The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 26, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRACNISCO CALL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26,v 1896. SATURDAY.... CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Pally and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier..§0.18 Daily sand Sunday CALL, one year, by mall.... 6.00 Daily and Sunday CALL, six months, by mail.. 3.00 Dally and Sunday CALL, three months by mail 1.50 Daily snd Sunday CALL, one month, by mail. .65 £unday CaLL, one year, by mail... 1.50 WEEELY CALL, One year, by mail 150 BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, £an Francisco, California. Selephone. £ x Maln—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street Telephone. Main—1874 BRANCH OFFICES: #927 Montgomery Sireet, corner Clay: open until :50 o'clock. ££9 Hayes street: open until 9:30 o'clock. %18 Lerkin street: open until 9:30 o'clock. W .corper Sixteenth and Mission streets; L1101 8 o'clock. 4L1b Mission street; open nntil 9 0'clodE 347 DaLih sireet; open until 9 0’clocks + mazxes street, open il 9 0'clock. open OAKLAND OFFICE: $US Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 51 and 32, 34 Park Row, New York Clty. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Eastern Manager. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. e e e s It was a greav Christmas. We kad as much joy as anybody. To-day we recuperate and to-morrow we rest. There are still a few novelties on the bar- gain counter. The housekeepers will now whirl in and make a clean sweep. It wouldn’t be a bad idea to make this also a holiday and take it easy. The most popular job with statesmen in these days is that of helping McKinley. There would be lots of happy gossip if we only knew what the mistletoe could tell. Ten chances to one your presents wil look prettier to-day than they did yester- | day. | Read our advertisements and you will | see there are several bargains left for New ‘ Year's. In the economical household the rem- nants of the turkey can be made as good as the feast. e R { Now is the time to begin making up your | mind as to what you will swear off on New | Year's day. 1f you were too busy yesterday to send the Christmas CaLy to your Eastern friends you can do so to-day. There are few happier people to-day than the members of the Salvation Army and few better deserve their happiness. The New York scheme for establishing an ideal newspaper was good, but it has now been abandoued and thatis better. It would be a big joke on the Senators if Cleveland should take it into his head to recognize Cuba before Congress meets again. f the Spanish butchers could succeed in chopping Cuba up into fish bait Cleve- land would begin to take an interest in the matter. The one objection to the anti-noise crusade is that it can never succeed until it makes more noise in the world than anything else. In dealing with our foreign relations Cleveland persistently ignores the fact that Cuba is near enough to us to be called a home relation. S Euas Al B An attempt to rush a funding bill through Congress at bicycle speed will produce a hot fight. It will take a scorcher o try it and he will be roasted in doing it. If Santa Claus overlooked anybody in California yesterday it was not intentional for he had many earnest and kind hearted men and women looking everywhere to see whom they could help. The British Government has appointed a royal commission to look after the £, industry .of the West Indies, but | t need not disturb us. We have a Re- publican commission in Congress to look after ours. William Lee of Boston, whose guest ex-Queen Liliuokalani will be while in that city, says she has made the trip simply for a change of scene, and in going from Honolulu to Boston at this season she will certainly get it. The Congressional recess is longer than usual this year, as Congress will not meet again until January 5. This will give Cleveland time enough to get up another message if he should happen to feel like annoying the country any further. The official returns of Arkanshs show that eighty-six votes were cast in that State at the last election for Jefferson Dsvis for Presidential elector. As no man of that name was running for the office the votes were probably intended for Andrew Jackson. In order to make & metropolitan Boston that will rank with the biggest cities in the world thereis a movement to in- corporate with that city twenty-eight sur- round ing municipalities, thus expanding the hub to the rim of the local universe and taking in all the felloes in sight. Benator Hill of New York not only stands no chance of re-election this win- ter, but it is seid he will not even get the complimentary vote of ihe Democrats in the Legislature of his State. He crawled into a hole during the campaign and both factions of the party seem inclined to leave him there. The Florida delegation in Congress are trying to get an -Ppropflntlon to defray the cost of destroying the water hyacinth, an aquatic plant, which is said to be choking up the rivers of the Btate and impeding navigation. Thus while Uncle Bam is busy propagating plants in one place he is called on to whirl in and de- stroy them 1n another. The City Vigilance League of New York,. in urging the election of its candidate’ for’ the United States senatorship, says of nim: *He fills a larce angle in the gen- eral regard because of his native - propor- LEGISLATIVE WORK. The near approach of the time for the assembling bf the Legislature has given opportunity for utterance to all who have axes to grind, fads to promote, schemes to advance or reforms to advocate. Enough of these have already given voice to their desires to make it evident that this Legis- iature will not differ from former ones in the multitude of bills it will be asked to consider and the multitude of jobs it will have to investigate and avoid. It is to be hoped that no considerable number of legislators wiil be inclined to give encouragement to faddisis, jobbers or theoretical reformers. There is plenty of really important legislation needed by the State to give even the most industri- ous members of either house all the work he can rightly attend to during the ses- sion. It is to that legislation the mem- bers should direct their energies, paying no more attention than courtesy requires 1o that class of people which in default of a better phrase may be termed legislat:ve nuisances, Rarely in our history has a Legislature been called upon to deal with so great a number of issues of first-class importance as now await consideration. As a part of the business of the session our legislators will have to consider the work of tte Code Commission, amendments to the irriga- tion law, tax reform, a revision of the election laws and of the law of libel, and the question whether the Railroad Com- mission shall be given increased powers or be abolished as useless to the State. There is also much hard work to be done in properly adjusting appropriations for the maintenance of State institutions and providing for the routine work of the State administration. It will be seen, therefore, that if the Legislature under- takes to devote much time to side issues or sets out to reform everything in sight it will have to neglect matters of practical importance and pressing urgency. ‘What is wanted is a business session de- voted to economy where economy is needed and to the work of wisely amend- ing such laws of the State as experience has proven to be unjust in their opera- tions or injurious to the welfare of the people. If the Legislature will give us that sort of a session it will win golden opinions from all sorts of people. It will become known as the Legislature of & thousand virtues. REOIPROOCITY. According to reports from Washington the principles of reciprocity and retalia- ion in trade will be important features of the new tariff bill, and will occupy a con- | siderable part of the attention given to that measure. Some difference of opin- ion exists as to the way 1n which these principles should be provided for, and there is likely to be no little discussion on the subject when the bill isreported to the next Congress. It has been suggested that the United States could with advantage adopt a sys- tem which it is said has been successfully tried by several European nations. Under this system the taniff law wonld provide for three rates of dvties. The highest duty will be applied to all imports except when otherwise specified. The second duty will range from 25 per cent to 50 per cent less than the first, and will be ap- plied to all imports from countries which make equivalent concessions. The third duty will be still lower and may be an- nulled altogether, in order to provide for imports from countries which admit our exports at equally low duties or without any duty whatever. Another plan is that proposed by Rep- resentative Hopkins of Illinois, which di- vides all foreign countries and colonies into five classes, and arranges the tariff duties in accordance with the comparative rating of their trade with the United States. The classification as recom- mended divides various countriesinto the following categories: 1. Those whose exports to are greater than their imports from the United States. 2. Those whose chief articles of export are admitted free into the United States. 8. Those whose exports are admitted into the United States at an average rate of duty lower than the average rate of duty imposed upon the products of the United States by their customs tariffs. 4. Those which impose higher rates of duty upon the products of the United States than are imposed upon the same or similar products of other nations; and, 5. Those which impose restrictions that are unjust and excessive, and unnecessarily ob- struct the expansion of our commerce. According to the Hopkins plan the President will be authorized to negoti- ate reciprocity arrangements with all these countries so as to equalize trade and secure for our products in their markets the same advantage their pro- ducts enjoy in ours. Different arrange- ments will, of course, have to be made with each of the several classes, and the work of doing this will, of course, have to be left to the President, since it wounld be impossible for Congress to specifically pro- vide for them. ‘Whether either of these or some other plan be adopted, it ie cortain the reciproci- ty clanse of the next tanff will be more important even than that which produced such good results in the McKinley law. It will depend upon the Secretary of State to make full use of the advantages given by the clause and obtain for the people all the penefits which are possible under it. With suchan administration as may be confidently expected from President Me- Kinley we can count on a degree of activ- ity in the State Departmant that will assure the speédy ‘megotiation of trade’treaties, and the proposed reciprocity therefors will likely resnlt in-an immediate expan- sion of our commerce, and possibly in se- curing usaimost the whole of the markets of South America. TRE FUNDING BILL. .The debate in tbe Benate on Tuesday was something of a surprise to those who |’ heard it and possibly to those who took part in it. It was expected to be a debate on the Cuban question, and it turned out to be a controversy over the funding bill. The Senators, it seems, were so eager to get at the problem involved in the Pacific roads debts they were not only unwilling to wait for the House ‘to li:them the funding bill, but turned aside from the grave crisis of Cuban affairs to discuss the question. The whole tenor of the debate gave evi- dence that the settlement of the Pacific roads debts will be the chief fight of this sessjon of Congress. Even the controversy .as to whether the President has the ex- clusjve right of determining when and how fthis Government should recognize the independence of Cuba Will be'less ag- gressively fought out than the issue be- tween the people amll the monopoly involved in the decision whether Congress shall or not foreclose the mortgage on th _defanlting roads. gratifying to the people to that in this first skirmish of the gfi battle the victory was decidedly on:the, part of the supporters of the Government. tions and not because he has acqui art of conspicuity.” The description w: intended for Joseph Choate, kut it sopnds like Chauncey Depews Senagor Mosgan, who has made himsgelf the leader of the opposition to funding the' debts, did not have to fight the' battle alone, He found an able and eloguent L&k ally in Senator Pettigrew, whose speech in the debate gave promise that he will be one of the foremost and most earnest champions of the people when the great contest comes to the closing struggle. The debate was precipitated by a resolu- tion introduced by Senator Pettigrew directing the Secretary of the Treasury to pay the interest on the 6 per cent trust notes of the Union Pacific Railway and take possession of the bonds and stocks held as collateral for them. The object of the resolution, as Pettigrew explained it, is to protect the interests of the Govern- ment as a business measure. The Szna- tor asserted that the receiversof the Union Pacific Company do not intend to pay the interest on these trust notes, so as to com- plicate the problem and if possible compel the Government to adopt some form of re- funding the debt which would be advan- tageous to the defanlting roads. While the debate on the resolution led tono result further than its reference to the appropriate committee, it was to a certain extent beneficial, inasmuch as it drew the fire of some of the advocates of the monopoly in the Senate, and led them to show the tactics which will be resorted to to bring about the passage of a funding bitl. To thatextent theaebate was a gain for the people. It opened the fight auspiciously and showed that the oppo- nents of the monopoly do not intend to stand altogether on the defensive. They are aggressive fighters, ready to take the offensive as soon as an opportunity offers. The course of the battle therefore prom- ises a victory for the Government and the people, and at any rate it is certain that the prearranged plan of rushing the tund- ing bill through Congress is doomed to failure. THE SUNDAY “0ALL." To-morrow’s CaLr will contain, among its numerous attractive features, a de- scription of a new invention which will rank high in the realm of scientific dis- covery. It isnoless than the construc. tion of an artificial eye that sees. It is difficult to realize the actuality of such an achievement, but the facts speak for them- selves, and are lucidly set forth in the able articte treating of the mat- ter which is of such wide im- portance. In truth, science appears to bave outdone nature in at least one re- gard, for it is claimed that the artificial orb is far superior to the natural eye. Psychic New Year parties will try by occult power to discover what fate has in stall for the members. This is a society fad that will reien on New Year’s day, and vopular attention will be claimed by the elucidation of the mode of corducting it which will appear in Sunday’s CALL. *‘America’s Strangest Tower’”” will treat of an edifice in this country that is more of a wonder than the *‘Leaning Tower of Pisa.” A plan that will revolutionize the pres- ent method of transmitting information by signaling in the United States navy is discussed by Commander R. G. Tupper, R.N. One of the particularly fine features will be the publication of the words and music of the *“Song to the Moon,”” as sung with brilliant sune- cess by the Brownie king in Palmer Cox’s play at the Baldwin Theater. Every- body will want this rare prize of a song, with its local humorous hits, and it will ond wife the daughter of one of his most pow- erful vassals. Asevery one in Morocco must contribute a wedding present the people are much discontented. Philliy Hines, 106 years old, and his- wife Rebekah, 96 years old, of Delaware, Ohio, cel- brated the seventy-eighth anniversary of their wedding recently. They are both in fairly good health, though somewhat feeble. /AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Milo Potter, the widely known and wealthy resident of Los Angeles, who has recently erected an elegant new hotel in that pretty and thrifty city, is among the recent arrivals at the Palace. Mr. Potter came up on a business trip. His interests are large and it takes agreat deal of his time to look after them. The gentleman hass acquired much of his property since coming to Los Angeles. Hehas had the advantage of the growth of the city, otherwise cailed the boom, and has made the most of it. It was thus that his investments became varied and he has made money out of all of them. 2 Mr. Potter thinks there is no place like L0s Angeles. Like G. J. Griffith, the philan- thropist, who a little over a week agogavea 3000-acre park to that city, he is entirely It is figured out that Richard Croker’s ex- periences on the turf{ have already cost him in the neighborhood of $500,000. His Englisn experiment is set down as costing him $230,- 000. All this was the result of the advice of a physician to try outdoor life as a relief from insomnia and other ills that were annoying him. The Kaiser's cousin, the Crown Prince of Sweden and Norway, has every one of his teeth barred. That1is to say, a bar of bone runs through the roots of every one of his molars, satisfled with the place, considering it in all respects ideal. He will only remain here a few days, as he is desirous of getting back to his interests in the Southland as soon as possible. PERSONAL. T. H. Cone of Eurexa is a visitor here, T. 8. Minot of Coos Bay is at the Lick. Mrs. Dr. M. L. Pratt of Chicago is at the Lick. John W. Hepburn ot Chicago is at the Palace. Mrs. Colonel Meyer and son are at the Palace. J. W. McClymonds of Los Angeles is on a visit here. E. W. Manning of Los Angeles arrived here last night. G. B. Kingsburg of Boise, Idaho, arrived here last night. John D. Gray of Fresno registered at the Lick last evening. John Keogh of Duttons Landing is stopping &t the Cosmopolitan. J. H. Hill, & business man of Port Townsend, Wash., is at the Russ. Given Moore, & business man of Dayton, Ohio, hes arrived here.. J. A, Vogelsang of the United States Geologi- cal Survey is in the City. William F. Coffman, an old resident of Mer- ced, arrived here last night. T. L. Lillis of Tacoma is a recent arrival here. He is at the Occidental. Charles Morris, one of the oldest gettlers of Suisun, is at the Cosmopolitan. W. C. Swain, a lumber dealer and manufac- turer of Marysville, is in town. Leo Freman of Victoria, B. C., is among yesterday’s arrivals at the Palace. W. D. Haslan, & well-to-do merchant of Santa Cruz, is a recent arrival here. E. E. Briggs, the widely known banker of Gridley, came to the City yesterday. James Kelwar of Longsport, England, is in the City, accompanied by Mrs. Kelwar. John McGrath, a wealthy ranch-owner of Placerville, is at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. H. W. Grinsky is down from Stockton for the holidays and is a guest at the Cosmopolitan. Ex-Congressman James A. Louttit of Stoek- ton arrived here yesterday. He is at the Lick. Among the arrivals here yesterday was Sid- ney W. Miller of Chicago, who is at the Palace. L J.Good and wife of St. Charles, Minn., are among the latest arrivals at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Professor Earl Barnes of Stanford University came up yesterday from Palo Alw, and isat the Grand. Dr. Thomas Flint, a wealthy farmer of San Juap, is among those who yesterday regis- tered at the Grand. Louis D. Reels, a thriving business man of | which avoids piecing at the bottom and cuts Sonora, Tuolumne County, is a guest at the | to better advantage. The emse with which Cosmopolitan Hote:. these gowns may be laundered recommends John A. Mitchell, who is interested in a min. | thém to many. ing enterprise at Telluride, Colo., is among | Lounging or bath robes are cut after the thekreivaliiat the OSANETIATL same model, being liked as they are less bulky and it has to be crushed before a tooth can be removed. Heis a martyr to toothache, and spends considerable of his existence with a handkerchief tied round his head to relieve the pain. The Washington Post says: ‘‘Rutherford Platt Hayes, youngest son of the late Presi- dent Hayes, who was in the city during thi last week, is even less of a politician than w his father, and his testimony before the jolut committee on library, for which purpose he came to Washington, shows that his tastes are for literary rather than for publie life.” LADY’S NIGHT ROBE. Night robes made in the old-fashioned sack shape, with very large sleeves and a big col- lar, are very pretty, and have the advantage of requiring less material than other shapes. The back may be made with a bias seam, appear exclusively in THE SunpAY CALL. There will be a wealth of good things that will make THE SUNDAY CALL eagerly sought for by all who appreciate a splen- did family newspaper. HOW THE AMNMERICANS TEACH PATRIOTISM. London Truth, “An Old-fashioned Patriot” writes to say that the attention of persons who love their country has lately been cailed by articles in American magazines to the systemsatic man- ner in which the sentiment of patriotism is developed in their higher schools for girls. The pupils are regularly drilled to perform an exercise of *saluting the flag” in military style. They are madefamiliar with the past of their country, and in its very short history everything that is glorious or ¢an be a subject of Natioual pride is brought before them till an enthusiasm for the '‘Star-spangled Banner” glows in every young heart. We copy America in many things; would that we might copy her in educating the young to know the gloties of their country’s past aud to reverence its flag. Our people do not care for their flag. They do not know the meaning of the Union Jack. To them one flag is as good as another— anything that has a bright color—and when a town is draped for some festivity any flags are made use of; the greater number always have the French tricolor. *I had ratner,’ this patriot says, “see the American stars and stripes. They are our brotners in blood.” REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR New York Press. A man is never beaten until he admits it; a woman is not beaten even then A married man 1ikes to have a dog around, | because it always looks as if it were sorry for bim. When a man issaid to be “attentive’’ to a young woman it means that they aren’t mar- ried yet. ‘When some women get to heaven they wiil ick out extra big wings, so they can fly away rom the men angels. When a man takes his sister out he always acts as though he wanted everybody to know she wasn’t his best girl. It is beautiful and poetical to refer to a eat- erpillar as an “unfinished butterfly,” but it is mean and cynical to call a putterfly an over- done caterpillar. The man who sneers at & woman for not giv- ing up her fare on a streetcar 1s the same one ‘who borrows his neighbor’s pass when he has 10 go to Chicago. NEWSPAPER PLEASANTRY. “What is inhumanity 7 is having a man arrested for stealing & bar of soap.”’—Chicago Record. said the cheerful idiot, “that the teeth of pet dogs are now being filled with gold. Hop this would add to the value of a watch dog I” . . - “How s0?” asked the ayspeptic boarder. “Why,” answered the cheerful idiot, “his hold would be so strong. Gilt-edged securities, you know.”—New York Press, . Student—Ach, Herr Profe: think of the examination and I begin'to spire,—Exchange. Rew. Mr. Softly (near-sighted, examining a picture)—So, these are the football-players? ‘What manly-looking fellows! Bobby—Dose ben’t fee chryunthemnm'l‘.fi_-'l She (at the masqus my costume becoming.? He (with enthusiasm)—Y¢ would be levely in any Bazar, % : Mrs. G. (a8 her husba for a vlub- meeting)—If you're any later than midnight I h tapeak to you. G.—Ihiope you won','dear.—London Figaro. Freshleigh met: 1d colored man the other day crossing the campus, and the following conyersation ensued: Freshleigh—Hello, Sam| The trees are get- ting nearly as bleck as you are, hey ? 5 BigSam—Yes,sah, an’ nextspring, sah, dey’ll . nearly as green .as you, sah.—Princeton ‘Tflre'—flw, sir, what grounds have you to ‘base your claims for divorce upon? Plamtiff—Your Honor, iny wife snores so hard that she wakes by, and then shein- sists upon me gettin and walking thefloor with him. . % % \ Judge—Application \granted. Nextl—Oleve- land Leader. % b than those with 1 th h & H. Ram! a business man of Quesnelle e B o e White lawn is used, and with a collar of the Forks, British Columbis, one of the frontier | same, trimmed on the edge with an insertion trading-posts, is a late arrival here, of Valenciennes lace, and_beyond this & rufile Raleigh Barcar, an attorney and newspaper | G t1¢ PI8in lawn or of embroidery is very owner of Vacaville, is spending the hol s dainty. A collar witn embioidery set on with in the City and is quartered at the Lick. Dbraidi through which deiicate-colored rib- M_F;l ‘drawn, 1 u;opre!‘;y. SR P. M. Duffy and bride of Modesto are in the T ey RE e qRie. SMboTate City on their way East for their honeymoon E.’on':fi%'i‘!?fucgk"i%‘;‘t&":{:“‘;f (BESEaG and are registered at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. | Heavy nightgowns of flannelette or heavy Harry Hammond, for some two years past | muslin cannot be better made than in this one of the clerks at the Palace, has resigned style. The collar may be of china silk for and taken the position of night clerk at the Pleasanton. M. F. Glade, Consul-General of Germany at flannelette gown, to give a dainty touch, for the silk wears quite as well as the flannelette. Honolulu, is among the arrivals here. Heis on his way home on a leave of absence and TAKE TIME BY THE FORELOCK. will probably be here bui s few days. @ 1t 4 20T Yorx Prees. Though it is now apparent that the count: John H. Coleman, proprietor of the Virginia | 1 av expect no relietfrgm the present Cnnnez City Evening Chronicle, Virginis, Nev., is | in the matter of raising revenue, there should amoug the arrivals here. Mr. Colemsn has | g o cessation of the work of preparing suit- been in the newspaper businesson the Com- | 4yiq tariff il for the consideration of the next stock for a number of years. He is herelargely for pleasure. session. The condition of the Government’s finances is the paramount issue before the G. Wharton James, who has been associatd | country, and there can be no resl business with Professor T. C. Lowe in several enter- | prosperity among our manufscturers until a Toper mef T BOSSS SOTIN 1 vOTIA o s T })ore};gn competition, And it is time that the fully printed and llustrated magazine atLos | inoome of the administration should be made Angeles, has bought the Pacific Coast En- | gt least equal to its expenditures. The news deavorer, the organ of the Sociéty of Christian Endeavor. He is enlarging, 1llustrating and otherwise fmproving the paper. of the fixing of dates for hearings on the new tariff measure is welcome. COLLAR AND PANTS. Bosion Globe. Among the society notices appears the an- nouncement that a French poodle has set the fashion for New York’s swell pups in the way of 14-karat gold bracelets, ablaze with jewels and spangles, with which to adorn his high. born legs, and with a collar and shoulder har- ness to correspond. And yet “society’ is not all heartless, despite a fact like this and some people’s opinions. WHAT A WOMAN CAN DO. Atchison Globe, A woman can make a man feel mean when he hasn’t done anything wrong;she can look at him in a certain way Christmaseve and make him feel ashamed that he didn’t give her a present. ANSWERSETO CORRESPONDENTS, HAWTHORNE—L. 8. 8., Porterville, Cal. Na- thaniel Hawthorne did not have a midale name, it was plain Nathaniel Hawthorne. DrAMATIC ART—M. A. T., East Oaklana, Cal There are several places in San Francisco where dramatic art is taught, but this depart- ment will not advertise them. RUFUS CHOATE—W. J. B. Jr., Navarro, Men. l;l’m Cnnnlly, Cal, Any fl"lwll“l‘x' l:ldodkl ller w! rocure for you a copy of “The tions of Rufus Choate.’” i Two BROTHERS—A. 8., City. If two men not previonsly related marry sisters the brother-in-law of one of the sisters, but there is no tie of relationship between the. men. NORTHWEST PASSAGE—W. J. B.C., City. The question asked in relation to the Northwest age was answered ‘in “The Answers to orrespondents’ in THE CALL on :the 8th of 7 | December. PRice List—A. E. H, San Jose, Cal. Had you signed n?ir bluma and given your ad- dress as required by this department, instead of si n:nflnm;h, an answer would htivu been sent by mail. To BOLIVIA—C. R., City. As Bolivia is in the postal union the postage on letters is 5 cents per h unce. All letters intended for that re sent to New York and from there | forwarded to destination three times a month. | ,Nor A WARSHIP—A. A. Y., City. The timefor sending in guesses as to the name of a vessel thsat is being built at the Union Iron Works will expire with the year. The vessel is not to be a man-of-war, but one to run in the Ha- waiian trade. | BRAVERY. ' 1know a man who grandly faced The storm of shot and stiell ‘That on the slopes of Getiysburg In blinding fury fell; Who was among the first to brave The foe at Galnes’ Mill, And who stili has a bullet that ‘He got at Malvera Hill, At Fredericksburg he grasped the flag And rushed 1t to the front, And 1n the Wilderness he helped To bear the baitle’s brunt. Among the first to take up arms, ‘He fought until the day When Lee succumbed and Righteousness Held undisputed sway. . And do you say that he Is brave? And do you praise his worth? And would you list this man among. ‘T he heroes of the earth ! * Ah! be it known that he who fought The gallants of tue South Now meekly hears bls wife “go on, —Cleveland Leader. Nor dares to ope his mouth PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. e ¥ Mayor Houghton of North.Adams, Mass., has glven his $1000 salary to the local hospital. Bishop Ellicott of Bristol and Glouchester, whois 78 years of age, has taken up the bleycle. 5 Mr. Selous, the African. traveler and ex- plorer, has some ides of visiting the. x,yeky Mountains. o ‘ The Saturday Review of -London speaks of “Dick Olney sitting at_ease 'somewhere' be- tween Washington ana roe.” ——t kbind- n bind- chosen itat the D Archibald F. Hebbard, who ¢fed at'his home in Westminster, Conn., rec t the age of T e libetto of an opers, | “‘Messidor,” which will be produced at the Grand Opera-house in Paris during the coming season. The musig is by Bruneau. X _CHRISTHAS BERRIES—J, G, " George Frederick Watts, R. A., 18 building a | knowa as the Christmas befries, church near Guilford, England, in which he ;nb'dn.mn{ g‘l’fl ‘of the'State.” They grow will paint frescoes himself, while his wife will |12 nearly all of the bay éounties, and it {s irom design the terra-cotta decorations. - P hal Sidke Noh - are . A markét are obtained. . Sfarediog i Tbsen has selected the realistic title ‘John GRANTL B W e Gabriel Borkman? for his new play, which is | 5 4 SO Oy about to be published in five languages at A 40-shilling note issued in 1776 no 1 once—Norwegian, English, French, German 4! b“x'n"mg Y for ana Russian. § 3 What are alifornia phia in WP City. hiladbiphia a * ghan . Ififl%‘q‘. rson’ ¢ 'Em Wwho aqnh,lms-fi Mrs. Humphry Ward, author of “Mar.’ 2 e celia” and othef noted books, is writing a T play. One of her:novels, “Miss Bretherton,” is ' 5 centsifor any e supposed to have ry Anderson as the model | -7 At ofiwberoloe.. {1 ithe Hopkin te of Art; mutfim about’ 'th”;u T Morocou's Sultgn is/about to take for his sec- tions, terms and course of study than this de- rtment has space to devote to a subject that t has answered at least a dozen tiines ina year. Mizver—J. P. K., Virginia City, Nev. The dance callea the minuet is pronounced min- uet. The minuet is a slow and graceful dance invented probably in Poitou, France, about the middle of the seventeenth century. Through- out the eighteenth century it was very popular and was the most stately and ceremonious of dances. The music tor this dance is triple and slow. The minuet that is sometimes danced at this time is the dance of old. AN OFFICER'S NEGLECT—S,, Snelling, Cal. If 8 county Asssssor is neglectful of his duty any citizen of the county may take steps to have him punished. The Penal Code says: In addition to the penalty affixed by express terms for every neglect of official duty on the part of public officers—State, county, clty or Lownship— where it is not expressly provided, they may, In the discretion of the court, be removed from office, No person is punishable for the omission to per- form an act where said act has been performed by another person acting In his behalf and competent by law 10 perform it WitsT—Homo, City. Whist in America is eenerelly pleyed under the American Whist League code. The law quoted recently in answer to a question from a correspondent from Livermore was from oyle, but Tecently that law has not been recog- nized by players in the United States unless by special agreement. Under the laws 0f whist as adopted by the league of America When a trick has once been turned it cannot again be seen until the play of that deal is over. Thelaw is: When a trick has been turned and quitted 1t Iust 0ot again be seen umlr after the hand has been played, A violation of this law subjects the offender’s side to the same penalty as in a case of & load out of time, BiGAMY—A, F. L., City. This correspondent Wants an answer to the following question: A woman married some years ago and had chil- dren after she and ner husband separated by con- tract in writing. She went to & foreign country and married another, the second husband Cying in the other country without 1ssue. The woman returned to the United States, where the first hus- band was sull living, but atier her return they still lived apart. Properly whose name should she bear—that of the first or second husband ? Should not the chlidren bear the name of the fatner? The fact that man and wife agree to sepa- rate and live apart, and sign & paper to that effect, does not give either, while both live, the right to marry again. In the case cited the woman, in marrying another while ner hushand was still nfive. committed bigamy. Legally she has no other name than that of her husband. The children by the first mar- riage bear the name of the father. Eves THAT LigHT—N. N., City. It is not known who it was that made use of the expres- siom, “‘Let me light my pipe at your ladyship’s eyes.” It is recorded that during the cele- brated Westminster election in 1784 the beau- tiful Duchess of Devonshire enthusiastically espoused the cause of Charles James Fox, go- ing so far as to purchase the vote of a buicher with a kiss. On one of her canvassing tours, an Irish dustman paid her a famous compli- ment by saying, ‘“Let me light my pipe at your ladyship’s eyes.” The Duchess was de- lighted and often “said, “After the dustman’s compliment all others seem insipid.” The same idea 1s conveyed by Ben Junson in his play of “Cynthia’s Revels,” act V, scene 2: “Mer.—Your cheeks ar. Cupid’s bath; he does light all his torches at your eyeg and in- structs you how to shoot and wound with their beams.” STRENGTH-TESTING MAOHINES. Peril In The Tests When Applied to Blocks of Stone. One of the most interssting places in the city of Boston to oneof a mechanical tarn of mind is the engineering building of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and especially that part of it where tests of strength of different materials are made, The testing plant is ‘one of the best in the country, and the test of the strength of about anything, from twine to iron columns, can be made. It is not gen- erally known, butitisa fact, thatit was av this plant that the first test of large beams, columns, etc., for buildings were made, and as a result of the discoveries which were made by these tests the build- ing laws all over the world were changed. The most interesting discoveries were made with regard to the strength of wooden beams. Previous to this test the strength of beams had been figured by testing small pieces of the same kind of wood and then calculating the strength of the beam from the strength shown by these small sections. In making these calculations the small pieces which were tested were taken perfectly clear and free of knots, and allowance was made for the weakening of the beams by the imperfec- tions in them. As a result of the tests made at the institution on entire beams it was shown that this allowance was not nearly large enough and that for some time beams had been figured on to carry loads which would bring them danger- ously near their breaking point. The most imposing figure in the testing plant at present is the big machine which is used for crushing and tensile tests. The machine is an Emery patent and is on just the same principle as the one at the hstnwwn Arsenal, although it is not so powertul, the latter being the biggest in the world. The institute’s machine has a strength of only 800,000 pounds, but this is enough for any tests which are made there, and, in fact, for the large majority of the tests which are made at the arsenal. This machine will crush a great iron column together endwise in its powerfup grasp or will pull it apart as a confectioner pulls molasses candy. Morespectacular than such tests as these. are those made on wooden beams, when the great timbers, after resisting to their utmost, bend upward and then break with a tremendous, rending crash. The most dangerous tests are those made on blocks of stone, granite especially. A block of granite will resist almost to its breaking point without giving any sign, and when it goes it goes with a report like a small cannon, and is reduced almost to powder. The smali fragments fly with tremendous velocily, and it is necessary in making & test of this kind to cover the objects with thick layers of cloth to prevent the wound- ing of the students, Over in the corner of the basement is the torsion machine, one.of the most in- teresting in the whola plant. It is pow. erful enough to twist a three-inch bar ot the finest wrought steel an udlimited number of times. It is surprising the extent to .which a bar of good material will twist before breaking. There are at the institute some bars of Norway iron which have been twisted round and round twenty times in a length of six feet, ana the pitch is aseven as though it had been cut with a machine. Domestic iron, on the contrary, will stand hardly any twist without breaking. The means by which the twist is measured is remarkably inter- esting. Two telescopes are mounted on the par before the twisting process is be- gun, and these are sighted on a graduated scale on the wall across on the other side of the'shop, and:by this means the | slightest movement of the bar be read with the greatest distinctness. eems almost incredible, but 1t is possi for a man to take hold of the bar when it has | Been clamped into the machine, and by twisting it with one hand'ito produce ¢, movement which: is discnnifis on fthe scale on the wall.—Boston E}Psmng Tran- script. A LOST KIHE # . Much Time Spent in Seeking for Secret ures. A usual feature is that dian (sometimes witha co used to return from the,wests a certain moon, ostensibly- foritiie purpo: of honoring the graves.of his ?A& and to use again his ances! l:}xgx of hunting the deer and bear among the wild but ver- durous hills, says Lippincott’s, yet gossip- ;ing tarheels. hold that really the wisits ‘were for the purpose of opening again the concealed ‘mine of lead or siiver, whose articular In nion or two) Ty year at spoil the sons of the forest "“@5“ seen | 3 3 || 4 t'&},"‘ of ] bearing off in their packs. Another form of the sto: certain hunter (always “dead,”’ or “moved wi lead for his bullets fronk the foot of a mountain, above a cove on rtain creek; or an old counterfeiter (now *in the peni- | tentiary’’ or ¢ '" into ?kum‘ halves of good on’ t”") got all the silver (still seen in circulation), yet was | never known to buy silver in any form. Weeks and months were spent each year in searching for these secret trcasures. Occasionally the enthusiasm would mount to the heignt of sending far off somewher to fetch back the ‘‘old hunters.” [ More than once suca a one hasbeen pers suaded that there was more richness in his bullets than he had supposed; and re- gretting vainly the many pounds of good silver-lead that he had shot away at deer, coons, geese and other game, he has been brought back ‘to his old haunts. Th°n, with many a keen eye tracking hls goings with his persuading friend, weeks would he spent in bush-beating, ciiff-climbing and laborious search along rocky shores, about cavernous hiils in fens, bogs and dismal dens in the deep woods, but only to the utter di<appointment of all tueir fond anticipations. The *old hunter” finds that time has obliterated his way- marks; bush and tree and rock and rill lack the familiar aspect, and he whose confused recollections formea the basis of yast schemes of gain returns to his aistant homne dispirited and dishonored. ——————— THE GOLDEN THROAT. Bell-Like Tones Not Always a Gift of Nature, but May Be Acquired. The power of the highest interpretation of music in song is vouchsafed to but few favored mortais‘and is not to be acquired by any amount of endeavor, if the true ‘“‘golden throat,” with finely aajusted chordoe vocales, be lacking, says a writer in the New York Journal. A voice of sweet and meilow quality in speaking, however, is not always a gracious gift of nature, but is a possible attainment to persons of the most ordinary musical capacity. A prima donna spends scarcely more time practicing her scales than an ambitious actress devotes 1o the cultiva- tion of a ringing, bell-like intonation to her sentences, for public speakers and people of the theatrical profession under- stand the value of vibrant tones—of the “thrilling, solemn, proud, pathetic voice,” whose echoes linger long in the memory of the entbralled listener. Among well-bred people low voices are the rule—low, but not always musical, & tendency to falseito marking any effort beyond ordinary conversation, which is simply an evidence of the lack of proper training, or of a failure to practice those primary principles of elocution that are a part of the briefest common-school educa- tion. Lessons under a teacher are not an abso- lute necessity to the woman who would secure the grace of clear, sweet accents, Deep breathing and chest expansion are the first steps toward the desired end, and a systematic course of throat strengthen- ing, combined with enough discernment to decide between a nasal twang and pure tone, 1s about all that is needed to achieve a fair degree of success. An excellent method of strengthening the throat is gargling with cold salt water in the morning, bathing it at the same time, first with very hot and then with very cold water. It thus gets a slight shock and 1s braced up and permanently benefited. ———.—— e PRIZE POROUS PLASTER. An 0l1d Lady’s Novel Hiding Place for Money. Many people have curious hiding places in which they keep their savings, but there could hardly be a more ingenious or curlous *‘savings bank’ than that which recently came to light in the provinces. An old woman who lived alone in a lit- tle cottage was known to have amassed considerable wealth, and it wasalso known that she had no faith in safe deposits and banks; but where the old woman kept her money was a mystery until she came to die, a few days ago. Finally, when the body was being pre- pared for burial, a porous plaster on the old woman’s side was noticed, which did not lie as close to the skin as snch plasters generally do. When the plaster was re- moved a large number of bank notes were found between it and the skin. ————— Two Paris aeronauts are going to try to beat the balloon record by remaining 24 hours in the air. The record is now held by M. Gaston Tissandier, who, in March, 1875, made & bal- loon journey of 20 hours and 40 minutes. —————a EPECTAL Information daily to mannfacturars, business houses and public men by the Prasg Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery, * g i % 014 Bates—My s0n, you would not be in debt 1f you would- psy more attention to your minor gxpens emember, it only takes 100 cents ti ake 8 dollar— Young Bates—Great heavens, governor! you aren’t going to start 1n to discussing the coin- age question again, are you?—Cincinnati En- quirer. [ PRillips’ Kock Island Excursions Leave San Francisco evers Wédnesday, via Ris Grande and Rock Island Rallways. Throngh tourist sleeping-cars to Chicago and Boston. Ma; ager and porcers accompany thess excursions Boston. For tickets, sleeping-car accommodations and furtber information, address Clinton Jones, General Agent Kook Island Rallway, 80 Mong gomery street. San Franciséo. 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