The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 10, 1900, Page 4

FRANCISCO CALL 1900, TH MONDAY, DECEMBER 10 SOCIETY articles for export and thus augment the general in- come. We all wish Christmas to be a good time for every- we should exert some effort ‘to make it CALIFORNI@ MUNICIPALITIES. ™ ALIFORNIA municipalities will hold the_ third annual convention of their league at Pioneer THE SAD SIDE OF A BIT OF.‘ DELICIOUS SCANDAL. The ke @all. MONDAY ..DECEMBER 10, 1900 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. RRPRE Y B It Qe PIEIMEAR L e 5 R Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. EANA Telephone Press 204 VUBLICATION OFFIC arket and Third, S. F. Telephone Press 201. EDITORIAL ROOMS. . Telephon to 221 Stevensap St 202. ont, Terms by Mail, DAILY CALL (ncluding Sunday), one year DAILY CALL (including Sund DAILY CALL (ncluding Sunday TIAILY CALL—By Single Month. SUNDAY CALL, One Year WEEKLY CALL, Ope:Year...... All postmasters e muthorized to receive periptions. be forwarded when requested. - Sample coptes will Mall subsorfbers in ordering change of address should te particular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order > insure @ prompt and correct compliance with thei * request CAKLAND OFFICE.... “ee .lll% Broadway €. GRORGE KROGNESS, Maneger Foreign Advertising, Marquetts Building, Chicago. ““Central 2619. (Long Distance SPONDENT Herald Square NEW ¥ CARLTON. .. <o ENTATIVE: 30 Tribune Building NEW YORK REPE STEPHEN B. SMITH. . NEW YORK Waldorf-Aetoria Hotel WS STANDS: Brentano, A Union Square ay Hill Hotel. CHICAGO NEW Eherman House: P O. News Co. eat Northern Hotel House; Auditorfum Hotel WASHINOTON (D. C.) OFFICE. ...1408 G St, N. W MORTON CRANE, Correspondent. of Clay, open ] BRANCH OFFIC e corner nigomery, AMUSEMENTS. E Opera- house—*"Man’ r Butterfly T A Jolly Musketeer. A a—"A Hot Old Time ‘A Bell Boy . & , st 11 AL M., at 327 er 12, mt 12 o'clbek, December 12, at ioward street. TRAdE QUIETER AND FEATURELESS. cter to business last siet and in the main ngs of the country ne week in 1899, and the over the owed an increase, eading ci Minneapolis. lead:ing these per cent, indi- Boston in 1 steel trades. t 221 for »f the proximity of the X along ¥ e of trade. Trading falling off, as the s buyers, and even The particularly in the ure of the street d for first-class bonds, nent. investment, The are expected to be the gest ever known, and already there is 3 dis- | year, cir operations. nward, prices was The redeem steady de fe is Hall in this city beginning December 12. The | convention promises to be one of the most important loc] gatherings of the season and will doubtless .t?e well attended by representatives from all progressive cities and towns in the State. £ The programme includes a report of special com- rittee on municipal accounting, report of special com- | n.ittee appointed to frame a street improvement act, report of committee on legislation, consideration of needed legislation in the interest of municipalities, prablems connected with street lighting, the practical working of the new charter in San Francisco, oil for streets and for fuel, hints for clerks, trees for streets, municipal concerts, water supply for San Francisco, street cleaning by hand labor, tests to determine the value of rock for street purposes; and it is announced that at some time during the convention a representa- tive from each city will be called on to state what his city has;done durigg the year. ‘ It will be noted the programme is devoted exclu- sively to issues of practical administration, and that many of the subjects are of immediate interest to Cal- ifornia cities and towns. In each case, moreover, the men who have had experierice municipal affairs 'and have a the subject with which they 1lt will be that the convention will be like an experience meeting. There will ively little in the way of theory and much of information derived from observation papers e to be read by ment of 1 knowledge of The re something be comy the w ce. From such discussions much benefit may be ex- pected. The problems of municipal administration are complex because the development of the mod- ern city is progressing along an infinite variety of s. City government is no longer the simple thing was in the days of our grandfathers, or even of our fathers. Civilized man is demanding more and more of his community. The kind of streets, sewers, parks, schools and lighting that would have pleased men o fifty years ago would now be denounced as relics of barbarism. The gratification of each need of civilized life.at once raises another need, and municipal work rot only augments in magnitude but increases in variety and scope. Municipal reform of one kind and another is now a demand in every part of the civilized world. An old city like London is as eager in the work of improve- ment as a new city like Chicago. Indeed, throughout the entire English-speaking world it has not yet been | determined what constitutes the true scope of munici- | pal administration. In the newly organized govern- ment of London, with its twenty-eight “town coun- cils,” it has been noted that some of them are so socialisticithey will supply their boroughs with muynic; pal lighting plants, waterworks, tramcars and houses t for workingmen; while others are so much opposed to anything in the way of communism they will not even maintain a free public library. With such radical differences of opinion in the com- ponent parts of a city whose population is virtually | of one race and whose mutual traditions run back for a thousand years, it is clear there will be in the nature | | of things wide divergences in the development of dif ferent cities in California if each be permitted full treedom of action. Consequently, whatever brings the representatives of these diverging views together for an exchange of ideas and a comparison of experi- ences in the actual operation of laws and regulations will be of benefit to all. The League of Municipalities has therefore a great work to do in the history of the | State and the public may be congratulated upon the od ‘start the league has made THE RIGHT SPIRIT. SEN,—\TOR TELLER in opposing the Hay- Paunceiote treaty providing for the construc- tion of the Nicaragua Canal quoted from a re- port submitted to the Senate in 1801 and signed by Edmunds, Evarts, Frye and Morgan, declaring the . Clayton-Bulwer treaty to be obsolete, and saying: “In view of all these conditions the committee is of the opinion the United States is at present under no obligations measured either by the terms of the con- vention, the principles of public law or good morals, to restrain from promoting, in any way that it may deem best for its interests, the construction of this body, any good fu'yl our own people, our neighbors and our friends. We can do that by showing a right apprecia- tion of the work they accomplish, and by aiding them in making that work known in other States and other lands. So for all those reasons let us try to make this as much of a California Christmas as we can. Let us | scatter far and wide the beautiful products of our State and send something of California’s brighness and sweetness to all the friends we have in every part _of the world. F: nual report of the United States Department of Agriculture the reader will perceive that the range of the activities of that department of the Gov- ernment is one of sufficient magnitude to tax the best efforts of statesmen of the highest capacity. In addi- tion to agriculture proper the department has in charge many other fields of labor, varying from that | of the Weather Bureau to that of the conservation of forests, and including the inspection of foodstuffs and the-promotion of highway improvement. A summary of the seport of the Secretary in charge of the department will, on account of the variety of the subjects referred to, appear very much like a series of extracts from a scrap book. Thus it begins with | an announcement that the Weather Bureau is experi- menting in wireless telegraphy and that already mes- | sages have been transmitted accurately over a distance | of sixty miles. Next follows the report of the bureau of animal industry, showing the work done in the | way of inspecting meats offered for food and the pre- | vention of diseases among all kinds of livestock. The division of chemistry records a continuance of the work of investigating food adulteration and an- ‘ nounces: “The meat of the horse has been examined | ‘ior the discovery of a method whereby it may be | | detected when sold under another name”; it is added: | “Very little of itjseems to be sold in the United | ‘ States, whether under its own or any other name.” The division of entomology makes this statement, which is of interest to our fruit-growers: Most satisfactory reports are received from California as the result of the entomological work in the introduc- tion of the insect which fertilizes the Smyrna fig. In one locality more than six tons of Smyrna figs have been produced. The result will-be to make America a grand | competitor in the fig trade of the world’s markets.. An fmportant parasite has been introduced to prey upon the olive scale, so injurious to the olive growers of Calitor- | nia. From Natal a fungous disease has been introduced by which injurious swarms of locusts have, been de- stroyed. Eifforts have been made to introduce European parasites of the gypsy moth. PROGRESS IN AGRICULTURE. ROM even the most cursory review of the an- Reports of the div ir troduction, sions of botany, seed and plant | and pomology follow, but contain no salient features | | of special interest. Then comes this report from the | division of agrostology, which is pertinent to the dis- cussion of the question of leasing the ranges: As a result of experiments in Texas, the grazing of pastures has been so much improved that where three years ago they were estimated as capable of supporting | one steer to sixteen acres they will now maintain ln‘ | good condition one steer to eight acres, a gain of 100 per cent. Since Texas has made that much improvement in her range pasturage, surely other States and Terri- tories where cattle grazing is a large industry would do well to follow her example. g The division of forestry work announces that the | relations between the division and the lumbermen and tree planters of the country have become closer than ever before, It is added: The total requests for working plans at the close of | the year exceeded 50000000 acres, of which two and a | half millions were private land. Personal examinations were made of forty-eight tracts in fourteen States, covering nearly 800,000 plans were actually pre- pared for 200,000 aares )00 acres were put under management. Tree-planting plans were made for fifty- nine applicants. Cheering reports are made of an increasing public interest in the movement for constructing better high- ways, and the department is giving all the help it can to the good work. The office of experiment stations reports considerable success attained in experimenting vith gardens and small farms in Alaska, but says “it | is admitted Alaska can never become an agricultural | country.” Finally the section of foreign markets shows us r hysiology 3 thology, |- veesbls Hmiology et e 8 |'then, a dance is the only time when one : —_—— BY SALLY SHARP. ET'S all get ready for a bit of scan- dal. It appears that the fractious father of an altogether fascinating belle has gone and got married without o much as notifying his daughter—not considering the usual neces- | sity of getting his child’s permission. And that is unot the most of it. Papa married his stepdaughter’s maid. The wedding came off about a month ago in the Garden City, and ever since the cap- tain and his bride have been honeymoon- ing. Of course, this is a delicious bit to gos- sip about. But I'm truly sorry for Helen. Just imagine having a stepmother that you were wont to address as Ellen and order summarily about. And, then, here is another problem. What relation teo step- daughter Lily is step-papa’s wife? ¥ e Things are being rapidly put into shape for the great vaudevilie show to be given at the Ames home shortly after Christmas. Such a show as there is to be, and such talent! Why, it's enough to throw the “$1000 per” varicty folks into a statc of deep bottle-green énvy. Norma Preston and Worthy Ames are going to give a sketch written expressly for them and which s to be done afterward at'a local playhouse. It is a snappy, saucy bit of a play and is bound to create a furor. It is called “The Kleptomaniac, s full of bright squibs and telling situations, be- sides having a ‘‘curtain” that will make every blessed son of woman in the audi- ence jealous of the lucky hero. In the manuscript the directions are, “He folds her in his arms.” “Her Iz pretty Norma Preston. Isn't that enough to make any man envious? But; I tell you, the honors are not all golng to Norma. Worthy Ames has as- tonished us all by his splendid work at | rehearsals, and we are predicting great i things for him. . Another feature of the show is to be the orchestra. Every one of the musically in- clined are being pressed into service, and the overture is to be something immense. I am astonished that more jolly girls don't get up vaudeville shows. If the | great times the “talent” have at the re- ' hearsals for the Ames affair were gener- ally known I stand ready to wager there would be any amount of society shows and circuses right through the season. {380 S Mrs. Salisbury is a marvel. On Friday night at her first fortnightly there were at least forty more men than girls. Such & wonder was ‘never known to have oec- curred before, and it quite took away the breath of the clder girls. The de- butantes, ‘though, accepted it as quite a matter of eourse. Lucky young things! May they always find just that same state of affairs at evefy dance they attend. The “kids” were out in full force, but, readily sees why “kids” are cultivated. I understand that this year's Fortnight- Iy has the largest membership the club has ever known. Something I believe like 20 season tickets have been issued. There is always a good time coming to one at the Fortnightly, and now with the erush we have every right to expect, “I'll see you at the next dance,” set for De- cember 21. And I don’t want to forget to tell you that Therese Morgan and Fior- ence Josselyn on that occasion are to lead. . . Mrs. Joe Tobin had it all her own way at the doll show. She examined each doll carefully and every one she approved of was immediately decorated with a blue or red ribben. Mrs. Tobin has opinions on dress and her friends respect them. [ heard her say at the show, “I don't like that sleeve,” and the doll with the sleeve Mrs. Joe dign’'t like got the overlook. [ have been told that the fortunate dress- maker that enjoys Mrs. Tobin's custom is onjy one-half of the power that turns out tHbse wondrous creations. The dress- maker Just does the mechanical part of the work. Mrs. Tobin is the creative mind that is accountable for the style and happy touches that make a gown. A clubman told me tne other day that he hoped Mrs. Tobin would never go to Paris. “She would be stared at to death,” he said. “That long, graceful neck, her slim walst and elegant figure—the form divine —every French fashion plate proclaims to be the proper thing. They would be writ- ing poems to her and it would be a safe wager that before she was twenty-four hours in the gay city they would have the s | EX MISS ISABELLE PRESTON, WHOSE WEDDING TO LEN D. OWENS ON WEDNESDAY WILL BE THE FIRST BIG SWELL EVENT OF THE SOCIAL SEASON. b Tobin stays on the market.” I didn't think the dolls at this yvear's show began to compare with those of years gone by. I mean, of course. the model dolls. But I do think that the sale- able dolls and the raffle dolls and the doll-house were just the cutest ever. And dldn’t they do a land office business with the dolls to be raffled. One of the pret- tiest dolls—I believe it was the Clarence Master Mann bisque baby—was won by pretty Alleen McIntosh. Alleen. who has often been declared even more beautiful than her beautiful sister, Genevieve Goad Martin, has given up soclal life altogether and is devoting herself to her bables. The same with her sister, Ella Hooker. It seems hard to believe 1t, but it Is an in- disputabie fact that Mrs. Hooker and Mrs. McIntosh have no thoughts save for their homes and their familles. L AR5 I've seen a man who has so much money that he himself being of sane mind and healthy condition publicly declares that he “don’t know what to do with it.” The man in this awful, still interesting plight, is Kytka, the writing expert. 1 saw him up at the Bohemian painting exihi where he was buying up any amount the pictures on sale. But no one paid much attention to Kytka; all eves were for the portrait of Therese Morgan and one of Addie Mugphy and her sister, Ethel Biddle. I like the Murphy portrait better than the one of Therese. The painter has flattered both Addle and Ethel, but Therese—he has not even been kind t her. In two things. though, he has done her wondrous justice. His skiliful brush has caught her warm, delicate coloring and faithfully reproduced what is per haps the most elegant gown that has ever been worn in this city. o & w To-morrow Mrs. George A. Martin (Clara Hamilton) will be at home at her new Jackson-street house. This is Clara s first try at the social dutles of a matron and we all krlow she is going to do her- self proud. Mrs. Eleanor Martin had her first Fri- day last week, and her gorgeous rooms were just crowded with young people. Mrs. Martin will be again “at home™ this Friday. position to reinvest the major part of these dividends. | This demand has resu of gilt-edged | bonds and stoc nd the inquiry is now largely Yor S NAVAL NEWS. e what we can do in the way of finding consumers for canal, without regard to anything contained in the £ ¢ 4 our augmenting production by repbrting: convenion of 1850.” ed in a scarc PERSONAL MENTION. | PRAISES ANDERSON. Lieutenant F. Rose of Vallejo is a guest | WORLD’ ) Niles Herald. ond range of securities 4 e Ea S continuss es, good “in the d improying in the ttle variation. ~Iron ributiye of the country in the tern S Pacific and ates a as new orders are concerned, but the different works report future orders eno to keep them employed for several months vet, so there is no anx#ty on this see Hides .are e ier, though the range in prices ier than it gwas seweral months ago. - Cotton ed, pending the forthcoming Government re- port, and the rket is hampered by the faflure of manufactured goods to advance to a parity with the raw material. Wool is unusually dull, and sales are less than half of those at the corresponding period last year. The shoe trade continues in good ‘tone, with- jobbers purchasing steadily at the recent advance. Wheat has been unsettied during the week, improving one day only to fall back the next. A good feature is the improving demand for flour, which has been dull for some time. Y If the expected award of three battleships to the Union Iron Works and the proposal of the fruit- growers to form a gigantic combine to take in all the fruit interests of the State under one roof be excepted, | Jocal trade has been featureless during the past week. There has been a pronounced advance in mutton and veal, owing to scarcity, and all livestock is reported in limited supply at the high prices. The other staples have strengthened or weakened in sympathy with the consumptive markets in the Fast, but, with the ex- ception of the advance of four cents per gallon in wine, the fluctuations Lave been small. Farm products zs a rule continue quiet, as usual at this time of the vear, and merchandise is meeting with its usual sea- <onal demand. Otherwise there is nothing new to report, nor is anything expected until after the turn of the year. —— The Supervisors still have their heads together over that stubborn and unsolved problem of pavements. If these pavements were only of that old Scotch va- riety of wood the worthy gentlemen would not have to keep their heads together long. Once more the announcement comes from Wash- ington that everybody is willing that the Nicaragua Canal shopld be constructed. This appears to be the only concession indi&_g:ogress which has been made in the project in i The Oakland woman who won a husband throngh an advertisement and is now seeking a divorce should be thoroughly qualified to speak feelingly on the ‘fail- ure of marriage on the correspondence plan d steel, as before/mentioned, are less active as far | | Having read that extract, the speaker turned to | Senator Morgan and asked him how he could recon- cile that report with his present stand in favor of rati- fying the Hay-Pauncefote treaty. In reply Senator Morgan said: “I still stand by | that report. It is the duty of this Government to | abrogate that treaty, and if it were abrogated we could | bhild this canal as we pleased without any fear of interference by Great Britain. But the administration | believes it best to ratify this treaty, which, while it relieves the ébjectionable features of the former treaty, still recognizes fhe binding force of that convention, | { I am, in short, ready to vote for anything that will give us the canal.” | By that statement Senator Morgan puts himself |in line with a great majority of the American people | and shows himself to be a practical statesman. The desire of the country is to have the canal consbructed !at once. There have been already too many and too | long delays in the enterprise. Since the President | and his advisers, after a full review of the subject and | with all the facts before them, believe the interests of this country are fully conserved by the treaty, and the construction of the canal can be best promoted by its adoption, why should the Senate interpose and pre- vent the prompt undertaking of the work? Senator Morgan's statement “I am ready to vote for | anything that will give us the canal” expresses the ropular sentiment. It is a display of the right spirit. s PATRONIZE HOME INDUSTRIES, HRISTMAS season, with its universal shop- H C ping, affords the people of California a good H cpportunity. to help home production by giving a liberal patronage to California goods. We ought to l.send out of the State at this season thousands of holi- | day gifts that will carry abroad evidences of the in- finite variety of our resources and the artistic skill of our workers. It would be well if shopkeepers would assist the public in’ this matter by giving California goods a conspicuous place among the articles displayed 1o attract attention. Much could be done in that way to build vp a market for our artists and artisans, and in the end the merchants themselves would derive a | benefit from the increased trade in such goods. The szle of a single Christmas nowelty in itself | would not amount to much, but in the aggregate such | sales run 4p to a considerable sum; and it is just as | well to keep that money at home as to send it abroad. Moreover when an industry is well supported it | grows in magnitude, so by the purchase of home geods we will not only retain the money in the State, but will enable many of the industries now compara- ! tively small to develop to such an extent as to furnish l During the fiscal years 1867-1900 our total sales of do- mestic farm products to foreign countries aggregated the enormous sum of $2.186.000,000, an excess of $300,000,000 over the preceding four-year period. The agricultural amounted to $844,00,000. The rapid growth of our export trade to the Orient in recent years is most striking. chandise to Asia and Oceania were valued at $3,000,000, of which only $9,700000 were agricultural. There has 190 our export trade with the Orient amounted to $107,- | 006,000, of which $30,000.000 worth was farm produce. vision of his farms in excellent hands. The work is not only well done but is improving with the years. OUR COMING VISITORS. REPORTS from the East are to the effect that ists and pleasure seekers in the State this winter than ever before. Railway officials are said to be pre- yet been known in transcontinental travel. The roads are reported to be already feeling the pressure of the it is expected there will be something like a rush of people from the frozen East to enjoy the delights of Of course,, not all of those who come to us will be visitors onlythaving no other object than that of pass- ists seeking investments, youngimen looking for a piace in which to establish themselves in business, for a suitable place in which to make a home for them- selves and their families, movement of the rural population of the older States to localities that offer better inducements for farmers. attract these thrifty and enterprising men. Charleston has arranged for an expésition to draw their attention lanta is making plans for another to follow closely upon that at Charleston. Such efforts on the part of ficiently large to be worth bidding for. ~California, it appears, is to have her share of it. The coming dec- exports of the United States for the past fiscal year Five years ago our total shipments of domestic mer- been a steady increase in each succeeding year, until in It will be seen that Uncle Sam has placed the super- 1t is a fat Christmas for farmers we are likely to have a larger number of tour- dicting a bigger westbound passenger traffic than has coming business, and as soon as the holidays are over a Californian winter. ingra pleasant season. Many of them will be capital- and men of middle age and moderate means searching Several of our Eastern exchanges have noted a The Southern States are making earnest efforts to to the advanages offered in South Carolina, and At- the South show that the emigration movement is suf- ade may therefore bring about an increase of popula- next census. i — “ In the merry war in which some of our local and learned doctors have involved themselves it is safe to say that the distinguished gentiemen have become much more confidential with the public than ever they were with their patients. A submarine boat invented by a Mr. Howard of Tasmania is to be tested by the British Admiralty. . s . The naval budget of Norway for 1301 amounts to $1,228,500 and that of Sweden is $6,140,000, while Russia's foots up to $53,400,000. % g . A torpedo transport is buflding at Co- penhagen for the Danish navy. The ves- sel is 142 feet In length, 25 feet beam and displaces 38 tons on a mean draught of o feet 2 inches. The engines are of 600 horsepower, to give a speed of 12 knr)'ts‘ and the boilers are of the Babcock & Wil- cox type. g The Earl of Selborne, who has succeed- ed Mr. Goshen as First Lord of the Ad- miralty, is said to be the opposite in many respects to his predecessor. He is not wedded to old traditions and is disposed to recognize the justice of the claims of the engineer officers, that received scant attention from Mr. Goshen. ' PR The smallest armored vessel in any navy is the French sea-going torpedo-boat Audacieux, now well on her way to China. The boat has a displacement of 152 tons, e es of 4200 horsepower and a speed of 30 knots. Bhe carries an armor belt in wake of the machinery of susficient thick- ness to keep out shells of less welght than six-pounders. The Japanese armored cruiser Idzumo, 9800 tons and 18% knots speed, was handed over to the Japanese crew by the Elswick builders on September 25, and sailed for November 2. The Idzumo was launched September 18, 1899, and it k only about thirty months to build and de- liver the ship. . The Itallan armored cruiser Guiseppe Garibaldi, of 7398 tons, built at the works of Ansaldo at Sestri Ponente, has passed through her acceptance trials. Under natural draught the engines developed 10,000 horsepower, or 1000 over the contract, and under forced draught the horsepower was 15,000, exceeding the contract by 1500. . . . The Russian cruiser Bojavin, launched last September from the yard of Bur- meister & Waln, Copenhagen, is the fourth vessel built by that firm for the Russian navy. The crulser is of 3200 tons, 11,500 horsepower and 22 knots speed. The date of delivery is contracted for March, 1902, and the vessel is well ahead for a much earlier delivery. The engine trial of the Russian battle- ship Nicolai I on October 30 last turned out an absolute failure, as only 5000 tion that will form one of the notable features of the | horsepower was developed, where 5000 was expected. The ship was launched In 1888, and it was determined recently to replace the old wornout boflers with sixteen - A GAY SEASON is promised at Hotel del Coronado, Coronado, Cal., this winter with a Jolly houseful, an expert golf meet- ing of fleld trials club, hunting, fishing, boat- ing, ete. at the Occidental. les is at the Grand. Frank Wiggins of Los Angeles is regis- | tered at the Palace. Leo Meyers, the Brookiyn horseman, is registered at the Grand. H. N. MclIntosh, the Chicago fruit packer, is at the Palace. | among the guests at the Grand. E. C. Merritt, a well-known insurance M. P. Snyder, Mayor-elect of Los An- geles, is among the arrivals at the Pal- ace. Willlam A. Pinkerton, one of the heads of the Pinkerton Detective Agency, Is here from Chicago and s registered at the Palace. Belleville boilers, and the blunder was made in making the heating surface too limited. Instead of allowing at least 2.5 square feet of heating surface to each horsepower there appeaJs to be only prac- tically 1.65 square feet. It is an expensive blunder, necessitating taking out the whole lot of boilers and replacing them with larger cnes or return to the use of the box-boiler ly_pe X . The German Emperor has issued a cir- cular minutely prescribing the ceremonies attending the launch of a war vessel at a4 German yard. The Emperor names the person who is to christen the ship. A guard of honor of one company selected from a regiment is to be present with col- ors and a band. The guard will present arms and the band will play the national hymn when the ship begins to move and three cheers are to be given when the ves- sel enters the water. If the Emperor is present a salute of twenty-one guns is to be given. All army and navy officers and deputations of administrative bodies not otherwise engaged are to be present; the orders, decorations and dress are regu- lated and the manner in which they are to act is likewise minutely prescribed. o e It 1s rumored, according to the London Engineer, that the discovery has been made that some, if not all, of the Belle- isle’s armor is only cast iron and not wrought iron, as commonly assumed. The fractures of certain plates were identical with those of cast iron, and the late gun- nery experiment would therefore appear to be of no value whatever. The ship was originally buflt for the Turkish ndvy, for ‘which hing would be good enough, and the ship was subsequently turned over to England for the sum of $1,200,000, and she adorned the navy list for over twenty years under the false pretense of being an armored defense ship. The - Orion, a sister ship to the Belleisle, was also purchased about twenty years ago and is still on the active navy list, and £ the other ship. Dr. A. M. F. McCullough of Los Ange- | 8. Hartmann, the Merced merchant, is | man of Santa Rosa, is at the California. | Hon. Alden Anderson of Suisun, Solana County, who was Speaker of the last California Assembly, is this year a can- didate for the same position and wil) | doubtless be chosen. He made an excel- | lent presiding officer last session and tha | experienco then gained will be a great | advantage In the next session. —_——— | Choice candies, Townsend's,Palace Hotes - —_———— | Ex. strong hoarhound candy. Townsend's.¢ —_—————— | Townsend's California glace fruits, Sc a | pound, in fire-etched boxes or J: bas- ets. A nice present for Eastern 639 Market street, Palace Hotel bullding. * Special information supplied daily to business and public men the Fress cufi..l‘:"hm ) Nl'iou. somery st. ‘Telephone 1044 . ————— The United States contains near!: | 6,000,000 separate farmas. > —_— IT WAS THE ROUTE IN 49! Some men are like needles—they never do any work unless they are hard pushed. ADVERTISEMENTS. FAT AND LEAN That is, babies: fat, they are happy and safe; lean, they are néither happy nor safe. Apart from being entirely healthy or not quite well, a fat one has much reserve of vital strength to resist any sudden attack, while the lean one has little or no reserve. The way to be fat and well is Scott’s emulsion of cod-liver oil. A little: only a little. Not any, if healthy and plumg already;- ‘“let well enoug alone. We'll send you a little to try if you Wke. SCOTT & BOWNE, 409 Pearl surcer, New York.