The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 16, 1897, Page 8

THE SAN FRA CISCO CALL, AY MAY 16, 1897 A AN WiTH HIS THROAT COT Breathes Through a Pipe That Opens Under His Cravat. «Has a Tube in His Side for Carrying Food to His Stomach. Peca'iar Predicament of an Inmate of the Almsbouse Who Sought to Ccmmit Suicide. Reddy has an exceedingly in- bject under his ci ge at the I the person of Capt terestin vha is a tall, slim, very nlikely looking'’ Two yearsa Yolo County, became d , tired of life, as he says, and ew a knife across b hroat. The wind- was severed. What medical service ood sfforded was called, | ved. He was afterward up there, where he Ia He was in a bad way ciently to admit of trav- brou to tnis City and | pale young man of ) he was working eight it | and panels which | not heip noticing them aund praising their beauty. “But they are not marbie,” said one whe knew ail about the builder’s shams. ““They are not evin stone. The highly polished columns are made of iron and decorated to imitate marble.” “But the surface feels L not at all like metal.”” “It is not metal nor is it stone,” was the exper/s reply. ““Over the surlace of the iron colunmin’ there is a coating, the chief | ingredient of which is powdered marble. | This coating is several inches thick and a solid, homogeneous mas ceptible to the highest polish; and wh it has been rubbed down and painted its | general appearance will deceive most | people.” el In the same building there are cornices | em to the casual ob- server masterpieces of the carver's art, but | the garlands and groups of fruits and flowers which appear to be stone and ivory and | olished wood are only plaster or pre- pared paper pulp coated with colors which aid in the work of deception. Ceilings | which represent great areas of carved and chiseled stone are only plaster, and the fluted columns surmounted by highly or- | nate capitals which stand near the great | make-believe monolitns may be unmasked | with the prick of a pin, and shown to be | piain, ordinary wood, disguised and mas- | querading under colors and tints artisti- | i | and | e stone, calty applied.—New York Tribune. GIRLS A8 OFFICE-BOYS Are Crowding Out the Novel Keading Youngster. The risinz generation of femininity has | been invadin fields hitherto regarded s peculiarly those of the boy, just as her older sister, the new woman, Lias been ac- | ceptably filling positions, situations and | professions whicn were formerly regarded as suitable only for the male sex. The | office-girl has appeared in Chicago the last few months to take her place beside the army of women stenographers and | typewriters, “Noone knows exactly who began the | innovation. Perhaps the idea was bore rowed from the biz Cepartment stores, | which employ cash girls almost exclu- | Dime | They | DANIEL BAYHA, Who Cut His { | | | | | | | Throat and Now Has a Tube in His Throat to Breathe Through and Another in His Side Connecting With His Stomach Through Which He Is Fed. sent to the the German Hospital. He could | only with great difficulty, and | greater difticulty was the thinnest | i ment administered to him. | orse, surgeon cf the hospital, recog- ject for his special care. ha entered theofficeof the Alms- house yesteraay 1n response to the call of | a visitor he presented the appearance de- | s that of a young man who might be lescing from a week or two’s ill- ness, rather thah one who had, in his at- | tempt at suicide, nearly cut his head off. | When spoken to he vlaced the forefinger right hand to his throat, undera | arf he wore about his neck, before re- plying. he finger had covered the end of a tubs that carried air to his lunes, and, open, wonid have vrevented him from epeaking. He has worn that tube for two_years since the operation in spital and has become entirely ac- ed to it. The wound in the neck e healed. A silver socket is held lsce by a string around the neck and th the tube connects with the t being possible by this means v e at will. But this is not the most remarkable thing about Mr. Bayha. The tube in the throat interferes with his eating, and for to remos a long time made it impossi For the purpose of giving him nourishment, therefore, another tube was inserted | directly through his sideinto his stomach. To this was attached a rubber hose about a foot and a half in length. For a long time after the operation Mr. Bayha's food was sdministered to him through this tube directly into the stomach. For some months past he has found it unnecessary 1o use th however, as conditions at his throat have so improved that ne can take semi-liquid food through the natural channel. Unable to work, Bayha has spent most of his time lately at the Almshouse. He is an interesting su t for madical stu- | dents, and is in frequent demand at clinics. He says that he hopes to be able | to get rid ol the stomach tuve, and if so declares his ability to earn his owu liyin; . He has entirelv recovered from his de- spondency, and, handicappea as he is, feels disposed 1o live as long as he may. MAKE-BELIEVE MATERTALS. | | Marble That Is Not Marble and Carved | ‘Wood That Is ot Wood. | Shams and imitations of all kindsare | placed upon the market, and the imita- | tions range in all branches and lines of | business, from skim milk which mas-| querudes as cream to the piece of glass which has to do service as a ‘‘real dia- | mond.” These frands are transparent to | a great part of the population, and the | sham jewelry, sham fur and the humbugs | generally are paimed off on that classof | the population which wonld rather have | an imitation than nothing, or upon -vhe1 rural visitor who lives in blissful ignorance | of many tricks of the various trades. But some of the great metropolitan buildings which have been erected recently have within their walls shams in the way of decorations, which are so well made, so artistically constructed, that they are looked upon as genuine by men to whom the average sham is an open book. In a building which was recently erected in the resident part of the city there are groups and columns which look to the casnal ob- server Jike shatts of highly colored marble, seamed ana veined so intricately and colored 50 harmoniously that a person | with 8] | agents or anything else, if they are able sively. A few yearsago these stores used to employ bovs, and cash girls were sel- dom seen. But in course of time the cash girls b came more and more popular, until the cash boy is now the exception, while the cash girl is the rule. Much the same transition is predicted in the ranks of office boys. The old- ashioned office boy, who swears, smok: cigarettes and is impertinent usually, an reads dime novels in a corner or loafs when he is tent on some important er- rand, is fast disappearing, and 1t is pre- dicted that in course of time the office girl will have entirely taken his place. Office girls are now emploved in a num- ber of the offices in the big buildings down town. The success of their sisters has | suggested the idea to other girls of invad- ing the field hitherto monopolized by their | brothers and earning more wuges than are | paid to the cash girl. Every now and then | a man who has put an adyertisement for | | an office boy in the paper finds among the | | applicants a letter from a girl, orif he | | asks that the boy apply in person one or | more girls are apt to be among the score of | youngsters who answer the aavertisement. | At first the man does not take kindly to | the idea, and the would-be office virl finds | it difficult work to secure place. The | men are prejudiced against the idea, just | as at first the men were prejudiced against the idea of employing women as steno- graphers or typewriters. Those who have bad office girls in their employ are, however, very well pleased with them, and most of them who have tried office girls declare that never again will they have an office boy around the | premises. Most of the office cirls are ambitious. They are like the office boy of agenera- tion or two ago who entered the employ | of his master with a determination to rise to the topmost notch. They realize that | in this day every occupation is open to them, and that they themselves may be lawyers, bankers, = brokers, insurance | 1o master the details of tne business. lhev therefore keep their eyes open and learn all that they can about the business, that they may put the ideas so gained into practice when there shall be an opportu- | nity, some years in the future, for them to | o into businessgof some sort for them- | selves. | Most o! the office girls immediately be- | gin to qualify themselves for promotion. They practice on the typewriter when they have a few momenis to spare, and 80 qualify themselves for situations as sten- ographers. Some of them have already learned enourh typewriting to gain an in- crease of salary and a position which cails | | for more typewriting and less of the office boy’s duties.—Chicago Times-Herald. . . Honesty Rebuked. After a cable-car conductor had passed me several times without asking for my fare I touched his arm and gave him a nickel. A few minutes later as I left the car I found him on the rear platform alone. *“Don’t ever do that again,” he said. *‘[fa conductor misses you don’t hunt him up. He doesn’t want yon to do it. 111 miss a passenger the chances are about even that no one wili_notice it ex- cept the fellow himself. But when he rushes up to pay a fare 1 have missed evervbody notices the fact that I have been negiigent, and if there is a ‘spotter’ aboard | lose my job. The next time save your nickel; it may help me save my po- sition.” By using electric lights at might on beds of lettuce, radishes, spinach and similar vegetables’ they are brought to maturing much faster than when this stimulant is preciation for the beautjful could | not employed. o | change in | over to the orphanage. | were instructed THE GRAND LODGE HAS ADJOURNED A Report on the Manage- ment of the Home at Thermalito. tuperintendent Bartlett, the Ma- tron, the Physician and the Nurse Must Go No Chinese Help to B: Empioyed C mmittees Name :—R-bekah; Install O.fic:rs. The Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows con- | cluded its labors last evening ana ad- journed until next year. A proposition looking to the establish- mentof an aged Oud Feliows’ fund was referred for action to the next Grand Lodge. The 0dd Fellows’ free employment bu- | reau reported that it had found places for 200 applicants, and that the co-t of main- | taining the bureau had been $315 for the year. George H. Morrison, P. G. M., chair- | man of the committee on the Odd IKel- lows’ Home, presented the report of the committee. The committee found that the home is in good condition, that the trustees administered its affairs con- scientiously and honesily, that the furni ture also is in good condition, but sug- gested that there should be a fire drill. It also recommended that there should be a the superintendent, matron, physician and nurse. Permission was given to Superintendent Bartlett to address the Grand Lodge, but he declined to make any statement. On motion of Trustee I'ox of the home the recommendations in the report were adopted. This will bring about the removal of Superintendent Bartlett, his wife the matron, Dr. Kar-ner the physician and Miss Steuart the nurse. The money in the home fund belonging to the Orphans’ Home s ordered paid This amounts to about $1700. A resolution wuas adopted to the effect that none but wuite labor be employed at the home, particularly in the laundry. The per capita tax for the maintenance of the home was ftixed at 50 cents. This will net $15,500, which together with $4000 on hand will make $19,500 to run the home for the ensuing year. In answer to a question as to why eighty acres of land belonging to the home are not utilized it was stated that the piece is fit only for citrus fruits, and t1hat it would | take a long time to make the land pro- | ductive, | were | would be $200 per acre. but if oranges and citrus fruits planted the product of the land It was resolved that the minimum of sick benefits should be only $2 per week after a sick member shall have received $300. Lhe trustees of the Odd Fellows’ Home to jurnish the Grand Lodge at each session an it mized ac count of moneys received and expended. It was deciced that an accused member of the order may be tried before the near- est lodge. The bonds of the grand secretary and grand treasurer were fixed at $10,000 each. The following appointed officers to- gether with the elective officers were in- stalled: A. F. flitchcock, grand chaplain; M. G. Gill, graod marshal; 8. F. Davidson, grand con- ductor; M.' Siiva, grand guard; M. P. Forbes, grand herald. After the installation Grand Representa- tive Maguire, on bebhalf of the Grand Lodge, presented to the retiring grand master & hand-ome jewel. The following comimnittee were named: Credentials—C. E. Mulloy, Willlam Shaw, George A. Atwood. Finance—S. N. Wicoff, J. F. Keunedy, Wil- then linm Nichols Jr., D. Becker, C.W. Wilkins, Correspondence—R. L. Anderson, George W. Lamont, W. K. McMulien. Legisiatio M. Estee, C. W. Baker, W. W. gden. Mileage—C. ackson, George A. Stefter, Oberdiner. . M. Haydén Printing—George F. A.S York. Degree of Rebekah—H. D. Richardson, E. E. Overnoltzer, John Jackson, J. F. Thompson, N. D. Dutcher. ‘Appeals — Davis Louderback, George B. Deane, W. W. Wilson, 8. G. Kellogg, Grove L. Johnson. Petitia aw, J. L. Robinette, lex Brown, E. B. Rich, W. P. Schlosse-, G. W. McCabe, W. H. Clark. Laws< of suboriinates—M. G. Moses, A. J. Cleary, Georgs H. Morrison, M. Rosenthal, H. L. Bugle State of the order—S. B. Smith, samuel F. Smith, F. E Whitney, lotti, H. Lloyd, L M. Ange! EE o THE REBEKAHS. Close of thes Sesslon—Installation of the Elected and Appolinted Officers. The State assembly of the Rebekahs closed its session at 4 o’clock yesterday afternoon, ana in the langnage of Secre- tary Mrs. Mary E. Donoho *'it was a ses- sion that has been extremely beneficial to the order, for we obtained all that we asked for.” Dulrng the day there was considerable discussion on matters strictly within the order, the result of which will be trans mitted to the lodges through the proper channels. At the murnini session C. W. Whesler of the Grand Lodge of Washington paid the assembly a visit and delivered a very interesting and entertaining address. Just before the close of the afternoon ession James L. Benson, an old-time Odd Fellow, was admitted and the assembly degree was conferred upon him. The following-named officers were duly inatalled: Mrs Minerva Karsner of Oroville, president: Dell C. Savage of Livermore, vice-president; M. Carpenter of Ukiah, warden; Mrs. Mary E. Dinoho of San Francisco, secretary; Neliie Mitehell of Grass Valley, marshal; Alma I. Jensen of ancisc, conductor; Aunie B. Crocker of Suisun, cnaplain; Mrs. Wollp- heimer of San Diego, inside guard; Mrs. Abbie Davidson of Fort Jones, outside guard. The following committees were named : Credentials—Mrs, Wycoff, Julta Bartells, Abbie E. Drew. State of the Order—Carrie A. Kingsley, Mrs. | Granger, Martha Snow. Legislation—Miss Fannie Benjamin, Carrie Alken, Nora Ost:rhout, Kate Talbot, Cora C. Taber. Petitions—Jennie Eardley. Alvara Pope, Alice Lockwood, Eiizateth Coster, Josie Shields. Finance—Anna Forbes, Lydia Stee’e Mollie E. McCollister, Minnie Dewitt, Susan Js\lma. The retiring and rew officers were each | presented with bunches of beautiful flow- ers, after which the session adjourned. TW0 LAWYERS' BILLS. Attorneys Whitworth and Rothschild Sue Former Clients for Fees. Attorney John M. Whitworth thinks that his client, John F. More, has not been sufficiently liberal in the payment of fees and has sued for a balance ot $12,021 40 alleced to be due. Mr. Whitworth has assigned his claim to Lioyd P. Larue for collection. It is alleged in the complaint that Mr. More |employed Mr. Whitworth to rqmn.nl | bim 1n the somewhat noted litigation in- | | volved in the settlement of the William P. More $1,000,000 estate, in which John F. More appeared as one of his hei Mr. Whitworth so ably represented the interests of his client that he secured tne sppointment of said client as general ud- ministrator of the estate of Alexander P. More, a position that will yeid good fees; yet taid ciient has paid only $3000 as at- torney’s fees, and though often requested 10 do so has declined to pay any more. He will be called on 1o justify bis refusal in_court. John H, Wise was not able to agree upon the jee demanded by Joseph Roths- child, his attorney, in ‘ome important litigation and so suit has bzen brought on behalf of the attorney to collect the debt. Mr. Rothschild claims $1500. ——— OHTRCH-GOING IN ICELAND. Back-Ceuntry ¥olk Who Travel Many Miles to Divine Worship. Jessie Ackerman, in the fourth of her articles on “Three Women in Iceland,” in the January Woman’s Home Companlon, tells how she attended a country church in the northern part of the island. ““The Sabbath day was full of interest, for we had not attended service in the rural districts. In the early morning we betook ourselves to the front of the house to watch the country folk assemble. Ih the distance we saw tbem fording the river in a long line, and in the other direc- tion men, women and children rode slow.y over the mountains down to the farm. “What the sabbath day means to these people few can realize. Some of them never see a fuce besides those of the mem- vers of the family from one church day until the other.” What wonder, then, toat they began to assemble fully two hours before charch time! A peculiar form of salutation prevails outside of the cities. With this we had not yet been made familiar, and our astonishment can well be imagined when we saw the men dismount, embrace and kiss each other. I learned later that this is the only form of salutation among men in the inland dis- triets, “‘The hour of service arrived, and, in company with the preacher, who wore a high hat, a loose, flowing gown buttoned irom chin to hem, and a great white E'iza- beth ruff around his neck, we entered the church. From the back seat we had full view of the congregation, and, not being familiar with the language, the time was Ppassed in meditation on the situation. “In the pulpit the pastor was assisted into a long, white robe, which fell over the black one, and down his back hung a large surplice of bright velvet, upon which a golden cross was wrought. On tne altar two great candles about a yard long and three inches thick shed a dim light. These were the especial charge of an offi- cial who gave out the hymus, and between times snuffed the candles with an old- time pair of ‘snuffers.’ After church the worshipers dispersed and many of them did not reach their homes until night.” —————————— WARDROBE OF AN EMPEROR. K r Wiltiam’s Is Probably the Most Extensive in the World. Tt is not easy for the average person to form an idea of the dimensions of the wardrobe of him of Germany. Some sort of the li-t of bis possessions in this respect has recently been made out, and from this it appears that, to begin w:th,his‘ Majesty possesses a uniform of every regi- | ment in the Prussian army, with tbe hel- mets, caps, epaulets, swords, etc., en suite. Over and above this, the Emperor, being the head of an endless number of | regiments in Bavaria, Wurtemburg, Sax- ony, Baden and Hesse, a complete uni- | form of each of these hangs in his clothes | presses. But this is not all. Two rooms | at the palace in Beriin are entirely filled with uniforms of the regiments in Austria, Sweden, England, Italy and other coun- tries which “beiong to” William IL To these must be added the uniforms of the admirals of the British and the Swedish fleets. As for the clothes which the Emperor wears when heis not en grande tenue, these also are bewildering in number. There are the ordinary suits for the morn- | ing, noon and night, during the warm and cold seasons; the hunting suitsand uni- forms, which latter the Emperor has in- troduced for the use of himself and his courtiers; the uniforms of the English and German yacht clubs, lawn tennis clubs, ete. To each suit belong special hats, gloves, cravats and canes. The Em- peror's body linen is, again, especially | made to ‘'go with” the various suits of clothes, and there are whole packing-cases full of the pins, rings, studs, ete. The keeper of this private ‘‘museum,’”’ wko is, asarule, a superannuated valet, has under kim a number of men well versed in the art of the needle. Thesedo | what little mending there is to be done, in the way of sewing on buttons, braids and ornaments. But though his Ma y has so extensive a wardrobe he is most parsimonious concerning it, and the un forms specially are treated with great con- sideration. New collars and cuffs are added three or four times to the ordinary uniforms belore a coat is ‘‘done wit,"’ and not an article of clothing is ever wasted. The German and other foreign orders in the Emperor's possession are estimated at £50,000, and when the ‘‘traveling Em- peror”’ goes abroad there are among his luggage some iron cases containing a selec- tion_of_orders representing the sum of £3000.—Westminster Budget. Y o Sy NO BOTTOMLESS LAKES, The Deepest Aro Less Than 2500 Feet, and One of Them Is in Oregon. The deepest body of fresh water in America Is Crater Lake, Oregon. Only nel in the world—Lake Baikal—ex- ceeds it in depth, and is only 400 feet deeper. Until recently it was asserted Jrater Lake was bottomless, but sound- ings have shown its greatest depth 1o be 2000 feet. It is' five miles in diameter, nearly circular, and occupies the crater of an extinet voleano. No fish has ever been known to exist in Crater Lake. Recently a ciub of mountain climbers, with headquarters at Portland, sent 10 Washingion a request that Crater Lake be stocked with trout, and the Gov- eroment experts are going to find out1f such a scheme is practicable. It is easy enough to puttrout into the water, but the question is if there is sufticient food in the water 1o nourish them after they are there. The experts wili tow small gauze nets over the water at all hours of the day. Animaicul® will catch in the gauze and from its abundancs or lack it can be ascer- tained if the water coulains nourish- ment. An interesting series of experiments will be undertaken to ascertain the ter- perature of the water at various depths. No such observations have ever been taken of fresh water so far down. With this end in view a full equipment of self- registering thermometers and supplemen- tary apparatus will be taken s/00g and let down by sounding lines. There are very few places in the lake where the depth is less than 1600 feet and no lake on the western hemisphere approaches this. It is no wonder, then, that Crater Lake was supposed to be bottomless. However, truth is that all lakes over 150 feet P possess a similar reputation. Any body of water that is deeper than the length of the longest feeling-line is sure to lack & botiom in the popular belief. A first-rate example of this sort of delusion is afforded by Fayette Lake, in ldaho. [t was formerly im- agined to he bottomless, and later its depth was officially stated to be 2000 feet, Recent investigation proves that its gre: est depth is 305 feet. “They are no duta on which to base a guess as to the boitom temperature of Crater Lake, but the sup- position is that it will be very little above freezing. The temperature of the ocean remains at about 40 degrees Fabhrenheit all the year round, even in the tropics. Nevertheless, some volcanic heat mav yet remain to warm the waters of Crater Lake. —Chicago Daily News. —————— ADVANCES made on jurniture anda pianos, with or without removal. J. Novnan, 1017-1028 Mission, MISSION PECPLE | TALK PARK The Former Site of the Old Jewish Cemeteries Is Recommended. Another Boulevard Proposed Along Ancient Dolores Street. Hospital Site to Be Made Wholesome With Lawaos and Blooming Flowers. The subject of a park for the Mission on the site of theold Jewish cemeteries, oron a site of greater dimensions with a zoological collection attached, was fully discussed at the meeting of the Mission Improvement Union last night. Judge F. W. Van Keynegom stated that the sentiment of the meeting was to have a park in the thickly populated section, in which the women and children could en- joy the sunshine and fresh air without the expense or trouble of paying car fare. By the way of illustrating how vretty the grounds would look if laid. out in an artistic manner Professor Hansen, a «cenic gardener from the State University, exemplified on charts his ideas of ths beautiful. Dr. Jobn H. Miller spoke. Hs: was de- cidedly cpposed to the greater-park scheme, with wild animals at a distance from the homes of those for wnom the park was originally intended. He claimed that a tract of land beyond Thirtiath street would not be a park for the Mission residents any more thun it would 1or the people of Oakland. George D. Shadbourne, one of the prime movers for the greater park, gave a his- tory of the prograss of the City during the past twenty-five years and said that in twenty-five more years there would be 1,000,009 inhabitants in this City. Then there would be a necessity for larger parks. He favored the zoological collec- tion. Ex-Supervisor Hobbs strongly favored the lesser park. Thomas F. Hagerty favored the ceme- tery lots. He paid his respects to the rail- road company, which, he said, was behind the scheme of locating a park where the people would be induced to buy outside lands. Poulice Judge Low also favored the cema- tery park, where the children and their mothers could go in the evenings. C. W. Mark offered the following resolu- tion, which was opposed by Major B. Mc- Kinnie and T. V. O'Brien. A. P. Van Duzer, in a humorous speech, pictured the mis-ry of the elephant out in the fog. The giraffe and other animals | would have the whooping-cough, while the lfons and tigers would make night nideous with their lamentations. A. W. Thompson closed the debate, after which the resolutions were carrie by an ov-rwhelming majority. The following are the resolutions: WHEREAS, The residents and property-own- ers of the Mission district of San Francisco sre entirely aestitute of local parks or public | squares, and are fully convinced that such piaces of open-air resort within the thickly populated portion of the Mission, where nearly one-third of the population of San Francisco heve their homes, are daily bscoming a more Iimperative necessity for the health, comfort and enjoyment of | the residents of that part of San Francisco; | and whereas, the growih of this part of San Francisco most favored by climatic influences will leeve no land available 1or use as such parks except al a1 enormous expense unless prompt action is taken by the City authorities 1o secure the same. Therefore be it. Resolved, By the residenis and taxpayers of the Mission {n public meeting assembled, that the ho able Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco are hereby respectfully rcquested 1o make provision for a reasonble ~appropriation in the next tex levy to provide ome or more small parks within convenient walk- ing distance of the homes of the district, where women and children can resort to en: juy the open air and sunshine, without the hecessity of payiug carfare to reach aistant ports of the City possessing a less genial cli- mate. Itis further Resolved, That we respectinlly recommend tlie two blocks of [and between Eighteenth and Twentieth, Dolores and Church streets, and lying in iront of the Mission High School, now being erected, being within ten min- utes' walk of 30,000 residents, bo secured by the City for one of such parks, if the same can be purchased for & rea- souable price, and that Dolores street, which runs along the frout of said blocks. should be improved as a “‘Mission boulevard” with flow- ers and shrubbery aiong the ceuter thereof, it is further Resolved, That the block of land mow occu- pied by the City and Connty Hospital should De converted iato a public garden or park, and that the City should take the legal steps necessary to assert its title 10 the strip of land lying between Mission and West Mission streets and take possession: of the same for & like purpose. Itis further Resoived, That tue secretary of this meeting be instructed to at once forward a copy of these resolu'ious to the Board of Suparvisors of this city and county. THE SARMAZAOHY GOSPEL. A Sixth Century Greek Manuscript in the St. Petersburg Library. The other day the Emperor Nicholas IT made the Public Imperial Library at St. Petersburg a very valuable present, viz., the Sarmazachy Gospel, written on pur- ple parchment, a Greek manuscript gos- pel of the sixth century, not a whit infe- rior in scientific value to the Sinai Bible of the fourth century, which is one of the older treasures of the library, or to the Ostromir Gospel of the year 1057. Till lately it has been in the possession of the settlement of Sarmazachi, near tne Cap- padocian Ceesarea, in Anatolia. In 1895 the Russiun archwologist Smir- nov traveled in Anatoha, saw the gospel and reported on it at once to the Russian Archaological Institute in Constantinople. Haste was necessary, for Englishmen and Americans had intended for four years past to buy the rare manuscript, and had —_—e NEW TO-DAY. Are given careiul atten- tion by us. Reaiizing the ruin that may result from the use of wrong glasses, and knowing the good that comes from proper, fitted ones, we are ex- tremely carefnl and ac- curate in such matte: We carefully examine your eyes atany time free ot any caarge. A. NORDMAX Standard Optical [ =17 Kearny St., S y offered the above-mentioned com- munity £1200 for it. 'The Jatter wished, however, that the precious manuscrint sbould not pass into any but orthodox hands. Tke Archwmological Institute in- formed the Public imperial Library at St. Petersburg of the precious discevery, but its means were too limited to permit its keepers to entertain the thouzht of buying the treasure. Then the Russian Embassidor, M. da Nelidoff, applied to the Grand Duke Constantine Constantino- vich, president of the Imperial Academy of Science, with the request that ha would draw the attention of the Czar to the rare manuscript, and immediately a'ter orders were given to buy it for his Majesty. It is an interesting fact that there was talk for some time in the spring of pre- santing the Sa.mazachy Gospel to the Emperor as a coronation gift. It is writ- ten in letters of silver, in two columns of sixteen lines, on finely wrought red parch- | ment of a slightly violet tinge. words *'God” and ‘‘Jesus Christ” and the titles of the various sections are written in letters of go!d. Unfortunately, in the course of centuries more than half of the precious leaves have been lost. It is wri' ten on 182 leaves, which now rest in a book cover made in 1820 The Russian Archzological Institate in Constanti- nople examined it, and found that it forms an important part of tbe famous Purple Gospel which T'schendorf desig- nated as Purple Codex N, and of which omly forty-five leaves have hitherto been known. Six of them are in the Vai can Library, two in Vienna, four m Lon- don and thirty-three in the Convent of John the Divine in the isiand of Patmos. It was further ascertained that many leaves were wanting, even so long ago as the twelfth and tourteenth centuries. The above-mentioned leaves found their way to the Vatican and to Vienna in the seven. teenth century. The complete manuscript must have con sisted of forty-nine stitched partsof ten | sheets each. Very few mazuscripts on pur- ple parchment have come down to our time. It is, therefore, easy to understand how bighly they are valued, and the Sar- mazachy Gospel 1s also especially import- ant in fextual and palmological respects. The very high importance attached to the Purple Codex in Lurope is ciear from the fact (if from no other) that tne Vatican Library presented Leo XIII, with six splendidly mounted leaves of it on his jubiles day. The Sarmazachy Gospel is venerated by the population of Anatolia as a sacred thing, and belore it was sent to the Russian embassy at Constantinople large numbers of the inhabitants went to show their reverence for it for the last time.—London Standard. — The Once Lofty Alleghanies. It is well known that our Appalachian Mountains were_once very much higber than the Rocky Mountains of tc-day, and that the reason why they are now com- paratively low mountains is simply that they are very old, and have besn worn down by denudation. The same destruc- tive influences are still degrading them, very slowly as we measure ordinary time, Only the | to lower levels. We know that cl are constantly going on in the physical condition of the earth’s crust, but these changes are so slowly accornplished that they can scarcely be observed, in many | cases. in an ordinary lifetime. In the | coming ages students of physiology will have a great advantage over those of to- day; for the art of accurately delineating the surface of the earth by means of con- toured maps is a comparatively recent !invention. Hundreds of years irom now | the physiographers wiil be able to learn | from the maps we are makin: now ex- | sotly what the surfece features of iarze areas were in our time, and it will be easy to make instructive comparisons with features as they find them.—New the same York Sun. e THE OLDEST ENGLISH PAPER. It Is the Bondon ‘‘Gazette’ | Xirst in 1665, The oldest English newspaper is, though few people know it, the Lundo? Gazette, | which was, on its hrst publication on No- vember 14, 1665, known as the Oxford G zette, from the fact of the Parliament sit- ting at Oxford. This name was changed, on February 5, 1668, to the present one. But though the London Gazette contains | some items of much interest to certain people, such as those who have received “honors” at the hands of royalty, or those whose bankruptcies are announced, it is not & newspaper in the usual seuse of the | term; that is, as being read generally by | the public. The honor of being the oldest newspaper | of this class in the British Isles, and hence | probably in the world, may be’ unhesitat- | ingly awarded to Berrow’s Worcester Journal, which made its appearance in | 1690, ten years vefore the beginning of the | eighteenth century. It has always had a wide circulation among the higher classes | ot its district, and is to-day as vigorous as ever. But wheu it first came out it was not under its present name, and this fac- {tor is of imporiance in considering its claim to the premier honors of the journal istic world. Perhaps we ought to sward the palm of being the doyen of English journals to the Lincoln, Rutland and Stamford Mercury still published weeklv at Stamford, This paper, has now, as ever, a truly great cir- culation and an enormous influence in the | Eastern Midland District. Its title is ex- actly the same lo-day as it was on the day it was tirst published 174 years ago. Hence this important factor should almost assign to it the first place among extant news- papers. There is in the Leicester Museum a copy of the 1719 issue consisting of four pages demi quarto, its style that of the old news letter. In July, 1855, its circulation had become 14,000 a 'week, the highest at that time of any paper out of London. Its | price was tnen twopence, but is now a | penny with a circulation of 25,000 weekly. Thomas Cooper, the famous Chartist poet, was on its staff in his younger days. The political compiexion “of this celebrated | paver is L 'beral.—Answers —Published NEW TO-DAY. CURES TELL. What Has Been Can Be Do TE ARE LIVING V tions, many of which seem almost miracu'ous. Done for Others ne for You. IN AN ERA OF NEW DISCOVERIES AND NEW INVEN- Devices and conveniences that would a quarter of acentury ago have been looked upon as impossibilities are now regarded us every-day, machine, telephone, phonograph, kinetoscope, etc. kept up a merry race for supremacy a medicine, the most important one of al as great if ot greater advances than any tier-ol-fact necessities of life, Of a few are the type-setiing While the ar:s and sciences have nd leadership in the matter of progress, its relation to the buman race, has made other. While formerly the treatment of disease was in many particulars a matter of experiment, it is now an accurate science | by reason of the valuable researches of the on the beneficent work of the State Electro-Medical Institute. this institution has been one of constant progress and triumph over disease. sick people whose cases had been pronouncec been permanently cured by the electro-medical treatment. distinguished physicians who are. earrying The entire career of Many hopeless by well-known physicians have In seeking the services of the eminent specialists of this Institnte the sick and <uvffering can feel assured beyond ail doubt that they are taking no chances or making no experiments. Institute doctors tell & patient they can cu vouched for now by thousands of grateful by this new treatment. ‘When the always do cure. This truth is ho have been restored to heaith re him th patieuts, ADMINISTERING TO A PATIENT WITH THE STATIC ELECTRIO MACHINE AT THE STATE ELECTRO-MEDICAL INSTITUTE. The secret of this mastery of disease is a simple one. They have by study lng cesearch originated a well-defined svstem of treatment, combining electricity medicine, known as the “Electro-Medical” treatment, which has made so many wonderful curt short period of six months. tricity alone would have failel. Thus the the same degree of progress in the healing decade in the other sciences. A step has been taken ahead of the times. hat the State Electro-Medical Institute has become celebrated in the It has made cures when either medicine alone or elec- combined Electro-Medical treatment marks science that has been made within the past Physicians who have been content to work on ancient lines and plod along in the one old rut and use none but remedies and appliances of a century ago may scoff at the progressive, up-to-dute physician; but the latter is the one who cures, and, consequently, the one whom the sick are looking for. 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