The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 27, 1897, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27 OCTOBER 27, 1897 WEDNESDAY. JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprictor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE ve.....710 Market street, S8an Francisco Telephone Main 1863, EDITORIAL ROOMS +e02 517 Clay street phone Main 1874, THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) is served by carriers in this city and sur-ounding towns for 15 cents s week. By mail $6 per year; per month 63 cents. L THE WEEKLY CALL. ...One year, by mail, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE. vee...908 Broadway N YORK OFFICE. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay; open until o'clock. 339 Hayes street; open unul 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o’clock. SW. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open until 9 o’clock. 2518 Mission street; open until 9 o'clock. 143 Ninth street; open until 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street; open until 9:30 o’clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky sireets; open tili 9 o'clock. Rooms 31 and 32, 34 Park Row. MORE OF “YELLER” JOURNALISM. HILE the presence of the yellow journaiist 1s, on gen- ral principles, annoying to decency, still there are com- pensations. One may at least derive from study of the creature the amusement and instruction to be found in watch- ing the antics of a monkey. Indeed,a suspicion exists that the monkey is not nearer the human than is the vellow freak. Con- cerning this point there is some discnssion, as each has claims, the monkey possessing sense and the Hearstling wearing clothes. . Yellow journalism has come to be an accepted term, vetin view of its shouting over things it claims to have done the title could fairly be changed to “‘yeller.” Just now, having carried the American-Cuban campaign to a point at which it thinks the affair may safely be left to McKinley and a few other men con- stituting a sort of advisory government, the yellers still being, of course, the real Government, it has turned its attention to disposing of the Pacific roads. Nobody is expected to smile. To dispose of the roads was a work of necessity, and if the yeliers had not rushed into the breach and attended to it think of the awful fix in which the country would have been right now! True, there are scoifers who make bold to think that the President and his Cabinet had heard of the matter, and had even contemnplated doing something about it; more, that they followed out the course that to them secmed wisest, not know- ing nor caring what the yellers yelled. But to argue with these isalossof time. Away with them; their lack of faith is shoek- ing, inexplicable. But since the yellers have demonstrated so thorough!y that nothing happens without their consent and under their man- agement, let one request be made of them. According to their own truthful and modest sheets, the world is about to come to anend. They have put upa job with the sun to shed a hunk of his warm and luminous exterior in such a manner as to hit this world of ours a fatal and otherwise displeasing biff. The world has faults, it is true, but, bad as it is, it is the only one with which we are particularly familiar, and we have become attached to it. If the scheme of the yellers involved nothing more serious than suicide, if it would merely wipe them off the earth, the thought bat is coming would not be depressing, ide; it is homicide, arson and crueity but it is worse than su: to animals, L t the yellers go on running the globe. @ statement which they them firmly, verify. They are doing it Ives will blushingly, yet Tbis ouzkt to satisfy them. But for the sake of an admiring constituency and a lot of other worthy people to whom they are a source of jov they ought to let the sun a'one. It is so difficult to believe the report that the shortage ot provisions in the Kiondike was deliberately created by the transportation companies that we firmly deciine to make the sttempt. The public has shown a willingness to swallow almost any yarn from that section, but the time to draw the line is surely at hand. Ladies who wear upon their hais the feathers of innocent songsters slain may be interssted to know that by reason of the slaughter a plague of beetles has fallen upon a part of the land, But the interest will bz keen only in the few instances where a beetle shall crawl adown the necs of plumage-wearing beauty. When the Duke of Baden intimated a desire to slide down the Czar's cellar door he received an answer that on the date proposed the door would be otherwise occupied, and now he is angry. Butif the Czar shall not have the richt to say who is to slide on his cellar door, then what is the use of being a Czar? Yellow journalism pitches into Weyler for blowing his own born. This is bardly consistent. Does the privilege of blowing one’s own horn belong exclusively to the local brand of that variety of journalism? It is notexactiy pleasing to note that the uniforms of the State militia are to be made in an Eastern city. That particu- lar city has never been detected in buying its supplies in San Francisco. Spanish soldiers show a disinclination to g0 to Cuba,;from which the dread conciusion may be drawn by the timorous that they prefer to come to the United States and tackle game big enough to be interesting. Within a few days three San Francisco doctors of eminence have died. Not one of these was old. The ancient bit of wisaom in the counsel, “Poysician, heal thysel! whit of its original forc DANGEROUS POINT ARENA. AJOR BLAKENEY, superintendent of the Pacific Coast district of the United States Life-Saving Scrvice, in the course n interview published in THE CaLL yes- terday, intimates that ihe lack of a life-saving station a: Point Arens, where so many disasters have occurred, is due mainly 10 the fact that no diligent effort nas been made by the State gelegation in Congress 1o induce the Government to establish seems to have lost no ne. v According to the superintendent, while an act was passed at the last session of Congress authoriz ng a station at that place, he has no power to take steps toward providing it until instructed to do so by the officials at the head of the service. These officials reside in Washington, and from them the Pacitic Coast is a long way off. There are many points along the lakes, the Atlantic and on the Gulf Coast at which stations are desired by the people in the locality and the coast traie, and these points are kept before the attention of the Government. As Major Blakeney puts it: *“It may be the Senators and Con- gressmen r presenting other sections of the Union are more persistent and therefore more successful in securing expendi- ture of Government appropriations for the enlargement of the scope of the life-saving service than are the legislators repre- senting the Pacific Coast.”’ Of course it is not our delegates in Congress alone who are to be blamed in this matter. As a people we bave been too backward in pushing our just claims upon tue Government. It is not upon Point Arena only that many Califorma inter- ests have gone to wreck by reason of a lack of persistency in urging at Washington the legislation and supervision needed to foster them. It is not easy to go to Washington. Caiifor- nia delegations rarely appear there. It requires some subject of great importance to get a Pacific Coast rapresentation made at the pational capital, and naturally in affairs of less moment our interests are overlocked. In the particular case before us we might make a reform. An earnest effort to get a life-saving station at Point Arena should be made this winter. The whole Siate delegation should unite in working for it, and that they may do so with more force assistance should be given by the Chamber of Com- merce and other bodies having a knowledge of the importance of such a station. Too many lives have been lost already at that dangerous reef, and it is time we estaublished there a means for preventing further losses hereafter. THE UNION PACIFIC SALE. MOTION on the part of the Government to procure a postponement of the sale of the Union Pacific road has had the effect of inducing the reorganization committee to in- crease the amount of its guaranteed offer to a sum sufficient to cover the full amount of the claim of the Government against the road. On the basis of this offer, according to the latest reports, the Government has decided not to ask for a postpone- ment. It will consent to have the sale carried out on the date fixed, inasmuch as it has virtually gained all that it was striving for, The result is not unexpected. The public has been aware all along that the McKinley administration has been earnestly working to gain for the Governm:nt better terms than were secured by 'the original agreem=nt entered into by Mr. Cleveland and his Attorney-General. The first step gained was an arrangement by which the sum guaranteed as the minimum amount to be offered for the claim of the Gov- ernment was raised $5,000,000 above the amount of the first guarantee. That was something, but it was not enough, and the administration continued its efforts to obtain a bid which would save the Government from any loss whatever. These efforts were fortunately seconded by the good re- sults flowing from the enactment of the Dingley tariff. It is an evidence of the harmony of Republican policies that the effects of any one measure tend to augment the beneficial ef- fects of others. Prosperity resulting from the revival of trade under a restored protective system has encouraged capital to take part in new enterprises, and as a consequence there are more bidders for the Union Pacific under McKinley than there would have been under a Democratic administration. Every step taken by the administration in dealing with the case has tended to guard the public interests. All has been done openly and each successive new arrange.aent has been announced as soon as made. There has never been any- thing in the situation to justify the scream of conspiracy which has come from the yellow journals These clamors have but attested the excellence of the work of the administration, since they have shown what false issues ths calamity howlers have had to raise in order to have even a semblance of excuse for attacking ths administration of prosperity. In connection with these clamors of the yellow journals there is an incident sufficiently amusing to be worth noting. The Examiner has been one of the loudest in screaming con- piracy and one of the most brazen in charging that the con- spiracy was made by the McKinley administration, though all the world knows the famous arrangemsnt with the syndicate of proposed buyers was made by Cleveland with the sanction of the Democratic party in Congress. When dispatches were received from New York announcing that other bids would be made for the road, and that it was likely the Government would lose nothing, the organ of the absentee editor was for the moment thrown off its kev. It was necessary to print the news, and all it could do was to display it with big headlines announcing “The Union Pacific conspiracy frustrated by the Government.” THE CALL at that time said this was a sign of weaken- ing on the part of the yellow jousnal, and predicted that as soon as it could collect the wits of the scattered absentee it would an- nounce “Union Pacific conspiracy frustrated by the Journail- Examiner.” That prediction was vesterday fulfilled by head- lines in the yellow journal declaring ‘“‘The infamous Union Pacific Railway conspiracy defeated through the efforts of the press. It has been a long, hard fight, but Attorney-General McKenna bows to the storm of .public opinion first roused by the Examiner.” The vpoliceman who induiged in a few vigorous remarks about the nickel-in-the-slot telephone wiil not be blamed by the average citizen who has had experience with one of the evil contrivances. Of all gambling devices, except perhaps the shell and pea game, it is about the meanest. Nobody coming in contact with it can be sure of anything but getting rid of his coin. Having absorbed this the machine is wont to make the remark that the line is busy, repeating the information untif the intelligent phonograph runs down. The oniy wonder is that somebody out of the thousands goaded to desperation has not before now taken a club. smashed the deiusive concern, recovered his money and walked away with an air of conscious virtue. A NON-PARTISAN CHARTER. OR tne task of drawing up a non-partisan charter likely to find favor with the people on election day there is needed a non-partisan Board of Freenolders. No one will dispute that proposition who has not some self-interest to promoie by disputing it. If a partisan board is nominated by either party there will be partisan opposition to it and that opposition will extend even to the charter it draws un. We shall then have a repetition of the old story of charter movements in this city—a great deal of work and a greatdeal of expense ending in nothing. The sole issue in the charter discussion at this time is that of arranging for the necessary non-vartisan Board of Freehold- ers. The merits of the charter proposed by the Committee of One Hundred is not at this time invoived. Asa matter of fact that charter has not yet been completed and put into shape for discussion, and the Ezaminer in asserting that the aavocates of the non-partisan Board ¢f Freeholders areseeking to defeat the vroposed ch arter is merely evading the issue after its fashion and trying to deceive the public. The situation is a very simple one. The Commitiee of One Hundred appointed by the Mayor has no legai standing. The charter it will pr opose will be of no more legal value than a charter that might have been drawn up for London by the famous three tailors of Tooley street. To have a charter pre- pared in a Jegal way we must have a Board of Freeholders. Now, how are we to eleci that board ? Shall it be by the joint action of the committees of the great parties of the ci'y or shall it be by some other means not fully explained by those whoare op- posing the non-partisan plan? In discussing this issue there is one feature of the situation that should not be overlooked Ly the advocates of either side. The County Committees are the only bodies legally authorized to nominate Freeholders. If their nominations are not to be accepted then the candidates for the board must te nominated by petition. That course will certainly arouse antagorism and the success of the movement for 8 new charier will be endan- gered from the start. Shall we take this hazardous course, or shall we take the safe course? Thatisthe only question at issue, There is not one good reason why the members of the Com- mittee of One Hundred should oppose a non-partisan Board of Freeholders, and there are many why they snould favor such a board. They must be aware that in any contest between a ticker of Freeholders nominated by joint action of the great parties of the city and a ticket nominated against them the joint ticket would win. It is but seldom an independent wins in this city, even when Republicans and Democrats are con- tending against one another. Is it possible such a ticget can win when tney are united and working together for a cause so just a» that of electing a non-partisan board to draw up a non partisan charter? The members of the committee who have given so mnch of their time and energy to the work of preparing a charter which they deem well devised for the general good shouid now give some of their thought to the task of getting it accepted, at least to some extent, by the peopie. They can never succeed if they follow the ill-advised course advocated by the yellow joarnal The safe path is that pointed out by Txe Care. By the joint action of the committees of the organized parties of the city we can get a Board of Freeholders thoroughiy representative of the people, and to such a board the Committee ol One Hundred need not fear to submit its work. —_— Ebanks isto be resentenced to hang. Doubtless he is too keen an observer of events to be in the least alarmed at a formality so commonplace. e BTG Weyler is not to be blamed for shouting his own praises, since it is a moral certainty that unless he went to this trouble nons would be sounded. | firm’s retail houses in PERSONAL. D. 0. Harrelson of Visalia is at the Grand. Jumes Whitaker of Gait is at the Occidental. D. W. Jenks, the lawyer, from Modoc, is at the Lick. M. Goldsmith, the Stockton merehant, is at the Grand. Dr. W. B. More, U. S, N,, arrived at the Pal- ace last night, Ex-Mayor B. U. Steinman of Sacramento is at the Palace. Ex-Judge and Mrs. J. N Law of Merced are guests at the Lick. G. W. Cartwright of Fresno is registered at the Cosmopolitan. Dr. Albert R. Goodman of Portland, Or, isa guest at the Palave. William Nicholi; Flat, 13 at the Grand. H. C. Somers, the commission merchant, has returned from Oregon. Louis Heilborn, a cattleman from Sacra- mento, is at the Grand. C. H. Peterson, a merchant of Napa, 1s Stay- ing at the Cosmopolitan. J. M. Wilmous, a mining man of Newman, ig atthe Lick with his wife. W. G. Hall, a cutlery manufacturer of Bos- ton, is registered at the Grand. C. W. Ayers, & mining man from Sonors, is making a short visit at the Grand. Ex-Senator James McCudden and Miss Mc- Cudden of Vallejo are guests at the Baldwin. Clayton W. Hollis, a prominent merchant and wheat-grower of Athena, Or., is in the city. J. D. Arnold arrived at tho Baldwin last night from the East, accompaniea by his wife end son. win Dun, ex-United States Comsul to Japan, returned to the Palace late last night and registered from Tokio, Japan. H.M. La Rue, the Railroad Commissioner, came down yesterday evenming from Sacra- mento and registered at the Oczidental. L J. Maddux of Mocesto, one of the direc- tors of the Preston Industrial School at lone, arrived at the Grand yesterday evening. Fithian James Coffey of Peoria, IlL., arrived here last night on the belated Central over- land train and took apartments st the Palace. Dr. Edward Alsworth Ross, professor of so- clal science in Stanford University, arrived at the California last nf ght accompenied by Mrs. mining man from Dutch | Ross. Mrs. Jane Latnrop Stanford, who has been iu Europe for several months, has returned to New York, and is expected home here inabout two weeks. W. H. Wood, proprietor of a boot and shoe factory at Rochester, N. Y., is here travcling in the interests of his own house. He is a guest at the Baldwin. E.J. Power of New York, one of the best- known turf correspondents in the country, has arrived here to attend the winter races, He has apartments az the Palace. Mrs. G. H. Jennings and Mi<s Jennings of Oxford, Ind., accompanied by Mrs. J. W. Rom- mell and Mrs. A. Colburn, are here on a visit 10 the State and are among the guests of the Cosmopolitan. Sheriff Thomas Cunningham of San Joaquin County is at the Baldwin. He lives in Stock- ton, snd has been Sheriff for over twenty-five years. Hisrecord as a pursuer of highway- men 15 said to be one calculated to discourage the profession of knignt of the road. E. Biumer, of Schwanden. Switzerland, one of the younger members of the big cotton g00ds manutacturing firm of Blumer & Sons, arrived here yesterday on his way to visit the India and other far Esstern countries. He is stayinz &t the Pal- ace, but will depart in the steamer leaving here Saturday. F. F. Connor, general agent here of the Ore- gon Railway and Navigation Company, an- nounces the first oriental-bound steamer of Northern Pacific Steamship Company, the steamship Bracmar of 4000 tons, wili sail from Portiand, Or., on the night of October B1or the morning of November 1. and the steamship Columbia, sailing from San Frane cisco on October 30, will muke cise connec- tions with the Braemur at Portland or Astoria. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Oct. —At the St Cloud, A. Backus; Continental, G. R. Umble; Astor, & >. Houghton; Imperial, W. H. Talbot; Park venue, Dr. ana Mrs. Clinton. Euzene and rnest Oppenhe:mer left tne St. Cloud ana sailed on the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse for Miss Maria Lubben and Mrs. Bruns also sailed for Germany. Mrs. Anna Sonland Christine Vorrath arrived on the Konigin from Bremen, aiso P. Kuchenbeiser and Mrs. W. L. Woodrow of San Jose. CALIFORNIANS IN WwALHNGTON WASHINGTON, Oct. 26.—J. H. Arms of San Francisco is at the Riggs House. John M. Morton of San Francisco, a special tressary agent, who is conuected with the seal fisheries in Alaska, Is here for a few weeks. NEXT THANK=GIVING DAY. A rattling kick-off down the wiad; Caught: and a sudden fall: A pile of squirming le=s and arms; And Stauford bias the bail. And now they're at it thick and fast, i hes’re tackiing bara and low: Now our men win the siipvery sphere; And tue score begins to grow. Right through the line! asplendid runt We cheer with might and mui A dread:ul loss! confound the Juc We wish it wouldn't rain | And so with eager hearts and eyes W e watch the noble strife. And coant th~ fervest moments there The best spent part of /ife. ENIGHT DUNTAP, in Berkele Occident. STRANGEST OF FOOTIBALLCLUBS Tii-Biis. China is nota country in which one would naturally expect fooiball to be popular, but the gume has at last been introduced smong the Celestisls, aud a team has been organized which is said 10 be the strangest footbail ciub in the world. The men who form the team are natives of Northern China, and are typical of the remarkable race of giants produced in that part of the world. There is not a man among them who is not six feet high, ana several of the members sre three inch s tailer, while their average weight is about 200 pounds. The appearance of this team of gien.s on an Engiish iootball field would probably modity the piuck of some of our stauch professionals, and there woald be little inelination 10 speculateon the resuir. A c.ub with a collective weisht of 2000 pounds should carry everything b-fore it. When playing, the Celesuals give vent to their leelings it the most pecuiiar uoises, fre- quently shrieking with delight. Their vells of triumph, which resound through the air whaeuever the ball goes througn the opposite goal, are likened, by ane who has heard them, to the “plaintive cry of a pig that has been speared.” The “charging” is generally done with the hend. The ouly precaution taken by these giants in regard to their physical strength on the football field is for the preservation of their pigtails, which are cared tor as though they were worth a thousand times their weight in gold. Witn thisexception they throw caution to the winds and devoie themselves with all their strength 1o the play. Auny game where bru e strength is required they wou:d excel in. The great drawbuck to Chinese football is wantof discipline. Every man considers it Lis duty to instruct bis colleague what to do, and one-half the team yells 1o the other hall all the time the game 15 in progress. A attempt has been mlSa to bring about & foreign lour of these Chinese footba:lers, but has not yet been successful. In the event of such a tour the team will take with them their own doctors and cooks. —_— A NUMISMATIST. New York Pross. A promivent New York merchant, living in Brookiyn and crossing tae bridge every after- noon, has without malice prepsunse become a coin collector. An ancient newspaper woman who sells her daily stock at the bridge en- trance picked him out a few months agoas a 'soft thing” and proceeded 1o unjoad on him every spurious coin xnd medal that feil into her hunds. Truth compels the statement that many men “work o bad coins on bar- tenders and newsdealers. These people are always the victims. The old woman sells the merchant a 2-cent paper every afternoon, and with the change for a nickel or dime manages todrop into his hand some worthless specie. He pretends to be ignorant of her wickea de- Yiees, and now boas's of & collection of nearly 100 ancieat and modern coins and medals. | | | me?’ 1897, THE This statue in gilded bronzs, the work of just been placed in height of 13 fect, weighs 3500 pounds sand 1s ARCHANGEL MICHAEL BRONZE STATUE OF THE ARGHANGEL. SLAYING THE DRAGON. the eminent artist, Emmanue! Fremiet, has NUGGETS OF HUMOR. Pat—Biddy, darlint, th railroad aceiaent—a poor divil had bis hoad cut off an’ hisbody was Urown fifiy feet! Biddy—Was he kilt, [ aunno? Pat—Sorra a bit does the paper shtate whether he was or no.—Judge. The hour was grov Still Maud and Tom hun Said Tom. *My dear. I real To part from Sald Maud, ~We have another date To-morrow night, $0 let us wait.” Thelr aims eatwine, they 0s ulate; Then say “good-night” and s:par —Chic News. Putter—Miss Buunker is getting famous. I see the papers refer to her ss a fize golfer. Niblick—You aon’t say s Putter—Yes; here it is. *Miss Bunker is be- coming a really fine zolfer.” Niblick—* Really find Oh, that only means pretiy fair.—Pick-Me.Up. “What do you think will b that politician’s latest utierance “It depends on the ind:vidual)’ replied Willie Washington. *People who like him will call it ‘a praisewortuy step,’ and those who don’t will refer to it ‘a shrewd move.’ "—Washington Star. 25 “I often wonder just what she thinks of said the young married man. It is easy to find out,” said the elderly mar- ried man. ‘“Justsit down on her hat, and she will tell »t she tninks of you in less than a m t-Bits, ou w 1t “I asked night.” “What did he say 7" “‘Patience and long Me-Up. “The noight schules,” said Contractor Mc Getiigan, “is great instilooshuns. It wuz at thim that I wuz learned to write me signa- ture to checks."—Philadelphia North Ameri- our doctor his motto the other Darling,” he said, “did you tell your father that you were engaged “Yes, George, I did,”’ replied the maiden, butshe looked so troubled that it was some the subject. “What did I ay 2 he asked finally. “I dou’t know,” she answered. “He went out to the woodshed to say it.”—Chicago Post. A FAMOUS OLD CHURCH. Harper's Weekly, At Alexandnia, Va., staudsa in nearly its origical conditis whose are ncient church ,ClristChuren, t bore tue nume of Wren—not, however, Sir Christopher; it was completed in 1773. In November, 1766, the vestry, of whom George Washington wes one, levied an assess- ment of 31,185 pounds of tobecco 0 build two fications called for shingies of juniper, moriar 10 be two-thirds lime and one-third sand, the pediments to be in the “Tuscan,” and altar, pulpit and canopy in the “ionic order.” Wasi ingtou was the purchaser of pew No. 5, for £36 10s The oid records shcw some curious ent £2 s co lected of Bryas Fairfax iu 1 10t “killing deer out of season,’” aud Thomas Lewis was fined 5 shillings for the Sabbath.” The money thus collected for the support of the poor, the lawe u:d o biind, and buried the dead.” The oid records show that seats were assigned according to rank or for specia! reasons. Ove Susannah Edwards ofticiated as -exton, 10 the entire sa'- isfaction of (ne congre :ation. The oid edifi e had neither chimney wor fireplace until 1812, fogi-stoves iuruishin: e only warmtbh. Tne veut most conspicuous lumilies in the early hist of Virginia were worshipers st Chrst Cnurch — the Adamses, Herberts, Custises, Bleckburns, Carlyles, Alexanders, and others equally prominent. Genrrai Robert E. Lee attendei Sunda school and wus bapt.zed and coufirmed in th church, and a tabiei to his memory adorns the eastern wall. During the cccupancy of Alexandria by the Federal _troops th: rector and many of the par.sh fled within the Contederate lines; tie chureh was held by the m:litary authorities. A large mound in the churchyard marks the resting-place of thirty-four Confederate sol- diers who died in Federal hospitais in Alex- andria. Muirs, Broadwaters, HOWTHE CHINESE REj(ON TIME, Tbe frct that Chinese in America reckon time here as they are accustomed to in their own country by reigns of Emperors was re- cently illusirated in a case before a United States Commissioner. Not one of the Chinese of an interpreter were secured. Every timea date was mentioned the interpreier would consult & long sheet of paper, on which were mwany figures and Chinese symbols. This aroused the curiosity of one of ihe attorneys and the interpreter finally made it known that the Chinese method of counting time cor- responding to years is by the reign of Emper- ors. In order to facilitite matters he had written down the raigns and pieced alongsid e of them the corresponding vears. CURIOSITIES OF E CALENDAR. One of the men who make up the calendars used as advertisementis has evolved a few simple rules to facilitate the process. They are: No century can begin on Wednesday, Friday or Sunday. The same caleudars can be used every twenty years. October always begins on the same day of the week as Janu- ary, April ns July, September as December. February, March and November begin on the me aays. May, Jure and Augustalways be- gin on different days from each other and every other mounth in the year. The first and last days of the year are aiways the same. These rules do not apply to leap year when the comparison is between days beiore and after February 29. been a terrible | the effect of | suffering.’ " — Pick- | time before he mustered up courage to pursue | churches, Christ Church being oue. The speci- | hunting on | witnesses could speak English, so the services | osition on the top of the tower of the abbey of St. Michael. It has & a veritable work of art. [} FEOPLE TALKED ABOUT. Kaiser Wilhelm’s speeches during the last | two years fill 323 closely printed pages in the cheap German edition in which they are | printed. Sir Philip Currie. British Constantinovle, wi 1 soon | owa request. His dut been very hard, and Embassador at | be relieved at his s for soms years have e desires rest. Sir Edward Sassoon, who hes bought Barney | Burnato's London house, is a grandson of | Davia Sassoon, n Hebrew of Bagdad, who | made a great fortune in the India and China trade. George Sand, the noted French woman and writer, was really Mme. Dudevant, and her | retatives were so proud of her literary success j that they had the family name changed from | Dudevant to Sand—the only instance of & nom de piume legally ousting the real name. The Duchess of Aosta, who is closely related | to the King of Ialy, is a woman with a dis- tinct mind of her ow When she first began 10 evele, the King gave orders that she should not be saluted us she rode by on her wheel. Obedient to the royal command, the first sen- try she passed ignored her presence, where- upon the Duchess quietly dismounted and | boxed the man’s ears. A monument to the late Eugene Field is to be erected on the campus of the Missouri State University by the texchers and schoolehildre | ol the State. A part of the n ary fund has been raised, and an effort to complete it | will be made on Noveuiber 4 next by com- { memorative exercises, to be known as “Ficld | | day,” 1n the public schools of Missourl. Mr. | Field was a native of Missouri. The €ountess of Warwick is a noted dog fancier; indeed, her dogs are said to be better knowu in some circles thau she is herself. | | She has the finest Japanese spanieis in Europe, and they accompany her whenever she goes from oue of her houses to the other. They occupy six baskets, and monopolizs s x | shawis in their misiress’ dressin m, and | they are each and all as devoted their beautiful mistress as she is to the [ | THE *“JAiL CRAWL.” T1-Bi's. | It 1sa remarkable fact, but_little known to | any save prison authorit tives and | women peisouers themselve nearly alt that female convizts in English juils acquire a pe- culiar and unm taknble walk, whica clings to them for years, if not for liie. The strange puzzle that faces those who have tried to accouut for this gait is, thatit does | not affect the men, and is not apparent in the case of the Scotch and Irish female prisoners. It is first acquired dur.ng the daily hour of exercise, it becomes apparent after a few months, and it is, in the outside world, recog- | nized instantly, throush its characteristic lsuungcnus(. by detec ives who have, oiten | | | enough, no other reason for suspecting the sirange Woman possessing i-. An eminent Goverument official says of it: | “Itis a flui-iooted, lumpish sort of iread, ap- proaching i times to a waddle—a style of progression difficuit to deseribe, and whnich 1 can” only compare to a movement irom the h.ps, as though the chief locomotive power | were centered there. Some old officials sny that the walk originated wien certwin new | »prons ware given out and the women were | anxious to show how badly tnese fitted. Others ii0ld that some eccentric prisoner | siaried 1t as & uwovelt;. Anyhow, it hus ex- isted for years, and it is picked up unco.- sciously by & new-comer, who takes her step from tie woman in :dvance of her in the line al exercise in common. I never saw an ol convici—femele, that is—who was free from the ‘jail erawi,’ as they cail it.”” THEATER SICKWNESS. New York Tribune. ““Theater sickness” is the name of the new disease recently discovered by the. eminent French pbysician, Dr. Morticole, whicn is at present a topic of & good dexl of discussion in scientific and lay circies in Paris. The doctor declares that “iheater sickness” and seasick- ness resemble one another, take their victim | entirely unawares, and prey especially on women. The symptoms consist of giddiness, 10ss of consciousness, a deep faint, anda in pere verse cases the malady causes death. It seizes a victim afier ne has gazed 10ng at- the stage and more commo ly iu tragedy than in c edy, and, in_brief, it constitutes a specie: asphyxia. When men teel “theater sickne comiug on tuey become, according 1o Dr. Mor- le, ovlivious to al consider: tions ot local- and put their heads between their kuees, | while women feel an inclination to reciing with their feet at au acute angle above their heads, so excessive is the vertigo. For- tunately, cases of ‘‘theater sickness” ure as yet the exception rather tua: the rale. A thewter where ail :he men’s heads would be bowed down between their knces and where all . he women were to have their feet in the air would furnish @ strange mixture of the mournful and of the niarious. ILLUSTRIOUS> STA®™MERERS, Pitisbur: Dispatch, A great many p ople do not know that Moses, the prophet, stuttered o badly that Aaron, his brother, did most of the talking for him. It mayaiso be balm for some people who stammer to know that Esop, Virgil and Demosthenes were iikewise afilicied. Demos. thenes is said to have cured himself by leari. ing to talk with & pebble in his mouth = Mrs, Inchbold, the famous English aciress, was another who triumpned over a aifficuity of speech. More than one oi the Fremen k. ngs have been stammerers, as were al; > Michael IT, Emperor of 1he Eas'; ;;:r?ol;;l'x:}u! Rasser, King o. Spain; Erie, Admiral Annebant; Tartaglia, tne Italian engi- neer; Boissy d’Anz.as, the painter David, ihe King of Sweden; ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS ApavEs—Normal Student, C:’A!ro},;CA'l'.se;‘:l:s of Adayes” that appearsin “*Eval 1 ot 10 be lound 1u any of the books of reference. EREEE 3 INGERSOLL—G. M., Watsonville, Cal. T'hls corresponaent wishes to know where hebu;xf find “Ingersoll’s address at the (Dn: e Napoleon?” Can any of the roaders o department tell 7 HARVESTE vesters 1 OW thirty-two feet. inSan Joaguin cuts widta of Afiy-1wo feet, failure. ‘ Misstox STREET CARS—P. F. 8., City. The cars of the Mission-strzet electric line weigh about ) small_oes about seveu tons The weignt of motors is about two tons. \I\"lellg‘l\l‘( St eable-cars of the Market-street sys- tem is about five tons. Subscriber, Point Arena, Cal. The oilers, etc., are the they are regu- P., City. The largest har- in general use cut & width of Some time ago one was tried Va.ey thac was intendea to but it proved & ten tons and the Waa wages paid o coginoers, con all steamers, because U fated by the Association of Evgineers. - As to the salnries of other officers you should direc your inquiry to the OWners Of tne vessels you wish to know about- ViNa RascH—V. P., City. Vina ranch, in Tobama County, Cal., has, in addition to a very large acreare pianted in wheat, al.:‘_mt 4000 acres set out in vines and fruit. l'ne‘ wine-cellars on the ranch have a Copacity of more than 1,000,000 of galions. About 2 persons are employed on the ranch. I PosTAGE STanps—Mrs. K., City. The ques- tion. “Is & large quantity of cauceled United States posiage stamps of any yalue?” eannot be answered. S:amps are only valuable l‘lxll the ratio of their scarcity, and to determive your coilection is ot any value em'bvs'mmp would have to be pass-d upon separately. HYDROGEN PEROXIDE—Dash, C Ii you have been so unlortunate as to bleach your hair with hydrogen peroxide this depariment is sorry for you, but it cannot adv you as X the best method to restore your hair 1o iy nataral color. You hada better consult somd one who makes a specinlty of ireating the§ hair. A newspaper might give you a recipe that would work well in one case and in another it might prove a positive injury. i, P., City. The six cities in where the grestest amonnt New Phila- 1,13 TONNAGE—H. the United S.at of tonnage eutered during 1896 werl York, 6,911.7! 1,757,281; dolphia, 1.416,081; S.n Francisco, 1,221,13€ New Orleans, 1, , and_Baltimore, 895, 093. The six cities irom which the greatest iount_of tonnage c eared during the yi : New York, 6,552,614; Boston, 1, Philadelphia, 1.214.65¢ Francisco, 1,165,7¢ 3 Balui- , Alcatraz Islend, Cal. In American named Johu Stevens, hav- ing taken up his father’s 1deas on protecied floating batteries, proposed to the United States Government the construction of an ironclad ship, impervious to the artillery of that time. le began the construction of such a vessel 420 feet long and 52 feet in breadth, susceptibie of changed buoyaney by means of compartments fitted to receive or reject water at pleasure, aud which made the resistance of water & means of protection from shot and nade the guns avanab e in every direction. Tais ship underwent various modificatious, pussed into the hands of his brother, Edward who offered it in vain fo the vernment during the Civil War and equeatied it at his death 1o the Ste of New Jersey with $1,000,000 to complete1t. The French were tne first 10 ap- ply in a practical shape the idea which origi- nated vith Stevens. During the Crimean war that uation built five floating batteries, ciad with 43¢-1nch iron on au 8-ir ouk backing. The fifst of these was the Ton guns, launched at B.est March, 1855. Three of these vessels took part in the bom uardment of Kinburn, in the Black Ses, on the 17th of October of the year named. CONSTITUTION'S FIGURE-HEAD. In 1834 Captain Elliot, who had been sec- ond in comwend at Lake Erie, under Oliver Perry, excited a violent political and par.isan demonstration by decorating, at the Boston Navy-yard, the bow of the Coustitution with a figure-bead of Pr 0 stormy night bis excellency was decapita as neatly and deftly as if ihe best tools with patient labor enlisted the brightest su shine in the de-ecration. Marines and blue- jackets were held under dark suspicion, and ihe countrs seethed in a ferment of keen con- tention. 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