The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 16, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 1896. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. IALL, one week, by carrie; “ALL, OBe year, by mai 'ALL, SIX months, by mail Cari, three months by mail 1.50 *ALL, one month, by mail. .65 by mail, y Sunday CALL, one year WERKLY CALL, 0ze ¥ BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, California. Gelephore. ... Maln—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. ....Maln-1874 Telephone BRANCH OFFICES £30 Montgomery sireet, corner Clay: open until 8:30 o'clock. Extll 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street ; open until 9 o'clocks 316 Ninth sireet; open until 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE & €08 Broadway. OFFICE The g with us. goes, but the goldbug stays Senator Foraker w sound often. 11 sound well and The break in the Selid & rift in the cloud. t isdecidedly Every time the K talks through his hat it sounds like a war drum. The war-trumpet racket is about over and France never tooted a horn. The Venezuelan commission is composed of wise men; it makes haste slowly. We shall see the b in the blooms of the com festivals. oesn't look out the Senate and-stand plays. If the House d; will beat it mal Grover’s loan is successful in. one re- spect, but it is a failure in statesmanship. There is no hope that the funding-bill fight will blow over; we must brace up 10 it Ohio has a national feeling in its worst form, for she has a deficit of her own to feel tired over. It will be a long stride toward munici- pal cleanness when we get the fake pool- rooms out of town Wherever the National Democratic Con- vention meets the thermometer will be highest this summer. The war flurry has mirrored the opinion of the world well enough to enable John Bull to see himself as others see bim, The country is si Democratic leader on the tail of the th 1l waiting to see if any as the nerve to step d-term movement. The Canadian crisis, like those of the rest of the world, seems inclined to revolve back into the same hole it evolved from. Why should Congress put a free coinage order on the tariff bill when it could draw up an omnibus bill and let them all ride? Jokn Sherman will soon realize his de- sire to have a Republican colleague to as- sist him in representing Ohioin the Senate, In opposing himself to the sentiment of humanity the Sultan may find that benev- olent feeling to be about as dangerous asa buzzsaw. There will not be much complaint if Cleveland gets a renomination, for it will furnish too good a chance for the long- desired kick. The votes given for .the re-election of Senator Brice were few, but they were al- most as dear to him as if they had been enough to elect him. The new poet laureate might try his hand at a parephrase on Tennyson’s line, “Anda the nations do but murmur, snarl- ing at each other’s heels.” Now that some of the Supervisors have begun to show an interest in what the preachers say they ought to go to church regularly and get it straight. If the financial complications lead to the establishment of postal savings banks we shall get some profit for the people out of our troubles, and the profit will be lasting. Complaint is made in Boston thai dates for the sparring matches of the season con- flict with those of the Grand Opera, and lovers of the fine arts will be knocked out of one show or the other. It must not be taken for granted that we have seen the last Cleveland loan, for it is almost sure that if Congress does not head him off he will issue another $100,000,000 of bonds before his term closes. Republican Congressmen who have any temptation to vote against the party on an important measure should remember Lincoln’s warning about the folly of swapping horses while crossing a stream. The googoos, garoos and gazoos have gone to their holes, but we now hear from the East of “‘baboo statesmanship,” and it seems to refer to the statecrait of people who do not agree with Theodore Roosevelt. Taking all the persons connected with it in one way or another, Harvard Univer- sity now forms a community of about 5000 people, and may yet catch the extepsion fever and seek to incorporate all Boston. Eastern Republicans are moving rapidly in preparing for the Presidential cam- paign. Three State conventions have heen called for this month, two for February, and it is probable that before the end of April most of them will be held. The new Mayor of Brooklyn calls atten- tion to the fact that the trolley-cars in that city have had 130 victims and asserts that the slaughter must be stopped, but unfor- tunately he putastop to himself at that point and did not say how he would man- age the trolleys. The newly issued Harvard University catalogue for 1895-96 forms an octavo vol- ume of 656 pages, and is not only hand- somely printed but well and attractively bound. The general summary of the uni- versity shows a faculty of 366 teachers, with 2396 students of arts and sciences and 3600 in all departments. - The summer courses were attended last season by 575 students, zht side of the rain | | i | people get something out of it. THE DELEGATES APPOINTED. The delegates appointed by Mayor Sutro to the convention to be held in- this City next Saturday represent the widest possi- ble range of local interests and-political parties, and their selection may be taken to mean a guaranty of their loyalty to the best interests of the State. - The news from the interiorindicates that the localauthori- ties everywhere are responding promptly to the call for delegates, and that on | Saturday California will 'send up such a protest against the railroad funding bill as | Congress cannot afford to ignore. It has been hinted that the interests favoring the funding measure will find 2 means of securing a representation in the convention, and that, as a result, efforts will be made to produce a division of sentiment and thus present a broken front to Congress. We do not believe that these fears havea proper foundation. Of course, it is not to be supposed that any- thing having the color of friendliness to the funding bill will appear in the delib- erations; that would be too bold and bare- faced. Ifany fightis made at all it will be made for the purpose of creating a division on the question of the ground which the protest should be made to { cover. The call is specifically for a convention to prepare a memorial to Congress against the passage of a measure extend- ing the time in which the debtor railroads | shall discharge their obligations to the vernment. That is all. Any effort to go beyond this to any extent or to adopt any plan other than protesting against an extension of the debt by funding or other- wise would likeiy precipitate a conflict and nullify the purpose of the meeting. It1sin that possibility thatthe hope of the railroads lies. Whatever individual ideas some of the delegates may have be- yond the purpose of this convention, and however wise their plans might be, the fact is clear that this meeting would not be the proper place for promulgating them. Above all things unanimity of action is essential, and there can be no difference of opinion on the subject of de- feating the funding bill. AN UNPOPULAR POPULIST. Whatever else Mayor Davie of Oakland may not be, he is certainly not a good Populist, for he has been read out of his party and held up to public scorn, be- cause, although elected as that party's candidate, he has violated its principles in advocating an issue of bonds for municipal improvements. *‘Upon a platform opposed to the issuance of bonds,” explains a Pop- ist who assisted in degrading him from his high place as a member of the party, “John L. Davie was elected Mayor of Oak: land. But Mr. Davie had not been Mayor three months before he came out for bonds.” This same gentleman thus reports what Mr. Davie said to him in justification: “It is too bad the people do not understand the difference between a Government bond and a municipal bond. A municipal bond is for permanent improvements, and the We ought tobuild a concrete wall around the city front and fill behind it with dredgings from the harbor.. We ought to have every street in town paved with bitumen. We can’t do these things without bonds. Be- es, it would give 2000 men employment for five years. We ought to have $3,000,000 in bonds of that kind.” If it be, as this Populist antagonist of Mayor Davie intimates, that the nomina- tion was secured merely to get the office, and that Mr. Davie wasnever a Populist at heart, then he has acted in bad faith and isunworthy. But at the same time it is | reasonable to assume that he was really a Populist when elected, and that the w dom which experience brings to an intelli- gent and conscientious office-holder might have broadened his understanding to the extent of alienating him from some Popu- list doctrines. The people of San Francisco, recognizing the great advantages which would accrue to the State from improving the shipping facilities of this harbor, are moving stren- uously to rid their own harbor of the evils which are far greater at Qakland and which shut that city against the commerce of the world. Mr. Davie seems to be prov- ing that he is a better Mayor than Populist by advocating the creation of a debt whose employment would not only pro- duce the means for its own extinction, but which, in addition, would create a splendid profit, represented by the increased pros- perity, business and wealth of his city. In view of these considerations, Mayor Davie can afford to rest under a cloud which may be really a nimbus. WITH INCREASED ENERGY. The commendable action of the Board of Supervisors in setting apart $35,000 for beginning the improvement of Folsom street will have a far better effect than the paving of the thoroughfare from ne- teenth street to Eighth, for it has given to Southside improvement clubs an incentive to work for stiil more far-reaching bene- fits. Already they have adopted resolu- tions thanking the board and expressing a determination to improve the condition of the entire Mission district. At the same time there is positive as- surance that the paving of Folsom street will be properly done—the exposure of in- competency and disgraceful work in the Street Department are too recent to have been forgotten, and it is taken for granted that the Southside improvement clubs will keep a jealous watch on the important improvement soon to be taken in hand. There should not be the slightest relaxa- tion of diligence in the matter. In another year the entire length of Folsom street will be made a smooth, ele- gant and inviting thoroughfare. Not only will it serve to relieve Market street of much of the traflic which extends to the Mission, but 1t will at once become one of the most popular pleasure drives in the City. The pavement of some cross street between Folsom and Market and the ex- tension of the improvement to the net- work of boulevards to which access may be had over the Ocean House road to In- gleside, the beach and the park will make Folsom street second only to Golden Gate avenue as a fashionable driveway. This will produce an important effect on the property of the street and on the desira- bility of the Mission extension as a place of residence. AMERICAN SHIPS. The National Association of Manufac- turers has taken advantage of the recent threat of disturbance between the United States and England to call attention to the necessity for a greater encouragement of American shipping interests. It truth- fully asserts that the severe restrictions which we place on our own commerce and the liberality of England to the merchant marine of that country have not only crippled our facilities for export and im- vort, but have made it possible for Eng- land to cover the seas with ships which are valuable adjuncts to ber wonderful fighting navy. Great Britain has accomplished this principally in two ways. One is to exer- i cise a suvervision over the construction of private steam vessels with a view to their efficiency as assistants to the navy in the event of war. Another is the policy of subsidizing steamship lines, especially those running to distant countries, in order that British commerce and influence may be extended to every part of the world. That the same encouragement is not extended to sailing vessels is evidence of the fact that the superior value of steamships in case of war s a factor in the encouragement extended. It was through the subsidizing of the Canadian Pacific Railway’s line of steamers to the Orient, coupled with the arbiirary and uncontrolled exactions of the Amer- ican lines, that the trans-American trade of the Orient was largely diverted from American to English lines. Many years ago, long before the Canadian ralway was projected, a hard effort was made 1o induce the United States Government to assist with a subsidy a line of steamers be- tween Australia and California, but the project failed. The disastrous experience of our Gov- ernment in extending aid to overiand rail- roads has turned the people against any proposition for subsidizing transportation lines, whether on land or sea, but thatdoes not alter the fact that Englund’s suprem- acy on the ocean has been promoted by the intelligent pursuit of such a policy. Itis an interesting fact, however, that the paternal oversight which England exer- cises over the private lines which it subsi- dizes prevents scandal. If the United States had ever practiced anything like a similar care the shameful history of the aided railroads of thiscountry would never have been written. The vital difference between subsidies to railroads and to steamship lines is that the latter have a bearing on international relations while the former have not. Itis as yet too early to advance the doctrine of American subsidizing of American steam- ship lines, but it certainly is high time se- riously to consider the suggestion made by the National Association of Manufacturers that American importsana exports be car- ried only in American vessels. Such a re- quirement would be as effectual as a sub- sidy, and would have the advantage of be- ing free from the danger of scandal. TAXATION REFORMS. Some of the interior cities of the State are moving to take advantage of the law permitting them to elect that the assess- ing of city property for the purposes of municipal taxation shail be done by the County or. The only possible ex- cuse for a separate City Assessor is to give employment to a politfcal worker and a number of deputies, and this imposes an unnecessary tax on the industry of the people. The County Assessor is voted for by the electors of a city and is an officer of their selection. For that matter the func- tions of an Assessor cannot be considered in connection with anything that may have the character of a distinctive local policy, and hence they are altogether dif- ferent from those of a Mayor or Board of Councilmen, The absurdity of the present plan of having separate Assessors is seen in the variance between the assessments made by the two oflicers in dealing with the same properties. It is not sutficient to argue | that one Assessor is easier to handle by large taxpayers than two, for besides the privilege of electing honest Assessors we have local Boards of Equalization charged with the duty of preventing discrimina- tions. The District Attorney of Alameda County has recently given the Board of Supervisors of that county an opinion that further extends the usefulness of the County Assessor, and that, if taken advan- | tage of, will work a great public con- venience. It is that the Assessor is re- quired by law to register all voters who apply to him for registration. As the Assessor’s deputies cover the entire county and come in contact with every property- owner they can accept registrations with great facility and” thus save voters a great deal of time and trouble in seeking the district registration places provided by the County Clerk. —_— PERSONAL. J. Stitt, a business man of Ukiah, is here. Dr. F. W. Hatch of Agnewsis in the City. Dr. B. E. Rokyta of Russia is at the Occiden- tal. w. the | E.May, a wealthy merchant of Portland, is at the Lick. D. B. Lyon, & business man of Red Bluff, has arrived here. Judge S. Solon Hall of Sacramento arrived here yesterday. Senator J. M recent arrivals. R. C. Kells, & merchant of Yuba City, arrived here yesterday. Dr.C. A. Lanson of Yreka is here, accompa- nied by his wife. C. F. Moulton, the extensive grain farmer of Colusa, is in the City. District Attorney W. T. Williams of Los An- geles is on a visit here. W. H. Dixon, a railroad man of Salt Lake, arrived here yesterday. A. H. Hert, the owner in an extensive silk- house in New York, is at the Palace. Chairman F. H. Gould of the Democratic State Central Committee is in town. Z. W. Burnham, a well-known grain ana wool grower of Chico, is at the Grand. J. E. Terry, the wealthy lumberman and horse-owner of Sacramento, is in towr. John Markley of Gaerneville, Secretary of the State Board of Examiners, is at the Lick, J. C. Stubbs, third vice-president of the Southern Pacific and general traffic manager, is en route to Houston, Tex., to meet Passenger Agent Morse of the Atlantic system and repre- sentatives of the Morgan steamship line re- garding freight matters. e CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK, NEW YORK, N. Y., Jan. 15.—A. Bouvier and wife are at the Holland ; W Robinson, Grand Union; M. Hughes, Murray Hill; C. Mamndel, Park Avenue; G. L. Burrows, St. Cloud; B, Mauzy, Hoffman, and J. F. Tucker, Holland, Gett, an attorney of Sacramento, is at MAY PROVOEE A SMILE. Nell-Do you like the girl your brother Tom is engaged to? Belle—No, but Tom likes her enough for the whole family, 50 what eartk:ly difference does it make?—Somerville Journal. Conductor—Can you squeeze a lady in there? Gents (in delighted chorus)—Certainly \—Bris- tol Magple. “Jabber's son, they say, could talk when only two weeks old.” “That's nothing. The Bible says Job cursed the day he was born.”—Judge. “Why is Miss Proper’s picture so severe?” “The photographer asked her to look pleas- ant.”—Detroit Free Press. “Here,” said the foreman to the editor, “is a poem on Cuba.” “Kill it,” replied the editor. “Our sympa- thies are with the insurgents and we will not put & straw in the way of their success!”—At- lanta Constitution. Miss Passay—So Mr. Dauber said I reminded him of the Venice of Milo? Belie—No; he simply said the Venice of Milo was very antique.—Philadelphia Record. Mrs. Bilter—Willle, has your mother been buying a new rug? Willie Slimson—Yes. You wouldn’t know there was & hole in the carpet now, would you? Detroit Free Press. | Gleaves of Redding is among MUSIC AND MUSICIANS. It 1s a long time since Paris has seen as suc- cessful a new opera as “La Jacquerie,” which was produced a short time ago at the Opera Comique. A reporter of Le Figaro tells in the following way how he corpered the successinl composer, Arthur Coquard, in the toyer of the opera-house on the opening night, after the beautliul second act, when the people were making the building ring with applause: “Is 1t possible that you are 49% I asked. ‘Alas, yes answered the composer. ‘Then | there is no time to 10se; give me some biog- raphical notes at once,’ ‘Perhaps I am the only living composer; answered Coquard, ‘who at 16 did not know his notes. One day I Ppicked up an elementary exercise and taught myself its contents. Then I composed a mili- tary marchi and showed it to Casar Frank, who was professor in the college where I studied. ‘It has neither head nor tail,” said he, “butall the same you should study harmony.” I plodded on for three months, then I was seized with an instinetive fear of music, the sort of | T criticized though the music is said to show weakness in the dramatic scenes. One critic says of Dubois’ new opera, ‘Xaviere”: It is charming to see & composer who says what he thinks in a simple manner and who does not try to move heaven and earth to show us the love-making of a couple of peasants.” 11 Trovatore is authority for the statement thatSir Arthur Sullivan’s colla borator, Gilbert, was interviewed recently by a London lady reporter. “The celebrated librettist,” so runs the Italian pagper, “received the lady inter- viewer with much cordiality, and answered all her questions; but the following day he sent to the paper she represented a bill for 20 guineas ($100) as damages for having wasted his time in conversing with the lady.’ “Fredegonde,” an opera commenced by the late M. Giraud, and completed by Saint-Saens, has been well received in Paris. The opera was found unfinished among the papers in Giraud’s desk, and was taken by friends to Saint-Saens, who consented to prepare the work for the stage. Saint-Saens took the M.S, | LOUISE NIKITA, THE AMERICAN [Ske.ched from life by W. A. Rogers. wHo AVARRAISE.” WILL SING IN MASSENET'S Reproduced from the Song Journal.] 7 fear a man feels for a woman he admires in- tensely, but has not the. right to love.' Here Coquard stopped, for the musicians, headed by | Ambroise Thomas, arrived in crowds to con- | gratulate him, some with tears in their eyes. | The composer continued in phrases that were | interrupted by the eulogies of his frienas. | ‘1870 came; I went to the war, and one night, | sitting in my tent, I read the choruses to | | Racine’s “Esther.” Then music awoke in me, | seized me irresistibly,'so that I could no longer | hold back. Imust put those choruses to music, | s0 I yielded and wrote them. The war over, I | showed my music to Frank. “Those choruses settle it.” he said, “you must be a musician.” I | had taken the same resolution and that’s all— | | or rather that was the beginning of my artistic | | lfe. | There was a time, as all Calitornians know, when Massenet's greatest delight was to write | Toles for Miss Sibyl Sanderson, and he was wont | to declare fervently, when that lady’s inter- pretation of the same proved successful, that he owed his success, not to himself, but to the fair singer. Then the “Cavallerie Rusticana” | | came into fashion, and Massenet found thatall | | his operas of the “Esciairmonde” and the | “Manon” type, works in which Miss Sanderson | had shone, were very light weights, out of France, compared to Mascagni’s passionate, declamatory little opera. Massenet re- | solved to keep up with the times, and write a | | pendant to the “Cavalleria Rusticana,” so he | produced “La Navarraise,” something to which | | Miss Sanderson’s talents were quite unfitted. | Calve asAnita made the noisy little opera famous, but Massenet, though he had grown a little tired of owing a.1 his inspiration to Miss | Sanderson, liked American singers on general principles and cast about for some other native of the New World at whose feet he might lay his Mascagnisque laurels. He has found her In the person of Louise Nikita, Ambroise Thomas' ideal Mignon, Massenet has lately been drilling Nikita in the part of Anita and he is burning at her shrine all the artistic in- cense he once burnt before Miss Sibyl Sander- son. ItisNikita for whom he predicts extra- ordinary success,who is the phenomeral artist. and who is possessed of the *‘extraordinary voice” and “the dramatic power.” Perfidious Massenet, to let his admiration slide round with the latest faskion in opera. Under the able guidence of their president, Mrs. Selden S. Wright, the Young Ladies’ Orchestra of San Francisco has for several years given charity concerts, which have always been social and financial successes, More than $6000 has been donated by the young ladies. They have - played for the Maria Kip Orphanage, the Protection and Relief Society, the Heyneman Hospital, for the Pioneer Kindergarten here and for the Onak- land one; and twice have. they eided the Children’s Hospital. Not only have these young girls given their time and ability, but the orchestra has also spent considerable money on each occasion. Now, s0 asto enable them to continue their charitable work, a number of our most prominent men have ten- dered the young ladies & benefiv concert, which will take place in the near future, It will be a brilliant social and musical event, for all wiil be anxious to assist and show their appreciation of the gifted young musicians, Several German papers state that Mascagni is writing his memoirs, which will include an account of his last triumphal tour across Europe. These papers state that his memoirs Wwill include impressions of Berlin, Vienna, Sofia, Belgrade and Constantinople, etc. And the strangest thing is that this news has been spread broadcast without any one pausing to reflect that Mascagni could not possibly write bis memoirs of §pfia, Belgrade and Constanti- nople, becduse Le never has been there. Theodore Dubois, who is well kuown in this country as a composer of organ music, has just produced a new opera at the Paris Opera Comique. The work has not been unfavorably to the Orient with him, and wrote as he trav- eled in the wilds of Jave and the Malay Pen- insula. Le Figaro tells the following gallant little episode: “Recently the Prince of Wales paid a t to Mme. Adeline Patti at her castle at raig-y-Nos, in weather thatwas simply abom- “All the same. said the diva discon- ‘I prayed heaven to give us fine weather.” ‘In that case,’ replied the Prince, ‘it our fault that it rains, for if you had sung | your prayer it would assuredly have been granted.’ In recognition of Mme. Nordica’s recent phe- romenal success as Isolde, and in appreciation of the reflected glory it casts upon America for being responsible for yet another truly great singer, who has accomplished her success largely through American pluck and determina- tion, it has been decided to present her with & jeweled testimonial. A number ofleading New York people have subscribed to the fund. Minister Barazzuoli of Italy has a new meas- ure in prospect which, if it is passed, will make it the law that after the copyrights of operas have expired, instead of becoming public prop- erty, they shall revert to the state. The Minis- ter’s idea is to let the proceeds aceruing from the copyrights be used for the support of state conservatories and musical lyceums. Gounod was not only a composer, but a jour- nalist, especially during his sojourn in Eng- land. A book is about to be issued containing some of the master’s contributions to English and French papers, togetherjwith other essays, which will fn all probability prove highly in- teresting. “Jubel,” a lyric drama in four acts by Arthur Coquard, has been accepted at the Theater de la Monnaie, Brussels. The libretto is founded on Mme. Simone Amand’s drama, “The Sons of Jubel.”” What's in a name? ‘‘Hansel and Gretel”” has been produced at the Czech Theater, Prague, under the title of “Pohadka o Pernirove Chaloupee,” which is by interpretation “Tale of the Gingerbread House.” The piece has also been periormed at Agram in the Croatian language. & The greatest musical event that has hap- pened in this City for years will be the coming of the Abbey, Schoeffel and Grau Company to the Baldwin Theater next May. Full particu- lars have not yet been received, the telegram merely stating that the strength of the com- pany would cross the continent. A Roumanian music-hall singer named Im- perolsuko was shot the other day by a student in the audience as she was singing in a cafe chantant. The cause of the murder was jealousy. THE TALE OF LIFE. Man is to-day what man was vesterday, Wil be (o-morrow; let him curse or pray, Drink or be dull, he learns not nor sball learn The lesson that will laugh the world away. The world as gray or just as golden glows, The wine as sweet or just s bitter fows, For you as me, and you, like me, may find Pertume or canker in the reddest rose The tale of life is hard to understand, But whife the cup waits ready to your hand Drink, and declare the summer roses blow As red in London as in Samarcahd. Lips are as sweet to kiss and eyes as bright As ever flattered Omar with delight— English or Persian, while the mouth is fair, What can it watter how it says good-night! JUSTIN MCCARTHY. AN ENGLISH OPINION OF THE NEW LAUREATE, After Alfred Tennyson, Alfred Austin. We do not know that any further description is needed of the latest literary choice—the earliest was Mr. Brooks—of nher Mejesty’s Gov- ernment. We have got comiortably back to | the good old days of Pye et Compagnie, and we need trouble ourselves no lonuger about such trfles as poetic achievement, poetic promise, the standard of great literature. Let us speak quite fairly of the respectable Mr. Austin. The new laureate 1s a & graceful and scholarly con- servative journalist. We have recorded the publication of & great number of verses from his. pen, of which we Tregret to say that we only recall one pungent line from “The Season,” which in consideration of Mr. Austin’s new dignity we are far too polite to quote. We are creaibly informed that he has puplished novels. We know that he can write in a certain vein of pretty affection about flowers. But we have aiso in rememorance that one Englishman lives on whom the gift o f great song hasfor many years descended in abundant measure of beauty and of power, and that Algernon Charles Swinburne speaks for poetry, while Alired Austin will be offi- cially concerned with the production of versi- fied Temarks on court events. remember, 100, that Wil Morris has d our land with treasures irom the house beauti- ful, that William Watson has re- called to us many the statelier forms of English poetry, and that Mr. John Davidson has sung of the life of his day with insight and with passion. The new de- | parture, however, makes it unnecessary to dis- cuss such trifles as the achievements and pros- of Anglo-Saxon literature. The laureate- ship is now a household appointment, the an- nouncement of which belongs properly to the Court News—not to say Mews. It is true that 3 n himself appears to take & more ex- alted view of his new station, for he explained the other day in the Westminster Gazelte that or he would henceforth watch Mr. Watson “‘sing- ing up the Sacred Hill” “‘irom where its clou less peaks expand.” Itis from these heigh: perhaps, that there will descend on us the ries of masterpieces of which “England’s Darling” is the happy foreword. — London Chronicle. PEOFLE WORTH READING ABOUT. The French composer Massenet has been cleverly described as a “butterfly of & serious turn of mind.” Mrs. Oliphant has written over sixty novels, and the number of heroesand heroines that she has outlived is notabl | The British Museum recently acquired a | sword, a watch and a gold snuff box once be- | longing to Edward Gibbon. Pierre Lorillerd, the tobacco millionaire, does not use the weed in any form; which may De fair and is certainly politic. Omar Khayyam’s memory was celebrated in London recently at a dinnergiven by members of the club which bears his name. The Duke of Marlborough is so delicate that his cigarettes have “a stopping of cotton to keep the nicotine from his mouth.” William Wadsworth, grandson of the great poet, will not publish his own poems for fear people will not recognize the mantle of his forefather. The oldest letter-carrier in the United States is Charles A. Tyler of New York, who has had fourteen different Postmasters over him. He has been at it since 184: When Joe Jefferson was an assistant actor he | set Macready’s wig on fire with a torch, was chased all through the stage district by the en- | raged tragedian end excused from his part for the remainder of the engagement. The Duc d'Magenta, eldest son of the late Marshal MacMahon, who is extremely popular iu Paris, has returned from Madagascar with | the rank of lieutenant-colonel of Chasseurs-a- | pied, to which he was promoted for his services in the war. Frederick Denning, to whom the Valz as- tronomical prize of the Academy of Sciences has been awarded for his discoveries of meteor showers and comets, was a clerk in a Bristol merchant’s office thirty years ago, when he took to studying astronomy. He still works as & public accountant. Mokrani, an Arab brigand, for whom the Duc d'Orleans hes interceded with President qpmeFACORY | HOUSE ON PRINCE STREET, NEW YORK, IN WHICH PRESIDENT MONROE DIED, In 1825 President Monroe retired from the Presidency and went to a place which he had bought in Loudoun County, Va., called Oak Hill, says the New York Press. Here he hoped to end his days as a country gentleman, keeping up something of the state with which he had been nearly all his life sur- rounded. Butnow the evil days came upon him. 111 health and pecuniary troubles ha- rassed him night and day. . For five years he fought against bodily infirmities and the harassment of debts, Then, in 1830, Mrs, Monroe died, and he gave up the unequal fight. 0ld, lonely, sick and Tenmless" he came to New York 10 pass the ew remaining wmonths of his life, a pensioner upon his son-in-law. He died at’ his son-in- law’s house in Prince street on July 4, 1831, and was buried in the Marble Cemetery. His grave was made directly in front of ihe big Ton gate opening from Second street, and an Jnimposing flat slab of marble was placed over it. The Seventh Regiment escorted his re- mains to Richmond, Va., in 1858, His body was placed in Hollywood Cemetéry, resting Pplace of all that is mortal of some 16,000 Vir- inians, in & tomb upon an eminence overlook- g the muddy waters of the historic James, Faure, says he is the last representative of the house of Montmorency, whose male ljine be- came extinct in France in the carly part of this century. A Saracenic legend says that a crusader of the family fell among the infide: became & Mobammedan and settled in Africy where bis name came to be Mokrani, to sui; the Semitic speech. AN ARTISTIC EXHIBITION The Guild of Arts and Crafts Is Pre. paring Something Very Fine. One of the novelties in the way of art exhibitions will be thrown open to the public on the 20th of the present month by the Guild of Arts and Crafts. It con of a display of all the materials and resu in the art of printing, with considerable space given to its side branches and ele- mentary relations. The guild was established a little over a year ago by a few men actively engaged in literature, painting, music, architecture, sculpture and the artistic handicrafts; and has grown till it now has over seventy names on its roll. Thus far the guild has been so occupied in furthering the primary object by means of monthly dinners that it "has done little directly toward accom- plishing the secondary. Now, however an exhibition is preparing, and on next Monday it will be thrown open to the pub- lic at Partington’s studio, 424 Pine street. The exhibition will illustrate printing and the related arts, and will be of interest to every one who reads a book or paper or looks at an etching or engraving. There will be shown books from the most famous- presses, from ‘the infancy printing down to the present time, May Sutro Laving kindly departed from th usual rules of the Sutro Library and co sented to loan some of his choicest trea: ures; sumptuous bindings, ancient ar modern; book-plates; book illustrati by the most eminent American artists,wit the reproductions by the side for the s poseof comparison ; etchings, by the gre est ancient and modern masters; e ings—wood, steel and copper; lithc zincotypes; half-tone; photogra the newly invented chromatic pr The_ exhibition of posters w peciaily large and fine, and be eral hundred American specimer clude work from England, Franc Germany and Holland. The de of the newspaper from the earliest d 1563—to the present time will b ologically illustrated, genuine copies of such famous papers as Addison Spectator, the Tatler and the Rambler he- ing shown. A number of processes—etcl ing, engraving, lithog-aphy, music-print- ing, ete.—will be practically illustrated and explained each evening. ‘While the members of the guild have already secured a large amount of ve interesting material, they feel certain that there are 1 San Francisco many biblio- graphical treasures with whose w abouts they are unacquainted, and will be glad to hear from any one willini to loan anything that will add to the inter- est and success of the exhibition. A exhibits will be fully insured and will be guarded by a special watchman day and nizht. Communications should be *ad- dressed to the chairman of tie exhibition committee, Charles A. Murdock, 532 Cla street, or to the secretary of the guild, Professor William D. Armes, gomery street. —_—————— GIRL'S DRESS. The dress shown here is suitable for mal up sny dress fabric. As illustrated it § biue China silk, with white lace and ribbon trimmings. A novelty wool of brown and blue is pretty, with yoke of blue silk, over which coar: brown net is laid; or if the fitted lawn sleeve ere- is to be made of the contrasting material use changeable taffetas for the yoke and lawn sleeves. A gingham of pink and white stripes may be trimmed with white embroi y over Pplain pink for the yoke and lawn sleeve A charming combination is blue and whits striped lawn, with yoke and low sleeves of plain blue. A white lawn with tiny sprigs of green is charming, with sleeves of plain’ green, using ribbons 1o match for belt and collar. e ——% TO“_'.\'SEXD'E special sale—Fresh cream mixed candies, 15¢ 8 pound; worth 35c¢. & ———————— . EPECIAL information daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Prasy Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * — e He (waxing serious)—Do you believe in the truth of the saying, “Man proposes, God dis- poses?” She (archly)—It depends upon whom man Pproposes to.—Harlem Lite. e WHAT abouv'catarrh and its cure? Catarrhisa constitutional disease and is caused by impur in the blood. Hood's Sarsaparilla is the conshlt tional remeay which cures catarrh. ————————— CHICAGO LIMITED, VIA SANTA FE ROUTE. A new traln throughout begins October 29 Pullman’s finest sleaping-cars, vestibule reclining- chair cars and dining-cars. Los Angeles to Cal cago, via Kansas City, withoat change. Anmac cars on sharp connectlon for Denver and St Louis. Twenty-seven Lours quicker than the, quickest competing train, The Sabta Fe has bsea put In fine physical condition and is now the bess transcontinental railway. COUGHS AND HOARSENEss.—The irritation that induces coaghing is immediately relieved by using “ Brown's Bronchial Troches.” A simple and safe remedy. AN R Use Dr. Siegert’s Angostura Bitters, the world- renowned South American appetizer and invigora- tor of exquisite flavor. ———————— Mr. Jones—There is such a dear little squir- rel out in the tree. Chappie—Does it turn up its tail? Mr. Jones—Yes. Chappic—Well, that must be the very squir- rel that I'saw up in the mountains last sum- he Waterbur: mer.- NEW TO-DAY, Thursday, Jan. 16th. To-day only. Goblets —The Hoffman Housestylishshape. Thin glass or extra heavy hotel. 90c grade for 5 cts. each. Complete lists at your command. Largest Department Store. SMITHS' CAsH SToRE, 414, 416, 418 FRONT ST, 5. H i TR