The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 15, 1899, Page 9

STHS T0 B ) CALIFORNI CAIPPLE CREEK? Great Base Ore Finds on Coffee Creek. [TS- WONDERFUL_TELLURIDES EW TO CALIFORNIA MIN- ING MEN. in Northern Trinity From Hundreds ds of Dol- lars Per Ton. a California Cripple come into view in this n the Selby Smelting on a lot of m Northern yme mining men regarding some velopments. eck region and from discoveries in it, » of thirty miles, wondrous reports of ar the head- bout eighty in a wild virg 1y been he prospector rd of the other some A or any virtually that region. ment work gone few feet below s below no man cz ek distric s < of Colorado’ g hi nabled that State 3 its gold output for X t could not make so promis- o in its development. — tures to the new > included in them; on Creek there has d of telluride California, and t ur tellurium of lead riking feature is y_val which for superin t 1y for the com- ntly ac- or pros- tary inning ¥ nder M & to f ore ta ples o s conditions we r m s places on the ¢ s ma as v be rated ¢ value 41 92, d others i stir , and, e development e 80 far. The s found at the r strikes on Coffes B POSTUM CEREAL. ANOTHER DOCTOR. | Coffee May Agree With Some Peo-~ ple and Not With Others. 1 was a most drinker. r ago fee in- other forms of stimulants, tobacco, and hence could the cause for the num- normal mptoms I became grew nervous and irrit- ame easily excited and experi- decided 1 of memory, to- with man other mptoms, an unduly stimulated nerv- o My appetite was poor, sight deficient, bowels irregular. Like thig€and oth I co not bring believ my favorite bey- s cause of my abnormal » a package of Pos- 1 t office, and I cotitiuded to try it. very much th the trial, the liquid weak and insipid. red, d to. wever, I would have for it, and hence the almost taste- wee! until susted with it and however, an im- my nervous symptom this my attention was specific a th of ti veral notice n fter ) your leng f - :boil the mixture I took the subject up the directions ex- it was truly grati- the aroma, the g (except the nerve wvas there, and I tisfied. The mptorhs entirely went, and all other abnormal conditions vanished. The experiende in my own case naiur- Ily led to a conclusion as to the t Yits, and umera stimu S had occasion S upon the of entirely, and n of Postum Food Cof- ith highly gratifying results. Dr. Geo. W. Hoglan, 113 E. Long st., Columbus, Ohjo. I have in of | s assiduously abstained | ng flavor I had been | nouncement | nerv- | » ‘dizorders with many of my p."-’ ’ THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JANUARY 15, 1899. e credited to the season just |oseomssomzs.seou»gouwwmmmmmwn'o sed, but the greatest ones appear to | 3¢ those from the headwaters o!pC()f(ee Teek, twenty-five miles from a_ wagon Toad, in a rugged country clothed in its brimeval wilderness and on the divide Jhich separates the headwaters of the L,flnlty from those of the Salmon River. nion Creek is a tributary of Coffee Creck near its head, and along it the great find of tellurides has been made. Amos Hill and his partner located a edge, put up a crude arrasta at a cash Cost of 70 cents, and during the early fall the mule ground out a good deal of gold, though less than 40 per cent of the base ore Values was saved, To make a romantic story short, Hill BOt two strange school marms of Napa to buy out his partner for $500. They are the Misses Irma and Josephine Rider. The former teaches at Soda Springs and the latter in the Napa city schools. Hill says that they have got back $1500 in cash from | that arastra and have a half interest In | the mine that, it is reported, they have bonded. Hill named the mine the Yellow Rose of Texas. Samples of the ore were recently sent to the State Mining Bureau for anal- ysis. E. B. Preston, the assayer, who has been a field deputy of the bureau for many years and who has thoroughly plored many times that northern country, was greatly interested to discover a tellu- ride gold ore new to California and which he found to be nagyagite, a sulphur tellu- ‘ rium of lead and gold. “It was very rich,” says Mr. Preston, the bureau makes only qualitative s I do not know its value. I have was a_rich some telluri: | ‘i As_to the | ore, Mr. Hill says that he a little over two tons to Sel s for treat- ment. Packing thirty miles on muies to Carrville cost a cent pound. Hauling fitty-six_miles to Redding_cost as mu more. R ing $54 tr cost of mining and the are to be added. Mr. from the lot were $1003. Another smailer shipment assayed $1150 a {on. Other sam- ent to Redding have been reportzd 1 charg n, ms portation charges alone. melting charges Hill's net receipts ges were S14 a to $3000 a ton. e reported from the , owned by a Mr. Law- The ledge n traced for three m of locations in which been done have been m: but two of the recent finds along Coffee Creek. Within a mile of the Golden Jubilee mine is the recently located Dew w controlled by George L. Carr. rr is one of the best-known mining m capitalists in that pa try. He is the prop near the mouth of Coffee C well-known mining that the ¥ rich samples give high samples of a three: {on, with 12 of the r of Ca pment t 0 one of the fa- TR swing up some of the richest o in the State, and next year umber of cyanide and other plants put in to work them and a great deal of prospecting and development work done.” — Football at the Presidio. The Jacksons and Princetons, formerly “ompany M, League of the Cross Cadents, will play a game of football Sunday after- noon at the Presidio athletic grounds, with the following line-up Jacksons. Position. Princetons. Vellyguth Keenan Duden...... Harnsman Middleto Behan Kenned McMahon Stadfeld cIntyre Brickell itzma Douglass Smithson Sawyer . .Horton Bishor Henriel | | Roone; .Gresty icathen Hickman THE ORIGIN OF YANKEE. An Englishman Wrote in 1777 That It Was an Indian Word of Contemptuous Meaning. Major W. A. Guthrie of Durham, { addition to being an_able lawyer, a astute politician and an admirable gen- tleman otherwise, is fond of literature of the best clas He likes to search through rare books and papers. Some vears ago, at the sale of the effects of e aged citizen, he bought two rusty- looking volumes for a mere trifle along with other books. On examining the books he found them to be “‘Travels Throngh the Interior Parts of America, in a Series of Lectures by an Officer of the British Army.” They are the let- ters of Lieutenant Thomas Auburey. He was taken prisoner at the battle of Saratoga during the Revolutiorfar war. From there he was sent a p oner to Boston, and later was marched with many other prisoners of the Brit- ish arr who had been captured at various places, to Charlotte Va. Mr. Jones, a large planter of Virginia and a member of the Continental Con- gre had tendered his plantation and negro quarters to the Cong for n n prison camp. From ti plantation Auburey wrote many of his letters. All the prisoners were paroled. This offi- cer spent his time in riding about the country around Charlottesville. The letters were to a friend of his in Eng- and. Later the letters were published in two volumes and wer: the Earl of Harrington, Viscount Peter- sham, colonel of the Twenty-ninth Regiment of Foot. They begin August , and run to October 30, 1781. The letters are full of interesting and | instructive reading. In volume II, page | 46, written from Cambridge, New Eng- | land, November 25, 1777, is a history of the word Yankee. Before the Revolu- tionary war the Virginians called the | New Englanders Yankees; from then | to the civil war everybody that was not | of the New England States called the New Englanders Yankees, and during the civil war everybody north of the | ifason and Dixon line was called Yan- | kee. As to the word, Lieutenant Auburey | wrote in 1777: “It may not be amiss here to observe that the etymology of this term is derived from a Cherokee word, Eankke, which signifies coward and slave. This epithet of Yankee was bestowed upon the inhabitants of New England by the Virginians for not as- sisting them in a war with the Chero- kees, and they have always bheen in derision by it. But the name has been more prevalent sinee the beginning of | hostilities; the soldiers at Boston used it as a term of reproach, but after the | affair at Bunker Hill the Americans gloried in it. ‘Yankee Doodle’ is now | their paean, a favorite of favorites, | played in their army, esteeme; war- like as the ‘Grenadie: March.” It is | the loon's spell, the nurse's lullaby. “After our rapid s esses we held the Yankees in great contempt, but it was not a little mortifying to hear them |play this tune when their army | marched down to our surrender.” | Such is the history of the etymology jof the word “Yankee.”—Charlotte Ob- | server. | ——— | Black Images of the Madonna. | The natural explanation of the eircum- | stance of black Images of .. s that certain woods become da: | age, the smoke from the votive | occasionally helping the prog E | eral ¢ at Prigny, the images have been blackened by the 'fumes from - flagrations. It is possible that .&-rw‘mfm;f the oldest are imported figures of Isis. The question as to whether the Virgin | herself was_ brunette or blonde opens a | wide fleld of discussion, but the balance | of argument perhaps lles ngainst - the | the text “I ‘am black. (affiicted?) but { comely,” was a reference to the Virgin, | and in’favor of the idea that these fm- | are intended to be horsewhiped in te of their swarthiness and-not on ac- count of it. Their very color, however, | attracts pilgrims. e Truth in an Obituary. Herrington died at h.s home, santon the other day, leaving Dble riches and a respectable fam- . and this {s part of a cur.ous obitu- v notice given him by the erver: “‘His greatest fault was the extravagant uge of profanty. It was almost impos- s for him to engage in any sort of | conversation with man, woman or child without using it. He no doubt often s\;lore unconsciously.”—Kansas City Jour- nal. | The | dedicated to | i POOR OLD An Icy Mistake That Of Bruin at zones in their menagerie, and urally mixed matters up badly. furnish all kinds of weather stuffed with coal night and day. “sweaters” and th the managers con 0% e %0 IO LA e AN AN SR NN INSRIRNIRNIRINIR R RIR RN redwood tree, did own clime. “We kept fab hot, and that the fort and safety by in the country. “Somehow this without regard to awake nights. made a fatal error. had done the ice-pack and wind-blast down on his slab of ice and died. BEAR WdAS COLD HE frosty or ‘“cold” weather that has prevailed in San Francisco during the past few weeks caused a great deal of trouble in the Chutes Zoo. The Chutes people have animals and birds from all kinds of order to do this three large stoves were installed in the menagerie and kept After the crowds had gone at night the delicate, thin blooded monkeys were garbed in warm This scheme worked to perfection so far as it went, and sight and good fortune. They had one important member of their dumb brute family that required entirely different treatment. immense fellow, with a coat as thick as the bark on a weather conditions ordered by Professor Hammon. appeared to be too warm for him and he pined for his ‘What the Chutes people did to ameliorate the sufferings of the Polar bear is best told in the lan- guage of Impresario Phil Hastings: Arctic circle,” sald Phil, “and concluded that the tem- perature was too high for him; that his feet were too electric wind blast. his cage with slabs of the real thing and assured our- selves that we were the only expert Polar bear nurses alarm, bruin began pining at a rate that made us lie Alas, too late, we discovered that we had overgrown, perverse, inconsistent product of the Polar regions was cold. The weather was too frosty for him.”" POLAR Caused the Demise the Chutes. the advent of the frost king nat- An effort was finally made to for the occupants of the cages. In e lons protected by horse blankets. gratulated themselves on their fore- This not seem to be satisfied with the It on the big bunch of hair from the proper caper was to insure his com- putting him on ice and providing an This was done. We actually paved did not suit; so we piled in more fce the matter of expense. Much to our ‘What was the trouble? Why, that We act and he did the rest—lald carefully AN EXHIBITION OF CRIME. Art Contributes to the Curious Col- | lection in the Austrian Capital. | One point of attraction at the Jubilee | axhibition here is a pavilion which re-| | veals secrets and mysteries of a kind| which we all love to hear about. The | Vienna police, in the endeavor to con- vince the public that its only task is | not to bother people and arrest them, | has attempted to make a show of its| duties and aims, the system on which it works and the results attained. Ta- bles and figures have been conscien- tiously avoided, and a very pleasant mode of enlightening the public has been found. The pavilion has seven large rooms, which, with a good cata- | logue and a very little explanation, give an insight into a most complicated or- ganization. Forty-two artists of note| have contributed to the police plclure; galler; One has illustrated a touch- ing scene—an every-day event in Vi-| enna—of two policemen bringing a | | young girl, who has flung herself into the Danube, to the shore. A sculptor | has treated the same subject in a mas- terly group. Another artist shows how | | a mounted policeman stops runaway | horses, another gives us the interior of | | a police station, where several police~ men are amusing a little child who has strayed and is seated on their table, contented to see so many kind faces" | around. Then there is an excellent | picture of a fire from which a police- man snatches a woman, another of a policeman on guard in pelting rain at | night at some desolatg point. The po- liceman who has found a babe *laid away” by its mother makes the most touching picture of all, perhaps, and | one deciding a quarrel between two market women the most comical. There | are seventy excellent works of art, il- lustrating the policeman’s difficult ca- reer. Adjacent to the picture gallery is a model office for a police commission— in which the newly caught triminal is being examined. Close to the desk is the so-called “Criminals’ Album”— which is a good sized cabinet with six- | teen drawe: holding material which | makes it easy work to recognize the man if he is not at his first crime. The exhibition shows me of the photo- graphs by which c inals are identi- fied. All are natural size. Every man is taken twice—full in the face, and in sharp profile with his right ear to the beholder. The exhibition contains hun- dreds of these fine photographs, many | of which show the same man at inter~ vals of one year or longer. It must | be admitted that in nine cases out of ‘ten the man in one cannot be recog- | nized in the other. It is, of course, in the interest of every criminal who has | been in the hands of the police to change his appearance as much as pos- | sible. But we are shown that two | men can be perfectly alike, so as to | deceive even the cleverest police officer. | These photographs are exhibited to prove the necessity of anthropometry. Life sized wax figures illustrate this interesting system of keeping a recora of criminals. The éleven measurements recorded on the card with the criminal’s photograph are here taken before our eyes. A policeman’s. schoolroom shown, with all the material for his teaching — enlarged photographs of | hundreds of ears, portraits of criminals, a skeleton, a collection of glass eyes showing all the colors that exist; then fifty-eight , wigs to show all the possi- ble colors of hair. An interesting ob- ject is the bag which a Police Commis- sioner takes with him when he is called to the site of a murder—with micro- scope, magnifying glasses and fifty im- plements, Including a case of strong cigars in case a disinfectant should be found indispensable. There is, in addition, a collection of criminal implements seized on the scenes of murders and burglaries. The new hammer with which a solicitor's clerk murdered his master is there, the hatchet with which a married couple were. murdered vears ago, a piece of a railway rail with which a lodger killed his landlady some months ago. Thou- sands of keys, iron bars, tongs, cross- bars and many mysterious implements are arranged into groups and tableaux. A most remarkable object is a stee} contrivance which a suicide made for himself to be quite sure of getting the ball right into his heart, and we are assured he did not fail. There is also a pistol which an apprentice made with his own hands and shot himself with. A large glass case shows how poachers catch game in the Prater—pheasants, wild ducks, hares. partridges and even a deer are caught in the slings and traps and the other contrivances, which | reveals extraordinary powers of inven- tion. The most recent murders are shown in a series of photographs—the vietim during the examination by the | physicians, the scene of the murder in | all the terrible disorder, speaking of re- | sistance offered, the picture of the mur- derer. We are promised a practical | demonstration shortly, when a thief | will be caught in the crowd and taken | to the pavilion, there to be identified ! and treated according to his deserts, London Standard. s e o et o A The Force of Habit. “T guess there's something the matter with my boy,” sald the father of one of the Tenth Battallon boys recently. ‘‘He got home, abour 11_o'clock Wednesday night and went to bed about midnight, and half an hour later, when T went up | to his room. he was curled up on tha floor. He had just pulled the clothes off | the bed and crawled Into them. T asked | him about it, and he said he never wanted to sleep on a bed again. Sald he had a bed in San Francisco, but it was too soft 4 for comfort.”—Albany Argus, a is also | number of people who live in temper- | | | finishing off with a rapid sponge over | tropics the cold bath may be indulged COLD BATHS. Their Injurious Effects Upon the Anpemic and the Old. The Journal of Topical Medicine has an interesting article on the use of the cold tub in tropical countries, in which it is shown that, health-giving as it may be to those who are young and vigorous and newly arrived, it is by no means a process to be universally advised. In the tropics a daily bath of some sort becomes a necessity for pur- poses of cleanliness alone. But the “tub” which is indulged in by Euro- peans—that is, immersion in cold water, or, at any rate, water that is distinctly colder than the body, for say five min- utes—has a distinct physlological ac- tion besides the removal of dirt, and the question is whether this is good or bad. It is pointed out that the shock is relatively greater than in temper- ate climates, that the abstraction of heat during the process can be but ill afforded, and that the depression of temperature induced is difficult to re- cover from. It is also insisted on that neither the circulatory nor the respiratory organs respond to the stimulus, and that, es- pecially in the case of those who are “‘getting on” in years, the digestive or- gans may be congested to a dangerous extent. ‘We think that all this is very true, but that it is true for a very large ate climes as well as for those whose lives are passed in the tropics. Many people whe have, as they would say, | been ‘“‘always accustomed” to take a cold tub every morning continue the habit long after it had better have been given up. They do this partly because it is a habit and partly because they, dislike the confession of getting old which seems to be involved in giving up the customs of their more youthful days. But we are quite clear that unless good reaction very quicklv follows a cold bath, and follows it without much ‘‘toweling,” such tubbing is very often injurious. Whenever a man has to| “rub himself warm,” or when he finds that he is not right again until after | his breakfast he may feel sure that his | tub s doing him harm, and that he | would do better to take a warm bath, with cold water. “For the young, vig- orous and newly arrived youth in the in with impunity, and it may be with | benefit, but as years lapse the tropical | resident calls for bath water warmer | and still warmer, until he finds that he has best health only when the water of his bath is not below the tempera- ture of his body.” And it is the same in temperate cli- mates. On the one hand the anemia of the tropics renders a man more sus- ceptible to cold, but, on the other hand, the arterial rigidity which in temper- ate climates is so common an associate of advancing years renders men pecu- liarly unable to bear that sudden dis- placement of blood and that sudden re- arrangement of the circulation which is involved in getting into cold water.— The Hospital —_—————— Seeing Bullets as They Fly. “As every sportsman knows,” said an enthusiastic New Orleans hunter, “it is easy to see a rifle bullet in the air, and those fired from the new high- power guns are very curious to look at. Stand a dozen yards to one side of the mark and let a friend blaze away at any range with a small caliber weapon using smokeless powder, and you'll see a strange, blufsh white streak the instant the bullet strikes home. The streak is apparently a couple of inches wide and several feet long, and is more like a flash of light than any- thing else I can think of. With the | old-fashioned Remington or Spring- field carbine the bullet has the ap- peaerance of a long black rod, and I don’t know why there should be such a difference in the optical illusion pro- duced by the smaller caliber. I have heard some people deny that the bullet can be seen, but they are very much in error. It all depends on getting the right viewpoint. A few feet either way will render the missile invisible, but the right spot is soon found by experi- ment, and after that the thing is as plain as day.”—New Orleans Times- Democrat. e Carbon Pictures on Celluloid Base. Carbon pictures, done on heavy paper or celluloid bases, are one of the recent novelties In the photographic world. To- day they are made in monochromes of fourteen different colors, from black to light blue. Few operators are skillful | enough to make them well, and most of the city trade is handled by a few men. Paper “with a coating of gelatine and carbon on it is dampened in bichromate of potash and then dried by a draught of alr in the dark. After drying it is ready for exposure. It is placed in contact WIJI a negative in the usual way, an@ print- ed by sunlight, the time for each negative being told by-a photometer. After print- ing the carbon paper is soaked in warm water, and all the unexposed part dis- solved. The paper is then stuck face downward on the celluloid base to be used. A long application to the water takes the paper off, leaving the picture on the celluloid. This process requires dry weather and particular precaution in handling; its effects are especlally fine when well executed.—Boston Transcript. e A Legislator in Two States, John J. Upchurch lives on the boundary line between Florida and Georgila. He is a wealthy mill man, and so popular on both sides of the line that he alternates his public services as a legislator between the two States. He represents Charlton Count- Ga., In the lower house of the Legislature at the present session. He was a member of the Florida Senate at that body’s last session; before that he was sent to tne lower house of the Georgia_Assemblv. and further back was in the Florida House and Georgia Senate in alternate session.—Baltimor~ Sun, THE QUESTION | OF A TEACHER'S AID VACATION Three Months of Sal- aried Recreation. WILL THESE PRIVILEGES GO? MISUNDERSTANDING AS TO MONEY ON HAND. President Bergerot States That No- vember - December Salaries Will Finally Be Settled. One of the cloud of worries emptied out of the Pandora box by the young Board of Edacation is the November-December salary question. This ‘‘trouble,” ex- pressed arithmetically, reads $180,000, run- ning something like an average of $180 to each teacher for the two months. The 014 board intended to issue warrants for these months, but did not do so, choosing to leave the educators with the other army of creditors to comtemplate and enjoy the deflcit en masse. With the late board it was—as with the historically profligate French monarch viewing the wrecked treasury—‘‘after us, the deluge.” The outside creditors enjoined the de- partment, and the teachers enjoined the outsiders, and so the preliminary guns of the battle were fired, and then the first wave of the ‘‘deluge’” swept that board into the black limbo of obliquy. Now, connected with their injunction suit, there is a solemn thought buzzing in the minds of the thinking teachers. It is the sal- aried vacation matter. For three months in each year the educators play under pay. One thousand teachers at $90, multi- plied by three months, amounts to $270,- 000 if there is any honesty in figures. The Finance Committee of the Board of Edu- cation reported in effect last Wednesday evening that possibly the actual deficlt would reach $230,381. A recovered fund of $270,000 would help this indebtedness out amazingly. Should the court, in working out their injunction case, decide that those vacations are only luxuries and not necessities, and that such luxuries should not be pald for by the somewhat heavily burdened taxpayers of the city, that working folks often pay their own way when they play, wheré will the future vacation privilege be “‘at”? It has been mentioned that country school teachers who are not gifted with a life-tenure of position, whose labors are Just asarduous and whose remuneration is below that of the city educators, have no salaried intermission between terms. Said & country school marm recently: ‘“Why should Mrs. X (whose husband has a fair income) draw down $250, which is five- eighths of my pay for eight months’ work, while recreating at the ‘springs,’ while I am paying for my vacation out of my own pocket?’ The possibility of the en- tire abolishment of the vacation and its salary by some one of the powers that be was recently borne in on a mind or two and an effort was made to stop the injunction proceedings. But other counsels prevalled and the case is yet on, It is argued by those close to the edu- ucational office that if the board could bring itself to cut into the work of the| department as instanced by the abolish- ment of the normal and the throwing out of the evening schools it will not for an instant hesitate to clip off the play-part of that work. President Bergerot yesterday evening, speaking of the November-December sal- aries, said there existed no intention on | the part of the present board to have the teachers finally lose their pay of these two months, he present board,” he contjnued, “will | discharge every obligation just as rapidly as it can. Burdened and overburdened | as it is by a mountain of debt piled up by its predecessors, it is trying to clear | off one by one the load. "The classes, | schools and teachers that can be spared | must go that money may be saved. The Normal School could be spared, as there | are several State Normals and a univer- sity all running and turning out teachers. It may be found that all the evening schools can be spared, and if so every one will go for the present The pres ent board has three E‘W in its ranks and they e their heads close together studying up in the law to fit these ‘com- ing suits. And I can say the board is all ready, well fortified with decisions and | opinfons for emergencies. We will do the | greatest good to the greatest number and | be a decided improvement over our prede- cessors, I fancy. “To-day the representative of a morn- ing paper demanded the names of the al- leged list of teachers who were to be con- solidated out. No such information was | or will be given now, for the reason that no list is in existence., Some of the news- pavers and some of the startled public have fixed upon a high number of teach- ers wha _have been virtually dismissed, but the fl?ur?s are all wrong. *‘In conclusion I will say that unless my calculations are very incorrect—unless the School Department remains poverty- stricken, its present condition—no teach- er will finally lose his or her November- December salary, nor will any creditor, for that matter. ‘‘Now, as to the plaint that has been raised regardlng those Normal girls los- ing a half year, etc. Any of those young ladies who can pass the necessary ex- aminations will receive recognition in the way of diploma or certificate. They will not be thrown out on the world to suffer, half educated and certificateless, as cer- tain of their friends fear. All such com- plaints are groundless. Everything the resent Board of Education will do will eTgithnIrea!}mk”m “ e reply o uditor Asa R. Wells to the Board of Education regarding the amount of money at the disposal of the board for the ensuing six months seems to have taken the officials by surprise. It is 330,000 less than was expected and the deficlency is readily explained by Mr. Wells. In the last levy there was a spe- clal approprition of $100,000 for the pay- ment of salaries for June, 187. As this was levied for a special purpose it was applied to that purpose at once; hence it s not avallable pow. T. ells submittes s reply to th Board of Education late on £r¥day ang spent the greater portion of yesterday morning explaining how he reached his conclusion in the matter. Director H. M. Holbrook telephoned him and later on | sent his secretary to interview him on | the matter. As chairman of the Finance Committee of the board he is deeply in- terested in the amount of money that will be available for the schools for the ensu- ing six months which will bring the pres- ent fiscal year to a close. Auditor Wells has assured the Directors that if hisinter- pretation of the matter is not the correct one the board will lose nothing, as there is money on hand to make up the $30,000. —_— The Brave Bull fifl;‘(fiu‘ef Spaniard. The trumpet sounds again, and the espada takes his sword and his mulets and goes out for the wild scene. This, which ought to be, is not always the real climax. The bull is often by this time tired, has had enough of the sport, leaps at the barrier, trying to get out. He is tired of running after red rags, and he brushes them aside contemptuously; he can scarcely be got to show animation enough to be decently killed. But one bull that I saw recently was splendidly savage, and fought almost to the last, running about the arena with the sword between his shoulders, and that great red line broadening down each side of his neck on the black; like a deep layer of red ?aml, one tricks one's self into thinking. He carried two swords in his neck, and still fought: when at last he, too, got weary, and he went and knelt down be- fore the door by which he had entered, amd would fight no more. But they went up to him from outside the barrier and drew the swords out of him; and he Eut to his feet again, and stood to be killed.— The Saturday Review. Advances made on furniture and pianocs, with or without removal. J. Noonan, 1017-1028 Misston. i | SALE OF SHOES The truly marvelous offers that people have been accustomed to in these sales of ours, will be re- peated during this one. If such a thing is possible, greater bargains than ever before will reward those who buy now. {600 pairs Ladies’ fine French Kid Lace Shoes, welted sewed soles, stitched edges, latest style coin toes, with patent leather tips, worth $4, reduced to. ..., 900 pairs same style Shoes, in button, reduced from 4 to B P P $2.50 $2.50 1700 pairs—Our Own Make—fine French Kid Lace Shoes with narrow coin’ toes and patent leather Hpgat e e e $L75 WE HAVE ABOUT $20,000 WORTH OF SURPLUS MEN’S SHOES THAT WE SHALL CLOSE OUT FOR ALMOST NOTHING. 1800 pairs Men's fine French Calf Lace Shoes, hand sewed, welted soles, stitched edges, latest style coin toes, worth $5, to be closed outat. . ........ $2.50 {500 pairs Men's genuine Alaska Seal Lace Shoes, calf lined, latest style coin toes or square toes, regularly sold for $5, to be closed outat {400 pairs Boys' fine Calf Button Shoes, a first-class bargain at $3, to be closed out at PECIAL BA WE ASK $3.00 $1.00 RGAINS IN ALL LINES. YOU TO CALL AND MAKE A CRITICAL INSPECTION. IT COSTS YOU NOTHING. Entire satisfaction in every case, or money re- funded. Mail Orders Some of our greatest bargains during this sale will be shown on our bar- gain counters. filled promptly. % NOLAN BROS. SHOE C0. PHELAN BLOCK, 812-814 Market Street, San Francisco. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. GERMAN IN EVENING SCHOOLS— H. J., City. In San Francisco the only evening school in which the German lan- guage is taught {s the Humboldt. IN CASE OF WAR—H. D, City. In case of war and the necessity for a draft the military authoritites will not exempt a man on account of his religion. A DOLLAR OF 1884¢—Subscriber, City. A silver dollar of 1884 will not bring the possessor a fortune, as it is not a pre- mium coin. Such can be purchased at an advance of 50 cent IRELAND—J. M. H., City. The great- est length of Ireland is from Fair Head, in_Antrim, to Crow Head, in Kerry, 306 est meridional length is Its greatest breadth be- tween the extreme gnlnts of Mayo and Downs is 182 miles, but between Galway Bay and Dublin it is but 120 miles. QUARTZ MINING—G. M., Oakland, Cal. P. H. Miller, whose name figured in an article published in The Call recently in connection with quartz mining in Daw- son, is a man of medium height, middle- aged, somewhat bald and has a sandy mustache. He was for a time engaged in mining in Colorado. MAN AND WIFE—J. 8, City. Man and wife divorced in California cannot marry again in that State within a year from the time the divorce was granted. There are those who have been divorced in that State who have gone into an adjoining State and married again. A marriage that 1s legal in any other State in the Union is valid in California. SEX IN THE UNITED STATES-L., Livermore, Cal. Until the census of 1900 is taken it will be impossible to give fig- ures as to sex in the United States. The latest figures on that subject are those of 1890, from which it appears that there were at that time 32,067,880 males and 30,- 554,370 females. The figures for Califor- nia were, 700,059 males and 508,071 females, EMBEZZLEMENT IN PENNSYLVA- NIA—G. P. Y, City. In the State of Pennsylvania if a person, acting under a power of attorney, comes into the pos- sesslon of money for account of his prin- cipal and fails to account for it or appro- priates it to his own use, he Is guilty of a misdemeanor, the penalty for which is not more than $1000 or imprisonment for not more than three years. A CLEAR TITLE~T. C., Waterford, Cal. In the absence of an agreement with the vendor that he shall furnish an ab- stract of title to a piece of property, he is not bound to furnish such abstract; but it is the duty of the intending purchaser to satisfy himself that all is correct. If, however, the vendor offers to give a clear title, he undoubtedly would be liable in damages in case the title did not prove perfect, ESTATES IN IRELAND-J. T., City. If & man is possessed of realty in his own name in Ireland, on which there are no conditions as to future disposition, he can dispose of the same by will to his wife or in any manner he desires, just as he would be entitled to do under the laws of California. She could come into posses- sion of it without having to wait until a minor child of which he and kis wife were the parents reached its majority. WALTZING—East Street, Oakland, Cal. It is reasonable to suppose that some, in making the great circle of a bailroom dur- ing a waltz, may become giddy by reason of the circular movement in one direction, consequently the forward or backward movement may be indulged in at pleasure or the couple may go withmn or without the great circle or do the reverse as they may feel disposed. It is the province of the gentleman to take the lady in all these changes, which ought to be frequent. There cannot be a set rule that “waltzers must reverse when the music changes” for the reason Lnat many dancers cannot reverse. A WAGON WHEEL—G. W., Quincy, Piumas County. A friend of this depart- ment has kindly furnished the following in answer to the question “Does the top of a wagon wheel move faster than the bottom on level ground?” “That a point on the QGE of a wagon wheel travels faster or through more space than a point on the bottom of the wheel can be grovsn by experimenting in two ways: (1) When a wagon or buggy eel {s at rest put one foot on the bot- tom part of the felly or rim and one hand on the top part. Let the vehicle be moved ahead a part of a revolution of the wheel, say one-fourth or less, with foot and hand retained on the portions of the rim where placed, then note the difference of spaces through which foot and hand have traveled. (2) Take a circular piece of pasteboard or thin wood to represent a wagon wheel. Place it on the floor with side against the wall. Insert a small pen- cil or marker in top and bottom edges of the wheel. Then move the wheel one- sichth of 4 revnintion or so and have the pencils mark the curves through which ¢ lravel ana note the difference. Of at a uniform rate of travel of a wheel each and every point in the rim makes a revolution in the same time, but moves slower or through less space when at or near the bottom than when at or near the top.” DEMPSEY-LA BLANCHE-FITZSIM- MONS—S. F. H., City. The fight between Jack Dempsey (Nonpareil) and George La Blanche (the Marine) for a $1500 purse and_$1000 a side took place March 4, 1856, at Larchmont, L. 1., and was won by Dempsey in thirteen rounds. Bob Fitzsimmons beat Jack Dempsey in a fight for $12,000 and the middle-weight championship of the world in thirteen rounds, in forty minutes, at New Orleans, January 14, 1891 George La Blanche beat Jack Dempsey for a $5500 purse, with four ounce gloves in thirty-two rounds, in two hours an seven minutes, in San Fran 0, August 2, 1 CARTER HARRISON—Reader, Covina, Cal. Carter Harrison, Mayor of Chicago who was murdered in_his home October 28, 1893, was not related to Benjamin Har- rison, President of the United States. Prendegast, who murdered Mr. Harrison, expiated his crime on the gallows in the city of Chicago July 13, 1804. COLLECTION OF COINS—Curiosty, City. If you will communicate with the curator of the museum in Golden Gate Park you will probably ascertain what you desire to know about the disposition of collections of coin. DR.T.S.HIGGINS' DENTALPARLORS 927 Market Street. Over Cafs Zinkand. ELEVGTOR. To DECAYED and ACHING TEETH we give a SPECIAL TREATMENT, after which we crown or flll them painlessly. Painless extraction without dangerous anaesthetics. PURE GOLD FILLINGS from.... Plates, with free extractlon, from. A hygenic metal plate, from PAINLESS EXTRACTION A SPECIALTY. ALL WORK WARRANTED. using 1 00 4 50 00 It has been fully demon- strated that Ely’s Cream Balm is a specific for NASAL CATARRH. This distinction 1s the re- sult of continued success- A purifying and treatment. It I an agreeable cure. Cream Balm is placed into the nostrils, spread over the membrane and is absorbed. Rellef is immediate and a cure follows. It is not d ing—do u%g produce sneezing. Large, G0c; , 10¢; at D ists or mall. ROTHERS, 56 Warre a1 b} ELY B ‘arren If_. New York