The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 23, 1900, Page 10

10 THE SUNDAY CALL. T of this interesting fam- n origin, with big, fan- | head, had a The keepers had eak F'm. During per- is trunk . belt bu ng visitors. head, or, at all events. a sort of Intu- itlon that guides him rightly, is found his keeper's story of the way he helped him to bulld up a fortune. Two winters ago Herr Souder conceived the idea of having Old Baldy perform upon a colos- stor sal plano. bacco at 120 and kept Baldy seemed to have an ear for rhythm break ked the names over c placed his foot on the original and time and 1t was thought this cou!d Herr Soud nk account was {ncreased s be turned to accou After Old Baldy this way to $15,000. This all seems stran 3 had been practicing upon this big plano is vouched for by the best autho keyboard for a time and had learned to and agaln shows that truth pick out a tune his trainer got mixed up stranger than fiction In stock speculations and grew very much I worrled, for the market was going against 4 was afficted with a toothache him. Then, with the superstition of a to behave in a way that wor- rabld speculator, it occurred to him that ried her caretakers. While the elephant by peinting upon the keys of the great is doelle and general good natured, he t winter one of the largest elephants his stealing plano the names of certaln industrial Is a mighty bad proposition if in & bad . LAY -F ra to a corner and stocks and then asking Old Baldy to pick mood. 'ws this better than 3 w nall stake. Then out one for his master to buy the dole: circus pe. n an elephant ® result of things would change. It looked and quits eating heartily they begin to like a crazy thing to do, but the show- suspect e, and the employes keep s man regarded 14 Baldy as almost al- a anxt watch that never ceases. ot — = lible. When the keyboard had been paint- Every body knows that amiability does not s . ed 0l Baldy was marched up to the ve upon toothache. The cireus peopls < 8 plano and addressed Herr Souder se this animal, as they .- s e something ke thi Now, Ba f she began to cut up on per, so they sought the i 4 S l-known New York den- - e pla ® big fellow tist, Dr. Richmond. He decided to fill the . . s ws v tooth To kill the nerve wWas Do easy . g or two abo e e task and kept everybody nervously ex- of g four. a s pectant. Tha elephant is a wise animal, . wrig his gre and when she found that the attention she nce and bellowed Is had to be made ia cavity and o amalgam was put in place Babe began to eat again with old- time zest and recovered her former good e their oubles, too. A tapir was the vict!im of a curious dis- ease that made it walk backward. The circus veterinar: 1 this was owing ar disarrangement of some of veling or atrophy to a pe the tendo of other being that the animal founa 1t s painful to walk backward forward. An operation was dectded upon several med ence ot s eol- SCHOOL TE4 EL S TN ther proper ELEPHANTCH AR R R trong put in s now enjoy- ive Cure by Junlight. re- dders grad s @id not fever and, furt rked. The st stable tokens « e absence of fever and the gradual disabpear- eruptions before coming to was also noticed that the ct on the maladies d the bronchial efs method of cure has been to France by Dr. Larat, and 3 € used not only in cases of small- pox, but also in cases of certain forms of skin diseases, A REGULAR ANOAKEY TRITK the difference between ' and will not even in- e dishonesty pecullar to his € into his neighbor's possibly more remark- aldy has something of his expansive fore- + Filipinos Are Musical. Despite the fact that the American troops are busily engaged in “suppress- ng” Filipino rebels, a striking demand for musical instruments from this country ia being made by the people over whom o once ruled. ul Winter, writing from Annaberg, d to the fact that there are few na- inos who do not play some musi- strument and that the musical talent '€ them is great. The instruments for which they care most are mandolins, re, violins and flutes, and they have derived most of their supply thus far from the Americans. The average Filipino does not lavish money on his musical education, however, and is not able &s a rule to buy expensive instruments. The Tagals prefer instru- ments with a showy exterior, and Consul ‘Winters believes the archipelago offers a fine opportunity for the man who gets thers soon with & large supply of musical instruments, = o OLD “DOUBLEJOINT Y ENJOYS HIS listen. I want to pick out a winning stock to play In the New York market and I want you to give me the right tip. Are you on?" Old Baldy wagged his ears and trumpeted. ““Well, then,” Herr Sou- der continued, “which of the stocks on this keyboard shall I buy?’ Old Baldy walked up and down in front of the piano, * * Fish in Farther India. Among the queer things in India is the fish that catches ducks. When one misses some ducks and is told by the moorgy- walla that a fish swallowed them, one be- gins to think there can really be no limit to the lies the Aryan brother can tell. But ear'y one morning soon after the ducks Bad been let out and had, as usual, made thelr way to the tank, on one side of which stands an indlgo assistant's buga- low, the old khansama excitedly an- nounced that the big fish had just caught another duck and swallowed it, and could not keep down with it. The gun was at once got hold of and after watching the antics of the fish trying to keep down under water he was shot. He proved to be a large boall, and had actually got the entire bird down, with only the legs just showing in his mouth, 3 recent oceur- the mending of a plg’s ing mate wi day meal. T mals and val y the show. One of the pigs and ths other P of the owner his work first meal, while Pi ochle was situation of his keeper and guest at the banqu forded the they went at it got the worst of t ed over to the show The wound in his side was st a sling was rigged up so that he could ride In one of the trainer’s cars. This treat- ment soon brought him round and now ha is as active and good-natured as ever, but sensibly lets Keno munch his food alone. : Clocks at the Capital. There are 600 clocks in the Treasury Department, a man named Fleming is paid $45 2 month for winding them aad keeping them in repalr. This duty is let annually to the lowest bidder, and the cost has been reduced from 78 to $45 a month by rivairy between Mr. Fleming and another clockmaker, who secured the job for two or three years through pol cal influence & the last Cleveland administra Mr. Fleming has looked after the clocks in the treasury at a salary of $75 a month 1s long as anybody could remember, until he considered that privilege a vested right, and hlm by Secre aneasy and offered to dJo it for $60 a month, 3 tract was given to him, and the next year he other man underbid him and g job for $50 a month. Next came in with an offer which was rea en it The con particularly getting ¢ In the ot time. The clocks of the W looked afier by ome of the | mercha to wind order. of the tv White F ture, and that is 2 & stands on t and was pu was Presiden The most in House is of alabaster Napoleon Bo to General S t time fo h without winding. In Mrs. McKinley's sitting room is a French clock which has been running without repair for over thirty-five years. It was purchased during the Lincoin ad- ministration. We have no famous clocks in the Unitgd States like old “Tom” in the tower of the British House of Parllament or that in the spire of the cathedral at Strasburg, or the one in St. Petersburg, which Is the most wonderful in the world. It has ninety-five faces and Indicates the time of day at thirty different spots on the earth’s surface, besides the movements of the earth and moon, the signs of the zodlac, the location of the prineipal planets and the date, according to the Gregorian, Greek, Moslem and Hebrew calendars,