The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 21, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1896 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Prnprlglor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free Cati.0ne week, by carrier..§0.18 6.00 and S and and e month, by mail year, by mail. S OFFICEt | 310 Market Street, | San Francisco, California. Telephone. ... oo +-+...Main—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Telephone.. Main—-1874 H OFFICES: sireet, corner Clay: open until open until 8:30 o'clock. : open until 9:30 o'clock. b and Mission streets; open en until 8 0'clock. il § o'clock. tission street: of 116 Ninth street; open u OAKLAND OFFICE : 908 Bro: EASTER) Rooms 31 and 32, 34 Park Row, DAVID M. FOLTZ, § OFFICE: New York City. Prepare to honor the memory of Wash- ington., The Balfe-Moore memorial should be the next ornament for the Park. Now is the time to make up your mind what you will abstain from during Lent. Fitzsimmons and Maher might as well leave the thing to arbitration and go home. | 0ld issues go and new issues come, but the need of street improvement stays with us. ‘Why not turn the cathode ray on local Democracy and see where the bone of con- tention is? ‘What sort of politics is it that starts a | Whitney boom in New Orleans while New | York is cold 2 Democracy has quit hunting for a good | Presidential candidate and is grabbing at | every stick in sigh Some Arizona mining camps are talking of making a mail service of carrier-pigeons and getting news on the fiy. Huntington savs he was worth a million before he began railroading, and now the devil wears a modest blush. . In the dispatches of General Washing- ton thereis no trace of a lie, but general ngton dispatches are different. ts for the s0 and it makes no hem if it is a chestnut. Under Morgan’s examination Mr. Hunt- ington has had to carry on the stand abont all the traffic will bear and it makes him sweat. The postponed prize-fight is nu saloon men in EI Ps difference to Great Britain is so willing to arbitrate with us that it seems very strange she was never willing to arbitrate with Ven. ezuela. “It you will throw off one-half the debt, Uncle Sam,” says Mr. Huntington, *I will y generous and throw off the other.” In the rejoicing of the National holiday to-morrow let us not forget to be giad that the Senate can take a day off from its arduous work. Judge Advocate General Harrington is showing himself at present as a very poor judge of what he ought to advocate as a. general proposition. 1t is reported that*‘The United Garment Makers” of Chicago bave strack and it is well known the divided skirt makers made a big strike long ago. France isconsidering whether it is worth while to provide a Government with two houses when the only use of one is to block the way of the other. If Nansen is unable to bring at least a portion of the north pole home with him he would better stay where he is and iet rumor take its course. Democracy will have to make its Na- tional platform very wide and very long if it is expected to cover all the deficiencies of the administration. It is not often that Kentucky has a chance to electa Republican Senator, and it is natural, therefore, that she should make the most of it and prolong the joy. United effort carried the mineral land bill th rough the House and the same kind of vush and pull should be given to the bill for the re-establishment of hydraulic min- ing. Because the Kaiser has abandoned his proposed trip to the Mediterranean some people think a crisis is imminent, but per- haps it means only that he is baving such & good time at home he does not wish to go abroad. - By pnutting Morrison up for the Presi- dency and Altgeld for Governor, the Illi- nois Democrats show a thrifty desire to have two corpses for one funeral and save the expense of making a double jobofa bad business. The Fresno Watchman has heard a re- | port that Governor Budd and John Dag- gett are “doing politics together” for the purpose of crowding White out of a re- election as Senator, but it doesn’t believe Budd isin the game, in which case, of course, there would be no conspiracy and Do reason either for running Daggett in or even for pulling him off. Secretary Carlisle having been asked to intervene in the Senatorial contest in | Kentueky, finds himself in a position where he must either ask some Democrats to vote against their party candidate or some other Democrats to vote against the administration money policy; and under the circumstances it would not be sur- prising if he should decide that this is a very good time for a cuckoo to neither cuck nor koo. Mayor Pingree of Detroit told the people of Chicazo the other day that in their city ‘“‘neither the thief-nor the receiver could obtain a title to a horse stolen in the night; but he who grabs a franchise worth millions in broad daylight and in collusion with the city authorities has the title confirmed to him and his heirs and | assigns forever.”” The statement has not been refuted as yvet in Chicago, and what ismore it would not have been refuted bad 1t been said of San Francisco. | | some very | has given it? It HARRINGTON'S POSITION, It may be merely a coincidence that General John T. Harrington of Colusa, Judge Advocate General on the military staff of the Governor of California, has gone to visit bis old friends in Kentucky just at the time when the presence of Mr. Huntington’s friends are needed to fight the proposed act repealing the charter of the Southern Pacific Company, and that General Harrington has seen fit to say unsubstantial and uncompli- mentary things concerning those Cali- fornians over whom Mr. Huntington’s sway does not extend, but if so the coinci- dence is unfortunate. It is a little early for the glories of nature to have taken on their spring charms in Kentucky. There | the trees, unlike those in California, have | not begun to unfold their leaves, the roses | have not yet come into gorgeous bloom as they have here, the days are still more or less raw, and the State &sa whole is not nearly so pleasant as California at this uime of the year. Itis another coincidence that although Governor Budd disclaims the guvardian- ship of what he is pleased to term General Harrington’s conscience (the inference irom this being that the General speaks from his conscience), the gentleman from Colusa expresses Mr. Huntington’s views in exactly the language which Mr. Hunt- ington employs when he is angry. General | Harrington is reported by a Frankfort newspaper (which, by another interesting | coincidence, is serving Mr. Huntington’s interests in Kentucky) as saying that the repeal proposition “does not meet with the approval of the people of California,” and adds that “outside of a few sensational newspapers and Mayor Sutro of San Fraq» cisco the proposition has few adberents.” The General, whose conscience is not in the Governor’s keeping, may sincerely be- lieve all this, but if he does the question arises, Is he competent to hold an office under the State of California and should be place the State in the attitude which he hould be noted, by the way, that it seems unkind to call the gentleman a colonel, as many people do, when he is really a general, for that differ- ence may mean something outside of Cali- fornia. In a strictly private capacity General Harrington might have been ignored for any expression of opinion in advocacy of Mr. Huntington’s cause, but as a member of the military staff of the Governor of California such contempcuous treaunent vould be unkind. Doubtless General Har- rington has not been blind to the addition which his weight would receive from being able to call himsel{ a general and a mem- ber of the military staff of the Governor of California while misrepresenting the people of this State in Kentucky. RIVERS AND HARBORS. ‘While public sen'iment is unquestion- ably in favor of economy i Congress, there is a clear and well-defined distine- tion arawn between economy and penuri- | ousness. Therevenuesof the Government, under a properly adjusted system, should be ample, as they have been heretofore, to not only meet current expenses, but to provide a fund for necessary internal im- provements, and to such a purpose the present Congress should devote time and consideration. That California in this regard has been neglected is a self-evident proposition. | Our two great rivers, the Sacramento and San Joaquin, from this or that cause, have been ailowed to silt up, our harbors have been neglected, Oakland Creek has had only puny and ineffective appropriations, and even the harbor of San Francisco, as Professor Davidson has shown, has been left subject to risks and perils which no other nationin the world would tolerate | for a moment. It is time for a radical change, especially in so far as California is concerned. We ask nothing but justice, but that we should agk, and even demaud, in a way that cannot be ignored. We are fully and painfully conscious of the fact that certain older States, whica bave obtained all they need, have lost interestin the subject of | rivers and harbors, but all the same if our delegation will carry out the scheme which seems to be actnating them at the | present time, they will be able to convince delegations from other dtates that right is right, and that it will be to their interest to zid California in securing her fair share of the money which the people of the United States contribute to purposes of in- ternal improvement. “I DON'T REMEMBER.” History does repeat itself. In the cele- brated trial of Queer Caroline the princi- pal witness for the prosecution, forced to the wall by the searching and relentless | cross-examination of Brougham, was forced to take refuge behind an expression which ever since has been a synonym for the exposition of perjury and tergiversa- tion, “non mi ricordo,” the exact equiva- lent of “I do not remember.”™ Just now there is in Washington an in- vestigation proceeding in which Collis P, | Huntington, much against his will, bhas | found it necessary to go upon the stana as | a witness under oath and to submit him- | self to cross-examination at the hands of Senator Morgan of Alabama, a fine lawyer, aman of unquestioned ability and a pub- licist of high rank. Being asked a series of questions, which he did not want to | answer, the president of the Southern Pa- cific Company falls back upon the historic ‘“‘non mirecordo.” He cannot remember anything about the Contract and Finance Company, whether he was a stockbolaer, what became of its books and accounts, whether he ever received any aividends | from it or how it was finally disposed of. His mind on that subject is 2 perfect blank. But what utter folly and sheer hypoc- risy such a pretense is. For Collis P. Huntington—a man whose great business and executive ability no one has ever doubted—to stand up under oath and pro- fess utter forgetfulness of the transactions which made for himeelf and his associates, at the expense of the people of California, the enormous fortunes they possess is an exhibition of mingled mendacity and 1in- solence such as has not been seen since the trial of Queen Caroline. Mr. Hunting- ton will go down to history bracketed with the ignorant but venal Italian wit- ness'whom Brougham crucified, and a rit- ting epitaph for each should be the his- toric *“Non mi ricordo.” THE PHENIX CARNIVAL. The second annuel midwinter fiesta of Arizona has opened at Pheenix with a bril- liant dispiay, and the indications are that the affair will be far more successful than the first. It is & curious reflection that this strange corner of the United States, having peculiarities and attractions unlike those of California, wnich themselyes are unique when compared with the other States of the Union, was the home of a splendid civilization, existing possibly long before the discovery of America. Taken in connection with New Mexico, which likely fiourished contemporaneously with it, 1t was part of an empire as glorious in its way as was Kgypt under the Pharaohs. Whatever were the causes that obliterated that civilization, the fact remains that the country was reduced to a waste, and that its arid and desolate sands were traversed by heedless thousands on their way to the new El Dorado—California. The barely discernible legend, written in the ruins of ancient cities, and the faintly traceable ir- rigating canals, that furnished the life- blood of the glory long past, were passed over unheeded. Tt would be a dreary task to attempt a count of the centuries during which the territory lay uninhabited and desolate. It is more pleasiag to realize now the great fact that we are upon the eve of witnessing a renaissance of the ancient glories, and that the people of our own time and blood are haling forth the spirit that has slumbered so long. 1t is equally interesting to reflect that centuries ago—on this continent as well as in Egypt, India, Babylonia and the Carthaginian states—tiie problem of irri- gation as the foundation of prosperity and civilization in arid. countries was com- pletely solved. To re-establish the con- ditions which formerly prevailed in Ari- zona it will be necessary only to repro- duce the great irrigation facilities which then abounded. It is this that the people are now steadily accomplishing. A significant remark made by Governor Hughes of Arizona at the opening exer- cises cannot be ignored. Los Angeles had sent to the fiesta a considerable number of its representative citizens—an eminent- AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Jimmie Swinnerton, the caricaturist who draws little bears and big salaries, had & strange experience in Fresno, where he went with the Olympic minstrels to give a burnt- cork exhibition, last week. Incidentally it is well to state that Jimmie has several fads, the most pronounced of which isa longing for loud haberdashery and the stage, When he strikes a live town like Fresno it looks as though the advance agent for a five- ringed efrcus was on hand to plaster the dead walls with posters and subsidize the press with Ppasses for the entire staff. After the performance Jimmie adorned him- self with his plug hat and one of his best ar- ranged vests and sallied forth to mingle with the people. About midnight he got separated from his companions, and while attempting to find his way back to the hotel he suddenly ran across an Italian laborer who had wandered up to Fresno and found himseli busted. He greeted the carlcaturist with: 2 ‘‘Pleasa, I lika de nick. Please lenda me de nick.” Bwinnerton looked at him & moment and evolved the happy idea of having some fun with the fellow. “What can you do, my good man, for that sum of money?” ‘‘Nota vera much. Icama de Ban Francis to hunta worka. I staya de dime museum fiva weeka. Igotta soma tattoo. Looka?” He ovened his shirt front and displayed a net work of tricolred characters tattooed into the skin. A new idea entered Jimmy's head and he, grabbing the hungry man by the arm, took ly proper and intelligent act. Governor Hughes declared that the interests of Ari- zona and Southern California are identi- cal, “and that in & case of emergency Southern California would be called upon to help Arizona in any measare had before Congress.” The exclusion implied in this remark should be noted; the greater part of California, lying north of Tehachapi, was not inclnded. Los Angeles had sent a strong delegation to Pheenix; the rest of the State had not. And yet Los Angeles, in the proper sense, had not a single inter- est separate from that of the State at large. Every advancement that Arizona makes, as every advancement made by any other Pacific State or Territory, con- cerns the welfare of all California. All transient and self-destructive hindrances to progress left out of the account, includ- ing monopoly of transportation and other | conditions representing evanescent exhi- | bitions of human greed and stupidity, the basisof the grand civilization of the future for the larger part of this vast Western section must reside in irrigation. THE FRENCH CRISIS. Bourgeois, the French Premier, makes no secret of his opinion that the time has arrived to leave the Senate and to appeal to public opinion against it. Should his majority in the Chamber of Deputies fall away, he will come forward to head a radical agitation against the Senate, and will appeal to the people on what he | calls the security of the wage-earners’ in- | vestments. | The present Premier is understood to be a man of strict integrity, but he is only of | mediocre ability and has an ineradicable taste for phrasemaking. The question of the Government of Franceissomething deeper and wider than the security of wage- earners’ investments. It involves the | ereat question which is under discussion, directly or indirectly, in every civilized nation of the world at the present day— the relation of the people through the gov- erning body to the great transportation agencies which play so important a part in the end-oi-the-century economics. In France the railroad scandal is, primarily, the cause of the present cri and it is the determination of the radicals to go to } the bottom of it and fix the responsibility | for bribery and corruption exactly where | it betongs. | This may probably cost President Faure | his position, not because he is charged | with or suspected of complicity, but be- | cause in a general deluge there will be no | distinction or discrimination. If the radi- | cals find themselves strong enough they will be satisfied with nothing less than a | clean sweep and the absolute control of the | Government. | Tt is strange that the French people, | after a long experience of a republican | form of government, cannot see the in- | herent weakness which lies in adhering to | a responsible ministry. Adapted as it may | succession in the titular head of the realm, { it is so manifestly unsuited to a represen- tative government with an elective ruler that it seems almost incredible that the French, with their acumen, their know edge of politics and their research into ex isting conditions, should not have put their finger on the weak spot in the constitution of the republic. Boulanger was a great deal of an adventurer, but he did have the | sagacity to suggest the assimilation of the | constitution of France to that of the United States, and until that be done Cabinet crises in France may and will | arise at any tume, and upon the flimsiest of pretexts. PERSONAL. J. Grover, a Colusa merchant, is at the Grand. Surgeon C. P. Bagg, U. S. N., is registered at | the Palace. J. C. Flickinger, the San Jose fruitman, isat the Palace. Frank H. Buck and wife of Vacaville are at the Palace. ¥ John Buckiughsm, the Ukiah merchant, is at the Grand. W. I, Deater, editor of the Madera Tribune, was at tha Lick yesterday. Attorney A. L. Levinsky of Stockton regis- tered at the Grand yesterday. W. F. Ellis, & leading grocer of Marysville, is at the Palace with his wife. Thomas Clark of Placerville and its mining interests is a guest at the Grand. Attorney W. J. Hunsacker of Los Angeles is in the city and is staying at the Palace. Charles Monroe of Los Angeles, law partner of Senator White, registered at the Palace yes- terday. C. J. Sharon of the Yellow Jacket mine came down from Virginia City yesterday and regis- tered at the Palace. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y;, Feb. 20.—Among recent arrivals are: E. Abrahems, Hoffman; G. F. Pancoast, E. Tostman and wife, Astor; W. Hale, Westminster; E.Saunders, Grand; J. D. Ham- mond, Windsor; E. F. Murphy, J. C. Siegiried, Broadway Central. Farmers Should Co-Operate. Lods Sentinel, : It is a fact that farmers and fruit-growers trust too much to their individual efforts for success. They are willing 1n most instances to forego assured profits for thesake of inde- ndent action. In the business world this feeling is not prominent. There is a readiness tojoin in movements which will benefit all, directly or indirectly, which, unfortunately, is 100 oftén lacking in the country. A New Doctor Needed. San Luls Obispo *Reasoner. Cleveland’s first bond bll stuck in the people’s throat, and he bad to sugar-coat the next dose before he could make it zo down. Tae next time he tries it they will throw his physic to the dogs and get a new doctor. . e — No Reason in That. Sonora Union Democrat. There is reason in all things, but the proposi- tion to give the Southern Pacific Railroad 100 years to pay its debts makes one doubt that general proposition. be to a monarchy, where there is perpetual | NN A 7 4 1 / Jimmy Swinnerton, the Caricaturist, Who Runs to Loud Haberdashery and the Stage. [Sketched by himself.} him 1o a restaurant, where the stranger was given plenty to eat. *Now come with me,” said Jimmie, “and I will see that you get v of money with which to return to San sco.” In a few moments Swinnerton burst info the itting-room of the hotel where his iriends had | asscmbled and were chattering before retiring. Jimmy waved his hand in & commanding way and asked for silence. ‘“‘Gentlemen,” he began, “we have all suf- fered in this great world more or less and the needy shoula not be neglected because they are unfortunate. Ihave hers with me one of the greatest specimens of the tattooer’s art ever exhibited to the American people. Sir, take off your shirt,” he said, turcing to his compunion. The dime museum feature re- { moved thet article of cluthing and stood bare to the waist beiore Swinnerton’s friends. “This man, gentlemen,” he resumed, “is well known to me. Imet him five years ago at the Central Park gardens, New York, and I am familiar with his history. In few words he was cast up as a shipwrecked sailor on the Fiji Islands and was put into the hands of the chief's tattooers. who worked on him one hundred and twenty-eight days, during which time he suffered the most excruciating pain, and was finally released and wandered around | the island for three weeks in a half-demented condition. One afternoon he sighted a sail in the distance, and with the aid of & small rag he managed to attract attention, with the re- sult that he was taken off and brought to America. Come up, ‘gentlemen, exemine the marvel, and see for yourselyes. We will now pass the hat and will then move on to the next wonder. During the intermission the orches- tra will play ‘Sweet Alice, Ben Bolt.’ " | In & few seconds the boys had filled Jimmie's hat with small change, and &s he handed the proceeds to the delighted Italian he said: *‘Did 1 give it to them about right?"” “‘Yas,” responded the fellow, “I pay for dat tattoo fifta dollar in Chicag sex year 8go,” Jimmie pulled down bis vest. THE QUEEN OF THE HOUSEHOLD. She ruies with subtle art and skill Excelient statesmen far. And ’ncath her changeful humors still Her subjects loyal are: No heart rebels against her sway, Her actions meet no blame: 1z all her moods irom grave (o g8y Her wordy attention claim, Her tiny hands no scepter hold, No purple robes she wears, Above her shiging curls of gold No diadem sho bears; But et to ber in beauty bright Not Dido fumed and fair, = Nor vet that queen, Troy’s bané and blight, Could ever once compare. 8he owns 1o castle and no lands, No ship. no warlike aid; Yet ne'eran emperor’s commands As hers were 50 obeyed ; My little da: ghter, aged but four hort years, reigns royally ‘With pouc and frown and laughter o'er Her mother and o'er me. —Chambers’ Journal, Get Rid of the Surplus, Riverside Press. One does not need & Jong memory to recall the campaign when Mr. Cleveland was urging @s a reason for the placing of his party in POWer that the country was in distress because of taxation which meintained & “surplus” in iuns Nuiou:l treasury. Whatever shortcom- ngs may be charged against the party placed in power through {ho‘l‘nluence o‘? t).l’h Pplea, it cannot be truthtully denied that it has kept its pledge to extinguish the surplus. It lux indeed, gone further. It has not oni; ‘Wipes out the :uéglu-. but has increased our Naticnal debt by 62,000,000—an amount equal to one-tenth of the indebtedness incur: in a iour years’ civil war. And, somehow, the bur- den of taxation of the {ndividual citizen seems to be increased rather than diminished, in spite of predictions to the contrary. It is, we suspect, such hard-headed facts these, known 10 everybody, that furnish the ex: P|Anlflon of the overwhelming trend of pub- ic sentiment toward Republican policies. HUMOR OF THE HOUR. He—But of course you will forget me. She—Nonsense! I shall think of you when you are gone. He—Oh, shall you? She—Yes. Therefore the longer you are gone the longer I shall think of you. Won't that be nice?—EBoston Transcript. Oue day, as Archimedes of Syracuse was tak- ing a bath he started violently. “Eureka!” he exclaimed. The neighbors, heard him, and were some- what at a loss to know whether ho had found his collar-button or the soap.—Detroit Tribune. Teacher—When did the thirty years' war commence? Pupil—I don’t know, sir; but if yow'll tell me when it left off I can reckon up.—Fliegende Blaetter. “De trouble 'hout de man dat t'inks he knows it all,” said Uncle Eben, “am dat he Wants ter stob everybody he mects an’ tell it.” —Washington Star. Brown—You look as if you had the blues. Robinson—So I have. I've lost my besutiful new silk umbrella, “Where did you leave it?"” “Ididn’t leave it anywhere. The owner met me and took it away from me.”—Boston Tran- script. E.—You sy you saw everything in Rome in three days. That's impossible! F.—But you must remember that there were three of us. My wife took all the churches, I visited all the picture galleries and my son went for the restaurants and cafes. Then we met in the evening and swapped experiences. —London Tit-Bits, Mr. Barlow (looking at thermometer)—Gee whilikens! But the thermometer’s stood near zero all day! Mrs. Bariow (with asperity)—What else coutd you expect? You would hang it out there -on that cold, bleak porch! Bring it in the house. —Puck. Wool—1 sent a quarter yesterday to a man Wwho aavertised to tell me how to turn a hand- spring. Van Pelt—Well? Wool—Told me to get off a cable-car back- ward.—New York World. First Clerk—Does your guv’'nor ever tell you fellows funny stories? Second Clerk—; but we have to laugh just the same—Amusing Journal. Susy—Say, auntie dear, you’re an old maid, aren’t you? 2 Auni Emma (hesitatingly)—Certainly, Susy: but it is not nice of you to ask such a question. Susy—Now, don't be vexed, suntie; I know itisn’t your fault.—Herriedener Laubfroscn. VIEWS OF WESTERN EDITORS. Depend on the People., People’s Advocate. If Grover can’t run the Government in time of “peace and prosperity” without a deficit that threatens to bankrupt the Nation what would ne do when trying to enforce the Mon- Toe doctrine? Breakers Ahead. Woodland Democrat. Democrats are united on every public ques- tion except the currency. Unless there is & disposition manifested for more moderation and concession there is danger of u very dangerous division that wiil jeopardize party success. Daungerous Broken Bottles. n Jose News. An ordinance should be passed by the Com- mon Council making it & misdemeanor to throw giass on the paved streets, or in fact on any street. Broken giass, purticularly that of a broken bottle, is dungerous to horses and very damaging to bicycle tires. The Good Roads Movement. Oakland Enquirer, Ten years ago San Francisco horse-awners moved to Oakinnd becguse all the good drives .| were here, but to-day there is not even a fair driving street in this city, and the Good Roads Associntion i8 making but slow progress in awakeniug publicatiention to the injury which this siate of things fs doing to the city. A Fleet Needed in the Pacific. Petaluma Courler. Of all nations the United States is the most concerned in Oriental wars, has perhaps the most at stake and ought to be a party to the settlement of Pacific difficulties. tave g great fleet in the Pacific Ocean, and, if there be an arbiter, should be sole arbiter, as it undoubtedly controls over 25,000,000 square miles of the Pacific Ocean. Serious Maladministration. P Petaluma Argus. The gigantic wasie, biind blunder and inca- pacity displayed in the administration of the Government was never equaled. Our re- sources were never excaeded, yet we are forced | to assist foreign enterprises 1o the detriment of home {ndustry by adopting a:l kuown methods that take gold from us and bring raw wmaterial and manuiactured goods to us, reducing wages aud the country to idleness. Barry Finds a Remedy. San Francisce Star. J. P. Vincent, Assessor of Fresno County, has usuaily been allowed filteen deputies about this time, and hes now been refused eny, ren dering it impossible for him 10 assess in the usual manner—by visiting all taxpayers. We can show him & out: Assess only land values, water rights and franchises, and assess these at their value. Then enotgh money would be raised and “everybody wouid ba hapoy” except holders of land for speculation and owners of other special privileges. Haven’'t Much Left. Fresno Herald. Mr. Huntington is credited by the press dis- patches with having said to the committee be- fore which he advoeating the proposition to refund the debt of the Union Pacific railroad that the people in California who are opposing | the scheme are “about as uncanny a crowd as a farmer ever found in bis henroost.” The peo- ple who are opposing the refunding act are the ones who bave given Colonel Kuntington g considerable number of bis millions, and if they have not & great deal left he should not point the finger of scorn at them on that account. A MUSICAL DOG. There is in St. Louis, says the Republic, a dog who, if he keeps on growing in the grace of training, will soon be able to make name and fame for himself on the concert stage, the dog concert stage, at least. The dog is ealled “Gip,” and he lives on North Eighth street with nis master, Professor Robert g Washburn, the composer. Gip is an ugly little pug, but displays great intelli- gence. One of its most amusing feats is to lay on the piano and sing, or rather howl to rh' accompanimentof adiscordant sweep with BRI b A T . @ 0 professor pl on nita,” and has ever since tried to imitate him. When he is asked to laugh, he opens his mouth and shows two rows of fine teeth. With all his accomplishments Gip is the curio of the nulghborhoo(r, and has to nloul{ watched to keep some enterprising theaf manager from purloining bl It should | \PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. Dr. George Rodney Eden, Bishop of Dover, is the youngest prelate in the Church of England. He is 43 years of age. J. Scott Harrison, the Democratic brother of the ex-President, has been elected a member of the Kansas City School Board. Elbridge A. Towle, who died in Charlestown & few days ago, had been a conductor on the Boston and Maine Railroad nearly fifty years. The state of Lord Elgin’s health, it is said, makes it probable that he will resign the ofiice of Viceroy of India in the course of & few weeks. The only bust of General Robert E. Lee that was taken from life was made by Frederick Volek, the sculptor, at about the time of the battle of Chancellorsville, Pillsbury, the chess-player, eats one small Plate of meat every day, drinks nothing but milk, smokes rarely, sleeps eight to twelve hours daily and rides a bicycle. Sir Mackenzie Bowell, Premier of Canada, began life as & printer’s devil, worked at his trade for many years, bought a newspaper Wwith savings and so got into polities. General Weyler, the new captain-general of Cuba, is said to have sprung from that peculiar race, the German-Irish, being descended from one of the old Hessian families of Ulster. Mrs. Fzekiel Webster of Nashua, N. H., died & few days ago. She was a sister-in-law of Deniel Webster, and survived her husband sixty-seven years and her brother-in-law forty- four years. Early widowhood appears to be the sad des- tiny of many members of the British royal family. The Qucen herself was widowed at 42, the Empress Frederick at 48, the Princess Beatrice at 39. A centenarian, who died recently in London, had smoked steadily since he was 15 years old. He began smoking, that is, the year before Na- | poleon was driven back from Moscow, and kept it up till after Jameson surrendered at Kru- gersdorp. Frederick Price, who used to be the center rush in the football team in the University of Georgia, is now fighting in the Cuban: insur- gentarmy. He gets $24 a week, and he says the work is not half so exciting and dangerous as football. 8. B. Crockett has been telliug how hard up e was when he was a student in Edinburgh. | He lodged with a friend over a great coal sta- | tion and he used to go out in the evening and | Pick up the coals which the carts had dropped | in the streets. The news that Mrs. Hetty Green has con- tracted the habit of dressing well has had a marked effect upon her mail. She is in re- celpt of circulars from dressmakers, milliners, shoe mercheants and other tradesmen, who had long ago reached the conclusion that the richest woman in America was not a target for their shaits. . The Rev. Alois Kaiser, cantor of the Oheb Sbalom Temple of Baltimore, has been re- quested to write the music of the Twenty-firet Psalm, to be sung by a large mixed choir in the Reformed Hebrew Congregation of Odessa, May 12 next, at special religious services to be held there in honor of the coronation of Czar Nicholas IT, which is to take place that day at Moscow. | Joao de Deus, who recently died at Lishon, | was the most celebrated of modern Portuguese | poeis. “He was born in 1830 and studied law at the University of Coimbra. He devoted him- | self to poeiry and was hailed es a second | Camoens. His published works are few ia | number, but his poems are remarkable for | originality of thoughtand purity of style and | treatment. Mary Anderson was once urged to take to the operatic stoge by no less an artist than M. | Brignoli. Heoverheard her singing by chance | an Irish baliad in a hotel in Toronto, Cauads, | and, secking an introduction, told her that ker voice, with a year's training in Milan, would win her success in grand opera. The | great actress told hini that she was satisfied | | with ber life as it was. | ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. Two La: | that the than the G AGES—(C City. It is asserted glish langnage contains more words | Tman langusge. Frox ELBA—D. A. C., Salinas, Cal. The ves- | sel that carried Napoleon awav-from Elba on the 25th of February, 1815, was the sloop-of- | | war, 26 guns, Inconstant. LAGUNITAS CREEK—W. D., City. This being | the close season no one is lawfully permitted | to catelr trout in Lagunitas reek, Marin County, but there are some who, despite the law, do catch fish, but if arrested the penalty | would be severe. | HOUSE oF CoMyo: | Commons at this time consists of 670 mem- | bers, 461 jor England, 34 for Wales, 72 for Scotland and 103 for iréland. The complexion | is: Conservatives 340, Liberal-Unionists 71, Gladstone Liberals 177, Nationalists71, Par- neilites 11. THE ERIE CANAL—A. §., Menlo Park. The reason that money is expended to improve the Erie canal is becanse the necessities demand | its improvement. The caral runs from Albany, | N.Y., to Buitaio, N. Y., is 881 miles long, has & depth of 7 feet ater, has 72 locks, fvas completed in 1825, and has already cost $52,040,800. TALL BUILDINGS—W. C., Oakland, Cal. The tallest buildings in the city of New York are the American Surety Company, Broadway and Pine street, 23 stories in height, space of ground occupied 84:8x85:6, height 305:1, and that of the American Tract Society, N | The House of | Nassau and Spruce streets, 23 stories, ground space 100:7x94:6, height 306 feet. PAVEMENTS—B,, City. Basalt was first used in this City in the early part of 1864 and bitumen as a pavement was introduced in 1867. At the close of the last fiscal year there were in this City 9583{ blocks of basalt blocks, 647} blocks of bitumen pavement, 384 basalt crossings and 287 bitumen crossings. The mileage of accepted streets at that date was 142 4505-5280 miles of accepted paved streets. Crrizexsuip—W. P., City. Tne children of persous who have been duly naturalized, be. ing under 21 years of age at the time of the naturalization of parents, shall, if dwelling in the United States. be considered as citizens thereof. 1f a father on leaving a foreign coun- try places his son in a coliege to be educated, comes to the United States, becomes a citizen thereof, and subsequently, while the boy is still in his minority, sends for him and he be- comes a resident of the United States, he is a ;m.izieu thereof by virtue of his father's natural- zation. BARBER-SHOPS—S. M. D., Oakland, Cal. The case of Brodeck, arrested last November for keeping his barber-shop open after midday on Sunday, is still pending in the Police Court of thiseity. On the 12th of July Leo Gentzch was convicted of violating the law passed at the last session of the Legislature. He took an appeal to the Superior Court, which upheld the judgment of the lower court. This was on the "12th of October. To test the law fur- ther the defendant surrendered himself into custody and then applied for a writ of habeas corpus before the Supreme Court and he was released on bail penaing the hearing of the writ. Since then nothing -has been doue, and the cases of Brodeck and others have been postponed from time to time until the habeas corpus case is determined. S SURVEYORS' MONUMENTS—O. W. L., Coleville, Mono County,Cal. This correspondent asks: Do the Government surveyors establish one-halt mile monuments on the section lin ) In case the section coraers are more or less than one mile apart, wiich I3 the correct way to determine three- fourths of the section line 80 &8 to putup vision fence? Is it totake one-half of the line, shown by the monuments, or divi Tnto four caual parts and take three of rhese parie equal pa ke three of these paris regardless of the one-half mile monuments? o The haif-mile monuments cannot be disre- garded in subdividing a section. In most cases the proper way is to divide the dis. tance between section and quarter section monuments into two equal parts, ex- cepting in the case of the north and west tiers of sections. Sometimes it is ‘necessary to measure twenty chains easterly, westerly, northerly or southerly from a section or quarier seetion corner along the line. Sometimes a proportional measurement has to mt It depends entirely on the manner in which the section has been divided on the map. Sometimes sections are divided irregu- lariy and for that reason a specific answer would have to be given to meet the particular case. DEDICATION—Subscriber, Cal. The law of this State says that “In all counties of this State, public highways are roads, streets, leys, hnel. courts, places, trails, and bridges | ent with such use. | by | Hearst Fellows in Astrozomy by the 1 1aid out or erected by others dedicated to_ the D g tio ublic or made such in actions for the par tpion of real property.” One of the .mfi}l!m- cisions of the Supreme Court “of Cal ‘oi!'!mi holds that te constitute & dedicationo i for the purpose of & rural highway no pari tchs lar formality is required; the intention on the rt of the owner s the vital qu'fsl:lo . he intention may be manifested Wit g(l; without writing,” as thrown _open o ublic travel, pfnmng it and selling = Eounded by streets designated on the plat or ac- quiescence in the use of land as & ‘Rh‘\;u)r; hence time is not an essential ingredien Xh the act of dedication. Time, thoug often & material ingredient In & matter of levldedn_ce,‘ is mnot an iroxi dispensal ugredien de: ic:flobx}.e Hgthe soil be accepted by the public in a manner intended by tl:.ie owner, the dedication is eomplete, preclud- ing the owner and all claiming in his right from asserting any ownership inconsist- Dedication is conciusion of fact to be drawn by the jury from the cir- cumstances in each case, Stronger proof of de l: cation is required in cases of roads in the coun: try than in cases of streets in a city or town. -3 ANALYSIS OF DRINKING WAter—J., EL Do- rado County, Cal. The law of this State on the subject of analysls is as follows: Any person desiring an analysis of any food, arug, medicine, medicinal” plart, soll, ‘mineral water or other liquid shall submit the same to the Secretary of the State Board of Health, together with a Writien statement of the circumstances under which he procured the article to be analy zed which statement must. if required by him, be veri- fied by oath; and it shall be the duty of the Sec retary of the State Board of Health to transmit the same to the State Analyst, the expenses thereof (0 be defrayed by the said board. In answer to a request for information in re- gard to making “analyses of drinking water for a committee of citizens of any town in this State, and whether any charge is made for the same,” Professor W. B. Rising of the College of Chemistry, Berkeley, who is State Analyst, says: : The statute creating the office of State Analyst prescribes that certain analyses shall be made by the Analyst at the request of the State Board of Health, end that the expense shall be borne the board, For scve ot analyses of wines, el Board of Viticulture, same privileges nnder the organic act as the Board of Heaith. Al that time the Board of Viticul- hich boerd received tne ture gave the State Analyst an assistant, and the analyses were made by him une der the direction of the State Analyst. The State Board of Health has asked that it be allowed to expend $100 per month for the purpose ng such an assistant to make the needed anulysis for the board, ontemplated in the act creating the ofiice of “Analyst” Numerous an- alyses have buen meade from time to time for pri- vate parties or for County Boards of Heaith, some- times entirely gratuitously and sometimes & small charge has been made to pay for assistance em- ployed. It has always been the desire to carry on this work for the benefit of the public and on such ascale that the gemeral public conld get some beneflt from the work. A small sum of money expended for assistance wonld enable the State t to do & good work. There would be an ate in baving the work done in v other. Analyst economy to the this way above a UNIVERSITY FELLOWSHIPS AND SCHOLARSHIPS— E. S, Berkeley, Cal. The following are tha fellowships and scholarships of the University of the State of California, also the conditions: The Le Conte Memorial Fellowship lias been es tablishea by the Alumni Association of the univer- sity, in honor of Professors John znd Joseph Le Conte. Lis value Is $500, and it is awarded annu- ally by a_board of administration of the Alumnt Ascociatfon. Tt is limited to graduates of the Uni- versity of California of not more than three years' standing at the time of the award; the sole test ia superior excellence, as determiued at its discretion by the board; and the recipient is to pursue his studies e ther_at the Umiversity of California or elsewhere as the board may determine. Six university fellowships have been established by the Regents—two in philosophy, one in history and political sclence, and two 10 matbematics, each yielding $600 annually: and one in miner- felding $5C0. During 1894-95 there has n addition, an Lonorary fellowship in palmontology. The appointees devote their atten- ton to graduate study and wssist in the work of Artment. Harvard Club scholarships—The Harvard Club of San Francisco has awarded annually since 1857 2 sum of not less than $200 to some graduste of the University of California, the money to be used by the recipient in the pursuit of graduate study at Harvard University. he Phebe Hearst scholarships for women— olarships in the University of California Deen established by Phebe A. Hearst of Sen ang women, each scholar- : award is 'made by the faculufes of the univessity, but any school officer of this State may recommend candidates. In accord- ance with the express desire of the founder, the quaitications are noble character and high aims; further, the award is not to be made as a brize for honors in entrance examinations, und it i3 under- stood that without this assistance a university course would iu each case be ipossible. Applica- tions for Phebe Hearst schiolarships, in order to be considered by the appropriate commitiee. must be filed wi b the recorderon or before the Arst of Muy of the year in which the award is made. Heafst Fellowships in Asironomy—>Mrs. Phebs A. Heurst has provided & fund 1o be used in ald ot scientific work at the Lick Obgervatory. A por- tion of this fund may be set aside for thé purpose of defraying a par. of the necessary expenses of such edvanced students as may be appointed to be ard of Re- ommendation of the presiden: of v and of the director of the observa- tory. Such recommendatiou will not be made ex- cept in the case of students who have already made deciacd progress in thelr work, and candi. dages for the higher degrees of the university wWill be preferred, in general. The Hinckley schiolarship of $300 Is awarded ght ° gents, On (he re vers | each year by the trusies of the Willlam and Alics Hinckley fund to some young man in the univers- ity of the State, or in some other school. TowNSEND's Palaco Mixtures,” 15¢1b. * S ecs,15¢ up. 8134 4th,nr. 33 Market, Kest's shoestore. e FPECIAL information daily to manufacturars, business houses and public men by the Presi Clipping Bureau (allen’s), 510 Montgomery, * s a e Johanais Has been used exclusively at the Marlborough- Vanderbiit wedding breakfast. Owing to its excellence it is the preferred table water at the best Tesorts, hotels, clubs, etc. * ———— Mrs. Fauntleroy—You bad little boy, to throw stoues at my Algernon! What are such wicked little boys as you allowed to live for, anyway? Tommy Tuffboy—If it weren’t for wicked lit- tle boys like me, ma’am, you couldn’t see how good your Algernon is by comparison.—Somer- ville Journal. THEhuman system isgiven tone and renawed vigor by Hood’s Sarsaparilla, which strengthens the organs of the stomach and aids digestion. In fact, the whole body is invigorated by Hood's. —————————— CoRONADO.—Atmosphere is pertectly dry, soft and mild, and is entirely free from the mists com- mon furthernorth. Round-trip tickets, by steam- ship, including fifteen days’ board a: the Hotel del Coronado, $€0; longer stay $2 50 perday. Apply 4 New Montgomery st., San Francisco. —————— Beggar—Beg pardon, sir, but I have seen bet- ter days than this. Passrby—so bave L New York World. The weather is horrid, NEW TO-DAY. e A TRUE STORY. THE MADDEST WONAN You ever heard of was one who got hurt on 2 railroad. She lived on Hyade street. i‘here was a certainty for her of pain, a good rest and BiG DANAGEN. A friend gave her something for it, which he assured her was good, £0 she used it, and then commenced making & list of all the things she would buy with the damages. That ‘was some comiort. Next day railroad people cailed and found her so nearly well they could not give her a cent. Scene closed with a profusion of Feminine S_\year Words. There's & sharp point in these for RAILROAD MANAGERS, BICYCLERS and EVERYBODY. Her level-headed friend had given her a bottle of Nitehell's Magic Lotion, Which is so harmless and pleasant to use, and never {ails to do good If You Ache or Get Hurt, Sold by druggists at 25¢, 50c and $1.06 -