The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 24, 1896, Page 21

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MAY 24, 1896. COLORED DRESS GOODS! [ At 15 Cents. | At 25 Ceonts. to At 25 Cents. 141 pieces 36-INCH ALL-WOOL FANCY CHEVIOT SUITING, marked down from | 50¢ to 25¢ a yard. At 35 Cents. 98 pi ce NCH duced from 50c to 35¢ a yard. At SO Cents. 82 pieces 33-INCH FIGURED ENG colorings, reduced from 75¢ to 50c a yard. | At 65 Cents. | 66 pieces 44 down from $1 to 65¢ & yard. At 385 Cents. 1 1 case 33-INCH ALL-WOOL NAVY STORM SE At 5O Cents. RA HEAVY ALL-WOOL E reduced from 85c to 50c a yard. -INCH RGE BLACK DRESS GOODS! At 25 Cents. | 1 case 39- a yard At 835 Cents. INCH EXTRA FINE ALL-WOOL 81 35¢ a yard. 1 case 4 63¢ to At SO Cents. | 1 case 47-INCH EXTRA HEAVY ALL-WOOL SCOTCH CHEVIOT, reduced from 85¢ to 50c a yard. At 55 Cents. 1 case 39-INCH FIGURED ENGLISH SATIN SOLEILS, reduced from 85c to 55c a yard, SPECIAL BLANKET SALE! This week we shall place on sale about 1000 pairs Fine White | Blankets, some slightly imperfect; the clean-up of two large Mills. They are at nearly one-half price. ces 26-INCH FANCY SILK STRIPED CHALLIES, reduced from 25c to 15¢ n‘ ALL-WOOL FRENCH CHALLIES, latest designs, reduced from 50c LISH MOHAIR SUITING, in medium and dark INCH EXTRA FINE ALL-WOOL FRENCH MIXED SUITING, marked 3E, reducea from 50c to 35c a yard. | GLISH DIAGONAL NAVAL | INCH ALL-WOOL CHEVIOT CAMEL’S HAIR, reduced from 50c to 25c¢ | | JRM SERGE, marked down from Judged absolutely on the basis of merit the GREAT (_'.UT PRlC_E SALE that we inaugurated last week totally eclipses all previous sales. in importance, for never before so early in a season have new and stylish goods been offered at anything like the RADICAL REDUCTIONS that are so rapidly FORCING OUT OUR VAST OVERSTOCK, and in view of this fact we present a few samples of our this week’s specials without | further comment, knowing that ladies who are at all posted on values will recognize the importance of immediately profiting by the | - GREAT SACRIFICE FROM REGULAR PRICES QUOTED! ALL WOOL DRESS GOODS, in figured and diagonal effects, re- | =O-O-O=- =PRICES REVOLUTIONIZED THIS WEEK! " LACE DEPARTHENT' At 5 Cents Each. EMBROIDERED will be placed on sale at 5¢ each. . At 15 Cents Per Yard. per yard. | At 25 Cents Per Yard. 11000 yards BUTTER | LIERRE LAC sale at 25 cents per pard. ‘NEW DRESS GARNITORES At 75 Cents. NEW | from $1 25 to 75¢ each. At 5 Cents. . | No. 3 STOCKINET DRESS SHIELDS, | good quality, full size and new goods, only 5¢ a pair. | At 10 Cents LADIES' LE | each. * TADIES HOSIERY! | At 55 Cents a Pair. 50 dozen ' BLACK | 5000 dozen LADIES'WHITE SCALLOPED SHEER LAWN HANDKERCHIEFS (slightly imper- fect), regular value $1 50 per dozen, 2000 yards REAL POINT VENISE LACE, | Butter shade, 5 inches wide, regular price 65¢, will be placed on sale at 15¢ | ORIENTAL AND 8 to_10 inches wide, | regular price 50c, will be placed on DRESS GARNITURE ORNA- S, chain effects, in new green, navy, and iridescent shades, reduced ATHER BELTS in imitation | alligator, colors tan, orange and black, | new. goods, covered buckle, oniy 10c SILK extra high spliced fast black, wil! be | offered at 55c a pair, regular price $1. | PARASOLS! _ PARASOLS! At 75 Cents. LADIES KID GLOVES! At 75 Cents. 250 dosen 5-BUTTON: K1D GLoves, | LADIRS 2 INCH SUGLORIA | BILE in brown and tan shades, also 150, 'llh.o‘f:i re‘f] ;:m S black, regular value $1, will be $1 50, will be offe [Pe> offered at 75¢ a pair. At $1.00. | .00. LADIES' 22.INCH GLORIA SILK P Atnisi.ll"g“ ENGLISH PARASOLS, natural handles, paragon |20 oo D GOV, & frames, value $175, will be offered at | red, tan and brown, at regular| ° ¥1:00. At 75 Cents. value 3150, will \be ofersdiB: Ta /()| 1 T GRI PARABOES! - Eliok satin pair. lined alue $150, will be offered ' At $]_90. g : ) v $1 50, 150 dozen 4-BUTTON UNDRESSED \ S KID GLOVES, in tan, mode, ] ' slate and brown shades. also| \ black, regular value $1 50, will be | . offered at §1 a pair. At $1.25, | 100 dozen LADIES’ 4-BUTTON GEN- | UINE FRENCH KID GLOVES, | in colors and black, regular value | $1 75, will be offered at $1 25 a pair. 'LADIES' MUSLIN UNDERWEAR AND W_AISTS ! At 25 Cents. | 60 dozen LADIES' DRAWERS, made of heavy muslin, finished with cluster of tucks and ruffle of em- broidery, regular price 50c, will be closed out at 25¢. | At 5 Cents. 200 dozen MEN’S SEAMLESS HALF- HOSE, in browns, tans, slate and mixed colors, regular price $110 per dozen, will be offered at 5c each. | At 50 Cents. 150 dozen ME CALE OVERSHIRTS, with coilars and cuffs attached, in a variety of neat patterns, regular price 75c each, will | be offered at 50c. | At 50 Cents. | dozen MEN'S AND BOYS’ FANCY 250 made extra large and trimmed with | Cash’s fast color trimming, in a variety of patterns, regular price 7sc. will be | offered at 50c. | At 35 Cents. 60 dozen LADIES’ LAUNDRIED | ) } IIRT WAISTS. made of fancy | | | figured and striped material, regu- | e | lar price 50c, will be offered at 35c. At 50 Cents. | At 50 Cents. {75 dozen CHILDREN'S NATURAL %0 “dosen S 5RAY CASHMERE WOOL SHIRTS, of heav | high neck, long sleeves, drawers to tion, finished with collar of em-| match, warranted non-shrinkable, broidery, extra value for 75c, will | will be offered at 50c each, regular be closed out at 50c. price 75¢. | £~ Our New Catalogue | to whom it will be mailed Free on receipt of address . is now being distributed to COUNTRY RESIDENTS ONLY, 3000 yards 20 pieces BLACK BROCADED SATIN, SILK DEPARTMENT! At SO Cents a Yard. A NCH FANCY FIGURED EVENING SILK in all shades, former price $1 25, will be placed on sale at 50c a yard. At SO Cents {1000 yards 24-INCH FANC 2 be placed on sale at 50c a yard. | At 78 Cents a Yard. 500 yards CHANGEABLE BENGALINE SILK, in green and cardinal and brown and cardinal, former price $2, will be placed on sale at 75¢ a yard. At 75 Cents a Yard. 400 yards FANCY-FIGURED BENGALINE SILK, purple and black, former priec $2, will be placed on sale at 75¢ a yard. At 75 Cents a Yard. former price $1, will be placed on sale at 75¢ a yard. At 85 Cents a Yard. 15 pieces 23-INCH BLACK DUCHESSE SATIN, will be placed on sale at 85¢c & yard. At $1.00 a Yard. 20 pieces BLACK FIGURED AND BROCADED GROS- price $1 £5, will be placed on sale at $1 a yard. At 81.50 a Yard. 10 pieces 24-INCH BLACK PEAU DE SOIE SILK, soft, heavy finish, former price $2, will be placed on sale at $1 50 a yard. Y STRIPED EVENING SILKS, former price $1 25, will a Yard. , in brown and heliotrope, and extra heavy, former price $1 25, -GRAIN BILK, former BLACK DRESS GOODS! At 25 Cents. LAUNDRIED PER- |1 case 40-INCH FIGURED ALPACA, reduced from 40c to 25¢ a yard. At 40 Cents. 1 case 39-INCH FIGURED ENGLISH MOHAIRS, worth 65¢, will be sold at 40c yard. At 8O Cents. TRIMMED MUSLIN NIGHTSHIRTS, | 1 case 42-INCH FIGURED ENGLISH MOHAIRS in new and elegant designs, re- duced from 85c to 50¢ a yard. At to $1 a yard. $1.00. | 1 case 46.INCH EXTRA-FINE ENGLISH FIGURED MOHAIRS, reduced trom $1 50 SPECIAL LINEN SALE! This week a special sale of Household Linens, including Table | Damasks, Napkins, Towels, Crashes, Glass Linens, etc. | ues will be found very attractive. The val- Murphy Building, Market and Jones Strees. Murphy EBuilding, Market and Jones Streafs, | | | Murphy Building, Market and Jones Strests, Murphy Building, Murphy Building, . Market and Jones Stregts. Market aud Jones Strests. Murphy Building, Market and Jones Stregts. Murphy Building, Market and Jones Sirets been stood on end entirely by the use of ropes, pulleys and muscle. Those n the | center of the bridge are the highest and Nor | the others get shorter and shorter as they climb the bank on either side. Very few braces are used, so that the bridgs pre- sents the appearance of a series of straight poles reaching across the ravine. The | country in this vicinity is picturesque and . wild and the bridge does not look the e of ation. It crosses Cer- | joaqs biy out of place. In fact it rather os Creek on th road between N\n’ ends into the landscape. It does not Pescadero, a few miles north of | procon o very beautiful appearance mor £ | does it look grotesque. st striking thing about the ap- | s ice of this briage is its enormous | Tho center span crosses the reeie| A MONSTER MAGNET, set above the water. Sl T 1t is not known who the engineers were | that built the bridge, nor just what facil- es they had for doing the work. The cture was put up about 1858 and bas | ined in constant use ever since. Itis | do not cross it now, but | =) IDGE. K One of the most remarkable wooden | 8 tin California, if not in is still standing in a tes, A monster magnet is used at the British arsenal at Woolwich to handle the shot for the 110-ton guns. The body or core of the magnet is U-shaped, and in one forg- ing. The winding is mechanically pro- tected by stout brass flanges, and is cov- rs and smaller vehicles useit | ered with thick brass tips. The ends of 3 The on fect of its long | the windingare led to duplicate terininals, ars of service is ht swag at the | duplicated wires, to prevent accidents in northern end. case of the wire fouling and breaking, The & s really built of the trunks | being taken over the pulleys to the switch- of redwood trees that were hanled from | box on the counter-weight at the back of the forests about fifteen miles away. How | the crane. they were placed in position is something | A single pole switch is placed in this box past finding out, as there is nobody living | and is used, in conjunction with a water in the locality that remembers when the | resistance, to shut the extra current pro- bridge was put up. And, indeed, it looks | duced on breaking the circuit, to close or as if the job would puzzle an engineer of | open the circuit. The current varies from to-day, even though he were given the use | three to four amperes at twenty to thirty of all modern appliances, which the others | volts. The maximum weight that can be did not hav | lifted has not been ascertained exactly, In all there are seventy upright sup- | but it exceeds 3600 pounds.—Cincinnati ports in the bridge and they must have | Enquirer. Peculiar and Picturesque Bridge Built of the Trunks of Redwood Trees Stretching Across Cerritos Creek Near San Gregorio, in San Mateo County. {Drawn from a photograph taken expressly for “ The Call.”] Your Honor, in this case I will upset more | than the theories of the prosecution. The seeming blackness of my client’s defense | 18 due, I am convinced— now mark me— THE DROWNING Man. “Give me a straw!” shricked a desperate volce. At first you took it to be somebody with a mint julep, but later you saw it was the drown- 10g man. When the straw was brought to him he clutched at it fiercely and then sank from sight. “Alas!” cried he, as the waves closed above his head, “why did I not call for a deal- plank?” This shows us how futile it is to follow the copy-books.—New York World. No Use For X Ravs. Simkins—I—aw—see that some one has—aw— invented—aw—a machine faw looking into the brain? De Gumley—Yaas, 50 I—aw—sce. But that don’t interest us—aw—doncher see—New York World. ExciTep HER Pity. Mrs. Hussifft—What did you work at? Rural Ruggs—I had & job in a sodp factory, mum. Mrs. Hussiff (pityingly)—Come in and eat. 1t must be terrible to be out of work so long as you’ve been. LoTs oF THEM. Actor—Are there any good situations in that new play of yours? Dramatist—There ought to be. The manager has not engaged anybody yet. No APPARATUS. Judge—Have you searched the prisoner 7 Officer—No, your Honor. The fluoroscope is out of order. LIKES TO BE SHOT AT. A Wip DEER THAT SEEMs AL-| MOST TO HAVE A CHARMED LiFE. There is a wild deer that for the last fonr years has made its home along the western slope of the hills ten miles north of Santa Cruz. Its habits are unlike the rest of its tribe, for it shows a disposition to run with the bands of cattle in pasture in the vicinity. The strange thing about the deer, though, is that nobody has ever been | abte to Kkill it and at present the animal seems to like the idea of having bullets | fiying around it. | There are certain game laws that pro- | hibit the killing of deer for all but about | six weeks of each year, but in certain lo- calities they are a deacd letter. The Santa Cruz Mountains is one of these districts, although the people say they have to kill the animals to defend themselves. Of course it wouldn’t do for them to allow a deer 1o hook them. That is possibly the reason that every hunter takesa shot at the deer that aid to have a charmed life. Hunters, by mistake, often shoot at others that do not have charmed lives. And after the animal is dead they might as well eat it. The first man known to have shot at the deer in question wou!d have bet all he had that he would have killed it, as it was not more than a hundred yards away. But he didn’t, and all others have failed ever since. A man living near by says that at least 300 shots have been fired at the ani- mal and it has never been grazed. The deer has got so now that it gets into position as soon as & man with a rifle comes along. It is not the least bit atraid and will stand still in a field and watch people ariving past. Last Sunday the deer was not more than seventy-five yards from the road. A fence ran along the edge and a hunter took a steady aim. It was such a pretty shot it seemed impossible to miss. But the hunter might as well have used a blank cartridge, for the deer simply tossed its head and dis- appeared behind a ridge, a moment after a cloud of dust beyond showed where the bullet struck. I am pained to notice, your Honor, on all sides in the court scarcely repressed laughter. Before such conduct Heaven and earth! What have I run up The Deer That Bears a Charmed Life, | #8ainst?—Fliegende Blactter. and Seems to Offer Itself as a Mark for Riflemen and Hunters Near Santa Cruz. WnY MEN SLEEP. Leavitt—I see they have passed a law in Ohio forbidding women wearing hats in theaters. Millie (scornfully)—The brutes! I suppose they’ll want us to take off our hats in church next. 'lfeavm—on, no; the clergy would never atlow that. If they did the women would all sleep through the service like the men.—New York World. CourLpN'T FoorL Him. St. Peter ovened the gate wide. “Come in,” he said. The shade shook its head. *No,” it said; “I've backed many theatrical companies in my time, and I know from ex- perience that 1t's no fun being an angel.” His Day OFF. First Nobleman—They say that Miss Bond- stock has & couple of\millions in her own right, besides ten millions or so she’ll get from— Second Nobleman—For heaven's sake, old chap, don’t let’s talk shop.—New York World. Lucky Doa. “How much does it cost to go to Europe?” “Itdidn’t cost me anything.” “How was that?” “I was born there.” SHAPED LIKE A BELL. | A PECULIAR MOUNTAIN SEEN IN ALASKAN ‘WATERS. When the Alaska steamers are getting toward Sitka they go through a passage- way known as Finlanson’s Canal, and if they happen to pass a certain point in the daytime a most unusual-looking moun- tain can be seen. It has been named the “Bell-shaped Mountain,” and a more ap- propriate cognomen could not be found. This peak, which has always been one of the sights for tourists, occupies a most unusual position. It is directly in the center of the channel, and when the steamer is going northward seems to block further progress. For several miles before the mountain is reached the passageway is not any too wide, and steep mountains come close to the water’s edge on both sides. They seem to join the lower portion of the bell-shaped mountain, and form an impassable barrier across the roadway. As the steamer is heading directly for the mountain it shows to the best advan- tage. Rising abruptly from the mirror- | like surface of the water, it rears its head about 1000 feet toward the sky and reveals the most perfect symmetry in its outline. The sides slope inward, and on the top there is a little knoll, the whole combina- tion forming a perfect bell. If this mountain is seen in the early morning when the steamer is about five miles away it will appear silhouetted against the sky. Theedgeslook cleanand sharp cut, and it is hard to believe that it is not the work of human hands. It really looks like a monster bell placed in the channel. The sides of this mountain are covered with a thick growth of pine trees, and as the steamer draws nearer it loses some of its peculiar appearance. The vessel keeps head on as if to run it down, but when quite close makes a sharp turn to port and passes through a channel so narrow that it is possible to throw a stone on the mountain from the deck. The mountain is much longer than wide,and does not look the least like a bell as soon as the steamer has passed so that it can be seen over the stern. Navigators in that part of the world TO BE consider it a great accomplishment to be able to sail around this mountain. The winds and tides are variable, and many skippers often give up the attempt, arter remaining in the same spot for days, and take the outside passage. —————— In the New Year’s procession at Konigs- berg, in 1858, a Bologna sausage exhibited by the “butcher man” was 622 feet in length, and was carried on the shoulders of sixty-seven men and boys. The one | exhibited in the same city in the year 1583 was over 1600 feet in length and weighed 434 pounds. BRIGHT GIRL ARTIST. REMARKABLE WoORK DoNE BY CHRISTINE LAPLACE OF TH1s CITy. Miss Christine Laplace is the daughter of J. Lewis Laplace, from whom she doubt- less inherits her artistic talent, as he is one of the ablest lithographers in this country. Heis a Frenchman, and before marrying an accomplished English woman he spent the most of his time traveling and having strange adventures in many parts of the world. Christine, with her parents, brothers and sisters, lives away out on the Corbett road, at the base of Twin Peaks. ‘Their pretty home nestles in a quiet canyon and 1s con- cealed from the road by a small forest of trees, which her father planted years ago. Although this cozy home is situated in the heart of a great city, so to speak, it is as completely removed from the noise and bustle of the streets as though 1t were in the high Sierras. The artistic tastes of Christine’s parents are shown in the large and well-kept flower gardens and hot- houses pelonging to the place. It is easy to imagine Christine’s sensitive nature ex- panding under surroundings so congenial to an artistic temperament. On her way to and from school every day she sees some of the grandest views afforded by the mountains and by the beautiful valleys which nestle at their base. The accom- panying picture, drawn by her, showsthat with proper perseverance she will some day be a famous artist. It was drawn without any assistance, and as her parents propose to make an artist of her they should feel strongly encouraged by this effort. “Friends,” an Original Drawing by Christine Laplace, Aged 15 Years.