The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 27, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY T CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and PP\I;Iic‘fl'. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Patly and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier..$0.18 Datly and Sundsy CALL, one year, by mail.... 6.00 Daily d Sunday CALL, six months, by mall.. Daily and Sunday CALi, three months by mail 1.50 Daily and Sunday CALL, one monsh, by mail. Sunday CaLL, ope year, by mi WEEKLY CALJL, one year, by m BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market S Ban Francisco, Califorh! ! Selephone.............. EDITORIAL ROOM: ! 517 Clay Street. | Celephone....... - i | BRANCH OFFICES: 630 Montgomery street, corner Clay: open 80 o'clock. 83¢ res street; open nntil 9:30 o'clock. 715 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o'clock £W. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open until 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street: open untfl § o'clock. 116 Ninth street; open until § o'clocks OAKLAND OFFICE 208 Broadway. | untl EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 31 and 52, 84 Park Row, New York Oity. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Special Agent. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. ———————————————————————— Rainey, Mahoney and Kelly may be three of a kind, but it is a poor hand to draw to. The best thing Democracy can do will be to drive Buckley to the woods and drop Rainey in & cavity. President Krager may be pat enough in the Transvaal, but if he ever goes to Lon- don his name will be Dennis. ——— ‘Whether he comes for busin politics or recreation Mr. Depew will find a Cali- fornia welcome wide open for him. On one point at any, rate the popular wvorte this year will be unanimous. All par- ties are declaring for an honest dollar. The movement of the funding bill has stopped for a time, but the buzz-saw of public opinion keeps up its revolation. While one portion of the Democratic camp is under a Rainey spell, all the rest is peginning to look like an arid desert. | The recent understanding between Eng- | land and Italy has become an avowed al- liance, and now everybody understands. The Southern Pacific Company can have | peacc from popular agitations the moment | i ing to give the peopie a rest from monoj 'y exactions. There are good reasons why Democrats should be late in selecting a candidate for | the Presidency, but what are the Populists | waiting for? The control of 20,000 miles of milmad‘ may give Vanderbilt his hands full, but | he will never have a full hand unti! he | gets a through to the Pacific. The condition of the weather in Chicago may be inferred from the fact that the News says it would be very agreeable to the people of that f St. Louis had it. Whenever Fresno wishes to getahead | of the monopoly railroad, she starts| freighting by mule team and gives Hunt- | ington something like a fraternal compe- tition. Osman Digna is the greatest of living slave-dealers, and if the British put a strong enough cinch on his independence to put an end to his traffic the world won’t mourn. Tesla may have discovered a magnetic force ‘which can transmit electric effects without wires, but what we need is a mag- netic man who can operate politics with- out wires. If Bayard has not yet been notified officially of the censure of the House of Representatives it is about time for Olney to be showing a little more vigor in at- tending to business. England is at present rejoicing that she has escaped from her isolation and found a welcome in the Dreibund, but before the year is over she may have good reason to wish she had stayed where she was. i e g o The first annual meeting of the Manu- facturers’ and Producers’ Association ought to remind the people to take a new grip on last winter’s resolve to- make Cali- fornia'a home market for home industry. The visit of the hotel-keepers to this coast will give us a good chance to get our wines and fruits known in a circle where the introduction will be worth something, and care should be taken to put the best foremost. General Weyler is reported to have said the attitude of Congress has checked the normal development of his plan of cam- paign, and we must concede therefore that the Cuban debate has been of some service afrer all. e The British expedition up the Nile may not be intended to go far, but there isa chance it may go far enough to see the end of existing alliances in Europe and the be- ginning of a wholly new international sitoation. The announcement that Carlisle has ac- cepted an invitation to address the work- ingmen of Chicago on the money question is a proof that he is out of the Presidential race or else has more temerity than any Ian on record. The President’s nomination of John J. Brice of this State to be Commissioner of Fish ana Fisheries has been generally approved in the East, and it seems to be conceded that on all fish questions Grover knows what he is doing. T'he State election in New York this fall will be seriously eompiicated by a fight over the newly enacted Raines liquor law, and unfortunately the Republican party, while it bas the right end of the law, isin danger of getting the wrongend of the fight. According to Chamberlain the insuper- able obstacie in the way of establishing a’ federation of the British empire is the impossibility of making trade regulations satisfactory to the colonies and the mother country. The working of the empire is blocked by a sixpence in the slot. Acgording to Mr.. Curzon, who speaks for the British Foreign Office, ‘“‘there are influences at work. and forces unchained in Central Africa which are a serious men- ace,not only to Egypt and to England in Egyot, but to the peace of Europe and to civilization.” If thisbe true it would seem that opening up Africa was. equivalent to taking the lid off Hades. MAKUFACTURING VOTERS. . Tue CALL's ‘expose of the ease with which Chinese miay be made citizens and voters without the formality of having been born in this country throws light upon a danger which is far greater than it might be. The Bupreme Court of the United States has yet to pass on the ques- tion whether a Chinese barn in the United. Statesisan American citizen, entitled to the exercise of the franchise, but it seems that in anticipation of a favorable ruling Chinese in considerable numbers are pre- paring to produce evidence of American | birth as a prerequisite of registration, and that it will be difficult, if not impos- sible, to expose any fraud that may be re- sarted to. . The two ways in which fraud may be practiced are the certificates admitting Chinese to this pori as American natives and certificates of American birth made by physicians. Tn the former case the re- turn certificate will be accepted as compe- tent evidence and in the second it would be extremely difficult to prove fraud. In view of the innumerable scandals which have arisen out of the salé of Chinese re- turn certificates, the impossibility of find- ing doctors willing to make untruthful certificates of birth cannot be assumed. 1t had been supposed that it was only the certificates with which the customs au- thorities had to deal that represented a danger, but the recent decision by the United States District Court on the subject of citizenship based on birth has opened up a possible new avenue of fraud. This State has excellent laws requiring records of births, but their constant neg- lect is a ceaseless scandal. * These laws were not intended merely for statistical purposes. That, however, is not the point. They are mandatory and a penalty for their violation is imposed. Their proper observance would be exceedingly useful in many ways affecting the identification of persons, and their neglect may work in- jury both vo individuals and the State. Only recently the announcement was made thiat those charged with the per- formance of this duty were grossly neglect- ing it. Threats were madeé that unless the law was obeyed in future punishment would ensue, but in the absence of actual punishment the threat carries no terrors. While it would be easier to produce fraudulent certiticates of birth in the case of Chinese than of persons of any other nationality, it is conceivable that aliens from other countries will learn the shrewd | trick which the Chinese can play and will bring it into operation. Special attention is called to this matter for the reason that it is something new and requires to be vigorously met. It may be taken for granted that if the Chinese are to be made voters an astonishing number of native Americans among them will appear, and that they will support tbe interests of China by advocating freetrade. A SIMPLE TRANSFER SYSTEM NEEDED. General Manager Vining of the Market- street Railway Company in his exireme anxiety to carry out the policy of making the lines under his supervision return “all the traffic will bear’” is in danger of inflict- ing on the patrons of the roadsannoy- ances and impositions that they will not be inclined to bear. There is probably no city in the world in which a more complicated system of transfers exists. And it is this unnecessa- rily puzzling contrivance which causes more grumbling and trouble to both the carrier and the carried than any other single factor. There is no reason why the entire inter- change of traffic between the various lines cannot be placed on the simplest basis. As it isnow one line transfers at so many as half a dozen different points; here to the westbound cars of one line, farther along to the eastbound cars of another road, then to the northbound cars of a third and so on for half a dozen transfers. Then on the return trip of this same car an entirely different order of transferring preyails. The wonder is not that the, pas- senger does not get thoroughly confused, but that the conductors are able to fulfill their duties as well as they do in the various lines of distributing and receiving transfers, collecting fares and stopping and. starting their cars to meet the re- guirements of passengers. All these.com« plications of the transfer system are in- vented for the one purpose of preventing a few persons who have more time to waste than most individuals from riding indefinitely in a circuit for a single fare. . There is little question that all this red tape could be abandoned with but a trifling loss to the rl.insy lines and with much increased comfort and convenience 4o their patrons. As the transfer system of the Market- street Railway Company exists ™ to-day there are several hundted poiuts at wnich passengers are compelled to change from one line to another in order to reach their destination. 1In view of this the least the company should do is to make the trans- ferring process as simple as possible. This would be accomplished to a great extent by making a transfer from one line to an- other available for a ride either way on the car to which the change is made. Ex- cept to regular daily patrons of the street- cars a trip on them requires all the time and study that accompanies the scrutiny of time cards preparatory to an overland journey to New York. AN TMPORTANT TEST. As the Street Committee of the Board of Suvpervisors is doubtful if the City has the power to make tlie proposed expendi- ture that will transform the center of Van Ness avenue from Market street to Fort Magon into a continuous park the ques- tion may eventually resolve itself into a test of public spirit on the part of the property-owners on the avenue. The pro- posed improvement contemplates a strip twenty-one feet wide in the middle of tne street planted to grass, shrubbery and trees with seats and six. feet of the sidewalk on eitherside planted to grass and palms. The estimated cost of the whole is 17 centsa front foot. besides the cost of excavating. Generally the property on the streetis owned and occupied by wealthy residents, whose capital and enterprise constitute an important factor in the business and pros- perity of the City. Being the handsomest thoroughfare in the City its property com- mands high value. In its present form all that distinguishes it from a commercial street is the accident of an absence of shops, but as the road is level there is at present no business reason why it should not be a commercial highway- as well as Polk street, except that the values are too high for any besides large commercial es- tablishments. To transform it into a com- bination of park and boulevard, as the pro- poted improvement contemplates, would be to render it permanently unfit for com- mercial purposes. . 3 An investment of something like 20 cents a front foot in such an im provement would undoubtedly bring a very large profit in the shape of enhanced property values. It would not be possible to place such an im- provement in any other streetin town. Van Ness avenue so ornamented would forever have a distinctive charaeter of ex- ceptional value, Every street from the fashionable quarter of the Western Addi- tion crosses it. One end of 1t opens upon Market street and the other touches Fort Mason and the channel. It forms the most important link in the chain of boule- vards with Fort Mason, Lombarad street, the Presidio, the park and Golden Gate avenue. There is no street so fortunately situated. z Doubtless the Board of Supervisors, act- ing upon a petition of a sufficient prop- erty frontage, might compel all the prop- erty-owners to contribute towm_‘d the im- provement. It would be very much more graceful and a finer exhibition of ‘public spirit for-the owners to make the improve- ment on their own motion. Whatever course may be determined upon the prop- erty-owners have an opportunity to set a most valuable . example of public spirit. By reason of & climate which would keep the park in bloom and color all through the year Van Ness avente might be made the most beautiful and famous boulevard in the United States. A SUGGESTIVE REMARK. Chauncey M. Depew’s talk with a Carn interviewer at Los Argeles was ‘that odd mixture of raillery and seriousness for which this man with a facile tongue is famous, but he made some observations which indicate a radical fault on the part of Eastern capitalists. This fault it should be the duty of California to cure. “Neither Mr. Vanderbilt nor myself,” he said, “has ever been in California before. You know we New Yorkers are so well satisfied with ourselves and our local habits that we do not travel much. Mr. Vanderbilt and I finally came to the cou- clusion that we would break through our crust of exclusiveness and see Californis for ourselves, believing thatin doing so we would get into closer touch with the peo- ple of this great State, learn to appreciate your more wonderful resources and possi- bilities and go back ‘to our work.invigor- ated both in body and mind.” In denying that the visit had any sig- nificance in connection with the recovery of the Pacific roads’ debt, he said: “We have been offered lots of things for sale since we struck the West. Ranches, mines and railroads galore are shoved at us, each with the assurance thatitis the opportunity of a lifetime to make a for- tune, but we are not on the buy.” Mr. Depew was jesting in all this, but the fact remains that the enor- mous capital and vigor of New York and the other Eastern centers of money and energy remain indifferent both to tae op- portunities for. making fortunes in the West and te the National advantages which would accrue from an intelligent attention to these opportunities. It is from the West that the sustenance of the country is to be drawn. The inexhausti- ble gold, silver, iron and coal mines. and the matchless agricultural resources, hardly yet in the beginning of their development, offer a promise and extend an invitation that nothing but the most sordid stupidity of Eastern money centers would think of ignoring. In all the broad region east of the Rocky Mountains there exists no opportunity for the development of .individual prosperity and the broadening of community charac- | ter comparable to that which lieson the Western slope. With .the exception of Boston no Eastern city has sent an ap- preciable number of intelligent citizens to sit at the banquet which nature has spread in California, and even these have con- fined themselves to a particalar corner of the State. The whole situation makes as pitiful a picture of neglected opportuvity as it is possible to conceive, and New York is the head and front of the offending. Cali- fornia should be thankful to Mr. Depew for confessing with so charming frankness a sin whicl a Western man would be too proud to acknowledge. ENGLAND'S ' NEW ALLY, The new treaty of alliance between Eng- land and Italy was the result of Engiand’s fear that King Menelek’s victory over the Italian army would so encourage the der- vishes as to threaten the whole extent of European civilization in Northern Alfrica. The shrewdness of English diplo- macy in forming this alliance is manifest. French hostility cannot resist his move- ment, which has the additional indirect support of the Dreibund. The new alliance means -that international jealousies in Europe a1e to be buried, in the face-of a common duty to exterminate slave-dealing in Northern Africa. Although Simonetti, the Italian Minis- ter of Foreign Affairs, hds assured the Senate at Rome that the alliance has been formed for “‘defensive interests,” he -ad- mitted that if the Dongola expedition was aimed at the reconquering of the Soudan, Ttaly must look to the restoration of Kas- sala. That means a war of conqdest in Africa. Already General Baldissera has begun to move to the relief of Adigrat, where the fugitives of the Italian army are hopelessly awaiting extermination unless Europe comes to the rescue, ¥ England, in its advanece up the Nile, will not again make the mistake that it committed when it sent *‘Chinese Gordon”. in 1884 to oppose moral suasion against the revolt of the Mahdi and his slave- holding foliowers. The bitter'lesson was learned in the tragedy of XKhartoum that savage fanaticism was more potent than civilized intelligence. Gordon's own fol- | lowers turned against him under thein- fluénce of the Mahdi and Osman Digna. Even Wolseley’s expedition for the relief of Kbartoum failed to rescue the Soudan from the slave-traders’ grasp,’and served ohly to fill the Dervishes with a fierce de- termination to ‘restrict the intluence of Egypt to the coast. he British now hold Suakin, which is 400 miles north of Massowah, the Italian base -of supplies -on the Red Sea, but all’ the region on the : Nile below Wady Halfa is in the hands of the Mahdists. The Kassala expedition would be illogical unless we assume that the des- tination of the English expedition is Omdurman, the capital of the Mahdi, just across the White Nile from Khartoum, The Anglo-Italian alliance is undoubtedly intended not onlv to restore Italy’s pres- tige in Abyssinia, but also to recover to England 'the whole of the Soudan from Darfour to Abyssinia, and of the. Nile Val- ley to Gondokoro. Menelek’s viétory and twelve years of English apathy will make the task difficult, but never before . has there been so powerful an association of European interests in a common cause, and this means the inevitable conquest of all Africa between the second cataract of the Nile and the Red and Mediterranean seas. o S——— In Jeopardy. . - Alameda Telegram. There never was a time-in the history of the Republic when /its institutions, the rights of g‘w&ny. of tiberty and. the mb!uhfi order ngs were in more - are Placed “at present. Tho “who for years has played to the ery by threatening o plunder the rich and enrich . ‘the ‘ywrhu sowed the seeds of the harvest that is now betng reapsd. “ e —— Those Who. Love Liberty.. Middletown Independent. - How a true and loyal American can op Eridens st < e * Thin wash 'AROUND THE CORRIDORS. R. C. Btevens, gonera; western passenger sgent at Seattlé of Jim Hill’s famous overland road, the Great Northern, is one of the-con- spicuous figures about the rotunda of the Oceidental. Mr. Stevens has.spent nearly all his life in Chicago, and only went to Seattle & couple of years ago. Things sre new .and strange to him.yet, and he says he finds it diffi- cult to adjust bimself to the néw conditions. Mr. Stevens-takes no stock in the. story pub lished in a mining paper that the western terminus of the Great Northern has been moved from Seattle to New Whatcom, on Bel- lingham Bay. “Idon't see whets they gét the Joundation for this story,” said he. “I have seen and heard nothing in regsrd to such & change. The Great Northern has acquired terminal grounds at Seattle, in the south part of the city, and'is MARCH 27, 1896. adorned with two points of white nainsook edged with the same lace. . £ ‘Another pretty mode of trimming is’ tolay a iece of ribbon between the pleats, tur: the lower edges up Dot 1o face points. at the ton o The ribbon is also laid between the side pleats and thearm-size, extending over the shoulders and meeting at the waist line in the back. A bx,: boi.rlbbonia 1aid over the end in front of the hust, & FROM ° WESTERN SANCTUMS. ‘With a Fence Around It. : * - Sacramento Bee. Lét us have a new reading: ‘The earth is Great Britain’s; and the fullness thereof.” Be a Producer, Not a Consumer. Colusa Sun. The youth who can gét five acres of land, even on a credit,and can build him a room ten feet square, has & better chance to pull up iR. C. STEVENS, ONE OF THE NOTED RAILWAY MEN OF THE COAST. (Sketched from life by a *‘Call’ - artist.] ; going to build a big brick depot. There is to be no change. “I think the paper here got the story from one at Bellingham Bay. 1t didn’t come by telegraph, and no other papers published it at all. In regard to our road, we still have a force of men working on the great tunnel in the Cascade Mountains, and they will continue to work at it till it is completed. I suppose it may take two -or three years yet. Meantime the trains are being brought. over by & switeli- back. It only takes about two hours to cross. «On April 5 we will inaugurate a new sched- ule for running our trains, so as to shorten the time between the Pdcific Coast and the East. The running time will be reduced eight hours, making the trip that much guicker than by any other overland road. The Great Northern trains will then make direct connections at Spokene with the Oregon Railway and Naviga- tion Company’s trains from Portland, and also at Seattle with the Northern Pacific trains {from Portland. _“We do not vestibule our: trains. In place of the vestibule we carry iron ‘gates. Mr. Hill has an ides, so I am informed, that the vesti- bules.gather all the bad airand concentrate it in the last cars, where the best passengers are. For this reason he only uses iron or steel gates to protect the passengers, and lets the air cir- culate in a uatural way. “No Pullman cars gra run. We have our owndining and sleeping cars. The sleepers are much like the Pulliaans, except that the berths are wider. We carry libraries, baths and barbers, the same ason the best Eastern roads out of Chicago.” i s LADY'S WAIST WITH BOX-PLEATED BLOUSE FRONT. The waist shown here has a- fitted lining, over which the material is laid in box-pleats in the front, the back being smooth at the top, with four tiny pleais at the waist line. The lining fastens in the center front, the box- pleated front hooking at the shoulder and under the arm-seam on the left side. The sleeves are leg-o'mutton shape, and are shown here-with a trimming of lace. The same lace 1812id over the back at the top in yoke fashion, and is placed between the pieats in front to simulate a yoke. ‘The model is much used for silk waists, with lace trimmings as shown here. A lne‘i and black taffets, quisite to wear with black skirts, using black with tiny black figure, §is ex- Vl'}”tTflk k‘l’n‘fmefl ith bls X i ole! w! lack or ecru lace exceedingly , and . blues.of the bluet re) ";m?u" nt‘y‘w‘zl'l ulu; 't'b?n'nml a5 illus o trimming TOoW of b “both sides ofa ¥ f buttons on ) k to the bust, neck to 3 !‘flfll.” lattes mfl?n pt%x‘:u:oon eats. 3 S R ‘wooler e . olksof W & novelty s was in this way with black buttons and Rah TubHics” mak ¢ daintil Ics e - IOst 0 patiem, and the Lafest is for plummz ruffies of yel h nes over lace of the narrowest width. tibbon or uld be Immi! g1} wn of rimmed black bel! outlin: Valencien than the same person has in any of the ruts offered by city monthly employment. A Xarge Area for Sugar Beets. Vacaville Reporter. In the cultivation of sugar beets we believe California will make a ten-strike. That is if the grower of the beets is able to get-a fair profit. % iE Make Haste Slowly. * Santa Clara Journal. Congress should demand a cessation of in- flammatory speeches by members of the House and Senate, unless she wants to plunge this country into one of the bloodiest wars that has ever been recorded in history, for if once war is inaugurated it is going . to involve almost every clvilized country on earth. SEEK THE SUNNY SIDE. 1f yon loiter in the shadows Un a sunny dav like this, You will miss a lot of sunshing And a certain kind of biiss. Don't forget that on the highwas All the walks are free and wide, And when walkingin the daytime Always seek the sunny side, 80 on life's highway remember That a difference is plain— There's a side that's bright with pleasure in. And a-side that’s dark with 11, perchance, your lifé is clous Don’t forget the way is wide; = Look for brightness—it may happen You will find a sunny side. . —Chicago Record. LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. . NATURE'S HYBRIDIZERS. WHAT THE BEES AND HUMMING-BIRDS ARE DOING IN THE WAY OF CREATING NEW 'VARIETIES. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SIR:.| ‘While so much praise is pressed upon Luther k for his patient and indefatigable suc- cess as & grand hybridizer with both flore and esculents, a due share of praise should be awarded to the successful wonders accom- plished by the little humming-birds and bees in glorifying’ the flora and adding so greatly 10 the value of the fruit and esculents of the Pacific Coast. Their lifetime’s pollinations have not been in vain. . 2 In some twenty years’ experience in Oregon and California I have found that one conld procure entirely new seeds—potatoes, beans and corn especially—from the *‘States,” and in less time than four years the wild and do- mestic bees had nybridized and created new varieties by aid of their subtle means of pollination.. And the same effects with Dative and exotic flora and herbal plants. Jnd%lns from the present effects of the hum- ming-birds and bees hybridizing the eucalypti in Southern California, I Fave notthe lfl’h‘el‘ doubt but that in less than ten years’ many varieties of the numerous famfly of eucalyptus will have to be renamed. The little wo?nn can accomplish in months a per- fection of hybridizing that man can only suc- in by years of patience and perseverance. BURRIs. - Soldiers’ Home, Los An; County, M ey 3 geles County, March PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. . Cecil Rhodes has never been under the in- fidence of any one of the fair sex. So says Vanity Fair. According to Mr. Cumberland, the “thought reader,” President Kruger is the worst dressed man in South Africa. . 3 The Duke of Rutland, thoukh he has some splendid grouse and other shooting, and an uu: shooting-box, never handlesa gun him- self. . Ex-Senator Ingalls declares that he has a dread of public speaking, and that he is filled with a nameless terror every time he facesan saudience, The finest tomb in Great Britain is undoubt- edly that of the Duke of Hamiiton, in the grounds’ of the Duke's seat.- It cost over $1,000,000. Y % ik L 3 advertisement: "fi.’" l’-‘ih u': del?lmhul', inventor of the spring nippers, notifles his cus- tomers that he has nothing in common with “The largest sum for & single novel said to have been aooto‘ 86 n..t | det for “Sappho,” published in 1 thousand dollars was received by Victor Hugo for ““Les Miserabies,” which was published in ten languages. i 5 § - 1 In a recent sketch of Joel Chandler Harris, the creator of “Uncle Remus,” it issaid that he is somewhat under.middle height and carries himself with a decided stoop, which makes him appear shorter than he is. His body is. round and he walks with & steady stride. His com- plexion is ruddy, his eyes blue and his hair and mustache are light and sandy. His great pas- sion is roses. PERSONAL. st M. D. Grover of St. Paul is here. D. M. Dysart of Cuba is in town. Dr. A. B. Clayton of Chicago is at the Palace. Dr. G. M. Brunson of Joliet, Ill,, is at the Grand. : George Wetzel, a merchant of Montague, is in town. AT 3 M. Broderick, & mining man of Butte, Mont., is in town. 8. 0. Houghton, an attorney of Los Angeles, is at the Oceidental. T Joseph 8. Gill, a lumberman of Eortland, is at the Cosmopolitan. i R. H. Handy, a mining engineer of Silver City, Idaho, is.ip the City. . ‘ Dr. John Ellis of New York City is at the Russ, accompanied by his wife.” Bilas Carle, the contractor, of Sacramento, was among yesterday's arrivals. Captain William Gray, an extensive land- owner of Merced, arrived here yesterday. James Tarlton, a general-merchandise dealer and mine-owner of Amador, is at the Cosmo- politan. W. R. Newlin, the capitalist, of Pacific Grove, is at the Grand, accompanied by his friend, A. A. White, a business man of New Mexico. Mme. Materna, Miss Materna; Pianist Isaac Luckstone and Mr. and Mrs. Ondricek re- turned here yesterday, and are af the Palace. J. A, Todd of Chicago; & manufacturer of jewelry, isat the Lick. He has been looking § around the coast with a view of making some investments. Miss Belle Archer, the actress, who recently resigned from the Frawley Company, has gone East, and will spend the summer at her home in New Jersey. Mrs. John Collins, wife of ex-Mayor John Collins, a pioneer'and noted Democratic poli- tician of Seattle, is at the Palace, ac companied by Miss Collins and Master John Collins. G. A. Lenham of the American Palace Car Company has arrived here with a party of Eastern tourists. They came in the new car Boston, and will remain ten or twelve days. W. R. Snape of Cripple Creek has brought here from Arizona, which he recently visited, some very fine specimens of gold quartz. He has been traveling with the view of purchas- ing a mine, as he has made money in mines at Cripple Creek, and now thinks he can make better investments on the coast. Mr. Snape formerly mined in Montana. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., March 26.—Rev. William Martin, Mrs. Martin and child, Miss Maud Sparks and Mrs. H. T. Scott were among the passengers who sailed on the steamship New York for Southampton. H. Arendt, Mrs. Arendt, Mrs. Alexander Cohn, I. W. Goldman, 5rs. Goldman, Miss: Hilda Goldman, Miss Birdie Violet Goldman, Miss Blanche Daisy Goldman, Miss Marie Hunder, L. 8. Sherman and A. G. Sanbori were among the passengers who sailed. on the steamship Normanaia for Hamburg. D. B. Jennings is at the Astor and R. N. Morse at the St. Cloud. ANSWERS TO. CORRESPONDENTS. The latitude of Ukiah, Uk1Aa—Philo, Cal | Mendocino County, is about 39 and the longi- tude gbout 123. GLASS FACTORY TN SAN FRANCISCO—A. D., Napa, Cal. There isa glass factory in San Franeisco. It is located at the northeast corner of Seventh and Townsend streets. ' POINTS IN CRIBBAGE—R. T., City. If a player holds two jacks, & queen and a ten spot and there is a jack turned up on the table, the count is fiiteen, not sixteen. , Towa—A, L. F., Cit; Iowa, in the Indian language, signifies “The drowsy ones.” From ‘this it would be supposed that the peoplé of that State wou!d be called “sleepy heads,” but on the contrary they are povularly called “hawkeyes.” o GLENoRE—Philo, Cal. There is no record of any such place as Glenore in Ireland, or any- where else, but in County Mayo and in County Kilkenny there 1s, in each, & place called” Glenmore, while in County Antrim there is-a place called Glenoe, The places named are all in Ireland. . A CrmizeN BY BirtH—C. R., Yountville; Cal, 1f a man and wife of foreign. birth, net in the diplomatic service, should take up their resi- dence in the eity of Ney York, have a son born tothem and remain in that city until the son attains his majority, the parents not fiuvfnf in the meantime become citizens of the United States, that son wonld be a citizen by reason of his nativity, and could exercise all the rights of such without having to take otit na- turalization papers. = . RIGHT OF WAY—J. K., City. The-law of this State as to teamsters taking the right of a road says: i When vehicles meet the driver of each rhust seasonably turn to the right of, the ceuter 0f the highway So as to pass without interference, under 2 penalty of 825 for every neglect, Lo be recovered by the party injured. Where- the whole breadth.of & highway Is 10t worked, the center of the worked pare is 1o be aeemed the Center of the highway. In time of snow, where there is a beatea track, the center of that is to be considered the center of the highway, but this section does not apply. to ve- hicles meeting cars running on rails or grooved* tracks. MINNEHAHA FALLS —Subscriber, Clement, Cal. = The Minnehaha River and falls are in Hennepin County’' in Minnesota. The Dakota Indians named the stream Minne- haha, which means “lsughing waters.” Half a mile above its mouth, where the channel asses over & limestone precipice sixty feet igh, the waters make jalls of remarkable beauty. These falls-are among the most inter- esting of many. Jflcluresqua surroundings of Minneapolis and_satiract many visitors. The city named provided a site of fifty-one acres at the falls and thers a soldiers’ home was located and opened in 1887_.__ 5 WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY—C. J., Sacramento, Cal. ‘The earliest celebration of the anniver- sary of the birth of George Washington oc- curred in Richmond, Va., February 11, 1782, | thatis the earliest of which a record can be found. The Virginia Gazette four days after the event, which was February 15, old style, had the following: day ot hig excellency George iliustrieus commander-in-chief, the same was commemorated here. with demonstrations of joy.” There were celebrations in honor of the enniversary of the birth of Washjngton on fashington, our the 11th of February, old style, until 1793, ‘when the day was changed to the 22d of reb- ruary to adopt it to the new ring the first term of Washington's his birthday began to be observed by visits of con- gntuhuom, and as he received them he must )ave recognized the 11th of February as his birthdays His first term commenced in 1789. HAWANAN LaNps—J. A. R., 8an Lorenzo, Cal. There are homestead lands in the Hawaiian Islands that are either leased or sold by the Government. An apolicant for land must be either a citizen by birth of by naturalization, or one who has received letters of denization, or eny person who has received special rights of citizenship. The applicant must be over 18 )'en‘l of age, must not be under civil disability or any offense, must not be delingquent in the mymem of taxes, must not have made any se declaration ih upplyinfnjor land under the act, must not at the time be the owner in -his own right of any lands jn the islands known as “wet land,” and must not be an ap- plicant for nnfi other interest in land under the act. Fulfilling these conaitions he can ly for. one. lot for his own use and benefit. he occupier of the land must.comply during & period of six eontinuous {un with certain conditions, at the end of that time, if they are complied with, he i§ given a lease for 999 D s s T e o ony s a8 TAss in consul at'the I the Hawatian Consul in this Gty < A FRECKLED FacE—J. A. R., San ‘Lorenzo, Cal,, and A. R. J., City. There are several varieties of what is commonly called freckles. First, there. is lemtigo, small yellowish or brownish-yellow irregularly rounded -gpots most abundant on the parts chiefly exposed to the light, as the face and hands. In some cases these are. enitel; in oth. they seem mwmpwnn 10 th’e' 3;?. and in both cases they. 10 persons an the o taey are known as epbelis., Couuin{fl'mu “Tueudl% last, the birth- |, be removed by any app f;ona‘:mwmch depend . on _exposure may be treated with soothing lotions or llnimepl?, a: an emulsion of §weet almonds or & Mix g;t of limeh u_v;atermt'zh *_sho : Y ::{;ze‘ of @ physiclan. Second,. there i3 pigmentary nivus, congenital dark TIRCOOTR tions of the skin, with little or no elevatiqh surface, and often covered with hal ‘;i (hcsa hould 'not be interfered with. Third, there s albinism or leucopathy, which, wi fn cous genital, may be considered irremediable. s A STATUE OF MERCURY. The first piece of stone statuary ever used ag a building ornament in this City still occupies the same position in. which it was oflglm'lllvy placed. It is on the top-of the late Dr. Zeile's building, on Pacific street, and has ‘been but slightly affected by the actionef the winds, rains and sun of twenty-eight years. The carving is a copy of the qn‘h.ul Greek statue of Mercury and is & creditable piece of work. It was made for_exhibition at the first American exposition held in New York in 1858 and received an *“hon: € For soma reason it was impossibie 0 dis, itin the East, although it was exhibit many different places. In 1867 it arrived in San Frauéisco, after a long passage around the Horn, together with a lot of other carving. They were in boxes made of three-inch planks and strongly bound with iron. Noone here had ever seen anything of the kind, and it was several days before Mr. Newhall, the con- signee, could find any person 1o undertake the job of opening them. When the carvings were first placed on view seople could scarcely get uear the place, so ense was the crowd clamoring for a sight. ted at Statue of Mercury. Said to be the First Piece of Stome Sculpture Used as a Building Ornament in San Francisco. [From & sketch.] Dr. Zeile was so much pleasea with them that he bought the whole lot at a_price below half of what was originally asked. The statue of'Mercury was carved of gray sandstone, and the four others were of marble. Dr. Zeilels building was then almost finished, and he found the carvings just what he wanted. A magnificent marble mantel was in the collection, and he placed that in the parlor, where it still is, and in almost perfect condition. It is in the gothic style, and so delicate is some of $he work that it has the ap- pearance of lace. It issafe to say that there is not such another piece of work on the Pacific Coast, and yery few like it in the United States. It cost the doctor $5000. The other marbles were placed in different parts of the building, where they remained for many years,but are now stored in a back room. They consist of a statue of Minerva, a head of “The Infant Cesar” and & head of Aristotle. They are all excellent copies from the originals. The statue of Meteury is of the least value on account of the material used, but the whole collection could not be dupli- cated to-day for less than $10,000. CURRENT HUMOR. Smither—I hear that Sizzletop and Buzzfuzg had a big fight When they were out eyeling yesterday, Rinktums—Why, I don’t see what they had to fight over. They both rode the same meake of wheel.—Judge. “Blest if I can understand this currency question. I asked somebody what a legal tender was, and he said it was like this: If I owe you $2 and I offer you a $2 bill to settle the debt you must take it.” ‘Well, that's right!” “Yes; but what a blooming idiot you | would beii you wouldn’t take it!”—Puck. He—Can you cook? She—Cook? I don’t believe in & woman doing men’s work.” Wife (dreariiy)—Ah me, the days of chivalry are past, - . Husband—What’s the matter now? Wife—Sir Walter Raleigh laid his ¢loak on -the ground for Queen Elizabeth to walk over, but you get angry simply because poor, dear mother sat down,on your hat.—Tit-Bits, Teacher—Your additions are wrong every time; is there no one to help you at home ? “Yes; father does.” “Buthe always makes the answer too big, ‘What is he, then?” “A waiter.” . “Ah, I see.”—Schone Blaue Donau, Bobby—Popper, what makes them call hard times “a rainy day,” end talk about laying up something for a rainy day ? Mr. Ferry—It is called that, my son, because on a rainy day there is no dust in’ sight.—Cin. cinnati Enquirer. His Méma—Johnny, think of that! No less than 31,417,602 pies were eaten in Boston last year. Johnny—H'm; that isn’t much. T c'n eat most that many myself.—Roxbury Gazette. Bowuip chocolate cream eggs, Sc. 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"3 o “What’s that?” asked Derringer Dan, s he paused in astonishment to listen to the cfforts of the parlor quartet. “That’s - something taken from \agner, ‘What do you think of it?” “Well,” was the carefully considered reply, “whatever it is, Wagner seems to be sivin’ it up mighty hard.”—Washington Star. STEONG. muscles, steady nerves, gool 8Rpetite, result from bloed made pure. by Hood's Sarsapa- rilla. This is proved by what thousands 8ay about Hood's. - It {s the ideal spring medicine. & - “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup”” Has beén used over 50 years by millioss of mothers for their children white Teething with Perfect suc- cess. soothes the child, softens the SUMS; allays Pain, cures Wind Colic, regulates th? Bowels and “is the best remedy for Diarrhceas, whether arising from teething or other canses. For sdle- by Drog- gists In every part of the world, Be Surs and ask for Mrs, Winslow's Soo:hing Syrup. 25¢ & bottle. e CORONADO.—Atmosphere ds perectly dry, sofs and mild, snd is_entirely free from the mists com- ‘mon further north. Round-trip tickets, by steam- ship, iucluding fifteen days’ board 8: the Hotel del Coronado, $60: longer stay $2 50 perday. Apply 4 Néw Mon(Somery stu San Fraicisco