The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 10, 1904, Page 15

THE SAN FRANCISCO SUNDAY CALL. Scot in Russia { the United States The Cand section of the the Joop in this in- AA LS sEELT i, the fruit ripening as though 1t had never been disturbed from the original place of growth. This method seems to open up a wide field, as well from the scientific as from the practical point of view. It v to see all the advantage that could be derived from the method for the purpose of trans- porting fruits from trees too heavily loaded. to those which have few fruits upon them. is & Beauty et have’ been sur- reasing demand for ation is that a large i pretty women, to- £ vith an equally large -section so conspicuous for their pulchri- have created a_ celery beauty sé t in jatters of food that ¢ has more po- world for and a clear com- eaten raw It promot sir n any drug in th eyes must a beautifier varioug wa Lottery Clothes employed the tteries have ta in nd weil- which is cul- the fac- ss the has the new and the e the ot all hen, th ry in Civilization and the unnatural hab- ts into which held re- spons of ill alth, a would esuma ilty, says the Americ n Jour- al. The latest cu ndicitis, as announced by cable Berlin, is for the walk for twen has opportunity to subside often beneficial, and a it might pacify a grumbli x. Before lor therefore, and sola- we may NEWLOOP ACT , when the ns in th absolutely nothing to guide it until it has completed the ar d begun the downward plunge along remainder f the loof If the momentum nice were not gauged to a mathematical there is abso- lutely nothing tc the rider from instapt death, or worse, a terrible mangling. However, the Germans are enjoying the novel sensation to the ut- most. BICYCLIST SHOUTS QVER FoRriER TAME ystem s that girls hscribers have the lucky fours 2 day. [ = vCex'\esthesia g bl “‘Cenesthesia’™ is the name given to the general feeling we have of the ex- ietence of our own bodies. This sense of existence is chiefly owing to acci- dental and local impressions awaken- ing or stimulating the sensibility, but it is comnleted by a certain obverse consciousness of the exercise of or- ganic functions—for example, respira- tion. It is by this sensation that the spiritual o perceives itself existing locally in the limited extent of | the or- ganism. In perfect health this feel- ing iIs continuous, uniform and equal, and, therefore, not special or local. In rder to be remarked a certain exalta- tion of well being or distinct uneasi- ness is required. In the hypnotic state certain have a more or less distinct perception of their internal or- 2ans and can exert certain action over them. In fact they can modify at will all the functions of the ‘‘vegetative' life—for instance, the beating of the jects commodity would lead a stranger to believe that every one in the city keeps his jaws working all the time. It s wrong to assume that chewing gum and breath drops are used by those who drink habitually and by to- bacco hogs solely. The women use them qnite as much. The sales in the United States of breath dropbs alone amount yearly to over $1,000,000, show- ing how the little things will mount up. - - — |0dd Mail Packege| | * = =g Half covered with postage stamps, a large cocoanut, in all its hairy cover- ing, was received through the mails at the Louisville postoffice, says the Cour- jer-Journal. The nut was plainly ad- dressed on one side, where the hair had been scraped off smoathly, and was delivered by the postman with his regular mail. Of the many unique packages and “things” received in the mail this was the oddest. for the cocoa- nut was without wrappnings of any kind, and did not even have a tag at- tached. The nut was addressed in ink on one smooth side, and just above the address were the stamps. - - French Heroine The French Grace Darling—otherwise Rose Here, fisherwoman—becomes hot less heroic as later and fuller accounts of her exnloits at Ushant reveal the extent of her daring ‘and bravery, She was gathering shellfish on the rocks near the Pvramide de Runion, when out of the fog she heard despair- ing cries, and looking “seaward per- ceiVed a boat containing fourteen men .lion pounds sterling. There will be forty stories, with ac- commodation for 7000 tenants, who will pay £300,000 a year in rent; and the estimated cost of the building is a mil- Every man, woman and child in Manchester could find standing room within the walls of this truly wonderful building. Flowers En Route P R e Over a half million women annually * get free bouquets at Niles, Mich, where the Michigan Central Railroad has just rebuilt its Not-house on & scale that doubles its former capacity. It matters not whether it be midwinter or the blistering months of summer, there is a fragrant shower of cut flow- ers at this pretty country station as soon as a train stops. ¥ ] More ‘than a decade ago the officers of that road conceived the idea of raising enouzh flowers to enable them to throw in the lap’of each woman passenger a boufonniere of cut flow- ers. An employe in uniform, bearing a basket filled with the ‘favors, passes through the train distributing the fragrant bunches. k The new building not only holds a never-failing supply of flowers for the tiny bouduets for the women folk, but in it are stored’thousands of plants that in the spring are shipped to every-nart of the systeqn, to be used in beautifyipg station grounds. o = l, Chinese School Each Chinese schoolboy must. fur- nish his own stool and table for school work, and the 'four precious articles,” which are the ink siab, a cake of India ink, a brush for writing and paper. With these he_begins his weary task of learning to write and read the thou- sands of Chinese characters. These are to open the way to the Chinese classics, and a knowledge of this an- cient literature and ‘wisdom means education to the Chinese. At the open- ing of a Chinese school a paper on which is writteri the name of Con- fucius is pasted on the wall. Before this honored name the pupils and teachers burn paper money and joss sticks and bow their heads three times -+ ' STRANGEST TRIBUNAL IN HISTORY | | N ancient Egypt, before a dead body could be borne to the grave it was solemnly tried before forty- two judges, who sat’ crescent-wise on the banks of the sacred lake. By the margin lay a boat, rowed by one who impersonated the Egyptian equiv- alent for Charon. Any accuser was at Hberty to lay what charge he pleased against the departed and, if it was sus- tained, the remains were denied burial in consecrated ground. If the accusa- tion failed, the mummy was borne on the sacred bark to the caverns of the dead, and the accuser had himself to pay the penalty appointed for the erime he had laid to the charge of the de- parted. AERIAL BICYCLE LEAP | CIRCLING THE ARIEL ARCH E: ON A BICYCLE THE VERY LATEST AMERICAN SENSATION IRCLING the aerfal arch is the newest feat in risking life for en- tertainment. Experts in such matters declare it is not only the most graceful but the most daring .act of its kind ever per- formed. The feat wa- accomplished for the figst time in - s country at Fairview, N. J, a few days ago by Dr. C. B. Clark, who has abandoned medical practice for-the more lucrative calling of cyeling through space. Starting from a point forty-five feet from the ground Dr. Clark mounts a 170-pound bicycle, coasts down a plank, and after attaining a velocity estimat- ed et 85 miles an hour. machine and rider are thrown 'into the air by a sudden rise at the bottom of the plank- way. The terrific momentum carries the verformer, still upright on his bi- cycle, into théeir to a height of twen- ty-two feet from the ground and across a gap in the staging forty-two feet wide. The total distance traveled through space along the arc of the circle de- + scribed by the human missile is caleu- lated at fifty-six feet. Hanging for an instant in the air, with the front wheel of his machine pointing skyward, the performer sud- denly throws his head forward with the same motion used in throwing a forward semersault. This brings both wheels on a level Just as tke bicycle strikes the landing platform, which is seven feet above the ground. The machine seems to re- gain its lost impetus and shoots down an incline to the ground level, where it is stopped by a “mechanic” placsd fifty feet way. The time which elapses from the in- stant that Dr. Clark starts on his per- flous flight through space is just four and one-fifth second He is now 26 years of age, 130 pound: as never smoked a cigar or drank a drop of whisky, and adopt- ed his present hazardous calling for love of the excitement it affords. Dr. Clark earned $50 a week in the practice of medicine and He will earn $1000 a week Volo, the Volitant."— New York World. weighs when I lifted from a pool a plump trout, and held him in the palm of my hand, just on the surface of the water. Half a dozen times I lifted the same trout, tickling him gently on the belly and sides. He appeared to like it, lying over against my hands like a cat who courts rubbing. I found that I could do almost anything with the trout, car- rying them in my hand for a’few mo- ments before returning them to the water. P —————— e Man With Dough (Written after reading Markham's world famous poem.) Bowed by the weight of capital, He leans Upon his bank, And gaZes on the ground That looks to him to people it ‘With all producing industries; He fills the emptiness of age With his energy, - And on his credit bears The burden of a world That needs his strength; Wealth makes him dead To doubting and despair, A thing that grieves not And who always hopes Stolid and stunned, The brother to the ox Is raised by him To higher brotherhood. ‘Who loosens and lets down the jaw That chews up poverty? ‘Whose hand slants back the tide Of panic and defeat? ‘Whose breath blows out The light of failure and decay? The man with the “dough.” And don’t you forget it. WILLIAM J. LAMPTON. o} - -+ No Alimony Bill } — +- = heart. The fact shows that the brain in certain stages of activity can act « the organic functions. If there is a nervous current from the brain to the organs there is also, perhaps, a contrary current from the organs to the brain. Drs. Cromer, Liebault and others maintain’that some hypnotic subjects perceive their internal organs and even those of other persons with whom they are in hypnotic relations.— London Globe. - — - + «Stiff”> Check l | X The Arion Singing Society of Jersey City, desiring to give a fair in April, sent its committee out for subscrip- tions. A member, Frederick Menzen- hauer, was encountered in a restau- rant and asked to subscribe. “I'd give you $10 if I had my check book.” “Hold on a minute,” he added, seeing a waiter entering with his weekly pack- age of laundry. “Hand me one of those shirts.” Cutting out the bosom he drew his check thereon on the Second National Bank of Hoboken. “I guess that'll cash,” he concluded. “I'll cash it,” said a companion, and he did. ) It was indorsed and deposited with the People's Safe Deposit Company of Jersey City Heights for collection. The check was withdrawn by cash deposit, and will be framed and raffled during the fair. A PN Gum Chewing _— Kentucky is the greatest State on the list for the consumption of chew- ing gum. When a gum drummer finds he must sell a big bill ur surrender his portfolic he at once heads for - Louis- ville. The statistics of sales of that at the among which was drifting wildly mercy of the strong currents a mass of dangerous reefs. The occupants of the boat, afraid to throw themselves into the sea on ac- count of the swift tide, plied their oars with the courage of despair and shouted at the top of their voices for assistance. Rose ran down to the foot of the cliffs, and without losing a moment plunged into the boiling surf dressed as she was and swam to the boat. Climbing on board, she reassured the sailors as best she could, for she speaks little French, and then, taking her place at the rudder, steered the boat with marvelous adroitness past dangerous reefs . to Pen-ar-Rock, dis- tantsabout two hours by rowing from the Pyramide de Runion. Rose Here is 5o poor that the British consul at Brest has started a sub- scription for her. But she is obviously rich in something more valuable than money.—London Mirror. Tl‘lnge SKy Scraper E: - 450 4 American *‘sky-scrapers” are a con- stant source of wonder to our English cousins across the pond. London is now about to attempt competition in the shape of a 300-foot building which will stand where now is the St. Bar- tholomew Hospital. - The Wesminster Gazette in com- menting on the proposed structure says: “It will certainly be the most striking architectural feature in Lon- don. But even such an exalted’ edi- fice as this would make a very poor show by the side of the ‘creation- licking' building which is about to shoot up to the sky in New York. The contemplated skyscraper will rise half as high again as St. Paul's Cathedral, 233 feet higher than its nearest rival; it will have a frontage of 212 feet and a depth ranging ‘from 100 to 123 feet. XX to the floor. The ‘teacher then tells Confucius the day, the month and the year when the school is opened and begs for his favor. Every morning when the punils arrive they must bow twice, once for the teacher and cnce for Confucius.—~Everybody's Magazine. i Trout Poachers o - . A favorite method of trout thieves is to take a sack or bag, weight it with stones, and place it, mouth up-stream, in the narrowest part of the brook, says Harper's Weekly. Then one of the rascals comes down-stream, wading, poking under the banks with a stick, and scaring the trout, who rush down- stream into the sack. This sort of thing, varied now and then by cxplod- ing dynamite under the water and gathering the dead or stunned fish, which float, has cleaned out some of our public trout waters. In other words, these thieves have robbed the public, and have sold the proceeds of the rob- bery for their own bemefit. The game laws are not nearly stringent enough. Fines never deter such rascals from at- tempting to reimburse themselves. Tm- prisonment at hard labor is the only antidote. In Europe trout poachers have the reputation of catching trout with their bare hands. The process, in Ireland, is called “tickling.” I could scarcely be- lieve that this thing was done—that the most timid and wary of fish could be caught by the naked hands. Read- ing of one fellow sent to jail for “tick- ling" trout, I was curious enough to try the process myself in the presence of an angler as witness. I found it the simplest thing in the world, as far as the “tickling” was concerned. The dif- ficulty appeared to lie in approaching the trout. But I found that this could be done almost every time by quiet, adroit maneuvering, and I shall never forget the astonished face of my friend A proposed bill. denying remarried divorcees alimony is hailed with re- joicing by the actors of New York. Up and down the Rialto and out along the “road,” the joyful news has spread. Senator Russell has proved himself the agtors’ friend they say by introducing a bill depriving divorced women who remarry the right to alimony. Many a leading man who has been kept in the woods and forbidden to par- ade Broadway by reason of the arrears of alimony piled up in the New York courts will rejoice, for there is hope that some day his former spouse will marry again, if she has not already done so. N Many a witless wight who has “done time” in Ludlow for the nonpayment of a wife’s weekly allowance will re- joice and be glad. There is already talk of organizing a benefit committee to raise funds for a testimonial to Senator Russell as a token of regard from mem- bers of the “Alimony Club.” Greek Tobacco g 4 5 No industry has made such strides in Greece of recent years as the culture of tobacco. Till quite lately the tobacco grown in Greece was only smoked in the kingdom itself, but last year it be- gan to take its place in the European markets, thanks to the greater care taken in the choice of plants and in their cultivation, and also to the mo- nopoly which has caused such a rise in ‘the price of Turkish tobaceo. In Greece there is\no tax whatever on the growth, of tobacco and there is no mo- nopoly, so that no restraint is placed on the cultivation of the plant. But, on the other hand, tobacco can only be cut up, and cigarettes can only be made in the state manufactcries, where, however, the merchants are allowed to use their own machivery. A tax and a stamp duty has to be paid, which comes to rather less than hailf a crown per pound of tobacco. The state also reserves the right of manufacturing cigarette papers, and from this and + from the duty on tobacco Greece last vear realized over hzlf a million sterl- ing. The cultivation of tobacco has been greatly stimulated and to-day Greece produces four times as much as she needs for her own consumption. The leaf has ot got the peculiar and delicate aroma which distinguishes the very best Turkish, but it is quite as good as the ordinary tobacco of Mace- donia and Albania, much of which has long been sold in the European market. ———— The returns of the work at the Paris mint in 1903 show the value of gold coins struck off for France and its col- onies as $17,882,620, sifver $316,700, nickel $800,000 and bronze $108,790. £s — - | A Unique ! 1' Military } j Memorial | + - ) MONG the many monuments erected by Japan to commem= orate her signal defeat of the Chinese army some six years ago was one that is perhaps the most unique on earth. It is in the form of a huge bayonet standing upright on a column of granite, which is itself mounted upcn a large pedestal, and the whole inclosed by a spiked iron fence. The blade is suitably inscribed in Japanese characters extolling the bravery of the soldiers who fell in bat- tle. This monument is one of tke sights of Seoul, Korea. OAYONE T MONUIEN T