The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 9, 1897, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1897 THURSDAY... DECEMBER 9 1897 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. OFFICE. Market and Third streets, Ban Francisco Telephone Main 1868, ....... eee0sa wB17 Clay street Telephone Main 1874, THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) is served by carriers in this eity and surrounding towns for 15 cents a week. By mail $6 per year; per month 65 cents. PUBLICATIO! EDITORIAL ROOMS THE WEEKLY CALL..... ..One year, by mail, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE 908 Broadway Eastern Representative, DAVID ALLEN. NEW YORK OFFICE. ... -Room 188, World Building WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE €. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. ..Riggs House BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay; open until 9:30 o’clock. 9 Hayes street; oven until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o’clock. SW. corner Sixteenth and open until 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open 143 Ninth street; open until 9 o'clock. 1505 et; open unti 0 o’clock. NW. corner Twenty-second acky sireets; open (119 «'clock. ROARING FUN. HE most stupendous joke that has been perpetrated upon Tlhis city for a long time is the assumption of the Mission- Street yellow journal that the public will accept the affidavit of one of its hirelings at Seattle to controvert the statements of the wife of Captain Frank Tuttie of the revenue cutter Bear. Mrs. Tuttle exposed the falsified telegram of the yellow sheet in order to protect the honor of her husband, who is absent and cannot defen d himself. For that faking con- cern to pit the fidavit of the man who evidently com- mitted the offense against this lady’s unsupported word is laughable in the extrems. Under the circumstances no one would believe him if he swore upon a stack of Bibles as high s the new Claus Spreckels building. The yellow journal must have intended that affilavit for circulation among the inmates of the Stockton Asylum for the Insane. EVILS OF SELF-SLANDER. HE great misiortune of San Francisco consists in the pres- ence among its population of a few persons who constantly seek to further their personal and business interests by libeling and slandering their rivals and the city. I¢is difficult to discover the origin of this spir.t or to determine upon what principle it Is based. We only know that it is the moving force not only of our commercial life bat of our political and social intercourse. It manifests itsetf on every important occasion and is al- ways irrespunsible. The moment a business enterprise is launched, the moment a man appears capable of leading us, the moment an individual is advanced in public life, the moment anybody attempts to serve the community in any way, that moment the campaign of mud throwing begins. The recent assault on Attorney-General McKenna, who is on the eve of being appointed a Justice of the United S:ates Supreme Court, is only one of a long line of similar spectacles. The opposition to Judge McKenna has notarisen from a fear that he is incapable of performing the duties which will de- voive upon him as a member of t e Federal Supreme Court, but it is founded, we do not hesitate to effirm, upon personal er and vrofessional malice. We do not believe that the protest against his appointment began in Oregon. It has all the earmarks of a San Francisco vroduction. It was at least conceived here; for a document so frivolous, and for that reason so infamous, conid scarcely have originated anywhere else. Nor does it appear that the reckless persons who persistently malign our public men care whether or not their envy and malice result in damaging the city or State. When oppor- tunity presents they do not scruple to attack our resources or attempt to destroy our trade. For the purpose of marketing their own granite not long ago, a few stone men circulated the slander that the Inyo quarries were incapable of sup- ylying sufficient marble for the construction of the new Post. office. Within afew days the Alaskan Trade Committee, a body appointed for the purpose of securing the business for the mer- chants of this city of outfitting Kiondike expeditions, has been grossly slandered by an anonymous iib:ler. T'he fact that in this latter instance the subject of attack was THe CALL is immaterial. The point is that the committee was indirectly used to wreak the jealous rage of somebody, and 18 a result, instead of proseculing the business for which it was organized, its members have been compelied 1o engage in an exciting search for ihe slanderer. In furtherance of their in- dignation they have offered a reward of $500 for his appreben- sion. It is not difficult, however, to designate the source from which some of 1hs spirit of malicious envy proceeds. Un- doubtedly a portion of the press is largely responsible for it. It has long been the policy of our disreputable newspapers to create the impression abroad that San Francisco abounds with political thieves and plunderers, and that all our govern- ments—State £nd county—are corrupt and debased. By repeating the smail talk of inconsequential personsand pursuing and publishing rumors which originate in malice and envy, these same papers have created a spirit of gossiping recklessness which vents iiself in all sorts of libels and slan- ders, public as well as private. Tnis sentiment has thrivea by waat it has fed upon. Thus Californians have brcome notorious the world over for their bickering and fault-finding, for their slanders and personal quarrels and for the unanimity with which they unite against any one of their own number who raises his head above the common mass, But the Alaskan Trade Committee need not consume much time in searching for the libeler who has on this occasion in- terrupted iislabors. There is but one source from which the false circular against THE CaALL could have procee ded. The.e is but one institution in San Francisco which habitually deals in similar libels, There is but one bird of evil which constantly hangs over the city<a menace to the public irterest, a blot upon the common intelligence and a harbinger of the mental, moral and commercial eclipss wnich inevitably awaits the further en- largement of its sphere of devilment. Shall we designate more definitely the persons who are responsible for this, the latest blow at San Krancisco? At last the police have captured areal burglar. The gentle- man had the disadvantace to be dead, but led them a lively chase notwithstanding. If he had beea alive doubtl s they would still have been pottering with a lot of clews leading directly away from him, The kidnaping of a slave girl at Fresno ought to strike Eastern readers as peculiar, even though they entertain for the Chinese a deep and abiding affection. What this part of the country needs is a new emancipation proclamation. Probably the St. Louis actor who has been discharged be- cause a lot of fool girls so littered the stage with floral offerings as to interfere with the shifting of the scenery realizes that there is such a thing as being too beautiful. The reverend gentleman who is engaged ina holy war upon bloomers might gather comfort from the fact that he doesn’t have to wear them. Also thatin his efforts he will have the smiling approval of Charlotte Smith Esq, One of the thinzs likely to be seen soon will be a large array *of ardent McKenna supporters, loving him for the enemies he has made. g Durrant’s last hope hus gone again. Really this thing will become annoying to Durrant afier awhile. TEXAS AND HAWAIL S THE CALL has repeatedly declared, the treaty annex. A ing Hawaii cannot pass the Senate for lack of the requisite two-thirds majority. In this emergency the speculators in outside real estate propose to annex by joint resolution, quoting the absorption of Texas as a precedent. It happens, however, that the Texas case lacks analogy—it is not on all fours with the present proposition. Texas became an independent Government by the victory of San Jacinto in 1836. Santa Anna was compelled to sign the treaty effecting that change. The Lone Star Republic entered the family of nations. In 1839 the United States entered into a treaty with Texas to define the boundary between the two countries. Nine years after Texan independence was achieved March 1, 1845, Congress passed a resolution not to ‘‘annex” Texas, but in the following terms : “That Congress doth consent that the territory properly included within and rightfully belonging to the republic of Texas may be erected into a new Stafe, to be called the State of Texas, with a republican form of government, fo be adopted by the people of said republic, by deputies assembled in convention, with the consent of the existing Government, in order that the same may be admitted as one of the States of this Union. ““The foregoing consent of Congress is given upon the fol- lowing guarantees, to wit: First, said State to beformed, sub- ject to the adjustment by this Government of all questions of boundary that may arise with other governments; and the constitution thereof, with the proper evidence of its adop- tion by the people of said republic of Texas, shall be trans- mitted to the President of the United States to be laid before Congress for its final action, on or before the 1st day of Janu- ary, 1846.” The resolution then recites that the public land in Texas shall remain the property of that State, not beccming part of the public domain of the United States, and that “in no event shall the debts and liabilities of the republic of Texas become a charge upon the United States.” In the December following Tcxgs became a State under this action. The adjustment of the boundary brought on the Mexican war. States and received ten millions therefor. Out of the land so purchased have been formed parts of Kansas, Colorado and New Mexico. To go back to the conditions under which Texas came into the Union; it was at once admitted as a State; its State constitution, definitely adjusting the manner and form of its government, and adopted by the people, was submitted and subjected to that provision of the Federal constitution which requires the United States to guarantee to each State a re- publican form of government. Now, if the Texas case be followed in Hawaii, that coun- try must be at once admitted as a State after referring the change of sovereignty to the people. The people must adopt a State constitution, so that not only they but the people of | 6 the United States may know that the government of the State of Hawali is republican in form. This raises atonce the question, Who are the people of Hawaii? Will a government ratified by 2 per cent of the peo- ple be accepted by the United States as republican in form ? Being admitttd as a State by the Texas precedent, under what declaration of the Federal constitution can we exclude any portion of the people now in Hawaii from entry into any other State of the Union? It will be seen that, driven by public opinion to abandon | the treaty for lack of votes to pass it, all the pretended prohi- bitions of the treaty to prevent the Hawaiian Asiatics bscom- ing free commoners in the United States fall with it. We have shown that these professed prohibitions were the merest pre- tense, untenable in law. Yet the advocates of the treaty have relied mainly upon them and they have boasted them as the sugar inside the annexation piil. By what form of bill or resolution can Congress set up inequality of government for Hawaii and suspend the equal operation of the Federal constitution? These questions cannot be waived aside by prating of manifest destiny, strategy and appeals to pseudo patriotism. They are practical and must be answered. To proceed on the line of the Texas precedent only brings the glaring features of the scheme into more repulsive promi- nence. A Japan is beginning to feel the pinch of the goldbug. Vice- Consul Sharpe at Hiog» hassent to the State Department some clippings from papers In that country releting to prices and labor. The Kokurnin Shimbun says the rise in the prices of commodities becomes greater and greater every day. Compared with ten years 8go prices have risen 45 per cent, while wages have risen only 39 per cent. Japan will like the gold policy, we hope. TWEEDLEDEEING IN FRESNO. FREE siiver parer in Fresno says: Now have we not heard from the lips of Bryan on the rear platform of many trains on many roads that the golabug policy and the gold standard lower prices, oppress the producer, beggar the farmer and enable the owner of gold to take to him- self more and more of the fruits of the earth and the products of toil? Was not the campaign of last year made upon the issue that there has been a progressive decline of prices meas- ured in gold, and that the only balm for the healing of the nations was in the free coinage of silver at 16 to 1, which would raise prices? " Now. if the adoption of the gold standerd by Japan bas raited prices and wages what becomes of the icundation of the whole free slverargument? If that argument were sound, prices and wagesshould have fallen instend of rising in that empire. The gold yen should have shown a purchasing power more than 45 per cent greater than the silver yen possessed, ana the people should have been groening under a depression of all values except that of gold. 1f definite adoption of the gold standard raises prices we should at once give up cur pretense of a double standard, throw bimetallism to the Mexicans, all come out for gold and reap the rewards of sound policy and a good conscience by ta king cheerfully an advance of 45 per centin the value of every man’s property. We are of the ovinion that even the free silver raisin-grow- ers of Fresno would not reiect a goldbug ad vance of 45 per cent in the price of their crop added to the greater advance which they admit has come with the increased protection against Spanish raisins and Greek currants, —_— Ben Hill, zccording to tele.raphic advices, is to ba hanged by reason of the non-interference of the SBupreme Court at Washington. However, this view of the matter, from the standpoint ot Mr. Hill, 1s too depressing to be accepted, and will be regarded by the public as over-sanguine. The action taken at Washington merely has the effect of throwing the case back upon the State courts, and no more pleasing situ- ation save absolute freedom could be devised for an assassin, Luetgert, accused of the murder of his wife, has appealed to the public for funds. The people are accustomed to having murderers appeal indefinitely, but this is a little unusual. Even Durraat, with whom the appeal habit is a fixture, seem ‘o have overlooked something. Rumor declares that Phil Armour is likely to be pinched for several millions by the Leiter clique, but the gentieman will scan the horizon vainly for any trace of sympathy. He has been the pincher so often that the position ot pinchee will be not only novel but just. Eleven football players, just enough to make a team, have been killed on the field this season. Wonder of two kinds arises in contemplation of this fact—that the game continues popular and that fatalities are so few. Mme. Herrmann’s failure in the role of smuggler showg that the ability to deceive the eye depends largely upon stage effects. Texas ceded part of her lands to the United | PERSONAL A. J. Larsen of Lodi came here yesterday. Mrs. E. Robinson of Auburn is at the Lick. Dr. E'mer E. Stone of, Marysville is in the eity. E Jacobs, the Visalia capitalist, is at the Oc- cldental, W. C.Swaln, a contractor of Marysville, is at the Grand. Attorney W. H. Hatton of Modesto is at the Lick House, George L. Hoxie, a Fresno surveyor, is at the Lick House, E. W. Hale, of Hale Bros,, arrived from Sac- ramento last night. Ewil Dinkelspiel, a newspaper man of Suisun, is at the Grand. Horace L. Smith, a prominent attorney of Hauford, is at the Grand. Dr. Gilstrap, recently from Tulare, has apart- menls at the Cosmopolitan. Fred Erickson, the raiiroad contractor, came down from Sonora iast night= J. C. Ruddock, director of the insane asylum 8t Ukiah, was in town yesterday. Louis Arguello, a capitalist from San Jose, Tegistered at the Palace yesterday. L. H. Chittenden, a large orcherd owner of Hanford, was in the city yesterday. Genevra Johnstone-Bishop, the well-known vocalist, of Chicago, is at the Palace. Attorney 1 Bird arrived here yesterday from Merced and is at the Grand Hotel. T. B. Dilion, owner of the Columbia mine in Amador County, arrived here yesterday. J. K. Ormsby, a Chicago fruit-packer, arrived bere yesterday and registered at the Palace. Dr. ana Mrs. Thomas Flint of San Juan arrived here yesterday and are at the Grand. W. A. Pinkerton of Chicago, the fouuder of Pl‘nkonnn’l detective agencies, is at the Bald- win, Lieutenant P. T. Lansdale of the United States steamer Alert fs staying at the Calie fornia. H. Wittenberg, manager of the Portland Biscuit and Cracker Company, arrived here yesterday. S. McCraney and F. Crawford of Portland, Or., are amony the recent arrivals at the Cos. mopolitan, Road Master Shumas of Paso Robles, accom- pauied by his wife, are stobping at the Cos. mopolitan. ‘Junll Gallagher and Frank McLaughlin of 8an Ardo, for many years in the employ of the Southern Pacific Company, are guests at the Cosmopolitan, J. E. Davenport, district passenger agent of the Toledo, St. Louis and Kansas City Rail- road, arrived here yesterday from St. Lo uis on business connected with his ro CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Dec. 8.—At the St Cloud, J. Mclabe; Murray Hill—W. Bunker; Manhat- tan—G. D. Cromwell; H ffman—J. Martin; Imperial—Miss V. Price, Mrs. E. E. White; Broadway Central—H. Co Sachs; . Hood; Gilsey—J. M. Mackey, F. W. Jacob Wollner and wi:e left the St. Cloud and sailed on the St Paul for South. Gotobell. ampion. Mrs A.M. Abbott, Master Ernest W. Abbott and James K Rentou also sailed for Europe. e CALIFORN., NS IN CHICAGO. CHICAGO, Dec. 8.—At the Auditorium—J. H. Thompson and wife, Miss K. C. Tyrrell, Oakland; J. B. Hagsin and vel Ams: den and Miss Voorhees*and maid, San Fran. cisco. Auditorium Aunex—Arthur L. Whit ney, San Francisco, e el HOW FATHERCARVE THE DUCK. We all look on wi.hanxious eyes W hen father carves che dnck And mother almost aiways st W hen futher carves the du Then ail of us prepaie Lo rige And hola vur bibs before our eves And b prepared for some surprise, When father carves ihe duck. He braces up and e Whene er he ca:ve And won’t allow a sout t Until he carves the duck The 1ork is jabbed Iuto the sides, Across the breast the kuife be slides, While ev 1y careful | erson hid From greasy chips of duck. a for} The platter’s alwars sure to silp, Whea father carves the dnck. And [t makes all the Potatoces fiv amuc . The sauaso and cabbace leap in space, Some oue geis gravy m the face, And fa-her mut:vrs Hindoo erace, Whene'er Le carves a duck shes skip— We have all learned to walk around The dining-room, and pluck From off ihe window i Is and w: Our share of father's duck, Whils fa her gTow = & 1d LIow: And swears the knife is full of flaws, And motber je rs au him because He cannot carve a duck A. 1. 5. in Atlanta Journsl. —_— NOTES A.OUT NOTABLES. Augustus St. Gaudens is making an eques- trian statue of General Sherman to be pluced probably not far from General Graut's tomb, The cost will be §50,000, Senator Mason inspexking in Chicago of the United States Senate few days ago, said: “The word ‘parliameut,’ you know, is derived from ‘parley,’ 10 talk. 1have oiten wondered why the Uniied States Senate wa: Senate instead of a parliament,or a ment.’” Prince Roland Bonaparte is cutting some figure in krance as a patron of science. He has lately been paying the expenses of a me- tecrological cxperiment made 1n the upper strata of the aimosphere, with a balloon pre- seuted to the Ceniral Meteorological Bureau by M. Balascnoff, a Russian milionaire, M. Osiris, a well-known French philanthro- phist, has shown his interest in the Parisia exhibition of 1900 in a tangible way. He has jusi d-posited at the Bank of France a sum of $20.000, which he has placed at the disposal ©Of the Parisian press syundica.e to reward the exhibiior of the most meritorious work in he exnibition from an artistic, industrial or humanitarian point of view. — LONDON STiLL GROWING. London »ews. Some striking figures which have Just been published seem (o indicate that the wonder- ful growth of the vast province of houses that we call London is going on as vigorously as ever. A return just published states that the number of hou built in London in the twelve months ending August last was no less than 14,591 This s, of course, in the Greater London of the Regisirar-General. The Lon- don of the school board contained in 1891 the vast aggregate of 557,134 inhabited uouses, which was more thau one-tenth of all the dwellings in England and Waies. Birming- bam had 85,624; Liverpool, 91,484, and Man- chester, 100,249. But in tne Greater London of the Registrar-General's weekly return tne number of inhabited houses was 767,679, or uearly one-sixth of the nouses ia England and Wales, The largest sggregate of inhabited dwell ings uext io thatin the Thames Valiey is that on the Irwell, where the twin towns vl Mx chester and Saiford had between them 139 41 inhabited honses, But London at the pre Tate of growth is sading more to its stre and squares in ten years than the whole of Manchester and Salford put togethier. Yet £Ven the present gigantic growtn is not quite €qual to that which took place in each of the ten yea Dding with the last census, It is exceedingly difficuit to reslize what this increase represenis. All arounda the metro- Polican area the builders are incessauuy at Work, and by whatever route one leaves it, Whether by road, rail or river, everywhere the long lines of new sireets encroach upon the meadows, and there is & new town in the making. There 1y i a new town, for each year Loudou edds au Inswich,a Northamp- ton, a S uthemypton ora Reading to itsalready Eigantic size. Nefther of these towns, iarge, active. enterprising ey coniaiied in 150 many houses as are edded to London every year. The; all growing with great Tapidity, »nd probably each of them now con- tains wcorly »s many houses as London adds to 1self yearly. 11is impossible not to look forward with “interest, not uumingled with anxiety, as 10 the fuiure zrowthof this vast center of the British empire. Low’s horenound cougn Syrup cures bronchitis, price 10c, 417 Sansome st. * MUSIC AND MUSICIANS, The Society of the Alumnt and Pupils of the ational Conservatory of America held its first mecting at East Seventeenth street, NewYork, recently, with Wiliord Watters in the chair. The object of the meeting was to appoint a president, and Oscar Saenger proposed the neme of Lillinn Blauvelt, who was elected by general acclamation. Miss Blauvelt is an old pupil of the conservatory and was much grati- fled by the compliment paid her. This lady, Who is a native of oston, has been before the public for some time and is considered one of the greatest of our mative singers. At the | great Maine music festival in October she was considered the great success; nothing like the | mad enthuslasm with which she was greeted bad ever been evoked in Maine before. She was recalled again and again, cheered to the echo by audience and chorus, and the chorus waved their bandkerchiefs so vigorously they seemed like a dense cloud of snowflakes. Mme. Blauvelt has always been considered she confided the fact that she wasthe morgan- atic widow of Czar Alexander L She ap peared to be wealthy, possessing diamonds and other jewels. besides money. It was for purposes of robbery that she is supposed to have been murdered. Prior to her death she was making preparations for a performance At the Opere-house Salvador, but was for- bidden by the authorities because she was thought to have been exposed to yellow fever. She subsequently sought the protection o the | French Consul, but was refused because she was traveling with the Count de Castro with- out having been divorced from Prince Dol- gorouky. At the last Paris Exposition the Priucess led a ladies’ orchestra al! dressed in Russian peasant dress. She ealled herself her | serene hizhruess the Princess Lili Dolgorouky, | ana in 1892 was playing the violin in New York. A private letter from New York says that LILLIAN BLAUVELT, THE WELL-KNOWN BOSTON SINGER. happy in her domestic relations, so it was with surprise that the pubiic learned that she was applying fora divorce from Royal Stone | Smith, barytone soloist of the First Presby. terian Church in Henry street, Brooklyn. Mme. Blauvelt alleges in her complaint that she married in 1888, and that instead of con- tribu ting to Ler support and welfare her hus- band lived on her earnings as a singer. [ was interviewed by a CALL reporter, Tirough coun-el Mr. Smith denied the allegs- tions. According to Mme. mony she earned from §10,000 (0 §12,000 a year. An absolute divorce was granted on the 27th of last month. Lililan Biauvelt sang in public when & mere chiid, a:d even at that time was pronounced an artist of especial merit. She met Mr. Smith when a student at the conservatory and within & year after the marringe the couple went to Paris and studied together. pub fc by the Seidl Society and ina short time attained an enviable reputation. Mme. Bleuvelt is best known on the concert stage. M. Kufferath, editor of the Guide Musical, is ou the pointof pubissing an 1mportant Work upon {he Meisiersingers. This is a piece of news which will interest the musical pub- lic, as the preceding works of this author on the Wagnerian Theater have been so well re- ceived and it isso long since he issued tne last, which was Tristen. were historical, poetical and analytical Lis- tories of *Parsifal,” ““Lohengriu,” etc. While waiting for the publication of his book, M. Kufferath has given a few sdvance notices in two instructive articles in Le Guide Musical upon the genesis of the Meistersing- ers. We select two anecdotes llile knowu, The first took place at Frankifort, whither the mastr had gone to dir ¢t two representations of “Lohe:grin.” “Wagner slighted at the hotel of the Swan, where he pussed eight duys. The directors of the theater naturaily under- took the expenses of his sojourn, but they wished to do more. Knowing that his posi- tion was not very brilliant, they sent him a few Cays aiter to Bielrich, by the register gen- eral, a richly ornemented box contatning 40 frederics d'or—quite a larye sum. But Wagner wou'd not mccept it. 1 time,’ said he, ‘thai the directers of the theater wish for me, Lwill willingly uccept their invitation, bui I | cannot accept money. If Germany can do nothing for me this gift, however considera- ble, is of no use to me. The messenger re- turned to Fraukiort, carrying the 40 ireder- ics, and Wagner, three weeks afterward, was reduced to the necessity of borrowing more money.’” The second anccdote 100k place in 1866, the period when Wagner was tranquilly installed at Trihchen (Lucerne) working on the Master- singers. For the delicate work of putting his manuscript in proper shape he engaged a young man, timid and, as yet, little known; this was no other than Hans Richter, who, already at this time, was admirably convers- ant with the technique of all the orcnestral instruments of which he had made a special study. He was not only an accompliished pianist, but he also played the'violin, the flute and the hor, his favorite instrument. Wag- ner, although verfectiy aware of the special knowledge of his assistuni, never consuited him ou the employment of such and such an instrument. Simply in the morning he went up to Richter’s room with leaves on which the ink was stili moist and pointing out z passage asked bim, “Do you believe that this passage could be executed on the horn with sufficient rapidity? Is it not too difficult?” This referred 10 the final passage of tue second act, where the horn retakes the theme in Beckmesser's serenade. Richter examiued the passage and reassured the masier, “Certainly, that can be done; but it would souund very droll, it would be nasal.” “Perfect!” cried Wagner; “‘that is just what I wish. The effect ought to be comic.” Thon Richter had to take his horn and repeat the passage over and over again, esch time more rapidly. Wagner was de- lighted; it was exactly the effect he wanted. In the evening it frequently happened that Richter took a boat and went for a row on the luke, and installea himself ina little island hidden by brush and tall weeds, and there amused himseif by making the hiils resouna with the music of his horn. Waguer was much amused with thess musical nocturnes, The day alter this episode he questioned his good copyist, “Rickter, what was that you played last night?” “Parbleu, master, it was a passage from the Meistersingers.” Wagner laughed and appeared to be enchanted. A short time sgo the papers contained an account of the poisoning of the Princess Dol- gorouky at Salvador by her secretary, an adventurer calling himself Count de Castro. Itis perhaps vot known that between three and four years ago this lady was iu San Fran- cisco and appeared at the Or;heum, where she played the violin and gave Russian folk songs in native costume. At that time she to whom Blauvelt's testi- | She was introduced to the American | His tormer works | the first povular Sunday concert at the Metro- politan, with Seidl as conduetor, Was a splen- did success. Raoul Pugno, who is in Ame | for the first time, played exquisitely, with a | touch so marve.ously clear, liqnid and deli- | cate that he certainly surpassed Pzderewski. | Ysaye played with ail his oid passion and was | rav-urously received; Fol con sang de- | | lightfully, and the Scidl orchestra wes great. The only drawback was poor Miss Van Cort- land, the mezzo soprano vocalist. She “boo- hoo’d” on Ler notes, and the audience, which | was & very criticai on ', laughed in her face. The pap:rs next morning sald: “The ouly weak spot of the evening’s entertainment was | the fuilure of Miss Van Cortland, through nervousness. It was shameful that the house should behave in the disgraceful manmner that itdid. Men led the laughter that greeted the siuger’s mishap,” Patti has an album of autographs, some of which are of great value. Among them are the following: *My dearAdeiine, nothing is easicr for me than (o put a thought in your album; & thought which ves through my head, to cherish you as an adorable creature, | 10 admire your ravishing talent, to be always | your friena.—Paris, February 16, 1864 G. | Rossini.” “To his ravishing Dinorah the | grateful anthor presents his homsge and the expression of his admifation.—Paris, April 8, 1864. Meyerbeer.” “Oportet patti. Latinists translate (his adage by: It is necessary to suffer. The monks by: Bring the pie. The frienas of music by: Patti is necessary to us. H. Berlioz "’ The Berliner Signale publishes an announce- ment of an antiphone, an iuvention intended, as its name indicates, to prevent the function of the auditory sense—against neizhboriug musicians too disagreeably loud. The anti- phone, invented by a man named Plessner, is for sale by the optician Schilier, Luisen- Sirasse, at Berlin; it is composed of two little balls of gutta-percha, which by the help of a spring can be applied against the opening of the ear. Souzogno recently offered to conduct at his own expense the baliet school at La Scala, | Milan, which would otherwise have beeu | closed, s the theater will be until there is some legal settlement of the dispute between the stockholders and the municipulity ot Milan. Sonzogno has written that, rather than see an art, in which his 1and hss always been illustrious, deciine for the lack of the support of a few people, he will look aiter the Scala Echool himself. At the isleof Iliec, where Ambroise Thomas, proprietor of the small domain, oiten went for a vacation, they have solemnly insugu- rated a commemorative chapel in honor of | the composer. It has been erecied in the | midst of the rocks, in a favoritespotof the | author of ‘‘Mignon.” The altar which has | been established there dates from the twelfth century, and has been taken from the ancient church of Saint-Yves. Many Breton sailors and fishermen assisted at the inaugural cere- mony. There bas just been patented at Berlina “trausposer for the violin.”” The invention appears to be easily adaptable, and permits of executing music one or several tones or semi- tones higher or iower, without having re- course to that always perilous operation of transposition. FLASHES OF rUN. “Is there no balm in Gilead?” reacher. P'The druggist in the front pew moved un- easily and rubbed bis eyes. “All out of it at present,” he murmured, gently; “but I can give you something just as ood.”” Afterward he s'ept more peacefully.—Puck. cried the “I wonder who ever thought of making =a cake knife with a scalloped edge like that?” remarked Mrs. Newwed, holding up her late purchase for her husband to see. “It was one of those accidental inventions,” replied Mr. Newwed, meaniy. *The feilow who made it used an ordinary knife to cut some of his wife’s first pound cake. When he got through it looked like that.’’—Cincinnati Commercial-Tribune. A father recently wiote to Oxford Uni- versity: “What are your terms for a year? And does it cost anything extra if my son ‘wants to learn to read and write, as well as to row a boat?”’—Tit-Bits. “My wife and I have our little quarrels once in a while,” said the man who lives, with others, in the Pasteboard Flats, “but thev are all over in a few minutes.” *“1 presume you mean all over the house?” said the other man, who bad had some ex- perience in flat life.—Indignapolis Journal. Little Billy—Pop, what'1l I git on Chris'mus? His Pop—Nothin', if yer good.—The Yellow | Book. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS, THE ART INSTITUTE—O. J., City. The ArtIn- stiture is open 10 the public on the last Friday of each mouth, without admission fee. HMars—R. C.S., Acampo, Cal.. For such & map as vyou desire of the Alaska seaboard you ould address the Coastand Geodetic Survey? praisers’ building, ~an Francisco. CHOYNSKI-MAHER—J. R., City. Choynski and faher never fougnt but once, and that was in ew York, about a vear ago, when Maher ’ knocked out his o iin the sixth round. Tue Criric—E. L., Oukland, Cal. Ashton Stevens 1s not &t this time the dramatic critie for the News Latter, but is for THE CALL. Tae er1 ews Letter is a gentleman numed Davies. MBIAN HALF-DoLLARS—A. M. E., City Whiie dealers do not offer anv premium on Columbian_haif-dollars of 1892, the valuo t they place on such coins may be judged the fact that they charg: $1 50 apiece 1or them. VALUE oF Cors—J. J., City. A 50-cent piece of 1836, unless it is one with a milled edge and without the words E pluribus unum on the reverse, does not command any pre- minm. ther does a quarter of 1844, nor dimes of 1841 aud 1842, command 8 premium. M <o J. Herz—H. J. L. and H. 8, City. Dr. Cornelius Herz, who figured in the Panama scandal in counection with the canal, and against whom there is & judgment of imprisonment pro- nounced in irance, is very much alive. ‘Ho 1s at this time living in Bournemouth, a water ing place of England RIDING THE GOAT—L, City. If you desire to learn all about the mede of procedure in the matter of initiation and what you term “rid: b had betrer join some soci= ¥ e BR2 380 dogree. You will have an opportunity to see the work exemplified, and in that way you will get a better impression than by reading. IRON MOLDE! report at Carro Labor, it appea city. Fromthe ‘ommissioner of that there was a strike qf itt the foundries of St 8900, and that it las, . and that there was a sirike of ¢( makers aud molders in the San Francifco iron foundries on the 19th of June, 1891, and ihat it lasted 475 da ASHMEN—S., C1t The ashmen are, it is said, all members of an orgenization that pro- teets its membership, and the men who be- long to it do not seem to have any opposition, still that ought not to prevent you from ask- ing that another man be sent to vou if the one who hasebeen serving you is not satisirc- tory. Your remedy lies in filing a complaint with the organization of which your ashman is & member. QUo Vaprs—Subscriber, Berkeley, Cal. *&quo Vadis,” a narrative of the time of Nero, by Henryk Sienkiewicz, translated from the Po ish by Jeremiah Curtin, was never publish in serial form in this country. It was pu lished in book form in the latter partof 188 by a Boston publishing-house, and shor alter its appearance it atiracted attention an: “created a sur.” A iranslation of the titleis “Whither Goest [ 2 €AN JoAQUIN VALLEY—O. S, Potrero, City. Since the Weather Bureau has been keeping records on this const the lowest temperature in San Joaquin Valley was 19.6, but the Stock- ton Journa of January 11, 1854, reports that on the 5th of that month the editor was shown ice turee inehes thick taken from some point in the city of Stockton. On the 21stof Janu- of the same year S ockton Slough wes en overand the ice was so thick that a Tiver sicamer that it was sought 10 move from its moorings had to break the ice before it could proceed. That being the case, .he ther- mometer must have registered below 15, but there is no authentic reeord of the extieme cold in the vailey other than that given. ANENT FOREIGN I M.GRATION. W hington Post. “I am strongly convinced that Congress shoutd act very speedily on the immigration question,” said Representative W. A. Stone of FPennsyivania. “Pennsylvania is to-day suffering from a horde of alien laborers who have p-ured into our mining and oil regions, and have nearly driven native Americans out, because the Jat- ter can’t compete wiih the pauperized fo eign element. It is a shame and disgrace—; outrage that Congress should not allow inue. b, ¢ fellows from abroad have a standar4 € but little, if any, superior to the Cii- aid their presence is awekeniig the nese, same discontent and indignation that the pres. eice of the Asiatics evoked on the Pac.fic Coast. “1f they are not speedily forbidden landing on our soil there will be nochance for our own people who arc engaged .n the sort of emloy- ment that I have named to make a bare sub- sistence. I hope 1o see an act passed that wn" exclude them, at least for a period of te years.” “GOLDEN POPPIES,” the most beautiful and artistic California calendar. All other cal- endars and Chrisumas cards at Sanborn & Vail’s. & T — GUILLET'S potato, mushroom, filbert cake. 905 Larkin street. . — - CALIFORNIA glace fruits, 5uc Ib. Townsend's.* R — €PECIAL information daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Alien's), 510 Montgomery. * S ey =The Duc and Duchesse d'Orleans are about to leave Wood Norton, the Engiish residence placed at their disposal, after a stay of seven weeks, for Brussels, on (helr way {o Vienna, and are going to pay a long visit to the Arche duke Joseph and the Archduchess Clotiide at Alesuth, in Hungary, where there wiil be sev- eral large hunting parties during November. deane Akl Mark Hopkins Institute of Art. Open daily, including Sunaay. Grand con- cert Thursday evening, December 9. Signor Fernando Michelena, ihie great tenor, will sp- pear: also othersoloists. Admission 25 cents.» ——— Commissioners Want Information. ceting of the Railway Commissioners ay afternoon Secretary Newman wag™ Tequested to write to Attorney-General Fitg- geraid for information regarding the status of in which the Raiiway Commissioners ted in State and Federal courts. wing to the absence of President La Rue but little business was transacted. T Dr. Forrest Browne, tne new Bishop of Bris- tol, was the first clericel alderman elected in England, and for many years did excellent work as a Justice of the Peace at Cambridge.y In his first sermon before the Judges at St. Paul’s Le excited some astonishmeni by speak- ing pointediy of ‘‘our duties and mflicnluut as magistrat Sl CrmisT™As and New Year's Tables are fncome plece witiout a botile Of DR >IEGERT'S ANGOS- TURA BITTERS, (he exquisitely tiavored appetizer. Beware of imitations. —— SINGERS AND ARTISTS GENERALLY are users of *Brown's Bronchial hes” for Hoarseness and Throat Troubles. 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