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6 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1895. p GOSSIP FROMGOTHAM Cornelius Bliss Hints at a| New Organization of Republicans. STAND AGAINST BOSSES. Miss Beatrice Harraden Engaged in Writing a New Book. NEW STATUE OF GEN. GRANT. There Is Now Considerable Activity in the Theatrical World of the Metropolis. NEW YORK, N. Y., Nov. 30.—The talk of an attempt to create a new Republican organization outside the present Repub- lican County Comm:ittee, which was hinted at in a mysterions way a few weeks ago. ived again yesterday by Cornelius in a remarkable interview, in which be intimates that ke and bis friends may bolt the Republican party itself and talks of a situation that might be a repetition of the Folger campaign and the subsequent result of a Democratic President. Te Bliss says: “I have not fully considered the advisability of forming a new county organization. All things considered, it would be better to fight within party lines ranged spirally and running from the top | to the bottom of the structure. “This is an idea of my own,” said Aron- son last night, “‘and Architect Kimball has already prepared the plans under = direction. 1 have several sites in view in the neighborhood of Fifty-ninth street, and as soon as a location is selected I shall be able to raise $300,000 among capitalists here and in London to put the scheme in operation,” THE BAGGAGEMAN EXPLAINS. He Declares That o Trunks Smashed on the Railroad. “How do so many trunks get broken?” repeated the baggageman, and his face took on an anxious and weak look. “Weli, that's a question which has puzzled me for a good many years, and I'd give a good deal for a satisfectory answer.” “The baggage-smasher doesn’t haveany- thing to do with it, of course?’’ was sar- castically queried. “XNot a thing, sir. That's where the pub- lic does him a rank injustice. In the old duys thev have smashed up a trunk occa- sionally, but in these modern times trunk | are handled like glassware. I've been on %he road for seven years, and during that time I have not even rnpped the handle off a trunk.” “But trunks come off your car all smashed up.” “Yes, sometimes; and I've had people compliain of me and try to get me dis- chareed. “They were laboring under a misappre- hension, however. In seven cases out of ten the trunk is damaged before it leaves home. People never send a trunk to the shop until the last minute.” “Is the motion of the train hard on trunks?'’ “Very hard, sir. It jars the nails and screws loose, and the first thing you know the sides of a trunk all fall in, and I am blamed for it. “We have to stand trunks on end, you know, to economize space. While in that position they are still more susceptible to the jarring.’ It doesn’t hurt a trunk to drop it from the car door to the platform, does it?” “Not the slightest. On the contrary, if it is an old trunk the shock will tighten it Are if possible. But if the bosses continue to trample on the rights of the people they must take the consequences. “Every in the coming campaign, and it would seem that whoever the Republicans nominated would be elected. But the politicians, the machine politicians, rarely | learn anything from history. I would like to call your attention to the election 0f 18 in this State, when a popular Republican was overwhelmed by a comparatively un- known man, Grover Cleveland, who was elected by a majority of 96,000. Cleve- land’s campaign wWas unprecedented, and he immediately began a National career unexampled in history. The same causes might show a similar result in the next four years. “This total disorganization might be prevented by Lauterbach declining the presidency of the County Committee and agreeing to the election of such a man as Joseph H. Choate, Chauncey M. Depew, Etlihu Root or Horace Porter.” Miss Beatrice Harraden, the authoress hips That Pass in the Night,” isagain or to this country, having arrived yesterday from England on the steam- ship Lucania. “I am writing a new book,”” she said to a reporter. ‘“‘The scene is laid in England. I have not decided on the title yet. In a few days I shall start for California to visit iriends. 1 am not going to become an American citizen, but I like America and Americans. I have many dear friends here."” It is very probable that the football teams of Yale and Pennsylvania will meet on the gridiron next year. While the ar- rangements have not yet been completed, it is understood that a consultation bas en held by the authorized representa- s of the two coll at which the most pleasant and amicable relations were es- hed and a plan mapped out which will bring the iwo teams together without the formality of apologies or concessions by either side. This will be good news for the football enthusiasts of the country, for this season as well as last closed with the champion- ship in doubt. The question of supremacy between the two teams can never be set- tled until they meet and battle it out in manly and sportsmanlike fashion. Another meeting between representa- tives of the two colleges will be held soon, when this matter of so much moment to all world will probably be defi- erected in the square fronting the Union League club in Brooklyn, and is to be un- veiled on the next anniversary of his birth, April 27, 1 Its pedestal, which is of massive granite without ornament, is now being placed, and will be sixteen feet in- height, ihe statue, which- will be of heroic size, reaching almost the same alti- tude. The work is now being cast at the Mossman Bronze Works in Chicopee, Mass., the artist being William Ordway Partridge. ssrs. Abbey and Grau last evening in- troduced another of the new members of their company, when Signor Cremonini made his bow before the New York public as Fernando in “La Favorita’” at the Met- ropolitan Opera-house. The occasion also served to bring Mme. Mantelli forward ina role in which she is Jocally unfamiliar, that of Leonora, while M. Planzon was the Bald- assare of the evening and Signor Ancona the Alfonso. There was thus an element of novelty generally in the production and this served to draw a large audience to hear a work which long became an operatic “back number.” Signor Cremonini made a decided hit. His voice is of sympathetic quality and fairly abundant power, though its lack of resonance on the higher notesof the upper register prevents him from pro- ducing marked effect in broadly matic concerted music such as the finale of the last act of ‘La Favorita,” which aia not want for drumatic fervor in the acting, but through deficiency of vocal strength lackea something of the passion and vigor that was needed to make it thoroughly effective. The green scene in the third fell a little short of what it should bave been for the same reason. That he is a tenor of good quality, with the exception noted, is undoubted, and he will prove a powerful addition to the already strong company of vocalists now at the Metropolitan. Mme. Mantelli’s Leonora was not a dis- appointment to ber many admirers. She sang always with intellizence and nice effect, the “O mio Fernando” particularly serving 1n the andante and allegro to en- able her to broadly contrast her varied vocal powers. M. Planzon was an impressive Baldassare, but Signer Ancona was hardly equal to the demands made upon him by the role of the King. Mlle. Banermeister was an ex- cellent Inez. The work of the chorus was capital and that of therorchestra satis- factory. > Manager Aronson of the Bijou Theater returned from Europe yesterday with a brand-new theatrical scheme. He pro- poses to erect a five-story building 200 feet square, in which races—horseraces, foot- races, bicycle races and every other kind of races—will be held on a mile track ar- | hing looks promising and bright | though. dra- | up as good as new. On my run I save the | public at least §3000 a year for repairs to | the trunks. “You have seen two men seize a trunk {and fling it on top of the pile on a truck. | At such times you think you hear the sound of breaking glass, but you are mis- | taken. Itisthe loose lock of the trunk | settling into place and saves the owner at | least 50 cents in cash. You have seen a | trunk fall from the top of a load on a transfer truck, haven’t you?"’ | " “Yes, I have.” ‘“The noise made was like bursting open a door, and you probably feit like giving somebody a piece of your mind. The in- jury was purely imaginary. The fali sim- ply bolted the casters on and strengthened the hinges. “I am sorry the public labors under the hallucination it does, as it puts a baggage- man in a bad light. I suppose you some- times stand around to see your trunk put on the car?” “Yes, I often do.” “And when you see it rolled over and over, and ended with a bang, and spun halt'way down the car, you fecl a cold | chill? N do.” “Well, chill no more. Such handling is really a benetit to the trunk and should be an extra charge. Dear me, but I wish the public was more appreciative.’” “How would you go to work to damage a trunk?”’ “I do not know. I have laid awake nights and sgecnlned. and planned and | worried, but have never solved the ques- tion. “There is no way I could do it. In case of a wreck a_trunk might get damaged, but while under my care it is as safe asits owner in the parlor car. For vears and years I have handled atleast 500 trunks per week, and in no case have I been to blame for any damage. I wish the public unaerstood this, as it would make my life more cheerful. It is useless to hope, The baggageman is a slandered railroad man, and so he wmust remain while people travel with trunks.” And he caught the handle of an old trunk, gave it a wrench which broke both | hinges and spht the cover, and sighed Grearily as he turned to his work checking off. —Philadelphia Evening Item. — e They Were Easy Game. ; I was out hunting quailina big vine- vard near Santa Rosa & few days ago,” re- marked Superior Judge Dougherty of So- | noma County, “and I got the finest bag of | birds I ever shot in my life. When I first went into the vineyard I thought I was | shooting at tame quail, for they wouldn’t fly till 1 came near stepping on them, and then they would wobble off through the | air in the most erratic way. They would | only fly a short distance till they would { drop into a grapevine as if their wings had given out. 1 “My dog kept bringing me live quail which I thought I had wounded, but finally, when I had three dozen birds and | had fired only about a dozen shots, I ! knew there was something wrong sorue- | where. “Finally I came upon a quail lying on its back and kicking its feet in the air in the most peculiar way. I picked it up and found it uninjured, to far as I could see. Then I set it on its legs and it went stag- | gering and floundering over the clods a ! few feet till it fell on its back again and lay kicking helplessly. *‘For the first time it occurred to me that the quail were drunk., They had been feeding on the frost-bitten grapes that had fermented on the vines, and were enjoying the wildest kind of 2 jag. Some couid not move, while the soberest couldn’t fly fast enough to_get out of the way of a cloa.”—S8an Francisco Post. ———— The Largest Tortoise. There is reported from the Isles Egmont, in the Indian Ocean, not far from the Isle | Maurice, the capture of an enormous male | land tortoise, the largest thus far known. These islands lie in about latitude 60 deg. 40 min. east south and longitude 69 deg. 4 min. east. They are without fresh water, though one of them has a salt lake of con- siderable area. They have not been known hitherto as the resort of land tortoises, though the neighboring islands have them in abundance. This tortoise and his mate bave been seen on the island recentiv at viuri us times. Here are his chief dimen- sion: Height when walking.. Vertical circumferen Horizontal circumfer: Length of back..... Length of breast plate Depth of concavity of breastplate . Length of tail..... Length of hind foot Circumference of hind foot. Lenzth of fore f0ot. Circumference of h Length of neck . A curious fleshy excrescence on each side of the sheil is conjectured to be designed as a protection to the latter when the creature is in certain positions. It is nou known in other land as tortoises, though it may be a peculiarity of aged males. This tortoise is 126 Enunds heavier than the one now living at Port Louis, Isle Maurice; re- cently known as the living.—Cosmos. largest captared How He Knew It. “Ah,” said Mr. Ayteful, as he sat smok- ing his after-dinner cigar, “‘there is nothing in all of life's blessings comparable to a good wife. I know this to be true.” His marital partner came and stood be- hind his chair and laid both hands softly on his shoulders. “Yes, I know it to be true,” continued Mr. Ayteful, “for Simmonson told me so r};dvl never knew him to tell a lie in his ife.” It was only one hand this time that the sharer of his joys and sorrows laid on his ear, and not s0 softly at that.—Indianapo- lis Journal. ———— Stietton House estate, Warwickshire, which was purchased twenty years ago for £12,500, has just been sold for £5000. | for lack of funds. ‘ L[ minutecups of clear, hot, sugarless coffee, | | flavored with a drop or two of violet crea: He is the sa i Various Notes of Bonding and Working Good Claims in That District. LODE AND PLACER PROPERTIES. Rich Quartz Requiring the Application of Electrical and Other Ma. chinery. PLACERVILLE, CaL. Nov: 30.—Both the purchase and bonding of mining prop- erties in various portions of the county is progressing to an encouraging degree. The Pine Hill Gold and Silver Mining Company ‘of South San Francisco has sunk a shaft 150 feet on its property and is preparing to erect a ten-stamp mill with a view to adding sixty stamps in the spring. D. H. Jackson of Oakland has bonded two claims on the Larkin ranch, four miles from Placerville, and is sinking shafts. At fifty feet the rock is showing free gold in fair quantity and very rich sulphurets. The indications are that this will make a good mine. It issquarely on the mother lode. The Gignac gravel claim started last week with a five-stamp mill, two miles from Placerville. Thisis the property of Mrs. Dr. Stone. Spreckels & Mulky are hydraulicking near Fair Play, and their first clean-up was agreeably surprising. “The Gray mine, thirteer miles west of here, was bonded by W. C. Hodgkin and J. Grabam of Chicago. This is an old property being reopened. From 1860 to 1872 it was worked to a depth of 150 feet, and produced $110,000. A Pasco Ewarts opened a hydraulic plant one and a half miles from town, under permit of the United States Debris Commission. Fraser Varozza have begun work on a claim two miles from town and are open- ing on a good-sized ledge of quartz that shows some iree gold and rich sulphurets. Mr. Morey, the Placerville mining ma- chinist, expects to_operate soon on the Blue Bird and Rip Van Winkle, situated twenty miles north of here. Facilities for electrical appliances are excellent and he will introduce a power_plant. There is a ten-stamp mill on the Blue Bird. Lyons, Gifford and Tong have started a two-stamp mill near Clarksville and are developing four claims. Sam Lane is operating a five-stamp mill in the old Stillwagon mine in Brownsville district and taking out rock producing $30 per ton. John Melton is running a 1400-foot tun- nel to cut Poverty Point hill. The tunncl had been run 650 feet and was abandoned Mr. Melton purchased the property and gathered fourteen mines into one group.. There are five ledges al- ready cut and six more toopen. A ten- stamp mill for prospecting purposes was started by Mr. Melton, and the results were so satisfactory that he will complete the big tunnel. This property is two miles from Placerville. A SMART CALIFORNIA GIRL. Runs Her Father’'s Ranch and Does Lots of Things That Men Do. In these days, when there is so much talk about the privileges of women as regards filling the places which have been hereto- fore the prerogatives of men, when intel- lectual women of all classes are looking everywhere for new fields in which to dis- play their hidden talents and expanding energies, the success of a California girl, who bas accomplished much in managing a ranch and made a fortune in cattle and horses, may be especially interesting, and serve as a suggestion to some restless woman who believes she lacks room for her growing abilities to do a man’s work. The Young woman’s name is Margaret Rogers, she is 25 years old, and lives 160 miles south of San Francisco. Her father is an Englishman, who went to California in 1876 for his health, and as he disliked horseback riding, and it was such a necessary part of life in vhat out-of- the-way place, his little daughter soon be- came an expert borsewoman, and for chir- teen years herded ali the cattle. She has alw; ingisted on using a man'’s saddle, however, riding astride, and has designed a dress which looks like a skirt about walking length, made scant in front, but with many full straight breadths in the back, which drape themselves over the figure in a very successiul manner. She rides on a heavy ‘‘vaquero’s’’ saddle, and forty miles is a very usual distance for her to accomplish in one day. Despite the fact that she has traveled about that country for thirteen yearsin that costume, she still an object of much comment. Miss Rogerscan run a plow or a harvesting machine, sow the grain, mark the calvesand sheep, break the colts, play the piano and paint pictures with equal facility, She is a charming hostess, has a fine library, and can do fancy work like any other woman, and be- sides her many othier accomplishments she has won a medal in Oakland for her pro- ficiency in Latin and English literature. The rise and fall of the market prices are simple little sums in arithmetic to her clear mind, and she makesall the contracts for the sales of zrain, beef and pork for ier father's as well as her own ranches. With her sister’s help she marks all the lambs and calves by cutting two little bits out of their ears,which easily identifies them, and when the cattle break through the fence at night she thinks nothing of riding with the men for miles to find the break and hunt up the stray ones. She has been caught in a stampede, when she narrowly escaped with her life. ————— Human Sacrifice in Russia. From the Kansas City Times, ““The sacrifice of human lives under cer- tain conditions is still a custom in certain B‘Q“S of Russia,” said Professor James F. enkins, M.D., of Middletown, N. Y., at the Savoy. ‘‘Attempts by the Govern- ment to put a stop to the practice have thus far been in vain. It prevails among a sect known as the ‘Tshukshem,’ not far from Yakootsk. Old people who have lived beyond the Biblical allotment and sick ones tired of life offer themselves for sacrifice. When one of these characters decides to ‘offer himself up’ he sends word to all his relatives, friends, and neighbors, who then visit him and try to Eermnde him to change his intentions, but all to no purpose. He chooses the manner in which he shall die, and he is killed with great ceremony. The body is then taken to a crematory near by, where it is re- duced to ashes, which are carefully pre- served in an urn of silver by the rela- tives. During the cremation” the rela- tives pray to the spirits, begging them to guard the lives of those mortals still left on earth. This custom has been followed by the sect for centuries.” ————— Violet and Orange Blossom Drinks. The latest acquisition to_the long row of long-necked looking bottles at the foun- tain 1s markea “orange flower syrup.” ‘This is pure extract of orange blossoms, and is about the most ethereally delicious beverage when taken with three inches of cream and well charged. They call it ‘‘Hymen’s wassail,” the girls 0, when the clerk of the fountain serves it with Flemy of soda and ice shaved and piled up ight as snow. He recommends it as a good thing for nerves. One of the nicest and latest of his combinations, and de- servedly popular, too, isordinary chocolate soda, dashed with one teaspoonful of creme d’yvette. _Everybody knows what that is, a cor- dial colored ana flavored as if with violets, and another apothecary is earning a good name among the women by serving | | 82 them, since the cold weather began, with the same man who is making him: self famous by tutti-frutti icecream soda. This is a glass of simple vanilla or choco-’ late cream with a handful of small, spicy, crystalized fruits thrown in before the soda is turned on—cherries, currants, shredded ginger and the like. It costs only 5 cents more than the ordinary soda, and is a favorite after-the-theater treat with the young man of modest means and simple tastes. To the women who crowd around this Eamculur fountain every drinkable is known by the same special title, and only the uninitiated now take their soda plain. All the sirups and flavors are mixed, as many as two, three and four in one glass, while she of the very blase palate asks for green swizzle. Its very name is tempt- ing, yet sounds a trifle wicked; but those who shop and call, and get nbout to all their clubs and athletics successfully say that it is really nature’s sweet restorer in hours of weariness. In reality it is as mild a tipple as ever tempted weak human nature.—New York Sun. KILLING A BIRD. How the Act Affected s Boy With a Toy Gun. 5 A 10-year-old boy of Newtonville was given a toy gun by his father, who langh- ingly promised him $1 for every crow he would shoot. Highly elatea with his gun and sanguine of earning a small fortune by shooting crows the young sportsman spent the greater part of ten days in a field watch- ing for the birds. Not a crow came near him, greativ to his disappointment, and he reported his ill-success to his father, wlio said, to comfort him: ““Well, never mind the crows. I'll give you 50 cents for any kind of a bird you can shoot.” Early the next morning the boy, gun 1n hand, took up his position in the bake yard to watch for sparrows, A half dozen or more unwary birds soon appeared to pick up the crumbs that he had thrown out to Iure them within reach of a shot. At a movement on his part the sparrows rose and the boy fired. One of the birds was hit and fell to the ground, where it lay for a minute, flutter- ing its wings, and then became motionless. The boy went forward, vicked it up and looked at it. The poor little head hung UmE—the shot had broken the sparrow’s neck. For a moment the boy stood con- templating the dead creature in his hand, then he turned and fled to the house._ “Oh, T've killed it! I've killed it, mamma!” he cried in a shocked tone. “It can’t fly any more!” and all that day his lament was, “Ob, I wish I hadn’t done it?” His father, who had not supposed the boy in any danger of hitting a bird, tried to solace him with the half-dollar and sug- gestions of what might be bousht witn it. “No, papa,” was his sorrowful answer, “I don’t want it. I wish it could make the sparrow alive again. I never thought it would be like that to kill a bird !’ “And,” said his father, in concluding the story, *'I was more pleased at the tender feeling my boy displaved than I should have been had he become the best shot in the country.”—Youth’s Companion. ..~ — REAL ESTATE TRANSACOTIONS. Nathaniel T. Coulson to Alexander Warner, lot on X line of Lombard_street, 46:615 E of Octavia, fi)gu&illl}' 187:6, W 251:614, S 37:6, E 46:613, S Mary F. Fillmore (executrix of the estate of W. H. Fillmore) to Rispah B. Kellogg, lot_on SE_cor- ner of Valleio acd Webster streets, S 26:6 by E 91:6: 85850, Mary Smail to Caroline Day,lot on N line of Ciay street, 195 W of Devisadero, W 55:6 by N 127:6; gift. Judah Boas to Clarence F. Montell, 1ot on J3 line of Lott street, 50 N of Waller, N 30, E 63, SE to PoInt 50 N of Waller street, W 70; $10. Louis and Lucy E. Hammersmith to Security Loan Association, loton W line of Tremont avenue, 100 S of Waller street, § 25 by W 80: $10. Emily Emmons to' Henry and S field, 10t on W line of Dolores sireet, 761 Twenty-first. N 25 by W 1 10. John and Annie 8. Fowler to Emily McNab, re- recordof 1586 d 263,0n W line of Dore street, 76:6 N of Twenty-first, N 25 by W 10:5: 8215 e Knopt to Bugene £. Gewsel, NE v rst street and Bryant avenue, E 23 by N 68; $10. Joseph and Nora Jameson to Mary Collins, Tiwenty-fourth street, 230 W of Noe, W 25 by 114; $10. Sarah, Mary E. and C. Frederick Kol to Alvin- za Hayward. iot on SE corner of Taylor and North Point stree 50. E 137:6, §77:6. E 137:8, 8 N ot S 60, E 187: 3 :6, E 137:6, N 275, W 412:8; also lot on N line Day street, 185 W of Sgockton, W 55 by N 137:6, quitciaim deed; $5. Jugene Paulma to Julia Paulma, lot on S line of Minna strest, 317:6 W of Seventh, S 80 by W : also loton XV corner Bernard and Leaven- by E 68; gift. Cunninghiam, William F. Lewls, J. B. Cameron and L. Jacobi (by J. riff) to Gottlieb. T. Knopf, lot on of Butlte and York streets, E 28 by S 91: . W. and Emma A. Fuller to Henry 8. Bridge, loton W line of Fourteenth avenue. 150 8 of G street, S 25 by W 127:6: also lot on I line of Fourtecnth avenue, 200 S v 105, of C street, S 50, B also lot on W line of 75' N ot Callfornia, street, 715, S 12:814, E 120; alsolot on hird avenue, 200 N of Clement 94:10, N 50:1, W Twenty-sixth a N 24:10, W 12 E lne of Twenty N 31:10, 5125: $10. James Rolph ITr. to John Wyllie, lot on E line o Twventy-third avenue, 150 S of I street, S 25 by I 120; $10. J.A.and Fannie E. McCarty to R. E. Erwin, lot 558, Gitt Map 1. bargain and sale decd; $100. John W. Boyd to Williem McLaughlin, lots 604 and 606, Gift Map 3: grant. Laura H. and Charles Sr. to Denis ita_place, 100 E of 2 Blake Kelly, lot on N llne of P Folsom street, E 160 by N 125; $10. Charles J. Piilsbury to Harrison A. Jones, lot 3, block 25, Noe Garden Homestead Union; $10. ALAMEDA COUNTY. Samuel F. and Ellen Sinclair to Willlam TI. Knight, administrator of the estate of Hannah A. Bartlow, lot 26, block 48, Oakland: $20. Rudolf Maullhaupt to Henry Ruedy ot Oaklan lot on NW corner San Pablo avenue and Twenty- fourth or Milton street, W 100 by N 50, be'ng iot 14. Miller Tract, Oakland; $10. Victor Svenson to John Svenson, lot on E line of Adeline street, 1008 of West Eightb, $28.15 13-16. E127, N 28.10 13-16, W 127 to beginning, being lot 17. block 537, subject to a mortgage to Oakland Banuk of Savings, Onkland: $10. S. H. and Bessle L. Gutiery et al. to Richard Weller of Alameda, ot on SW line of East I'w ty-fourth street, 248 SE of Thirtesnth avenue, 35 by SW 121, Bast Oakland, $12; also lot on Foorteenth avenue, §9:16 SW East Twenty-fifth street, NW 114:70, SW 54, SE 104:2, NE 3 to bezinning, being portious of blocks 141 and 151, Clinton, East Oakland, $10. Elizabeth B. Webster to A. Jennie Riggs, lot on W line of Canning street, 50 N of Rose, N 60 by W 100, being lot 10, block O, Roberts and Wolfskill Tract, map 8. Yakiand Township: grant. Mountain View Cemetery Association to Eliza- beth Davis, the SE 34 of lot 61 in plat 15, Moun- tain View Cemetery, Oakland Township: S36. Marcellno and iary C. Bargas to Lyman M. Kennedy, lot 2, block T. Knowles and Potter sub- division, Kennedy Tract. Brookiyn Township; $10. Campbeli and T. B. Kent (trustees for M. M. Whiteside) to Felix Marcuse, lot on S line of Eaxle avenue, 58 W of Minturn sireet, W 50 by S 100, being lots 9 and 10, block 51, lands adjacent to Encinal, Alameda; $1176. Same to same, lot on S line of Eagle avenue, 108 W of Minturn street, W 75 by S 100, block 51, same, Alameda; $2273. W. . and Sadie I Cresswellto Minnie R. Newll wife of £. C), 15 acres beginning at a point 3.833 chains N'from N _line of county road sur- vey No. 1515, thence E 7.50 chains, S 20 chains, W' 7.60 chains to beinning, poriion of pla Rancho Las Positas, subject 10 right of way, Wash- ington Township; $6. Builders’ Contracts. Frank H. Lawton (owner) with Frank E. Arm- strong (contractor and architect), to_erect a iwo- Story frame Luilding on § line of Chauning wag, 45 W of Atherton street, W 45 by S 120, block 1, Ryer Tract, Berkeley. Payments: inclosed §575, brown_mortar on 3370, completed 575, nsual 33 ; total, §2! ‘bonds, §1000; H. L. Whit- . E. Underwood, sureties; no limit, no forfeit; plans, dc., filed. Same with same, to erect & one-story and a halt bullding on S line or Channing way. 80 W of Atherton's, W 40 by 8 1320. block, Ryer Tract, Berkeley. 'Payments: Inciosed $450, brown mor- tar on $150, completed $450., usual 35 days 8450; Lotal $2300: bonds $600: W. L. Whitney and B E. Underwood sareties; limitations; forfeit none; no Pplans, etc., fied. ————————— The Painters’ Ball. The first ball given by the Progressive Broth. erhood of Painters and Decorators of Califor- nia was held last evening in Turn Verein Hall on Taurk street. The atfendance was large and all had an enjoyable time. The committee managing the affair consisted of: J. W. Rose, resident: M. J, Hines, vice-president: E. A. rael, financial secretary; V. McAvoy, treas- urer; kred Busse, recording secretary; C. E. Fasting. preceptor; C. W. Doy!le, conductor; H. Sullivan, warden;' reception committ » L. Ames, C. Merrill, G. Postler, E. H. -Winsor, V. McAvoy, D. Rampe; box office, P. Lannin; floor mlnlrr, C. W. Doyle; assistant floor managers—J. Gorf, C. Laberge, I. H, Woods, M. J. Hines, I. J. Burke. / Lithographers in Germany receive $5 60 a week; in France, $717; in England, $707. BAD WORK IS ALLEGED, Protest Against the Acceptance . of a New Fire Engine- House. THE COMMISSIONERS WARNED. A Statement That the City’'s North Beach Buildings Fall Far Below Requirements. Interested citizens have sent to the Fire Commissioners a protest against the way the work is being performed on the new firehouse at Stockton and Francisco streets, and also protesting against the ac- ceptance of the houses by the City until all the requirements of the plans and speci- fications are complied with. The matter pears, we can only judge that the lady who wore the ring mesnt to outlive her spouse. How the story arose is not known, but most likely it is all imagination, for we find the same thing said about Lady Cathcart and her fourth husband in 1713.— Chambers's Journal. ————————— Single Drive-Wheel Engines. The new type of engine on the Reading Railroad, which was built entirely for speed and has only a single pair of driving wheels, is exciting much interest among railroad men and, if entirely successful, it may lead to some important changes in locomotive building. It has already proved itself very fast. In a recent run from Jersey City to Philadelphia No. 385 hauled eight heavy cars and, in spite of losing fourteen minutes from unexpected causes, made her schedule time. Theonly places on this run where 1t was possible to attain any considerable speed were be- tween Bound Brook and Trenton Junction and Trenton Junction and Jenkintown. Between these points the average speed from start to stop were 54.2 and 52.8 miles an hour, respectively. The maximum up- irnde is 37 feet per mile. From Bound rook to Hopewell the distance is 18 miles and is all uphill. On this grade the loco- motive increased the speed of the train from 57 seconds per mile to 51 seconds. No sand was used except at starting from HUNTERS VALLEY MINES, Prospectors at Work in Several Places in the Hope of Hand- some Returns. NOT HUNTING FOR POCKETS. Kid-Gloved Bosses and Carpeted Engine- Rooms Give Way to Practical Development. HUNTERS VALLEY, CAL., Nov. 80.— At what is known as the “‘old tolihouse” on the Merced and Mariposa road, six miles from Hornitos and four miles from Bear Valley, Hunters Valley opens out and stretches away down to the Merced station. The abundance of steam and the large cylinders enabled the engine to pull ENGINE-HOUSE AND WAREHOUSE SAID TO BE FAULTY IN CONSTRUCTION. will be taken up at the next meeting of the Fire Commissioners. From all accounts the trouble has been caused by the cont.actor and his foreman Garloch, an ex-policeman of Los Angeles, hiring incompetent workmen. Not long after the work was begun the Carpenters’ Unions passed several general rules to gov- ern its members. One was that the minimum wages should be $3 a day and another that no union man should work with a non-union man. Nearly all of the contractors were satisfied with this arrangement. Wickersham was not. As a result, all of the union men were called off of the building. Garloch at once hired any one he could get, so it is said, and in the protest mentioned the cause of the poor workmanship is said to be due to the men who have been employed. The protest banded to Chief Sullivan deals first with the engine-house, and com- iains that the side next to Stockton street is improperly constructed. The rustic bad to be torn off because it was not puton properly. That is, the level was not started corractly, and the side bulzed out. The work of putting the rustic back is no im- provement over the first. The improper construction of the gutters made it neces- sary to remove a part of the roof. It was reconstructed after the plastering had been put in the inside. While the roof wes off the rain poured in on the *‘green” plaster, which was not improved by the bath. Another point made was that the rear wall of the engine-house was one and a half inches out of plumb. When this matter was called Jto the foreman’s at- tention by the authorities he tore off the rustic and put the men to work with hatchets to hack off an inch and a half of studding, and then put the rustic back without dressing down the uneven sur- faces. The contract calls for 2x6 studding, and since the timbers have been hacked by batchets, as a substitute for straightening the wall, the studding is only 2x414. As every timber was given the same treat- ment, it is claimed that the entire wall is weakened to a greatextent. Another objection is that the large girder in the celiar that supports the en- gine floor upon which the engine will rest has sunk or settlea considerably and will have to be “‘jacked up’’ and plates put un- der the ends. 8till another point made is that the butt-end joints and rustics are not white leaded, as specifically required by the specifications. Regarding the warehouse the protest calls attention to the fact that some bune- ling workman cut the ends of the cellar beams in the main too short, which made it necessary to put on a 2{-inch “Dutch- man’’ or piece out the beams to that ex- tent. The next point made is that the plans call for all “headers’” to be doubled around the piers on the first floor, which has not been done. Again, the space for the windows were left too high and the heavy supporting timbers will have to be cut down three inches. These are only a few of the flaws found in the construction of the buildings, which, it is claimed, will most materially change the class, stability and value of the buildings, ana the communication re- cites that the City will be sadly jobbed if it pays for or accepts either until all these faults are remedied. The buildings were contracted for for $17,000 or $18,000, and people familiar with this style of architecture claim that it will cost every cent of this amount to make the alterations. This will make the first work and the materials almost a dead loss. Bo impressed was Chief Sullivan with the protest that he called the attention of Architect Wilson to'the matter, and de- tailed District Engineers Shaughnessey and Fernandez to make an investigation for the Fire Department. The bondsmen for Contractor Wicker- sham are to be interviewed upon the sub- ject. When the matter comes up before the Fire Commissioners a protest will be entered against giving Wickersham an ex- tension of time and against the acceptance of the buildings. Posy Rings. ‘When posies inside wedding rings were first introduced does not seem to be known. Time has covered that, as he does so many things, with the mosses of obliv- ion; but we know that from the sixteenth century until the middle of the eighteenth it was customary to have them engraved on rings. These posies or mottoes are seldom to be found with more than two lines of verse, and often with only one, but there are a few instances known where three lines are used. Some of these posies are very quaint ana_ curious, and a few reach a high standard of poetic beauty. In 1642 a small collection of rhymes was published_with the title of “Love’s Gar- land; or, Posies for Rings, Handkerchiefs and f}lovep, and Such_Pretty Tokens That Lovers Send Their Loves.” It contains some posies that are not to be met with elsewhere, and is a very interesting work, though but few people seem to have heard of it. The South Kensington Museum has a good collection of posy rings, and among them we find the following: *‘United hearts, death only parts”; ‘“‘Let us share in joy and care’’; “‘Love and live happily.” There is a story to the effect that Dr. John Thomas, who was Bishop of Lincoln in 1753, caused to be inscribed in- side his fourth wife’s wedding ring: 1t 1 survive, T'll muke them five. If this be true, and not the fable it ap- hard at hjgh speed without exhausting the boiler. The grate is so large that an in- ferior pea coal is used, which costs but 65 cents a ton.—Philadelphia Record. e ENTER NOT BOHEMIA. i i, It Is a Country of Which Girls Should Not Become Citizens. “The Girl Who Is Employed” is affec- tionately addressed and wisely counseled by Ruth Ashmore in the December Ladies’ Home Journal. The writer tells the girls of their duty to their employers and them- | selves, discusses matters of dress and warns | them against “the dangerous lana,”’” which she designates **Bohemia,” “which seems to you so attractive. In reality it is a | conntry of which you should not become a | citizen. “No matter whether your friends call you a prude or not, do not permit the social side of your life to degenerate into a free and easy condition where no respect is shown to you as a woman. In Bohemia there may be some laughter, but be sure there are many tears. In that land you would probably spend all your wages in one day of festivity, and be a ‘beggar, or worse still, a borrower for the rest of the week. “In that land a woran buys one fine frock, too fine for her position in life, and during the working hours she looks un- tidy and always suggzestive, by her shabby finery, of a gay girl rather than a weli- bred woman, which is what the busy girl should aim to be. In Bohemia it is claimed there is a jolly good-fellowship, and noth- ing else, between men and women. You don’t want to be a jolly good fellow. “You want to be a woman who is re- spected not only because of her sex, but because of herself, and the free and easy life in which a man offers a womana cigar- ette, and she volunteers to get for him something that he counts more cheerful than a cup of tea, is one which my busy girl does not want to live. If for no other | reason this would be one. In Bohemia all women must be young and beau- tiful, and you are not going to be that forever. So make for yourseif a social world that will be enjoyable, that will be pleasant, but where you will be liked wnen youth and beauty have gone, because of the good that is in you mentally and spir- itually.” . Licaryise Cospuctors oN SHies.—The story of how lightning conductors came to be adopted in the British navy is inter- esting. In 1866 C. Tomlinson, a Fellow of the Royal Society, described in England a method of receiving the discharge of a Leyden jaron a plateof crown glass. He showed on the glass tree-like figures, with trunk, branches and spray, and argued that this was only a miniature representa- tion of the lightning flash, which was sim. ilarly bifurcated and trifurcated. At that time lightning conductors were not in favor, either on land or sea. Dr. Dyne, the head master of the Highgate Public School, who consulted Tomlinson as to the desira- bility of a lighning conductor for the new school building, said he had never seen a lichning conductor, and had only a vague idea of it; furthermore, although he personally was open to conviction as to its merits, his profession looked upon the conductor as attractin, lightning to the place instead o repelling it. A similar opinion was held at the Aamiralty. Snow Harris, an en- gineer of repute, who had designed a form of metallic conductor for ships, strenuously recommended its adoption, and gave the Government many proofs of the important losses which had occurred through its ab- sence. His scheme, which was apparently ruined by a flash of lightning, was by the same agency turned into a success. He obtained permission to erect his con- ductors on ten ships destined for foreign service. In one of these a flagstaff was put above the conductor, and in the first thunderstorm it was shattered by a light- ning-bolt, but no further damage was done. This trifling accident was regarded with grave misgiving,and it was the in- tention of the Government to remove all the conductors when the ships returned home. Sir John Rennie was employed by the Admiralty to erect two victualling- houses at Devonport. Each was fur- nished with a granite chimney rising sixty feet over the roof. “One of these was supplied with a lightning con- ductor; but before the other was put up Rennie called on Snow Hill and com- lained indignantly that the charge of K:h&ning conductors had been_struck out of the estimates. Harris said, ‘“Well, never mind; nature will avenge us.”” The rophecy was fulfilled in a most extraor- Sirmry way. A bifurcated stroke of light- ning fell on the two victualling-houses. The protected building suffered no injury; the unprotected chimney was torn open and the building was seriously Jamaged. This settled the matter. The lightnin conductor became popular and Harris' arrangements for ships were adopted, to the immense advantage of the nn\r{. ar- ris was knighted, received a_civil-list pen- sion of $1000 4 year, and the House of Com- mons made hiin a special gmnt of $30,000 for his invention. Lord Palmerston, who moved the grant, saia that he'‘never made a similar motion with greater pleasure,” — e Vessels which have been used for milk should be rinsed in cold water before being washed in hot. Hot water immediately sets the curd and drives the milk into the ware, River, eight miles distant. The whole of Hunters Valley is more or less auriferous, and prospecting parties are at work in half a dozen different places. These parties are not looking for pockets. The attention of prespectors hereabouts, is now mainly directed to the discovery of large bodies of quartz of payable quality. Mr. McKenzie of Coulterville has a party of men opening up an old mine with fair prospects. About four miles down the valley the old Hunters Valley mills used to stand twenty years ago. Not a vestige of the works now remain. There was a 28- stamp mill in those days and a flourishing little town around it. It was a good little mine, but could not stand carpets in the engine-room and a kid-gloved superin- tendent, so it shut down. It has since been relocated and is likely to be heard of again. “About a mile from the entrance to Hun- ters Valley is the Horseshoe mine. The owners are Frank Thorne, superintendent, John Marshall, G. E. Nordgren, O. ¥. Giffen and A. G. Clough. The lsst named is Public Administrator and Coroner for Merced County. The Horseshoe has been working since last March. It was an old mine, formerly known as the Eureka. It had two shafts forty feet each. Thirty- five years ago 1t produced some very rich ore, but was abandoned when water was struck., The present owners have a shaft down 105 feet, at an angle of 75 degrees, aud have driven north 100 feet and south abous 40 feet. The vein varies from 2 to 5 feet in thickness, and has so far averaged a little over $11 per ton. About 300 tons have been crushed. There is a good hoisting plant, two pumps and a five-stump battery, but there is no gold-saving appliances, and the Horseshoe owners are a bit short on ma- chinery generally. This, however, is to be remedle& at once, and it is intended to provide a new engine next month, in- crease the battery to ten stamps and add the latest gold-saving machinery. The Horseshoe is well situated for eco- nomical working. Mining timber is to be had on the ground, there is sufficient wa- ter at all seasons, and firewood is delivered at $3 50 a cord. The owners, however, look for electric power before long from Merced Falls, or elsewhere via the river. The quartz is easy to mull, being of a fine, ‘“‘sugary’ nature. At the present time at least 30 to 40 per cent of the gold is being lost in the tailings. But the output is paying a small margin over the expenses of the mine. There is a comfortable boarding-house at the mineand other buildings. Fourteen men are employed, at average wages of $50 a month and board. Frank Thorne, the superingendent, is a native Mariposan. His fatffer kept the hotel at Quartzburg, two miles from Hor- nitos, in early days. Quartzourg has now disappeared and nothing marks the spot where it stood but the ranch of Mos: L. Rodgers. Mr. Thorne’s mother is still living and enjoying her old age at her ranch a few miles distant. Catching the Captain. The captain of a certain large sailing vessel is probably the most polite officer in the whole mercantile service. He has, however, a great idea of his importance and loses no opportunity of impressing it upon his crew. In particular he insists upon being addressed as ‘‘Sir” by every one on board. One day a new hand !'oined the ship, and a short time after eaving harbor, being a seasoned old salt, he was entrusted with the wheel. The captain came up and put the usual question: “‘How's her head?” “Nor’-by-east,” answercd $1e old tar, very grufily. “My man,” suavely a:sw-red the cap- tain, ‘‘on this craft when on: of the crew speuaks to me he gives me & title of respect. Don’t you think you might do so, too? Now, how’s her head ?" “Nor’-by-east, I tell yer,” shouted the tar, displaying not a little irritation. “I'm afraid you don’t quite understand me,”’ responded the captain, good hu- moredly. *“Let me relieve you at the wheel, and then do you take my place and ask me the question. I will then show you how it should be answered.” They accordingly changed places. “'Qw’s her ’ead ?” roared the tar. Nor'-by-eas#, sir,” replied the captain, with emphasis on the “sir.” “Then keep her so, my man, whilst I goes forrard and bas a smoke,” was the startling rejoinder from the old reprobate, who calmly commenced to suit the action to the word. For the first time on record the captain lost his temper.—Tit-Bits. e It takes twelve tea-plants to produce one pound of tea. NEW TO-DAY. i NOT The low rent makes most of the differ- ence. Quick sales and small profits make the rest. ‘Which refers to our MEN’S FINE CORK SOLE SHOES, That the highest stores come very near matching at §5. High-rent $4 Men's Bhoes are $2 50 here. Go south (of Market street) 100 feet and ‘“put money in thy purse.” Fine Calf-dress SULLIVAN’S 18, 20, 22 FOURTH ST. Out-of-town shoe-wearers—Send for ou: Catalogua. B - 5