The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 14, 1896, Page 6

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So long as there is no deficit in the duck- shooting Grover doesn’t worry. They have more weather in the East than we do, but we have the best of it. The Brown case is ended and thereisa breath of relief in every breeze that blows. Russia has not put ber foot into Africa, but it is by no means certain she has not had a hand in i Bayard has been shooting off his mouth again, but this time he wasn’t loaded and nothing was burt. npbell of Obio says he won't run, and wother Democratic possibility go rolling off the log. now said the British Blue Book on Venezuela is full of garbled statements, and the expected has happened. As King Menelek is said to be advancing slowly, the Italians have a chance to get peace with henor by beating him in a foot- race. s does It The Senate is so accustoined to postpon- ing thi that even a motion to delay is nearly al 1d over for further consid- eration. > anti-option bill, of which so much i, has gone to put. The House on Agriculture dropped it in tiee he wisest thing the Democratic p n dofs to follow its great leader and go ng and fishing for the rest of uck-shoot the y: The report that Cleveland objects to mid- dle-aged women riding the bicycle was undoubtedly started by some one who wishes to boom the custom. Amid the noises of the time it is worth noting that Carlisle has relapsed into si- lence and quit guessing when the revenues will begin to yield a surplus. The withdrawals of gold from the treas. ury have now ran up to about $150,000 a day, and it won't be longbefore the reserve is down to the danger point again. Huntington’s statement that seven- eightbs of the press of California favor the funding bill isa final and conclusive proof that the old man’s memory is completely gone. In saying “The Republican party is the protective tariff” Mr. Clarkson has ex- pressed a whole platform in a phrase terse enough to serve as a motto for a campaign banner. From the rapidity with which the gar- ment-makers’ strike is spreading in the Kast, 1t is probable clothing will be so short this year that everybody will have to wear knee-breeches. By the steady process of declining, one after another, the Democratic leaders ere forcing the party into a position where it must either renominate Cieveland or go out of business. It won't take more than a hurried sur- vey of the situation for the Democratic State Committee to find out what kind of a time the Buckley parrot and the Rainey monkey have been having here. The bill providing for the establishment of a naval station at Goat Island has been reported favorably to the Senate, and from the way things are moving we may see the new station before we see the new post- office. 2 From the frequency with which Senator Hill appears as a defender of the admin- istration, there seems to be something more than a possibility that he may yet showup as the administration candid ate for the Presidency. Between popular sympathy with the cause of Cuban independence and patri- otic indignation at the insults to America committed in Spain, Cleveland has a splendid opportunity to make another grand-stand play. The Senate has passed a bill creating a body to be known as “The Art Commission of the United States,”” and while such a commission might promote our art the chances are it will simply sit down on it and draw a salary Senator Sherman’s heated question, “If there is no state of war in Cuba, where in the name of hell does war exist?”’ may not have been expressed in what Senator Hoar regards as the proper way, but it was perti- nent to the occasion. It now appears that the protest of Havana merchants against the action of Congress was obtained by forcing most of the signatures, and it therefore standsas a protest against Spanish methods rather than against this country. General Weyler is something of a politi- cal boss as well as a butcher. He is said to have putup all the tickets to be voted for in the coming election in Havana, and, besides, will appoint the men who are to count the vote. He has asure thing. The proposal to put upon the angel of the City Hall a set of movable wings at- tached to gearing, so that when the wind blew they would generate electricity, has the merit of novelty and utility, but it would never do to let the idea get abroad that the tutelary angel of our City is a windmill. REPUBLICAN PLATFORMS. The Ezaminer of yesterday, in entertamn- ing its readers with criticisms on the plat- forma adopted by the Republicans of Iowa and Ohio, declared the utterances of the first to be vague on the tariff and thosé of the second to be vague on the currency issue. The Iowa idea on the tariff, it thought, would suit Democrats as well as Republicans, while the Ohio idea: on th‘e money question, it declared, would ‘suit nobody at all. From the judgment thus pronounced it drewwno conclusion in ex- press terms, but evidently intended the reader to infer that Democrats have a fighting chance against Republicans this year, and that to find exercise for their energies are not of necessity compelled to resort to fighting one another. The hope which our contemporary has thus held out to the warring factions of the party whose State committee meets to- day has, however, no foundation to rest upon. The Jowa platform on the tariff is an indorsement of the record of Senator Allison on the subject, and there is no vagueness in that record. He has taken part in the making of three tariffs for this country, and in every one of them his bandiwork has been shown in the upbuild- ing of protection in the broadest and full- est sense. He was also the man who brought about in the Senate the adoption of Blaine’s great plan of reciprocity in con- nection with the McKinley tariff. His record, therefore, includes protection and reciprocity, and is as definite, distinct, clear and luminous as that of any states- man who ever served the American peo- ple in the halis of Congress. Equally unfounded is_the charge of vagueness made against the Ohio declara- tion on the currency question and most futile is the assertion that it will please nobody. The declaration is the same that has been made by the Republican party on the subject since the controversy be- gan, and is the one which the people have repeatedly indorsed by overwhelming ma- jorities. The essential part of it is em- bodied in the phrase ““We favor bimetal- lism and demand the use of both gold and silver as standard money.” On that plat- form in Ohio McKinley was raised to of- fice and Bushell after him, by majorities so large that Democracy was well nigh swept from the State, nor can there be any question that the people of the Union, as a whole, will give an equally strong support to whatever Presidential candidate stdnds on that platform in the coming campaign. On the same day the Republican comnven- tions were held in Jowa and Ohio there was a Democratic convention in Rhode Island. The Eraminer would do well to study the declarations made by that con- vention before it azain undertakes to criti- cize Republican platforms. The dispatches of the day stated that the platform adopted by the Rhode Islanders ignored National issues altogether. That is the Democratic platform so far as it has been made—a platform of nothing A NARROW ESCAPE. The fact that the steamship City of Rio Janeiro has not been lost isa subject for ng, but the Pacific Mail Company de- none of the credit. The story is sim- ply this: The ship was supplied with coal suflicient only for a run in fine weather, and her sailing power was inadequate to make headway against adverse winds. When she had covered 2000 of the 3000 miles between Honolulu and Yokohama her coal, under the stress of severe head storms, was exhausted, and it was impossible to pro- ceed 1000 miles further to her destination. She was compelled to put back 2000 miles to Honolulu, flying before the storm, to se- cure coal. Even there she had great ditfi- culty by reason of the fact that her owners have no supply station on the island. Her master managed to borrow coal and then proceeded on his way. In time the ship will reach Yokohama in safety. Meanwhile the passengers were sub- jected to a terrible strain of fear and anxiety, their business suffered, and their friends on shore were in great distress. Every life on board wasin peril, to say nothing of the valuable cargo, including a million in treasure. Had the steamer been coaled properly before leaving San Fran- cisco all of these sufferings, losses and anxieties would have been avoided. But there was a very heavy demand for space on the vessel, and an adequate supply of coal could have been taken only at the sac- rifice of considerable money ready to be paid for freight. The company was well aware of the possibility of such a storm as that encountered, but it proceeded on the chance that none would occur and that the trip would be made without accident. It was just such a policy as this that caused the wreck of the Colima on the southern coast some months ago. That steamer also belonged to the Pacific Mail Company. The deck was loaded with lumber. Everything would have gone smoothly had not a violent storm been encountered, but when it came the top- heavy ship was unable to live, and she foundered, drowning many persons and destroying much property. In all prob- ability the Colima would have ridden the storm safely had she not been made top- heavy. AN AVOIDABLE DANGER. A study of the list of those who have been killed by cable and electric cars would show that a very large number were crushed by the meeting of cars. The case in Oakland, in which two little girls lost their lives, is illustrative of the prevalent danger. They had waited for a car to pass, and not observing one approaching from the opposite direction and unable to see it by reason of the intervention of the car which they had avoided stepped in front of it and were run down and killed. It will be found that many children thus lose their lives, as they cannot be expected to be so careful as adults; but the list of such casualties by no means concerns them alone. ‘While the victim is unable to see the car concealed by the one which he has avoided, the gripman or motorman of that car likewise cannot see the victim. The rem- edy for this would be the requirement that when cars meet one of them should be re- quired to stop until the other has passed on and left the view clear, and shonld pro- ceed very slowly until it is entirely clear of the other. It should further be required that when two cars meet and one of them stops to discharge a passenger the other car also should stop, and remain still until the other car has passed on. It has been suggested that the teachers of the public schools urge these rules con- stantly upon the pupils: “l. Look both ways when crossing & street or alighting from 2 car. 2. Never try to cross the street when a car or team is near. 3. Do mnot board or leave a moving car. 4. Always leave a car from the right-hand side.” The first of these admonitions covers the danger here mentioned, but not sufficiently, and perhaps an ordinance regulating the speed at which cars may pass one another may be necessary to eliminate it altogether. Of course, any such requirement would not reduce the obligation of the companies to furnish their cars with efficiént fenders. Those on some of the electric cars could not have been more ingeniously devised to mangle the unfortunates after tripping them. The subject of fenders seems to have been lost sight of lately, and doubtless the companies hope, by the employment of careful operatives, to prevent the fre- quent sacrifice of lives and an ensuing agi- tation, which would require an expendi- ture oi a large amount of money in equipping the cars for the vrotection of life, Even the best fender that can be devised, however, is not a pleasant thing to encoun- ter, and fenders are not the only safeguards that might be employed. The unfortunate phase of the matter is that the cruelty of some of the fenders in use causes them to be charged with all the evils that the pres- ent system of operation embodies. The question is larger than that of fenders. PROGRESSIVE ARIZONA. The report made by Charles F. Hoff in a Cary interview concerning affairs in Ari- zona is highly encouraging. Under the stimulus of a prosperous year for cattle, an extension of irrigation and the develop- ment of numerous gold mines, the cities of Tueson, Pheenix and Prescott are eager to make improvements which shall put them abreast of modern cities, and for this purpose are appéaling to Congress for per- mission to issue bonds each to the amount of $100,000. Naturally these progressive people chafe under the cumbersome Terri- torial regulations which require them to seek authorization from Congress for the performance of acts, the value of which they alone are compatent to judge, and accordingly are moved to secure laws which will permit them the exercise of a wider liberty of action. The interests of California are so closely identified with those of Arizona that a nearer relation than has heretofore existed should be established, and the influence of California’s delegation in Congress should be thrown into the scale with Arizona’s needs. Unlike every other State or Terri- tory of the great West not bordering on the ocean, Arizona has no mountain barrier separating it from the coast. It is natur- ally a part of California, being very similar in climatic and other conditions to South- ern California. Under a higher state of development it would be in a position to command the commercial facilities of the Pacific both by land across California and down the lower reaches of the Colorado River to the Gulf ot California. The development of Arizona would mean a draft upon California for some of our most valuable products, mncluding lumber and bituminous rock. It would have the further effect of creating a local rail traffic which would tend to reduce the overland transportation charges with which Califor- nia is burdened. Being convenient to Mexico the Territory is in a position to establish commercial relations with that republic which would be valuable to our entire Nation. California and Arizona present the best opportunities in America for the invest- ment of capital in the development of rich native resources. While our State is much better known Arizona, with all its vast wealth of soil and minerals, is practically an undiscovered country, its development, rapid as it has-been in recent years, not nearly approaching the volume of its native wealth. It can produce many of the fine products which have given Cali- fornia its fame, its climate is wonderfully healthful and it lies convenient to the markets of Mexicoand the Southern States. “THE SUNDAY OALL” The leading feature of to-morrow’s CALL will be an exhaustive discussion of the Salyation Army, giving something of its history, its general scheme, its work, pur- poses and discipline ana the desertion of Ballington Booth. It will be found an interesting review of one of the greatest religious movements of history. Adeline Knapp, in “Our Busy Streets,” gives a graphic picture of one of the most interesting charms that San Francisco possesses. “The San Bruno Light” is another of the series of articles which have appeared in Tre SuNDAY CALL describing the light- houses of California, and it will be found as readable as its predecessors. An instructive chapter from history will be devoted to “Farragut in California,” as it will be remembered that at one time he was in command at Mare Island. “Marriage in Japan,” by Euphemia Bur- ton, is a delightfully written account of the quaint customs of that country in a matter which has an untiring human in- terest. Those who have bewailed the extinction of the buffalo will be pleased to learn that here in California there has grown up a considerable industry in the breeding of this noble animal. The description of a breeding-farm in this part of the State will be read with considerable interest. These are only a few of the special arti- cles that have been prepared for to-mor- row's issue, and besides these are the regu- lar Sunday departments devoted to novel- ties in the realm of science, literature, the drama, society, children, and all the oth- ers. THE Suxpay CaLrisentirely an origi- nal production, isunlike any other Sunday paper, and is particularly welcome to East- ern people who want to know something about California. PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. British officers in Dublin must wear mus- taches by order of Lord Frankfort de Mont. morency, the general in command. Rain-in-the-Face, who was & leader in the Custer massacre, iS now & policeman at the Standing Rock sgeney and is looked upon asa valuable man. i Itis announced that Mr. and Mrs. Whitelaw Reid have offered their besutiful house in West Chester, N. Y., to ex-President Harrison in which to spend his honeymoon. The offer has not as yet been accepted. The Emperor of Austria dislikes German cooking and cares only for French cuisine. When his relatives of the house of Tuscany visit nm to please their tastes he has Italian dishesserved. On certain occasions the Em- press, who Is a Bavarian, orders German dishes. The Baroness Burdeti-Coutts is very fond of all kinds' of animals and birds, and at her Highgate home she has an extraordinary col- lection of them. Goats, llamas, ponies, don- keys, nightingales, parrots, robins and a vari- ety of others are among her pets and all share her favor. A laborious genealogist announces that Queen Victoria had nine children, of whom she has lost two; forty-one gran dchilaren, of whom eight have died, and twenty-three great- grandchildren, all of whom are living. She has, therefore, sixty-three descendants living— seven children, thirty-three grandchildren and twenty-three of the next generation. . More people know the late ex-Governor Rob- inson as Lizzie Borden’s counsel than as a brilliant chief executive of the old Bay State. The trial estaplished his fame as a criminal lawyer, and he was besought afterward to de- fend murderers, but he refused all such offers. He believed entirely in the innocence of Miss Borden and frequently said so. Some German papers give very unfavorable accounts of the health of Archauke Franz Fer- dinana, heir-prospective to the Austro-Hun- garian throne. He is wintering at Cairo, and, according to these reports, has been obliged to forego walking exercise, only appearing on ] the terrace of the hotel with an attendant to support him. He looks very ill and takes & desponding view of his own case. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. +‘Of all the places that 1 ever got into and didn’t want to get into again,” said L. W. Adams yesterday, at the Grand, “that place is British Guiana. ‘““When I went down there, about a year ago, to take charge of s number ot placer and quartz mines for a New York syndicate, I didn’t know the siege I had to run. “If Thad I suppose I wouldn’t have gone. Not because the mines are not good enough, for they are. They are really about the richest I ever struck. The placers there averaged somewhat near 16 cents a pan, so far as I pros- pected, and average quartz was about$40a ton. My company made money, and so did about all the others there. ““We were on the Barima River, quite a long them by means of a change in the boupdary. But_this country is notin a mood to t England any conces=ions just at present, and ber hopes in that direction are destined to be shattered. Gold Nearer Home. Berkeley Gazette, Our advice to the men both old and young who are now casting their eyes toward Alaska is to investigate the rich mining regions close at hand in your own State before passing over it and going to a country that you know not of, and where only hardship and misery await you. The Way to Resume. Fresno Republican, Horace Greeley once remarked that the way to resume is to resume. The idea applies with force to a good many other things whick some el -gLW i \ L. W. Adams, Who Has Returned From British Guiana After a Year of Strange Experiences There. [Sketched from life by a “Call®. artist.] distance up from Georgetown. Had, in fact, to get a lot of natives and paddle in smail boats a good part of the way and twist around waterfalls. There is a dense tropical growth along that river, and in the boiling sun malaria and fevers were bred. They attacked Americans and Europeans with unusual fatal- ity. It ook only a little time in many cases for these fevers to get & grip on & man, and un- less he had a strong constitution he was liable to be carried off. The natives stood it well. They did not seem to be affected like the outsiders. “These natives worked for $1 or a little more adayin the mines, and I found them very tractsble and useful. My company made money. Itwas really interesting to note the development of wealth in those mines. e British residents down there are very slow. There are no people like the Americans topush forward and make themselves felt, With them, to see that a thing was good was to act on it. They were generally successful. The British were too slow. Still, notwitn- standing the richness, I would not advise any of our California miners to go to British Guiana. I think,on the whole, they will be happier, and in the long run as prosperous, here.” Every actor of prominence has had his up$ and down in the profession. It is almost nec- essary that the follower ot Thespis should buck up against the downs at some period in order that his nature may be meliowed and hismind broadened by the hard and lasting impression of experience. There was & time when Tim Murply was lighter in purse and heavier in heart than he is this season. It was in the di before he crossed Charley Hoyt's horizon —before he had been given the small part of Dodge Work in “A Brass Monkey,” the acting of which, however, gave Hoyt & “line on the ability” of the man who was afterward to make of “*A Texas Steer’” such a tremendous success. They were the days of Murphy’s callow youth, but he already had the theatrical bee buzzing under his headgear. It was then his wont to organize a company of amateurs in his home city, Washington, and go barnstorming for weeks at a time. On this particular trip the attenuated Mur- phy had led his aspiring actors and actresses down into the country school district of Vir- ginia. At Culpepper there wasa hall which also did duty as en opera-house. Murphy for- gets now whether it was “Ten Nights in & Bar- room” or “Julius Casar’’ which was down for production that night. Atany rate he used to take tickets at the door until near curtain- rising time, then rusn back on the stage, make up in a desperate hurry and be ready for his cue. This night at Culpepper the hosts were slow coming outto buy tickets at 10,20 and 30 cents and the house was mesger when time compelled him to give up the door to the rural manager and go on the stage. He severely cautioned the house manager about letting in people without the price and skipped to the Tear. 3 When Murphy obeyed his cue and stalked out on the stage what was his amazement to find the hayseed manager sitting in the front row. As s00n as his time and business would permit him he went down under the stage to the door, through which the orchestra emerges and dis- appears, and yelling at the rustic asked what in thunder he was doing there. Mr. Rural Manager, having in mind only the terrible warniug Murphy had givem him to prevent the possibility of letting all his conntry friends in to see the show for nothing, yelled: “That'sall right, Mr. Actor; they kain’tany of them gitin on yer. I've locked the door and g0t the key in my pocket.” When Murphy finally induced him to go back to'the door there were fifty or sixty people waiting patiently for the doors to open. VIEWS OF WESTERN EDITORS. A Note of Warning. Santa Clara Journal, Beware of “Gold Bricks.” Make it a Pe: Offense. San Jacinto Register. Pugilism is not a manly art nor physical science, it is & degrading exhibitjon of low brutality, and the soomer it is treated as a general offense everywhere on the continent the better for public morals. Great Britain Would Stand Alone. Oakland Tribune. Great Britain in some of ber recent contro- Versies must have had a new sense of isolation. It was evident that if involved in & war she would stand alone. Russia, Germany and France would not be with her. The Wisdom of Concentration, Los Angeles Express. The present predicament of the Italian Gov- ernment should afford an object lesson to those American politicians who are everlast- ingly clamoring for an extension of the juris- diction of the United States Government. A Search Warrant Needed. Pacific Unlon Printer. Lost.—In Washington, D. C., during the month of February, a Memory. Finder will Please keep it until ealled for by the owner, C. P. Huntington. A liberal reward will be ::l::cd, Payable in 100 years, interest at 2 per England Wants Them. San Jose Mercury. The gold flelds in Alasks promise tobe as rich those in Africs, sud England hopes to secure people appear to think should be deneina roundabout way. The way to coin silver tor instance is to coin irt,and all of it which is taken to the mints trom the mines of this coun- try. To do &nything less than this is to dis- credit the white metal and weaken its value in comparison to the favored yellow metal. THE WRECKERS. All night the sea has thundered: The winds have fiercely reaped, And first fruits of the harvest Aloug the shore are heaped. I watch a group of children Upon the beach beiow, Glad wreckers waiting for their spoil After the night of woe. From out the thickly driving mist A dory leaps to land; The fisherman is ambusked by ‘The eager shouting band. The boldest wrecker of them all Springs on his shoulders brown, While others seize his brawny arms And fiercely pull him down. They lead their captive slowly 0'0 their stronghold by the hill; A cottage 1ow, where weary eyes With tears of welcome fill. O children! keep your prisoner fash Nor let him once go free, Till tempest clouds be overpast And sunshine light the sea! GFORGE T. PACKARD In the Youth’s Companion. AN OLD CITY NURSERY. The oldest nursery in San Francisco and, possibly, in California occupies a platof land near the corner of Battery and Oregon streets. Itis not the first nursery started 1in the City, but those that were started before it have long ago been removed to make room for improve- ments. One would not look for a garden of flowers and young trees in this locality, as the immediate surroundings are old tumble-down buildings, crowded in together 5o closely as to 'sf‘nrcely leave asquare yard of land between em. The garden is a quaint old place that some- how makes one feel as if it did not belong there. Everything about it is old-fashioned and £0 cramped for room s to make the plants seem to be gasping for air. The garden does not occupy much more than 125 square yards, Portion of the Oldest Nursery in San Francisco. and yet over 5000 plants of different kinds are gnwlng there. There is scarcely room to walk tween the different beds, and hundreds of lants in the first stages of germination are in xes ranged one above another on a tier of shelves. very inch of the garden is pictur- esque and interesting, no matter from what point it is seen. ‘When the nursery was first laid out it was in the center of San Francisco. The Merchants’ Exchange occupied the building just across Oregon street, and the Postoflice opposite on Battery street-brought crowds down that way. While the garden is now used mostly for grow- ing trees and vines, in the oldidays thousands of flowers were grown there. Most of the roses for the first Stute ball in the Legislative hall were grown in the same beds that are in use to-day. The nursery was started by Reed & Williams in 1860, at the time when they attempted to et a corner on the tree and plant business in alifornia. The first use of the garden was as & su l{ldeyot. In 1863 the present nwnpfl& tor, B3 eherin, bought them out. He made few if any changes in the arrangement of the garden or greennouse, so that it looks to-day much the same as when it was first laid out. HUMOR OF THE HOUR. Rt Yo “I want an additional clause put on the anti-smoke ordinance,” said Gaswell. “Go on,” replied Dukane. “I want every cigarette smoker to be com- pelled to consume his own smoke.”—Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. “Did I understand you to say,” said the Bos- ton lady to the art critic, “that what Mr, Van Dobbles’ picture needs is atmosphere ?” “Yes. “Ah! Then I begin to understand s remark made by Mr. Van Dobbles, which was hitherto unintelligible.” “About this picture 1 “Yes. He said he wished he could think of some way to raise the wind on it.”—Waghing- ton Star. “George dear!” She looked anxiously at the clock, which pointed at 12:30. “‘What is it, love 7" . “I don’t wish to hurry you away, George; but you know that papa is not overly fond of you, and he is an early riser.” At this hint George commenced to get ready to take his departure,—Harper’s Bazar. Mamma—What do you mean by taking that piece of cake? When you asked for it, didn’t Isayno? Tommy—You did; but last night I heard papa say that when s woman says “no,” she always means “yes.”—New York Truth. Wiggles—That was rather a shrewd thing that the people in the Fifth-street Church did with their pastor. Waggies—What was that? Wiggles—Oh, they gave him twenty volumes of the collected sermons of successful preach- ers.—Somerville Journal. Hungerford—Do you believe, doctor, that the use of tobacco tends to shorten & man’s days? Dr. Powell—I know that it does. I tried to stop once, and the days were about ninety hours long.—Sp're Moments. She—Oh, Mr. Jones—those two lovely poems of yours in this week's—a—a—"" He (a poetical star of the seventh magnitude) —You mean my two sonnets in the Weekly Sundew ? She—Yes. How exquisite they both are! He (much pleasea)—And which do you like best ? She—Oh, the longer one!—Punch. PERSONAL. Dr. J. H. Cutter of Portland is in the City. G. H. Barnhart of Tucson, Ariz., 15 on a visit here. Judge Harris of Sacramento is at the Cali- fornia. J.Q. Adams of Spencer, Iowa, arrived here yesterday. John R. Armstrong, electrical engineer, of Stockton is in town. A. Plaisted, proprietor of the Riverside Enterprise, is at the California. John D. Gougar and Mrs. Gougar of Lafay- ette, Ind., arrived here yesterday. B. T. Lacy leaves this evening for an ex- tended business visit to Eastern cities. S. S. Badger of Chicago, who is interested in gold mining in California, is at the Baldwin. George Carrothers of Findlay, Ohio, is a guest at the Cosmopolitan, accompanied by his daughter. ¢ Joseph Brown, the Democratic politician of San Bernardino, formerly & banker there, is at the Baldwin. H. A. Martin, & wealthy British manu- facturer of woolen goods, is among the arrivals at the Palace. Judson C! Brusie, the attorney, playwright and politician, of Sacramento is among nu- merous visitors here. : Attorney John W. Mitchell of Los Angeles, a member of the Democratic State Central Com- mittee, is at the Palace. ® W. J. Deater, editor of the Madera Tribune, is among those who have come to attend the convention. He is at the Lick. John Vance, one of the owners in the Fel River Valley Railroad and also in & hotel and other enterprises at Eureka, is at the Grand. William Cline, the grocer, leaves this even- ing, in company witn his brother, Martin, for Los Angeles, wnere he will establish a branch store. James B. Olcott of the Department of Agri- culture is here, en route home from Australia, where be has been collecting botanical speci- mens. John L. Sheffler, 8 wealthy resident of Frank- fort. Ind., is at the Palace, accompanied by Mrs. Sheffler and Misses Blanche B. and Mabel D. Sheffler. George Cochran Browne, & wealthy young wan of Brooklyn, N. Y., has arrived here, after a tour of Europe, Indis, China and Japan. He is at the Palace. ) Thomas Fox, the new Postmaster of Sacra- mento, who has just received his appointment after a hot fight for the place, is on a visit here. He is at the Lick. Tom D. Lane, superintendent of the great Utica gold mine, the product of which has been enormously heavy for the past two or three years, is in town. A prominent party of New York people, con- sisting of J. B. Dutcher, J. G. Dutcher and Samuel and Edward W. Hetts, arrived here yes- terday. They at the P . W. E. Hall, formerly chief clerk to the Chief of Police here, who has for some time been on his vineyard near Fresno, is in the City. He has became interested in mining in Northern California and also in Alaska. “ James Brennan, a mining man of Australia, arrived on the Alameda yesterday, accom- panied by his wife, and they are staying at the Cosmopolitan. Mr. Brennan is a brother of the Rev. Father Brennan of the Mission Dolores. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., March 13.—Among the arrivals are: W. Miller, Cosmopoliton; J. H. Porter, Hoffman; G. A, Spicer, St. Cloud; W. Hunter, Coleman; Dr.T.J. Turner, St. Denis; B. Ambler, Astor; Miss F. L. Shepard, Murray Hill ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD—S., City. Meyer’s Konversation Lexicon gives the following figures of the religions of the world: Christian — Roman _Catholic 216,000,000, Protestant 137,000,000, Greek, Armenian and (A]&;lyininn church 95,000,000; total 448,000, Non-Christian—Buddhist and Brahmin 672,- 000,000, Mohammedans 200,000,000, Jews. 7,000,000, other creeds 125,000,000; total 1,004,000,000. Fournier de Flaix in the quarterly report of American Statistical Agsociation for March, 1892, furnishes the following figures of creeds and number of followers: Christianity 477 080,158, worship of ancestors and Confucia: ism 256,000,000, Hindoofsm 190,000,000, M. hammedanism 176,834,372, Buddhism 147, 000,000, Taoism 43, ,000, Shintoism 14,- 000,000, Judsism 7,186,000, Polytheism 117, 681,669. - The followers of the Christiah churches are divided as follows: Catholic 230,866,533, Protestant 143,237,625, Orthodox Greek 98,016,000, Church of Abyssinia 3,000.- 000, Coptie, 126,000, Armenian 1,890,000, estorians ,000, Jacobites 70,000; to 477,080,158. 4 i JouN F. FINNERTY—A. B. W., San Diego, Cal. John F. Finnerty, the well-known orator prom- inent in Irish affairs, iscalled ‘“colonel” by courtesy. A friend of his, when asked how he acquired the title of colonel, sai You might just as reasonably ask why all members of some of our prominent clubs are called gen- erals, coloneis and judges. Mr. Finnerty s one of the handsomest men in the United States, and is considered one of the most elo- quent orators in this country; he served as war correspondent, rendered valuable services 8s a patrioc citizen in war and in peace; he served his country in the Congress of the United States, and defeated many an able antagonist in debate. For these reasons, if for none other, do you notthink hi: Should eall him coloneis - ° 1 oW-cltizens RoMAN COIN—E. F. P., Watsonville, Cal. in view of the fact that there are so many imita- tions of 01d Roman coinit isimpossbie to tell, without being certain that the coin you de. scribe is & genuine one, what its value is, The coin ought to be submitted t0 & numisma who will be able to determine its value if a genuine one. THE NAVAL ACADEMY—G.J. T., City, T) who are named to act as a boll:d toy;x-x:‘l’:: into the qualifications of applicants for admis- ;s:lnn :: tt:g 1‘1‘"-‘1' l‘t?a.demyi at Annapolis have o All such must be untrlzuth'ah e ians: the district in which the applicants 1 Tho tist, itis , the Congressman will notify the ‘:;:)nlfc(::':: n!h!he time and plsr where the examination, if any, is to be held. The Con- gressman is pfl‘m{!led to make & selection Without a competitive examination. NAME AND MEMORY—J. M., Sonora, Cal. The words *“For my name aud mem;)ry ? § lenve':! to ’s itable speeches, to foreign nations mens chariiable speechos o, Loreln fetions cis Bacon, who lived from 1561 to 1626. S A MODEST AND PRETTY BICYCLE COSTUME. Experienced riders who do not approve of bloo:l;im find the rather short skirt the ideal garment. It is becoming off the wheel as well, and is graceful and really more modest than the longer skirts which are narrow emough not to catch in the wheel, for these latter cling and show the outline of the form very plainly. The skirt if properly made never annoys o this the fabric mus by blowing. To insure fabrio mus have some body to begin with, further be faced up about five inches with the goods. The neatest finish for this is small rows of stitching. If the goods is not heavy an in- terlining of canvas may be used between facing and skirt. The skirt should be lined with satine 10 insure a freedom of movement tnat is impos- sible with woolen goods. The knickers may be made of the satine for summer wear, and then & skirt lining is not necessary. The leg- gings should match the costume or the facing. A cheviot of mixed tone is very jaunty with leather facing and leggings. A band of leather, is put on the hat also, and the gloves and but. tons should be of the color of the leather. The skirt has a front gore, and from that is seamless to the center back, where one pleat is laid on either side. The skirt buttons at the top of the front. The top fits perfectly smooth without darts, as it is cut circular at the sides and back. The waist fits smoothly over the hips, and is cut with the back and side forms in one. lain_cloth, black or brown, looks exceedingly well with white cuffs and collar. This skirt is appropriate to wear with shir waists for the summer. ' TOWNSEND'S iamous broken candy, 10calb, * ————————— MOLASSES crisp popcorn candy. Townsend. * ————————— FRESH buttercups, 25¢ & pound. Townsend’s.® - EXTRA fine chocolate creams at Townsena's.® EeE e ANICE present for Eastern friends—Town- send’s Cal. glace fruits, 50c¢ 1b. 627 Market st. * - 50 LBs. choice prunes $1. Sbarboro & Co., grocers, 531 Washington street. . S s e GENUINE Eyeglasses and Specs, 15¢ to 40c. 813§ Fourth. Sundays, 738 Market, Kast'sshoestore® e EPECIAL information daily to manufacture:s. business houses and public men by the Presa Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * e s Lord Beaconfield’s brother, Mr. Ralph Dis- raeli, is still living. He bears no resemtlance to his distinguished brother and has always lived a quiet, retiring live, having been for many years clerk of the House « STRONG muscles, steady nerves, good appetite, result from biood made pure by Hood's - rilla. This is proved by what thousands say atout Hood’s. Itis the ideal spring medicine. e SUFFERERS FROM COUGHS, SOBE THEOAT, ete., should be constantly supplied with “Brown's Bronchial Troches.” MaNY influences combine to make the hair crisp, lifeless, thin and gray. The best restorative is PARKER'S HATR BATSAM. S s G IF you suffer irom looseness of the bowels, Dr. Slegert’s Angostura Bitters will surely cure you. NEW TO-DAY. REAL ESTAT FOR SALE BY Thos. Magee & Sons, REAL ESTATE AGENTS And Publishers “Real Estate Circular.” 4 Montgomery Street, UNION TRUST BUILDING, CORYER MARKET. NEW PROPERTY. Rents $200; $45,000; North Beach corner front- ing Mon Ty 8 very prominent corner; ¥ car lines pass; 50-vai Magnificent Pacific-ave. residence and very largs lot; best portion; finest marine view out there and best block inside Buchanan st. Pacific Heights corner and fine new modern rest dence; §24,f Cor. Lake st. and Twenty-fourth ave.; 1201001 fine view; 83500. Twentyfourth and _Chattan sts. corner; 117:6x65 to an alley, and fair only $7500. 4x80: house has Two-story and basement; 10t 2 18 rooms: only $2800; very easy terms; Tehama bet. First and Second. enery st.; lot 50x100; $840. INVESTMENTS. Make offer; Ellisst. corner: rents $274 50; $30,000; 9Ux125; covered with 6 2-story dweliings and'9 fiats: both streets in good order; must be| 01d to close an estate. Ninth st., bet. Market and Mission; 50x100:6; frame buidings; cheap. Ninth st.. near Mission; good business block; 2 fl;;u m;;:d lot 25x70: store should be put there: Page st. and Rose ave., looking out to Market ! bet. Franklin and Gough: 27:6x120, mnunf’mm streets: cottage and 2-story dwelling; $12,000. Valencla-st. store and flat near Twentieth st.g rents $35; $5150. Howard st., west side, bet. Sixth and_Seventh, 28x90 and u-siory_double store and flat of 10" rooms; rents about $700 a year; $8750. ] CHEAP LOTS. $4000—VERY €HEAP: D ST., facing the Park, cor. Thirty-fifth ave.; 120x450, making 18 lot: CHEAP; $2000 only each: 3 lots 27:6x137:l on north side Sacramento, bet. Spruce and Maple; cable cars pass: easy terms. Reduced to $1300; very cheap: Geary-st. lots, west of Central ave., 26x100: cable cars ass. Gough-st. lots; 95x112:6: $4500 each; Grove and Fulton; street bituminized. Very cheap lot, 37:6x96:3, on Laguna_st., near Waller. one block from Market st.: only $3750. Devisadero, near Washington; 25x110: reduced 0 $3750; street paved; electric-cars pass; fine 10t and neighborhood. PACIFIC HEIGHTS RESIDENCE LOTS. Reduced to $9000: make offer: NW. cor. Pacifie ave. and Broderick 35x12° a very sightly lot, with view of bay and 1 block from the cars. Jackson st., bel. Gough and Octavis; 125x eleciric-cars pass: § 127:8, or any size front. Pacific ave., north side; any sz 28, 75 feet ?‘fbm: price reauced to $200 a foot; fine marine ew. Marine view; north side Broaaway, between Devisadero and Broderick; finest view on Pacitie Heights and cannot be shut off; 40x137:6 only $6400, or larger size. Southwest corner Broadway and Steiner; 27:6x 110; $4500; good view; street in order. If you want a sure relief limbs, use an BEAR IN MIND—Not one for ~ains in the back, side, chest, or Allcock’s Porous Plaster counterfeits and imita / h“m“mmfigmnutof