The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 20, 1904, Page 12

Strange Trances s death mig d ved and gr I resent mome has offi- his m an had occaslon turning to was on the to the tomb. 1- ed ok another sol- . among his kith - re gathered around his i to have drawn tions were made corpse the supposed ment da ughter, from Paris, and the st that night ngs. During an was hildren arranged to k to Paris on vening, however, »me coffee, into a wee drop of oured, the old man le, and the vil- had been summon d that there this time, As, however, els by any ally dead. age f at this is the being th her tr made for be commie ns of de: spondent ed London |Sailing to Tropics is that told vage from sh Ma in winter midst of a « h succeeding morn ssing hiz ng greener and 1 one ca: th iriousn very veins as he ¥ to t = betw th not ap pea ) ¢ of the ma vess e 3 being the a long tim they are off a pier *th chattering the pipe in his water s we he managed to live throu experiences in New Yor These coastw sailors can stay in no t long enough to become acct torr the te; ture, be it warm or o e ne becoming acelimated and it ig @ on the ability of t to adapt himself to h nment to see these mer shiver der a stinging northw wind 2 temperature of 15 to 20 d grees, knov hat within six or eighnt days v sweltering in linen and drinking cooling draughts at o temperature of 9 or 100 degrees and = moist atm that most un- bealthy en when a man lives in it the year round.—New York Post. ere is + B 'WhaleboneWhale ’ - - Among the various kinds of whale- bone whales is the right whale, which reaches a gth of sixty feet and yields 200 barrels of oil and 1000 pounds of long, valuable bzicen; the humpback whale, which sometimes seventy-five feet Jong. but has short bone and little oil; ck and sulphur bottom whales, size but comparatively little . and the bowhead, Greenland or whale. The last is at home the ice fields and is now the Polar among most sought of 4ll the whales on ac- count of the excellent quality and large quantity of its baleen. The maximum length is sixty-five feet, and its hulk is immense; the huge head represents a third of the length, and the tail is six- teen to twenty feet acress. The largest bowheads produce several thousand pounds of bone, worth $5 or $6 a pound, and 6000 or more gallons of oil, worth 40 cents a gailon. in feeding the baleen whales drop the lower jaw and swim forward rapidly, and all kinds of small floating animals ~figh, shrimp, winged mollusks—pass into (be yawning mouth. When the lower jaw is closed the plates of baleen are forced upward and backward, the water rushes through the sieve formed by the hairs, the food is left behind and is swallowed by the aid of the tongue. Some of the baleen whales are said ' of more than 100 feet, ntic records of ex- between 9 and 100 gest species of whale, and largest of all living ani- larg creature that ever far as we know, is the sul- 1 whale of the Pacific Coast to attain a lengt and t P th nals and the therefore dphur bottom whals € further distir hed by bei the swifte all whales and one of the most difficult to approach. It glides over the surface with great rapidity, often displaying its entire length, and when it respires the immense vol h it throws up to a gr evidence of its colossal proportio Eskimo Baths Boys who make a fuss hecause parents oblige them to > frequ baths should be glad they are ) mo children, living on the shores of Norton Sound, says the Detroi News-Tribune. In that cold region of Alaska all the boys are obliged to take eat bath every week and this bath joke, A fire of driftwood is built 1 the center of the floor of the kashim —the e-roomed house where the men and beys of a village pass most of th time—and when the smoke has passed off and the wood is reduced to glowing coals, 2 cover nut over ke hole in roof, and the omes inte hot. The bo. t take off their clothes and sit about the furnace-like apartment 1 their skin become: red as the 1 of a hoiled lobster and seems on of blistering. to the heat, the obliged to wear respirators ect their lungs. These respira- pad$ of shavings bound to- . concave on the ineide and con- intense are vex on the outside, and large enough to cover the mouth, nose and part of ihe cheeks cf the wearer. Across the inside runs a little wooden bar, which is held in the teeth to keep the respir- The boys sit there un- are dripping wet with perspir- hen they rush putside into the nd roll {n the snow. n, who spent between ars in investigating for t the kimo living Strait, says: *‘On sev- I saw them go from eat bath to holes in the ice on neighboring stream, and, squatting e, pour ice water over their backs with a wooden dipper, experiencing the greatest pleasure from the operation.” Eskimo boys seem to 1 a bath as this ali and cven to enjoy it, it would probability kill any white boy d it Despite all the learned prolixity cerebralists the mysterious someth which onstitutes the differer ween genius and insanity pe y defies definition. Suchwknowledge as we have of it, if knowledge it can be called, is purely speculative. We two intell h mech- in ph pect two peas may produc as un- like as chaos to cosmos—the one a generator of wild futility; the other militant force in forwarding civiliza- tion. But why this three pounds of gray convolutions is what it is, and why that three pounds of apparently similar convolutions is what it is, we m; make but the veriest guess. Dr. Edward Anthony Spitzka's report upon his analysis of the brain of George Francis Train in no wise clears up this perplexity. Indeed, so far as the layman is concerned, it serves to bring the puzzle into striking relief. The noted fpecialist reached this con- clusion: “The brain shows a superior degree of complexity in its surface morphology. No lesion of any kind and no deformity, atrophy or anomaly are discoverable.” Roughly speaking., this means that Train's brain was extraordinarily well developed and free from deficiencies. To all outward appearance it should have been the source of great ideas and the master of their sane execu- tion. Yet we know that, despite the fact that he made his name known the world around, his was a singularly futile career. Though he repeatedly gave evidence of having far more than the average intellectual power—dis- played talents which seemed at times to justify his quaint conceit that he “felt like a cocoanut in a bag of pea- nuts”—he always stopped short of great achievement. Instead of being a great man he was an object of great ridicule.—Philadelphia North Ameri- can. “ L4 Giant Brothers i > It is believed that Central Illinois can produce more curious characters and refer to more curious incidents than any other locality of similar ex- tent in the United States. In Normal there resides a family of giants, the four sons of M V. L. Car who are all over six feet in hei Tha . Robert, measures six feet inc four Fourtecn h lung « sted for a long it several he would n urvive, but in bed he con- tinued 1 length. rinly chang son, is but >ven inches in of the family. both measure The father of these 18 but six feet in haight, while feet three boys w death compelied her to scream. Her cries were heard by the station agent, who, Immediately opened the box and found the woman almost frozen with the cold. ‘When the trick was exposed the bag- gage privilege of the man's ticket be- came, of covrse, valueless, and he was told that he would have to purchase transpertation for his wife. What be- came of the couple is not known, as they left the station as soon as the woman 3 sufficiently thawed out to travel, ard they failed to return in time to catch the train. ! Girl Barber f— Wapella, I'l.. there is a young rber. She is but 12 years of and her name is Burzie Lighthafl. Her father operates a barber shop in the village and she iz his onjy assist- ant. The young lady is quite expert and is proud of *her accomplishment. She is not kept from school, but goes to the institution regularly, assisting her father largely on Saturdays. ’ GRS Y i Ancient Autcs +* :. Now that carly prosnect of a se omnibuses for Londs to note the curl fact that, with the exception of a few months about four years ago, no horseless omnibus has been licensed in London for sixty-five years.. In the far-away thirties the o+ there appears to be an vice of motor- it is interesting * st and so receipted for. She was literally covered with tags, which were sewed to her clothing. She also carried on her dress front many little buttons which curious travelers had pinned there at varlous points on her long journey. An- other remarkable thing about the jour- ney of the little traveler is that among all those whom she met en route not one was found who could speak her tongue, yet she made the entire journey without the slightest mishap or -un- necessary delay, and was fourteen days on the road.—The Express Gazette. X3 Oldest Cycler -3 Thomas W. Davis of Peoria probably is the most remarkable bicyclist of his age in the world. He is now in his 77th year, and has ridden 100,000 miles. He recently received from the Centucy Club of America the first prize for the 1902 mileage record of America, leading all competitors by riding 8030 miles last year. This fall he wiil bring his total up to a distance of four times around the earth. -. Davis has been an en- {husiastic wheelman for forty vears o: n and has ridden all kinds of bi- cycies, from ihe original affairs known as the “ordinaries” ‘to the moder: “gafoties,” Ie is eonfident that his record cannot be equaled T | - In Peoria W. Curtis, 2 millwrig who hasg just ¢ has been eng seven years. been done by % —Cciid E‘lc;user 1 there is a man named J. ht and carp troke of work has others excenting in the upon /a solid brick foundation, which stands fifteen feet in height. For thirty years he lived in a little house upon the same site. He conceived the noticn ven years ago that he wanted a new house, and, moving the old one to the vear for temporary quarters commenced work upon the new. The structure cost | ARABS OF THE & i HE Indians shown in the rare photograph reproduced herewith are the “Arabs of the Greal American Desert.” They are a family of the New Mexican Indians of and the life they live e, if not far more primi- AMERICAN DESERT INDIAN NOMADS 9 vHE SREAT SO Twe s tive, than that of their lowliest or earliest ancestors, notwithstanding that they wear clothes having some sem- blance to the apparel of present day clvilization. Their home cannot even be dignified with the modest name of “hut.” It is nothing more nor less than a heaped-up pile of brush and scraps of - - 4 rags and blankets, affording but very poor shelter even from the sun by day, and having no warmth at night, for on the desert none is needed. And yet, notwithstanding their poverty and the squalor of their lives, as shown in the photograph, they are a very contenteda little band of Nomads. the mother was of average stature. There are probably few families In the United States who can show four gons of such height. e o Palace of Stamps %+ e The Rising Sun Inn, in Sussex, Eng- land, is a very interesting and curious place. The proprietor is a great stamp collector, and he has practically every room in the house covered with stamps. The parlor of the inn is called the jubilee stamp room, which took the en- terprising decorator flve years to cover with stamps of all nationalities. Even the table and chairs are adorned In this manner. A picture of the late Queen is hung upon the walls, and another of the Eiffel tower, both very prettily de- picted with stamps. The original value of the stamps in the room is stated to be $200,000, In a rustic little summer- house, where a“”similar decoration is displayed, is kept the visitors’ book, which contains about 85,000 signatures. + T Wife as Baggage l - o o To save railroad fare from Mentor, Minn., to Buford, N. D, a woman was bundled into a box, to Ve shipped as baggage on the ticket purchased by her husband, and had the train been on time tle scheme would undoubt- edly have been successful. As it happened, there was a delay of two hours because of the heavy snow, during which time the box, with its human freight, lay on the platform in the bitter cold. The woman was plucky, however, and stood the un- comfortable position as long as pos- sible and until fear of freezing to motor-omnibus was a very familiar sight in London streets. In 1833 Han- cock’s steam omnibus, the Era, was panting its way many times a day be- tween Paddington and the Bank, do- ing its ten miles an hour and carrying fourteen passengers at the modest fare of sixpence cach. It is true that the Era had an unamiable trick of break- ing down just when {ts passengers were most in a hurry, and it usually took half an hour or more to start it again. But even our thousand-pound motor cars of to-day have their eccen- tric moments. The Era’s twin sister, the Autopsy, was a still more capricious vehicle. She ran, when she could be induced to run, between Pentonville and Finsbury square and was an attractive looking omnibus with an open front, which three open air passengers shared with the conductor. But both Era and Au- topsy suffered eclipse when Hancock produced his Automaton, an omnibus with a certified speed of twenty miles an hour over a measured mile on the Bow road and capable of carrying twenty-two passengers. The Auto- maton was a “free-lance” and ran wherever passengers proved most plen- tiful—to Islington, Paddington, Strat- ford or the city. But the turnpike acts sounded .the death knell of these pioneer horseless omnibuses and in 1840 they vanished from the streets. O — = l Checking a Baby ‘ b B b mgorie o 2 G G e The other day there arrived at Boise, Idaho, a little girl cnly 10 years of age, Who had left her home in Germany and crossed the ocean and over two-thirds of this continent as an express pack- age! While she didn’t ride in the bag- gage car, she was billed the same as packages as “One girl, 10 years old,” —% him $3000 and is without incumbrance. Mr. Curtis is 65 years of age and has always been scrupulously careful to avoid debt. He is the son of a once wealthy family who lost their fortuae. - Two-Tailed Comet i - 4 The use of photography in the study of comets i bringing to light many anomalies in their structure that tax the ingenuity of astzonomers to ex- plain. The latest occurred in the comet that visited us last year — Borelli's — whose tail, in July last, split in two for no apparent reason. A section of it broke from the head and traveled away from the rest at a relative speed of twenty-nine miles a second. It is sug- gested by Professor E. E. Barnard, ho writes of this phenomenon in “Popular Astronomy,” that the emis- sion of particles from the head to form the tail may have suddenly aitered slightly in 'direction; or, possibly, a wandering swarm of meteorites may have collided with the tail.—Success. : : [ Blessing the Neva ‘ —_— There are no drawing-rooms as in London. Presentations at court are made at the balls when the Czar as he first enters passes along the diplomatic circle, talking for a moment with each chief of mission and greeting any guest for whose introduction permission may have been secured. This form of pre- sentation has a fine air of hospitality and offers the opportunity of a brief conversation. What impresses the ob- server is the finished courtesy and -grace, the thorough breeding, which distinguish every social function. The —— Czar knows all the details. When per- mission was sought only the day be- fore for a visitor to witness the bless- ing of the Neva from the Winter Pal- ace the answer came in the early morn- ing with the apology that the request reached the Czar only at midnight, and the visitor was made his guest. It is only at the great special ceremonials like the coronation or a wedding or a baptism that the court costume is worn, and the sumptuous crimson vel- vet robes, with all their accompani- ments, do not often appear. It is widely supposed that the Czar never goes forth without a guard. This is an error. He often drives through the streets with no attendant but the coachman. Most people of rank go with a coachman and footman. I have seen the Czar in his sledge without a foot- man and no one near but the servitor who held the reins. Precautions may have been taken along the line, but if s0 they were not visible. Indeed, it is cult to see what could h pre- vented an attack had there been such a design.—Saturday Evening Post. i Trained Jeil Bird | | feathered pet of the Cook The man and th Charles Kelly and are temants of cell County jail. Tllinc canary became c tentiary at Jack: was serving a sentence. For four the convict trained the bird in h and now boasts it ecan do 123 ™ and whistle “‘Yankee Doodle accomplishment. The pair had an en- gagement on the vaudeville stage, but Kelly got into trouble and landed in Jail | ¢ ‘ i Deog iL.egacy. [ Urbana hoasts ¢f one man who will never necd the atte - mare society. His name i ard ke is nre iy the « who has remem aged seventy-five and cne of th wyers at the Champaign bar. » exception of his faithful dog, in the He anine have bee > is alope and the companions for the last ten & in court,and brothers could hardly think more of each other. Mr. White is oud of the fact that in case he should die first a custodian would be nted care of the dog would be allowed a good s pay him for his troubl the will provides for a funeral when the dog dies. | Pocket StocKing Buyers from New York state that hose manufact s are no m ng pock in womer ockings Now that hosemakers have taken the initiative in this matter, it is strange that the didn’t think of the stecking scheme for women eons ago. for from time immemorial, woman— poor creature! been 1 stocking for a shopping bag, The pocket hose bids f a popular fad. to become It is an interesting instinct that makes woman carry things about in her stoc When d w did she come by it It s*ems reasonable to suppose that since women's garments are usually so destitute of ekets ity has driven her to use her ng for that purpose. Hence a woman's hose has come to be a gen- erally accepted receptacle for ev tning, from pin mo: to a powder rag. ‘While the pocket-stocking is unde- niably a good thing in theory, there are, nevertheless, certain objections which may justly be urged against it, chief of which bility un- der certair st L For stance, if 2 woman should neglect, be- fore leaving home, to put a nickel in her glove for car fare, having placed all her money in her stocking, she would find herself in an embarrassing position when the conductor took up his collection. The principal objection to the pock- et-stocking therefore is its ungetat- ableness in a crowd. Again, there are other women who in- would construe this into a poi® in favor of the pocket-stocking. They might find it more advantageous in disp ing a gayly patterned hose the excuse wh crossing would g .It might be well, however, not too hasty in concl reserve our judgment until how the stocking-pocket works out in practice. | Human Radiators The discovery and study of new forms of radiation is the order ! day. Some time ago it was > Messrs. Charpentier and Blondlot, tw French investigators, that rays appar- ently 8 ny others previously known are given off by the hum bady. It has now been discovered th these are closely analogous to the f of radiation in the H Welsbach man and in that fro some other sources, and they have b named by Bl y ase is pr to the degree of contraction o cle tha rays.—Suceos “Why is it, with the cor ins chairs next t why are the tab room always the last ta Don't know; never t responded his companior you have a the to accor The elderly man 1 sly, and continued t will ¥ ats Every ly takes to a wer back into », that when woman i and gerews not corner, it. Have you t—an dates back stinct to prehist times, when men had not yet learned the use etal weap- ons. It is the instinct we m our cave- had only clut t - disposition fous experiences. “When the prehistoric man wanted to eat his r in peace, he huddled s in a cliff or against big rock. In that f so deeply us, X when « ars and mastodons do fer wails, and especially c ne I suppose, too, that's urally walk on the ¢ men along tk sidev winged icl osaurus § 1 woop down on ould bar r p “it is ther rudimentary instinct which has vived the need of Man instine protected we by hav- ing a cliff on one le of her and him- seif on the other, and to th day she expects it S e SRR, 3 P i Family of Doctors | In Lovington, Moultrie k County, Dr. Donovan, whe has practiced med- ry for fe to adopt the sion. Four are now . but five Bave practices of their own. The elder Donovan is a native of Marshall « v, Kentucky, where he was born J. D. ine and ed has y yea 1e pro- in e E n children were born to nine boys and two girls. The single daughter living has not ex- pressed any desire to be a physician like her nine brothers. — kaffirs “Zulu HE mechanical ingenuity of Reu- ben Tellam, a civil engineer in the emnloy of the Consolidated Gold Fields, limited, South Af- rica, has succeeded in giving the wilds of that region its first automobile. The machine js a crude specimen of a motor car but answers the purpose for v." ~h it was intended to carry Tel- lam over the rough territory in which he is engaged at his profession. It iIs built on the four wheels of a discarded ox cart. Tellam has named the result of his handiwork “The Zulu Motor Car.” He has ‘appointed a Kaffir to be his chauf- feur and the native has become quite Motor Car” proficient in handling the lever. Tél- lam is proud of his work, as he per- formed it all himself. The power from his motor car is developed from an electric storage battery which is con- cealed in the body of the car. Tellam sent the plcture of his “up to date automobile” as he calls it, to Registrar of Voters Thomas J. Walsh of this city as a Christmas and New Year’s greeting. Tellam was formerly a draughtsman in the employ of the Election Commission and as such he made a topographical map of this city, considered one of the best ever made. He was also a draughtsman for the Union Iron Workg, but left some time ago to accept a lucrative position in the African gold fields.