The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 6, 1896, Page 22

' THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1896. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Dafly and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier..80.18 Dally and Sunday CALL, one year, by mail Dally and Sunday CALL, six months, by mal X y and Sunday CaLi, three months by mail 1.50 Daily and Sunday CaLy, one month, by mall. .65 Bunday CaLL, one year, by mail.. w150 W KEELY CALL, One yesr, by mail, 1.50 BUSINESS OFFICE: 0 Market Street, rancisco, California. ..Main—1868 San Telephore...... gt EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 C Telephone..... - Main—1874 BRANCH OFFICES: £27 Montgomery sireet, corner Clay; open untll 0 o'clock. 30 o'clock. ; open 713 Larkin street: open unti £W .corner Sixteenth and M 119 o'clock. 518 Mission street; open ux 167 Dinth sireet; opep until « Market street, open till 9 O OAKLAND OFFICE: $08 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 51 and 32, 34 Park Row ew York City. DAVID M. 7, Eastern Manager. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. Sixth street did herself proud. Let us have a crusade against the cobble- stones. In all your plans for Christmas remem= ber charity. Read our advertisements and where the bargains are. Congress opens up the floodgates of poli- tics to-morrow, but to-day you can rest. learn Cleveland has less than three months more and then comes the innocuous des- uetude. The art exhibit will make the week lovely and the horse show will give it liveliness. Which will be the next section of the City to celebrate its improvement by a festal night? The blizzard season has abated a little in the East, but the tourist tide hasstarted and won’t turr back. The man who makes investments in California now will get in on the ground floor ang rise with the elevator. The railroad company ought certainly to join the progressive movement on Sixth street by improving the car service. Now is the time to begin looking for California novelties to make a merry Christmas for your Eastern relatives. San Francisco has more improvement clubs and more things to improve tuan aoy city in the Union. She’s all right. The fight for the speakership of the ‘Assembly this winter will soon be lively. TLe contestants are getting into the ring. England apologi: for not helping the Armenians by explaining that she has a greater call from humanity in the Soudan. It would not hurt the Pscific roads much if they lost the funding bill, but it would hurt California a greatdeal if they won it McKinley has the satisfaction of know- ing that Congress will occupy the atten- tion of some of the statesmen from this time on. ‘When you have made up your mind what you want for Christmas just read our advertising columns and you will find where to get it. The voting machines fested in the East were hardly more satisfactory than the old-fashioned political machine. They did not count right. People who cannot afford a luxurious Christmas can enjoy themselves looking in the shop windows and seeing how many things there are they don’t want. The report of the Secretary of the In- terior shows that public land is getting scarce in this country, so now is the time to get yourself a ranch and hold on to it. Now that California has put forward ten men as candidates for a position in the Cabinet, the East will begin to understand something of the extent of our resources. If the Legislature is to perform all the work which has been cut out for it the members will have to saw wood day and night and say nothing the rest of the time. ‘Willie Hearst’s Journal says the airship is a reality and Willie Hearst's Ezaminer says. it is a fake; and thus you have another proof that Willie Hearst is ver- satile. The Diet of Hungary has begun a grave debate on the Turkey qusstion, but it would have been gravier if it had been begnn on Thanksgiving day or waited for Christmas. —_— Boston critics call attention to the fact that Moody says done when he ought to say did, so the revivalist has a good ex- cuse for telling the Bostonians what they have did that they ought not to done. According to the Boston Herald Massa- chusetts can get along without a repre- sentative in.the Cabinet, but it says so in a tone which implies a belief that if Mas- sachusetts has to do it the country will suffer. Mrs. Annie Besant is not likely to at- tract much attention by her claim to be able to teach any one how to separate soul from body, but she would fill a long-felt want if she could teach how to bring the soul back again and renew the combina- tion. Secretary Francis asks for additional buildjngs for tbe Interior Department on the ground that the business of the office is too vast and various to be carried on in the ‘present structure; but would it not be better to divide up the work of the In- terior by creating a Department of Mines and Mining and devote the proposed new building to that office ? A commission which has been engaged in considering the feasibility of uniting New York and Philadelphia by means of a canal has reported that the distance by water between the two.cities can be re- duced from 274 to 92 miles by the ¢on- struction of a canal about 31 miles long, and itis probable the work will soon be undertaken, for despite all the improve- ments in railroads they have not yet been made to equal water trausportation for the use of commerce. | eondition of doubt. WITH ITS OWN PETARD. The Ezaminer was hoist with its own petard yesterday morning in a most awk- ward but highly entertaining way. It un- dertook with characteristic impudence to shift its established reputation as Monarch of the Fakers to other shoulders, with the resalt of fastening that reputation all the more firmiy upon itsown. Inan editorial article entitled “The Airship Nuisance,” which opens with the appropriate confes- sion that “Fake journalism has a good deal to answer for,” the Monarch of the Fakers presumes to take THE CALL to task for publishing the news upon the subject of the airship. It charges Tue CALL with a “prolonged attempt to humbug the community,” and aescribes those who have testified to having seen the strange lights and other indicia of an aerial trav- eler as ‘‘practical jokers or unbalanced enthusiasts.” It derides the whole sub- ject as a “silly craze.” While engaging in tnis sort of drivel editorially the Ezaminer locally delivered itself over to an already exploded airship fake of the rankest kind, devoting® page or more to the congenial labor of giving it the appearance of truth. In the headlines and body of the article it describes the Twin Peaks contrivance as flying, and in & half-page iliustration depicts it and the man who it states flew in it. That the Twin Peaks airship was a clumsy fraud it only required daylight to discover, and the fact that it was such was known about town at least twelve hours before the Eraminer went to press. In fact it was just such a fake as led many people to believe it to be of that newspaper’s own devising. It is evident thatin thizasin several other more or less imporrant re- spects the right hand of the Monarch knoweth not what its left hand doeth, By a bappy coincidence THE CALL was enabled to supply yesterday another apt example of the duplicity of Mr. Hearst's organs in the matter of news. The New York Journal of last Sunday devoted an entire page to the California airship, giv- ing a large cut of the vessel passing over Sacramento, with a long descriptive arti- cle under such headlines as ‘*A Working Airship Seen on the Pacific Coast,” and the like. The body of the Jowrnal article contained the statements of many wit- nesses to the phenomenon, with the re- peated assurance that they were persons of unimpeachable credibility and good repute. The article was evidently sent to the Journal irom the Ezamaner office in S8an Francisco, and our “*deadly parallel'” proved that it was written at the very time wkhen the local faker was casting all sorts of ridicule upon the idea of an existing airship, and was asserting ‘that alleged observations thereof were had in sus- picious proximity to breweries, and were made by those who had been viewing the heavens “through a glass darkly,” so to speak. TrE CALL has carefully abstained from the expression of any opinion regarding the existence or non-existence of an air- ship, and intends to continue so to do while the subject remains in its present It desires to submit, however, the following proposition to candid minas. If in its airship stories the New York Journal was indulging in an unwonted approacn to the facts, has not the Eraminer been willfully keeping itself atquite a distance away from them? It may be remarked incidentally that there is nothing unusual in this, for the reason that the Monarch of the Fakers could not well expect to sustain its repuration as such without being watchfal to have the width of the continent berween itseif Rnd the truth. Without in any way deciding whether the stories of the airship are true or false, let the impartial reader consider the rela- tion of Mr. Hearst’s two newspapers toward it, by the light of each other. The Journal of last Sunday declares that *‘a suc- cessful airship has been buiit.” The Ez- aminer of yesterday asserts that ‘It has been manifest for weeks that the whole airship story is a pure myth.” The Journal repeats that “The testimony con- cerning it seems to be unimpeachable.” The Ezaminer insists that its alleged ob- servers are ‘‘practical jokers or un- balanced enthusiasts.’” The Journal re- iterates that the truth of the story *is testified to by so many reputable citizens that there seems to be no reason to ques- tion its accuracy.”” The Ezaminer assever- ates that any paper which publishes such a *‘persistent falsehood' is attempting to *‘infect its readers with a silly craze.” ‘What do the public think of this exhi- bition of deliberate double-dealing on the part of the two newspapers whose owner is Mr. Hearst? Whoat do people who be- lieve in truth and decency the country over think of Mr. Hearst anyway? From the above revelation of his right to the title of “Monarch of the Faxers,”’ it must be evident that he has missed his voca- tfon, and that instead of posing as a journalist in two cities he ought to be engaged in making grimaces, singing ballads, shuffling cards, or selling gew- gaws in the side-show of a circus or the byways of a country fair. As King of the Gypsies ana Monarch of the Fakers Mr., Hearst 1s an 1mmense success. SOUTH AMERICAN TRADE. At the invitation of William J. Buch- anan, United States Minister to Argen- tina, a delegation of twenty manufacturers left this country last May and made a trip to South America for the purpose of see- ing what could be done to promote Ameri- can trade with the countries'of that conti- nent. The delegation on its return madean exhaunstive report which has attracted considerable attention in the East and is of as much interest to California as to that section. It shows that the condition of our trade with Bouth America is de- plorable. We are sending to the markets of those countries only a small portion of the goods demanded there, while the English, the Germans and the French are.| profiting by our negligence. The people of South Americs, it is said, are, with the possible exception of those of Chile, more favorable to trade with the United States than with Europe. . They prefer our manufactured goods to those of European make when they can be had on equal terms; but while we have made no efforts to supply their markets the Europeans have done everything to obtain them, and as a consequence, while the European trade is increasing our com- merce with that continent has declined nearly 87 per cent inside of thirty years and its course is still downward. The first step in the direction of ob- taining Bouth American trade is the im- provement of our communications with those countries. We must have more steamers or we cannot have more trade. From the report of the delegation it is evident that some effort will be made to procure Government aid for lines running between Eastern seaports and the Atlantic coast of South America from the next Congress, if not this winter, and it be- hooves the manufacturers and merchants of California to be equally vigilant in en- deavoring to promote lines from the Pacific Coast States. It is certain the development of our trade with South American countries will be one of the most important problems to be dealt with by the incoming adminis- tration. President McKinley can be counted on to carry forward the great work begun by Secretary Blaine under the administration of President Harrison; and we can look for a speedy re-establish- ment of reciprocity treaties when he comes into office. These treaties, however, will not be suf- ficient to secure us the markets which we desire. The one thing essential to com- merce is shipping, It is that which we must revive if we are to reap any benefit from commercial treaties. Other nations have been liberal in promoting their com- merce by the up-building of an extensive merchant marine and the United States must either follow the same course or abandon the fiela even in our own hemis- phere, SIXTH STREET. The rejoicing last evening by merchants and property-owners on Sixth street in celebration of what they have accom- piished in the way of improving their thoroughfare was one in which the whole City can feel more than ordinary satisfac- tion. The subject to which the public spirit of the progressive men on that street is directed 1s one which concerns us all and in which all are benefited by every forward step which is taken. Almost every street in the City needs improvement of many kinds, but this is particularly so on those great thorough- fares which lead from Market street south- ward. The streets of that section of the City have been neglected even more than those elsewhere, and yet none more surely need to be put into the best possible con- dition. When the coast road is completed, the main thoronghfare of travel between Los Angeles and San Francisco will be along that line. The majority of tourists to the City will then arrive at the Fourth and Townsend streets depot, and the thorough- fares leading therefrom will constitute the main entrances by which visitors will reach the hotels and the business center of the City. All of those streets, there- fore, should be put in good condition, and Sixth street merits an early attention to its needs by reason of the fact that its merchants and property-owners have done s0 much themselves to make improve- ments. It certainly would not be asking too much of the street railway company to equip Sixth street with a better streetcar service. The company should take part in the work of improvement and do its proper shage to complete it. Sixth street Itas a great future befgre it, and the car company will lose nothing by co-operating with its merchants in making it as speed- ily as possible one of the most attractive thoroughfares in San Francisco, The fact that so much remains to be done does not detract in the least from the excellence of what has been accomplished. The enterprising, public-spirited men who by their own efforty have done so much for the street have set a good example to the whole City, and were fully justified in making their dccomplishment the occasion THE ART EXHIBIT. The winter exhibition of the San Fran- cisco Art Association which has just opened consists entirely of the work of Californis artists, and the State may well be proud of the abundant evidence of local talent with which the walls of the Hop- kins Art Institute are now beautified. The display is not quite equal in numbers to the one last spring, but is considered fully equal in the general fineness of the work- manship to the exhibits of previous sea- sons. It is part of the policy of those who are fostering art by meams of these exhibi- tions to permit no retrogression among theartists. Theman who has shown him- self capable of finer work must continue come up to the standard set by himself or else his pictures will not be recognized, even though they fully equal. those of some beginner whose first efforts find a place in the exhibits. By such rules the tyros with splendid possibilities are en- couraged to develop what is in them and those who have reached a large measure of success are compelled to regard their ,achievements as but the starting point for new efforts. It is usnally considered that a new coun- try will be too much occupied with the de- velopment of 1ts material resources to ac- complish much in the fine arts, and if we are to regard California’s present per- formance as but the promise of future work, then we may well expect that we will have artists who can equal the great masterpieces of Europe. California is a land so picturesque that if, as many be- lieve, this young Nation is destined to de- velop a higher civilization ig all ways than the world has ever seen, it is proba- ble that amid these mountains and in this atmosphere of fog and sunshine will be nurtured the new masters who are to sur- pass the old. The exhibit se:n on the walisof the Hopkins Institute gives ample encourage- ment to these sanguine hopes. It must be borne in mind, however, that the suc- cess of art depends not altogether upon the skill and industry of the artist. It is in a large measure dependent upon the general culture of the community in which it is carried on. The winter exhibi- tion affords a good opportunity to the peonle of San Francisco to advance them- selves in that culture, and it should be made use of to its full extent. TRUSTS AND TRADE. The weekly review of trade by R. G. Dun & Co. states among the reasons for increas. ing confidence in the coming of better, trade conditions that two of the largest combinations in the country, by which the iron industry has been retarded, have been abandoned and that there are reasons for believing two others will soon share the same fate. The expression of this opinion on the part of a well -established commercial journal shows that the belief that trusts and combinations of a similar nature are injurious to business is not confined to farmers and consumers. Commercial men themselves recognize the evil of such or- ganizations and count it a good thing when they go to pieces. It is worth noting, moreover, that Dun & Co. regard the abandonment of these combinations as not only a sign of the coming of better times, but as a proof that better times to somo extent are already here. The Review says: ‘Such a state of things within a month after the. election suggests that these organizations formed when depressed business failed to support all the works in existence are not expected to survive a gen al revival of ample demands for products. 8 This means that trusts are the outcome of hard times and not of prosperity. It is a complete refutation of the oft-repeated assertions of the free-traders that such combinations are caused by a system of high protection. It is under protection that we are most prosperous and therefors .least liable to have business disturbed by the organization of trusts to crush out smaller men and monopolize the markets. The return to prosperity promises, there- fore, to have good results in mure Ways even than were expected. By making better markets for all producers it will re- move all inducements to form trade com- binations opposed to the general welfare. Good tradeand trusts are opposing factors in the problem of industry. - We have had hard times and trusts and now we are to %o forward to better times and fair com- petition. The Faker Rebuked. . News Letter. The practical rebyke of business men 1o W. R. Hearst for his disreputable style of journal- 1sm pursued in the New York Journal and the San Francisco Examiner is finding expression in the withdrawal of financial support to his papers. Itissaid that the sales of the Police Gazette and similar papers have sadly fallen off since Hearst took charge of the Journal and began editing its cartloads of libelous scandal, declasse articles and scurrilous stories, Itis also announced that Willie has sunk two mil- lions of his mother’s fortune in the unsuccess- ful effort to establish his metropolitan sheet, and the end is not yet. Its present monthly loss is said to be $40,000. Merchants, large advertisers and corporations, whose legitimate interests are the subject of daily attacks, nat- urally withhold their support from Mr. Heart’s New York paper, and the same state of affairs is noticeable in the manage- ment of the Examiner. Its attitude in the re- cent election campaign has cost 1t many ad- vertisers and thousands of subscribers. The loss of its expected annuel retainer of $30,000 from the Southern Pacific was a blow irom which it has not yet recovered, and that expe- rience, it is said, has been repeated in more than one quarter. To meet monthly deficien- cies in its profit and loss account, the Exam- iner has had recourse to the generous policy of making its employes pay the penalty of its owner’s mismenagement, Salaries in the Mission-street editorial rooms have been cut right and left, and each reporter has now to do the work of six at onme-third of his former wages. Retrenchment in every depariment continues to be the watchword of the Exam- iner. Afew weeks ago Hearst endeavored to curtail the expenses of his news service by a littte scheme which did not work. He threat- ened to start & new evening paper in San Francisco if the afternoon papeis now in the field did not join his news syndicate and so lessen its cost to Hearst. The bluff did not work, the Bulletin and Post refusing to “stand in” on the Hearst mews bureau scheme. The “Evening Examiner” proved to be as visionary as most of Hearst’s schemes. The dethrone- mentof the self-crowned ‘‘Monarch” is now a part of the history of Pacific Coast journalism. THE UNDER DOG Iknow that the world—the great big world— ¥rom the peasant up to the king, Has a diffsrent tale from the tale L tell And a different song 1o siug. But for me, and I care not a single fig 11 they say J vas wrong or am right— 1 shall always go in for the wesker dog, For the under dog in the fight. Iknow that the worla—the great big world— Will never a moment stop To see which dog may be In the fanlt, But will shout for the dog on top. But for me, I nevershall pause to ask Which dog may be in the right, For my own heart will beat, while it beats at all, For the under dog in the fight.,, -Exchange. HE THOUGAT HE HAD GREAT 0DDS. ‘Washiington Post. | A McKinley man in Cleveland wagered with & Bryan friend $100 to a cent that New York would give over 150,000 plurality for the Re- publican candidate. A condition of thisap- perently great odds was that1f the McKinley man won he sghould receive an additional cent for every vote in the plurality above 150,000. M-Kinley’s plurality in New York was over 266.000. The man who had offered the odds of $100 to a cent therefore wins by the terms of his wager $1160. The Bryan man when he drew his check for the amount said it was a bunco game, but any man fool enough to get caught like that ought to pay for it. PROSPEROUS FARMERS. Philadelphia Record. It appears that 72 per cen ; « the farms in the United States are fr /, Irom mortgages. This isa fact, and & gratifying and rose-colored fact, which “knocks the stuffing’’ out of many loud and long-winded harangues. If further inquiry should be made it would doubtless be discovered that in a majority of instances the mortgages on the 28 per cent of mortgaged farms represent money borrowed for improve- ments. The American farmer sometimes has occasion to growl; but, take him for all in all, he is the most prosperous tiller of the soil and the most independent in the world. 0DIOUS COMPARISONS, New York Sun. The official returns of the vote of Nebraska PERSONAL J. C. Hall, a merchant of Redlands, is at the Grand. Francls S Clark of Bolinas 1s at the Com- mercial, Edwin H. Sawyer of Santa Barbara is at the Baldwin. T. G. Jones of Salt Lake is among the ar- rivals here. Thomas W. Jenkins of England is registered at the Russ. . J. Martin Rainey of Dutch Flat is a late arrival here. s J. B. Quigley, a railroad man of Sacramento, is in the City. W. W. Black, a general merchant of Hollis- ter, is at the Grand. J. W. Hilton of Sonora, Tuolumne County, is at the Cosmopolitan. Dr.P. W. Olcott of the U. 8, N. and Mrs. Ol- cott are at the Palace. G. H. Robinson of Salt Lake City has arrived here and is at the Palace. William Casey, an ola resident of Kingman, Ariz., is at the Commercial. F. B. Granger, a hotel-keeper of Alyarado, is here on a brief business trip. W. G. Richards of Nevada City is here for a few days’ stay and 1s at the Lick. F. C. Smith, a wealthy business man of Buenos Ayres, arcived here last night. F. K. Struve of Seattle, son of ex-Judge Struve of Washington, is at the Palace. John Moore, a cattle-dealer of Kern County, is in town and stopping at the Cosmopolitan. W. H. Raymond, a business man of Portland, Or., is in the City, accompanied by Mrs. Ray- mond. % C. E. Dunlap, & mining and business man of Juneau, Alaska, is on a visit to the City and is at the Russ. John C Lynch of Cucamonga, the ex-Speaker of the Lagislature,'is among those registered at the Baldwin, B. N. Campbell and bride of Yorkville, Cal., are taking in the sights of the City and are at the Cosmopolitan. G. M. Wise of the Buena Vista mine, Milton, is down with samples of ore for assay. He is registered at the Cosmopolitan. E. J. Ivison, & prosperous business man of Wyoming, who has lived there many years, arrived here yesterday. He is at the Palace. P. A. Bruni, a rich coffee-grower of Guate- mala, accompanied by Mrs, Bruni, is at the Palace, after several months’ absence in the Ei L. W. Fulkerth, the District Attorney of Fresno County, was admitted to practice in the United States District Court yesterday by Judge McKenna. Chief Postal Inspector R.R. Munro of this City left by train last evening for the north. He will make an official inspection of the postal system of Oregon and Washington. E. E. Nichols, one of the best-known hotel men 1n the country, proprietor of the Hotel Florence at S8an Diego and of a leading hotel at the attractive resort of Maniton, in Colorado, is among the arrivals at the Occidental. Heis accompanied by Mrs. Nichols. J. P. Sheridan of Roseburg, in Umpqua: Val- ley, Or., and who is intérested in a bank there, is here on his way to Europe, to be gone eignt months or & year. He is at the Lick. Mr. Sheridan is one of the early residents of Rose- burg. His trip to Europe is solely for pleasure. C. 0. Ziegenfuss, the well-known newspaper man, formerly of this City, but for some time past editor of the Stockton Evening Mail, is here on a snort visit. Mr. Ziegenfuss is much improved in health and 1s looking very well The change of climate has greatly benefited him. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., Dec. 5.—At New York hotels—Windsor, G. E. Morse: Grand, R. Lus- combe; Netherland, G. B. Reinstein; Hoffman, K. Keon; Albert, M. J. Pearring; Stuart, J. Wana. LADY’S DRE:SING SACQUE. A delightfully comfortable and stylish gar ment is illustrated here. It is cut with a loose front which isshirred with a yoke top. The back is cut‘with a back form and an under-erm gore. The sleeves are the comfort- able and picturesque bishop shape. The sallor collar is stylishly cut off in front to give the effect now sought after. A most dainty sacque after this model was at the last election show the aggregate poll to have been 223,091. The vote of South Caro- lina, as given by the Augusta Chronicle, was 68,431 only, and of Mississippi 69,463 only. Yet both of these Southern Siates have a greater population than Nebraska, the present estimates being 1,875,000 for South Carolina, 1,350,000 for Mississippi and only 1,160,000 for Nebrasks. Mississippi and South Carolina haye nine electoral votes each, and Nebraska only eight. E. H. BLACK, painter, 120 Eddy street. % — e BEND your friends Townsend’s California fruits, 50c a pound; in handsome baskets. *. ———————— EPECIAL information daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Presy Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. < e On Monday Mosning. “All the new things for ChristrNas presents will be on exhibition at Sanborn & Wil’s, 741 Market street, on Monday morning. TNisyear they have bought no trash, but have & splen- aid lot of good things at moderate prices. In leather goods, stationery, artists’ materiais, pictures, frames, lamps, tables, clocks, silver noveities, Christmas cerds, calendars, Bibles, prayer-books, etc., etc., their stock is not equaled by any other house in San Francisco. Every one will be welcome at Sanborn & Vail's whether wishing to purchase or only de- siring to see the nice things that are on sale. * —_————————— Menelek, the celf-styled Negus of Abyssinia, has given imperial recognition to members of the Red Cross when properly accredited and decided to establish & corpsin his own army. Upon this decision of the Negusall Italian apmy surgeons who were held prison- ers by the Abyssinians were at once liberated. Low Rates to Phenix, A. T., Randsburg, Cal. The Atlantic and Pacific R. R., Santa Fe route, will sell on December 11,12 and 13 round-trip firg class tickets to Pheenix at Lhe one-way rate. A golden opportunity to spend Christmas in balmy Arizona. Cheap rates are also made to the won- derful Randsburg min{ng camp, which is a second Cripple Creek, and to which people are now flock- ing by the thousands. Ticket office, 844 Market street, Chronicle building. Telephone Main 1631, See time-table in advertising columns. and P P — Phillips® Kock Island xcursions Leave San Kranclsco every Wednesday, via Rio Grande and Rock Island Rallways. Through tourist sleeping-cars to Chicago and Boston. Man- ager and poriers accompany these excursions to Boston. For tickets. sleeping-car accommodationy and further informatjon, address Clinton Jones, General Agent Kock Island Kallway, 80 Mont- gomery street, San Franciaso- —————————— Through Oar to St. Paul ana Minneapolia An elegantly upholstered tourist-car leaves Oak- land every Tuesday evening at 7 o'clock for all poiats in Montans, North Dakota and Minnesota. Nochange of cars. Dining-cars on all trains. Come and get our ratesif you expeci tomakes trip to any Eastern point. 7. K. Stateler, General Agent Northern Pacific Ry. Co., 638 Market street, =. F. pi A ek, Dx. SIEGERT'S Angostura Bitters, the most effi- cacious stimulant to excite the appetite, keeps the digestive organs in order. —————————— Dox'r let your child strangle with whooping cough, when & bottle of Ayer's Cherry Pectoral can be had for & dollar. - Ir afilicted with sore eyes use Dr. [saac Thomp- of white flannel. The sailor collar has a deep hem at the top of which was let in the narrow embroidery to give the effect of hemstitch- ing. The rufle around the co lar, which was of satin ribbon, had the same finish at the top of the hem. Another sacque was of blue and white chal- 1is, with a collar of plain blue, edged with a ruffle of Valenciennes lace. A yellow flannel might be irimmed with a collarof yellow and white striped silk. A pink sflk with white dots might have a white collar trimmed with white or yellow ace. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. # THANKSGIVING, 1887—H. 8., City. Thanks- giving day, 1887, fell on the 24th of November. ProFEssors—H. R, City. There are no pub- lished statistics that show the nationality of the prozessors emYloyed in the university you name. If you will write to the university, ossibly you will receive a reply to your nquiry. VACANT LANDS—“Wildwood,” Cal. Thereare in the State of California about 45,000,000 gcres of public lands vacant and open to en- try, of which about 35,000 acres are surveyed. The area of railroad selections in the State is 90,562 acres. There are no statistics that will give the amount of unused land in the State. Tex RouNps—R, and P. H,, City. Physically Fitzsimmons knocked Sharkey out inside of ten rounds, but according to the rules of the ring he aid not knock him out, as a foul is not recognized. Unless the decision of the referee is reversed it will have to stand that Sharkey was not knocked out inside of ten rounds. seirrrvovs LIQUuors—C. M. D., City. If the decision you wish to know about was rendered by the State Supreme Court, you can obtain a copy of it at the office of the clerk of the court mpz’he Parrott building; if rendered in the United States Supreme Court, you can find out apout it in the office of the Collector of In- ternal Revenue in the United states Apprais- ers’ building. LOSING AND GAINING A Dav—J. H., City. There are 360 degrees of longitude in the entire circle of the earth. As the world ro- tates on its axis in twenty-four hours, o twenty-fourth of 360 degrees, which equ fifteen degrees, corresponds to a difference of one hour in time. Imegine ashipsailing from New York easgward. When it has reached a point fifteen degrees east of New York the sun will come to the noon line, or meridian, one hour sooner than at New York. When it has reached to 30 degrees of longitude east of New York it will be noon on !hlglhond two hours earlier than at New York, and son’s Xye Water. Druggistssell it at 25 cents. o e A “CURED my cough like magic”’ is the frequent expression of those who testify to the merits of | than at New Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. 80 on, until when it is 180 de- grees east of that city it will be noon on :Mgbond twelve Nours earlier to comprehend that every 15 degrees sailed westward there will be & difference of one hour later in the time of the sun’s coming to the noon Iine, and at 180 degrees west of New York it will not be noon on the ship until twelve hours after 1t was noon at New York. If the two ships meet at this point the one will have gained twelve hours and the other will have lost twelve hours, and if there were no rule of navigation to regulate their calendars one crew would insist on calling the time noon of one day while the other would insist on calling the time the noon of the day before or the day after. Tne rule of the calendar- makers and all nayigators is to drop out a day for the day Jost when the ship crosses the one hundred and eightieth degree of longitude, sailing westward (that is the one hundred and eightieth degree from Greenwich, near London), and to add a day to the week or double the day on which ward. When a ship sailing eastward reaches the 180th degree O)l?l Wednesday that day and the next day is called Wednesday. When & ship comes to this same meridian, sailing westward, on Wednesday, instead of calling it Wednesday, it is called Thursday. 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