The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 2, 1897, Page 5

—~vtma i { AR ) THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL,. SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 1897. WEATHER NEWS BY HOMER PIGEONS An Important Move Was fade by A. Carlisle’ Yesterday. Secured Miss Doud's Promise to Help Found the Farallon Line. She Is Ready to Tske Hold of the Public Prcject at Once With Right Good Will. The United States Weat Bureau will soon be able to realize the wish, long herished by Messrs. F nand McAdie, , secure reguier and rapid communica- ith the Farallon Islands. This comes about largely through the enter- the expert pigeon isle, hearing of the ap- s Dais; North fancier. pointmer Farallon Island, d took hold of this plan with ¢ vigor and enterprise. She ng to start for the Farallones, probably go out one week from w. Ehe intended to start upon ightbouse tender, but discovered that steamer will not touch at the islands time. Mr. Wood, her uncle, an to negotiate for a launch. Mr. as at home yesterday and con- ted to have the first insta!lment of oming pigeons to be furnished by Mr. | isie placed upon the launch upon ich Miss Doud will proceed. Mr. Car- lisle will also probably go out in charge of the birds. rpose in view. She consented to of the homing birds that may er by Mr. Carlisle from time rfect w ness to make such weather observations as could be brought within ent scope, like noting the direc- the d velocity and the wheneve plied, if the Weather Bureau co-operation. * Finally, with wn hands, she released two Loming win her her Burean said work as might be re- from Miss Doud she would un- ly be able to perform. He was ed at the zea! which she nd said that he would com- with Forecast Official Ham- »n, who has been trying to establish co-operation of the er of Commerce and -Mr. Carlisie. Hammon will therefore learn of the principal difficulty - beretofore in y of this enterprise has béen the or getling the birds té the Carlisle patriotically offered rnish homers free for d that the experiment of establish- the service might be fairly tried. But are very few vessels going to the The permanent location of Miss Doud as a schoolteacher will be a very | assistance. The plan as pro- e number of birds and to seek as favor- location for them as possible on the North ¥arallon. They can be liberated he emergency may arise. Ultimately be ‘established on the islands eared there, which will insure ce in both direction: 1 5o difficulty in transmitting ta that the Weather Bureau may A new inyention, designed for such service, consists of a tiny aluminum cyl= t grains, and pro a clasp by which to fasten it 1€ leg of the bird. “To fit this slips reiully prepared, are also pro- n oneof these slips from 200 asily be written, and the U 300 werds leased wil in Berkeley, and as arrive the messages they will at once be telephoned to this the arrangem: made by Mr. on for the We: reau.. There t thathio will prompily avail vorable chance to on as he can thorization and the necéssary s to pat it into eff. he advantdges to be derived from the roposed service have, to some extens, n pointed out previously. Thers are many storms of which ‘notice could be ve in advance and materially facilitate of weather forecasting. 1In adai- s the shipping intefest can be often, by prompt informa. ssels wanting aid, ves gious diseases and so on. 1 would probably be con- birds in flying from the probably will be ance is a mete baga- traiced birds, for it has been ted that homers will fly be- ) miles between sunrise Memoers of the Chamber of Commerce, Who were seen yestefaay after- noon, spoke very bly of the pro- posed bird kne, for it is what they have = wanted. : — Hero of the Alps, Aimer, the: Swiss motintain guide’s seventieth birthday has just been cele. t Grindelwald, says the London He isthe hero'of over 200 first as- including _the Wetternorn, the breckhorn, the Eiger and the Moench ¢ Wengern Alp. It issaid thut he is nly man who ever came down alive e last peak. has repeatedly climbed the Jung. d all the peaks of the Oberla Valais, the Grisons, and of Eav ops of some of the Aiguilles of Mont nd of the Dolomites-of Dauphine ¢ has yeached. He has five sons, knewn guides, who have been em: ! in climbs in the Caucasas and 1 His career ended ten ag ali his toes during n ascent of the Junefran in January. ———— Eiblical Measures and Distances. . Poyou want to understand your Bible better? If 0 you must know that: Aday’s lourney was about twenty-three and one- fifth m a Sabbath day’s journey was - i mile; Ezekiel’sreed was ly 11 :eet; a cubit was nearly 22inches; @ hand’s breadth was equal to 3% inches; He frau the The Doud as school- | y at her residence at | 1 to care for them and release | She also expressed | the proper apvaratus | sle had brought, to | Berkeley ought not to ex- | a finger's breadth was equal to 1inch; a shekel of silver was abont 50 cents; a she- kei of gold was §8; a talent of silver was 538 30; a talent of gold was $13,809; a | piece of silver or a penny was 13 cents; a | farthing was 3 cents; a mite was less than | 3 quarter of a cent; agerah was a cent; an epah or bath contained seven: gallons | and five pints; a bin was a gailon and two pints; a firkin was seven pinis; an omer six pints and a cab turee pints.—Pittsburg Dispatch, THE BUSY QUEEN. 1 Her Private Letters Take a Great Deal | | of Victoria’s Time. Queen Victoria’s private letters number | many hunared every year. She writes to merous relatives, forgerting no an- ry or occasion when a letter might | be welcome. ‘The London Chronicle says | that to the younger members of the royal family she never fails to send birthday | gifts, accompanied by a few loving words of greeting. | Every day the birthday book is com- | sulted—not that birthday book in which | singers, actors and other personages are zed 1o write, but that smaller volume eserved for relatives and intimates. hen there are numerous letters of a semi-private nature which are wriiten by the Queen herself—letters of -condolence, Ietiers of consratulation to brides who | have been connected with the court, let- | ters to foreign monarchs. Besides ail these epistles, written in the blackest. of ink on paper slightly edged with black, tuere are thousands which are penned by the private secretary and his assistants. The Queen’s day b-gins early and ends late. After breaigfast—a meal which she stiil enjoys eating in the open air when possible—there are the newspapers and private _correspondence claiming atten- tion. With regard to the former, portions of the Times and other journals are read aloud to the Queen by a’lady specially ap- yointed for tkis -purpose. .Very rarely does the Queen comment on the news, ex- {cept in the case of a calamity when her | sympathy is quickly expressed in a tele- gram. @Inaccuracy in an important. newspaper as to royal matters gives the Queen grave annoyance, and tne Chronicle’s writer has known an official to call and complain of the misstatement and. demand a rectifica- tio ot long ugo an illustrated London pager gave a picture in which her Majesty | was represented as holding the arm of her i Indian attendant. . Within a shortspace of time a member of the royal bousehold | called on theeditor to state the absurdity of such an error. “The Quaen is much annoyed at the | mistake on -the part of your artist, as it | might give grievous offense to important persons in_India. She never could take the arm of a servant.” This will show how closely she watches even the pictorial press. - When a good iliustration -appears of any state function 1t is 8 common inci- dent for the artist to be requested to Visit the Queen, very likely to receive a com- | mission. SWED BY & WIRACR Lucky Accident That Turned a Deadly Bullet From Its Course. William ‘Harley, a Blacksmith, Shot at by ‘His Brother-in- Law William F. Herley, a blacksmith living | mt 1316 Shotwell strcet, was shot twice by | his protner-in-law, Alfrea F. Davis, a bar- ber, on the corner of Twenty-sixth and Mission “stréats, at 9:45 o’clock last even- ing.. Harley was shot in the left thigh and over the heart. The latter bullet failed to penetrate the body, being turned aside by a small look- | ing-glass'and a little pocket memorandum book. The leaden pellet, however, plowed | a deep farrow along the blacksmith’s ribs, making a long, painful wound. The other wound is regarded as being more serious. When the two shots were fired the men were on ihe corner near Windrow’s saloon. Officer William King ran to the place, but the man who did the shooting had fled and the wounded man refused to tell who shot him or why the shooting occurred. | Hre told 'several very improbable stories | about two strangers’trying to take his ife and & half dozen shots being fired at bim. Lieutenant Burke, Sergeant Anderson and Officer King soon found witnesses who saw the shooting, dnd they said it | was done by Davis. Afier alittle search | the police found Davis in bed in a house on Bartlett street, near Twenty-sixth. After seve:al denials Davis acknowl- edged that he had done the shooting. The revoiver was found by “the .police in. a closet, minus two cartridges. It had Feen | recently discharged. Davis declined to make any statement as to why he shot his wile’s brother. | The two men lived together on Shotwell | street. It is believed that the trcuble started | four weeks ago, when Harley- and Davis had a free-for-ail fight in the Mission. The Davis boys have a bad reputation with the police. One is now in the State Prison for a felony and the other wasonce arcested by Sergeant Martin. for a bur- plery committed on Caiifornia street, Davis was charged with an assaultto com- mit murder. e The Powder Fleet. In the world and yet not _ of it are the lonely persons who man the powder-boats which swing lazily at anchor or are ‘tem- pest tossed in the anchorage ground be- | tween Liberty axc Ellis islands and Com- munipaw and Lafayette, on the New Jer- sey shore. There are eight of these dan- gerous craft. The vessels are anchored within ha‘ling d istance of each other, and yet far enough apart to enable them to swinz with the tide without danger of fouliag each other. They are also sufficiently far apart to minim ze the danger to all should one ex- rlode. What the caretakers and their | wives and- families most fear is a meteor oralightmng stroke. Salvationists will row alongside each boat | and ho!d a service of song, but this is only when 1he water is very smooth, as Salva- tiouists’ stomachs are just a wee bit squeamish on troubled waters. Passengers on the Staten Island ferry- boats and visitors to Ellis Island and Lib- erty Island may rdcognize the fleet of powder-boats by the piain red danger flag, but that is as near to the boats as they will ever get.—New York Herald. e A Shawl in Bostor That Victoria Made. A Bostop woman who has lately re- turned from England Lrought with her, amony other curiosities collected during a long residence zbroad. a piece of fancy- work which was purchased at a fancy charity bazaar in Loundon. = Itis a knitted sbawl about half ayard square, ana its | color is pink. The execution i+ indifferent, the usefuliess or the beauty of ‘the ariicle is not apparent, yet t.e present possessor values it bevond price. It is the handi- work of the Qucen of England, and sent by her to the bazaar, where it was raffled for. This royal hand-made shawl has a guaranteed historetie attactied, and thoogh notsigned by the Chamberlain nor the*Prime Minister there is a real countess, not “to mention the original owner,-to swear to the gennineness of the docament going with the article.—Boston Herald. e —— In the Russian army twodays a week ate observed as fasts—Wednesdays and Fridays—on which days all the soldier gets i ay of food 18 lentil soup and black dy wdrink consisting of water in which rye bread has been soaked. - ————— PHOTOGRAPHS of the park presented by Grif- fith J. Grifiith to Los Angeles, in The Wavs this weeks 4 Occasionally on Sunday a boat-load of{ | | [T COULD 0T - LIVE AY LONGER Inanition Was the Cause of Le Petit Californien’s Death. A French Semi-Weekly - That Bravely Fought Against Adversity. Emile Marque, the Veteran Journal. ist, Entered the Field to Bittle Against Barra, After mearly twelve years of hardship and struggle Le Petit Californien died of inanition with its last issue, Emile Marque, its editor and proprietor, now a man in the seventies, delivered the requiem over his journal last Monday. In his choicest French he said: “Iam compelled to suspend publication on ac- count of the lack of patronage.” Emile Marque is probably the best known and one of the most-disliked Frencnmen in the local colony. ‘When E. Derbec owned Le Courrier de San Fran- cisco, the only French paper in this City a quarter of a century ago, Emile Marque was its editor in chief. Derbec was a wealthy miner in those days and cared little for money. He owned a paper simply that he believed his countrymen should be furnished with news from “La Patrie,” that was all." He cared little whether it cost him a tew thousand dollars a year to keep the paper going—it was his fad. Derbec is now in his eighty-eighth vear,% dependentupon the charity of others he helpea in days gone by and a patient at the French Hospital, * Emile Marque had the entite control of Le Courrier de San Francisco and he swung his ax ina wild way. He made many friends but more enemies. Derbec was obliged to call a hait and Alfred Chaigneau bought out the plant, merging it into the Le Franco-Californien. That paper has been the representative one of the French colony ever since—a successful and bright daily. Marque’s few friends picked him up about twelve years ago as their champion. These friends were mostly among tne wealthy Hebrews of French descent who in subseauent years were subjected to dis- graceful attacks n *'Le Bayard,” a little French weekly paper published by the notorious Barra. The latter fled the country some six years ago rather than | face the Grand Jury indictments for libel found against him. Marque handled a trenchant per and he took up the battle waged by Barra against the Jews. While the fight lasted Le Petit Californien prospered right nicely. When “Le Bayard” went out of existence Marque’s paper also fell until the old man finally bad to give up the struggle. He is still vigorous and com- paratively healthy, however, and hopes to 800N sécure means to again enter the jour- nalistic field. INDIAN LEGEND. How the Mojaves Explain the Division of the Races. The mystery surrounding the origin of the Indian race is greatly enhanced by listening to some of the quamnt legends. Hereis on@of them, relatdd by the older men of the Mojave trite, says the Los An- geles Heruld: ‘At the time of the Mojave the white man, the negro and all other people livey together with their god, Mulevelia, whose mother was the earth and whose father the heaven, “They were all supplied with food, cloth- ing and many luxuries, Besides these they had tools and all kinds of implements and machinery to work with. “Everything was manufactured, especially matches. and “One day Mulevelia died and all the people excepting the Mojaves. flea after, looting ‘the camps of everything they could lay their hands on, not even- fuvxng a match. ‘‘Here was a pretty state of affairs, ana the dead god awaiting cremation! “‘There seemed to be no other alterna~ tive than to dispatch a messenger for ‘a s?nrk from one of the brilliant luminaries of 1he upper region, and a coyote was sent to a star for soms fire. “After a long time he returned without success, and so hungry that he tried to eat up the dead god. s “Mastanho, the man, sit by rubbing willow sticks together, and produced fire, which they used in burning up Mulevelia. “After the cremation, wmcx took place somewhere near Fort Mojave, the mount- ains.au the foot of the canyon parted and | the Colorado flowed through and swept the ashes away. g i ‘‘Mastanho now became chief and .di- vided the Indians into tribes and gave them their allotments of land.!” el - OLD 'SIQUX QAVE -FOUND This Same Cave Was Described i Jon- J athan Carver's Book. P Jonathan Carver, one of the first ex- plorers of the Northwest, makes mention in one of his books of a large cve, with walls covered with Indian picture writing, near the southern boundary of Minne- sota, says & Winona (Minn.) correspond- ent of the Boston Transcript. A Winona scientist has justlocated this_ cave and it has been thoroughly explored.” It is at Lamoille, sixteen miles sonth of Winona. The entrance to the cave is semi-circular, fifty feet high and twenty feet high. ° Upon entering, the fact 1s discovered that the cave is a large room, oblong in | shape. This chamberis 100 feet long, run- ning irom side to side, and about seventy feet in width. The roof arches 1o a height of nearly twenty-five feet. The walis are found to be a mass of In- dian writings. Among the figures is that of a man nearly six feet long and well pro- portioned. A space, where the water bas prevented people from marring it, is liter- ally covered with drawings of raccoons, eagles, muskrats, beavers, rattlesnakes of all lengths, birds, buffalo’ heads and hosts of other animals. The pictures are be- vond doubt the work of Indian tribes, mostly the Sioux, who lived in the region for centuries.” e ————— Novel German Postal Deyfce. A novel system of paying postage with- out the use of the more or less trouble- sonfe postage stamp has been adopted recently by the German Government.. The postal atthorities gave out a coi trivance called a *‘postage adder,” which stamps an official’ mark on all leuers passed through 1t and registers.thé amount of postage cue. It works in rauch the sams way as a gas meler. Itstampson the letter the date and- hour and amount of posjage required. The stamping of an envelope takes less than two -seconds, or, at the rate of 2000 per hour. The new apparatus is designed especially td save 1apor and time to larje firms or o persons who have a large corresponcance. An < easily run down the thirsty roots. ‘America. B are sent to the President. Sometimesa additional advantage is that itis not neces- sary to cancel the postmark of the “‘post- age adder’” at the postoffice.—New York World. ————————— RESTORING A LANDMARK. Independénce Hall to Be Placed In Its Original Condition. 01d Independence Hall, ‘the nobiest landmark of colonial days, and dear to all Americans as the birthplace of the Na- tion’s liberty, is gradually undergoing a restoration to its condition at the time of the Revolution, says a Philadelphia corre- spondent of the Chicago Chronicle. Several persons whose studies of the snbject cover a period of many years have contributed information by which the Statehouse and adjoining couniy and city buildings can be brought balk to their original appearance, -inside and ont. Eventually all wili be as it was when Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Ham ton, gay and tfieir colleagues weie associ- ated in laying the foundation of the re- public. g For months past the public has seen workmen engaged in tearing away the inclosed brick . passage-ways which were built during the present century to con- nect the wings of the State House with the city and county buildings. These niodern links have disappeared, the door- ways have been filled in, and so much has been accomplished toward effacing the newer features of the row. Now operations have been- transferred from the exterior to the interior. In the second. story’ of the State House, where City Councils met from 1854 to the present year, the partitions Have been taken oat preparatory to-restoring the original ar- rangements. Very recently evidences of what is going on have appearedin two large chambers on’ the lower floor, in which most public interest centers, and these have been closed to visitors occasionally in or- der - that - the work may be facili- lated. In the east. chamber, where the Declaration ol Independence was signed, four wooden pillars, put there to withstand the extra strain when councils went in above, have been removed. . These osts ara_reputed to have come from the amous old Chew mansion in Germantown, whichwas undergoing alterations about the sama time the changes-were made in Inde- pendence Hall, and, on_account of :heir associations - they - will be carefully pre- served. In order that the hall may not suffer in strength by their. removal, steel- girders have been . inserted between the ceiling and t- e floor above, and the build- ing is how more solid than ever. There were iron posts in the. west chamber and these also have been taken away. The entire restoration of the two cham- bers will now slowly proceed, the east room, in which the Declaration was signed, teceiving the first attention.. This room” was oocupied by the Pennsylvania Assem- bly in 1735, some years before the building was finished.. It was here,-on June 16, 1775, vhat George Washington accepted his ap- pointment as general of the Continental army. The Assembry moved out to make room for the Continental Congress, and the Declaration was signed July 4, 1776. A painting by Trambuil, which now hangs in ther.tundaof the Capitol at Washington, gives an exceilent idea of the arrangements of the chamber at that time. The picture has been carefully studied by Architect T. Mellon Rogers, who has the alterations in charge, and has aided him greatly. It shows that the ceiling and ‘walls, instead of being finished in the colonial colors of blue and white, according to the prevailing conception of them, were of uniform gray- ish tint throughout. e e THE OHINESE SACRED LILY, How to Cnltivate and Treat the Bulb So as to Hane the Best Results. I have grown the Chinese sacred lily every winter for years, and each year finds me ordering a larger-supply for in- door. blooming. For the benefit of those who know noth- ing about this bulb I will say that it may be grown either in water, sand, pebbles or soil. 1 have found in years of growing that the bulbs put in water come to growth and bloom earlier than those grown in soil, but I have noticed frequently that the flowers grown on the water-grown bulbs are more apt to be single. It may be it just happens so, but it is generally supposed that the manner of growth maces a difference. It certainly s not an infallible rule, as I haye nad double flowers on water-grown bulbs and vice versa. For guick blooming choose a dish maybe 5 inches in.depth, and with an open top. 'L have used a lar-e rose bowl, out these are too small at the top and too large and deep to' be wholly satisfactory. 1 think glass better than porcelain. Hay- ing selected your dish, take your bulbs and place them on a layer of sand, peb- bles or shells, then pack the sand well around the bulbs in such a way that when’ the roots begin to push up from the bot- tom of the receptacle they will not push the bulb itself out of the water. The seems to me to be about the only thing to -be fooked out_for. .Water is the chiet es- sential to strong growth, and-this must be supplied frequently, even to bulbs water- grown, as they soon drink up what is placed in a shallow dish. T like to keep my dishes full of water, and it is an easy matter every morning to-fill the glasses. Tt is not necessary that the bulbs should be covered with water, but it is necessary that-they should be about half submerged. Bits of charcoal placed in the water will keep it sweet, and a little ammonia in the. water will assist in nourishing the bulb, . - Last winter [ grew some eight bulbsia a box, and when I say eizht I mean eight | large bulbs, and these were surrounded by some four or five smaller ones, so Erobnbly.ihera were some thirty or forty ulbs together. The box was about six inches in depth, was filled with good soil, and the buls more than half covered with'| it., as left they.- could be, room only being through . which the water could The- box'was set . in 4-soutb window in & roam | -|in which no fire was -Kept, but opening off from one kept very well warmed. The bulbs were watered freely and frequently. The'soil may be almost muddy if not cold enough torot the bulbs. Plenty of water must be supplied. This box was a ‘sight to be remémbered when once secn. Sim- ply a mass of hlossoms and probably. haif a dozen stalks nearly from each big bulb. The blossoms were all double, except thosé .produced by one bulb. Globe. - The President who hias not a hundred canes on hand either does not amount_to | much or ‘else has been very.active in dis- posing of his gifts. Closely allied to the -canes are the svmballcnl;ixl!, like gavels made from the tree under which Henry Clay delivered some famous speech or the house in which Martin Van Buren died,., or paper-weights made trom the first tin- plate marufactured in the United States or the heaviest cable ever produced in Few things that are good to eat barrel of the handsomest apvles or a fat turkey, or a fine string of trout, or a piece of venison is sent to the White House, but as a rule this class of gifts-is not large. Mention should be made also of the curious things which curious people work our,” Some man in jail will cut outofa shingle a very perfect representation of a locomotive, or a lunatic will constructa pin-cushion with such minute detail would almost upset a normal reason. People who' do_extraordinary_things in the line of mechanical dexterity usually remember the President. The man who can write the whole inaugural address of Mr. McKinley on a card the size of a cabinet, photograph will not forget the new President, and the inventor .of a novel rattrap will' send one_ of his con- signments td the White House.—New ‘York Evening Post. 7 e ——— In the district of Lagos, on the western coast of Alrica, when a chief isabout tobe placed on the throne, he must first take an oath that during bis reign he will not | drink intoxicants. 1) . . d Théy were packed in about as closély | CORINTHIANS SAIL AWAY FROM CARE Annual Blowout Where Tars Meet in High Revel. Uncle George Bromley Caused Everybody to Smile All the Evening. This Was the Eighth Annua! Barquet and the Logbook Has an Eatry That It Was a Success. There was much joy at Tiburon last night. The Corinthian Yacht Club's an- nual “‘blowouY” came oft and fun of the choicest variety warmed the cockles of the “ola salts,” Uncle George Bromley was thare and made so much ‘fun all by him- self that there were yachtsmen in the com- pany who smiled all the evening. Charles B. Hill;who turned his thoughts from astronomical matters, was there to speak in his mundane capacity of segre- tary of the S8an Francisco Yacht Club. Ed Howard represented the California Yacht Club, T. F. Tracy, ex-commodore, hitched up his trousers in true nautical fashion. Commodore Pew and ' Vice-Commodore Carl Westerfeld communed and did their part io add to the general hilarity. Mr. Campbell of the schooner Flying Jib, Jack Shepard, the founder of the club, and Ed Kolb, were also on deck.. The Corin.hians were ihere generally to cele- brate “‘of annual banquets ye VIIL" and ‘o New Year gorges ye VI.” They had asmooth sea, a fair wind and a great time. When the menu wes produced, the glee was enhanced by the discovery thal the committes on banquet-hall had thought- fally seen that. the popular and weil- known satad styled“Corinthianischewasser sportsgeselschaftsziweibelsalad,” was pro- vided, this being recommended as “a liver capsizer,”” They also found out that the commitfee had found a warrant for grog in Ezekiel iv, 2—*From time to time shalt thou drink.” Imagination must be called upon to supply the omissions after the following bill of fare, which was served: BILL OF FARE. A messenger from the galley. —Othello, T, i1L. Bilgewater Sweetener. Vermouth a Ia. Marselialse. Chante: All hands in the chorus. SALAD. Corinthianischerwassersporiagesellsonaftarwiebel- sala (A liver capsizer.) Well loved he garieck, onyons und eke lekes. 7 —Chaucer. HORS D'GEUVRES. What relish is this? —Twelth Night, IV, 1. Anchovies. Salami. AST. tender subject.) Boar at the breas; and apple sauce, Viking style. Turkey cock and cranberry sauce, a Ia Mayflower. Mailard duck, vy the elcck. BAKED. Gaelic spuds, for the iikesof Tracy. We'll ne’er forget the holy ground 0f potheen aud potatoes. ‘Charles D'Malley. Pommes de Terre des Carolinas, aux deux Gouyer- neurs. This natorally drives us to GROA. From time to time thou shalt drink. —Ezekiel, IV, 11, When it Is red 1n'the cup—Sanitary Cabernet X, Chateau Gumbull. When It Is White In tné cup—Sauterne and Ries- ling, ex Moorings. When it s meither in the cup—Wieland'’s, ex port. £. 0. b. Elos helster ! —Hymn of the Freds. CAFE NEGRO: WHAT? SMOKE: T.D.'s and cut plug. Why do you call that nag of vours “Seal of North rolina?” _’Cause he's a cut piug:_ Git ep! Clgafs:General average :nd other maritime brands. And loud a voice on deck commands. To lower the mast and light the brands. —Lalla Rookh. FINALE. Enter A Sewer. ‘“—Macbeth, T, viiL. When the entertainment was over the jolly gentlemen were full'of enthusiasm. SETTER HUNTS FROGS. Delights to Help His Master Locate the Green Beauties. / “Talk about your dog stories,” said & prominent sporting man the other day to an Omaha Bee reporter. “Isaw something out-at Cutoff Lake which beat anything I ever heard of. I. was out there hunting snipe, and saw a man riding around on horseback, and in front of him wasciircing an Irish sétter. As the feliow did not have any gun my curiosity was aroused to know what he was doing, but I supposd he was $imply breaking his dog. In-a few mitutes I saw him ‘ride up to where the dog was on a dead .stand, and. the horse~ man proceeded to jabs a pole he was carry- ing down into the ground, and, bringing |- it up, took somethinyg off the end of it. | My curiosity was greater than ever, and, circling around, I came up with the horse- man and asked him what he was'doing: “‘Hunting frogs,’ was the reply. .. 'What is the dog doing?’ said L. 3 'Hunting frogs,’ was the-laconic an- swer. - 5 8 *‘You don’t méan‘to tell me that the dog will set the frogs, doyou? - . - *‘Idon’t mean anvthing else.’ “A few'imore questions and answers brought out the fact that the dog had seen is master huiting:around in the grass for frogs and spearing them,and had of his:own accord taken up the task of locat- ing the green beauties. He was a thor- | oughly trained hunter of birds and he | soon became very expert in lociting frogs, 50 his owner informed me, and my obser- vations of his movements confirmed ‘the tatements.” ———————— ‘Copled the Name From His Grip. . Mr. Smith, an English traveler, arrived one evening at a hotel in Austris.’ On the .| way he had picked up a smart German and hired him as a servant. In Austria every one staying at a hotel is obliged to register his name and occupation n a book, which is kept for police examina- tion, so Mr. Smith told his servant Fritz to bring this book for him to write his hame. 5 S *'I have alrealy registered, milor,” said _¥ritz, “as an English genlleman of inde- ‘pendent means.”” TR “‘But I've never-.told yon my namie; so how do you know what it is?”’ “I copied it from milor’s portmanteau,” answered Fritz. “Why, it isn’t on my portmanteau,” cried Mr. Smith. “Bring the book and let S me see what you have put down.” ‘I'ne book was brought, and Mr. Smith, to his amusement, discovered that his “Monsieur Warranted Solid Leather! —_— Advanced Backward. The expression ‘‘advanced backward” gained great currency just after the ren- contre on the floor of the United States Senate between Senator Henry 8. Foote of Mississippi and Senator Thomas H. Ben- ton of Missouri. duel, which almost culminated ina bioody tragedy, one of the Senators—perhaps Foote, though this is a matter of recollec- ‘tign—bore down on Benton, when the latter drew his pistol, an old Allen, com- monly called in those days a pepper-bax, and sometimes a wasp- nest. Foote stopped, and afterward in detailing the occurrence said that ‘“‘when Mr. Benton pulled his pepper-box I advanced back- ward.” Montague refers “in _his works to “rowers wio advanced buk'urd.—Nuwl Orleans Picayune, - G308 In that famous ‘verbal. FROM 7 UNTI NFW - TG-DAY—DRY GOOD= ¢E3=i3e= NEW YEAR EVENING SALE! L 10 O’CLOCK. sales during special hours are. repay a visit from you. HEHEAE- In order to make your visits to “The Ms evenings equally profitable and enjovable to you Wwe wiil in= augurate wiih this first Saturday of the New Year a series of even= ing sales to be held each Saturday evening from 7 to 10 o’clock. They will be conducted in the same way' as our popular morning At each of them we will present a list of specially selected bargains, and name prices that will fully ’ on Saturday La Mazeno Kid The lot comprises about 50 dozen which alwayssell at$l 50 a pair. ing colors among them. letters; half a dozen in each box. long ones, fully 20 inches long. as usually sells at 25c pair. front. beltings. This sale does TC-RIGHT WE WILL SELL kid, each pair stamped and branded. The reason of this great cut iy that they are all narrow embroidered backs. Biacks, tans, and all lead- Initial Handkerchiefs, 50c a box. Sheer pineapple cloth, hemstitched handkerchieis for ladies, two differ- 1! entsiyles of hemstitching, all handsomely initialed with lirge saowy Cocque Feather Collar Boas, 25¢. Extra full and fluffy, with black silk ribbon ties, nat the small skimpy Iittle collars just large enough to reach around 'the neck, put big, fuil Dark Flannelettes, 4c a yard. About 50 pieces of them, warm fieecy quality, in dark and medium de- signs, splendid for wrappers, underskirts and cnildren’s dresses. Ladies’ Ribbed Hose, i2ic a pair. Real Hermsdor! dyed Black Hose, every pair stamped; they are the popular Richelieu rib, full finished and combed Egyptian coiton, such Ladies’ Garters, 5c a pair. Round shape, made of fancy frilled elas bow, each pair in a box, worth 25c a pair. Easel Mirrors, 10c each. A real plate glass, about 6 inches high, beveled edges, “backed and rimmed with cherry wood and four fancy corner ornamentstions on Ladies’ Belts, 25c each. Qur entire stock of Silk Ribbon B oxidized and gilt buckles, with black, navy and other colored and fancy Some among thein were sold at $1 and $1 25 apiece. o’clock this evening. Gloves, 95c pair. of our famous *La Mazeno” quality We gnaranted them toe best F enc == e ——1 =e=3 2 T T o = webbing, fancy clasps and ats, all sorts and kinds of fancy silver, not begin until 7 POOPCOHOVC0-0-0-0-00-0-0000EZE= S MARKET - AND | %%mfimyep ) P o SHe Medze» TAYLOR STS. SPOTTS" AX FALLS O NINE COINERS Mint Employes Dropped From the Roll Thurs- day. Wege Not Recommended for Posi- tions Under Civil Service Rules. The Unlucky Dn'gs Dia Not Come From the Right Democratic Factton' - - ‘and Had to G The. ciose-of the .old year came with | vengearice to the employes of the coiners’ department of the Mint .in this City. It came with an order from the pewers dis- missing nine men, who had just- finished congratulaiing themselves and -one an- ‘Other on their apparent good fortune assured by the introduction of civil ‘ser- vice' rules in the mints of the United States. .But this very: charige, so full.of blandishments for mint employes, proved their undoing. 2 Instead of finding their names placed on the civil-service roll, whereby life posi- tions would" be securet, nine nien in one department learned that their services wére no'longer required. . It came about in this way: A list of names .was prepared, under instrnctions from Washington, of. those .employes whose qualifications were supposed to en- titla them to recommendation as civil service officials. < S The list was prepared in due form and dispatched “to the Department of the noon. It'did mot include the names of nine men who believed themselves' abso- lutely secure. - 5 5 4 ° The whole matter his been kept very secrat, so much so that the names could not be ascertained yesterday. To_A. T. Spotts, who has charge of the coining department, the selectidbn of civil servants was left, and it appears that Su- perintendent Daggett, had little or nothirig to say about tHe matter. Spotts received his appointment from Washington, inde- pendentofthe Superintendént, and conse- quently was in a position to wield consid- erable authority without consulting other cificials in the Jocal establishment. 3 He is said to have swung his ax and ‘cut a wide swath in the ranks of faithful aa- berents of a branch of ‘the Democracy not wholly in harmony with his own particu- lar faction. And inthis wdy the forces of an opposing wing is- gieatly weakened.” The reason "assigned is that the nine names- were' not regommended for the good of the service, but this is pooh- poohed by some Mint attaches, who de- Treasury in Washington Thursday after- | clate that politics was the real considera- tion. . p Superintenderit Daggett did not like the change for various reascns. The men who are debarred from entering the civil service occupied regular positions and were not on the extra list. . More than that, it was believed they were positive of their selec- tion, and in the face of ‘this" genuine sur- prise followed the recommendation of others attached to the cotning-room under the extra coinage of silver provision. :IT 00STS MONEY. Charcoal That Is .Worth $12,000 a Pound. TUnited States-.Consul Norris at Ghent ‘has Teported ‘an_interesting fact to the State Departmerit rezazding the manufac- -ture of incandescent lamps. 1t is that the most expensive product in the world is the charcoal thread employed” in the lamps to furnish the light. This will be interesting news to the people who use electric light nightly without being cog- nizant of such a proximity of wealth. -_It is, for the most part, manufactured at Paris, and comes from the hands of an artist who desires his-name to remain .unknown in ordér to- betier protect the secret of manufacture. There have been many unsuccessiul attempts to learn this secretand fabulous stms have be'n of- fered to the manufacturers to divulge even the artist’s name. This product is sold at wholesale by the gramme, and reducing this price to the basts of pounds, it is easily found that the filaments for lamps of 20 candle-power are ‘worth $8000 per pound, and for the lamps *of 30 candle-power the fabulous sim of $12,000 per pound. 3 The former hive a diameter of twentv- thousandths of one millimeter, or 7874 ten-millionths, and the latter less than one-fifth of this size. The filaments for lamps of 3 candle- power are so light that it requires nearly 1,500,000 of them to weigh one pound. Placed end to end these 1,500,000 filaments would reach 187 miles. e e Seeing Your Own Ghost. The writer of this article bas been amus« ing himself with photographed ghosts, The first thing attempted was a picture of a man holding a conversation with him- self. The subject was posed before the camera as if holding an animated conver- sation, and piaced so as to be taken at on.e end of the plate. A black screen shielded the other end and pravented any image |-from bein g formed there. Aiter the exposare the screen was shifted and the subject was made to occupy a position where his image would be thrown on the newly exposed surface. The result was surprising, but slight differences.in light and inaccuracies in moving the screen produced a line of demarcation, which showed that soms trick had been resorted to and revealed the method of operation to any one familiar with photographic processes. Two figures photographed separately, cutout and pasted on a background i form a picture which was repiotographed make a much more satisfactory illusion, but, even with the most careful retouch- ing, they ofien fail to give a natural effect, and the figures do not seem to fit into their surroundings. ——e e e In His Line. He looked up from the paper. he had bren reading. #'There is a-statement here,” he said, to the effect that money isa drug on the market.” “Really ?” she exclaimed delichtedly. ‘Really,” he repeatedly mockingly. ‘Why, of course. “Wyat makes you so gay about it?” . Why, you'ré something of a pharma- t, aren't you?’ sbe asked.—Chicago Po: _— © Children Cry for Pitcher’s Castoria.