The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 18, 1897, Page 22

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JULY 18, 1897 JULY 18,1897 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDUE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: snd Sunday CALx, one week, by carrler. .80.18 nd Sunday CALL, one year, by mail.... 6.00 Daily end Sunday CALL, six months, by mail.. 3.00 Duily and Sunday CAL1, three months by mail 1.0 Daily and Sunday Cary, obe month, by mall.. .8 €unday CaLy, one year, by mall.. . 150 W BAKLY CALL, one year, by msil. . 160 BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, #an Francisco, Californis. Telsphone . Maln—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: b Clay Streew Telephone, BRANCH OFFICES: 527 Montgomery s:reet, coraar Ciay open uatll 9:80 o'clock. 389 Hayes street; open until §:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open until 9:80 o'clock. EW. corner Sixteentl and Mission sireeis, Open ©ntil 8 o'clock. 2618 Mission 167 Ninth stree 1805 Polk stree streeta; open Lill § o’ o2, open until 9 o’clock. open until 9 o'clock. ock. OAKLAND OFFICB: $U8 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 31 and 52. 34 Park Row, New Yorx Clty+ DAVID M. FOLTZ, Eastern Manager. — THE éALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. THE SUMMER MONTHS. Areyoa golng 10 the country ona vacaton * Tt #0, 1t 18 no trouble for us to forward THE CALL t0 your address. Do not let it miss you for you will miss it. Crders given to the currier or left at Business Office will recelve prompt sitention. NO EXTRA CHAKGE. Fifty conis per monih for summer months. — e McKinley must come. Every President should see California. San Francisco was never in a more re- ceptive mood than right now. It is the duty of Congress to serve the tariff pudding before it gets cold. The European concert continues to oe- cupy the theater of war, but hasn't decided yet what sort of show it w.ll give. This 13 a2 good day to t. a look at your {avorite site for the Mission park and see how beautifully it can be laid out. The rush to Alaska wiil be another case | of “P:ke’s Peak or bust,” and, asin the former case, busts will be plentiful. It is said Mrs. Lease lost her following in Kansas be ause sheadopted a new style of bonnet after her visit to New York. 1f McKinley is to come as the advance agent of prosperity to this coast he must burry up lor the prosperity is coming fast. The only consolation we can find for all the troub.e we have had in the making of the new tariff is that it will be well done when it is done. The American commissioners are getting near enough to arranging for an interna- tional agreement on the money question | to disturb the Bryanites mightily. A settlement of the miners’ strike and | the passage of the tariff bill are among the things this week may bring by way of belping slong the advancement of pros- perity. Hugh Craig is an 1deal president for the Trans-Missis-ippi Congiess, as no man is more devoted 1o Western interests or has A clearer knowledge of what those inter- ests are. The glory of Guerneville this week has been bright enough to atiractattention everywhere, and hereafter she will be | always included among the festal cities of the State. s The story that Europe will prevent the const tion of the Nicaragua canal by the United States passes as a current rumor of the siily season, but it never will be history. Vietoria declares she will continue to pray for ability to discharge her duties as Queen “as lonc as life lasts,” and Wales is not feeling as gay as he did during the jubilee. We call our weather ‘heavenlv,” but many of our Eastern visitors who came here with their summer clothes found it 80 cold in the evenings they insist on call- ing it *‘unearthly.” A New York woman recently got a di- vorce from her husband, married snother man and then went into partnership with her first husband 1n an advertising agency. That beats Chicago. Once more an American has won the diamond sculls at the Henley regatta, and once more the British declare the stroke and the action of the winner were not in accord with Henley form. 1f the Government is to undertake the construction of armor-plate there should be a plant on the Pacific coast as weil as on the Atlantic. We are in the Union and should share in all the Union has. The report that Cleveland has been offered the presidency of the University of Virgin:a is probably intended to coun- teract : ny ramor that the university was affected much by Bryan's speech to the students. Since Russian convicts sent to Siberia can now be transported most of the way by rail the wayside vrisons in whieh they were locked at night on their march in former times are to be convertsd into schoolhouses. The Czar is improving ‘| aims. TrHE CALL has within the last few days large.” . THE TALK OF BUSINESS MEN. secured the testimony of many witnesses to the reality of business prosperity. Extracts from the encouraging remarks of bankers and zien in many lines of business have been published in these columns and they all show trade reviving, collections gocd, and money plentiful. Asone of these e;lthusiasticully puts it, “our orders are immense, business is brilliant and A notable feature of these remarks from our merchants Is that some of them say that business is better than for many years, and “yet this is generally our dull time.’ This is of course a doubling of the value of a favorable report, for if tradeis so brisk in the very dullest serson of the year it is pretty sure to be as big as our energies can possiblx handle when tte fall trade fairly opens. Listen to this rebuke to pessimists: “We bave never seen the time when our bills have been more promptly paid than they are now.” Itisa report from the manager of one of the prominent industries of the City. When people begin to pay up then calamity is played out. The settling up of accounts in full restores contidence and confidence is the foundation of prosperity. No one can say truthfully this wave of prosperity is confined to those who are strong in wealth, for our investigation hasextended over every department of business. From the reports of savings banks it is plain that people of small means are getting along well. The number of small depositors, it is said, has never been greater than now. This is one of the best proofs we can have of better times among the masses of the veople. In regarl to this matter of small savings it is worth noting that one of the banks reports there are a surprising number of laboring people coming in between 7 and 8 o’clock Saturday night to make deposits. The improvement, moreover, is not only in the City, for the banks say the country people are paying their interest becter than they have done in four or five years. The single note of complaint in all these reports is about the delay in the passage of the tariff bill, but in this matter it is not likely we will have long to wait, gether the promise is thoroughly assuring Alto- that prosperity is within our grasp. The trumpet gives no uncertain sound, and the whole communiiy oi workers should rouse to gain the advantages of that returning prosperity which is now rising to glad- den men in every portion of the Republic. CHARLES F. OROCKER. The death of Colonel Charles ¥. Crocker is to California a loss of something more than & man conspicuous for wealth and social position. It iy the loss of a citizen of great force of character, high executive ability, untarnished honor and of known devotion to the welfare of the State and of its industries and all who are engaged in them, Colonel Crocker was born to great weaith. Hainherited a fortune so ample as to raise him high in the rank of the world’s riches! men. Had his nature peen indolent or his tastes inclined either to luxury or to any of the thousand en- ticements which lead to the dissipation of | the eaergies of mind and body, he could have had at his will all of such things the “ great capitals of nations afford. It isa | proof of the sterling quality of his man- hood that he preferred abova ail the en- joyments of London or Paris or New York a life ot earnest work in San Francisco, | where his time, his energy and his wealth were employed in the upbuilding of the | commonwealth out of which his fortune was derived. The work accomplish:d by Colonel Crocker was for the most part involved in the general work of the vast corporation of the Southern Pacific Company. It was not distinguishable from the point of view of outsiders from work accomplishad by other high officials of the corporation. Only those on the inside can know what | his influence was in shaping the policy | of the orginizatior, and what his energy achieved in the way of advancing and im- proving that great transportation system, which is ore of the marvels of the indus- | trial history of our time. Enough, how- ever, has been evident to the public to | make it certain that he was always favor- | able to a liberal policy in everything that tended to promote the welfare and the industriss of the people. Even bad Coionel Crocker’s vork been less than it was the very fact of his resi- dence here would have been a benefit to | the community. The inheritors of so | many of the large fortunes acquirad In California have gone abroad to live tnat the annual withirawal of their incomes has been a serious drain on the State. It is, therefore, & merit in Colonel Crocker that his ambitions tended to the conduct of business and the direction of large enterprises in the making of our new commonwealth, and from this merit Cali- fornia has profited 10 a greater degree than it would Le easy to estimate. In these days when there is so much clamor of class strile in America it 1s worth noting that rich men of the charac- ter of Colonel Crocker set an oxample which it wou!d be well if all millionaires would follow. There was nothing in his nature of that “purseprond” arrogance and domination which have excited the antagonism of the people and made the word *‘rlutocrat” a term of offense in our politics. Colonel Crocker was popular with all classes. He was himseif a work- er, a Californian, a patriot. proachable by all men. Helistened will- ingly to others, interestea himself in their work and sympathized with their He made his weaith a means of enlarged usefulness and of bountiful charity, and throughout all the courses of a busy life was ever trus to every duty that arose. THE GLORY OF GUERNEVILLE The festival at Guerneville is not to be overlooked in the general mass cf news of the past week. It brougnt to the tront a new competitor in the ranks of the festival cities of California and has atizacted to Guerneville an attention which will be profitable 1o the locality in many ways. It is only a few years since Guerneville was almost wholly desiroyed by fire and it is significant of the energy and the en- terprise of the people that they have not only rebuilt their town better than it was He was ap- things. Professor Andree has made & good start on his bailoon voyage to the north pole end is perhaps already considering in his mind whether on his arrival at the spot he will dsscend from the balloon by slid- ing down the pole or jumping with a parachute. The Germans seem to have found a way of settling the old question, “Who shall decide when doctors disagres?’ Two phy- sicians at Bonn disagreed as to the proper treatment of a case, and decided to leave the dispute to the arbitration of a duel. One was killed instantly, and we regret to add the dispatches have not informed us whether or not the other succeeded in saving the patient. One of the most provoking features of the time is the renewal of the contest be- tween Santa Monica and San Pedro. The issue invoived has been passed upon by a Government commission, and that should have closed the controversy. If we are ever to have a deep-water harbor at that section of the coast we must at some time decide the location for it. To wrangle foraver over the site is to postpone for- ever the construction of the harbor, before but have felt themselves sufficiently rich and prosperous to engage in holiday- making, accompanied by a vageant of such brilliancy as to entail a considerable expenditure of money. Men of this stamp are those of whom California delights to boast and we can proudly point tothe g ory of this carnivel, arising swiltly from the ashes of a burned city, as an evidence that the Californians *“‘ever with a frolic welcome take the sunshine and the storm.” Guerneville bas many attractions asa | festival city. If the people there under- take a brilliant display of this kind every year they will soon win a fame which will extend not only to every section of Cali- fornia but throughout the West. The town will become a noted resort for pleasure-seekers during the summer sea- son, and certainly there is no locality which, either by its nataral beauties or by reason of the hospitality and social at- tractions of its people, is better fitted to provide a welcoma and a delighitul en- tertainment for all who come. —_— It is doubtful if Weyler could pacify the Cubans now even by leaving the island and agreeing not to write a book. F00D ADULTERANTS. In his lecture at the Wright Summer School of Economics and Husbandry on Friday last, Professor M. E. Jaffa af the State University made several important and very interesting statements with rei- erence to food adulterations. He divided the latter into two main classes, one harm- ful and poisonous, the other harmless but deceptive. The harmful adulterants were shown to be all the more dangerous be- cause tasteless, and they are only dis- closed by analysis. “They are chiefly antiseptics,’” said the lecturer, “being generally used as preser- vatives, killing bacteria and preventing molds.” In all the digestive juices, how- ever, are lerments which assist in the process of digestion, and these are killed by the antiseptics and the digestive pro- cess is thus arrested. They are of course especially dangerous for invalids and per- sons of weak digestion.” In the cities it appears that there1sa strong demand by purchasers of dried | fruit for that which hasthe lignt, bleached color. This dried fruit has been sul- rhured to give it that popular color, and the dangerous sulphurous acid is present in the article. Itis therefore advised that uncolored or unbleached fruit b» beught in preference to the bleached. Farmers keep out the uncolored dried fruit for their own use, but their dried fruit must be bleached, they find, to sell with profit in the big markeis, The popular notion seems to be that light-colored fruit is cleaner and more healthiul, and light fruit will sell readiiy at higher prices than the uncolored” product, which has been pre- p:r2d with equal care, but without the use of sulphur. The minds of the dwell- ersin cities should be disabused of this false idea, The fruit-growers, it would seem, are simply compelled to bleach cer- tain dried fruits in order that they may secure a market, and the coloring is done in responsa to a positive demand, not to considar which would be ruinous to their interests, A pleasing appearance is al- ways a rather tempting bait, but appear- ances are often deceptive, in dried fruit as well as in other things. Professor Jafta lays down as a good principle to observe that. no element should be introduced into the system that is not naturally found there, and the antizeotics most commoaly used—salicylic acid, sulphurous acid, boracic acid and formalin or callerin—*‘are not found there unless introduced by the ignorance or dishonesty of man.” Among what are termed ‘“harmless adulterants’” are placed those which are used in oleomargarine and filled cheese. People want to know what they are pur- chasing, however, and while no harm can come irom the mauufacture and use of these products, the failure to comply with the legal restrictions regarding th»ir sale is a fraud on buyersand honest producers, and any infringement of the law should, upon discovery, be followed by prompt punishment of the offender. Bome very commendable work has thus far been done in the enforcement of the pure food laws of this State, but merely a bezinning has been made. There is no excuse for wholesale adulterations in canned goods in the scientist’s declara- tion that ‘“the cause of any trouble which may arise from the use ot canned goods is in the way they are put up and notin adulterations,”” When people call for a certain kind of fruit jelly they don’t want to be given a compound prepared from a chemist’s formula and containing a lie on its label. Honest goods with honest abels are what the people want, and what the law contempiates they shall have when they make purchases, The approaching pure-food exhibit of the Mechanics’ Institute will be of great assistance in the endeavor to ultimately drive out of the market all dele:erious and impure foods, and all libels vpoa food substances, whether such libels be harm- less or injurious to health. The battle for pure foods cannot be too vigorously prosecuted. THE EUREKA WATER FRONT. The dispatch published in yesterday’s CarL to the effect that the Secretary of War had transmitted to Congress a favor- able report on the proposed plan to dredge along the city front of Evreka, in Hum- boldt harbor, will be gratifying news to the people of Eurekn and to all interested shippers. It mesansa great deal to that city aud to commerce. The report in guestion was prepared by Captain Cassius E. Gillette, of the Gov- ernment engineer corps, who shows that Eureka is the principal shipping point of the territory mainly benefited by the im- provements now going on at the entrance to Humboldt harbor; that the bulk of the commerce which seeks that harbor goes to Eureka; and that the available depth of the bar at present is twanty-two feet, whereas vessels drawing fifteen feet or thereabout have difficulty in making a landing on account of lack of depth im- mediately in front of the wharves. Itis declared that the improvement in this latter respect is one that should undoubt- edly be made, and that the only question which arises is whether it should be made by the United Btates or by the owners of the wharves, While the entire Eureka water front is reported to be now owned or claimed as private property (having been ceded by the State to the ecity and then sold by the city to pri- vate parties), and while the proposed im- provements would be directly beneficial to a number of private individuals, still it is patent that the improvements would be of vast benefic to the commerce of ihe country, “The harbor lines,” says the report, “are located along the edge of the wharv-s, and the Government has spent about $30,000 in dredging along this water front and up to the towns of Arcata and Hookton. These latter facts, together with the established custom of the Gov- ernment to dredge in front ot the wharves in such cases, leaving private owners to dredge the slips, make it appear that the locallty under consideration is ‘worthy of improvement by the United States,’ and it is so recommended,’’ Congressman Barham is very hopeful that at the next session of Congress the requisite provision will be made for these improvements. The citizens of Eureka are to be congratulated on the good pros- pect of that progressive city’s realization of the vast benefits which will flow from the deepening and widening of the chan- nel along its water front. A NLW LINE. The announcement that San Francisco is like'y to have a new line of steamships to Central and South American ports adds a new feature to the brightening prospects of coming prosperity. The commercial expansion of this port largely depends upon trade with South American people, and anything which will give us addi- tional transportation facilities with those countries will be of material benefit, not only to the City but toall the vast region tributary to it. As was published in THE CAvL yester- day, there is every likelibood that a strong company, backed by adeguate capi- tul, will soon undertake the establishment of the opposition line. The promoters of the company have thoroughly studied the conditions o trade between this port and country south of us, and have found in them good reasons for expecting a profic on the proposed venture. 1t 1s stated that while the difference be- tween San Francisco and Yanama is some- what greater than between Panama and Valparaiso, there are three times as many steamers engaged in the trade between the isthmus and the Chilean port as be- tween this portand Panama. This wide difference between the transportation fa- cilities of the two sections of the Pacific coast of America is ceriainly not war- ranted by the demands of trade. Either the people of South America have largely overdone the work of sea transportation or else there is a large opportunity for an additional line of steamships from San Francisco. The proposed venture does not partake of the nature of a speculation. It is founded upon the business needs of the time, and unaer the direction of compe- tent business men will prove profitable from the start. San Francisco is destined to be the commercial metropolis of the Pacific Ocean, and the movement for the new line is only the beginning of similar movements, which will make the commer- cial marine of this City one of the most important on the globe. A MONSTER GUN. In the reportof the Endicott Board on For- tifications, submitted in 1885, it was esti- mated that forty-four 16-inch breech-loading steel rifies would be required, of whick num- ber ten were assigned to San Francisco. Al- though tnis report was the stacting point and foundation of subsequent coast-defense legis- lation 16-inch guns have never been appro- priated for, the heayiest gun mounted thus tar beiug the 12-inch, The ordnance experts of the army were nat- urally desirous of undertaking the construc- tion of & 125-ton gun, and plans were accord- ingly prepared and the matter urged upon Congress. At last the construction of a type 16-inch gun was authorized, and is now being built. This will be by far the most powerful gun ever undertaken in the Unlted States, and s surpassed by only & few abroad. It will be of the same general design (on tne built-up, forged steel principle) as the other heavy cali- bers of our system. Few people, aside from those directly con- cerned in the design and builuing of such & gun, can appreciate the difficulties which must be met and overcome when any increase of caliber over tbe present is undertaken. If a 20 or even 40-inch gun were prepared most people would take it as a matter of course, but it is altogether probable that the limit of caliber has already been reached. The difficulties will be eppreciated from the siate- ment that in our 8, 10 and 12 inch guns, each weighs approximately twice as much as the next smaller caliber, burns twice the smount of powder and hurls a projectile of twice the weight. In passing from the 12-inch to the 16-inch the difference is even greater. Caliber alone 1s but one element of a gun’s power. There are no modern guns of & cali- ber approrching some of those built centuries ago by the Turks and Russians, while in the sixties we had our own 20-inch Rodman cast- iron gun. The power of & gun is measured by the energy of its projectile, and this in turn depe: ds upon the latter’s weight and velocity. Those who saw the big Krupp gun at the World’s Fair can form a good idea of the ap- pearance of what wilt be the biggest of Uncle Sam’s pets, It will be nearly 50 feet long, its largest diameter will be 62 inches and its weight will be 280,000 pouuds. The charge of powder fired in the new gun will be 1060 pounds. This will give to the 2360-pound projectile a velocity at the muzzle of 1075 feet per second, or over twenty times the velocity of atrain moving a milea minute. Expressed in other terme, the steel projeciile as it leaves the gun has an caergy ol 64,084 foot ton: Sofne idea of this enormous energy may be formed when it is realized that the shot 1s caprble of penetrating 34 inches of solid steel At the muzzle of the gun, while at a distance of 3500 yards, or two miles, {t still has suffi- cient velocity to pierce 28 inches. These de- tails are the subject of long #nd very laborious calculations and are all determined before the first forging is made. To provide a suitable carriage capable of standing the recoil is almost or quite as difficult & matter as build- ing the gun itself. The foreign gun most nearly resembling the new 16-inch gun s the Krupp 40-centimeter (1575 inch), of 119 tons, but ours is of con- sidetably higher power. The long struggie between shot and armor may now be con- sidered as definitely seitled in favorof the gun. For a time the Harvey armor bad the tetter of it, but curiously enotgh, by the sim- ple expedient of placing a cap of soft metal over the end of the projectile, armor is easily penetrated which would break up an un- capped prcjactile. As the 12-inch gun is suffi- cient for all ordinary requirements and ships already have reached or passed the limitof srmor-bearing, it is quesiionable whether the 16-inch gun will ever be manufactured in any considerable numbers. Considering the greatly increased cost of the larger caliber it scems most likely that the decision will be in favor of a number of smaller ealib.rs, such as 10 aand 12 inch, in- stead of a limited number of the largest size, There are certain situations, however, where space 1s a consideration, in which the true policy will be to mount s few of the very heaviest calibers. This will be especially the case in turrets mounted in exposed situations, such ns reefs. Here the gun must ceriainly be more than a match foc anything which can be brought against i, otnerwise it will be of little use. MIDAIR PHOTOGRAPHY. A New Yorker has secured the first double photograph ever taken in midair, and it is proposed to arrange elght cameras so that the entire horizon may be photogr ? d at once, thus extending the rln’fl of vision ten miles beyond that from s vessel’s deck. Tae Papyrus Club of Boston has given $1000 to the Boston Public Library, to be expended for the purchase of books to serve as a memorial collection to the late John Boyle O'Reilly, HE LED THE JUBI LEE PROGESSION. CAPTAIN OSWALD AMES of the Second Life Guards—Six Feet 8 Inches in Height. One of the personages most frcquently ment procession in London last month was Captain Oswald Ames, who rode at the head of it. ioned in the accounts of the Queen’s jubllee Cap- tain Ames’ chief tit e todistinction, so far as is made known, is the fact that he is the tallest man in the British army. the best-known men in Lon: stature, special request of the Prince of Wales. troopers o! the regiment. He is a member of the Second Life Guards, and is said to be one of n, and to be as handsom: !n sppearance as he is gigantic in He was allotted to the position he occupied in the foreiront of the procession at the Captain Ames was followea by four of the tallest Because of the fact that he rode, Centain Ames’ height had rather 10 be imagined than secn; but that he made a marked impression and attracted great atten- tion was shown by the wide mention he received. PERSONAL. Rev. R. W. Binkley of Nashville, Tenn., is stopping at the Grand. A.P.Johnson, & prominent mine-owner of Sonora, is domiciled at the Lick. i G=orge D. Noble, a well-known attorney of | Fresno, is registered at the Lick House. L. W. Fulketh, an attorney of Modesto, is on a visit to this City. He isatthe Grand. J. D. Biddle, a banker of Hanford, arrived here yesterday and put up at the Grand. G. Blocklinger of the United States navy and his wife are registered at the Occidental. Ed Knuppe, advance agent for the circus to show in this City nextmonth, is at the Bald- win. Walter Milis, 2 mining man of Grub Gulch, Cal., is visiting the City. He is making the Lick House his home. W. E. Bryant, D.D.S.,, of St. Paul, is on & | pleasure tour in this State. He is making his headquarters at the Grand. P. B. Fraser, one of Stockton's representa- tive men, is visiting the City, accompanied by his witfe. They are stopping at the Occidental Hotel. Among the arrivals in this City from Sacra- mento yesterday were C. Jesse Titus and wife, Mrs. Jesse Alken and H. J. Hechtman ana wife, ail of whom are registered at the Palace. CALIFORNIANS [N NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., July 17.—At the St. Cloua—Allen Forbes, Martin B. Maaden. J. T. Edmonds lef: the St. Cloud and sailed on the Campania for Liverpool. A CHARACTER. Fe sowed and_noped for reaping— A happy man and wise: The clouds—: hey did his weeping; The wind—it sighed h.s sighs. Made sl that fortune brought him The limit of desire: Toanked Ged for shade In summer days, Ju wintertime jor fire. ‘When tempest as with vengetul rod H.s earthly masion cleft On the blank sod he wiill thanked God Life and the Iand were lefi. Content. his earthly race be ran And dicd—so people say— Some ten years (ater than the man W ho worrled [ife away. —F. L. ' TANTON in Atlanta Constitution. pitctlehid faatitaog WITH YOUR COFFEE. «Here, young feliow, I want you to keep your horse off my lawn.” “Say, you're a hard-hearted old bloke.” +What do you mean? ’ “Why, dat poor old horse is just a-practicin’ de Kneipp cure, dat’s what.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer. R Teacher—How many bones are there in the human body? Pupil—I don’t know. I haver’tlearned to ride a wheel yet.—Detroit Free Press. Think of the terrible time we are going to have when our friends begin to drift back from London and tell us all about it.—Chicago Post. «Yes,” said the new arrival, “I am greatly surprised—grently surprised, indeed. 1 had expected to find things very different from what they are.” “Why?” exclaimed several of the girls in chorns, “don’t the hotel and its surroundings look as they were pictured in the circular you received?” “They do. That's what surprises me.”’— Clevelaud Leader. Summer boarder—Is this farm of yours very fertie? Kansas farmer—Not very. I tried toraisea mortgage on it last year and made a failure.— Columbus State Journal. «A fortune-teller told me to marry a man who had a steady gaze.” “Well ? “So I married John, but I've found out since that his gaze is the only steady thing about him."”—Chicago Record. «“Well, Mr. Fostley, did you revenge your- self on Algy since that quarrel you had with him?” s, indeed. Iordered my man to be rude to his man when he meets him.”—London Punch. < “George, 1 fear you are marrying me jus because my uncle left me a fortune.” “No, my precious., I'd marry you just the same as if any otner friend had left it to you.” —Boston Traveler. He has had a course in college and he's wel hted down wich knowledge Such ke folks are ap: 1o get av insiltutions of the nd: He's & master stroke at rowing, He i8 5001 at hammer.(browing, Aud s equal as a speinter ‘twould be 4iMm ult to fina. Now some ni-e, genteel vocation Would top cft his education And pu. this youthful wonder right in clover, so 1o apeak : Eut the worid is full of learning And ac present he is eurning ‘i he ridicalously meager sum of seven bones a week. —C eve and Leader. HOW HE REASOWED .IT OUT. Claveland Leader. Papa—Charley, p.ease hand me that book on the tab e, there. Cnarley (aged 9)—There he is, papa. Papa—No, my ‘son; you s Safd not say “*therc he 1s,” but ‘‘there » Charley—Wh & hymnbook, nn’;m’ ¥, Paps, ym! 3 J i 18, s NEWS OF THE LITERATIL Wickwire—Have you been following Tim- mins’ career lately? He has written several short articles full of promise. Mudge—So havel, but I haven’t been able to pay any of them yet.—Indianapolis Journal. Mr. Sharpsburg—What do you think of Spit- fire? Smart man, .isn’t he? Mr. Millvale— Oh, yes, he's a smart man, but he ain’t no scholar. He spelis “elephant” with only one “£.”—Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. “Did you complete the story you were at work on?’ “Yes, replied the litterateur. “You were in doubt as to its conciusion. Did it have a happy or unhappy ending?”’ “Un- happy. Tid Bits. The editor refused to print 1t.” There is a story of an American editor who one day, in default of other matter, filled a page of his journal with passages from tho Bible, observing, on being questioned as to this procedure, that “he had no doubt it would be news to & large proportion of his subseribers.”"—Answers. “Ab, Mr. Uptosnuf,” said the soulful young womau, ‘“how delightful is literature. You aro fond of it, I know. Tell me your favorite books, “Bauk, check and race,” said Mr. Uptosnuf, cheerfully. And the siience which fell cansed the parrot in the corner to awsken and mur- mur, “Hully gee!”—Cincinnati Commercisl Tribune. c Foreign Publisher — There is something wrong here. Chapter six was to be en- titled “Impressions of Boston.” ButI find no manuseript for it. Distinguished Author— That is strange. 1am almost certain I passed through Boston; and, if I did, I musthave had some impressions of it; and, if I had, there must be something about tuem in the manuscript, somewhere.—Puck MEN AND WOMEN. Tatiana is the name given to the Czar's sec- ond dsughter. h The old homestead of James Fenimore Cooper at Cooperstown, N.Y., will soou be turned into & park. Dr. Stephen Adams of Maplewood, Me., has beena practicing physician for sixty-eight years and still continues in harness. Doubtless the oldest married coupla in the United States are Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Hiller of Elkton, Mich. Mr. Hiiler is aged 107 years and his wife 105. They lately celebrated their eighty-seventh wedding anniversary. Florence Nightingale receivea her Christ'an name from the town in which she was born— Florence, Italy. Her name is not Nightingale, but Shore, her father being a Nottingham banker who inherited the estates of Peter Nightingale on condition that he assume the name. Miss Beulah Dix, a Chelsea High School graduate, has captured the Harvard prize of §250 for the best thesis on “The Published Collection of English and Scottish Ballads, 1765 to 1802.” The prize is open to under- graduates of Harvard, graduates who reside at the university as students and the young women at Radeliffe College or annex. They have finally taken steps in Russia to erect a monument to Turgeneff 1n his native town, Orel. A committee has been formed in 8t. Petersburg, at the head of which is Prince Constantine Constantinovich, president of the Academy of Sciences, to collect money for the purpose. Itisexpected that a large number of smali popular subscriptions will be forth- coming. A dinner significant of the change in the position of women during the Victorian era is gan his rule, and 53 when the vouthful Czar whas proclaimed autocrat of all the Russias. Young rulers sre now the European fishion. N to mention_the little Queen of Holland and the tiny K:ng of Spali, the p.wers of Europe are now controlled, as’ Gladstone said, by mere boys in statecraft. THe L+Y | DONE. The day is done: the peace of nizht’s descending, Divineiy dowered with dreams that - t.y regret. Praise God for this, w.th deachless ongings blend: 1 g That for a perfect hour we mav forget —Cnfcago Tii.es-Herald, —_— B. BLAck, paanter, 120 Eddy stroes - J.G. Brady. the new Governor of Alaska, is about 50 years old. He first went (0 Alaska ng a missionary of the Presbyterian church, and soon interested himseif in the industrial de. velopment of the country. He is uaderstood to be in favor of entirely prohibiiing the sele of intoxicating liguors in that country. s¥plskinghee! iy CALIFORNTA Glace Fruits; 50¢ 1b., in elezant fire elched boxes. Townsend's, Palace Hotel* - General James Longzstreet made a brief visit to Atlanta, Ga., & few days ago, and while there expressed himself as confldent that hc will be eppointed United States Commissioner of Railroads as successor of General Wade Hampton. He is reported to be in robust health. — FprerAL information daily to manufacturssy, business houses and public men by the Prosy Cupping Burean (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * ————————— Ex- Rear - Admiral Brown, who has been talked of for Mayor of Indianapolls, says hg will accept if the people wiil come to his teims—a unanimous nomination, $20,000 & year salary and eleven mouths’ annusl holi. day. #25 Rate to Chicago vin the Grest Santa Fe Route. The low rates made for Christian Endeavorars will be open to the public as well. An opporti- nity to visit the East never before enjoyed by Cal- jfornians. Pullman Palace Drawing-room Sleep- ing-cars of the latest paitern. 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None ever acquired a populerity equal to “Tenting on the Oid Camp Ground,” which Mr. Kt tredge wrote and composed on the night after he was drafed futo the army. REMOVAL - NOTICE. VATES & (0 Have Removed to All orders will receive prompt attention and dispatch. For all who visit this store thecoming week we have snaps; for those who don’t, sympa- so0n to be given at the Grafton Gallery, Lon- don. The hostesses will bs a hundred repre- sentative women, who will each nominate a distinguished man as her guest. In the eveu- ing there isto be a soiree for distinguished persons who were notat the feast. The names of Lady Jeune, Mrs. Humphry Ward, Mrs. Fawcett and Miss Ellen Terry appear among others on the committee. Probably the most remarkable drummer who ever lived was Jean Henri, the tam- bour major of the Emperor Napoleon. 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