The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 2, 1897, Page 4

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL {ONDAY, [&) AUGUST 1897. MONDAY... " CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Daily and Runday CALL, one week, by carrier. .$0.15 Dally apd Sunday CALL, one yesr, by mall.... 6.00 Daily and Sunday CALL, six months, by mall.. 8.00 Daily and Sunday CALL, three months by mail 1.50 Dally and Sunday CavLy, oue month, by mail.. .65 Sunday CALL, one year, by mal . 1.50 W XEKLY CALL,One year, by mail. 1.50 BUSINESS OFFICB: 710 Market Street, Francisco, Californfa. x-nou:”.nA . Maln—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. . ...Main—1874 Telephone BRANCH OFFICES: 527 Mentgomery s'reet, coraer Clay; open until 9:30 o'¢lack 39 Hayes streot; open until 9:30 o'clock. 615. Larkin street, open until 8:30 o'clock. £W. corner Sixteenth and Mission sireets, open until 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street, open until 9 o'clock. 187 Ninth street, open until 8 o'clock. 1505 Potk street; open until 8:30 o'cifei. NW. corner Twenty'second and Kentucky stroeis; open tll §o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE: 808 Broad way, EASTERN OFFICE: Reoms 31 and 82, 34 Park Row, New York City PAVID M. FOLTZ, Eastern Manager. R THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. THE SUMMER MONTHS. Areyou.going tothe country ona vacation? If #0, 1t 18 no trouble for us to forward THE CALL t0 youraddress. Do not let.it miss you for you will mies it. Orders given to the carrier or left at Business Office will receivé prompt attention. NO EXTRA CHARGE. Fifty cents per month for summer montha The Klondyke fever threatens to become chronic, McKinley should come to California and see prosperity in its native lair, There is one consolation about the gold excitament, the East is just as crazy as we are. Unless all signs fail it will take every ship on the Pacific coast to carry the rush of tenderfeet to Alaska next spring. Money is coming out of hiding faster than out of the Klondyke, and currency is going to be current from this time on. The rush to the Klondyke is one of the things which can be counted on to cut a good deel of ice before the winter is over. It we do not prepare for the Omsha exposition at once, we will be sorry when we.find ourselves compelled to take a back seat at the show. Mrs. Lease, it is said, wounld be pacified if she could be Governor of Kansas for one term, but what, after such a term, would ever pacily Kansas? If the committee of 100 does not make us‘an agceptable charter the next step ‘will be t6 detail every able-bodied man in the City io attend to the job. 1t will take a gnod deal of evidence to convince McKinley that the rush to the Klondyke is any bigger or any fiercer than the rush to Washington last March. The professional agitator is not getting half as'much hearing in the country now as'the commercial traveler. Business is doing the only talking the people wish to hear. Ore of the magazines of the month has an article entitled, “Why the Wave of Prosperity Has Not Materialized.” It is to bé presumed the editor had taken a month eff. The Democrats of Ohio have decided to make a barbecue campaign this year, as tnat is the only way for them to carry out their desire to reduce the number of cattle and sheep in the State, A falling off .in the consumption of beer in Chicago is attributed to bicycle riding, but it would have been more reasonable if the falling from bicycles in that city had been attributed to the consumption of beer. There 'may not be so many bargains in the'shop windows this fall as in the years of depression, but the ‘people will have moré money to buy what is offered, and the chiange will be counted a good bargain for all. The crusade for good roads has begun anew in the East, and the people seem to have decided to quit fighting the railroads until they have provided themselves with a means of getting at them without wading through the mud. Some of the leading Democratic papers in Ohio'are informing the rank and file of the party tBat John R. McLean is not'a Democrat at all, but only the leader of the McLean:party, .and winat iz more, they are proying it by the records. When one ‘man kills another in a drunken: quarrel, evéry one promptly points the: moral as. & wsrning against whisky; “but. now one Kentuckian has killed another in a dispute as to which whould drop money in a church contribu- tion box, and nobody seems to see any moralin the affair at-all. The Topeka Stal Journsl s right enough in saying, ‘‘There is room in this wide world for both Mrs, Lease and Kan- sas,” ‘but what grinds us is that both insist'on staying in the United States and disturbing the country by trying to occupy the same place at the same time. Ons or the other should move off. < The career of “‘Boy Bailey” as leader of the Democratic party in Congress has thus farbeen inglorious, and is likely to be short. He seems himself to be aware of the fict, and is making big bids for the seat now held by Benator Mills, and is making the summer season anything but a holiday for that stalwart champion ot frze wool in Tex e e It is said that among the changes likely to be. made in the. postal service by the new Postmaster-General will be. one re- quiring registered letters to be inclosed in stovt linen-lined envelopes to be issued by the Government. This would be the ‘adoption of a custom which bas proven beneficial in England, and would not be an experiment-so much as a certain im- provement. ¥ - According to Labouchere, Great Britain has snbmitted to the rule of Victoria with loyaity because, being a woman, she is well fitted Jor the “‘ornamental function of réigning,” but when a man assumes the- throne and puts on the fuss and feathers, there is going to be a rapid <evelopment of republicanism in the three kingdoms and .perhaps & speedy evolution of a republic. - it IN FULL TIDE NOW. Week after week the improvement in trade becomes more marked. All sections of the country report business better. The best feature of the revival is that the products of the farm are reaping the bene- fit of it. Almost everything the farmer raises is selling at profitable prices. The importance of this cannot be overesti- mated. For a long time the farmer has been at the bottom of the ladder and in consequence the whole country has languished. A brief summary of the advance in farm produce will show the immense gain the farmer is reaping. Wheat is in quick de- mand at say $1 45. Hay has soared sky- ward and now brings from $8 to §15 per ton, though there fs no really good hay selling under $10, Barley is bringing from to 90 cents for feed up to $1 10 for brewing descriptions for shipment to Europe and the latter is in active de- mand. Al products of the hog are selling briskly at steadily advancing prices. So much has been written of the activity in wool that it is not necessary to mention this staple. Dried fruit is in increasing demand at steadily rising prices and a lively fa!l trade is confidently looked for. New raisins are also in good demand for Eastern account, Beans have lately gone up in an old-time way, thanks to the new tariff and a demand for shipment, and potatoes are wanted for all points west of the Missouri River, including Klondyke. These are the principal farm siaples, if we except wine, hence it will be seen that the farmer is gett back into clover again. It is the same in the East. The Louis ana sugar-planters are voluntarily ad- vancing the wages of their plantgtion- bands because the naw tariff and a large crop coming together enable them todo so. All over the West the advance in wheat is lifting up old moss-covered mortgages and placing the now jubilant farmer on his feet. In the financial centers ot the Atlantic Coast the tendency in everything is toward a higher level. The stock market has been steadily advancing for weeks. A free call for merchandise has succeeded the lethargy of the past four years. The money supply of the country has in- creased $173 865,000 over this time last year. A trade journal, in commenting on the remarkable gain in business this year, points out that the fiscal year ending Jure 30, 1897, shows a larger and more varied export trade from this country than ever before. The total value of all ex- ports was $1,051,987,091, an increase over 1896 of $168,380,153. While imports were enormous toward the close, the total was $100,000,000 below the highest record, namely 1893, ana an enormous quantity of American securities, no record of which is kept, were returned to pay off the European indebtedness to the country on account of our exports purchased there. Cotton, preadstuffs, provisions, cattle, mineral, oil and other products lead, but maps and books, carriages, cars, locomo- tives, printing presses, agricultural imple- ments, steel rails, soap, manufactures of wood, hardware, leather, gunpowder and a thousand other mann factured articles greatly aid to swell the big total. exports of bicycles reached $6,500,000, as against $1,500.000 the vear preyious. The hard times consequent upon the great financial panic of 1893 are over, and the panic itself is now a matter of history. From now on the United States will prob- ably enjoy a long season of prosperity, unless, through some incomprehensible fatuity on the part of th: American peo- ple, the Democratic party be restored to power again some time in the future. For if that party ever gets control again it will immediately take off the tariff, and the usual panic will make its appearance with the customary promptitnde; for thisistne history of the Democratic party. THE PARIS EXPOSITION, The French people, in' their prepara- tions for the Paris Exposition of 1900, have in view results grand, substantial and per- manent. The bridge of Alexander III, of which the first stone was laid with a golden trowel by Czar Nicholas II last Qc- tober, will be a monumental structure calculated to endure for ages. Whereas of the existing bridges of Paris none are more than 30 meters or about 100 feet in breadth the bridge of Alexander will be double the size or about 200 feet in breadth, with a single arch of immense proportions. M. Charpentier, the French Consul et New York, states that the pres- ent year will be devoted entirely to the foundations of this great work, the year 1898 to the metallic work and’ the year 1899 to its decoration, Other magnificent works will be two art palaces to be built in the Champs Elysees. In design they will constitute a resume of French architectural art at the end of the ninsteenth century. Twenty million francs are appropriated for their construc- tion, and it is intended that the palaces shall survive the exposition that they may be usea permanently for the salous, competitions, conceris, etc. These two palaces will be marvels of fairylike beauty. The French people will copy the grand canal idea of the Columbian Exnosition in a measure by transforming the banks of the Seine into a vast Venetian canal lined with paleces and having broad banks, spacious, convenient ana restful, upon which the public may promenade. In the daytime the gayly decked boats, standing out in relicf against the foliage of the trees, will form arare and animated picture, while at night thers will be gor- geous illuminations, for which all the re- sources of modern lighting will be drawn upon, : All the other great nations of the world have applied for space in this great expo- sition and apvoropriated fands for exhibits, but the United States is rather slow in the matter.” There can be no question however, but what this country will make anotable display at the exposition. We may be late in starting our preparations, but we have the energy to move fast when webegin. When it comes to a friendly competition between the leading nations of ‘the earth Uncle Bam is always to be counted in, and when he tries bard he can make things exceedingly interesting for all rivals. - 5 BAILEY’S LEADERSHIP. The part which the Democrats of the House under thie leadership of Bailey of Texas played during the recent session of Congress was so small that litile notice | was taken of it by the country at large. Tt was interesting, however, to the Demo- crats themselves, and now that the session is over the Democratic organs in the East are discussing with no little heat the lead- ership of Bailey, and considering whether his policy is to be followed in the future or discarded at the next ses:ion. It appears that if Speaker Reed had not kept the House in close attention to busin N open war would aave broken out between the faction of the Democratic party led by McMillin of Tennessee and that which had chosen Mr. Bailey for its leader. Even as it was the rival parties engaged once or twice in serious wrangles on the floor of the House, and were kept irom an open disruption only by the de- termination of the Speaker to permit no discussion which tendea to interfere with the prompt transaction of public business. The dissensions between the factions was most clearly shown during the time allowed them to debate the tariff bill Instead of using this opportunity for the vurpose of making a combined attack upon the Republican measure, they used it to assail one another. Mr. Bailey in the course of his speech denounced the doctrine of free trade in raw materials as an innovation which had been brought into the party by Grover Cleveland, nor did he stop in his career until he had included in bis denunciation not only Mr. Cleveland, but all the cuckoos who supported him in the meas- ures of his administration. Mr. McMil- lin came to the defense of the former President, and for a time it looked as if the controversy between the two leaders would be carried to the extent of person- alities which cou'd never be forgotten or forgiven, The point which the Demoeratic papers of the Eastare now trying to decide is whether Democracy in the future is to follow McMillin in upholding the Cleve- land idea of free trade, or whether it is to support Mr, Bailey in advocating protec- tion to a degree sufficient at any rate to guard the industries of those States which hayve Democratic majorities. A personal interest is given to the con- traversy by the statement that Mr. Bailey made his attack upon the principle of free trade in material, not so much be- cause he dislikes that sort of free trade as because he is desirous of gaining the seat in the Senate now held by Roger Q. Mills, the great free-trader who advocated free wool in spite of the protests of his Texan constitnents. ‘Whether Mr. Bailey has played his game for the purpose of holding his lead- ership in the Honge, or for the purpose of gelting a seat in the Senate, is not clear. 1t is certain, howeve-, that despite the subjection in which he and his faction were kept by Speaker Reed he managed to do enough during the recent session to sheke his party up on a new issue and start another split in its confused ranks, THE AFGHAN OUTBREAK. The news just received of an outpbreak of hostilities between the British forces and the hill tribes of Afghanistan is but one of many indications of a growing discon- tent in India against the rule of the Eng- lish conquerors. Indeed the information from various sources points to a probabil- ity that the English will ere long either lose that portion of their empire or have to make & hard fight to retain it, The telegram from Mulakand telling of anight attack by the tribesmen of Afgha« nistan is a strong confirmation of a state- ment recently made by a St. Petersbarg paper that the Afghan mountaineers do not consider the forcing upon them of the English style of civilization to be just, and they do not recognize the validity of the treaty which transfers the sovereignty of the country to England. The Russian attitude toward British domination of Indiais illustrated by the comment of this same paper on a similar fight to the one just reported from Mala- kand. “This incident,” it said, *‘will serve as an excuss to extsand British rule toward the portb."’ 1f the discontent were confined to the more recently subjected hill tribes the matter would not be so serious, but the dissatisfaction is said to be widespread and Biitish officials have been attacked and murdered in districts over which the English have ruled fora hundred years. It would seem sufficient evidence of this disaffection that several of the great dai- lies of England have advocated the sup- pression of the native papers. It seems strangely inconsistent for the press to favor a policy of abolishing free speech, and the fact that they do so is strongly suggestive of a tendency to despotism in the British government of the natives. The correspondent of a German paper writes that a Hinduexpressed his opinion in these words: “*We know that the Eng- lish are well armed and that the Maxim guns are ready for us, but three hundred millions of people intent upon earning a right to iive without being robbed out- rageously will get their way even against Maxims.” Donald M. Reid, in the Saturday Review, confesses, '‘It is a melancholy fact that India is practically in the bands of the lawyvers, the money-lenders, the middle- men and the police. The police are past- masters in the art of persecution.” If there is to be a great change in the future for India, it is not probable on the lines of self-delivery as ex- pressed in the Hindu’'s views quoted. England would suppress a rebellion with a strongerhand than she did the Bepoy mutiny. But if the revolu- tion were abetted and aided by Russia, its chances of success would be good, and that powerful country has long been suspected of having designs of extend- ing its empire across its southern vorders to the sea The hill tribes ol Afghanistan, who are just now most actively showing their discontent, are the most warlike of the nativ and «wwould no doubt join the Russians in attempting the expu!sion of the British. 00AST EXCHANGES. The New Mexico contingent at Washington, says the Albuquerque Citizen, i3 preparing to break camp and come home—and it might be added that several members of the contingent also will come home broke. The Los Angeles Ezxpress cheerfully erts that even though the fiscal year just closed was the dullest Los Angeles has known for decades, the city’s postoffice business increased 3 per cent. Those hustling chaps down there are always doing a lot of stamping around, anyway. The Pasadena News is visibly impressed with the report that the new tariff bill was signea with a “small gold pen in a mother-of- pearl holder, belonging to Congressman Ding ley,” and seizes the occasion to remark that “though small, that pen was powerful enough to set ten thousand wheels going and furnaces smoking.” Which merely goes to prove that the pen is mightier than the mouth. The religlous editor of Solano County Courier notes that a Santa Rosa minister re- cently took for his text, “Is there & hell?” It being & fair ‘presumption that the reverend gentleman has resided upon this planet a 800dly number of years without arriving at au affirmative conviction in the matter, he may be set down as a tolerably genuine specimen of that optimism which we read about. Sententiously remarks the Riverside Globe, “He who sounds a note of cheer when the clouds hang low and the skies are threatening is Lere and a patriot.’”” If one W.J. Bryan of Lincoln, Nebr., happened to have omitted from his early education a knowledge of the metaphorical thing called a “back-handed slap,” a directiou of his atiention to this pearl of speech from the Globe might notbe alto- gether unattended with profit. The Tulare Register is in the throes of a deep and dark problem asto whether Nature ever mukes a “misfit”’ or not, and the exploring mind of the Sacramento Record-Union seems 10 be irresistibly atiracted to the scene of that thrilling mental agitation, with & view of join- ing in the circular chase. The spectacle of the household dog trying to run down its own tail becomes a tame entertainmentin compari- son with the superior revolutions which these | “down town.” two worthy philosophers display. Itisde- voutly to be hoped that Nature has not made auy misfits in placing our two brothers in mere journalism and thereby denyiug Con- gress the advantage of their services. Reports from El Cajon, says, the San Diegan Sun, which is & big sample of other raisin- growing tections of this county, are that there will be & good crop this year, and as the prices are higher the growers will come in for in- creased profits. All of which wiil not only please the raisin-growers, but the friends of raisin-growers as well, for if one portion of & community prospers another portion is cer- tain to share in that prosperity more or less. During the past few weeks the lemon-growers have had a highly profitable market, and those who shipped received most satisfac- tory returns. In fact there is guitea bit of prosperity to be found in spots here and there. Wheat is going up in price and that will help other producers. A Chicago gentleman with a provident turn of mind recent y stole outright a two-story house, moved it around the corner,y ad it repainted and sold it for enough to him comfortably for his enterprise. But this blithe feat seems to have been totally eclipsed by a certain company of genuises in the vrinting office of the Santa Ana Blade, the proprietor whereet is publishing broadcast the mysteri- ous disappesrance of gundry boxes of fruit which his various rural admirors have been at the pains to s2nd him. He avers his indisput- able knowledge of their having been left at his office and attests the same by austere reference to “the pits and rinds” which he daily finds strewn about the floor on his return from The brother shonld bear his privation with a Christianly fortitude born of an assurance that his printers are prospering. The editor of the Colfax Sentinel s a skeptic and pins none of his faith to things tnat he docs not witness with his own eyes. Of the reliability of the average newspaper corre- spondent he protesses an impersuasion which looms like a lone star in a general night of blindness. That obviously is the motive that leads him forth from the ediiorizl sanctum asearch for information on his own account, & plain unvarnished tale of which is periodically disclosed in the pages of his veracious journal on the Baturdsy following each pilgrimuge—as witness the following: The editor of the Sentinel returned to Colfax last Tuesday from & seven days’trlp among the mining camps of Eastern Plac:r. We visited Gold Run, Alta, Towle, Pioneer mine, Damascus. Red Point, Forks House, Centerville, Sunny Fouth, Michigan B.uf, Bath and Forest Hil. During the past four years we have made frequent trips 10 (hese and other camrs in the mining sec- tion, and it gives us pleasure o state that in that period we have never seen more encouragement. Bobstantial development work seems to be tha order of the day in every camp. Io numerous dis- tricts tunnels are be.ng run 1o strike anclant Chan- nels of gravel, and shafts are being sunk upon quartz properties. Sturdy prospectors, with grub staxe, pick, shovel and pan, are more Dumerous than for mauy years past, all of which means new mines and new camps. The yearly output for gold for Flacer County {n 1898 was $1,674,844. and the output for 1897 gives promise of being largely in excess of the production of the previous year. NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES, The Chilean armored cruiser Blanco Enca- lada was built by Armstrong in a little over tWo years. The Cristobal Colon, armored cruiser, built at Gonoa for the Spanish navy, had & very su cessful stesm trial recently under natural draught, makiog 19.56 knots with 100 revolu- tioms. Messrs. Vickers, Son & Co., although in pos- session of the Barrow yard for only fortuight, have aiready received & contract to build a battle.ship of 12,950 tons and 13,500 horse- power for the British navy. During torpedo practice on the German fron- clad Friedrich Karl in the harbor of Kiel last month a torpedo explodad prematurely in the tube. One man had both hands blown off and two others of the crew sustained less sovere injuries. Nordenteldt has built another submarine boat with which he is carrying out experi- mental trials on the coast of Sweden. The | boat is cigar-shapad, 65 feet In length and 12 | feetin diamoter. She has already proved her abllity to 0 go dowa (o a depth of thirty feet. The motive power is steam and her comple- ment is only three men. The Deutsche Meeres-Zeitung is greatly dis- gruntled because the first torpedo-boat de- ! stroyer for the German navy is baing built fn Eogiand. A the most recent division boats | in the navy have only a speed of twenty-six knots the German admiraity order:d a swifter boat from Thornycroft. It is the first order | placed abroad since 1884, and on the navy list five shipi—namely, Kaenig Wilhelm, Kaiser, Deutschiand, Zieten and Grille—and three tor- pedo-boats have been built abroad. | The battleship Jena is to be begun atonce at | the Brest aockyard. The ship wiil be 396 feet | 9 inches in length, 67 feet 3 inches beam and 27 feet 6 inches extreme draught, at which | the displacement will be 12,052 tons, She will have engines of 15,500 horsc-power, driving three screws from which a speed of 1 8 knots is caleulated. Her 20 Belleville boilers will be fitted to burn either coal or petroleum, and with the buoker capseity of 1100 tons the radius of action is figured at 7000 miles at the speed of 10 knots. The main armament will consist of four 12-inch, eight 6.3-inch quick- firlng and eight 3.9-inch quick-firing guns, and the secondary battery will include six- teen 8-pounders, five 1.5-pounders and thir- teen 1-inch machine guns. The ship will also be fitted with 6 torpedo tubes. Some very interesting papers were read at the recent International Congress of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers held at Lon- don. Among the subjects was one illustrating the advancement made in marine engineering since 1861, when simple engines and low- pressure boilers were in use in the navies and mercantile marine, Each successive advince- ment was exemplified by representativa navai vessels up to 1897, when triple-expansion en- gines and water-tube boilers have saccom- plished wonderful results as comvared with those 0f 1861. Leaying out the intermediate progressive stages it suffices to compare the motive power of the latest torpedo-boat de- stroyer Quail with the British ironclad War- rior of 1861, the following data giviog the most salient points for comparison: | Warrior. | Quail. Engines, horsepower......| 5469 6057 Total weight machiners, boilers an | wate .|808.2 tons|144.3 tons Prossure in boilers, | 2%ibs. | 220 1bs, Horsepower per ton of 6n- gines.. 12,97 88.4 Horsepower per ton of boilers. 3 X .47 £0.1 Conl per .|4 to 5 1bs | 2.641hs The result of the improvements made in en- gines and boilers during tnirty-six years may besummed up in this fact, that seven times more power i3 now obtained from material used in the motive power of warships than in 1861, and still greater results are possible with the adaptation of the turbine motor on a larger gcale than in the Turbinia, where it has proven so wonderfully efficient. WITH YQUR COFFEE. Danseuse—Baron, if 1 were to receivea brace- let anonymously to-morrow morning Ishould be sure that it came from you.—Fliegende Blatter. First Critic—Why do you always sit near the drums at comic opera? Second Critic—So as to miss most of the stale jokes—Town Topies. Donner—This ts the silly season with the pew joarnals, Bltizen—Is that so? I'll give you $5 if you can teil me when they have 8 wise season.— Truth. In Camp="There, I've dropped the bacon in the fir “That! “No, Dealer, Chalumeau has just returned from a fishing expedition. “Well,” his frignds ask him, *did you catch anything?” “I missed my twelith fish]” answers Chalu- a little rash, fsn’t it? a little rasher!’—Cleveland Plain A FREAK STEAMSHIP FROM ENGLAND. A queer-shaped st Worid. She was the the model of ner hull, which in some respects While the Forest Brooks bow and siern are like those of the ordinary British tramp, with engines amid- ships, her sides tumb’e home, thuscontracting her deck. This round- ing off makes her very comfortable and steady in & sea wey. The waves roll over end off her as if she were & fish. She was built st Newcastle England, two years ago and messures 2689 tons gross and 1729 tons net. She is from Liverpool by way of Hampton Roads in ballest to J. H. Win- chester. yTa lay off the Statue of Liberty a few days ago, says the-New York | e;‘:‘:e:t grook. Captain Cripsey, of Newcastle. Her peculiarity lies in resembles that of a whaleback, PERSONAL. W. H. Daily of London is a gxuest at the Palace Hotel, H. B. fTaskell ot Yokohama i Palace Hotel. J, M. Pool, a merchant of Chicago, 15 a guest at the Palace Hotel. Dr. W. A. Morse of Benicia is In the City, stopping at the Grand. Dr. J. D. Van Vlick of Los Angeles registered at the Grand yesterday. Francis Doud, a banker of Monterey, s a guest at the Lick House, Baron Foy and J. D. Bemls registered at the Palace Hotel last evening. W. H, Buster, a business man of Colusa, is stopping at the Occidental. Dr.C.T. Edwards of Salinas registered at the Grand Hotel yesierday. John Raggio, & stage line ownerof 8an An- dreas, is a guest at the Grand Hotel. €. McGinley and family of Denver, Colo., are stopping at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Mr. and Mrs. James Newmann of Paris regis- tered at the Occidental Hotel yesterday. Dr. L F. Wood of New York arrived in this City yesterday and registered at the Palace. E. Dinkelspiel, a merchant of Bakersfield, registered at the Occidental Hotel yesterday. The Misses M. Fawcett and C. Peri of Btock- ton are registered at the Cosmopolitan Hotel, A. Casseli, a Sacramento merchant, arrived in the City yesterday and is stopping &t the Grand Hotel. U. 8. Gregory of Jackeon, Bheriff of Amador County, arrived in the City yesierday and put up at the Grand Hotel. A. de 8. Canayarro, Charge d'Affaires of Por- tugal at Hawaii, is in the City. He expects to sail for Honolulu on the 10th inst. Dr. Edward Bunuell of the Recelving Hos- vital staff left yesterday morning on a two weeks' vacation to the soutbern partof the Btate. Colonel J. B. Hughes, a prominent mining man of New York, arrived at the Palace Hotel yesterday. He exhibils a sixieen-ounce nug- get containing $300 worth of gold. The nug- get came from one of his mines in Bierra County. A. Caminetti, ex-member of Congress, was in town vesterday, He represented Amador County in the Legislature last winter, and at the close of the session was appointed by the Governor as one of the Comm!ssioners to re- vise the code. He Jeft the City for Eacramento last evening. Mr. Caminetti speaks well of mining prospeets in Amador, Calaveras and Tuolumne counties, The towns in that min- ing region are said to be prosperous and the guest at the | mines are reported as highly productive. A SONG OF MYSTERIES. The wild flowers in the meadow— "I he streams that seaward ron Fear not the b ack storm’s shadow, Nor thauk God for the sus, The b'rds above them winging Reck not of right or wrong: They sing with desth beils ringing, As it death were & song. But I—from these asund Pray through long night 1 weep, I wall, 1 wonder— I Lush myselt with thornat nd morn; Through dread, uncertain hours 1 tread the dragon aod: Itrample 0. earth's flowers On the viind way of God. T see aronnd me Iying Karth's sorrows and Ita shames; For these—in darkness dying, My stern faith fashions dames. 4And evil spirits haunting My steps, br faith gre fed: And life faith's song I3 chanting. Over an oid world's dead. Meanwhile, the daisied meadow, Witl) streams that seaward rua, Fears not the black storm’s shadow, Nor thanks God for the sun, And all the brave birds winging Reck not of right or wrong, But with eternal singing Makes eyen death & song! —Frank = Stanton, in Atlant Constitution. i MEN AND WOMEN. Becrotary of State Sherman and Mrs. Sher- man will next year celebrate their golden wedding anniversary. Professor Marsh, who holds the chalr of paleontology ai Yale, has drawn no salary for his services since 1866. : Terence V. Powderly, the new Commis- sjoner-General of Immigration, was Mayor of Scranton, Pa., about eighteen years ago, being elected by an almost unanimons vote. He was the idol of the Pennsylvania cosl-miners at that time, C. F. Fox Adams, the new Secretary of tha British Embassy, will be in charge during the absence of Sir Julian Pauncefote. The em- bassy headguarters for tie summer has been establishe | ut Manchester-by-the-Ses, and the younger members of the staff are now there, - There is a man living in Thomaston, Me., who never rode on steamears or on electric- cars; was never outof Kuox County farther than Waldoboro; never uses rum or tobacco, aitnough on the Fourth of July indulgesina clgar. His only pet is a horse, to which he gives the best of care. In a recent article in Science Dr. Brinton calis attention to the fact that the missionary, Haverstadr, was so well pleased with the lan- guage of the Arancanian Indians of Chile that he pub'ished a work on 1t in 1777 advocating its adoption as a universal tongue by the world, a ready-made Vo.apui, Hon. Knute Nelson, the first Norwegian- born E:uator of the United Siates, said re- cently, in speaking of his eount.ymen as com- pared with the Germans: *I think the Ger- ‘mans effectuate the best because their wives also work, even in the fleld, while our women znmm & large extent withdrawn from the elds” 7 Miss Agnes Weston, known in England as “the mother of British bluejackets,” has done more for the upliiting of the English sailor than any other woman. She has establighed many “rests,” and during the thirty years of hier labor has done much for the cause of tem- perance among the tars. Her lemperance magazine, Ashore and Afloat, has met with meau, who taus spares himself the huvailia- tion of telling that be missed his firstas well. —Le Figaro. such flatiering success that the United States autnoritics have especiaily requested her to maii the magazines to American warships. APIA CONSUL-GENERALSHIP. Benator Thurston of Nebrasks saw the Presi- dent the other dav, says the Washington Post, and in fifteen minutes succeeded in getting his promise that two constituents should be appointed to consulates and a third trans- ferred. A few weeks ago Mr. Church Howe, who was beaten for Congress a few years ago, Was nom- tnated Consul-General at Apla, Samos, and was confirmed by the Senate. “Then Mr. Howe begen to read up on the Samoan situatfon. The moré he absorbed information about the be cared for the prospect of & long stay iu the South- Pacific, where Americans are scarce and butter & dollar a pound. He told Senator Thurston that he would like some other place, and suggested Panama, s post now held by General Victor Vifquain, another Nebraskan, Senator Thurston promised to see what could be done. He explained to the President that Mr. Howe would prefer a position Jess remote from civilization in general and the United States in paricular. ‘Send him to Papams,’ said the Senator. ebraska has had that berth for years, and Howe would make an exceilent official there.” “I can’t do that,” the President replied, ‘‘for Ihavepromised Panama to Senator Pritchard for one 0. his Carolins constituents. But I will give him a more desirable place. 1 will send him 10 Palermo.’” Senator Thurston agreed to.the selectron, and then told the President that he had an excelient man for Apia in the person of ex- Judge L. W, Osborn of Blair, Nebr. The Presi- dent consented to appoint him, and also to issye a commission to John Jetikins of Omaha as Consul at Fan Balvador. The three are Grand Army mer, and as Senator Thurston has already secured (wo places in Alasks for two other Nebraskans he thinks that he hal done pretty well under the circumstances, Mr. Osborn had & rival for the Samoan ap- ointment in Lioyd Osborn, stepson of Robert Louis Stevenson and at preseut Viee-Consul under Consul-Geieral Churchill. The lattér was appointed only sbout fifteen months ago, andat that time wns an editorial writer: on the Brooklyn Daiiy Times. FADS OF MULTI-MILLIONAIRES. New York Press. 3 Mr. Carnegle’s fad is building or endowing librarie:. His gifts to these institutions ag- gregute more than four million dollare. He has given all the way from Scotland to Kan- sus. When Mary Willlams rejected him hae said he would live and die a bachelor, but his 800d serise got the better of his bad resolution, and after waiting some eighteen or twenty years he married, Joon D. Rockefeller's fad {s giving money to Baptist societies of every description and booming the Chicago University., He given away §8,000,000. J. Pierpont Morgan puts $100 in the contri- bution plate every Sunday morning and hi given $1,000,000 to ‘the Lying-in Hospital. His beneifactions are said to reaeh $50,000 a. yesr. George Peabody’s fad was the promo- tion of education. His gif's amounied to more iban ten million doilars. “Asa Packer hiad the same fad, his beneiactions amounting to about awil'ion and a half doliars. He founded Le- nigh University. Thé gifts of the Vanderbil ts, | Asiors and Goulds don’t amount to a flea-bite. FAMQUS = UPERSTITIONS. Loudon Tit-Bits. Wolsey was warned of his doom by a croster head; Sejanus by a flight of crows, Dr. John- son objected to going under a ladder, Mon- taigne avoided giving his left foot priority in pulling on his stockings. Alexander was believed to have untied the Gordian knot with a slice of his sword. For good luck’s sake Augustus wore some portion of a sea calf; Charlemagne, some trinket of unknown value. Mohammed: was all fate; Bonaparie ail star and destiny. Cromwell believed in September 3, und Louis Napoleon in December 2. Sulia called him- sell Felix, the favored cuild of fortune, and Timoleou turued his house into a temple of chauce, 3 Alexander, if we may credit the account iven by Quintus Curtius, was terrified by lood flowing from inside his soldiers’ bread during the siege of Tyre, in 332 B.C. Sis seer, Aristander, foresaw in this ecrimson flow of the vital stream out of the commis- sariat & happy tssue for the Macedonians, and the warriors thus nerved took Tyre. €OME LITTLE THINGS. London Tit-Bits The smallest elephant is, according to a con- temporary, one (rom Sumatra, whkich was recently exhibited iu Berlin. Three'years old, it stands only thirty-six inches frém the. ground.. Itis ulittle over one yard in length and weighs 163 pounds. Thé-normal elephaiit weighs &l the same age at ledst three tons, . A are.only twents weigh but fifty. camel I8 targer than most English horses.- ive inches fn height dnd Mexican humming-bird, which is gcarcely larger thang pin's head.' Ghe smaflest tre6 in Britain is the dwarl willow, whi¢h grows on one of its highest wountains—Ben. Lomond: and which at maturity only eitains a'eight of two inches. Ben Lomond 15 3192 feet in height. The smallest newspaper in the wopld is pubs: lished in Guadalajara, in Mexico.” The . E Tele- grafo, & weekly publication, is printed in eight. columns, each 43§ inches wide, on tuick manila-paper, S ——— ANDREE -AND HIS PIGEONS, Some joker seems to ‘be lon‘ln‘:» hi: loose.—Cleveland Leader. 5 igeons If those pigeons did not 1le Aridres has at last signted the north pole.—~Buffalo Timés, There 8 & suspicion that some one hi stuffed Explorer ‘Andree’s pigeon- returys. Detroit Free Press. H £ In the race for Arctic Honors nelther Andree nor Peary nced expect to a8s under “the pole.”—Chicago Dispateh. 3 e It is suspected that Andree relessed that carrier pigeon s few minutes before he started on his trip.—Detroit Journal. to designate his pigeons.—Chicago Journal. It all the carrier pigeons that have been ceught bearing messages from Explorer Andree. Tealiy came from his balioon one wonders how Andree ever found room in the basket for him- | self.—Indianapolis News, % THE THEATERS TO-NIGHT.' The Mauy Attractions That Are to Be | Offered to Those Who Will Visit Piayhouses, = | This evening the Bslawin Thester will; [ aiter being dark two week, reopen with “Rose- iast home of Robert Louis Stevenson the less | pigmy race of camels exists in Persis, whith: pounds, shile anr orainary _The smalicst bird’s egg is that of the tiny’ inches in length and 113 | Professor Andreé should have secured an fn- |* ternational copyright on the trademark used | mary, That's for mbrance,”" whieh s to be presented by John Drew and his talented American company. Itls-said thai the play .18 from beginning‘to ehd one of the sweetest love stories that has .ever been placed upon this or any other stage. At the Columbia this évening that chatming comedy, “The Case of . Rebellious 'Susan,” which was offered- here for -the: first tims by the Lyceum Theater Campany about {wo. years. ago, will ‘be presenied to -the vatrens, and rrank Worthing will assume the part that was played by Herbert Kelee; The dttraction at ‘the. Alcazar. this évening will be a double bill that will‘in¢luds < House or Home,” as'a curtaineraiser, and “i tarcieal comedy. . Three new' péople wiilap- ear -to-night, one of these ‘being ‘Wallacs liaw, who supersedes George Osbourne 'as stage manager and leading man. “A Bowery Girh,” a great Eastérn.scenicsuc: cess, will be produced this’evening at Mpros- ¢o’s Grand Opern-hotise-aud. it:will ‘be. the initial production. in:'this City:: Mand Edna Hall 1s cast for thé ‘soubretté part and Nora Hallinan wiki be ¢ Morozco will be “Warig™ I8 to bs revived-at ths Fiyoli Opera- house this eveding. iwith.the same oast.that made it 50 poplilar iwhen it was on the bosrds & few weeks ago, £dwin Stevens will again reign the :great schemer; ihe ‘Régent of Siam. The special altraction at the Orpheum this evening 1s Profassor Leonidas with his cats and dogs, which ‘is declired 10'be- tire most unique show ever o toan American audis ence. . Arniotix, the s gest woman in-the wor.d, is also 1o appe confunciion With & number ot first-class falists, pe The Chutesand 1ts free theater is a drawing card and there aro ‘many attractions {hat make it & place in which 10 spand an evening pleasantly. - The latest-atiraction 1is the Bloomer Minstrel and Extrivaganza Company, which. présen(s many entertaining features, A special foature at the Oberon:this evening will be the the debut of Miss Reynolds, a trombone soloist, and the introduction of Mi; Luda Dorrillow, aclarionetist, and Robert Eflis, vocal soloist. - This will ‘be in addition to the regular programme by the ludies’ orchestra. ————— CALIFORNTA glace fritits, H50¢ ib. Townsend's* gl Frrerar Information daily 1o manufasturars, business houses and public men by the Presy Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery, * —————— Only 832 50 to Washington, D. 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