The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 9, 1895, Page 26

26 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JUNE 9, 1895. DPavip CLARK, SEA LAWYER, U. S. N. There are sea lawyers and sea lawyers in the navy, In the merchantservice the man before the mast knows no law except what comes down to him from a handspike, and even the manner of its induction to his understanding leaves him in no condition to reta’n any of the knowledge. It is cer- tainly knocked in too deep for practical use orit leaks out through the breaksin his head. But in the navy the cut-and-dried iron- clad, unswerving system that governs the man from cabin to forecastle is builded on the “‘blue book,” as ““the cerulean-hued vol- ume that holds the rules and regulations” is called. It is the compass, the barometer, the wind vane, and by it the sailor trims his sails and weathers the galesof his three years’ enlistment. It is the safe- guard against encroachment upon his eminent domain by the brass buttons aft, and his hope of drifting clear of breakers when cited to ‘“the mast’—that dread place of official inquisition—to answer for some demeanor. [0 be sure he is most likely to do the en- croaching, as the man from Annapolis is gifted with more discretion than he, and v, but he likes to feel can citizen he has rights | which no gun can_batter down, and there is a imit over which the officer must not step. It may not be out of place here for the nantly to the mad harpings of the hardest gale that ever billowed the ocean. Though his services as lawgiver of the ship was a labor of love, and the only fee he extractec was prayerful attention, and though his counsel invariably met disas- ter when it attempted the uncertain navi- gation of the quarterdeck, his highly respectable and fatherly appearance in- spired confidence, and the younger por- tion of the men sat at his feet a crew of Gamaliels, drinking in the weightful words of their St. Paul. Possibly the cause of so many reversals which Attorney Clark suffered at *the mast” may have been owing to the fact that he dispensed advice from an unwrit- ten code, or else an unwritten interpreta- tion of the “blue-book” laws. Albeit, his fame as “‘fleet barrister,” as he was called, was untarnished, and business was good at the old stand under the to’'gallant fore- castle, where Dave’s lawmill ground out legal solutions that never solved. On board A_man-of-war the breadth and scope of obedience to an order from a su- perior is always debated and never settled. The rules and regulations give small lati- tude to the subordinate and little discre- tion. Clark held that a man should follow his official instructions, even if he followed them overboard. There was no evidence that this profound law student everapplied his readings to himselt, or had ever been in the water through a close attention to the letter of an order, but his heroic and very virtuous interpretation of the section bearing on the subject sounded writer to ease off a little from the course of well and the whole watch concurred. Nor DAVE CLAREK, SEA LAWYER. this narrative for the purpose of penciling | down in_parenthesis a few hard facts: | Jompared with the lot of the man in other | ships the berth of the United States naval 1is & berth in luxury so steeped in | and sweetness_that one wonders | le ever leaves it. Uncle Sam _gives him from $24to $35 a month, whileina | merchant vessel he gets from $15 to $20. | In the warship he is treated kindly and asked to do tasks so simple that it is the wonder of a merchant officer how they ever get anything done on the cruiser. In the merchant clipper his title to humanity is disputed and he tastes the dismal hor- rors of a degradation that crushes down | upon him every hour of the voyage. In the navy his wages are saved for him end_every cifort is made to enlarge his final “pay day.” In the other service he is robbed by the crimp who works under permission of the skipper, connived at by | the owners, who often divide the stealing | with the boarding-house sharks. In the | a system of government banking is established whereby a man is paid 4 per | cent on his money while he is earning it until his term of enlistment has expired. In the other service his money is kept from him until a large sum is due, then he is driven to desert, that all this pay may go back to the ship-owners. Many cap- tains boast that they never pay off their crews, but make it so hot for the poor wretches that they are glad to seek a cooler place—and go through the same process again and again. And yet the writer has seen a man jump & war-vessel in a moment of childish dis- content, leaving §200 due him, and go on board a merchant ship, leaving about $50 to the runners that robbed and shipped bim. He made the hard voyage arourd | the Horn and ran away in a foreign port, leaving over $60 on the books. He then shipped in another vessel, passing through | the crimps again to the tune of $30. In San Francisco he ran away, of course, leaving $40, and presented himself at his old ship, begging to be reinstated on board, willing to take his punishment for deser. tion. This brilliant financier of the sea had been gone a little over twelve months and had paid $380 for his trip to Europe. This is the sailorman all over, and the way he handles himself and his life. But this narrative will now come back out of the parenthesis and steer a straighter course. The sea lawyer, while he gives oceans of advice, never accompanies his client to “the mast.”” He only loads him up with sections and paragraphs from the “blue book” and from his place forward on some ammunition-chest watches from afar the accused in his forensic fight with the powers that be. It matters not to the attorney-at-sea-law that his client, following faithfully the ad- vice of counsel, gets into the ‘brig,’” the place of seclusion and repentance, neither does it discourage him in his loved labor of filling his shipmates’ mind with choice gems of marine jurisprudence. In this he departs not far from his brother on shore, who plucks victory as well as fce when Judge and_jury reverse his interpretation and jail his man. On sea or land the client locked up is only so. pe:son-llr, not legally, and if that satisfies counsel, who has a professional reputation at stake, the other has no resl, tangible, substantial kick filed; moreover, sentiment enters largely into the grambling prisoner’s plea, and sentiment is “irrelevant, incompetent and immaterial’—the everlasting warcry of the warrior-lawyer. - Dave Clark was the most eminent marine jurist that ever sat on a quarter-gunner’s chest and propounded sea law. Vener- able, bald and beamy was Lawyer Clark who practiced on the decks of a score o ships during his eight and thirty years of naval service. The winds of five zones had blown most of his hair away from the upper partof his figurehead, but on his f.““ in hung & noble whisker that ughed at the fugy ef end hummed reso. is it on record that any of Clark’s school ever jeopardized their lives in sticking to orders; on the contrary the wonderful wis- | dom on the subject they had absorbed in some manner from their marine Moses seemed to fit them logically for anything but a noble end. Whenever a man came aboard from liberty on shore twenty-five or thirty hours overtime, it was Clark, in the roll of preliminary court, hauled the man up under the to’gallant forecastle for examination. This very wise Daniel-come- to-judgment would see that the accused pleaded “not guilty,” and let him prove it too. Then he wouid exonerate the fellow completely, in fact justify him in all his wrongdoings until the ‘late lawbreaker would walk out on deck in togs of spotless white, as it were. It is not altogether certain that Dave Clark was not moved sometimes by the grim humor that seemed to be the larger part of his large body. There was a ripple that might be of merriment rolling over his severely judicial and ample face when the dread summons came to the culprit bidding him go aft where the commandin officer stood “with the symbolical swos and scales. However, there was no trace of anythinfil but the deepest commiseration on his ysiognomy when he tripped aown to the brig to tell the prisoner tgat a letter to the admiral or Secretary of the Navy, which he would get the ship's writer to send rightaway, would make mat- ters come out all right. It is unneces- sary to state that the ship’s writer did nothing of the kind, as that petty officer was mnot incurring courts-martial by em- g]oymg his facile pen in letters over the eads of bis superior officers. When Saxie Fisher was in charge of the alcohol chest and prevented from making toddies from the pungent fluid by being falsely informed from the quarterdeck that the contents of the tank had been poisoned Clark advised him to report the affair to the admiral. Such deception practiced by & superior upon a subordinate was not con- aucive to good morals. No wonder sailors sometimes grow negligent of their early religious training when those in authorit; take advantage of their ingenuous disposi- tion. This argument was always comfort- ing to the man under the ban of the cap- tain’s displeasure and also filled him with greater respect for the sea lawyer's far- sightedness. . On one occasion a marine was threaten- ing to complain to the department for hav- ing been forced to submit to.a shave by Neptune’s court barber when the ship was crossing the equator. Notwithstanding Clark had played the role of the monarch of the seas in the sailor masquerade on the line, he strongly advised the man with the grievance to go abead with his case and eet every officer in the fleet, from admiral down, cashiered. This Dave logically ar- gued would forever stamp out a silly rude custom that was only practiced on ship- board to make marines, whom a sailor dis- likes anyway, ridiculous. The chap, well coached, went to “‘the mast” with his com- Plumt, and when ordered forward “gave ip,” as insolence to a superior is called in the picturesque vernacular of the sea, and as is custorpary in such case, went down into the “brig.”” Dave followed, and when the master-at-arms had turned the key and cleared out, consoled his luckless client with the expressed intention of getting the ship’s writer to write to the Secretary of 2 mutiny, treason, disobedience of orders, refusing duty and committing a crime tending to the destruction of morals in the service. The accused grinned over these sgecification: of charges until Clark, though senior member of the court, slyly told him that the mess intended to carry him into the forehold and flog him sound- ly. He convinced the now angry man that he could square yards with the pie-biters by reporting them at ‘“the mast” for causing him *‘much indignity and great bodily pain.”” Clark carefully drilled the dull-witted fellow in the terms and the complainer solemnly spoke his little piece to the first lieutenant. The complainant was ordered forward with a severe reprimand, and he as usual lost his temper and his retort brought about the usual catastrophe. Hiseminent and faith- ful counsel went down to the “brig” and comforted him by promising to get the ship’s writer, etc. So this venerable sea-law giver of the navy practiced to the delight and edifica- tion of his trusting shipmates and the holding capacity of the “brig” until his retirement from the service with a snug enrning of about $8000 and his elevation to a bench under his own vine and orange tree on some little Southern California ranch. Tom GREGORY. 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 after they are received. Sometimes an answer caunot be had sooner than three weeks after start- ing the inquiry. Questions the answers to which will amount to an advertisement of any business or article will not be answered. Questions askirs for the standing of sny - dual or irm 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. THE UNIVERSITIES—J. W.R., Santa Clars, Cal. The following from the United States Report of the Commissioner of Education is a list of fellowships in the principa. universities, also the income: University of Califernia, 4, $2300 ayear; Yale, 6, $3316; University of Illinois, 4, $1500; Johns Hopkins University, 22, $10,900; Ambherst College, 1, $300; Boston University, 2, $1000; Harvard, 24, Clark University, 30, %12,000; University of Michigan, "1, $500 University 1 $750; University of Missi 2000; College of New Cornell University, 15, Columbia College, 27. $13,548: Uni ity of New York, 3, ¥ 3 $2300; Haverford College, 4, $1200; of Pennsylvania, 6, £1030; Brown the Navy for justice. _On another occasion a cook was tne vic- tim of a mock court-martial held by his messmates who charged him with “glvin, lip” to one of their number who growle for pie at the breakfast. His sentence was ten blows with a ropesend, and afrer the unishment he concluded to get angry at is treatment. Clark had been the judge- advocate of the forecastle court, but so geat was his desire to expound sea law to e cook that he advised him to strike on the ‘“pie” E;oposgtmn. which the man did. The mess immediately convened in a gen- cral couxi-martial in -oxder to try*him foz ity, 1, $500; Vanderbilt University, . $3800; Hampden Sidney (Va.) College, 1, $600; Washington and Lee University, 1, $500; University of Wisconsin, 9, $3600. Grad uate scholarships: University of California, 1, £200: Wesleyan University, 1, $250: Yale, 8, $2660; Johns Hopkins University, 50, $8950; Harvard, 47, $10,950; Cornell, 6, $1200, and University of Rochester, 2, S600. TRAINING FOR BICYCLE Races—J. P. M., City. A professional trainer has furnished the Query Column with the following rules for those who wish to train for bicycle races: Food—Plain, wholesome, plenty of meat, not too fat, posi- tively no pastry, fruit in moderation and eat sparingly ot potatoes; drink—no liguor of any kind, avoid coffee, drink weak black tea, do not drink very much water and do not suck limes to moisten the throat; clothing—dress comfortably and warm, if there is need of re- duction of flesh wear two sweaters at first, do not stand in a draught after dismounting; work—at first ride f{rom three to five miles both morning ud evening at & good pace, but if you get tired quit, Do not overdo yourself. Keep this up until ten days before the race (having begun, say, three wecks before the race), and then ride the dis- tance you intend to race, spurting the last eighth of a mile. Keep this up until two days before the tace, sprinting as fast as possible on the last eighth of & mile. Do notmount a wheel the day before the race—rest. As to physical treatment, bathing and the like after exercising, no special rule can be laid down. That is & matter that must be decided by the trainer in each individual case. Ix CASE OF DIvORCE—W. B., City. In the case of dissolution of marriage by a court of com- petent jurisdiction in the State of California the community property and the homestead is disposed of as follows: If the decree be on the ground of adultery or extreme cruelty the com- munity property shall be assigned to the re- spective parties in such proportion as the court from the facts of the case may deem just; if the divorce is rendered on any other grounds the community property shail be divided equally between the man and the woman; if a homestead has been selected from the commu- nity property it may be assigned to the inno- cent perty, either absclutely or for a limited seriod subject in the latter case to the further isposition of the court, or it mey in the dis- cretion of the court be divided or gold and the roceeds divided; if the homestead was selected rom separate property itshall be assigned to the former owner of such property, subject to the power of the court to assign it for a limited period to the innocent part PUBLIC LANDS IN CALIFORNIA—J. H.and L. J. 8., City. There are surveyed and unsurveyed lands in California vacant and subject to en- try. Information about these lands can be ob- tained by communicating with any of the fol- lowing land oftices: Humboldt, Humbolat County; Independence, Inyo County; Los An- geles; Marysville, Yuba County; Redding, Shasta County; Sacramento, San Francisco, Stockton and Visalia. Maps of public lands may be obtained on payment of $1 to the office in the district in which the land is located. Ever{l person who is the head of & family, or who has arrived at the age of 21, and is a citi- zen of the United States, or has filed his declaration of intention to become such, shall be entitled to enter one-quarter section or less quantity of unappropriated public lands. Ii the entry isfor eighty acres the fee to be paid. on filing the applicant’s affidavit is $5. If in excess of that number of acres the fee is $10 Then there are fees to attorneys, cost of build- ing a house in which to live on the land taken up, and the fees for proving up. SuccessioN—L. M. R., City. In the State of California, if a man dies and there is no will, if he leaves a widow and more than one child, one-third of the property left goes to the sur- viving wife and the remainder goes in equal shares to the children. In making a will, the party making it should be careful to be ex- Blicn as to what he desires shall be done with is property after death. A deed of giit is a transfer made with the intention of passing the title and delivering possession of the thing given, ana it must be accepted by the donee. Be & ‘man as careful as ho wishes in the dispo- sition of his property, there is nothing to pre- vent interested parties, after his death, from commencing an action to show that the man did not know what he was about whiie in life and wanted to do with his property, or that he ‘was incapable of disposing of it. ALTERNATIVE—C. L. W., Oakland, Cal. The word alternative means a choice—one choice— between things, consequently the use of the phrase “no other alternative” is_incorrect. It should be “no alternative,” E. 8. Gould in “Good English and Misused Words” says: Yet popular usage has so corrupted it (alterna- tive) ThaL 1t 18 How Gommonty applled. o the things themselves and not to the choice between them, 8 thus: *You may take either alterna- tive,” or “I was forced to choose belween two alternatives,” and indeed some people g0 50 far as to say “Several alternatives were presented to him.” Gladstone in his Oxford essays uses the fol- lowing: “My decided preference is for the fourth and last of these alternatives.” A1DS TO MEMORY—A. 8., Los Angeles, Cal. There are scveral books published that are said to be aids to memory and such may be obtained from any first-class book-dealer. A writer on the art of mnemonics says: Wewmesry ab large can ke Luproved only by in. NEW TO-DAY—DRY GOODS. Duck Suitings. A beautiful display in the large west show-window. A greater and more varied display at our counters. The newest ideas of Duck Suiting manufacturers at lower prices than elsewhere, qualities considered. RUSSIAN DUCK SUITINGS, very heavy good - wearing = quality, black, navy blue, red, tao and light grounds, with stripes of all 12i° kinds, spots, dots and splashes of . s rar N DUCK SUITINGS, vers ] O1C heavy fine quality, in solid colors, 1Z2 wkLite, black, tan, navy blue Yard SATIN-STRIPE DUCK SUITING, 8 superior quality, navy. black ] 5C and tan grounds, with small and” L exceedingly dainty patterns...... Yard FANCY DUCK SUITINGS, the soft- finish kind that falls in graceful folds, seaside and mountain shades of tan, purple, pink, yel- low, faint blues, etc. . Other Wash Fabrics. Charming creations in Ging~ hams, Organdies, Batiste, Dimity and Sateens. Hundreds and hun- dreds of pieces to choose from, at money-saving prices. PIQUES—Navy blue, tan and light 25°¢ Yard grounds, with dots, stripes and ] 910 figures, ‘also solid colors, & su- 12 perior quality. 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LADIES' TAN LISLE HOSE,French make, silk finish, Richelien or Rembrandt ribbed, high-spliced 333° Palr 50° heels, double toes, real beautles FANCY CHANGEABLE SILKS, myc these. Pair 19 inches, & new lot just In, (ki and beautitul Yard Black Hosiery. Makers guaranteed us that their blacks were ‘““fast,”’ and, as we’ve had no complaint on that score, think you will find these hose thoroughly reliable. CHILDREN'S BLACK COTTON HOSE, sizes 5 10 814, narrow rib, 800d quality, double knees, heels and toes. MISSES’and CHILDREN'S BLACK COTTON HOSE, fine Macco yarn, h-spliced hecls, sizes 6 to 9, superior 15° Pair narrow ribbed, double toes, quality. BOYS' BLACK COTTON HOSE, ex- tra heavy, wide ribbed, spliced heels and’ toes, good outing and bicycle stockings, sizes 6 to 10.... 25° | Palr 25° Pair extra fine quality, Hermsdorf dye, all black or with white feet, high-spliced heels, double soles and toes......... 25° Pair Millinery Trimmings. NOVELTIES FOR SUMMER, 1895, at 25 to 50 per cent less than in exclusive milli- Bery stores. SPANGLED W HAT CROWNS, new and dainty cre- AIGRETTES, in jet or steel, black 1-7 sseabc zo$ — JET BONNETS, in newest and most lovely silks for waists and even= ing dresses this week. Don’t miss seeing them, HEAVY DRESDEN balance of this season’s stock at.. ard FANCY CANELA-STRIPE SILKS, 20 inches wide, one of the lovel: (] .00 est and most popular silks of thed L'— | 5eason ... = .. Yard GROS DE LONDRES FIGURED dace designs and colorings. . Yard FANCY POINTELLSTRIPE SILK, 21 inches, a new creation 1:50 this season, elegant for evening: — wear, very heavy. % Yard BLACK FIGURED SILK, several BLACK FIGURED GROS-GRAIN (DO Wi ADVERTISE eo F [3 ‘Y W Wi LADIES' BLACK LISLE HOSE, f French make, silk finish, plain or 1c o Richelien ribbed, _high-spliced SHE heels and double toes. . et Pai Floral Collarettes. 4 BEAUTIFUY ARVEREY (15 ] liberal education, and Doty i, @50 | what’s more, save money blue, cream, purple and green. W S on fine net, @ 4.00 black and gold effects...$1 25 to — ations in jet and beaded eifects, @ Q.50 gt b ad or colors.. striking shapes, now mnrked$5.so .7bc 10 Silks. A big show-window display of SILKS, 20@].00 inches. On Monday we offer the: — CHANGEABLE SILKS, 30 @7.25 inches wide, in late spring ) bl new lines in latest designs, 19 to 23 inches wide, in good heavy quality. . 75°¢ Yard SILK, 22 inches wide, in the large patterns designed for fall wear. 1-00 ‘ard things. ¢store news’’ tells of the most stylish things for women’s wear and tells you how to get the best the ‘“‘ads’ in your paper and you will acquire a MONDAY AND T UES- busy sorting out and pric= ing thousands and thou= sands of remnants, accumulations of the great sale just finished. Wednesday, Friday and Saturday we propose to hold an unpar= alleled V& OU ADVERTISE TOO MUCH,” SAID ONE OF our best customers the other day, “there’s so much news in the paper that I don’t have time to read it all, tosay nothing of your stupendous ‘ads.’ ”’ Stop ! Stop and think a minute, and you will agree with us that there is no more important news in the paper than the ‘“store news,” and that’s what good advertising is—‘‘store news.”’ of personal interest to you. Store news is It tells you what to eat, hat to drink, what to ear and where to get the Our particular batch of r the least money. Read hile you are doing it. DAY we shall be very the | Thursday, Remnant Sale. . (INCORPORATED] 937, 989, 941 Market Street, SAN FRANCISCO. creasing the vigor and freshness of the nervous system and avolding all occasions of exhaustion, undue excitement and other cases of nervous waste. Wemay do this by general constitutional means or by stimulating the brain at the expense ofother functions. This last method is, however, no economy in the end. Every man’s system has a certain fand of plastic power which may be hus- banded but cannot materially be increased on the whole, the power being greatest in_early life and diminisning with advancing years. If it is strongly drawn upon for one class of acquisitions we must no expect it to of equal avall for others. To DESTROY ANTS—S., City. The following methods are said to be effective for the destruc- tion of ants, and they are given for what they are worth: To destroy biack ants—Boil four onnces of quassia chips in one gallon of water for ten minutes, and add tour ounces of soft soap. This applied (o places where there are ants will kill them. To exterminate red ants— Grease a plate with lard and sct it where these insects abound. They prefer lard to anything else and will forsake sugar for it; place a few sticks around the ?lue for the ants to climb upon. Occasionally turn the plate bottom up over the fire, and the ants will fall in with the melting lard. Reset the plate and you will catch them all. MEN AND ARMS—F. A,, City. The five strong- est nations &s Lo army, navy and guns combined are, In times of peace: Russia, 1,156,684 men, 6259 guns, other than small arms: Germany, 660,632 men, 4197 guns; France, 644,497 men, 8834 guns; Austria-Hungary, 348,180 men, 2775 guns; Italy, 220,685 men, 7692 guns. In times of peace England has 202,216 men, 10,366 _guns, on a war footing 1,039,760 men. On awar footing the other five nations have: Russia, 5,780,309 men; Germany, 3,755,954 men; France, 3,723,785 men; Italy, 2)559,722 men; Austris-Hungary, 1,589,208 men. PROMINENT PrOPLE—M. P., Alameda, Cal. Tetters addressed as follows will reach the parties they are intended for: Joaquin Miller, Oakland, Cal.; Jerome K. Jerome, The Idler, London, Eng.; Harry Romaiue, New York City, N. Y.; George'de Maurier, London, Eng.; Pro- fessor J. Le Conte, University of Celifornia, Berkeley, Cal.; Thomas A. Edison, Menlo Park, N.J.; Charlotte M. Yonge, care of Macmillan Publishinghouse, TLondon, Eng.: Frank R. Stockton, Morristown, N. J.; Rabbi Jacob Voor- sanger, San Franciscd, Cal. CLIMATE NORTH—E. P., Ferndale, Humboldt County, Cal. There is no weather bureau sta- tion at Bandon, Coos Bay County, Or. At the nearest point where there is a station, which is Empire City, the average rainfall for five years has been 38.82, while at Eureka the average for six years has been 44.4. The aver- ege temperature at Eureka is 51.7 deg., while at Vandon, Coos County, the nearest place to Bandon where a rocord 15 kept, 1t is 50 deg. The Query Column has no information as to the quality ot land in Coos County. MARION CRAWFORD—Ms. J. A. C., City. Fran- cis Marion Crawford, the novelist, is & nephew of Mrs. Julia Ward Howe. Julia Romana, eld- est daughter of Mrs. Howe, was an educator. She was born in Rome, Italy, March 13, 1844, In December, 1870, she married Michael Anag- nos. She died in Boston, March 10, 1886. Maud, Mrs. Howe’s second dnufihler, ‘was born in Boston, November 9, 1855. She is an euthor. In February, 1887, she married John Elliott, an English artist. I~ THE Pror Sgrvice—L.W., Stockton, Cal. If you wish to become & pilot in the harbor of San Francisco you will have to make personal application to the boatkeeper of any of the pilot-boats. Your quelifications for the posi- tion can be determined only after a trial. “The chances of obtaining a_position are not the very best, as there are 100 applicants for every vacancy that occurs and vacancies do not occur very often. THE IoWA LAW—C. 1., City. The law of Iowa provides that one-third in value of all legal or cquitable estates in resl 'psopert! possessed by the husband at any time during the martiage, which have not been sold on_execution or any other judicial sale, and to which the wife has made no relinquishment of her right, shall be set apart as her property in fee simple if she survive him. CLARK'S UNIvERsITY—M. A. L. Calistoga, Napa County Cal. The Clark’s University men- tioned in the reports of the Woman's Congress is located at Vggreeuer, Mass. The founder took a great interest in kindergarten work. FISHES AND BNAKES—F. L., Mulberry, San Benito County, Cal. Fishes and snakes have hearts. The heart of a fish consists only of one auricle and one ventricle, receiving venous blood only, and sending it to the gills, where, being oxygenated, it passes into the greater of systemic circulation by the dorsal vessel. The eart of the snake is placed very far Lack in the body. Snakes have bones. HETTY GRERN—C. D. H., City. Hetty Green is considered the richest woman in the world to-day. Those who claim to know assert that her known wealth is of the value of $50,000,000, and that the property which she claims in Chi- cago s an inheritance from her father fu- creases her wealth to over $120,000,000. There is one woman in Chile who is reputed to be worth $100,000,000. TRANSFERS—Subscriber, City. The Market- street line of cars never exchanged transfers with the Omnibus or Montgomery-street line et Montgomery and Market streets. You prob- ably refer to the fact that at one time the Montgomery-street line gave transfers to cars of its own line that ran along Market street from Mon:lgomr to the ferry, but that was before the days of the railway combination. GAs FIxTuRE—. K. 8., Oakland, Cal. A gas fixture is either the bracket projecting from the side of a room or the gasalier, a branch of lights suspended from & ceiling by means of & tubutar rod. The burner is thet from which the flame is produced and & jet is & spurting of flame from & small orifice, To designate a bracket or & gasalier as a gas jet is wrong. NOE-STREET FRANCHISE—M. E. L., City. The Market-street Railway Company holds a fran- chise to run cars on Noe street. The franchise authorizes the company to run cars on Noe street, from Twenty-fourth to Jersey. It was granted on December 5, 1892, andthe com- pany haa three years in ‘which to complets the roud. OLp SoLpinRs—H. M., Oakland, Cal. There isno law that declates & man may not be re- moved from an appointive office, State, county or city, becanse he is an old soldier who served during the War of the Rebellion. In many places there are Iaws that provide thatap- pointees shall not be removed except for cause, 8ad then after trial. A1LoNG THE CoasT—Y. C. R., City. There is not any law regulating the distance a vessel shall remain off shore while proceeding on a voyage. The distance from shore is a matter that is left to the discretion, judgment and ex- perience of the navigating officer. He is fi\;ided principally by the charts provided for m. FISHING—G. B., City. As your communica- tion does not state if the grounds from which you were ordered off by a man claiming to be the owner were inclosed and had the cus- tomary notice against trespassing, it 1s im- possible to give an intelligent answer to your question. To REMOVE FRECKLES—A. C. 8., City. There are a number of preparations for the removal of freckles, but none of these should be used except upon the advice of a physician, as many of them contain substances that act &s a corosive. RENT IN ADVANCE—Iil. M., Oakland, Cal. There is no law in this State that requires the payment of rent in advance. Whether rent shall be paid in advance or not is a matter of contract between landlord and tenant. ROoSECRANS—Subscriber, City. Brigadier-Gen- eral \V. S, Rosecrans (retired) held the position of Register of the Treasury until the Cleveland administration came inio power. His post- office address is Washington, D. C. QUEENSBERRY RULES—G. B., City. It wasthe present Marquis of Queensberry who prepared the boxing rules that are known by his name. The father of the present Marquis was acci- dentally killed in August, 1858. SIXTEENTH-STREET RoaD—J. W., City. No date has yet been fixed for the opening of the Sixteenth-street electric road, but it will not be put into operation until the Fillmore-street line is completed. BANK CommisstoNers—H. M., South San Francisco. The Bank Commissioners of Cali- fornia ave: Paris Kilburn, Jesse B. Fuller and Harvey S. Magee. Their office is located at 530 California street. A REPUBLIC—H. M., Oakland, Cal. A repub- lcan ferm of government is one in which the executive power is vested In & pesson or per- sons chosen by the body of citizens entitled to vote. BoErs—L. B., City. Boer is Dutch for farmer, and is the name given to the Dutch colonists of South Africa, who are principally engagea in agriculture and the raising of cattle. CLEVELAND AND WALES—O. 8. and A. W., City. The heightof President Cleveland is 5 feet 10 inches, and that of the Prince of Walesisd feet 7 {nches. HALF-MILLION CLUB—L. M., Osakland, Cal. the Hali-Million Club, San Francisco, will reach that body. HORNY HANDS—A. C. S, City. The use ot gumice soap and rest from work that pro- hu('ed! callous skin will soften the skin of horny ands. Vorep No—S., Bacramento, Cal. Congressman Geary voted “no” in the House on the tariff bill when it came up for final passage. OLD HoMESTEAD—E. N. K., City. “The 01d | Homestead” will be produced at the Macdon- ough Theater, Oakland, on July 15. SOFTENING BRASS—M. S. H., City. Brass is softened by heating it to & Cherry red and plunging it into water. ELECTRICIAN—H. 8., City. Thomas A. Edison is recognized as the foremost electrician of the world to-dey. SAXE, THE POET- P., Alameds, Cal. John ?éss'?“' poet, died in Albany, N.Y., June 2, A BACK DaTe—H Oakland, Cal. The 14th of March, 1852, fell on a Sanday. AMERICAN WIVES ABROAD. A Highly Uncomplimentary Picture Drawn by a Londoner. Here is the way a writer describes what happens after a rich American girl has succeeded in capturing a titled English- man for a hushand, says a writer in the London World: ““When the marriage festivities are over, | the honeymoon ended, and the realities of | everyday life on the march again, what | sort of a wife does the Anglo-American bride develop into as a rule? In cases where the dowry is large and the devo- tion not great, this question is of little im- portance. In a big house there is little room for clashing, and, if the circle of friends be only wide and lively enough, husband and wife will hardly have time to ir_ow sufficiently familiar for either love- mal mfi or quarreling. Supposing, how- ever, that the husband should be fortunate as to have conceived any real affection for his bride before marria; e, and to have evolved any hope that she would develop into the companion, friend and sympathizer, who is the ideal wife and helpmate, he is certainly doomed to severe disappointment, _““He will find that there is no domestic | side to his spouse’s character. Neither her education nor her life has been calculated toencourage in her the instincts of the mother or the housewife. She has no de- sire for childen; less inclination has she | to be troubled with them if they come. She cannot be bored with household de- tails. She confines herself to suing or- | ders to well-drilled dependents, rates all | misperformance in a loud key, and checks | the bills with the acuteness of a lawyer’s clerk. She has no taste for home life. On the contrary, she counts every evenin wasted that she spendsat home, and woul die of ennui were she condemned for long to‘}w the sole society of her husband. 1§ Very quickly he will find that her theory of life comprehends only an endless round of gayety and a perpetual circle of expen- diture. . The country is only tolerable to | her during the first effervescence of the bridal return, when the house is filled as A letter addressed to Hugh Craig, president of J be so un- | and the landscape a: of winter, very soon she tires of it, grows restless and discontented, while her natur- ally strident voice assumes a sharper and more disagreeable note. at last, the | country seat is left to take care of itsel and the couple hasten to London, Pari Cairo or Monte Carlo, where she is soon herself again. The end of th come sooner or later. “The husband grows tired of the home that is no home, tEe wife who is no com- panion except for other people, and the new friends, whose faces there is barely time to get to know by sight. He returns to his work, his sports or his dissipations with renewed ar(ror, and profoundly re- grets that he did not marry in America, where incompatibility of temperament is a valid ground for divorce.” SLIPPERY SLIDE. A Natural Toboggan Course Where Grown-Up People Sport. In Perak, a state in the Straits Settle ments, the Malays have one form of amusement which is probably not to be had anywhere else in the wide world. There is a huge granite slope in the course of a mountain river, down which the water trickles two inches deep, the main stream having carved out a bed by the side of a bowlder. This rock, the face of which has been rendered as smooth as glass by the con- | stant flow of water during hundreds of | years, the Malays—men, women and children—have turned into a toboggan slide. . Climbing to the top of the rock they sit in the shallow water with feet straight out and a hand on each side for steering, and then slide down the sixty feet into a pool of water. This is a favorite sport on sunny mornings as many as 200 foik being e n gaged ata time, and sliding so quickly one after another, or forming rows of two, four and even eight persons, that they tumble into a pool a confused of scrambling creatures.—Pittsburg Dispatch. e A Colossal Bottle. At the Bordeaux Exhibition, which will be opened shortly, will be seen the largest bottle ever made. It will be no less than | 35 meters, or nearly 115 fect high, and it will represent a bottle of tonic bitters. To { the Bordeaux Exhibition it will be what the Eiffel Tower was to the Paris Exhibi- | tion in 1889. The bottle will be in the | center of the grounds, and people will be admitted to the interior. 1Two enormous doors will give access to the ground floor, where there will be a large refreshment. | room. Leading to the first, second and | third floors there will be two spacions | staircases, each of 160 steps. They will end about half way up, after which there is to be a winding staircase leading to the ek of the bottle, at the top of which there will be a terrace, with room for thirty-five people upon 1t, whence a fine view of the exhibition grounds and the | whole city will be obtained. The whole will be surmounted by a kiosque in the guise of a cork, which will afford a shelter from the sun or rain.—New York Journal. S S S The Empress Anna of Russia was very and the fleshiness of her face detracted from its good looks. 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