The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 26, 1901, Page 6

Che i CEall. ..JUNE 26, 1901 WEDNESDAY........ JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communiestions to W. 8. LEAKE, Manager. MANAGER’S OFFICE....,..Telephone Pres: PUBLICATION OFFICE...Market and Third, S. F. Telephone Press 201 204 EDITORIAL ROOMS.....217 to 221 Stevenson St. Telephone Press 202. » Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Copies, 5 Cents. Terms by Mail, Izcluding Postage: DATLY CALL (including Suncay), one year. DAILY CALL (ncluding Sunday), DAILY CALL (including Sunday), DAILY CALL—By Single Montb. WEEKLY CALL, One Year... - All postmasters are anthorized to receive subscriptions. Sample coples will be forwarded when requested. Delivered Mafl subscribers in ordering change of address should be perticulsr to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order to insure » prompt and correct compliance with thelr request. OAKLAND OFFICE. ...1118 Broadway €. GEORGE KROGrESS. ¥anager Yoreign Advertising, Marquette Building, Chissgo. (Long Distance Telephone “‘Central 2618.”) NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: C. C. CARLTON. .Herald s NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPHEN B. SMITH. 30 Tribune Buflding NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; A. Brentano, 31 Union Square: Murray Hill Hotel. CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Fherman House: P. O. News Co.; Great Northern Hotel: Teement Fonee Avditorfum Hotel. AMUSEMENTS. Alcazar—“Sapho." Grand Opera House—*Fedora.” “Uncle Tom's Cabin.” - “The Toy Maker." pheum—Vaudeville. Columbia—*Tnder Two Flags.” Olympia, corner Mason and Eddy streets—Specialties. tes, Zoo and Theater—Vaudeville everv afternoon and evening. Fischer' s—Vaudeville. i Mt anll etsse streets—Scientific Boxing, Thursday, uly 2 ro Baths—Swimmi! _— AUCTION SALES. By W. M. G. Layng—Thursday, July 27, Horses, wood Park Stock Ferm at Oak By F. H._Chase & Co.—Thursday, June 27, at 11 o'clock, Horves, at Market_ street. By S. Watkins—Friday, June 28, at 11 o'clock, Horses, at corner Tenth and Bryant streets. 10 SUBSCRIBERS LEAYING TOWN FOR THE SUMMER. ©Call subscribers contemplating = change of residence during the summer months can have their paper forwarded by mail to their new Sddresses by notifying The Call Business Office. This pager will also be on sale at all summer Pesorts and is represented by a local agent im 8ll tewss em the coast. A in Missouri. It has not been named yet, but several of its parents are yelling various names in a barrel, intending to take the one that sounds best. Its principal sire seems to be Mr. Merriwether of St. Louis. He ran at the last election for Mayor of that city as a Democratic bolter against the Gold Democrat who was elected. His proceedings as a pessimist and a progenitor give the lie to both ends of his name. He is not merry nor a wether. He talks of the republic in epitaphs, and believes that freedom shrieked when he was beaten for Mayor. He hopes to do something raising a new crop where our ancient liberties are buried, hence his new party. It is to bring about Government ownership of all public utilities, railroads, telegraphs, steamer lines and telephpnes. Along with this he will have the initia- ANOTEER PARTY. THIRD party has been born and brought up tive and referendum, and full legal tender money is- | sued by the Government in sufficient volume for busi- ness purposes, and the volume in proportion to the ! population. It is evident that Mr. Merriwether in- tends to impress the members of his party with the idea that the Government should furnish them with money whether they have collateral or not. But he suggests a double ratio in the matter of volume. There is to be 2 volume sufficient for business purposes, and also a volume in proportion to the population. Does he intend that these two volumes shall be sep- arate or merged? Then how is he to have a volume in proportion to the population unless he plainly states the amount per capita? Again, suppose that the volume in proportion to the population shall not be a | sufficient volume for business, or too large a volume for business, how will he reconcile the two? It will be seen that his financial scheme is a renewal of all the old fallacies. General Weaver and the early greenbackers taught their followers that it was the duty of the Government to give every man all the money he wanted. That implied the obligation to give him more when the first lot was gone. It was a proposition to enable every man to eat his cake and keep it. Will Mr. Merriwether do that, or will he have the Government compel every man to keep his share of the money that will be issued in proportion to the population? It is said that Mr. Bryan favors this new party move, and he should, for he proposed last year that every man should draw interest instead of paying interest on his note of hand. A cross between his system and Mr. Merriwether's would inspire confidence in coun- terfeiting as a sounder system of finance. Added to this bright and shining money scheme the new party will have Government ownership and operation of public utilities. All of the employes of those enterprises are tc work for the Government and look to it for their bread and their butter, and busi- ness is to look to it for a sufficient volume of money, and the people are to look to it for a volume of money in proportion to the population, and after the Government has been doing all these things for awhile the best friends of the republic would not recognize it if they met it in the road at high noon. When one reads this third party prospectus he wonders what the members thereof think of the fathers and founders of the government. Our insti- tutions have been in operation only a little more than a century. When they were founded we were the weakest people on earth, and under them we have become the strongest. In the arts of peace and war we hold the world at bay. What right, then, have these pseudo reformers to demand a revolution in those institutions? In a century of administration mistakes have been made and have been corrected at great cost, but do these galvanized reformers pretend that their fantastic system will work infallibly and produce better re- sults? THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 1901 “SHERMAN . IN SIGHT.” HEN The Call installed a wireless telegraph Wplant at the Cliff House, using the lightship, nine miles out, as its ocean outpost, and | received the message, “Sherman in sight,” it brought in sight almost a new world. When the lenses were fitted into a tube and the first telescope was turned to the stars, a universe was brought within range of the assisted eye. There followed a great intellectual awakening in t\he small world that could comprehend the vast problems of mathematical and physical as- tronomy, but to the mass of mankind the event was without significance. Not so with Merse's discovery of the telegraph, and its application to ocean cables, and Marconi’s inspira- tion that obsoletes the wire. These discoveries and inventions are of the highest value to mankind. In this age certainty and rapidity of communication be- tween distant points have become factors in the eco- nomic condition of the people of all the world, and a necessity in commerce and politics. The fortunes of a California wheat-grower may depend on prompt news of the blowing of the rain-bearing monsoon in India, or of the invasion of the Russian crop by the fly. From far field, crchard and vineyard the spark of electricity brings that information upon which men | may plan for future profit or prevent future loss. When The Call station at the beach received through the air the message, “Sherman in sight,” it meant in sight economies for the people of this State amounting to millions. We do not boast in saying that this first practical use of the wireless system was as necessary to its acceptance and success as was the patronage of Congress to the demonstration of | Morse's discovery. From that moment the Marconi system ceased to be an interesting laboratory experi- | ment, and emerged from the realm of speculation and doubt. It was significant and proper that - the epoch- | making message thrilled through the air from the heaving bosom of the sea to the coast of California. j Here will be gained some of the first and greatest benefits of wireless telegraphy. The weather service, which is of such vast importance to our productive interests, has been deprived of much of its power to do good because it can get reports of meteorological conditions from the land only, while the local weather that may help or hurt cur crops is affected by the con- Secretary Wilson has de- | termined to put a Marconi station on the Farallones, | which will give the signal office an outpost that is | not in sight from the shore. But who shall say that | that will be all> When Morse stretched his line from | Baltimore to Washington it was thought that would [be the maximum distance over which the current ;cou]d be sent by wire. Now, however, by use of the {local circuit and methods of reinforcement the world is belted. Who, then, can limit the possibilities of | Marconi’s discovery? If the Sherman could be seen from the lightship when hull down and her coming ticked to shore nine miles away, and if the Farallones can be hailed twenty-four miles away and below the horizon, who shall s | of the earth shall b more distant land? The signal service and the State Board of Trade V' have gone far to demonstrate that our California rains | can be foretold three months in advance by knowing the temperature on Unga and other islands of the Aleutian Archipelago. The Japan current being the source of our moisture and its evaporation depending upon temperature, when that current deflects from.its normal course and enters Bering Sea through the Aleutian passes, it parts with its warmth there, and when it reachgs us three months later chilled by its Arctic wanderings it is as cold as the air and we get | no rain. Now with a Marconi station on Unga Island | communicating with Unalaska, we can know if the rise of temperature on the archipelago in July, August and September indicates that the current has gone vagabonding and we are to miss our, early rains. If this theory of the cause of our droughts be true, and by every known fact and all analogy it is true, the command of knowledge of Aleutian conditions by the | signal service is worth millions to California. All this came in sight when the Sherman was re- ported to The Call. About that time and later the Examiner was fill- ing its columns with reports that Tesla had tele- graphed to the planet Mars, and.by other devices was seeking to cast ridicule upon Marconi and the marvels born in his genius. It is interesting that the late Judge.Hastings was the first man to discuss the probability that electric currents in the air would transmit sound and energy. He printed an essay on the subject about thirty years ago that would be interesting reading now if it could be found. | ditions over the sea also. r communication with Hawaii or e - e s When Rockefeller visited the University of Chicago | the students greeted him with a song having the re- | frain: “Rocks, rocks, rocks, give us loads of rocks, | gold, bullion, coin and ducats too.” It is not a wery lofty song, but perhaps it reached as high as the Rockefeller intellect. M supporters of his diplomacy are making an earnest effort in the Eastern States to pre- vent the extension of'the Chinese exclusion law. It | appears their arguments are addressed to the business interests of the East, and they are promising all kinds | of advantages to manufacturers and to merchants if our Government will withdraw its restrictions upon Chinese immigration. In all that there is nothing surprising. Appeals to ‘commercial interests are common in our time, and | since such appeals have been made by us to gain support of our invasion of China, it is but natural that astute Cinamen should make similar appeals in order to win favor for a Chinese industrial invasion of this country. | All of that is what might have been expected, but | there is something curious in the kind of appeals | which the Eastern people admit to be alluring and |attractive. For example, the Springfield Republican in describing the arguments of the Chinese diplo- | matists says: “They also tell us that a plentiful supply . of Chinese labor would enormously develop the re- | sources of the United States, particularly those of ' the South, where material development has been slow. The Chinese Consul General in New York talks al- | luringly to Southern plantation owners when he says: ;'Repcal the exclusion act and the Chinese will turn | the great marshes of the South into rice lands, and ! in other parts they will b‘ji]d great tea gardens.” The !negroes, who have furnished labor to the South for |a century, could almost be exterminated in two or three generations by the competition of coolies. Chi- nese labor could transform the South in fifty years; !it could make Cuba a finely cultivated garden in twenty-five years.” The Republican does not advocate a repeal of the restriction law, nor object to extend it for another CHINESE ALLUREMENTS. INISTER WU TING FANG and certain v that distance or the curvature twenty years. It says frankly enough, “the Republi- can party would commit suicide were it now to open the gates to an unrestricted influx of Chinese labor.” It is therefore all the more noteworthy that it should ‘deem the promise of an.influx of cheap labor in the South and West to be alluring. Had- the Chinese Consul told his audience in New York that Ghina would furnish cheap labor to cultivate the abandoned farms of New England and operate the factories of Boston the Eastern press would hardly have regarded that as an alluring suggestion: They would have called it a menace. Why, then, should they not re- Sard’he suggestion of an influx of Chinese into the South and the Pacific Coast as equally menacing? Our Eastern friends must have very local ideas of what constitutes an allurement. 3 It has been decided that the Santiago medal shall bear the face of Sampson on one side, but there seems to be a hopeless perplexity as to what shall be placed on the other. A proposal to put the Oregon there was set aside on account of Eastern objections. If nothing better be offered the thing might be made to look pretty by a picture of Hobson kissing a girl. R CLIMATE AND CONSUMPTION. L HE State of Colorado was inclined to resent T Dr. Sewall's report to the State Medical So- ciety that tubecculosis has become indigenous there. The climate was no doubt kindly to sufferers who had contracted the disease elsewhere, and the fact that at first it did not originate there gave rise to the belief that Colorado was consumption proof. This flattering delusion is dispelled by Dr. Sewall, who reports that 13 per cent of the local -deaths from consumption are cases that originate in Colorado. The greatest number of indigenous cases are in the cities, but no part of the State is exempt from the potential development of the disease. This condition is due entirely to infection of the State from imported cases. Minnesota has exactly the same history. It has a dry climate, favorable to outdoor life, and as there | were in pioneer times no cases of indigenous con- sumption it was widely advertised as a prophylactic climate, and sufferers sought Sit with good results that surprised medical men. The clear, dry air and invitation to outdoor life effected cures as remark-- able as any that arc in the record of Colorado and California. But the patients who found life there seeded the State with death for others, and Minne- sota no longer boasts immunity, and has fortunately lost her reputation as a sanitarium. 1 Southern California is having the same sad ex- perience, and our sanitary authorities have even con- sidered a quarantine against exotic cases and meas- ures to stamp out the disease within the State. Dr. Sewall's conclusion is: “That nothing is | clearer in the history of demography than the fact that localities, if not climates, which were at one time fa- vorable to the recovery of the consumptive patient later lose this beneficent power and even become hot- beds of the disease through cases contracting it on the spot. That is, consumption, though first exotic, later becomes indigenous.” The sooner these Western States and Territories, whose clement climate is their most valuable asset, accept and act upon this conclusion the better it will be for their future welfare. Consumption is a disease of civilization. Primitive people, like our Indians, who lived naturally, knew it not. But take an Indian and put him in a house and white man’s clothes, and in nearly every instance he will develop the disease. The analogy is plain. If civilized people live in such climatic conditions as to require less clothing, less shelter, and to permit the proper enjoyment of outdoor life, their return, to that degree, to the primitive and natural way of life, lessens their liability to develop consumption. But the disease is transmitted by infection, and when its bacilli are present, distributed in the sputa of suf- ferers, no climate is proof against it. It is evident that public opinion must accept and back up some comprehensive plan for the isolation and extirpation of this dreadful disease. It may well be worth while to inquire into the fa- cilities for isclation offered by certain desert tracts in Arizona. Near Phoenix there are already estab- lished camps of consumptives, but there may be found mingling with them rheumatic, asthmatic and hay fever patients, all seeking the same clear, dry desert air and congenial heat. Many a patient has in those camps exchanged rheumatism for consumption, con- tracted by infection. It should be possible to form in some such place a reservation, provided with every appliance for the comfort and cure of consumptives, for disinfection of their excreta, and to make such reservation so de- sirable that all patients would seek it voluntarily, as all who are able to do so now seek the hot springs for rheumatism and neuralgia, and Carlsbad for liver and kidney diseases. If the medical profession’in every State would com- bine upon such a plan, it would be easy to secure co- operation of all the States in its execution, and such a division of the first cost among thé States, and with the Federal Government, as would make it easy of accomplishment. The United States owns the Hot Springs of Arkansas. The therapeutic quality of the waters was considered of such value that the Gov- ernment bought out all the private rights there, and the springs are run by a Federal superintendent. Surely that is a precedent for joint State and Fed- eral action in providing a retreat for consumptives where they may be isolated under circumstances the most favorable to recovery and the best ‘adapted to check or prevent infection of the sound. 3 It would be a boon to the States which have the unhappy reputation of being proof against consump- tion. at Kansas is still in the center of the stage. A revered citizen of that State hag been asleep continuously for two months, and a Kansas private soldier, just returned from the Philippines, ‘after two years of army ser- vice, has bought a $2000 farm and paid cash for it out of the savings of his army pay. As his pay was only $332 for the two years he served, it will be seen that while Kansas has a man sleeping two months she also had one wide awake for two years. The Mobile Register notes that a good many Dem- ocrats are saying if they do not like the new consti- tution of Alabama they will vote against it, and com- mends the stand. Possibly the Bourbon game may be busteg after all. 3 Two negroes have been lynched in Louisiana for the crime of being enemies of the whites. As the lynchers are enemies of the negroes and one race has as much right to kill as the other, lively times may be expected. Sk President Kruger h‘al kept his threat to stagger humanity before surrendering, but what shall we say of Bryan's attempt to stagger the Supreme Court? | strangely linked Wwith misfortune. HOW NIAGARA'S ROARIS "' HEARD BY TELEPHON_E; _ R — g A tion and other places. A TRANSMITTER WITH MEGAPHONE ATTACHMENT IS PLACED IN THE CAVE OF THE WINDS AND THE STUPENDOUS ROAR OF THE FALLS TRAVELS MILES AWAY TO NEW YORK. LN . SR e S M LONG distance telephone transmitter with megaphone attachment has been installed in the Cave of the Winds at Niagara Falls, In order that the stu- pendous, deafening roar of the Faills of Niagara may be transmitted over the Bell telephone lines to New York, Buffalo, the Pan-american Exposi- The meganhoné catches up the roar of the falling waters, leads it into the tele- phone transmitter, from which it passes into the telephone exchange at Niagara Falls, where the roar is supplied at the will of the operators to subscribers, or is turned into the long distance lines, which carry it to New York or to the Bell tel- ephone exhibit in the electricity building of the Pan-American Exposition. It i heard over the telephone with wonderful realistic intensity, and one can easily im- agine the tumbling, tossing, plunging waters striking the rocky talus in front of the Cave of the Winds. L e e e 2 S S Y L under the colonel on General Miles’ staff. stationed here. it failed to work. York fort. supervision of Lieutenant Rieber, — UNCLE SAM’S ARMY SUCCESSFULLY . - USING WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY‘ HE CALL'S efforts in behalf of wireless telegraphy are meeting with the approval of those who are familiar with the workings of the Marconi system. Sinece July, sent to Washington by the chief signal officer of the Department of California certifying to the efficacy of the wireless system in use be- tween Alcatraz Island and Fort Mason. 1800, monthly reports have been This system was installed now a lieutenant The Weather Bureau chief has also been receiving reports from Govern- ors Island, New York, where a similar system was installed a year ago. The plant at Fort Mason has only been used for practice by the signal corps men It was erected for test purposes, was allowed to remain, as at any time a break in the cable commecting Alcatraz Island with the mainland might occur. nal corps men have used it as a means of communication, and at no time has and, proving successful, On many occasions the sig- 1t is not entirely the Marconi system that is in use here and at the New The signal corps men, urder the direction of Lieutenant Rie- ber, sought to improve upon the invention of the Italian inventor. ceeded, and since the erection of the plant here have had no difficulty in keeping it In working order at a very low cost. They suc- PERSONAL MENTION. George Hays of Santa Rosa is at theé Lick. R. W. Skinner of Marysville {5 at the Grand. A. P. Palace. A. J. Waters of Los Angeles is at the Palace. . A. J. Chandler of Phoenix, Ariz., is at the Palace. W. V. Fitzpatrick of San Antonio is at the Occidental. A. F. Afong of Honolulu is registered at the Occidental. F. J. Thomas, an attorney of Grass Val- ley, Is at the Lick. J. W. Walbridge, 2 merchant and mining man of Yreka, is at the Grand. H. A. Stearns of Pasadena, a m¥nufac- turing druggist, is at the Grand. Henry C. Bunker, caller of the Produce Exchange, has returned from a three weeks' trip to the East. Mrs. W. P. Wand and daughter of 1434 Leavenworth street have gone to Mari- posa County to spend the summer. —_———————— . ' Californians in New York. NEW YORK, June 2.—The following Californians are in New York: From San Francisco—C. Fitzsimmons, at the St. Denis; H. S. McDonnel, at the Im- perial; S. Baumgardner, at the Grand Union: C. M. Bradley, at the Herald Square; A. F. Conrad, at the Victoria; E. N. Davis, at the Manhattan; E. McGrath, at the Metropolitan; W. S. Saalburg, at the Tmperial. From Los Angeles—F. E. Clark, at the Murray Hill; T. B. Mills, C. W. Reed and wife, at the Grand Union; C. J. Balfour, at the Broadwgy Central. . From San Diego—A. M. Ferris and wife, at the Sinclair; Miss Grant, C. Grant, U. 8. Grant Jr., at the Murray Hill. e ana din Californians in Washington. WASHINGTON, June 25.—These Cali- fornians have registered at the hotels: Raleigh—John Robertson, California. St. James—I.. G. Kauffman and wife, San Francisco. Normandie—W. C. Bunner and wife, San Francisco. Clantier of Anaconda is at the —_————————— A Georgla establishment in a small town bears this novel sign: | “Coffins, soda water and ice cream, cheap for cash.”—Washington Star. @ i b @ ROYALTY AND OPALS. The Duchess of York accepted several Queensland opals during her Australian visit, She did so with pleasure, having no superstitions about the stones whose unique beauty the names of Mary Queen of Scots and Henrietta Maria have The King does not share his daughter-in-law’s devotion to the opal, and the prevalence of the prejudice against it was manifested to him by the many letters of entreaty and remonstrance which reached him dur- ing the talk about the addition of an opal to the crown jewels. To one such letter from a popular novelist a reply has lately been received to the effect that his Majes- ty will not add In this regard to the un- easiness of any of his subjects as to the head which wears a crown. —_———— CORONADO TENT CITY, Coronado Beach, A CHANCE TO SMILE. She—You say you love the girl? He—Madly. “And what does she say?” “‘She asks me to learn to forget her.” “Well, that's easy.” Oh, no, it's not.” “All you have to do is to marry her.”— Yonkers Statesman. She—They say it's love that makes the world go round. He—And yet you can put bushels of it in a letter and it won't make the letter go unléss you put a postage stamp on it.— Yonker’s Statesman. “If T were to go into Kansas to make speeches,” said the orator, “d6 you think I could get audiences?” > “Well,” answered the resident of that State,” there’s one way in which you could insure yourself the most attentive consideration. You might let it be under- stood that you are a farmhand looking for work. But they would probably mob you when they discovered the deception.” —Washington Star. Lodger—This week I shall have to owe you my rent. Lsndlady—That is what you said last week. Ledger—Well, didn't I keep my word?— Tit-Bits. The Artistic Tousle.—“Oh, May! how did you get your hair arranged so beautiful- Iy?”’ “I did it up carefully, and then played two games of basketball.”"—Puck. “Now, darling, I don’t want you to give me anything for my birthday, except the promise you will be a good girl.”” “Oh, mamma, that’s too bad, you somfin else.”’—Brooklyn Life. No Rival.—Mr. Blinks—Who has been here? Mrs. Blinks—No one. Mr. Blinks—Huh! Who's been smoking those cigars you gave me last Christmas? Mrs. Blinks—No one, dear. The lamp was turned up too high, that’s all—New York Weekly. buyed She—You say he is very formal? He—I should ray so. Why, if he saw a man walking off with his umbrelia I don't think he'd speak to him without an intro- duetion.—Yonkers Statesman. © it @ SOME ROYAL SALES. The announcement that a had for. sale 3000 dozen bott’]-;ndootn :l’:: from the cellars of Queen Victoria caused widespread interest among connoisseurs. Royal sales have been exceedingly fow. but in the early part of the last century' an English auctioneer sold the extensive library and collection of prints of Quéen Charlotte. No name was printed on the cataiogue, but the ownership was well known. The King of Holland’s collection of pictures was one of the great sales which distinguished the '#0's of the last century, and Louis Philippe’s was another —the chief point about the last nameq be- ing a very fine collection of Dpictures, chiefly Spanisa, bequeathed by an Eng. lish gentleman, Mr. Standish. e In the City of Mexico there are pri- vate artesian wells and eleven public ones. This number will soon be for, at the present time, many owners are having wells bored yards. . in their IN ANSWER TO QUESTIONS OF CALL READERS JOAN D'ARC—Reader, Vallejo, Cal “The Personal Recollections of Joan d@’Arc,” published by the Harpers in 13%, were written by Mark Twain. NO PREMIUM—W. H. S., Henry, Butte County, Cal. No premium is offered for a $ plece of 1838 nor for a 50 centime piece of Emperor Napoleon III, 1864. The former is offered by dealers for $7 50 and the latter for 20 cents. These figures give the market value of each. POLL TAX—A. 8., City. The history of bills presented at the last held session of the California Legislature does not show that there was any action taken in re- lation to section 2671 of the Political Code, which authorizes employers to hold out the amount of poll tax due by employes. FORCE—N. 8., City. If a force Is ir- resistible, nothing can withstand it. If an object is immovable no force can stir it. Consequently “what would be the result of an irresistible force coming in contact with an immovable object” is a question to which there cannot be an answer. SNAKES—H. H. J, San Luls Obispo, Cal. The California blacksnake, with white rings around the body, Is not a ven- omous reptile. The ‘“coral snake,” which dertves its name from the fact that it has rings the color of coral, pink or deep red, i$ cne of many different serpents, some of which are venomous and others are not. ° CARDS-D. M. F., City. Dr. Poole, an authority on cards, says that the prob- abilities of the various hands falling to any one player prior to the draw are: One pair, 13 against one; two palrs, 20 against 1; threes, 4 against 1; straight, 254 against 1; flush, 509 against 1; full hand, 693 against 1; fours, 4164 against 1, and straight flush, 64,999 against 1. FIFTEEN-BALL POOL—-F. M. A, Petaluma, Cal. Hoyle, in section 5 of the laws of fifteen-ball pool or pyramid or triangle pool, says: “If the player pockets one or more of the object balls d his own ball at the same time he can- not score for the numbered balls, which must be placed on the spot, or on a line behind it, if the spot be occupled, and he forfeits three for his losing hazard.” HOURS AND COMPENSATION-M. M., City. *The law which declares that “eight hours a day shall constitute a day’s work for all laborers, workmen and mechanics who may be employed by or on behalf of the Government of the United States,” was approved June 28, 1868. The act fixing the compensation of laborers at $720 per year, for those “‘em- ployed by or on behalf of the Govern- ment,” was approved July 16, 1870. b s - RATLROAD EUCHRE — Subscriber, City, and Constant Reader, Gilroy, Cal. In regard to playing alone in railroad eu- chre, Hoyle has the following: “If the player elects to go alone he may call for his partner’s best card, and discard any in his own hand, but either player of the opposing side may also call for the best card held by his partner, and if the latter succeed in gaining a euchre his side is entitled to a score of four points.” He adds that “in all other particulars rail- road euchre is rlayed in the same manner as the regular same.” In that game Hoyle says: “The dealer, unless he turn down the trump, must discard one card from his hand and take up the trump card.” A WELL-FORMED WOMAN—A. Y. M., City., Phillp Martiny, a well-known sculp- tor, gives the following as the proportions of a physically perfect woman: Height, 5 feet 6 inches; front measurements: neck, 4 inches; across the shoulders, 16% inches; bust measure, 12 inches; waist measure; 10 inches across; i4 inches across the hips; 41-3 inches across just above the knee: at the calf, 4% inches; ankle, 2% inches across. Side and back measurements— Neck, 4% inches on the side; shoulder, 5 inches; waist, 7% inches; hips, 9% Inches; above thé kuee, 5 inches; at the knee, 415 inches; at the calf, 4% inches, and at the ankle, 3 inches. The back across the shoulders, 18 inches; at the waist, 10 °| inches. Another measurement by the same sculptor is as follows: Height, 5 feet § inches; neck, 13% inches; bust measure, 34; waist, 24%; hips, 34%; greatest meas- urement of upper leg, 22%; knee, 13%; calf, 14%; upper part of arm, 1I; elbow, 10; wrist, 6%; length of arm fyom shoulder to finger tips, 30 inches. A CAVEAT-C. H. V., Knights Ferry, Cal.—A caveat, under the patent law, is a notice given to'the office of the cave- ator’s claim as inventor, in order to pre- vent the grant of a patent to another for the same alleged invention upon an ap- plication filed during the life of a caveat without notice to the caveator. Any citizen of the United States who has made a new invention or discovery, and desires further time to mature the same, may on payment of a fee of $§10, file in the Patent Office a caveat setting forth the object and the distinguishing characteristics of the invention, and pray- ing protection of his right until he shall have matured his invention. Such caveat will be filed in the confidential archives of the office and preserved In secrecy, and will be operative for the term of one year from the filing thereof. The caveat may be renewed, on request in writing, by the payment.of a second fee of $10, ana it will continue in force for one year from the payment of such second fee. 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