast surplus stock, which is made up of THE NEWEST AND MOST FASH- IONABLE GOODS, and, as the following items show, have marked every= thing at 7 Figures That M Positvely Starting When Actual Values Are Considered! CIRRLLGE PARASOLS! At G5 Cents. ' | CARRIAGE PARASOLS, in Gloria_silk | (unlined), in black only, will be offered at 65c. { | LADIES WUSTS. | MENS FURNISHINGS! At SO Cents. At 1O Cents. LADIES’ LAUNDRIED SHIRT WAISTS, | 200 dozen MEN’S FANCY COLORED- made of French percale, in black and BORDER HEMSTITCHED white stripes and checks; regular price | HANDKERCHIEFS, extra large 75¢, will be offered at | snzel. will be placed on sale at 10c each. | At 9O Cents. | CARRIAGE PARASOLS, in Gloria silk (lined) in black only, will be offered i at 90c. At 75 Cents. | At 1O Cents. LADIES’ WAISTS, laundried collar and | 150 dozen MEN'S MEDIUM-WEIGHT cuffs, in faney stripesand checks, extra| COTTON SOCKS, assorted colors, full Sieeves, ‘voke back, regulat price | Wil b offered at i0c a pair. $1, will be offered at 75c. | ®: ! |85 donen Misa AND pOYS UN- | N LAUNDRIED SHIRTS, made with | LADIES’ WAISTS, made of percale and ' re.enforced, all-linen fronts, will | cheviot, laundried collar and cuffs,{ be sold st 35 J | pointed yoke, full sleeves; regular price | : : ! $1 25, will be offered at $1. | At $1.50. CARRIAGE PARASOLS, gros-grain silk, with ruffles (unlined), value $2 25, will be offered at $1 50. At SO Cents. 1120 dozen MEN'S WHITE MEDIU Sl Sl i WEIGHT MERINO UNDER- | SHIRTS AND DRAWERS, all ment. A tes. - e A | s R 0.5 ALL-SILK, SATIN AND GROS- DIES' GOWNS, made of heavy muslin, | | Loiio] 3 (hsfml\g}'n\llr;dl11\01157:1 |” GRAIN RIBBONS, in assorted colors, | f 2 . and combination caffs, link or but- | Will be offered at 4c. | lined back, yoke of fine tucks; regulaT | tone to match. attached or de- ' price 65c, will be offered at 50c. | tached: factory price, $1, will be At 5 Cents i At 75 Cents. 20l on 650 7 ALL-SILK, SATIN LADIES’ GOWNS, made of *Pride of the | At 78 Cents. M- RIBBONS ! RIBBOXN! At 4 Conts. LA | No. AND GROS-; GRAIN RIBBONS, in assorted colors, West"” muslin, lined back, rofind yoke |18 dozen MEN'S CAMEL'S HAIR LA B Gl of tucks and insertion, finished with | AND AT N WOOL UN- At 10 Cents. No. 12 ALL-SILK, SATIN AND GROS- GE N RIBBONS, in assorted colors, will be offered at 10c. DERSHIRT! DRAWERS, medium weight, will be offered at 7T5¢ each garment. SPECIAI: Just received 20 cases ME BOYS’ PERCALE LAUNDRIE lSIHRTS at 50¢, 75¢, $1 and $1 2 ruffle of embroidery; regular price §1, | will be offered at 75c. At $1.00. LADIES’ WAMSU AMUSLIN GOWNS, plaited back, jabou front, rolling collar edged with embroidery; regular price $150, will be offered at $1. i | AND | 1000 pieces of BLACK SATIN GROS-GRAIN RIBBONS, in5,7, 9, D D £5 Our New lllustrated Catalogue is now ready for distribution to our COUNTRY patrons. to whom it will be mailed free on receipt of address. | | LADIES’ GENUINE FRENCH C: 20c a pair. At 25 Cents. 1110 dozen LADIES’ COTTON HOSE, extra high spliced heels and toes, Herms dye, black and tan shades, regular price $4 per dozen, will be ofi'ercdqat ;;T}f{fi;! At 25 Cent: 90 dozen LADIES’ BLACK MACO COTTON HOS white feet, guaranteed fast and stainless black, regular price $1 20 per dozen. 3 At 33 1=3 Cents. 75 dozen LADIES’ COTTON HOSE, extra high spliced heels and toes, Hermsdorf dye, black, tan and russet shades, regular price 50c, will be offered at 33}4c a pair. At SO Cents. ] SILK PLAITED HOSE, spliced heels and toes y fast and stainless black, regular price 75¢, will be offergd ut‘ 50c a ;u:rn SOeR Dy 50 dozen LADIES’ BLACK At 20 Centss. { LADIES’ SWISS RIBBED EGYPTIAN COTTON VEST, low neck and sleeveless, lace front, taped neck and arms, will be offered at 20c each. E | At 33 1=3 Cent; | LADIES’ JERSEY RIBBED LISLE THREAD VESTS, high neck, long sleeves and 'HOSIERY AND UNDERWEAR! i At 20 Ceonts. 100 dozen BOYS' INDESTRUCTIBLE FAST BLACK RIBBED BICYCLE HOSE, made specially for boys’ wear, regular value $3 50 per dozen, will be closed out at | low neck and sleeveless, regular price 50c. | At 5O Cents. | LADIES’ JERSEY RIBBED FINE EGYPTIAN COTTON COMBINATION SUITS, low neck and sleeveless, regular price 90c. . At 78 Cents LADIES’ NATURAL GRAY WOOL VESTS, high neck, long sleeves, ankle length, drawers to match, sizes 28 to 40, regular price $1, will be offered at 75¢ each. , high spliced heels and toes, { CORSETS! side steel lar price $3, will be placed on sale for §1. At 81.50. LADIES’ FRENCH MODEL CORSETS, made of fine black French sateen, perfect fit | guaranteed, silk flossed, both long and medium waist, regular price $2, will be placed on sale for $1 50. At 81.00. 'OUTIL CORSETS, real whalebone, spoon busk, good Venus back, embroidered in colored silk, sizes 18 to 22, drab only, regu- CORSETS! GLOVES! 15 AIN RIBI At $1.00. Zzanaapsk seocived, {100 dozen LADIES' 8BUTTON LENGTH MOUSQUETAIRE UNDRESSED KID GLOVES in tan, mode and slate shades, regular value $1 50, will be offered at $1a pair. GLOVES! | 1 T », 4 | / Murphy Building, Market and Jones Streets. #: / Nurphy Buiiding, . | Market and Joues Streets. Murphy Building, | { Murphy Building, / Warket and Jones Streets, | Market and Jones Streets. WMarket and Jones Stregls. Murphy Building, Market and Jones Sirggfs. Murphy Building, Market and Jones Stresfs, | urely. At this time those who go on this trip | 240 | should take lunch along to do for four meals. ER PICTURES—Mrs. W., City. This 80,000 were curred on September 7, 1812. are said to have lost children are third cousins to one another. The children of these third cousins are fourth | cousins to the parents and fifth cousins to one | | another. | 0,000 men engaged, between 70,000 and killed and wounded. This oc- The Persians ),000 at Platea. } NEwsPA correspondent is anxious to know hdw it was | possible for the New York Herald to publish a | | portrait of Blanche Lamont two days after her | dead body was discovered in the beliry of the | Emmanuel Church. That journal, like the CaLL, watches its exchanges very closely, and cuts out and files away all pictures that may be of service in the future. When the disap- | earance of Blanche Lamont was announced | ure was printed in the San Francisco pape That picture was cutoutin the New | York Herald office, and. when the announce- | ment that she had been murdered and that | | her body had been discovered was telegraphed | | East the picture was taken from the files and | reproduced. | BiMeTaLLIsM—R. R., Bimetallism is | the doctrine that two metals can and ought, at | the same time, in the same country, be adopted as standards of value, to bear to | each other a fixed ratio, established and recog- | nized by the Government. This term is used | almost exclusively in reference to gold and sil- | ver. Monometallism is the doctrine that only | one metal ought to be used. The United States | | is monometallic notwithstanding the fact that silver is in circulation. Individuals can- If correspondents neglect to give correct names and addresses they must not be disappointed if there is no answer tothe communication. The names are not for publication, but for reference. Questions will be answered as soon as possible affer they are received. Sometimes an answer cannot be had sooner than three weeks after start- ing the inquiry. Euestiong the answers to which will amount to usement of any business or article will not cred. a0 adv be ansy Questions_ssking for the standing of any in- dividual or firm will not be answered. No questions in arithmetic, algebra or geometry will be answered. Material for debaters will not be furnished. Religious questions respectfully declined. NICARAGUA CANAL.—Mrs, E. F. D. M., Jeffer- sop, Marion County, Or. According to the latest survey the cost of constructing the | Secretary of War upon the nomination of the | pealed in 1876, and in 18 Nicaragua canal will be £50,000,000 and the | time of construction six years. According to the plans the summit level of the canal will be | handed game of casino one player has s right | 110 feet above mean sea level and will be reached at each extremity by three locks, each 650 feetlong and 65 feet wide. An artificial lake and repairing basin for ships in transit will be created by meansofa dam across the | not have silver coined into dollars as they can have gold coined. Bimetallists regard the use | of both metals necessary, while monometal- lists hold that practical business has brought all nations to the singie stendard. | WesT PoINT—J. G. C. If you desire to entera | competitive examination for admission to West | Point send your application to the Congress- man of the district in which you live, and | when there is a vacancy which he is em- | powered to fill you will be notified, together | with other candidates, to appear before the board of examiners that may be selected. Sometimes the candidate 1s named by the Con- gressman without an examination before a board. Appointments are usually made one vear in advance of the date of admission by the Representative. A RIGHT TO BUILD— In a four- City. 10 build for his partner. For instance, A and C are partners and B and D are partners. A deals. B builds a ten, giving his partner (D) notice that_he has another ten to take it with if it remains on the table. C, however, cap- TaRtFF Conyissiox—R. R., City. Under the | provisions of an act passed on the 9th of March, 1882, the following were named a com- mission to revise the tariffof the United States: John L. Hayes of- Massachusetts, H. W. Oliver | of Pennsylvania, Austin M. Garland of II- linois, John Ambler of Ohio, R.R. Porter of the District of Columbia, John W. H. Underwood of Georgia, Duncan F. Kenner of Louisiana, Alexander P. Boleler of West Virginia and W. H. McMahon of New York. 1N HALEY'S TERM—T. . During the twenty-four months that M. C. Heley was County Clerk the expenses of nis office were: Salaries, $6679 66 per month, a totel of $161 stationery, etc., per month, $113 22, or $2717 28 for the term. The aggregate was 88 per month, a grand total of )29 28 for the term. The amount of 2 per month for stationery is based upon the demands signed for the last eighteen months of the term. TRANSFERRING BeEs—F. R., Berkeley, Cal. The several methods of transferring bees from one hive to another in order to secure the honey would take up more room than the Que ‘olumn can devote to the subject. A very full account of how this is dome can be found in the “A B C of Bee Culture,” edition | of 1891, in “Bee and Bee Keeping” and in | “The Hive and Honey Bee,” all of which publi- cations are to be found in the Free Public Library of this City. THE TRADE DorLAR—A. T. F., City. An act | of 1873 authorized the coinage of trade dollars of 420 grains for circulation in China in com- petition with Spanish and Mexican dollars, They were not intended for circulation in the | | United States, still they were made legal ten- | | der in the sum of $5. This provision was re- 78 the coinage of trade dollars was_ discontinued. For a trade | dollar of 1876 dealers charge from $2 to $2 50. THE STARTERS—S., City. The following are the names of the starters in the two races at | Monmouth Park in 1883 in which Lorillard’s | Troquois was entered and the order of finish, | August 25, Monmouth stakes: George Kin- ney San Juan River and an embankment across the | tures the build. D, knowing that his partner | Woodford 0. Same day, renewal of Monmouth San Carlos, near their junction, and from the 1ast lock to Greytown on the east and to Brito | on the west the capal will be enlarged, thus forming an extension of the harbors, where ves- sels can pass each other without deten The length from Greytown to Brito is 16 miles. The most sérious engineering d ties will be in the great divide cut across the San Francisco range through & three-mile stretch of rock with an average depth of 120 on. feet and the restoration of Greytown harbor, | long ago destroyed by the deposit of silt from the Sen Juan. The International Company was incorporated in San Francisco in 1893, to aid in the construction of the canal from Brito to Lake Nicaragua, the Pacific end of it. person wishes to send money by mail to an- other the proper course is to obtain a money order, which for $10 costs 8 cents. In the case you mention the sender undertook to send $10 in coin through the mails and, in order to save the 8 cents the money order would cost, placed the money petween cardboards in such & man- ner as to attract attention to it, and in that manner lead some one with a dishonest turn of mind to suspect that it was a very valuable package. The letter was never delivered, but the Government will never be able to trace it. Tt was a case in which the sender, in order to save a few cents, took chances of its safe de- | livery. It eppears to have fallen into dishonest hands and now he has an experience that Las cost him the amount ot money he inclosed and the knowledge that it is best to follow.the safest methods. ik To MousT DIABLO—Tramper, City. Those who wish to make the ascent of Mount Diablo and return to this City on Sunday night should leave here at either 7:30 in the morning of | (B) has a ten, buiids a ten by placing a deuce on an eight.’ A not being able to take it, B takes it with his ten. If it were not the rule for one partner to assist the other, what would be the use of playing as partners? GraPHITE—J. B. T., City. Graphite. or black- lead as it is commonly called, is & mineral that is used in the manufacture of crucibles, lead- pencils, blacklead for polishing stoves, and to diminish the friction of belts and parts of machinery, and as a lubricant in cartridges | of rifles instead of lard or tallow. Itis Afiso used in the electrotype process for coating the surface of wood, plaster of paris, gutta percha and other mon-condueting materials, to make them conductive. Graphite is not guoted in short ton, Cross in Golden Gate Park, sometimes called | the “Drake Cross,” was erected by the late George W. Childs in commemoration of “the | first Christian service in the English tongue on | our coast, the first use of the book of common | prayer in our country, and one of the first re- corded missionary prayers on_our continent.” | It is a memorial of the services held on the | shores of Drakes Bay, about June 24,1579, by | Franeis Fletcher, priest of the Church of Eng- | land, and chaplain of Sir Francis Drake. UNCLE SAM'S PAY Day.—J. G., City. About | the 25th of each month the amount of money | due employes at the United States Mint is paid inalump sum to a person from the Mint au- | thorized to receive it, and from the Mint it is | paid to those entitled to receive it. The money due each month to the Postoffice employes is paid in & lump sum at the end of ucg month to the Postmaster, who has it disbursed. The | THE PRAYER CROSS—R. G., City. The Prayer | Custom-house employes redtive their pay at the sub-treasury on the last day of the month, or any time after that they may call for it. Saturday or 4 o'clock of the same day, take the train to Danville, Contra Costa County.and take the private road that runs through Cook’s Ranch, but first permission must be obtained from the owner. The principal object of the tramp is to beat the top of the mountain to see the sun rise, so those who start on Monda morning can reach the top before nightfall, 2nd have to remain on the apex. Those who start in theafternoon generally rest at the hali- way house, when it is open, and finish the as- he morning. The view having ent early in t) gcen obtained, the descent can be made leis- BarTLE—Reader, City. The greatest battle of which there is any authentic account was the battle of Borodino,a village of Russia, seventy miles west from the city of Moskwa, one of the most obstinately disputed in his- tory. It was between the French, under Na- leon 1, and the Russians, under Kutusow, arclay de Tolly and Bagration. Out of the stake: Eole 1, George Kinney 2, Moaitor 3, Drake Carter 0 and Iros | CHINESEQUEUES—Octavia, City. Chinese who | are convicted of felony stand exactly on the same ground gs criminals of other nationali- | ties. When they reach the State prison they are forced to submit to the same discipline as | other prisoners and one of these is that they | | must have their hair cut according to the rules of the prison. | | THE ELmBaRK—A. C., City. The English ship | that came to this city with a cargo of sulphur, | and which after she was moored at the dock | caught fire, was the Elmbark. The vessel was | | sealed_and the fire extinguished by Professor | Price by the use of carbonic acid gas, which acid on chips of marble. | i PocNosTIC—S., City. There is no such word in the English language as “pognostic.” It is | not tobe found in any of the dictionaries, and | ‘lf you saw itin print it was a misprint. The | word was probably “prognostic,” an_ obso- | lete name for prognosticate, to foretell, and printed without the “r.” THE PUBLIC ADMINISTRATOR—E. J. W., City. If a person having property or money in bank | dies without having made a will and does not leave any relatives it becomes the duty of the Public Administrator to & E\y for leiters and administer on the estate. e first charge he has to pay is the cost of burial. —H. C. G., Lodi, San Joaquin v Alexander Goldenson murdered Mamie Kelly, a schoolgirl, at Polk street and Ash avenue, in this City, on the 10th of No- vember, 1886, and was executed for this crime gs.vsnil on Broadway on the 14th of in the Count September, 1 ‘BuppiN—Brothers, City. The best time for budding fruit treesis just as the sap is begin- ning to rise, the “buds” at that time takin, more readily and the fimw‘h is undisturbe through the growing period. The proper time tobud rosesin this State is in August and in September. Cousins—C. H., City. If A and B are first cousins A’s children are second cousins to B, and B's children second cousins to A, Their 1, Eole 2, Iroguois 3, Monitor 0 and Miss | {and on the other side Mag. BR. FRA THE STRA S., City. Frank E. | Hutchings, who, ou the 16th of July, 1884, | strangled Pheebe Janette Simms to death in | the Brown House on Howard street, in this y, was executed for that crime in the | County Jail on the 12th of September, same | year. | WrLLTAM ITT—A. T. ‘ , Edna, San Luis Obispo | County, Cal. The silver coin you have, on | which there is on one side Gylielmys Del. Gra. | 1697, is a sixpence of the time of | 11L0f England, who reigned irom 1689 t0 1702. | Cumis Evaxs—J. P. K. and H. I W., City. Chris Evans, the bandit, escaped from the Fresno jail on the 28th of December, 1893. | following, in a house in Visalia which at that | | American Theater, at the corner of Sansome 1f o | this market. In the Eastitisquoted at$50 & | yas generated by pouring diluted hydrochloric | term for a measure. juse g g g yAroehlorie | 3317 English inches, in California a vara is 33 inches, and in Mexico it is 32.9927 inches. time was in charge of J. A. Brighton and wife. | CasiNo—J. J. H., City player at casino cannot build from the table; | | for instance, if a seven and a_two are upon the ‘ table and A puts an ace upon the seven, call- ing eight, B, his opponent, cannot employ the | two upon the table to build it up to ten. | POLLARD, THE HistoriAN—T. S. P., Oakland, Cal. Edward A. Pollard, the Southern his- torian, died in Lynchburg, Va., Uccemher.‘ 1872. He was confined in Fort Warren and in Fortress Monroe for a period of eight months | and was released on parole. | BY THE CoNsTiTuTION—H. G, City. Whether | the president of a lodge can excuse a member | and remit a fine imposed for failure to visita sick member, when it is his turn to do so, is a | | matter that is regulated by the constitution | and by-laws of the lodge. | . Y. Z.,City. Hairon | the human head turns gray from & number of | causes. There are cases on record of hair turn- ing gray in a night. Nothing is known that will prevent the hair from turiing prematurely | gray. 1 i THE N1ANTIC—W. H. B., Oskiand, Cal. The | old Niantic Hotel at the corner of Clay and | Sansome streetsin this City was taken down in | 1872, and the work of erecting the building | now on the site wi | mmencea the same year. | TER . C., City. The AMERICAN THEATER FIRE—] and Halleck streets, in this City, was de- stroyed by a fire that broke out &t 3:55 o’clock | on the morning of the 16th of February, 1868. | ANTI-POLYGAMY—R. THE INCURABLES—The price for the care of incurables at the home of the King’s Daughters | was at one time from $12 to $14 & month but now it has been increased to $25 per month. A VARA—H. §, City. A vars isa Spanish In Texas & VAra measures GOLDEN GATE PArk—A. 0. S, City. Golden Gate Park is maintaiied by an appropriation | from the taxes levied 1n this City. | State appropriation for the park. 'here is no To ENeLAND—H. ., City. The lowest rate from San Francisco to Liverpool by rail and steamer is about $75. From Liverpool to Lon- don the rate is very reasonable. YsaYE—Reader, Wheatland, Yuba County, Cal. The name of Ysaye, the violinist, is pro- nounced as if written ezay, sounding the letter e asin meat. It’s quite easy. THE Moons—J. J. H,, City. The history of the Moors from the earliest times fails to show that the; settle in Ireland. ever fitted out any expedition to NAVAL AcADEMY—C. B., Astoris, Clatsop County, Or. Commander Franklin Buchanan is the superintendent of the Naval Academy at Annapolis. -ONLY ONE—H. F. G., City. There never was but one number of the “Glimpse of the Mid- winter Fair’’ published. NINETEEN IN CrisBaGE—Anom, City. It is g:; possible to make nineteen points in erib- e. PaLo Auto—H. 8., City. The meaning of Palo Alto is a “tall stick.” City. On the 2dof | March, 1882, Senator Edmunds submitted a bill to restrict and eventually abolish polyg- amy, and under its provisions polygamists have been prevented from holding office. THE INADEQUACY —~— or SoME PoLIcE TELE- statement made by GRAPH SYSTEMS.—A William | Police Commissioner Andrews of New | York has drawn attention to the inade- quacy of the majority of existing systems of communication between policemen on the beat and headquarters, a perfect telegraph system every man would be kept constantly on his post. He Hoyle says that & | could communicate with his precinct | whenever the occasion required it. With such a system there would be a saving of | It would be better inting of 100 men several hundred men. to discontinue the ap yearly for a period of several years, and establish such a telegraphic system as I have described. This separtment certainly requires it.” The fault with many police telegraph systems is that, although they are good as far as thef 2o, they do not go far enough. Too few alarm-boxes are used, and the communication, as a rule. does not extend beyond the station-houses. There should be a box on every man’s post, so that he could send for assistance, call an ambulance or a fire-engine or make re- ports without leaving the post and travel- | ing to the station-house. There are now available several systems which would meet all these requirements. The smallest salaried policeman costs a city much more than the most expensive alarm-box, and the latter is often the more needed of the two. SteyaLiNg TuroueH Space.—In further | confirmation of the successful experiments concluded last year in England in trans- mitting telegraphic messages over long distances without wires, an account has been received from Scotland of the main- tenance of telegraphic communication by means of the same system between the island of Mull and the mainland. The islanders were decidedly put to a shift. The six-mile cable which usually kept them in touch with the outer world had broken down, and they were uncertain as to how long the interruption to communi- cation would last. A local electrician, who had heard of Mr. Preece’s plan, saw no reason why it should not operate at Oban just as well as anywhere else, and lost no time in running a gutta-percha insulated wire, )1(!; miles long, along the gound from Morvern, 15 miles from ban, and signaling through that, while on the island of Mull the ordinary over- head circuit connecting two distant vil- lages was made use of. The distance in- tervening between the two parallel cir- cuits was about 3}4 miles. A vibrator was used as a transmitter, and a telephone as a receiver, and the usual telegraphic traf- fic was carried on until the cable was re- paired. An account not so well authenti- cated comes from India of the completion, by Proffessor J. C. Bose of the Calcutta Presidency College, of some instruments by which extraordinary results are said to have been obtained. ertain phenomena have been reproduced without any con- nection between the transmitting and re- ceiving stations. Signals in the form of light and sound have been passed along the ether, without any other apparent means of transmission, and even solid walls have not interposed any obstacle to the passage of these signals. TELEPHONES AND FiRe ALARMS. — The efficiency of mauy of the London fire brigades has been greatly promoted by the adoption of a new system of loud-speaking telephones and fire-alarm posts and ap- paratus. The principal apparatus consists of a call point, or post, for the street and | | an indicator and repl | tion. Instead of giving the alarm by | means of the ordinary electric bell an elec- | tric “hooter” is used. The alarm is given | by simply breaking the glass or opening ¢ for the fire sta- | pony was killed, the wings of the eagle were torn away but Whirlwind was not touched. And until the Bad Spirit swept the valleys of Idaho with a plague twenty years later, Whirlwind remained the in- the door of the post, but_cannot be given | vincible war-chief of the Shoshones, f ither by the earthing of the wire (for test- hite his fire stations, | | He was recaptured on the 19th of February | ete. Commissipner Andrews says: ‘‘With | | ing or otherwise) or by contact with other | wires. This arrangement costs much less | than the ordinary method and minimizes the possibility of false calls. The effect- iveness of this system is much increased by a new method of placing fire stations in permanent telephonic communication | with men_in charge of fire escapes at fixed | street points on the single wire. The call | to the man in charge of the escape is loud | enough to wake him if asleep and it can | !ge heard a considerable distance from his 0X. Tue ErecTrRic MOTOR IN AGRICULTURE.— Farmers, as a class, are not given to new fads, but they have a quick eye for any in- vention that means a solid saving in work or money. It is significant that more elec- tric motors have been sold for agricultural purposes within the last nine months than | Feople believed the tale which White Bull bad told of the power of his tomano- WOS. BOONE AND THE INDIANS. The Old Kentucky Hunter Was a Pris- onen in Their Hands for Months. Boone frequently took to the field on set expeditions against the savages. Once when he and a party of other men were making salt at a lick they were surprised and carried off by the Indians. The old hunter was a prisoner with them for some months, but finally made his escape and came home through the trackless woodsas straight as the wild pigeon flies. He was ever on the watch to ward off the Indian inroads and to follow the war parties and trv to rescue the prisoners, says Theodore Roosevelt in 8t. Nicholas. in any previous year. Electricity is now used on great numbers of farms for light- ing the buildings and driving machines of | various kinds, and where manual labor is usually scarce the advantage of such a ready and efficient servant is immense. Some doubt naving been thrown upon the economy of using electric power for thresh- | ing instead of horses, a farmer has written | to an electric journal, giving the results | that he has attained. f[e used to thresh | with three pairs of horses, which worked a | machine of 800 revolutions per minute. | The horses were changed four times a day. | He now uses an electric motor. He finds, to begin with, that his threshing machine | | is saved an immense amount of wear and | | tear, as its working is smooth and even. | Formerly his six horses threshed in one hour 4.28 tons of barley, now his elecric motor threshes 5.66 tons in the same time. He uses electric power for e\'eri' operation on his farm that it can be applied to, and | says he saves money every time. | s s g e CHIEF OF THE SHOSHONES. How Whirlwind Was Invulnerable to | Once his own daughter and two other girls who were with her were carried off by a band of Indians. Boone collected some friendsand followed them steadily for two days and a night; then they came to where the Indians had killed a buffaio calf and were camped. Firing from a little dis- tance they shot two Indians, and, rushing in, rescued the girls. On another occasion, when Boone had gone to t a salt-lick with his brother, the Indians ambushed them and shot the latter. Boone himself escaped, but the Indians followed him for three miles by the aid of a tracking dog, until Boone turned, shot the dog and then eluded his pursuers. In company with Simon Ken- ton and many of the noted hunters.and wilderness warriors he once and again took Hart in perilous expeditions into the In- ian country. Twice bands of Indians. ac- companied by French, Tory and British partisans from Detroit, bearing the flag of Great Britain, attacked Boonesborough. In each case Boone and his fellow-settlers beat them off with loss. At the fatal battle of the Blue Licks, in which two hundred of the best riflemen of ‘When the great geyser had ceased to cine-man. 1 “Where is Washakie?” he “Where is the would-be war chief?”’ “There,” answered the medicine-man, pointing to an object lying near the mouth of the crater. ‘‘He has found the toman- | owas; but he pierced the heart of the Fire Spirit with arrows, and the Fire Spirit has slain him.” asked. into the earth. Washakie lay back npon his face, crushed and smothered, as far from the ctater as the length of the lariat to which he was bound permitted the water to throw him. In his right hand he still clutched'the quiver, half filled with red, ochreous earth. The medicine-man had taken care that the body should not be lost, says A. H. Sydenham in Lippencott’s. ‘“Here is the secret,”” he said, taking up uiver. “It is the blood of the heart of the Fire Spirit. Whirlwind shall be war chief of the Shoshones. He shall wear the tamanowas in his war-bonnet. Casting the body of Washakin into the crater they turned their backs upon the Fire-Hole Basin and crossed the moun- tains into the land of the Shoshones. White Bull at the council fire told of a Liquor in Battle. | play, Whirlwind stood beside the medi- | The water had subsided and fallen back | | Kentucky were beaten with terrible slaugh- ter by a great force of Indiaus from the lakes. Boone commanded the left wing. Leading his men, rifle in hand, he pushed back and overthrew the force against him, but meanwhile the Indians destroved the right wing and center and got in the rear, so that there was nothing for Boone’s men except to flee with all speed. ———— Fighting With a Lynx. An engineer, while at work in the engine- room of a flourmill at San Quentin, Lower California, was attacked by a half-starved lynx. The man was cool and used effect- ually the only weapons at hand—a brick and a jackknife. ‘While at work the engineer heard a strange purring sound behind him, and looking toward the door,saw the lynx staring at him. No weapon other than a brick was at hand, and before the man could seize that the animal growled and prepared to spring. Just as the lynx was jumping, however, the brick—thrown with the engineer’s full strength—struck the animal squarely between the eves, slightly dazing the brute, though but momentarily checking the leap. But that instant gave the man a chance to shift his ground, in doing which he up- set a barrel of water, and part of the con- tents splashed over the lynx. fight between the two rivals and the Fire This sudden bath confused the animal, Spirit, in which Washakie had been slain, but the Whirlwind had come away vic- torious. Then the crafty deed of the medicine-man was rewarded by the elec- tion of Whirlwind as war chief. That summer when he led his people afninsc the neighboring tribes Whirlwind placed the tomanowos in the beak of the eagle which crowned his war-bonnet. Though foremost amonsthe falling braves he received no wound. Bullets struck away the feathers of his war-bonnet, his and caused it to halt for a second or two," enabling the man to open his jackknife :gdlmeec with its sharp point the spring of e lynx. Luckily the knife entered at a vital point and the lynx fell dead, although the en- gineer stabbed it at least a dozen times more to make sure of the fact. As it was a large lynx, the result might have been different if it had been well %ed and of full vigor instead of half starved.—Youths’ Companion. B > | L3 2